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

 6 months to
17 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 264 231
Rank change year-on-year -4 -33 -29
Contract jobs citing JSON 377 227 374
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.92% 0.93% 1.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.76% 4.16% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 176 273
10th Percentile £363 £365 £400
25th Percentile £425 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% -2.73%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £613
90th Percentile £639 £703 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £534
% change year-on-year - -6.37% +0.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 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 £54.06 £93.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £74.50 - -
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 7,928 5,456 7,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.28% 22.30% 20.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,254 3,776 5,311
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £630 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 99 231
10th Percentile £31.18 £32.65 £22.50
25th Percentile £51.81 £50.00 £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 £66.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.50 £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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -9 192 £525 -3.58% 54
North of England -13 76 £425 -4.92% 26
South East -43 58 £525 +5.00% 36
North West -12 42 £397 -11.21% 14
Yorkshire -29 33 £460 -8.00% 9
Midlands -57 20 £505 -8.14% 11
West Midlands -51 15 £505 -10.18% 4
South West -19 14 £545 +45.33% 9
East of England -18 13 £506 +68.75% 5
East Midlands -24 5 - - 7
North East -17 4 £550 +175.00% 3
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 (5.04%) Confluence
2 14 (3.71%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.18%) Apache
4 9 (2.39%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (1.33%) CICS
7 4 (1.06%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (1.06%) Mule
7 4 (1.06%) Oracle Service Bus
8 3 (0.80%) Anypoint
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%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.27%) JBoss
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.27%) nginx
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 (3.98%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (2.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.59%) 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%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.27%) Shopify
7 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 123 (32.63%) Azure
2 82 (21.75%) AWS
3 42 (11.14%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (10.88%) Serverless
5 39 (10.34%) Power Platform
6 33 (8.75%) GitHub
7 31 (8.22%) Azure Logic Apps
8 28 (7.43%) OCI
9 27 (7.16%) GCP
10 21 (5.57%) Power Automate
11 19 (5.04%) PaaS
12 18 (4.77%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (4.24%) Azure Functions
14 15 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (3.98%) PowerApps
15 14 (3.71%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (3.71%) Azure Monitor
16 13 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
16 13 (3.45%) SaaS
17 12 (3.18%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.04%) HTTP
2 10 (2.65%) DNS
2 10 (2.65%) TCP/IP
3 8 (2.12%) BIG-IP
3 8 (2.12%) DHCP
4 7 (1.86%) Firewall
5 3 (0.80%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.80%) Network Security
5 3 (0.80%) VPN
6 2 (0.53%) DSL
6 2 (0.53%) FTP
6 2 (0.53%) Intranet
6 2 (0.53%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.53%) SMS
6 2 (0.53%) SSH
6 2 (0.53%) X.509
7 1 (0.27%) BGP
7 1 (0.27%) Internet
7 1 (0.27%) MPLS
7 1 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (9.28%) Relational Database
2 29 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 27 (7.16%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (6.63%) RDBMS
5 24 (6.37%) Metadata
6 22 (5.84%) MongoDB
7 21 (5.57%) Power BI
8 20 (5.31%) SQL Server
9 12 (3.18%) Oracle Reports
10 10 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (2.65%) Data Lake
10 10 (2.65%) Parquet
11 9 (2.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (1.86%) DynamoDB
13 7 (1.86%) Oracle Database
14 6 (1.59%) DB2
14 6 (1.59%) MySQL
14 6 (1.59%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 46 (12.20%) Git
2 41 (10.88%) JIRA
2 41 (10.88%) Postman
3 25 (6.63%) Jenkins
4 19 (5.04%) GitLab
5 14 (3.71%) Maven
6 9 (2.39%) SoapUI
6 9 (2.39%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.12%) ERwin
7 8 (2.12%) JUnit
8 5 (1.33%) Gradle
8 5 (1.33%) Selenium
9 4 (1.06%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.06%) ER Studio
9 4 (1.06%) Gatling
10 3 (0.80%) JMeter
10 3 (0.80%) MSTest
10 3 (0.80%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.80%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.80%) Visual Studio
General
1 108 (28.65%) Social Skills
2 73 (19.36%) Finance
3 49 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (9.81%) Banking
5 36 (9.55%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.51%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.39%) Marketing
8 5 (1.33%) Military
8 5 (1.33%) Publishing
9 3 (0.80%) Back Office
9 3 (0.80%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.80%) Law
9 3 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.80%) Retail
10 2 (0.53%) Billing
10 2 (0.53%) Front Office
10 2 (0.53%) Games
10 2 (0.53%) Legal
11 1 (0.27%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 111 (29.44%) Developer
2 33 (8.75%) Architect
3 29 (7.69%) Senior
4 28 (7.43%) Data Engineer
5 20 (5.31%) Analyst
6 19 (5.04%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (4.77%) Integration Engineer
8 17 (4.51%) Consultant
9 16 (4.24%) Business Analyst
9 16 (4.24%) Java Developer
9 16 (4.24%) Software Engineer
10 15 (3.98%) DBA
11 14 (3.71%) Integration Specialist
12 13 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
13 12 (3.18%) Cloud Specialist
13 12 (3.18%) Oracle Specialist
14 11 (2.92%) Full-Stack Developer
14 11 (2.92%) PostgreSQL DBA
14 11 (2.92%) Software Developer
15 9 (2.39%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (39.52%) REST
1 149 (39.52%) XML
2 84 (22.28%) SOAP
3 50 (13.26%) OAuth
4 49 (13.00%) Kafka
5 40 (10.61%) Web Services
6 36 (9.55%) RESTful
7 35 (9.28%) React
8 33 (8.75%) YAML
9 32 (8.49%) .NET
10 31 (8.22%) HTML
11 28 (7.43%) CSS
12 26 (6.90%) Swagger
13 25 (6.63%) Node.js
14 24 (6.37%) JWT
15 22 (5.84%) XSLT
16 21 (5.57%) OAuth2
17 20 (5.31%) Oracle Fusion
18 19 (5.04%) Middleware
19 18 (4.77%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.31%) Data Structures
2 19 (5.04%) Product Ownership
3 14 (3.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (3.18%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.18%) Public Cloud
5 11 (2.92%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.86%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.59%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.33%) DataPower
10 5 (1.33%) Digital Wallet
10 5 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.33%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.33%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.33%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (1.06%) Online Banking
11 4 (1.06%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.84%) Linux
2 11 (2.92%) 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
1 127 (33.69%) DevOps
2 111 (29.44%) Agile
3 100 (26.53%) CI/CD
4 85 (22.55%) Problem-Solving
5 67 (17.77%) Validation
6 62 (16.45%) Data Modelling
7 53 (14.06%) Analytics
8 48 (12.73%) Integration Patterns
9 43 (11.41%) Microservices
10 42 (11.14%) ERP
11 40 (10.61%) Data Pipeline
12 38 (10.08%) API Integration
13 37 (9.81%) AI
13 37 (9.81%) Software Engineering
14 33 (8.75%) ETL
14 33 (8.75%) Performance Tuning
14 33 (8.75%) Stakeholder Management
15 32 (8.49%) Containerisation
15 32 (8.49%) Event-Driven
16 29 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 142 (37.67%) Python
2 125 (33.16%) SQL
3 76 (20.16%) Java
4 73 (19.36%) JavaScript
5 46 (12.20%) C#
6 40 (10.61%) PowerShell
7 15 (3.98%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.71%) Shell Script
9 12 (3.18%) Groovy
10 11 (2.92%) T-SQL
11 9 (2.39%) Bash
12 7 (1.86%) Bicep
12 7 (1.86%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.86%) VBA
13 6 (1.59%) R
14 5 (1.33%) Go
14 5 (1.33%) Kotlin
15 4 (1.06%) JCL
16 3 (0.80%) Scala
16 3 (0.80%) XPath
Qualifications
1 112 (29.71%) Security Cleared
2 82 (21.75%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.63%) Degree
4 15 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.92%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.59%) CISM
7 6 (1.59%) CISSP
8 4 (1.06%) CCNP
8 4 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.06%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.53%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.27%) CBAP
11 1 (0.27%) CCNA
11 1 (0.27%) CSPO
11 1 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.27%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.96%) Data Quality
2 25 (6.63%) QA
3 17 (4.51%) GDPR
4 8 (2.12%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.86%) PSD2
6 6 (1.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (1.59%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.33%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.33%) ISO 20022
7 5 (1.33%) ISO 8583
7 5 (1.33%) NIST
7 5 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (1.06%) HL7
9 3 (0.80%) FATCA
10 2 (0.53%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.53%) NCSC
10 2 (0.53%) SEPA
10 2 (0.53%) SLA
10 2 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (12.73%) Docker
2 10 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.53%) HDFS
4 2 (0.53%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.53%) OpenSSH
4 2 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.27%) Firmware
5 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 47 (12.47%) Kubernetes
2 42 (11.14%) Terraform
3 17 (4.51%) Ansible
4 13 (3.45%) Prometheus
5 12 (3.18%) Grafana
6 4 (1.06%) Kibana
6 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.06%) Pingdom
7 3 (0.80%) logstash
7 3 (0.80%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.80%) Puppet
8 2 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.53%) Argo
8 2 (0.53%) Podman
8 2 (0.53%) QRadar
8 2 (0.53%) SCCM
8 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.27%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.27%) Istio
Vendors
1 73 (19.36%) Microsoft
1 73 (19.36%) Oracle
2 25 (6.63%) ServiceNow
3 19 (5.04%) Databricks
3 19 (5.04%) Splunk
4 16 (4.24%) MuleSoft
5 15 (3.98%) SAP
6 14 (3.71%) Workday
7 12 (3.18%) Adobe
8 10 (2.65%) F5
9 9 (2.39%) webMethods
10 8 (2.12%) Confluent
10 8 (2.12%) Infoblox
10 8 (2.12%) Red Hat
10 8 (2.12%) Sonatype
11 7 (1.86%) Foundry
11 7 (1.86%) IBM
12 6 (1.59%) Dell
12 6 (1.59%) OpenAI
13 5 (1.33%) PagerDuty
133 JSON jobs in England