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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 259 221
Rank change year-on-year +18 -38 -19
Contract jobs citing JSON 418 223 383
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.07% 0.91% 1.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.25% 4.06% 5.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 181 281
10th Percentile £358 £375 £400
25th Percentile £415 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -6.37% -2.91%
75th Percentile £616 £600 £600
90th Percentile £813 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £534
% change year-on-year - -6.37% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 5
10th Percentile - - £37.31
25th Percentile £46.25 £91.25 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.65% +32.14% -
75th Percentile £48.75 £93.75 £85.00
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 7,961 5,490 7,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.31% 22.51% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,322 3,805 5,301
10th Percentile £358 £367 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -3.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 89 171
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.42 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £36.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.90 £83.17 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +24 215 £550 +4.76% 56
North of England -15 82 £402 -10.96% 28
South East -38 51 £506 +1.25% 39
North West -9 48 £393 -11.80% 14
Yorkshire -31 33 £459 -21.24% 13
Midlands -46 26 £488 -13.33% 13
West Midlands -46 21 £488 -15.22% 4
East of England -18 16 £519 +38.33% 9
South West -16 14 £485 +21.25% 6
East Midlands -28 5 - - 9
North East - 4 £550 - 1
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 (4.78%) Confluence
2 17 (4.07%) Apache
3 10 (2.39%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.39%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (1.20%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.20%) JBoss
5 5 (1.20%) Mule
5 5 (1.20%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.96%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.96%) CICS
6 4 (0.96%) Oracle Service Bus
7 3 (0.72%) IIS
7 3 (0.72%) Mule ESB
8 2 (0.48%) Mendix
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.24%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.24%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (3.83%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.44%) Maximo
4 5 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.96%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.72%) Findur
7 2 (0.48%) Actimize
7 2 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.48%) 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 (28.95%) Azure
2 91 (21.77%) AWS
3 43 (10.29%) GitHub
4 40 (9.57%) Serverless
5 37 (8.85%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (8.85%) IaaS
6 36 (8.61%) Power Platform
7 33 (7.89%) GCP
8 32 (7.66%) Azure Logic Apps
9 30 (7.18%) OCI
10 27 (6.46%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (4.78%) PaaS
12 16 (3.83%) Power Automate
12 16 (3.83%) SaaS
13 15 (3.59%) Apigee
13 15 (3.59%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
13 15 (3.59%) Azure Functions
14 14 (3.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 13 (3.11%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.66%) HTTP
2 10 (2.39%) Firewall
3 9 (2.15%) DNS
4 8 (1.91%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.67%) HTTPS
6 6 (1.44%) BIG-IP
6 6 (1.44%) DHCP
6 6 (1.44%) VPN
7 3 (0.72%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.48%) 5G
8 2 (0.48%) BGP
8 2 (0.48%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (0.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.48%) MPLS
8 2 (0.48%) Network Security
8 2 (0.48%) SMS
8 2 (0.48%) SSH
8 2 (0.48%) X.509
9 1 (0.24%) NFC
9 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.42%) Relational Database
2 28 (6.70%) NoSQL
3 25 (5.98%) Metadata
3 25 (5.98%) MongoDB
4 22 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (5.26%) RDBMS
5 21 (5.02%) Power BI
6 20 (4.78%) SQL Server
7 16 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (3.35%) Parquet
9 13 (3.11%) Data Lake
10 12 (2.87%) Oracle Reports
11 10 (2.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (1.91%) Delta Lake
14 7 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (1.67%) Hadoop
15 6 (1.44%) DynamoDB
15 6 (1.44%) Spark SQL
16 5 (1.20%) DB2
Development Applications
1 58 (13.88%) Git
2 51 (12.20%) Postman
3 44 (10.53%) JIRA
4 34 (8.13%) Jenkins
5 19 (4.55%) Maven
6 18 (4.31%) GitLab
7 17 (4.07%) JUnit
8 16 (3.83%) Selenium
9 12 (2.87%) Cucumber
10 10 (2.39%) SoapUI
11 9 (2.15%) SonarQube
12 8 (1.91%) ERwin
13 6 (1.44%) Eclipse
13 6 (1.44%) IntelliJ
13 6 (1.44%) SpecFlow
13 6 (1.44%) TestRail
13 6 (1.44%) Zephyr
14 5 (1.20%) Bitbucket
14 5 (1.20%) Gradle
14 5 (1.20%) MSTest
General
1 113 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 77 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (16.51%) Finance
4 46 (11.00%) Public Sector
5 39 (9.33%) Banking
6 20 (4.78%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (3.11%) Marketing
8 6 (1.44%) Publishing
9 5 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.20%) Military
10 4 (0.96%) Billing
11 3 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.72%) Retail
12 2 (0.48%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.48%) Games
12 2 (0.48%) Law
12 2 (0.48%) Legal
13 1 (0.24%) Automotive
13 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 125 (29.90%) Developer
2 54 (12.92%) Architect
3 33 (7.89%) Data Engineer
4 24 (5.74%) Analyst
4 24 (5.74%) Senior
5 22 (5.26%) Java Developer
6 19 (4.55%) Consultant
6 19 (4.55%) Software Engineer
7 17 (4.07%) Business Analyst
7 17 (4.07%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (3.35%) Integration Engineer
8 14 (3.35%) Integration Specialist
9 13 (3.11%) Cloud Specialist
9 13 (3.11%) DBA
9 13 (3.11%) Oracle Specialist
10 12 (2.87%) Lead
11 11 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (2.39%) Administrator
12 10 (2.39%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 10 (2.39%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (44.74%) REST
2 175 (41.87%) XML
3 91 (21.77%) SOAP
4 54 (12.92%) OAuth
5 43 (10.29%) Kafka
6 42 (10.05%) HTML
7 41 (9.81%) Web Services
8 39 (9.33%) RESTful
9 32 (7.66%) React
9 32 (7.66%) YAML
10 29 (6.94%) CSS
10 29 (6.94%) Node.js
10 29 (6.94%) Swagger
11 28 (6.70%) JWT
12 27 (6.46%) .NET
13 26 (6.22%) Spring
14 25 (5.98%) OAuth2
14 25 (5.98%) XSLT
15 22 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
15 22 (5.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.18%) PKI
2 27 (6.46%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (5.74%) Data Structures
4 15 (3.59%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (3.11%) Public Cloud
6 12 (2.87%) Cloud Native
7 10 (2.39%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.91%) Low-Code
9 8 (1.91%) Management Information System
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%) DataPower
11 4 (0.96%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.96%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.96%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.74%) Linux
2 14 (3.35%) Unix
3 7 (1.67%) Windows
4 6 (1.44%) Android
5 5 (1.20%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.96%) zOS
7 3 (0.72%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.48%) VMS
8 2 (0.48%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (34.21%) Agile
2 133 (31.82%) DevOps
3 111 (26.56%) CI/CD
4 88 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
5 79 (18.90%) Validation
6 63 (15.07%) Data Modelling
7 58 (13.88%) Microservices
8 55 (13.16%) Analytics
9 51 (12.20%) Integration Patterns
10 44 (10.53%) Software Engineering
11 43 (10.29%) ERP
12 42 (10.05%) Data Pipeline
13 37 (8.85%) API Integration
14 35 (8.37%) ETL
15 34 (8.13%) Containerisation
16 33 (7.89%) CRM
16 33 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
17 32 (7.66%) AI
18 31 (7.42%) Test Automation
19 30 (7.18%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 133 (31.82%) Python
2 122 (29.19%) SQL
3 87 (20.81%) Java
4 75 (17.94%) JavaScript
5 58 (13.88%) PowerShell
6 50 (11.96%) C#
7 21 (5.02%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.35%) Groovy
9 13 (3.11%) T-SQL
10 11 (2.63%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.91%) R
12 7 (1.67%) Bicep
12 7 (1.67%) Scala
12 7 (1.67%) XPath
13 6 (1.44%) Bash
14 5 (1.20%) Go
14 5 (1.20%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.20%) VBA
15 4 (0.96%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.72%) C++
Qualifications
1 146 (34.93%) Security Cleared
2 107 (25.60%) SC Cleared
3 34 (8.13%) Degree
4 24 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.11%) Azure Certification
6 12 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.44%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.20%) CCNP
8 5 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.20%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.48%) CCNA
9 2 (0.48%) CISM
9 2 (0.48%) CISSP
9 2 (0.48%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.48%) OCP
9 2 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.24%) CBAP
10 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.46%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.22%) QA
3 11 (2.63%) GDPR
4 10 (2.39%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.91%) PSD2
6 6 (1.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (1.20%) ISO 20022
7 5 (1.20%) ISO 8583
7 5 (1.20%) NIST
7 5 (1.20%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.20%) WCAG
8 4 (0.96%) HL7
9 3 (0.72%) FATCA
10 2 (0.48%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.48%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.48%) SEPA
10 2 (0.48%) SLA
11 1 (0.24%) NCSC
11 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
System Software
1 51 (12.20%) Docker
2 7 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.48%) HDFS
4 2 (0.48%) OpenSSH
5 1 (0.24%) Firmware
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (11.72%) Kubernetes
2 36 (8.61%) Terraform
3 15 (3.59%) Ansible
4 13 (3.11%) Grafana
4 13 (3.11%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.67%) Puppet
6 6 (1.44%) Kibana
7 4 (0.96%) Pingdom
8 3 (0.72%) logstash
8 3 (0.72%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.48%) Argo
9 2 (0.48%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.48%) Fluentd
9 2 (0.48%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.48%) Podman
9 2 (0.48%) QRadar
9 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.24%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 67 (16.03%) Oracle
2 61 (14.59%) Microsoft
3 22 (5.26%) Splunk
4 21 (5.02%) Databricks
4 21 (5.02%) ServiceNow
5 16 (3.83%) MuleSoft
6 14 (3.35%) Adobe
7 12 (2.87%) SAP
8 10 (2.39%) IBM
9 9 (2.15%) F5
9 9 (2.15%) webMethods
10 8 (1.91%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.91%) Sonatype
10 8 (1.91%) Workday
11 7 (1.67%) Confluent
11 7 (1.67%) Foundry
11 7 (1.67%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.44%) Infoblox
12 6 (1.44%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.44%) Talend