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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 266 239
Rank change year-on-year +5 -27 -45
Contract jobs citing JSON 391 223 358
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.93% 0.93% 0.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.84% 4.12% 4.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 173 258
10th Percentile £366 £363 £400
25th Percentile £429 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -6.37% -2.91%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £679 £666
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £534
% change year-on-year - -6.37% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 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 8,085 5,408 7,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.25% 22.51% 20.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,327 3,749 5,408
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.08%
75th Percentile £630 £659 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £789
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £535
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 100 239
10th Percentile £31.33 £30.13 £22.70
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.01 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%
75th Percentile £71.75 £68.19 £66.88
90th Percentile £78.95 £81.01 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +5 205 £525 -4.07% 45
North of England -30 71 £447 - 15
South East -45 60 £525 +5.26% 27
Yorkshire -31 37 £463 -7.50% 4
North West -32 33 £394 -11.91% 8
Midlands -48 22 £488 -11.36% 8
West Midlands -56 17 £488 -11.36% 5
East of England -22 14 £506 +68.75% 3
South West -24 14 £425 +13.33% 7
East Midlands -23 5 - - 3
North East -21 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 20 (5.12%) Confluence
2 15 (3.84%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.81%) Apache
4 9 (2.30%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.79%) CICS
5 7 (1.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (1.02%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (1.02%) Mule
6 4 (1.02%) Oracle Service Bus
6 4 (1.02%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.77%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.77%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.77%) IIS
7 3 (0.77%) Mule ESB
8 2 (0.51%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.26%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.26%) JBoss
9 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.26%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.77%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (3.58%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.53%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (1.02%) Maximo
4 4 (1.02%) 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
6 2 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
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%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 134 (34.27%) Azure
2 88 (22.51%) AWS
3 49 (12.53%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (10.49%) Power Platform
5 38 (9.72%) Serverless
6 35 (8.95%) GitHub
7 32 (8.18%) Azure Logic Apps
8 25 (6.39%) Power Automate
9 24 (6.14%) GCP
9 24 (6.14%) OCI
10 20 (5.12%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (4.35%) PaaS
11 17 (4.35%) PowerApps
12 16 (4.09%) Azure Functions
13 15 (3.84%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (3.58%) Amazon S3
14 14 (3.58%) Boomi
15 13 (3.32%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (3.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.09%) HTTP
2 12 (3.07%) DNS
3 11 (2.81%) TCP/IP
4 10 (2.56%) BIG-IP
4 10 (2.56%) DHCP
5 6 (1.53%) Firewall
6 3 (0.77%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.77%) Intranet
6 3 (0.77%) Network Security
7 2 (0.51%) DSL
7 2 (0.51%) FTP
7 2 (0.51%) Internet
7 2 (0.51%) NAS
7 2 (0.51%) SAN
7 2 (0.51%) SMS
7 2 (0.51%) SSH
7 2 (0.51%) VPN
7 2 (0.51%) X.509
8 1 (0.26%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.16%) Relational Database
2 24 (6.14%) Metadata
3 23 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 22 (5.63%) NoSQL
5 21 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (4.86%) Power BI
7 18 (4.60%) RDBMS
8 15 (3.84%) MongoDB
9 14 (3.58%) Parquet
10 11 (2.81%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (2.81%) DynamoDB
10 11 (2.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (2.56%) Oracle Database
12 9 (2.30%) Delta Lake
13 8 (2.05%) Data Lake
13 8 (2.05%) DB2
14 7 (1.79%) MySQL
14 7 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 52 (13.30%) Git
2 45 (11.51%) JIRA
3 43 (11.00%) Postman
4 23 (5.88%) GitLab
5 21 (5.37%) Jenkins
6 12 (3.07%) Maven
7 9 (2.30%) SoapUI
7 9 (2.30%) SonarQube
8 8 (2.05%) ERwin
9 6 (1.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (1.53%) JUnit
10 5 (1.28%) Gradle
10 5 (1.28%) Selenium
10 5 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (1.02%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.02%) ER Studio
11 4 (1.02%) Gatling
12 3 (0.77%) MSTest
12 3 (0.77%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio
General
1 117 (29.92%) Social Skills
2 72 (18.41%) Finance
3 51 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.21%) Banking
4 36 (9.21%) Public Sector
5 17 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (2.56%) Marketing
7 6 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.53%) Publishing
8 4 (1.02%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.02%) Legal
8 4 (1.02%) Military
8 4 (1.02%) Retail
9 3 (0.77%) Back Office
9 3 (0.77%) Front Office
9 3 (0.77%) Law
9 3 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.51%) Games
10 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.51%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 120 (30.69%) Developer
2 34 (8.70%) Architect
2 34 (8.70%) Senior
3 30 (7.67%) Data Engineer
4 22 (5.63%) Analyst
5 18 (4.60%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (4.35%) Business Analyst
7 16 (4.09%) Consultant
7 16 (4.09%) Integration Engineer
7 16 (4.09%) Integration Specialist
8 15 (3.84%) Software Engineer
9 13 (3.32%) Java Developer
10 12 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (3.07%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (3.07%) Senior Developer
11 11 (2.81%) Cloud Specialist
11 11 (2.81%) Lead
11 11 (2.81%) Oracle Specialist
11 11 (2.81%) Python Developer
11 11 (2.81%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (40.15%) REST
2 149 (38.11%) XML
3 85 (21.74%) SOAP
4 46 (11.76%) Kafka
4 46 (11.76%) OAuth
5 41 (10.49%) Web Services
6 37 (9.46%) .NET
6 37 (9.46%) React
6 37 (9.46%) RESTful
7 33 (8.44%) YAML
8 31 (7.93%) CSS
9 30 (7.67%) HTML
10 25 (6.39%) Middleware
11 24 (6.14%) Node.js
12 23 (5.88%) Swagger
13 21 (5.37%) XSLT
14 20 (5.12%) JWT
15 19 (4.86%) OAuth2
16 18 (4.60%) Apache Avro
16 18 (4.60%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.65%) Product Ownership
2 18 (4.60%) Data Structures
3 12 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (2.81%) Cloud Native
4 11 (2.81%) Public Cloud
5 10 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.79%) DataPower
7 7 (1.79%) Mainframe
7 7 (1.79%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.53%) Online Banking
9 5 (1.28%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.28%) Digital Wallet
9 5 (1.28%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.28%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.02%) CMDB
10 4 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.63%) Linux
2 11 (2.81%) Windows
3 9 (2.30%) Unix
4 7 (1.79%) zOS
5 5 (1.28%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.77%) Android
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%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.51%) VMS
8 1 (0.26%) Solaris
8 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (31.20%) DevOps
2 111 (28.39%) Agile
3 109 (27.88%) CI/CD
4 87 (22.25%) Problem-Solving
5 72 (18.41%) Validation
6 65 (16.62%) Data Modelling
7 51 (13.04%) Analytics
7 51 (13.04%) Integration Patterns
8 44 (11.25%) API Integration
9 43 (11.00%) ERP
10 41 (10.49%) Microservices
11 40 (10.23%) AI
11 40 (10.23%) Software Engineering
12 39 (9.97%) Event-Driven
13 38 (9.72%) Data Pipeline
14 36 (9.21%) Performance Tuning
15 33 (8.44%) ETL
15 33 (8.44%) Stakeholder Management
16 32 (8.18%) Containerisation
16 32 (8.18%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 155 (39.64%) Python
2 141 (36.06%) SQL
3 81 (20.72%) JavaScript
4 79 (20.20%) Java
5 52 (13.30%) C#
6 40 (10.23%) PowerShell
7 15 (3.84%) Shell Script
7 15 (3.84%) TypeScript
8 13 (3.32%) Groovy
9 12 (3.07%) T-SQL
10 11 (2.81%) PL/SQL
11 10 (2.56%) Bash
11 10 (2.56%) VBA
12 7 (1.79%) Bicep
13 6 (1.53%) JCL
14 5 (1.28%) Go
14 5 (1.28%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.28%) R
15 3 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.77%) XPath
Qualifications
1 110 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 83 (21.23%) SC Cleared
3 23 (5.88%) Degree
4 16 (4.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (3.07%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.53%) CISM
7 6 (1.53%) CISSP
8 4 (1.02%) CCNP
8 4 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.77%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.77%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.26%) CBAP
10 1 (0.26%) CCNA
10 1 (0.26%) CEH
10 1 (0.26%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.26%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.42%) Data Quality
2 28 (7.16%) QA
3 19 (4.86%) GDPR
4 12 (3.07%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.79%) PSD2
6 6 (1.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (1.53%) ISO 20022
6 6 (1.53%) 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 (1.02%) HL7
9 3 (0.77%) FATCA
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%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.51%) SEPA
System Software
1 46 (11.76%) Docker
2 11 (2.81%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.02%) 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
6 1 (0.26%) Firmware
6 1 (0.26%) HDFS
6 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 47 (12.02%) Kubernetes
2 45 (11.51%) Terraform
3 21 (5.37%) Ansible
4 13 (3.32%) Prometheus
5 12 (3.07%) Grafana
6 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.02%) Pingdom
7 3 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.77%) Kibana
7 3 (0.77%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.77%) Puppet
8 2 (0.51%) Argo
8 2 (0.51%) logstash
8 2 (0.51%) Podman
8 2 (0.51%) SCCM
8 2 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.26%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.26%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 77 (19.69%) Microsoft
2 73 (18.67%) Oracle
3 25 (6.39%) ServiceNow
4 24 (6.14%) Databricks
5 20 (5.12%) SAP
6 18 (4.60%) MuleSoft
7 17 (4.35%) Splunk
7 17 (4.35%) Workday
8 12 (3.07%) Adobe
8 12 (3.07%) F5
9 11 (2.81%) Foundry
10 10 (2.56%) Infoblox
11 9 (2.30%) webMethods
12 8 (2.05%) Confluent
12 8 (2.05%) IBM
12 8 (2.05%) Red Hat
12 8 (2.05%) Sonatype
13 7 (1.79%) Dell
14 6 (1.53%) OpenAI
15 5 (1.28%) PagerDuty