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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 255 260
Rank change year-on-year +8 +5 -61
Contract jobs citing JSON 444 278 326
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.99% 1.02% 0.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.25% 4.58% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 200 218
10th Percentile £358 £360 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -6.37% -2.91%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £619
90th Percentile £650 £663 £689
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £529
% change year-on-year - -5.48% -0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 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% +12.28%
75th Percentile £85.94 £43.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £87.63 - -
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 8,450 6,067 7,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.84% 22.26% 21.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,540 4,172 5,263
10th Percentile £363 £355 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -5.41% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £745 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £543
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.99% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 135 243
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £23.84
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -0.86% -7.20%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.61 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 0 237 £525 -7.94% 56
North of England -39 75 £429 -3.60% 15
South East -49 65 £525 +10.53% 31
Yorkshire -23 42 £460 +12.47% 6
North West -41 33 £391 -12.08% 9
Midlands -29 31 £447 -18.73% 11
West Midlands -35 26 £447 -18.73% 7
South West -26 15 £485 +29.33% 7
East of England -23 11 £525 +23.53% 4
East Midlands -12 5 - - 4
North East -40 3 £550 +175.00%
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 (6.76%) Confluence
2 22 (4.95%) SharePoint
3 14 (3.15%) Apache
4 12 (2.70%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.80%) Anypoint
5 8 (1.80%) Mule
6 7 (1.58%) CICS
7 5 (1.13%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.68%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.45%) IIS
9 2 (0.45%) JBoss
9 2 (0.45%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.45%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.45%) nginx
9 2 (0.45%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.45%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.35%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (2.70%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.58%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.35%) Maximo
3 6 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.68%) Findur
5 3 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.45%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
6 2 (0.45%) Infor LN
6 2 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.45%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.23%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.23%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.23%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.23%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.23%) Shopify
7 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 157 (35.36%) Azure
2 99 (22.30%) AWS
3 64 (14.41%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (11.04%) Power Platform
5 41 (9.23%) GCP
6 40 (9.01%) Serverless
7 35 (7.88%) Power Automate
8 34 (7.66%) GitHub
9 29 (6.53%) Boomi
10 27 (6.08%) PowerApps
11 25 (5.63%) Azure Logic Apps
12 21 (4.73%) Entra ID
13 19 (4.28%) GitHub Actions
14 18 (4.05%) Amazon S3
14 18 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
14 18 (4.05%) Azure Functions
15 17 (3.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 16 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
16 16 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
16 16 (3.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.83%) HTTP
2 13 (2.93%) TCP/IP
3 12 (2.70%) DNS
4 10 (2.25%) BIG-IP
4 10 (2.25%) DHCP
5 4 (0.90%) HTTPS
5 4 (0.90%) Intranet
5 4 (0.90%) Network Security
5 4 (0.90%) SSH
6 3 (0.68%) FTP
6 3 (0.68%) SSL
7 2 (0.45%) DSL
7 2 (0.45%) Firewall
7 2 (0.45%) Internet
7 2 (0.45%) NAS
7 2 (0.45%) SAN
7 2 (0.45%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.45%) WAN
7 2 (0.45%) Wireless
7 2 (0.45%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (8.56%) Metadata
2 37 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 30 (6.76%) MongoDB
4 27 (6.08%) Relational Database
5 25 (5.63%) Power BI
6 20 (4.50%) NoSQL
6 20 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (4.05%) Parquet
8 14 (3.15%) RDBMS
9 13 (2.93%) DynamoDB
9 13 (2.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (2.25%) Oracle Database
11 9 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (2.03%) Data Lake
11 9 (2.03%) Db2
11 9 (2.03%) Delta Lake
12 7 (1.58%) MySQL
13 6 (1.35%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 73 (16.44%) Git
2 51 (11.49%) JIRA
3 30 (6.76%) Postman
4 28 (6.31%) GitLab
4 28 (6.31%) Jenkins
5 13 (2.93%) Maven
6 11 (2.48%) SonarQube
7 9 (2.03%) Selenium
8 8 (1.80%) JUnit
9 7 (1.58%) ERwin
10 6 (1.35%) Claude Code
10 6 (1.35%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (1.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.13%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.13%) Gradle
11 5 (1.13%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.90%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.90%) Gatling
12 4 (0.90%) JMeter
12 4 (0.90%) WebDriver
General
1 129 (29.05%) Social Skills
2 84 (18.92%) Finance
3 69 (15.54%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (10.14%) Public Sector
5 36 (8.11%) Banking
6 21 (4.73%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.70%) Publishing
9 8 (1.80%) Marketing
10 7 (1.58%) Retail
11 5 (1.13%) Legal
11 5 (1.13%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.90%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.90%) Law
12 4 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.68%) Back Office
13 3 (0.68%) Front Office
13 3 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.45%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 148 (33.33%) Developer
2 50 (11.26%) Senior
3 43 (9.68%) Architect
4 35 (7.88%) Analyst
5 32 (7.21%) Data Engineer
6 22 (4.95%) Senior Developer
7 18 (4.05%) Business Analyst
7 18 (4.05%) Integration Engineer
7 18 (4.05%) Python Developer
8 16 (3.60%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (3.15%) Consultant
9 14 (3.15%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (2.93%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (2.93%) Python Engineer
11 12 (2.70%) Integration Architect
11 12 (2.70%) Java Developer
12 10 (2.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 10 (2.25%) Integration Developer
12 10 (2.25%) Integration Specialist
12 10 (2.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (38.29%) REST
2 167 (37.61%) XML
3 91 (20.50%) SOAP
4 64 (14.41%) Kafka
5 45 (10.14%) RESTful
6 42 (9.46%) OAuth
6 42 (9.46%) React
7 40 (9.01%) .NET
7 40 (9.01%) Middleware
8 37 (8.33%) Web Services
9 33 (7.43%) YAML
10 27 (6.08%) Swagger
11 26 (5.86%) Node.js
12 24 (5.41%) CSS
13 22 (4.95%) OAuth2
14 19 (4.28%) HTML
14 19 (4.28%) OpenAPI
15 17 (3.83%) Apache Avro
15 17 (3.83%) XSLT
16 16 (3.60%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.66%) Product Ownership
2 33 (7.43%) Data Structures
3 17 (3.83%) Algorithms
3 17 (3.83%) Cloud Native
4 14 (3.15%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (2.93%) AI Agents
5 13 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (2.93%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.70%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (2.25%) Taxonomies
9 9 (2.03%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.58%) CMDB
10 7 (1.58%) DataPower
10 7 (1.58%) Mainframe
10 7 (1.58%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.35%) Online Banking
11 6 (1.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.73%) Linux
2 20 (4.50%) Windows
3 11 (2.48%) Unix
4 8 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.58%) Android
5 7 (1.58%) zOS
6 5 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.68%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.45%) Solaris
8 2 (0.45%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.45%) VMS
8 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.23%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (35.14%) CI/CD
2 145 (32.66%) Agile
3 137 (30.86%) DevOps
4 110 (24.77%) Problem-Solving
5 77 (17.34%) Data Modelling
6 73 (16.44%) Validation
7 67 (15.09%) AI
8 57 (12.84%) Integration Patterns
9 54 (12.16%) Event-Driven
10 52 (11.71%) Analytics
10 52 (11.71%) ETL
11 51 (11.49%) Scrum
12 49 (11.04%) API Integration
13 48 (10.81%) Data Pipeline
14 47 (10.59%) Workflow
15 46 (10.36%) Microservices
16 44 (9.91%) Stakeholder Management
17 41 (9.23%) Software Engineering
18 39 (8.78%) Continuous Improvement
18 39 (8.78%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 175 (39.41%) Python
2 163 (36.71%) SQL
3 87 (19.59%) JavaScript
4 85 (19.14%) Java
5 63 (14.19%) C#
6 49 (11.04%) PowerShell
7 26 (5.86%) Groovy
8 21 (4.73%) TypeScript
9 17 (3.83%) Shell Script
10 16 (3.60%) PL/SQL
11 14 (3.15%) Bash
12 11 (2.48%) T-SQL
12 11 (2.48%) VBA
13 8 (1.80%) Bicep
14 7 (1.58%) Kotlin
15 6 (1.35%) Go
15 6 (1.35%) JCL
15 6 (1.35%) R
15 6 (1.35%) Scala
16 5 (1.13%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 118 (26.58%) Security Cleared
2 92 (20.72%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.08%) Degree
4 16 (3.60%) Azure Certification
5 12 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.80%) CISSP
8 7 (1.58%) CISM
9 4 (0.90%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.68%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (0.68%) PhD
11 2 (0.45%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.45%) GIAC
11 2 (0.45%) SSCP
12 1 (0.23%) CCNP
12 1 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.23%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (9.46%) Data Quality
2 30 (6.76%) Accessibility
2 30 (6.76%) QA
3 19 (4.28%) GDPR
4 8 (1.80%) WCAG
5 7 (1.58%) ISO 20022
6 6 (1.35%) NIST
7 5 (1.13%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.13%) HL7
7 5 (1.13%) ISO 15022
7 5 (1.13%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.68%) FATCA
8 3 (0.68%) GRC
8 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.68%) NCSC
8 3 (0.68%) PSD2
8 3 (0.68%) SLA
9 2 (0.45%) Basel III
System Software
1 52 (11.71%) Docker
2 16 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.45%) OpenSSH
5 2 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 59 (13.29%) Kubernetes
2 47 (10.59%) Terraform
3 37 (8.33%) Ansible
4 9 (2.03%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.35%) Grafana
6 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.68%) WMI
8 2 (0.45%) Kibana
8 2 (0.45%) QRadar
8 2 (0.45%) SCCM
9 1 (0.23%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.23%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.23%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.23%) Istio
9 1 (0.23%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.23%) logstash
9 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.23%) Puppet
9 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 100 (22.52%) Microsoft
2 82 (18.47%) Oracle
3 33 (7.43%) ServiceNow
4 24 (5.41%) Databricks
4 24 (5.41%) MuleSoft
5 22 (4.95%) SAP
6 20 (4.50%) Google
6 20 (4.50%) Workday
7 18 (4.05%) IBM
7 18 (4.05%) Splunk
8 16 (3.60%) Salesforce
9 12 (2.70%) Foundry
10 11 (2.48%) Sonatype
11 10 (2.25%) F5
11 10 (2.25%) Infoblox
11 10 (2.25%) OpenAI
11 10 (2.25%) webMethods
12 8 (1.80%) Dell
13 7 (1.58%) Palantir
14 6 (1.35%) Confluent