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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 231 268
Rank change year-on-year -22 +37 -60
Contract jobs citing JSON 505 345 289
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.08% 1.23% 0.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.05% 4.80% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 233 190
10th Percentile £344 £357 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% -
75th Percentile £588 £594 £615
90th Percentile £675 £686 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 2
10th Percentile £51.25 - £43.50
25th Percentile £71.38 £31.25 £48.75
Median hourly rate £85.48 £37.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +127.93% -37.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £92.11 £43.75 £73.75
90th Percentile - £76.88 £80.50
UK median hourly rate £85.48 £37.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +127.93% -37.50% -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 9,997 7,191 7,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.34% 25.54% 24.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,576 4,855 5,186
10th Percentile £381 £358 £361
25th Percentile £447 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -5.91% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 171 157
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £32.10
25th Percentile £53.90 £41.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +10.94%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.00 £73.85
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £50.72 £65.00
% change year-on-year +28.15% -21.97% +10.11%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -17 261 £525 -1.41% 26
Midlands +2 70 £450 -7.69% 10
West Midlands +5 65 £450 -15.29% 6
North of England -76 60 £439 -1.90% 14
South East -43 56 £460 -5.64% 15
North West -54 32 £425 -4.92% 7
Yorkshire -39 28 £460 -5.41% 6
South West -20 25 £540 +35.00% 10
East of England -31 11 £538 +16.22% 4
East Midlands -10 5 £402 +11.67% 4
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 30 (5.94%) SharePoint
2 26 (5.15%) Confluence
3 14 (2.77%) Apache
4 9 (1.78%) Anypoint
5 8 (1.58%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.58%) IIS
5 8 (1.58%) Mule
6 6 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.99%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.79%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.79%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.59%) CICS
9 3 (0.59%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.59%) ThingWorx
10 2 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.40%) nginx
10 2 (0.40%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.20%) JBoss
11 1 (0.20%) MQSeries
Applications
1 8 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.19%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.99%) Windchill
4 4 (0.79%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (4.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (3.56%) NetSuite
3 13 (2.57%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.99%) Maximo
6 4 (0.79%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.40%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
8 2 (0.40%) Infor LN
8 2 (0.40%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.40%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.20%) Actimize
9 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Retail
9 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.20%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 201 (39.80%) Azure
2 134 (26.53%) AWS
3 83 (16.44%) Azure DevOps
4 63 (12.48%) GCP
4 63 (12.48%) Power Platform
5 62 (12.28%) GitHub
6 48 (9.50%) Boomi
7 44 (8.71%) Power Automate
8 38 (7.52%) Serverless
9 37 (7.33%) Dynamics 365
10 34 (6.73%) Entra ID
11 32 (6.34%) Azure Logic Apps
11 32 (6.34%) PowerApps
12 29 (5.74%) Azure Functions
13 24 (4.75%) Azure Service Bus
14 22 (4.36%) AtomSphere
14 22 (4.36%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (3.76%) Amazon S3
16 17 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
17 15 (2.97%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (6.34%) HTTP
2 16 (3.17%) BGP
3 11 (2.18%) DNS
3 11 (2.18%) Ethernet VPN
3 11 (2.18%) TCP/IP
3 11 (2.18%) VXLAN
4 10 (1.98%) NX-OS
4 10 (1.98%) Wireless
5 9 (1.78%) Firewall
5 9 (1.78%) SD-WAN
5 9 (1.78%) TACACS
5 9 (1.78%) WAN
6 7 (1.39%) DHCP
6 7 (1.39%) Network Security
6 7 (1.39%) VPN
7 6 (1.19%) OSPF
7 6 (1.19%) SSL
8 5 (0.99%) HTTPS
8 5 (0.99%) VLAN
9 4 (0.79%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (10.50%) SQL Server
2 37 (7.33%) MongoDB
3 33 (6.53%) Metadata
4 26 (5.15%) Relational Database
5 25 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (4.36%) Power BI
7 21 (4.16%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (3.96%) Parquet
9 14 (2.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 13 (2.57%) NoSQL
11 11 (2.18%) Oracle Database
11 11 (2.18%) RDBMS
12 10 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.78%) Data Lake
14 8 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (1.58%) Delta Lake
15 7 (1.39%) DynamoDB
15 7 (1.39%) MySQL
16 6 (1.19%) Redis
16 6 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 126 (24.95%) Git
2 57 (11.29%) GitLab
3 47 (9.31%) JIRA
4 38 (7.52%) Jenkins
5 26 (5.15%) Postman
6 25 (4.95%) Selenium
7 20 (3.96%) JUnit
8 16 (3.17%) Maven
9 15 (2.97%) Cucumber
10 12 (2.38%) SonarQube
11 11 (2.18%) Gatling
11 11 (2.18%) Gradle
12 9 (1.78%) Claude Code
12 9 (1.78%) Team Foundation Server
13 8 (1.58%) WebDriver
14 6 (1.19%) Cypress.io
15 5 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (0.99%) JMeter
15 5 (0.99%) REST Assured
16 4 (0.79%) Fiddler
General
1 144 (28.51%) Social Skills
2 92 (18.22%) Finance
3 71 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (12.28%) Public Sector
5 39 (7.72%) Banking
6 25 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.57%) Manufacturing
8 11 (2.18%) Publishing
9 10 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.98%) Marketing
10 9 (1.78%) Retail
11 8 (1.58%) Back Office
11 8 (1.58%) Legal
12 7 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.19%) Law
13 6 (1.19%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.79%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.79%) Front Office
15 3 (0.59%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.59%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 170 (33.66%) Developer
2 77 (15.25%) Senior
3 55 (10.89%) Architect
4 37 (7.33%) Analyst
5 32 (6.34%) Senior Developer
6 25 (4.95%) Data Engineer
6 25 (4.95%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 21 (4.16%) Lead
8 18 (3.56%) Security Engineer
9 16 (3.17%) Integration Developer
9 16 (3.17%) Integration Engineer
9 16 (3.17%) Python Developer
10 15 (2.97%) Business Analyst
11 14 (2.77%) Automation Engineer
11 14 (2.77%) DevOps Engineer
11 14 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (2.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 13 (2.57%) Consultant
12 13 (2.57%) Quality Engineer
13 12 (2.38%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (43.76%) REST
2 195 (38.61%) XML
3 92 (18.22%) SOAP
4 66 (13.07%) .NET
4 66 (13.07%) OAuth
5 65 (12.87%) Kafka
6 59 (11.68%) Middleware
7 58 (11.49%) RESTful
8 57 (11.29%) React
9 53 (10.50%) Terraform
10 40 (7.92%) Swagger
11 39 (7.72%) OAuth2
11 39 (7.72%) YAML
12 34 (6.73%) HTML
13 33 (6.53%) Web Services
14 32 (6.34%) OpenAPI
15 30 (5.94%) RabbitMQ
16 28 (5.54%) CSS
17 27 (5.35%) JWT
18 26 (5.15%) JSON Schema
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.32%) Product Ownership
2 37 (7.33%) Data Structures
3 35 (6.93%) Enterprise Software
4 29 (5.74%) Cloud Native
5 27 (5.35%) AI Agents
6 25 (4.95%) Onboarding
7 20 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
7 20 (3.96%) Management Information System
8 17 (3.37%) Algorithms
8 17 (3.37%) Taxonomies
9 15 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (2.77%) Data Centre
11 13 (2.57%) CMDB
11 13 (2.57%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (2.38%) Virtual Team
13 11 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.78%) Mobile App
15 8 (1.58%) Cyber Threat
15 8 (1.58%) Legacy Applications
15 8 (1.58%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 41 (8.12%) Linux
2 39 (7.72%) Windows
3 10 (1.98%) Android
3 10 (1.98%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.78%) Unix
5 7 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.59%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.59%) zOS
8 2 (0.40%) Solaris
8 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.20%) CentOS
9 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (41.78%) CI/CD
2 169 (33.47%) Agile
3 164 (32.48%) DevOps
4 115 (22.77%) Problem-Solving
5 95 (18.81%) AI
6 81 (16.04%) Continuous Improvement
6 81 (16.04%) Validation
7 79 (15.64%) Data Modelling
8 76 (15.05%) Scrum
9 74 (14.65%) Test Automation
10 73 (14.46%) Event-Driven
11 67 (13.27%) Stakeholder Management
12 57 (11.29%) Infrastructure as Code
13 55 (10.89%) API Integration
14 52 (10.30%) Integration Patterns
14 52 (10.30%) Workflow
15 51 (10.10%) Microservices
15 51 (10.10%) Migration
16 45 (8.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 44 (8.71%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 178 (35.25%) Python
2 173 (34.26%) SQL
3 138 (27.33%) JavaScript
4 114 (22.57%) Java
5 80 (15.84%) C#
6 62 (12.28%) PowerShell
7 41 (8.12%) TypeScript
8 27 (5.35%) Groovy
9 19 (3.76%) PL/SQL
9 19 (3.76%) Shell Script
10 18 (3.56%) Bash
11 12 (2.38%) Bicep
12 10 (1.98%) Go
13 9 (1.78%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.58%) T-SQL
15 7 (1.39%) C++
16 6 (1.19%) Scala
16 6 (1.19%) VBA
17 5 (0.99%) C
17 5 (0.99%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 126 (24.95%) Security Cleared
2 99 (19.60%) SC Cleared
3 31 (6.14%) Degree
4 24 (4.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (3.56%) Azure Certification
6 17 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (3.37%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.98%) CISSP
9 9 (1.78%) CISM
10 6 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.99%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.99%) CRISC
12 4 (0.79%) CISA
12 4 (0.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 4 (0.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 4 (0.79%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.79%) PhD
13 2 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (10.89%) Accessibility
2 42 (8.32%) QA
3 40 (7.92%) Data Quality
4 26 (5.15%) WCAG
5 22 (4.36%) GDPR
6 12 (2.38%) ISO 20022
7 11 (2.18%) NIST
8 8 (1.58%) ISO 15022
8 8 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (1.39%) GRC
10 4 (0.79%) COBIT
10 4 (0.79%) HL7
10 4 (0.79%) NCSC
11 3 (0.59%) Basel III
11 3 (0.59%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.40%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.20%) SLA
13 1 (0.20%) SNOMED CT
13 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 63 (12.48%) Docker
2 32 (6.34%) Active Directory
3 21 (4.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.39%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.39%) NFS
4 7 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.39%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 68 (13.47%) Kubernetes
2 54 (10.69%) Ansible
3 12 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.39%) Grafana
5 6 (1.19%) SCCM
6 4 (0.79%) Kibana
6 4 (0.79%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.59%) Cisco Prime
7 3 (0.59%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.59%) WMI
8 2 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.40%) Netcool
8 2 (0.40%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.40%) Puppet
8 2 (0.40%) QRadar
8 2 (0.40%) Tivoli
8 2 (0.40%) Tivoli Monitoring
9 1 (0.20%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 133 (26.34%) Microsoft
2 100 (19.80%) Oracle
3 48 (9.50%) ServiceNow
4 37 (7.33%) MuleSoft
5 35 (6.93%) Google
6 34 (6.73%) IBM
7 28 (5.54%) Salesforce
8 26 (5.15%) SAP
9 22 (4.36%) Databricks
10 21 (4.16%) Cisco
10 21 (4.16%) VMware
11 17 (3.37%) Workday
12 16 (3.17%) Splunk
13 15 (2.97%) OpenAI
14 14 (2.77%) Informatica
15 13 (2.57%) Red Hat
16 10 (1.98%) TIBCO
17 9 (1.78%) Dell
17 9 (1.78%) Infoblox
17 9 (1.78%) webMethods