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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 56 63
Rank change year-on-year -22 +7 +7
Contract jobs citing JSON 5 5 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.45% 0.76% 1.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.45% 3.47% 6.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £271 £363
25th Percentile - £287 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £319 £564
Median % change year-on-year - -43.48% -6.08%
75th Percentile - £345 £592
90th Percentile - £358 £618
England median daily rate £513 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +2.50% -7.06% -2.18%

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 145 144 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.02% 21.98% 17.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 123 98
10th Percentile £393 £257 £244
25th Percentile £412 £314 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £391 £430
Median % change year-on-year +27.88% -9.07% -4.44%
75th Percentile £575 £475 £559
90th Percentile £600 £529 £623
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 9
10th Percentile £14.33 - -
25th Percentile £15.52 £21.67 £10.90
Median hourly rate £17.50 £23.41 £21.73
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +7.73% -
75th Percentile £23.75 £25.16 £27.50
90th Percentile £27.50 - £35.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.97
% change year-on-year +4.00% +27.64% -24.67%

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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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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 12 June 2026. 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 -4 2 - - 3
Nottinghamshire - 2 - - 2
Leicestershire - 1 - -
JSON
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) NetSuite
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Gatling
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) Gradle
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) JMeter
1 2 (40.00%) JUnit
1 2 (40.00%) Maven
1 2 (40.00%) Postman
1 2 (40.00%) REST Assured
1 2 (40.00%) TestNG
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Local Government
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Business Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) OpenAPI
2 2 (40.00%) Playwright
2 2 (40.00%) Swagger
2 2 (40.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) API Testing
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) CRM
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Dependency Management
2 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) OOP
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Systems Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Release Management
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle