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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 271 231
Rank change year-on-year +11 -40 -30
Contract jobs citing JSON 376 221 387
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.92% 0.91% 1.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.75% 4.07% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 171 284
10th Percentile £363 £367 £402
25th Percentile £423 £447 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -6.45% -2.82%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £671
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £534
% change year-on-year - -6.37% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 £91.25 £75.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.65% +15.63% +10.34%
75th Percentile £48.75 £93.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £57.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year -48.65% +15.63% +10.34%

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 7,916 5,429 7,502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.42% 22.34% 20.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,250 3,761 5,335
10th Percentile £363 £365 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -0.10% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 103 228
10th Percentile £34.75 £33.25 £22.27
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.95 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -10 197 £525 -0.94% 49
North of England -10 74 £416 -7.05% 26
South East -52 54 £525 +5.00% 36
North West -10 41 £393 -12.05% 14
Yorkshire -25 32 £458 -20.43% 10
Midlands -50 20 £505 -10.18% 8
West Midlands -48 15 £505 -12.13% 4
South West -21 14 £548 +46.00% 2
East of England -29 13 £506 +68.75% 5
East Midlands -31 5 - - 4
North East -15 4 £550 +175.00% 2
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 19 (5.05%) Confluence
2 13 (3.46%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.19%) Apache
4 10 (2.66%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (1.33%) CICS
7 4 (1.06%) Anypoint
7 4 (1.06%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (1.06%) Mule
7 4 (1.06%) Oracle Service Bus
8 3 (0.80%) IIS
8 3 (0.80%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.53%) Mendix
9 2 (0.53%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.27%) JBoss
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.27%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (3.99%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (2.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.60%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (1.06%) Maximo
4 4 (1.06%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.80%) Findur
6 2 (0.53%) Actimize
6 2 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.53%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.27%) Magento
7 1 (0.27%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.27%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.27%) Shopify
7 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 120 (31.91%) Azure
2 82 (21.81%) AWS
3 40 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (10.64%) Power Platform
4 39 (10.37%) Serverless
5 30 (7.98%) Azure Logic Apps
5 30 (7.98%) GCP
5 30 (7.98%) GitHub
6 28 (7.45%) OCI
7 20 (5.32%) Power Automate
8 19 (5.05%) PaaS
9 17 (4.52%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (3.99%) Azure Functions
10 15 (3.99%) IaaS
10 15 (3.99%) PowerApps
11 14 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (3.72%) Azure Data Factory
11 14 (3.72%) SaaS
12 13 (3.46%) Azure Monitor
12 13 (3.46%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.12%) HTTP
2 10 (2.66%) DNS
2 10 (2.66%) TCP/IP
3 9 (2.39%) Firewall
4 8 (2.13%) BIG-IP
4 8 (2.13%) DHCP
5 4 (1.06%) HTTPS
5 4 (1.06%) VPN
6 3 (0.80%) Network Security
7 2 (0.53%) DSL
7 2 (0.53%) FTP
7 2 (0.53%) Intranet
7 2 (0.53%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.53%) SMS
7 2 (0.53%) SSH
7 2 (0.53%) X.509
8 1 (0.27%) BGP
8 1 (0.27%) MPLS
8 1 (0.27%) SSL
8 1 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.98%) Relational Database
2 26 (6.91%) NoSQL
3 25 (6.65%) Metadata
4 23 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (5.85%) Power BI
5 22 (5.85%) RDBMS
6 20 (5.32%) MongoDB
7 18 (4.79%) SQL Server
8 12 (3.19%) Oracle Reports
9 11 (2.93%) Parquet
10 10 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (2.66%) Data Lake
11 9 (2.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.86%) DynamoDB
13 6 (1.60%) DB2
13 6 (1.60%) Delta Lake
13 6 (1.60%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.60%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 43 (11.44%) Git
2 41 (10.90%) JIRA
2 41 (10.90%) Postman
3 26 (6.91%) Jenkins
4 17 (4.52%) GitLab
5 15 (3.99%) Maven
6 9 (2.39%) SoapUI
6 9 (2.39%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.13%) ERwin
7 8 (2.13%) JUnit
8 6 (1.60%) Selenium
9 5 (1.33%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.33%) Gradle
10 4 (1.06%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.06%) ER Studio
10 4 (1.06%) Gatling
10 4 (1.06%) JMeter
11 3 (0.80%) MSTest
11 3 (0.80%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.80%) Visual Studio
General
1 110 (29.26%) Social Skills
2 71 (18.88%) Finance
3 54 (14.36%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (9.84%) Banking
5 36 (9.57%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.79%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.93%) Marketing
8 5 (1.33%) Military
8 5 (1.33%) Publishing
9 4 (1.06%) Retail
10 3 (0.80%) Back Office
10 3 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.80%) Law
10 3 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.53%) Billing
11 2 (0.53%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.53%) Games
11 2 (0.53%) Legal
12 1 (0.27%) Automotive
12 1 (0.27%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 112 (29.79%) Developer
2 37 (9.84%) Architect
3 27 (7.18%) Data Engineer
4 24 (6.38%) Senior
5 21 (5.59%) Analyst
6 18 (4.79%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (4.52%) Consultant
7 17 (4.52%) Integration Engineer
8 16 (4.26%) Business Analyst
8 16 (4.26%) Java Developer
8 16 (4.26%) Software Engineer
9 13 (3.46%) DBA
9 13 (3.46%) Integration Specialist
10 12 (3.19%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (3.19%) Cloud Specialist
10 12 (3.19%) Oracle Specialist
11 11 (2.93%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (2.93%) Software Developer
12 10 (2.66%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 9 (2.39%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (40.16%) REST
2 149 (39.63%) XML
3 82 (21.81%) SOAP
4 52 (13.83%) OAuth
5 46 (12.23%) Kafka
6 40 (10.64%) Web Services
7 34 (9.04%) RESTful
8 33 (8.78%) HTML
8 33 (8.78%) React
9 32 (8.51%) YAML
10 30 (7.98%) .NET
11 29 (7.71%) CSS
12 27 (7.18%) Swagger
13 25 (6.65%) JWT
13 25 (6.65%) Node.js
14 24 (6.38%) OAuth2
15 22 (5.85%) XSLT
16 20 (5.32%) Oracle Fusion
17 18 (4.79%) OpenAPI
18 17 (4.52%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.59%) Data Structures
2 17 (4.52%) Product Ownership
3 14 (3.72%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (3.19%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.19%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.19%) Public Cloud
5 10 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.86%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.86%) PKI
8 6 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.33%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.33%) DataPower
9 5 (1.33%) Digital Wallet
9 5 (1.33%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.33%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.33%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.06%) Online Banking
10 4 (1.06%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.59%) Linux
2 10 (2.66%) Windows
3 9 (2.39%) Unix
4 5 (1.33%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.33%) zOS
5 4 (1.06%) Android
6 3 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.53%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.53%) VMS
8 1 (0.27%) Solaris
8 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (32.45%) DevOps
2 112 (29.79%) Agile
3 95 (25.27%) CI/CD
4 84 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
5 66 (17.55%) Validation
6 62 (16.49%) Data Modelling
7 55 (14.63%) Analytics
8 47 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
9 43 (11.44%) Microservices
10 41 (10.90%) Data Pipeline
10 41 (10.90%) ERP
11 37 (9.84%) AI
11 37 (9.84%) API Integration
11 37 (9.84%) Software Engineering
12 33 (8.78%) ETL
13 32 (8.51%) Stakeholder Management
14 31 (8.24%) Performance Tuning
15 30 (7.98%) Containerisation
16 29 (7.71%) Business Intelligence
17 28 (7.45%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 139 (36.97%) Python
2 120 (31.91%) SQL
3 74 (19.68%) Java
4 72 (19.15%) JavaScript
5 44 (11.70%) C#
6 42 (11.17%) PowerShell
7 17 (4.52%) TypeScript
8 13 (3.46%) Shell Script
9 12 (3.19%) Groovy
10 11 (2.93%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.86%) Bash
11 7 (1.86%) Bicep
11 7 (1.86%) R
11 7 (1.86%) VBA
12 6 (1.60%) PL/SQL
13 5 (1.33%) Go
13 5 (1.33%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.06%) JCL
15 3 (0.80%) Scala
15 3 (0.80%) XPath
Qualifications
1 119 (31.65%) Security Cleared
2 87 (23.14%) SC Cleared
3 27 (7.18%) Degree
4 17 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.93%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.60%) CISM
7 6 (1.60%) CISSP
8 5 (1.33%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.06%) CCNP
9 4 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.53%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.27%) CCNA
11 1 (0.27%) CSPO
11 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.27%) OCP
11 1 (0.27%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.27%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.71%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.91%) QA
3 17 (4.52%) GDPR
4 8 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.13%) PSD2
5 6 (1.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (1.60%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.60%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.33%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.33%) ISO 8583
6 5 (1.33%) NIST
6 5 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.06%) HL7
8 3 (0.80%) FATCA
9 2 (0.53%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.53%) NCSC
9 2 (0.53%) SEPA
9 2 (0.53%) SLA
9 2 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (12.23%) Docker
2 10 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.53%) HDFS
4 2 (0.53%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.53%) OpenSSH
4 2 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.27%) Firmware
5 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 46 (12.23%) Kubernetes
2 36 (9.57%) Terraform
3 16 (4.26%) Ansible
4 13 (3.46%) Prometheus
5 11 (2.93%) Grafana
6 4 (1.06%) Kibana
6 4 (1.06%) logstash
6 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.06%) Pingdom
7 3 (0.80%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.80%) Puppet
7 3 (0.80%) QRadar
8 2 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.53%) Argo
8 2 (0.53%) CloudHub
8 2 (0.53%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.53%) Podman
8 2 (0.53%) SCCM
8 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.27%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 72 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 70 (18.62%) Oracle
3 25 (6.65%) ServiceNow
4 21 (5.59%) Splunk
5 20 (5.32%) Databricks
6 15 (3.99%) MuleSoft
7 14 (3.72%) SAP
8 13 (3.46%) Adobe
9 12 (3.19%) Workday
10 10 (2.66%) F5
10 10 (2.66%) webMethods
11 8 (2.13%) Confluent
11 8 (2.13%) IBM
11 8 (2.13%) Infoblox
11 8 (2.13%) Red Hat
11 8 (2.13%) Sonatype
12 7 (1.86%) Foundry
13 6 (1.60%) Dell
13 6 (1.60%) Google
13 6 (1.60%) OpenAI