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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 263 233
Rank change year-on-year -2 -30 -37
Contract jobs citing JSON 390 230 364
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.92% 0.94% 0.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.82% 4.17% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 180 257
10th Percentile £363 £363 £406
25th Percentile £430 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% -7.06% -2.18%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £613
90th Percentile £650 £675 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £43.63 - -
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% +14.29%
75th Percentile £48.75 £93.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £66.88 - -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year -48.65% +15.63% +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 8,088 5,520 7,812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.15% 22.56% 20.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,337 3,835 5,486
10th Percentile £363 £360 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £653 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £538
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 109 248
10th Percentile £30.82 £31.90 £22.68
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.97
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +27.64% -24.67%
75th Percentile £73.23 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.08 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year +8.33% +21.21% -23.85%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -14 203 £525 -7.57% 48
North of England -30 69 £449 +0.56% 18
South East -47 64 £538 +10.54% 33
Yorkshire -21 38 £463 -7.50% 8
North West -27 30 £393 -11.86% 8
Midlands -53 20 £488 -11.36% 13
West Midlands -42 15 £488 -11.36% 6
South West -12 14 £425 +13.33% 7
East of England -14 14 £506 +68.75% 6
East Midlands -27 5 - - 7
North East -20 4 £550 +175.00% 2
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 (5.13%) Confluence
2 16 (4.10%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.82%) Apache
4 9 (2.31%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.79%) CICS
5 7 (1.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (1.03%) Mule
6 4 (1.03%) Oracle Service Bus
6 4 (1.03%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.77%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.77%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.51%) IIS
8 2 (0.51%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.51%) Mule ESB
8 2 (0.51%) nginx
8 2 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.26%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.26%) JBoss
9 1 (0.26%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.03%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (3.33%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.54%) Maximo
3 6 (1.54%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (1.28%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.77%) Findur
5 3 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.51%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.26%) Actimize
7 1 (0.26%) Magento
7 1 (0.26%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.26%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.26%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.26%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.26%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.26%) Shopify
7 1 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 129 (33.08%) Azure
2 88 (22.56%) AWS
3 49 (12.56%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (11.03%) Power Platform
5 39 (10.00%) Serverless
6 29 (7.44%) GitHub
7 28 (7.18%) Azure Logic Apps
7 28 (7.18%) Power Automate
8 24 (6.15%) GCP
8 24 (6.15%) OCI
9 20 (5.13%) PowerApps
10 18 (4.62%) Azure Functions
11 16 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (4.10%) Boomi
12 15 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (3.85%) PaaS
13 13 (3.33%) Amazon S3
13 13 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 13 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (3.08%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.85%) HTTP
2 11 (2.82%) DNS
3 10 (2.56%) BIG-IP
3 10 (2.56%) DHCP
3 10 (2.56%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.03%) Intranet
5 3 (0.77%) Firewall
5 3 (0.77%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.51%) DSL
6 2 (0.51%) FTP
6 2 (0.51%) Internet
6 2 (0.51%) NAS
6 2 (0.51%) Network Security
6 2 (0.51%) SAN
6 2 (0.51%) SMS
6 2 (0.51%) SSH
6 2 (0.51%) X.509
7 1 (0.26%) SSL
7 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.18%) Metadata
2 25 (6.41%) Relational Database
3 22 (5.64%) SQL Server
4 21 (5.38%) NoSQL
4 21 (5.38%) Power BI
5 19 (4.87%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (4.10%) MongoDB
6 16 (4.10%) RDBMS
7 14 (3.59%) Parquet
8 12 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (3.08%) DynamoDB
9 11 (2.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (2.56%) Oracle Database
11 9 (2.31%) Delta Lake
12 8 (2.05%) Db2
13 7 (1.79%) Data Lake
14 6 (1.54%) MySQL
14 6 (1.54%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 51 (13.08%) Git
2 44 (11.28%) JIRA
3 38 (9.74%) Postman
4 18 (4.62%) GitLab
4 18 (4.62%) Jenkins
5 13 (3.33%) Maven
6 10 (2.56%) SonarQube
7 9 (2.31%) SoapUI
8 7 (1.79%) ERwin
9 5 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (1.28%) JUnit
9 5 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (1.28%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.03%) Gatling
11 3 (0.77%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.77%) Gradle
11 3 (0.77%) MSTest
11 3 (0.77%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.77%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.77%) Terragrunt
General
1 119 (30.51%) Social Skills
2 73 (18.72%) Finance
3 53 (13.59%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.23%) Banking
5 34 (8.72%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.82%) Marketing
8 8 (2.05%) Publishing
9 5 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.28%) Legal
9 5 (1.28%) Retail
10 4 (1.03%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.03%) Military
11 3 (0.77%) Back Office
11 3 (0.77%) Front Office
11 3 (0.77%) Law
11 3 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.51%) Automotive
12 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.51%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 124 (31.79%) Developer
2 37 (9.49%) Architect
3 35 (8.97%) Senior
4 33 (8.46%) Data Engineer
5 22 (5.64%) Analyst
6 17 (4.36%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (4.10%) Business Analyst
8 15 (3.85%) Consultant
8 15 (3.85%) Integration Engineer
8 15 (3.85%) Integration Specialist
9 14 (3.59%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (3.33%) Java Developer
10 13 (3.33%) Senior Developer
11 12 (3.08%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (3.08%) Software Developer
11 12 (3.08%) Software Engineer
12 11 (2.82%) Python Developer
13 10 (2.56%) Cloud Specialist
13 10 (2.56%) Integration Architect
13 10 (2.56%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (39.74%) REST
2 148 (37.95%) XML
3 88 (22.56%) SOAP
4 48 (12.31%) OAuth
5 46 (11.79%) Kafka
6 40 (10.26%) Web Services
7 37 (9.49%) .NET
7 37 (9.49%) React
7 37 (9.49%) RESTful
8 32 (8.21%) CSS
9 30 (7.69%) YAML
10 29 (7.44%) HTML
11 27 (6.92%) Middleware
12 25 (6.41%) Node.js
13 24 (6.15%) Swagger
13 24 (6.15%) XSLT
14 22 (5.64%) JWT
14 22 (5.64%) OAuth2
15 18 (4.62%) Apache Avro
16 16 (4.10%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 20 (5.13%) Data Structures
3 13 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 11 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.56%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.79%) CMDB
7 7 (1.79%) DataPower
7 7 (1.79%) Mainframe
7 7 (1.79%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.54%) Online Banking
9 5 (1.28%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.28%) Digital Wallet
9 5 (1.28%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.13%) Linux
2 11 (2.82%) Windows
3 9 (2.31%) Unix
4 7 (1.79%) zOS
5 4 (1.03%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.51%) Android
7 2 (0.51%) Solaris
7 2 (0.51%) VMS
7 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (30.51%) DevOps
2 114 (29.23%) CI/CD
3 111 (28.46%) Agile
4 92 (23.59%) Problem-Solving
5 69 (17.69%) Validation
6 68 (17.44%) Data Modelling
7 55 (14.10%) Integration Patterns
8 53 (13.59%) Analytics
9 44 (11.28%) AI
9 44 (11.28%) ERP
9 44 (11.28%) Event-Driven
9 44 (11.28%) Microservices
10 40 (10.26%) Data Pipeline
11 39 (10.00%) Software Engineering
12 38 (9.74%) API Integration
12 38 (9.74%) Performance Tuning
13 36 (9.23%) ETL
14 35 (8.97%) Stakeholder Management
15 32 (8.21%) Workflow
16 31 (7.95%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 153 (39.23%) Python
2 142 (36.41%) SQL
3 84 (21.54%) JavaScript
4 77 (19.74%) Java
5 53 (13.59%) C#
6 38 (9.74%) PowerShell
7 16 (4.10%) TypeScript
8 15 (3.85%) Groovy
9 14 (3.59%) Shell Script
10 13 (3.33%) PL/SQL
11 11 (2.82%) T-SQL
12 10 (2.56%) Bash
12 10 (2.56%) VBA
13 6 (1.54%) Bicep
13 6 (1.54%) JCL
14 5 (1.28%) Go
14 5 (1.28%) R
15 3 (0.77%) C
15 3 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.77%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 108 (27.69%) Security Cleared
2 82 (21.03%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.15%) Degree
4 16 (4.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (3.33%) Azure Certification
5 13 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.54%) CISM
6 6 (1.54%) CISSP
7 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.77%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.77%) CCNP
8 3 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.26%) CEH
9 1 (0.26%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.26%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.26%) GCIA
9 1 (0.26%) GIAC
9 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.26%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.72%) Data Quality
2 25 (6.41%) QA
3 19 (4.87%) GDPR
4 10 (2.56%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.79%) PSD2
6 6 (1.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (1.54%) ISO 20022
6 6 (1.54%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.28%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.28%) ISO 8583
7 5 (1.28%) NIST
7 5 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (1.03%) HL7
9 3 (0.77%) FATCA
9 3 (0.77%) GRC
9 3 (0.77%) ISO 15022
9 3 (0.77%) NCSC
9 3 (0.77%) WCAG
10 2 (0.51%) Basel III
10 2 (0.51%) SEPA
System Software
1 43 (11.03%) Docker
2 12 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.51%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.51%) OpenSSH
5 2 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.26%) Firmware
6 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 43 (11.03%) Kubernetes
2 42 (10.77%) Terraform
3 21 (5.38%) Ansible
4 11 (2.82%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.05%) Grafana
6 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.51%) Argo
8 2 (0.51%) Kibana
8 2 (0.51%) SCCM
8 2 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.26%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.26%) Istio
9 1 (0.26%) logstash
9 1 (0.26%) Pingdom
9 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.26%) Puppet
9 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 81 (20.77%) Microsoft
2 74 (18.97%) Oracle
3 25 (6.41%) ServiceNow
4 24 (6.15%) Databricks
5 21 (5.38%) SAP
6 18 (4.62%) MuleSoft
6 18 (4.62%) Workday
7 15 (3.85%) Splunk
8 12 (3.08%) Adobe
9 11 (2.82%) F5
9 11 (2.82%) Foundry
9 11 (2.82%) IBM
10 10 (2.56%) Infoblox
10 10 (2.56%) Sonatype
11 9 (2.31%) webMethods
12 8 (2.05%) Confluent
13 7 (1.79%) Dell
13 7 (1.79%) Red Hat
14 6 (1.54%) Google
14 6 (1.54%) Salesforce