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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 261 224
Rank change year-on-year +16 -37 -27
Contract jobs citing JSON 422 223 387
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.08% 0.92% 1.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.26% 4.07% 5.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 181 289
10th Percentile £358 £375 £400
25th Percentile £414 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -6.37% +0.75%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £815 £675 £689
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £534
% change year-on-year - -6.37% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile - - £26.42
25th Percentile £46.25 £91.25 £42.76
Median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.65% +32.14% -
75th Percentile £48.75 £93.75 -
90th Percentile £57.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -48.65% +32.14% -

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 8,020 5,479 7,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.50% 22.50% 19.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,365 3,800 5,372
10th Percentile £358 £367 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -3.51%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 89 162
10th Percentile £34.00 £27.42 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £35.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £62.96
90th Percentile £78.85 £83.17 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 9 April 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 +27 215 £550 +4.76% 65
North of England -15 82 £402 -10.96% 33
South East -41 51 £506 +1.25% 44
North West +2 48 £391 -12.08% 15
Yorkshire -33 33 £459 -21.24% 15
Midlands -44 29 £505 -10.18% 15
West Midlands -42 24 £505 -12.13% 6
East of England -24 16 £519 +38.33% 25
South West -15 14 £485 +21.25% 3
East Midlands -31 5 - - 9
North East - 4 £550 - 3
South Coast - 1 £625 -
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 20 (4.74%) Confluence
2 17 (4.03%) Apache
3 10 (2.37%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.37%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (1.18%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.95%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.95%) CICS
6 4 (0.95%) JBoss
6 4 (0.95%) Mule
6 4 (0.95%) Oracle Service Bus
6 4 (0.95%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.71%) IIS
8 2 (0.47%) Mendix
8 2 (0.47%) Mule ESB
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.24%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (3.79%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (2.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.42%) Maximo
4 5 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.95%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.71%) Findur
7 2 (0.47%) Actimize
7 2 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.24%) Cerner Millennium
8 1 (0.24%) Magento
8 1 (0.24%) ProductWriter
8 1 (0.24%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.24%) Shopify
8 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 121 (28.67%) Azure
2 94 (22.27%) AWS
3 43 (10.19%) GitHub
4 41 (9.72%) Serverless
5 37 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (8.77%) IaaS
6 36 (8.53%) Power Platform
7 32 (7.58%) Azure Logic Apps
7 32 (7.58%) GCP
8 30 (7.11%) OCI
9 27 (6.40%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (4.74%) PaaS
11 19 (4.50%) SaaS
12 16 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (3.79%) Power Automate
13 15 (3.55%) Apigee
13 15 (3.55%) Azure Data Factory
13 15 (3.55%) Azure Functions
14 14 (3.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 13 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.58%) HTTP
2 10 (2.37%) Firewall
3 9 (2.13%) DNS
4 8 (1.90%) HTTPS
4 8 (1.90%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.42%) BIG-IP
5 6 (1.42%) DHCP
5 6 (1.42%) VPN
6 3 (0.71%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.47%) 5G
7 2 (0.47%) BGP
7 2 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.47%) MPLS
7 2 (0.47%) Network Security
7 2 (0.47%) SMS
7 2 (0.47%) SSH
7 2 (0.47%) X.509
8 1 (0.24%) NFC
8 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.35%) Relational Database
2 28 (6.64%) NoSQL
3 26 (6.16%) MongoDB
4 25 (5.92%) Metadata
5 22 (5.21%) RDBMS
6 21 (4.98%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (4.98%) Power BI
7 20 (4.74%) SQL Server
8 16 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (3.32%) Parquet
10 13 (3.08%) Data Lake
11 12 (2.84%) Oracle Reports
12 10 (2.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (1.90%) Delta Lake
15 7 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
15 7 (1.66%) Hadoop
16 6 (1.42%) DynamoDB
16 6 (1.42%) Spark SQL
17 5 (1.18%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 61 (14.45%) Git
2 51 (12.09%) Postman
3 44 (10.43%) JIRA
4 34 (8.06%) Jenkins
5 22 (5.21%) Maven
6 21 (4.98%) GitLab
7 19 (4.50%) JUnit
7 19 (4.50%) Selenium
8 14 (3.32%) Cucumber
9 10 (2.37%) SoapUI
10 9 (2.13%) SonarQube
11 8 (1.90%) ERwin
12 7 (1.66%) Mockito
13 6 (1.42%) IntelliJ
13 6 (1.42%) SpecFlow
13 6 (1.42%) TestRail
13 6 (1.42%) Zephyr
14 5 (1.18%) Bitbucket
14 5 (1.18%) Eclipse
14 5 (1.18%) Gradle
General
1 114 (27.01%) Social Skills
2 76 (18.01%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (16.35%) Finance
4 47 (11.14%) Public Sector
5 40 (9.48%) Banking
6 20 (4.74%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (3.08%) Marketing
8 6 (1.42%) Publishing
9 5 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.18%) Military
10 4 (0.95%) Billing
11 3 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.71%) Retail
12 2 (0.47%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.47%) Games
12 2 (0.47%) Law
12 2 (0.47%) Legal
13 1 (0.24%) Automotive
13 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 129 (30.57%) Developer
2 56 (13.27%) Architect
3 33 (7.82%) Data Engineer
4 25 (5.92%) Senior
5 24 (5.69%) Analyst
5 24 (5.69%) Java Developer
6 18 (4.27%) Consultant
6 18 (4.27%) Software Engineer
7 17 (4.03%) Business Analyst
7 17 (4.03%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (3.32%) Integration Engineer
8 14 (3.32%) Integration Specialist
9 13 (3.08%) Cloud Specialist
9 13 (3.08%) DBA
9 13 (3.08%) Oracle Specialist
10 12 (2.84%) Lead
11 11 (2.61%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (2.37%) Administrator
12 10 (2.37%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 10 (2.37%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (44.31%) REST
2 173 (41.00%) XML
3 91 (21.56%) SOAP
4 57 (13.51%) OAuth
5 45 (10.66%) HTML
6 42 (9.95%) Kafka
7 39 (9.24%) RESTful
8 38 (9.00%) Web Services
9 35 (8.29%) React
10 32 (7.58%) YAML
11 29 (6.87%) CSS
11 29 (6.87%) Node.js
11 29 (6.87%) Swagger
12 28 (6.64%) .NET
12 28 (6.64%) JWT
12 28 (6.64%) OAuth2
12 28 (6.64%) Spring
13 25 (5.92%) Spring Boot
14 24 (5.69%) XSLT
15 22 (5.21%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.11%) PKI
2 27 (6.40%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (5.69%) Data Structures
4 15 (3.55%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.08%) Public Cloud
6 12 (2.84%) Cloud Native
6 12 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (2.37%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.90%) Low-Code
9 8 (1.90%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.18%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.18%) Digital Wallet
10 5 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.18%) Reference Data
11 4 (0.95%) DataPower
11 4 (0.95%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.95%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.95%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.45%) Linux
2 13 (3.08%) Unix
3 7 (1.66%) Android
4 6 (1.42%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.42%) Windows
5 4 (0.95%) zOS
6 3 (0.71%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.47%) VMS
7 2 (0.47%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (34.83%) Agile
2 137 (32.46%) DevOps
3 115 (27.25%) CI/CD
4 89 (21.09%) Problem-Solving
5 82 (19.43%) Validation
6 63 (14.93%) Data Modelling
7 60 (14.22%) Microservices
8 55 (13.03%) Analytics
9 52 (12.32%) Integration Patterns
10 46 (10.90%) Software Engineering
11 42 (9.95%) Data Pipeline
11 42 (9.95%) ERP
12 38 (9.00%) API Integration
13 36 (8.53%) Stakeholder Management
14 35 (8.29%) ETL
15 34 (8.06%) Containerisation
16 33 (7.82%) CRM
17 32 (7.58%) AI
17 32 (7.58%) Test Automation
18 30 (7.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 134 (31.75%) Python
2 122 (28.91%) SQL
3 91 (21.56%) Java
4 78 (18.48%) JavaScript
5 58 (13.74%) PowerShell
6 53 (12.56%) C#
7 22 (5.21%) TypeScript
8 17 (4.03%) Groovy
9 16 (3.79%) T-SQL
10 11 (2.61%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.90%) R
12 7 (1.66%) Bicep
12 7 (1.66%) Scala
12 7 (1.66%) XPath
13 6 (1.42%) Bash
14 5 (1.18%) Go
14 5 (1.18%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.18%) VBA
15 3 (0.71%) C++
15 3 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 148 (35.07%) Security Cleared
2 107 (25.36%) SC Cleared
3 33 (7.82%) Degree
4 24 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.08%) Azure Certification
6 12 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.42%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.18%) CCNP
8 5 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.18%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.47%) CCNA
9 2 (0.47%) CISM
9 2 (0.47%) CISSP
9 2 (0.47%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.47%) OCP
9 2 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.24%) CBAP
10 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.40%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.16%) QA
3 11 (2.61%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.61%) GDPR
4 8 (1.90%) PSD2
4 8 (1.90%) WCAG
5 6 (1.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (1.18%) ISO 20022
6 5 (1.18%) ISO 8583
6 5 (1.18%) NIST
6 5 (1.18%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.95%) HL7
8 3 (0.71%) FATCA
9 2 (0.47%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.47%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.47%) SEPA
9 2 (0.47%) SLA
10 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
System Software
1 50 (11.85%) Docker
2 7 (1.66%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.47%) HDFS
4 2 (0.47%) OpenSSH
5 1 (0.24%) Firmware
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 51 (12.09%) Kubernetes
2 36 (8.53%) Terraform
3 16 (3.79%) Grafana
4 15 (3.55%) Ansible
5 13 (3.08%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.13%) Kibana
7 7 (1.66%) Puppet
8 4 (0.95%) Pingdom
9 3 (0.71%) logstash
9 3 (0.71%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.47%) Argo
10 2 (0.47%) CloudHub
10 2 (0.47%) Fluentd
10 2 (0.47%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.47%) Podman
10 2 (0.47%) QRadar
10 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.24%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 67 (15.88%) Oracle
2 61 (14.45%) Microsoft
3 22 (5.21%) Splunk
4 21 (4.98%) Databricks
5 19 (4.50%) ServiceNow
6 16 (3.79%) MuleSoft
7 14 (3.32%) Adobe
8 12 (2.84%) SAP
9 11 (2.61%) IBM
10 10 (2.37%) webMethods
11 9 (2.13%) F5
12 8 (1.90%) OpenAI
12 8 (1.90%) Sonatype
12 8 (1.90%) Workday
13 7 (1.66%) Foundry
13 7 (1.66%) Red Hat
13 7 (1.66%) Salesforce
14 6 (1.42%) Google
14 6 (1.42%) Infoblox
14 6 (1.42%) Talend