JSON Contract Job Trends in England

JSON
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring JSON skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 254 255
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -56
Contract jobs citing JSON 416 261 355
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.95% 0.99% 0.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.98% 4.41% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 193 242
10th Percentile £363 £361 £400
25th Percentile £425 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £529
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -5.48% -3.82%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £619
90th Percentile £650 £669 £699
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile £47.08 - £50.50
25th Percentile £56.19 £31.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £73.75 £37.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.67% -53.13% +14.29%
75th Percentile £85.94 £68.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £87.63 £83.75 -
UK median hourly rate £73.75 £37.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +96.67% -53.13% +14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,356 5,921 7,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.00% 22.48% 21.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,509 4,079 5,534
10th Percentile £363 £355 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £540
% change year-on-year +2.44% -5.09% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 126 264
10th Percentile £30.25 £30.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.44 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £58.15
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% -0.90% -10.54%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.68 £80.51 £74.48
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%

JSON
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

JSON job vacancy trend in England

JSON
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing JSON

JSON
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JSON in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JSON in England

JSON
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing JSON.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing JSON

JSON
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JSON in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for JSON in England

JSON
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSON within the England region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
London +5 219 £525 -8.70% 60
North of England -42 72 £438 -1.52% 27
South East -37 63 £525 +10.53% 31
Yorkshire -27 40 £463 +4.93% 7
North West -34 32 £393 -11.80% 18
Midlands -41 27 £455 -17.27% 20
West Midlands -49 22 £455 -17.27% 10
South West -21 15 £425 +13.33% 12
East of England -25 12 £519 +38.33% 5
East Midlands -15 5 - - 10
North East -33 3 £550 +175.00% 2
JSON
UK

JSON
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 28 (6.73%) Confluence
2 20 (4.81%) SharePoint
3 13 (3.13%) Apache
4 10 (2.40%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.68%) Anypoint
5 7 (1.68%) CICS
5 7 (1.68%) Mule
6 5 (1.20%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.72%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.48%) IIS
8 2 (0.48%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.48%) Mule ESB
8 2 (0.48%) nginx
8 2 (0.48%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.48%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.24%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.24%) JBoss
9 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.44%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (2.40%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.68%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (1.44%) Maximo
3 6 (1.44%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.72%) Findur
5 3 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.48%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.24%) Infor LN
7 1 (0.24%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.24%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.24%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.24%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.24%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.24%) Shopify
7 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 141 (33.89%) Azure
2 90 (21.63%) AWS
3 57 (13.70%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (11.06%) Power Platform
5 40 (9.62%) Serverless
6 33 (7.93%) Power Automate
7 32 (7.69%) GitHub
8 29 (6.97%) GCP
9 25 (6.01%) Azure Logic Apps
10 24 (5.77%) Boomi
10 24 (5.77%) PowerApps
11 19 (4.57%) Azure Functions
12 18 (4.33%) Entra ID
13 17 (4.09%) AWS Lambda
14 16 (3.85%) Amazon S3
14 16 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 16 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
14 16 (3.85%) SaaS
15 14 (3.37%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.13%) HTTP
2 12 (2.88%) TCP/IP
3 11 (2.64%) DNS
4 10 (2.40%) BIG-IP
4 10 (2.40%) DHCP
5 4 (0.96%) HTTPS
5 4 (0.96%) Intranet
5 4 (0.96%) Network Security
6 3 (0.72%) Firewall
6 3 (0.72%) FTP
6 3 (0.72%) SSH
7 2 (0.48%) DSL
7 2 (0.48%) Internet
7 2 (0.48%) NAS
7 2 (0.48%) SAN
7 2 (0.48%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.48%) SSL
7 2 (0.48%) WAN
7 2 (0.48%) Wireless
7 2 (0.48%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.17%) Metadata
2 33 (7.93%) SQL Server
3 28 (6.73%) MongoDB
4 26 (6.25%) Relational Database
5 25 (6.01%) Power BI
6 20 (4.81%) NoSQL
7 19 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (3.85%) Parquet
9 13 (3.13%) DynamoDB
9 13 (3.13%) RDBMS
10 11 (2.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (2.40%) Oracle Database
12 9 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (2.16%) Db2
12 9 (2.16%) Delta Lake
13 8 (1.92%) Data Lake
14 6 (1.44%) MySQL
14 6 (1.44%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 70 (16.83%) Git
2 48 (11.54%) JIRA
3 32 (7.69%) Postman
4 25 (6.01%) GitLab
4 25 (6.01%) Jenkins
5 13 (3.13%) Maven
6 10 (2.40%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.68%) ERwin
7 7 (1.68%) JUnit
7 7 (1.68%) Selenium
8 5 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.20%) Claude Code
8 5 (1.20%) Gradle
8 5 (1.20%) SoapUI
8 5 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (1.20%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.96%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.96%) JMeter
10 3 (0.72%) MSTest
10 3 (0.72%) WebDriver
General
1 123 (29.57%) Social Skills
2 80 (19.23%) Finance
3 63 (15.14%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (9.86%) Public Sector
5 36 (8.65%) Banking
6 19 (4.57%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.40%) Publishing
8 8 (1.92%) Marketing
9 7 (1.68%) Retail
10 5 (1.20%) Legal
11 4 (0.96%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.96%) Law
11 4 (0.96%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.72%) Back Office
12 3 (0.72%) Front Office
12 3 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.72%) Military
12 3 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.48%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 137 (32.93%) Developer
2 43 (10.34%) Senior
3 38 (9.13%) Architect
4 34 (8.17%) Data Engineer
5 29 (6.97%) Analyst
6 18 (4.33%) Senior Developer
7 17 (4.09%) Integration Engineer
8 15 (3.61%) Business Analyst
8 15 (3.61%) Consultant
9 14 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
9 14 (3.37%) Python Developer
10 13 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (2.88%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (2.88%) Integration Specialist
11 12 (2.88%) Java Developer
12 11 (2.64%) Integration Architect
13 9 (2.16%) Integration Developer
13 9 (2.16%) Python Engineer
13 9 (2.16%) ServiceNow Developer
13 9 (2.16%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (38.22%) REST
2 157 (37.74%) XML
3 86 (20.67%) SOAP
4 55 (13.22%) Kafka
5 42 (10.10%) RESTful
6 39 (9.38%) OAuth
7 38 (9.13%) React
7 38 (9.13%) Web Services
8 37 (8.89%) .NET
9 36 (8.65%) Middleware
10 31 (7.45%) YAML
11 26 (6.25%) CSS
12 25 (6.01%) Node.js
13 22 (5.29%) Swagger
14 20 (4.81%) OAuth2
15 19 (4.57%) HTML
16 18 (4.33%) XSLT
17 16 (3.85%) Apache Avro
17 16 (3.85%) JWT
17 16 (3.85%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.21%) Data Structures
1 30 (7.21%) Product Ownership
2 15 (3.61%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (2.88%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.64%) Algorithms
5 11 (2.64%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.92%) Taxonomies
7 8 (1.92%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.68%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.68%) CMDB
8 7 (1.68%) DataPower
8 7 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.68%) Mainframe
8 7 (1.68%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.68%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.44%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.05%) Linux
2 16 (3.85%) Windows
3 10 (2.40%) Unix
4 7 (1.68%) Android
4 7 (1.68%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.68%) zOS
5 5 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.72%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.48%) Solaris
7 2 (0.48%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.48%) VMS
7 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.24%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (33.41%) CI/CD
2 132 (31.73%) Agile
3 126 (30.29%) DevOps
4 106 (25.48%) Problem-Solving
5 73 (17.55%) Data Modelling
6 67 (16.11%) Validation
7 58 (13.94%) AI
8 55 (13.22%) Integration Patterns
9 51 (12.26%) Analytics
10 46 (11.06%) Data Pipeline
10 46 (11.06%) Event-Driven
11 45 (10.82%) Scrum
12 44 (10.58%) ETL
13 43 (10.34%) API Integration
13 43 (10.34%) Workflow
14 42 (10.10%) Microservices
15 40 (9.62%) Software Engineering
15 40 (9.62%) Stakeholder Management
16 38 (9.13%) ERP
17 37 (8.89%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 165 (39.66%) Python
2 155 (37.26%) SQL
3 84 (20.19%) JavaScript
4 83 (19.95%) Java
5 59 (14.18%) C#
6 48 (11.54%) PowerShell
7 22 (5.29%) Groovy
8 20 (4.81%) TypeScript
9 17 (4.09%) Shell Script
10 15 (3.61%) PL/SQL
11 12 (2.88%) Bash
12 11 (2.64%) T-SQL
13 10 (2.40%) VBA
14 8 (1.92%) Bicep
15 7 (1.68%) Kotlin
16 6 (1.44%) Go
16 6 (1.44%) JCL
17 5 (1.20%) R
17 5 (1.20%) Scala
18 4 (0.96%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 117 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 91 (21.88%) SC Cleared
3 24 (5.77%) Degree
4 15 (3.61%) Azure Certification
5 12 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.92%) CISSP
7 7 (1.68%) CISM
7 7 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.96%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.48%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.48%) GIAC
9 2 (0.48%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.48%) SSCP
10 1 (0.24%) CEH
10 1 (0.24%) CRISC
10 1 (0.24%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.24%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 29 (6.97%) QA
3 23 (5.53%) Accessibility
4 19 (4.57%) GDPR
5 6 (1.44%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.44%) NIST
5 6 (1.44%) WCAG
6 5 (1.20%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.20%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.96%) HL7
7 4 (0.96%) ISO 15022
8 3 (0.72%) FATCA
8 3 (0.72%) GRC
8 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.72%) NCSC
8 3 (0.72%) PSD2
9 2 (0.48%) Basel III
9 2 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (10.58%) Docker
2 15 (3.61%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.48%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.48%) OpenSSH
5 2 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 48 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 44 (10.58%) Terraform
3 33 (7.93%) Ansible
4 9 (2.16%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.44%) Grafana
6 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.48%) Kibana
8 2 (0.48%) QRadar
8 2 (0.48%) SCCM
8 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.48%) WMI
9 1 (0.24%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.24%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.24%) Istio
9 1 (0.24%) logstash
9 1 (0.24%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 92 (22.12%) Microsoft
2 76 (18.27%) Oracle
3 32 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 23 (5.53%) Databricks
5 22 (5.29%) SAP
6 21 (5.05%) MuleSoft
7 20 (4.81%) Workday
8 17 (4.09%) Splunk
9 13 (3.13%) Salesforce
10 12 (2.88%) Foundry
10 12 (2.88%) Google
10 12 (2.88%) IBM
11 10 (2.40%) F5
11 10 (2.40%) Infoblox
11 10 (2.40%) Sonatype
11 10 (2.40%) webMethods
12 8 (1.92%) Dell
13 7 (1.68%) Palantir
14 6 (1.44%) Confluent
14 6 (1.44%) OpenAI