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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 246 262
Rank change year-on-year -5 +16 -63
Contract jobs citing JSON 440 277 336
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.98% 1.02% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.16% 4.57% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 199 228
10th Percentile £358 £360 £375
25th Percentile £415 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.19% -3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £620
90th Percentile £650 £663 £696
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 4
10th Percentile £47.08 - £50.50
25th Percentile £56.19 £31.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £73.75 £37.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.67% -53.13% +14.29%
75th Percentile £85.94 £43.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £87.63 £73.75 -
UK median hourly rate £73.75 £37.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +96.67% -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 8,520 6,057 7,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.93% 22.25% 21.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,604 4,167 5,354
10th Percentile £363 £355 £350
25th Percentile £430 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £743 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £508 £539
% change year-on-year +3.45% -5.84% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 135 251
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +3.45% -8.66%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.35%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 +6 233 £525 -8.30% 30
North of England -46 74 £430 -3.48% 8
South East -33 66 £525 +10.53% 22
Yorkshire -13 41 £461 +12.78% 2
North West -46 33 £391 -12.08% 6
Midlands -35 32 £450 -18.18% 12
West Midlands -40 27 £450 -18.18% 6
South West -26 16 £485 +29.33% 7
East of England -20 11 £525 +23.53% 3
East Midlands -12 5 - - 6
North East -31 3 £550 +175.00%
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 (6.82%) Confluence
2 22 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 14 (3.18%) Apache
4 12 (2.73%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.82%) Anypoint
5 8 (1.82%) Mule
6 7 (1.59%) CICS
7 5 (1.14%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.68%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.68%) IIS
8 3 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.45%) JBoss
9 2 (0.45%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.45%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.45%) nginx
9 2 (0.45%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.45%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.36%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (2.73%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.59%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.36%) Maximo
3 6 (1.36%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.68%) Findur
5 3 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.45%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
6 2 (0.45%) Infor LN
6 2 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.45%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.23%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.23%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.23%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.23%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.23%) Shopify
7 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 157 (35.68%) Azure
2 96 (21.82%) AWS
3 65 (14.77%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (11.14%) Power Platform
5 40 (9.09%) Serverless
6 36 (8.18%) Power Automate
7 34 (7.73%) GCP
7 34 (7.73%) GitHub
8 28 (6.36%) Boomi
9 27 (6.14%) PowerApps
10 25 (5.68%) Azure Logic Apps
11 21 (4.77%) Entra ID
12 19 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (4.09%) Amazon S3
13 18 (4.09%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (4.09%) Azure Functions
14 17 (3.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 16 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
15 16 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
15 16 (3.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.64%) HTTP
2 13 (2.95%) TCP/IP
3 12 (2.73%) DNS
4 10 (2.27%) BIG-IP
4 10 (2.27%) DHCP
5 4 (0.91%) HTTPS
5 4 (0.91%) Intranet
5 4 (0.91%) Network Security
5 4 (0.91%) SSH
6 3 (0.68%) Firewall
6 3 (0.68%) FTP
6 3 (0.68%) SSL
7 2 (0.45%) DSL
7 2 (0.45%) Internet
7 2 (0.45%) NAS
7 2 (0.45%) SAN
7 2 (0.45%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.45%) WAN
7 2 (0.45%) Wireless
7 2 (0.45%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (8.64%) SQL Server
2 37 (8.41%) Metadata
3 30 (6.82%) MongoDB
4 27 (6.14%) Relational Database
5 25 (5.68%) Power BI
6 20 (4.55%) NoSQL
6 20 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (4.09%) Parquet
8 14 (3.18%) RDBMS
9 13 (2.95%) DynamoDB
9 13 (2.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (2.27%) Oracle Database
11 9 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (2.05%) Data Lake
11 9 (2.05%) Db2
11 9 (2.05%) Delta Lake
12 7 (1.59%) MySQL
13 6 (1.36%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 73 (16.59%) Git
2 51 (11.59%) JIRA
3 31 (7.05%) Postman
4 28 (6.36%) GitLab
5 27 (6.14%) Jenkins
6 12 (2.73%) Maven
7 10 (2.27%) SonarQube
8 9 (2.05%) Selenium
9 8 (1.82%) JUnit
10 7 (1.59%) ERwin
11 6 (1.36%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.36%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (1.36%) Visual Studio
12 5 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (1.14%) Cypress.io
12 5 (1.14%) Gradle
13 4 (0.91%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.91%) Gatling
13 4 (0.91%) SoapUI
13 4 (0.91%) WebDriver
General
1 129 (29.32%) Social Skills
2 83 (18.86%) Finance
3 69 (15.68%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (10.23%) Public Sector
5 36 (8.18%) Banking
6 21 (4.77%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.27%) Publishing
9 8 (1.82%) Marketing
10 7 (1.59%) Retail
11 5 (1.14%) Legal
11 5 (1.14%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.91%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.91%) Law
13 3 (0.68%) Back Office
13 3 (0.68%) Front Office
13 3 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.45%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 149 (33.86%) Developer
2 48 (10.91%) Senior
3 42 (9.55%) Architect
4 35 (7.95%) Analyst
5 32 (7.27%) Data Engineer
6 22 (5.00%) Senior Developer
7 18 (4.09%) Business Analyst
7 18 (4.09%) Integration Engineer
8 17 (3.86%) Python Developer
9 15 (3.41%) Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (3.18%) Consultant
10 14 (3.18%) DevOps Engineer
11 13 (2.95%) Azure Engineer
12 12 (2.73%) Integration Architect
12 12 (2.73%) Java Developer
13 10 (2.27%) Integration Developer
13 10 (2.27%) Integration Specialist
13 10 (2.27%) Software Developer
14 9 (2.05%) Python Engineer
14 9 (2.05%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (38.64%) REST
2 166 (37.73%) XML
3 90 (20.45%) SOAP
4 62 (14.09%) Kafka
5 46 (10.45%) RESTful
6 43 (9.77%) React
7 41 (9.32%) .NET
7 41 (9.32%) OAuth
8 39 (8.86%) Middleware
9 37 (8.41%) Web Services
10 32 (7.27%) YAML
11 27 (6.14%) Swagger
12 25 (5.68%) CSS
13 24 (5.45%) Node.js
14 22 (5.00%) OAuth2
15 19 (4.32%) HTML
16 18 (4.09%) OpenAPI
17 17 (3.86%) Apache Avro
17 17 (3.86%) XSLT
18 16 (3.64%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.73%) Data Structures
1 34 (7.73%) Product Ownership
2 14 (3.18%) Algorithms
2 14 (3.18%) Cloud Native
2 14 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (2.95%) Onboarding
4 12 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (2.73%) Management Information System
5 11 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (2.27%) Taxonomies
7 9 (2.05%) AI Agents
7 9 (2.05%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.59%) CMDB
9 7 (1.59%) DataPower
9 7 (1.59%) Mainframe
9 7 (1.59%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.36%) Online Banking
11 5 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.55%) Linux
2 19 (4.32%) Windows
3 10 (2.27%) Unix
4 8 (1.82%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.59%) Android
5 7 (1.59%) zOS
6 5 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.68%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.45%) Solaris
8 2 (0.45%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.45%) VMS
8 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.23%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (34.55%) CI/CD
2 145 (32.95%) Agile
3 136 (30.91%) DevOps
4 110 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 77 (17.50%) Data Modelling
6 71 (16.14%) Validation
7 60 (13.64%) AI
8 56 (12.73%) Integration Patterns
9 52 (11.82%) Analytics
9 52 (11.82%) ETL
10 51 (11.59%) Event-Driven
10 51 (11.59%) Scrum
11 48 (10.91%) Data Pipeline
12 47 (10.68%) API Integration
12 47 (10.68%) Workflow
13 44 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
14 42 (9.55%) Microservices
15 40 (9.09%) Software Engineering
16 39 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
17 38 (8.64%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 171 (38.86%) Python
2 165 (37.50%) SQL
3 89 (20.23%) JavaScript
4 83 (18.86%) Java
5 64 (14.55%) C#
6 50 (11.36%) PowerShell
7 25 (5.68%) Groovy
8 22 (5.00%) TypeScript
9 17 (3.86%) Shell Script
10 16 (3.64%) PL/SQL
11 14 (3.18%) Bash
12 12 (2.73%) T-SQL
13 11 (2.50%) VBA
14 8 (1.82%) Bicep
15 7 (1.59%) Kotlin
16 6 (1.36%) Go
16 6 (1.36%) JCL
16 6 (1.36%) R
16 6 (1.36%) Scala
17 5 (1.14%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 119 (27.05%) Security Cleared
2 93 (21.14%) SC Cleared
3 24 (5.45%) Degree
4 16 (3.64%) Azure Certification
5 12 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.82%) CISSP
8 7 (1.59%) CISM
9 4 (0.91%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.68%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.45%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.45%) GIAC
11 2 (0.45%) SSCP
12 1 (0.23%) CCNA
12 1 (0.23%) CCNP
12 1 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.23%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (9.55%) Data Quality
2 30 (6.82%) Accessibility
2 30 (6.82%) QA
3 19 (4.32%) GDPR
4 8 (1.82%) WCAG
5 6 (1.36%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.36%) NIST
6 5 (1.14%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.14%) HL7
6 5 (1.14%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.91%) ISO 15022
8 3 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.68%) FATCA
8 3 (0.68%) GRC
8 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.68%) NCSC
8 3 (0.68%) PSD2
8 3 (0.68%) SLA
9 2 (0.45%) Basel III
System Software
1 48 (10.91%) Docker
2 16 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.45%) OpenSSH
5 2 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 54 (12.27%) Kubernetes
2 46 (10.45%) Terraform
3 37 (8.41%) Ansible
4 9 (2.05%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.36%) Grafana
6 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.68%) WMI
8 2 (0.45%) Kibana
8 2 (0.45%) QRadar
8 2 (0.45%) SCCM
8 2 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.23%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.23%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.23%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.23%) Istio
9 1 (0.23%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.23%) logstash
9 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 101 (22.95%) Microsoft
2 80 (18.18%) Oracle
3 33 (7.50%) ServiceNow
4 24 (5.45%) Databricks
5 23 (5.23%) MuleSoft
6 22 (5.00%) SAP
7 20 (4.55%) Workday
8 17 (3.86%) Splunk
9 16 (3.64%) IBM
9 16 (3.64%) Salesforce
10 15 (3.41%) Google
11 12 (2.73%) Foundry
12 10 (2.27%) F5
12 10 (2.27%) Infoblox
12 10 (2.27%) Sonatype
12 10 (2.27%) webMethods
13 8 (1.82%) Dell
14 7 (1.59%) Palantir
15 6 (1.36%) Confluent
15 6 (1.36%) OpenAI