JSON Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

JSON
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring JSON skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 60 66
Rank change year-on-year -11 +6 +20
Contract jobs citing JSON 4 7 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.47% 0.92% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.88% 5.43% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £277 £358 -
25th Percentile £301 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year -15.29% +13.33% -28.57%
75th Percentile £426 £500 £388
90th Percentile £456 - -
England median daily rate £510 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 213 129 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 25.15% 17.04% 18.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 98 128
10th Percentile £270 £309 £300
25th Percentile £360 £340 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% -6.32% -
75th Percentile £500 £509 £569
90th Percentile £625 £577 £650
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £21.21 - £27.86
25th Percentile £22.64 - £38.41
Median hourly rate £25.08 - £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +184.77%
75th Percentile £25.13 - £60.50
90th Percentile £25.14 - £63.20
England median hourly rate £54.70 £65.00 £55.56
% change year-on-year -15.85% +16.99% -14.52%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

JSON job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing JSON.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing JSON

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JSON in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 24 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JSON in the East Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing JSON.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing JSON

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSON within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Derbyshire +3 2 £450 -
Nottinghamshire -7 1 - - 4
Northamptonshire -11 1 £270 -27.03%
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AtomSphere
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) Boomi
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE
3 1 (25.00%) JDBC
3 1 (25.00%) Kafka
3 1 (25.00%) Middleware
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) API Management
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Kanban
4 1 (25.00%) Backlog Refinement
4 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Product Backlog
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Solace
2 1 (25.00%) Workday