JSON Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

JSON
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring JSON skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 45 53
Rank change year-on-year -16 +8 -10
Contract jobs citing JSON 3 24 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.50% 3.34% 2.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.23% 14.91% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 22 13
10th Percentile - £438 -
25th Percentile £413 £490 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -24.75% -5.88% +20.00%
75th Percentile £438 £614 £688
90th Percentile - £625 -
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £565 £588
% change year-on-year -2.61% -3.87% +12.98%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Birmingham

JSON falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 93 161 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.37% 22.39% 17.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 103 111
10th Percentile £350 £375 £319
25th Percentile £413 £446 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £463
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +18.92% -14.55%
75th Percentile £615 £669 £641
90th Percentile £688 £748 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £489
% change year-on-year -9.09% +12.53% -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -9.09% +214.29% -69.83%

JSON
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing JSON as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for JSON in Birmingham

JSON
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing JSON.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing JSON

JSON
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) Nutanix
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Healthcare
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Release Management
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Pega