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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 239 275
Rank change year-on-year -9 +36 -66
Contract jobs citing JSON 500 329 281
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.07% 1.18% 0.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.06% 4.60% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 227 181
10th Percentile £344 £353 £400
25th Percentile £413 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -8.26% -0.91%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £622
90th Percentile £675 £680 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +1.85%
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 9,886 7,159 8,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.62% 24.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,508 4,850 5,253
10th Percentile £381 £355 £363
25th Percentile £447 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -0.68%
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 263 171 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.61 £35.50
25th Percentile £53.43 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £76.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.68
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £62.50
% change year-on-year +19.60% -13.04% +4.17%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -14 264 £525 -1.41% 214
Midlands -5 62 £459 +4.26% 34
North of England -72 60 £450 +0.67% 46
West Midlands +7 59 £459 -6.38% 22
South East -31 59 £460 -3.16% 60
Yorkshire -33 30 £461 +12.78% 16
North West -53 30 £429 -4.35% 27
South West -17 23 £545 +14.74% 31
East of England -30 12 £525 +18.31% 25
East Midlands -16 3 - - 12
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 (6.00%) SharePoint
2 26 (5.20%) Confluence
3 13 (2.60%) Apache
4 9 (1.80%) Anypoint
4 9 (1.80%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.80%) Mule
5 8 (1.60%) IIS
6 5 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (1.00%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.80%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.80%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.60%) CICS
8 3 (0.60%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.60%) ThingWorx
9 2 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.40%) JBoss
9 2 (0.40%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.40%) nginx
9 2 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.20%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.00%) Windchill
4 4 (0.80%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (3.60%) NetSuite
3 12 (2.40%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (1.40%) Maximo
5 6 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.80%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.40%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
8 2 (0.40%) Infor LN
8 2 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
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%) NEC Housing
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.20%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 198 (39.60%) Azure
2 129 (25.80%) AWS
3 83 (16.60%) Azure DevOps
4 64 (12.80%) GCP
5 60 (12.00%) Power Platform
6 56 (11.20%) GitHub
7 48 (9.60%) Boomi
8 44 (8.80%) Power Automate
9 36 (7.20%) Serverless
10 33 (6.60%) Dynamics 365
10 33 (6.60%) PowerApps
11 32 (6.40%) Entra ID
12 28 (5.60%) Azure Logic Apps
13 27 (5.40%) Azure Functions
14 22 (4.40%) Azure Service Bus
15 21 (4.20%) AtomSphere
15 21 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (3.80%) Amazon S3
17 17 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
18 16 (3.20%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (6.20%) HTTP
2 13 (2.60%) BGP
3 11 (2.20%) DNS
3 11 (2.20%) Ethernet VPN
3 11 (2.20%) VXLAN
4 10 (2.00%) NX-OS
4 10 (2.00%) Wireless
5 9 (1.80%) TACACS
5 9 (1.80%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.60%) Firewall
6 8 (1.60%) SD-WAN
6 8 (1.60%) WAN
7 7 (1.40%) DHCP
7 7 (1.40%) Network Security
8 6 (1.20%) SSL
9 5 (1.00%) BIG-IP
9 5 (1.00%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.80%) Cisco ISE
10 4 (0.80%) NAS
10 4 (0.80%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 36 (7.20%) Metadata
3 33 (6.60%) MongoDB
4 26 (5.20%) Relational Database
5 25 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (4.40%) Parquet
6 22 (4.40%) Power BI
7 19 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (2.40%) NoSQL
9 11 (2.20%) RDBMS
10 10 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (1.80%) Data Lake
11 9 (1.80%) Oracle Database
12 8 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (1.60%) BigQuery
13 7 (1.40%) Delta Lake
13 7 (1.40%) DynamoDB
13 7 (1.40%) MySQL
14 6 (1.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 117 (23.40%) Git
2 50 (10.00%) GitLab
3 48 (9.60%) JIRA
4 38 (7.60%) Jenkins
5 25 (5.00%) Postman
6 22 (4.40%) Selenium
7 14 (2.80%) JUnit
7 14 (2.80%) Maven
8 13 (2.60%) Cucumber
9 11 (2.20%) SonarQube
10 9 (1.80%) Team Foundation Server
11 8 (1.60%) Gatling
11 8 (1.60%) WebDriver
12 7 (1.40%) Claude Code
12 7 (1.40%) Gradle
13 6 (1.20%) Cypress.io
14 5 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (1.00%) ERwin
15 4 (0.80%) JMeter
15 4 (0.80%) MSI
General
1 143 (28.60%) Social Skills
2 86 (17.20%) Finance
3 70 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (11.40%) Public Sector
5 36 (7.20%) Banking
6 25 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.60%) Manufacturing
8 11 (2.20%) Publishing
9 10 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.00%) Marketing
10 8 (1.60%) Back Office
10 8 (1.60%) Legal
10 8 (1.60%) Retail
11 7 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.20%) Law
13 5 (1.00%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.80%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.80%) Front Office
15 3 (0.60%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.60%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 170 (34.00%) Developer
2 80 (16.00%) Senior
3 56 (11.20%) Architect
4 36 (7.20%) Analyst
5 35 (7.00%) Senior Developer
6 24 (4.80%) Data Engineer
6 24 (4.80%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 21 (4.20%) Lead
8 17 (3.40%) Consultant
8 17 (3.40%) Security Engineer
9 16 (3.20%) Python Developer
10 15 (3.00%) Business Analyst
10 15 (3.00%) DevOps Engineer
10 15 (3.00%) Integration Developer
10 15 (3.00%) Integration Engineer
11 13 (2.60%) Python Engineer
11 13 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (2.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 12 (2.40%) Integration Architect
12 12 (2.40%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (44.20%) REST
2 198 (39.60%) XML
3 99 (19.80%) SOAP
4 64 (12.80%) Kafka
5 63 (12.60%) .NET
6 62 (12.40%) Middleware
6 62 (12.40%) OAuth
7 56 (11.20%) RESTful
8 52 (10.40%) React
9 50 (10.00%) Terraform
10 44 (8.80%) YAML
11 38 (7.60%) OAuth2
12 36 (7.20%) Swagger
13 34 (6.80%) Web Services
14 32 (6.40%) HTML
15 30 (6.00%) OpenAPI
16 28 (5.60%) CSS
17 27 (5.40%) JWT
17 27 (5.40%) RabbitMQ
18 26 (5.20%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.20%) Product Ownership
2 36 (7.20%) Data Structures
3 31 (6.20%) Enterprise Software
4 29 (5.80%) Cloud Native
5 24 (4.80%) AI Agents
5 24 (4.80%) Onboarding
6 19 (3.80%) Management Information System
7 17 (3.40%) Algorithms
7 17 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (3.40%) Taxonomies
8 15 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (2.80%) Data Centre
10 12 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (2.40%) Virtual Team
11 11 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (2.00%) CMDB
13 9 (1.80%) Mobile App
14 8 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
14 8 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (1.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 40 (8.00%) Linux
2 38 (7.60%) Windows
3 10 (2.00%) Android
3 10 (2.00%) Unix
3 10 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.60%) zOS
7 2 (0.40%) Solaris
7 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.20%) CentOS
8 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (39.40%) CI/CD
2 169 (33.80%) Agile
3 159 (31.80%) DevOps
4 117 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
5 91 (18.20%) AI
6 81 (16.20%) Data Modelling
7 78 (15.60%) Validation
8 76 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 74 (14.80%) Scrum
10 66 (13.20%) Test Automation
11 65 (13.00%) Event-Driven
12 62 (12.40%) Stakeholder Management
13 54 (10.80%) API Integration
14 53 (10.60%) Infrastructure as Code
14 53 (10.60%) Integration Patterns
14 53 (10.60%) Workflow
15 47 (9.40%) Microservices
15 47 (9.40%) Migration
16 46 (9.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 46 (9.20%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 172 (34.40%) Python
2 166 (33.20%) SQL
3 133 (26.60%) JavaScript
4 109 (21.80%) Java
5 78 (15.60%) C#
6 63 (12.60%) PowerShell
7 38 (7.60%) TypeScript
8 27 (5.40%) Groovy
9 20 (4.00%) Bash
10 18 (3.60%) PL/SQL
11 17 (3.40%) Shell Script
12 10 (2.00%) Bicep
13 9 (1.80%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.60%) Go
14 8 (1.60%) Scala
15 7 (1.40%) C++
15 7 (1.40%) T-SQL
15 7 (1.40%) VBA
16 5 (1.00%) C
16 5 (1.00%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 125 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 98 (19.60%) SC Cleared
3 32 (6.40%) Degree
4 24 (4.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (3.40%) Azure Certification
6 16 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (3.00%) DV Cleared
8 14 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (2.00%) CISSP
10 9 (1.80%) CISM
11 5 (1.00%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.00%) CRISC
11 5 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.80%) CISA
12 4 (0.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 4 (0.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 4 (0.80%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.80%) PhD
13 2 (0.40%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 42 (8.40%) Data Quality
3 38 (7.60%) QA
4 23 (4.60%) WCAG
5 22 (4.40%) GDPR
6 14 (2.80%) NIST
7 12 (2.40%) ISO 20022
8 8 (1.60%) GRC
8 8 (1.60%) ISO 15022
8 8 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.80%) COBIT
9 4 (0.80%) HL7
9 4 (0.80%) NCSC
10 3 (0.60%) Basel III
10 3 (0.60%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.40%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.40%) SLA
12 1 (0.20%) SNOMED CT
12 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 58 (11.60%) Docker
2 30 (6.00%) Active Directory
3 21 (4.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.40%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.40%) NFS
5 7 (1.40%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.40%) OpenSSH
7 2 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 64 (12.80%) Kubernetes
2 50 (10.00%) Ansible
3 13 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.20%) SCCM
5 5 (1.00%) Grafana
6 4 (0.80%) Kibana
6 4 (0.80%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.60%) 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%) Prometheus
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%) logstash
9 1 (0.20%) Podman
9 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 128 (25.60%) Microsoft
2 98 (19.60%) Oracle
3 50 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 36 (7.20%) MuleSoft
5 35 (7.00%) IBM
6 33 (6.60%) Google
7 26 (5.20%) Salesforce
7 26 (5.20%) SAP
8 21 (4.20%) Databricks
8 21 (4.20%) VMware
9 18 (3.60%) Cisco
10 17 (3.40%) Workday
11 14 (2.80%) Informatica
11 14 (2.80%) Splunk
12 13 (2.60%) Red Hat
13 12 (2.40%) OpenAI
14 11 (2.20%) webMethods
15 10 (2.00%) Dell
15 10 (2.00%) Infoblox
15 10 (2.00%) TIBCO