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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 228 267
Rank change year-on-year -25 +39 -61
Contract jobs citing JSON 490 312 292
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.06% 1.14% 0.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.98% 4.46% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 217 191
10th Percentile £354 £350 £400
25th Percentile £415 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £624
90th Percentile £656 £680 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 4
10th Percentile £51.25 - £50.50
25th Percentile £71.38 £31.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £85.48 £37.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +127.93% -53.13% +14.29%
75th Percentile £92.11 £43.75 £85.00
90th Percentile - £76.88 -
UK median hourly rate £85.48 £37.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +127.93% -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 9,845 6,989 8,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.27% 25.49% 24.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,472 4,751 5,384
10th Percentile £380 £354 £363
25th Percentile £442 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 168 180
10th Percentile £29.54 £31.50 £27.68
25th Percentile £53.90 £42.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -12.60% +0.68%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
% change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% +2.67%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -10 263 £525 -2.78% 283
North of England -62 63 £461 +8.53% 52
South East -37 57 £460 -3.16% 74
Midlands -17 52 £447 -0.67% 33
West Midlands -15 48 £447 -18.73% 24
Yorkshire -32 34 £500 +22.70% 14
North West -55 29 £427 -4.47% 34
South West -21 20 £548 +28.82% 31
East of England -31 16 £500 +17.65% 32
East Midlands -14 4 - - 9
North East -35 1 £550 +175.00% 5
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 (6.12%) SharePoint
2 24 (4.90%) Confluence
3 14 (2.86%) Apache
4 9 (1.84%) Anypoint
4 9 (1.84%) Mule
5 8 (1.63%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.63%) IIS
6 5 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (1.02%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.82%) CICS
7 4 (0.82%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.82%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.61%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.61%) ThingWorx
9 2 (0.41%) JBoss
9 2 (0.41%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.41%) nginx
9 2 (0.41%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.02%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.82%) Windchill
4 3 (0.61%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 20 (4.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (3.88%) NetSuite
3 12 (2.45%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (1.22%) Maximo
4 6 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.82%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.41%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.41%) Infor LN
8 1 (0.20%) Actimize
8 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.20%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.20%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.20%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 189 (38.57%) Azure
2 125 (25.51%) AWS
3 80 (16.33%) Azure DevOps
4 61 (12.45%) GCP
5 56 (11.43%) Power Platform
6 53 (10.82%) GitHub
7 47 (9.59%) Boomi
8 44 (8.98%) Power Automate
9 37 (7.55%) Serverless
10 33 (6.73%) Dynamics 365
11 32 (6.53%) PowerApps
12 30 (6.12%) Entra ID
13 28 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
14 24 (4.90%) Azure Functions
15 23 (4.69%) Azure Service Bus
16 22 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
17 20 (4.08%) AtomSphere
18 19 (3.88%) Amazon S3
19 17 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
19 17 (3.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (6.33%) HTTP
2 13 (2.65%) DNS
3 12 (2.45%) BGP
4 11 (2.24%) TCP/IP
5 10 (2.04%) Ethernet VPN
5 10 (2.04%) VXLAN
5 10 (2.04%) Wireless
6 9 (1.84%) DHCP
6 9 (1.84%) NX-OS
7 8 (1.63%) Firewall
7 8 (1.63%) SD-WAN
7 8 (1.63%) TACACS
7 8 (1.63%) WAN
8 7 (1.43%) BIG-IP
8 7 (1.43%) Network Security
9 6 (1.22%) SSL
10 5 (1.02%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.82%) Intranet
11 4 (0.82%) NAS
11 4 (0.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (9.39%) SQL Server
2 39 (7.96%) Metadata
3 28 (5.71%) MongoDB
4 24 (4.90%) Relational Database
5 22 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (4.08%) Parquet
7 19 (3.88%) Power BI
8 13 (2.65%) NoSQL
9 11 (2.24%) RDBMS
10 10 (2.04%) DynamoDB
11 9 (1.84%) Data Lake
11 9 (1.84%) Oracle Database
11 9 (1.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (1.63%) BigQuery
13 7 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (1.22%) Delta Lake
14 6 (1.22%) Redis
15 5 (1.02%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 108 (22.04%) Git
2 46 (9.39%) GitLab
3 44 (8.98%) JIRA
4 40 (8.16%) Jenkins
5 24 (4.90%) Postman
6 22 (4.49%) Selenium
7 15 (3.06%) Maven
8 13 (2.65%) SonarQube
9 12 (2.45%) Cucumber
9 12 (2.45%) JUnit
10 8 (1.63%) WebDriver
11 7 (1.43%) Claude Code
11 7 (1.43%) Gatling
11 7 (1.43%) Gradle
12 6 (1.22%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.22%) ERwin
12 6 (1.22%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.82%) JMeter
14 4 (0.82%) MSI
General
1 143 (29.18%) Social Skills
2 83 (16.94%) Finance
3 71 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (11.22%) Public Sector
5 36 (7.35%) Banking
6 26 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.65%) Publishing
8 11 (2.24%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.04%) Marketing
10 9 (1.84%) Legal
11 8 (1.63%) Back Office
12 7 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.43%) Retail
13 6 (1.22%) Law
14 4 (0.82%) Front Office
15 3 (0.61%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.61%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.61%) Prime Brokerage
15 3 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 162 (33.06%) Developer
2 76 (15.51%) Senior
3 59 (12.04%) Architect
4 37 (7.55%) Analyst
5 35 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 24 (4.90%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 23 (4.69%) Data Engineer
8 18 (3.67%) Consultant
9 17 (3.47%) DevOps Engineer
9 17 (3.47%) Lead
9 17 (3.47%) Security Engineer
10 16 (3.27%) Integration Engineer
11 14 (2.86%) Business Analyst
11 14 (2.86%) Python Developer
11 14 (2.86%) Python Engineer
11 14 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (2.65%) Integration Architect
12 13 (2.65%) Integration Developer
13 12 (2.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 12 (2.45%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (43.47%) REST
2 187 (38.16%) XML
3 94 (19.18%) SOAP
4 68 (13.88%) Kafka
5 61 (12.45%) .NET
6 58 (11.84%) OAuth
7 57 (11.63%) Middleware
8 53 (10.82%) Terraform
9 49 (10.00%) RESTful
10 47 (9.59%) React
11 44 (8.98%) YAML
12 35 (7.14%) OAuth2
13 34 (6.94%) Swagger
14 32 (6.53%) HTML
15 30 (6.12%) OpenAPI
16 29 (5.92%) Web Services
17 28 (5.71%) CSS
18 27 (5.51%) JWT
19 25 (5.10%) XSLT
20 22 (4.49%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.37%) Product Ownership
2 34 (6.94%) Data Structures
3 29 (5.92%) Cloud Native
4 27 (5.51%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (4.49%) AI Agents
5 22 (4.49%) Onboarding
6 18 (3.67%) Algorithms
6 18 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (3.67%) Management Information System
7 17 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (3.47%) Taxonomies
8 13 (2.65%) Data Centre
8 13 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (2.45%) Virtual Team
10 11 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (2.04%) CMDB
12 8 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (1.63%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 36 (7.35%) Windows
2 35 (7.14%) Linux
3 10 (2.04%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.84%) Android
4 9 (1.84%) Unix
5 7 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.82%) zOS
7 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.41%) Solaris
7 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.20%) CentOS
8 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.20%) VMS
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (39.80%) CI/CD
2 166 (33.88%) Agile
3 159 (32.45%) DevOps
4 116 (23.67%) Problem-Solving
5 85 (17.35%) AI
6 82 (16.73%) Data Modelling
7 78 (15.92%) Validation
8 70 (14.29%) Event-Driven
8 70 (14.29%) Scrum
9 65 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 61 (12.45%) Stakeholder Management
11 59 (12.04%) Test Automation
12 57 (11.63%) Integration Patterns
13 51 (10.41%) Infrastructure as Code
14 50 (10.20%) API Integration
15 49 (10.00%) Workflow
16 48 (9.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 47 (9.59%) Migration
18 46 (9.39%) ETL
18 46 (9.39%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 174 (35.51%) Python
2 156 (31.84%) SQL
3 126 (25.71%) JavaScript
4 104 (21.22%) Java
5 79 (16.12%) C#
6 56 (11.43%) PowerShell
7 34 (6.94%) TypeScript
8 29 (5.92%) Groovy
9 18 (3.67%) PL/SQL
10 14 (2.86%) Bash
11 13 (2.65%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.84%) VBA
13 8 (1.63%) Bicep
13 8 (1.63%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.63%) Scala
14 7 (1.43%) C++
14 7 (1.43%) Go
15 5 (1.02%) SPARQL
16 4 (0.82%) JCL
16 4 (0.82%) R
Qualifications
1 128 (26.12%) Security Cleared
2 100 (20.41%) SC Cleared
3 31 (6.33%) Degree
4 24 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (3.27%) Azure Certification
6 14 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.86%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.22%) CISSP
9 5 (1.02%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.02%) CISM
9 5 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.82%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 4 (0.82%) PhD
11 2 (0.41%) CCNP
11 2 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.41%) GIAC
11 2 (0.41%) SSCP
12 1 (0.20%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 41 (8.37%) Data Quality
3 35 (7.14%) QA
4 24 (4.90%) GDPR
5 22 (4.49%) WCAG
6 12 (2.45%) ISO 20022
7 10 (2.04%) NIST
8 8 (1.63%) ISO 15022
9 4 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.82%) GRC
9 4 (0.82%) HL7
9 4 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.82%) NCSC
10 3 (0.61%) Basel III
10 3 (0.61%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.41%) SLA
12 1 (0.20%) SNOMED CT
12 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 57 (11.63%) Docker
2 29 (5.92%) Active Directory
3 20 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.43%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.43%) NFS
6 6 (1.22%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.41%) OpenSSH
8 2 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 63 (12.86%) Kubernetes
2 49 (10.00%) Ansible
3 11 (2.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.22%) Grafana
4 6 (1.22%) SCCM
5 4 (0.82%) Kustomize
6 3 (0.61%) Kibana
6 3 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.61%) WMI
7 2 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.41%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.41%) Puppet
7 2 (0.41%) QRadar
8 1 (0.20%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.20%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.20%) logstash
8 1 (0.20%) Podman
8 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 120 (24.49%) Microsoft
2 94 (19.18%) Oracle
3 47 (9.59%) ServiceNow
4 36 (7.35%) MuleSoft
5 32 (6.53%) Google
6 31 (6.33%) IBM
7 27 (5.51%) Salesforce
8 24 (4.90%) SAP
9 20 (4.08%) Databricks
9 20 (4.08%) VMware
10 17 (3.47%) Cisco
10 17 (3.47%) Workday
11 14 (2.86%) Informatica
11 14 (2.86%) Splunk
12 12 (2.45%) Red Hat
13 11 (2.24%) Infoblox
13 11 (2.24%) TIBCO
13 11 (2.24%) webMethods
14 10 (2.04%) OpenAI
14 10 (2.04%) Sonatype