JSON Contract Job Trends in the City of London

JSON
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring JSON skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 92 103
Rank change year-on-year -7 +11 +25
Contract jobs citing JSON 25 30 34
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.37% 1.45% 1.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.98% 5.67% 5.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 19 26
10th Percentile £313 £413 £359
25th Percentile £388 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £541
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -7.62% -1.59%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £688
90th Percentile £675 £655 £775
Central London median daily rate £510 £500 £541
% change year-on-year +2.00% -7.62% -4.63%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 418 529 589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.93% 25.61% 23.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 320 410
10th Percentile £362 £413 £400
25th Percentile £443 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £675 £691 £713
90th Percentile £750 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £44.38 - -
25th Percentile £47.19 £36.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.61% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £59.69 £40.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.13 - -
Central London median hourly rate £53.75 £38.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +39.61% -18.95% -20.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JSON relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

JSON job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing JSON.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing JSON

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JSON in the City of London over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JSON in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing JSON.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing JSON

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) Anypoint
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.00%) Mule
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (8.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (4.00%) Aladdin
2 1 (4.00%) Exchequer
2 1 (4.00%) Maximo
2 1 (4.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) AWS
2 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (12.00%) GCP
3 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.00%) Apigee
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (4.00%) dbt
5 1 (4.00%) Figma
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.00%) OneDrive
5 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.00%) PowerApps
5 1 (4.00%) Serverless
5 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) SSL
2 2 (8.00%) HTTPS
3 1 (4.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) Metadata
2 3 (12.00%) Power BI
2 3 (12.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.00%) Big Data
4 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.00%) DataStage
4 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) JIRA
1 4 (16.00%) Postman
2 3 (12.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (12.00%) Selenium
3 2 (8.00%) ER Studio
3 2 (8.00%) ERwin
3 2 (8.00%) Git
3 2 (8.00%) JMeter
3 2 (8.00%) WebDriver
4 1 (4.00%) GitLab
4 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.00%) jMock
4 1 (4.00%) JUnit
4 1 (4.00%) Maven
4 1 (4.00%) Mockito
4 1 (4.00%) MSTest
4 1 (4.00%) SpecFlow
4 1 (4.00%) TestRail
4 1 (4.00%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (36.00%) Finance
2 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Banking
4 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) Back Office
5 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Law
5 1 (4.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Developer
2 3 (12.00%) Senior
3 2 (8.00%) Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) Architect
3 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Data Modeller
3 2 (8.00%) iOS Developer
3 2 (8.00%) Software Developer
3 2 (8.00%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) C# Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (52.00%) XML
2 8 (32.00%) REST
3 5 (20.00%) HTML
3 5 (20.00%) SOAP
4 4 (16.00%) Web Services
5 3 (12.00%) CSS
5 3 (12.00%) jQuery
5 3 (12.00%) Kafka
5 3 (12.00%) OAuth
5 3 (12.00%) Playwright
5 3 (12.00%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
6 2 (8.00%) Apache Camel
6 2 (8.00%) Gherkin
6 2 (8.00%) HTML5
6 2 (8.00%) RESTful
6 2 (8.00%) Spring
6 2 (8.00%) Spring Boot
6 2 (8.00%) Swagger
6 2 (8.00%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Data Structures
1 3 (12.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (4.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) DevOps
2 8 (32.00%) Test Automation
3 7 (28.00%) Agile
4 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (24.00%) Data Modelling
5 4 (16.00%) Metadata Management
5 4 (16.00%) Microservices
5 4 (16.00%) UML
6 3 (12.00%) Analytics
6 3 (12.00%) API Management
6 3 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (12.00%) Data Mapping
6 3 (12.00%) Data Validation
6 3 (12.00%) ETL
6 3 (12.00%) Integration Patterns
6 3 (12.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (12.00%) Scrum
6 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (12.00%) Validation
7 2 (8.00%) Data Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) SQL
2 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (20.00%) Python
4 4 (16.00%) Java
5 3 (12.00%) C#
6 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (4.00%) C++
7 1 (4.00%) DataWeave
7 1 (4.00%) Korn
7 1 (4.00%) R
7 1 (4.00%) Swift
7 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (4.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (32.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.00%) QA
3 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Axway
2 2 (8.00%) BMC
2 2 (8.00%) Databricks
2 2 (8.00%) HP
2 2 (8.00%) Ivanti
2 2 (8.00%) MuleSoft
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle
2 2 (8.00%) Remedy
2 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (8.00%) Sparx
2 2 (8.00%) Workday
3 1 (4.00%) Confluent
3 1 (4.00%) IBM
3 1 (4.00%) iManage
3 1 (4.00%) Palantir
3 1 (4.00%) Plaid
3 1 (4.00%) SAP