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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 249 233
Rank change year-on-year +8 -16 -39
Contract jobs citing JSON 416 243 385
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.11% 1.00% 1.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.30% 4.44% 5.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 187 295
10th Percentile £358 £396 £386
25th Percentile £413 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.19% +0.57%
75th Percentile £617 £591 £600
90th Percentile £805 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.19% +1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 5
10th Percentile - - £28.81
25th Percentile £46.25 £91.25 £48.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.65% +32.14% -1.75%
75th Percentile £48.75 £93.75 -
90th Percentile £57.25 - £76.75
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -48.65% +32.14% -1.75%

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 7,852 5,477 7,525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.91% 22.57% 19.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,259 3,768 5,388
10th Percentile £359 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.28% -0.51% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £672
90th Percentile £738 £792 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 86 174
10th Percentile £35.25 £27.30 £20.79
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.56 £39.86
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.53 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 26 March 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 +15 213 £550 +5.01% 65
North of England -11 83 £402 -10.17% 33
North West -4 51 £394 -11.52% 15
South East -46 49 £500 - 44
Yorkshire -34 31 £463 -20.60% 15
Midlands -46 26 £500 -5.88% 15
West Midlands -47 22 £500 -9.09% 6
South West -15 15 £400 - 3
East of England -18 14 £525 +16.67% 25
East Midlands -32 4 - - 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 21 (5.05%) Confluence
2 15 (3.61%) Apache
3 11 (2.64%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.44%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (1.20%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.96%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.96%) CICS
6 4 (0.96%) JBoss
6 4 (0.96%) Mule
6 4 (0.96%) Oracle Service Bus
6 4 (0.96%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.72%) IIS
8 2 (0.48%) Mendix
8 2 (0.48%) Mule ESB
8 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.24%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (3.85%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (2.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.20%) Maximo
3 5 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.72%) Findur
4 3 (0.72%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.48%) Actimize
5 2 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.24%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.24%) Endur
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.24%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.24%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.24%) Shopify
6 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 123 (29.57%) Azure
2 100 (24.04%) AWS
3 42 (10.10%) GitHub
4 41 (9.86%) Serverless
5 40 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
6 39 (9.38%) Power Platform
7 37 (8.89%) IaaS
8 31 (7.45%) Azure Logic Apps
9 30 (7.21%) OCI
10 29 (6.97%) GCP
10 29 (6.97%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (4.81%) PaaS
12 18 (4.33%) Power Automate
13 17 (4.09%) SaaS
14 16 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
14 16 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
15 15 (3.61%) Azure Functions
16 14 (3.37%) PowerApps
17 13 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 13 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.69%) HTTP
2 11 (2.64%) Firewall
2 11 (2.64%) HTTPS
3 7 (1.68%) VPN
4 6 (1.44%) DNS
5 5 (1.20%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.72%) BIG-IP
6 3 (0.72%) DHCP
6 3 (0.72%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.48%) 5G
7 2 (0.48%) BGP
7 2 (0.48%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.48%) MPLS
7 2 (0.48%) Network Security
7 2 (0.48%) NFC
7 2 (0.48%) PPP
7 2 (0.48%) SMS
7 2 (0.48%) SSL
8 1 (0.24%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 27 (6.49%) MongoDB
2 27 (6.49%) NoSQL
3 23 (5.53%) Power BI
4 22 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (5.29%) RDBMS
5 21 (5.05%) Metadata
6 20 (4.81%) SQL Server
7 15 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (3.37%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.64%) Oracle Reports
9 11 (2.64%) Parquet
9 11 (2.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.68%) Delta Lake
13 6 (1.44%) MySQL
14 5 (1.20%) DB2
14 5 (1.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 5 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 64 (15.38%) Git
2 51 (12.26%) Postman
3 45 (10.82%) JIRA
4 40 (9.62%) Jenkins
5 23 (5.53%) JUnit
6 22 (5.29%) Maven
6 22 (5.29%) Selenium
7 20 (4.81%) GitLab
8 16 (3.85%) Cucumber
9 10 (2.40%) SoapUI
10 9 (2.16%) SonarQube
11 7 (1.68%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.68%) Mockito
12 6 (1.44%) Eclipse
12 6 (1.44%) ERwin
12 6 (1.44%) Gradle
12 6 (1.44%) IntelliJ
12 6 (1.44%) SpecFlow
12 6 (1.44%) TestRail
12 6 (1.44%) Zephyr
General
1 118 (28.37%) Social Skills
2 79 (18.99%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (16.83%) Finance
4 52 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 35 (8.41%) Banking
6 19 (4.57%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (3.13%) Marketing
8 6 (1.44%) Military
8 6 (1.44%) Publishing
9 5 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.96%) Billing
10 4 (0.96%) Retail
11 3 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.48%) Back Office
12 2 (0.48%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.48%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.48%) Law
13 1 (0.24%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.24%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 134 (32.21%) Developer
2 53 (12.74%) Architect
3 30 (7.21%) Data Engineer
4 26 (6.25%) Analyst
5 24 (5.77%) Java Developer
6 23 (5.53%) Senior
7 18 (4.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (4.09%) Software Engineer
9 16 (3.85%) Business Analyst
10 15 (3.61%) Consultant
11 13 (3.13%) Cloud Specialist
11 13 (3.13%) DBA
11 13 (3.13%) Integration Engineer
11 13 (3.13%) Integration Specialist
11 13 (3.13%) Lead
11 13 (3.13%) Oracle Specialist
12 11 (2.64%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (2.40%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 9 (2.16%) Full-Stack Developer
14 9 (2.16%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (45.19%) REST
2 175 (42.07%) XML
3 90 (21.63%) SOAP
4 58 (13.94%) OAuth
5 48 (11.54%) HTML
6 38 (9.13%) Kafka
6 38 (9.13%) RESTful
6 38 (9.13%) Web Services
7 36 (8.65%) React
8 30 (7.21%) CSS
8 30 (7.21%) Spring
9 28 (6.73%) Node.js
9 28 (6.73%) YAML
10 27 (6.49%) Spring Boot
10 27 (6.49%) Swagger
11 26 (6.25%) JWT
11 26 (6.25%) OAuth2
12 25 (6.01%) .NET
13 24 (5.77%) XSLT
14 22 (5.29%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.73%) PKI
2 27 (6.49%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (5.77%) Data Structures
4 17 (4.09%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.13%) Public Cloud
6 11 (2.64%) Cloud Native
6 11 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (2.40%) Low-Code
8 9 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (2.16%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.16%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.20%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.20%) Digital Wallet
10 5 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.20%) Reference Data
11 4 (0.96%) CMDB
11 4 (0.96%) DataPower
11 4 (0.96%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.96%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 32 (7.69%) Linux
2 15 (3.61%) Unix
3 7 (1.68%) Android
3 7 (1.68%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.44%) Windows
5 5 (1.20%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.96%) zOS
7 2 (0.48%) VMS
7 2 (0.48%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.24%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (35.34%) Agile
1 147 (35.34%) DevOps
2 121 (29.09%) CI/CD
3 94 (22.60%) Problem-Solving
4 79 (18.99%) Validation
5 63 (15.14%) Microservices
6 62 (14.90%) Data Modelling
7 51 (12.26%) Analytics
8 50 (12.02%) Integration Patterns
9 46 (11.06%) Software Engineering
10 42 (10.10%) Data Pipeline
11 41 (9.86%) ERP
12 37 (8.89%) Containerisation
13 35 (8.41%) ETL
14 34 (8.17%) Stakeholder Management
15 33 (7.93%) CRM
16 32 (7.69%) API Integration
16 32 (7.69%) Configuration Management
17 31 (7.45%) Test Automation
18 30 (7.21%) AI
Programming Languages
1 126 (30.29%) Python
2 125 (30.05%) SQL
3 91 (21.88%) Java
4 77 (18.51%) JavaScript
5 59 (14.18%) PowerShell
6 53 (12.74%) C#
7 21 (5.05%) TypeScript
8 17 (4.09%) T-SQL
9 16 (3.85%) Groovy
10 11 (2.64%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.68%) Bicep
11 7 (1.68%) R
11 7 (1.68%) XPath
12 5 (1.20%) C++
12 5 (1.20%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.20%) Scala
13 3 (0.72%) C
13 3 (0.72%) Go
13 3 (0.72%) JCL
13 3 (0.72%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 148 (35.58%) Security Cleared
2 108 (25.96%) SC Cleared
3 34 (8.17%) Degree
4 24 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (3.13%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.68%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.20%) CCNP
8 5 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.20%) CTC Cleared
9 4 (0.96%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.48%) CCNA
11 2 (0.48%) CISM
11 2 (0.48%) CISSP
11 2 (0.48%) OCP
11 2 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.24%) CEH
12 1 (0.24%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.49%) QA
2 20 (4.81%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.37%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.16%) GDPR
5 8 (1.92%) PSD2
5 8 (1.92%) WCAG
6 5 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (1.20%) ISO 20022
6 5 (1.20%) ISO 8583
6 5 (1.20%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.96%) HL7
8 3 (0.72%) FATCA
9 2 (0.48%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.48%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.48%) NIST
9 2 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.48%) SEPA
10 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.24%) MiFID
10 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 54 (12.98%) Docker
2 7 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.48%) HDFS
4 1 (0.24%) Firmware
4 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 52 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 33 (7.93%) Terraform
3 17 (4.09%) Grafana
4 14 (3.37%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.88%) Ansible
6 11 (2.64%) Kibana
7 8 (1.92%) Puppet
8 5 (1.20%) logstash
9 4 (0.96%) Pingdom
9 4 (0.96%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.72%) Podman
11 2 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.48%) Argo
11 2 (0.48%) CloudHub
11 2 (0.48%) Fluentd
11 2 (0.48%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.48%) QRadar
12 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 66 (15.87%) Oracle
2 62 (14.90%) Microsoft
3 22 (5.29%) Splunk
4 19 (4.57%) Databricks
4 19 (4.57%) ServiceNow
5 15 (3.61%) MuleSoft
6 13 (3.13%) Adobe
7 12 (2.88%) IBM
7 12 (2.88%) SAP
8 9 (2.16%) OpenAI
8 9 (2.16%) webMethods
9 7 (1.68%) F5
9 7 (1.68%) Foundry
9 7 (1.68%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.68%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.68%) Sonatype
9 7 (1.68%) Workday
10 6 (1.44%) Confluent
10 6 (1.44%) Google
11 5 (1.20%) Talend