JSON Contracts in England

JSON
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for JSON skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JSON over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 220 212 179
Rank change year-on-year -8 -33 -32
Contract jobs citing JSON 391 665 1,159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.06% 1.32% 1.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.25% 5.68% 6.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 484 795
10th Percentile £404 £411 £406
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £650
90th Percentile £675 £806 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 16
10th Percentile - - £13.50
25th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +150.00% -47.27%
75th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £51.25
90th Percentile - - £63.38
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £45.07
% change year-on-year +10.34% +60.86% -18.05%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

JSON is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,454 11,713 19,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.17% 23.17% 27.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,302 8,672 14,430
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 138 214
10th Percentile £21.63 £28.73 £21.30
25th Percentile £40.31 £48.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

JSON
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing JSON as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for JSON in England

JSON
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JSON in England.

Daily rate trend for JSON in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JSON in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JSON in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JSON in England.

Hourly rate trend for JSON in England

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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 27 April 2024. 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 +6 239 £538 -6.43% 65
North of England -14 51 £534 +6.80% 32
South East -23 34 £513 - 25
North West -15 29 £534 +6.80% 20
South West +15 21 £538 -4.78% 8
Midlands +12 19 £577 +4.91% 12
Yorkshire +11 15 £624 +27.57% 9
West Midlands +24 13 £581 +23.67% 9
North East +13 11 £491 -10.82% 3
East of England +12 9 £523 +10.00% 13
East Midlands +15 6 £577 -3.83% 3
JSON
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (5.37%) Confluence
2 12 (3.07%) Apache
3 9 (2.30%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.53%) Alfresco
5 6 (1.53%) Appian
5 6 (1.53%) Camunda
5 6 (1.53%) IIS
5 6 (1.53%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.28%) Apache Solr
6 5 (1.28%) OpenStack
7 4 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (1.02%) GemFire
7 4 (1.02%) nginx
7 4 (1.02%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.77%) CMS
9 2 (0.51%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.51%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.53%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.51%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 11 (2.81%) Salesforce CRM
2 8 (2.05%) NetSuite
3 5 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.77%) Endur
4 3 (0.77%) Maximo
4 3 (0.77%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.51%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.51%) WebTrends
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Utilities
Cloud Services
1 116 (29.67%) Azure
2 67 (17.14%) AWS
3 66 (16.88%) Serverless
4 44 (11.25%) Power Platform
5 41 (10.49%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (7.93%) GitHub
7 28 (7.16%) Power Automate
8 26 (6.65%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (6.65%) PowerApps
9 24 (6.14%) GCP
10 22 (5.63%) AWS Step Functions
11 21 (5.37%) Azure Functions
11 21 (5.37%) Azure Key Vault
11 21 (5.37%) PaaS
12 20 (5.12%) Amazon S3
13 19 (4.86%) Amazon MSK
13 19 (4.86%) Azure Logic Apps
14 17 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
15 15 (3.84%) Microsoft 365
16 14 (3.58%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 38 (9.72%) BGP
2 34 (8.70%) MPLS
3 30 (7.67%) Firewall
4 26 (6.65%) HTTP
5 24 (6.14%) DNS
6 22 (5.63%) RSVP
7 21 (5.37%) VPN
8 19 (4.86%) Cisco IOS
8 19 (4.86%) HSRP
8 19 (4.86%) IOS XR
8 19 (4.86%) SNMP
8 19 (4.86%) VPLS
9 18 (4.60%) Ethernet VPN
10 17 (4.35%) IPv4
10 17 (4.35%) VRRP
11 16 (4.09%) TCP/IP
12 13 (3.32%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 13 (3.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 12 (3.07%) 5G
14 11 (2.81%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (12.28%) SQL Server
2 47 (12.02%) NoSQL
3 37 (9.46%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (8.70%) Relational Database
5 33 (8.44%) PostgreSQL
6 32 (8.18%) Parquet
6 32 (8.18%) Power BI
7 23 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (5.37%) RDBMS
9 20 (5.12%) DynamoDB
10 19 (4.86%) Amazon Redshift
10 19 (4.86%) Azure SQL Database
10 19 (4.86%) Data Lake
11 18 (4.60%) MongoDB
11 18 (4.60%) MySQL
12 15 (3.84%) Elasticsearch
13 13 (3.32%) Big Data
14 11 (2.81%) Oracle Reports
14 11 (2.81%) Snowflake Schema
15 10 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 78 (19.95%) Git
2 48 (12.28%) JIRA
3 23 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 19 (4.86%) GitLab
4 19 (4.86%) Visual Studio
5 13 (3.32%) Cucumber
5 13 (3.32%) Postman
6 12 (3.07%) Selenium
7 11 (2.81%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (2.56%) SonarQube
8 10 (2.56%) Visual Studio Team System
9 8 (2.05%) JUnit
10 7 (1.79%) NUnit
10 7 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
10 7 (1.79%) TeamCity
11 6 (1.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (1.53%) CircleCI
11 6 (1.53%) Travis CI
12 5 (1.28%) Checkstyle
12 5 (1.28%) Xcode
General
1 106 (27.11%) Social Skills
2 51 (13.04%) Finance
3 39 (9.97%) Public Sector
4 37 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.63%) Banking
6 14 (3.58%) Telecoms
7 13 (3.32%) Manufacturing
7 13 (3.32%) Marketing
7 13 (3.32%) Retail
8 11 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.05%) Back Office
10 7 (1.79%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.53%) Front Office
11 6 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.28%) Advertising
12 5 (1.28%) Legal
12 5 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.02%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.77%) Billing
Job Titles
1 93 (23.79%) Developer
2 60 (15.35%) Architect
3 35 (8.95%) Senior
4 33 (8.44%) Data Engineer
5 28 (7.16%) Data Architect
5 28 (7.16%) DevOps Engineer
6 22 (5.63%) Analyst
6 22 (5.63%) Network Engineer
7 21 (5.37%) Azure Engineer
8 17 (4.35%) IP Expert
9 16 (4.09%) Software Engineer
10 15 (3.84%) Business Analyst
10 15 (3.84%) Java Developer
11 13 (3.32%) Consultant
12 12 (3.07%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.07%) DBA
12 12 (3.07%) PostgreSQL DBA
12 12 (3.07%) Senior Developer
13 11 (2.81%) Design Engineer
13 11 (2.81%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (52.17%) XML
2 110 (28.13%) REST
3 52 (13.30%) SOAP
4 51 (13.04%) .NET
5 49 (12.53%) HTML
6 46 (11.76%) CSS
7 39 (9.97%) YAML
8 37 (9.46%) YANG
9 34 (8.70%) NETCONF
10 33 (8.44%) Web Services
11 29 (7.42%) Apache Avro
11 29 (7.42%) Kafka
12 27 (6.91%) RESTful
13 24 (6.14%) jQuery
14 23 (5.88%) Spring
15 21 (5.37%) JSON Schema
16 20 (5.12%) .NET Framework
16 20 (5.12%) AngularJS
16 20 (5.12%) ARM Templates
16 20 (5.12%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.67%) Data Structures
2 24 (6.14%) Distributed Architecture
3 21 (5.37%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (4.86%) Product Ownership
5 16 (4.09%) Management Information System
6 14 (3.58%) Cloud Native
7 12 (3.07%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (2.81%) Reference Data
9 9 (2.30%) Low-Code
9 9 (2.30%) Public Cloud
10 8 (2.05%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.53%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.53%) Client/Server
12 6 (1.53%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.28%) Marketing Technology
13 5 (1.28%) PKI
13 5 (1.28%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 49 (12.53%) Linux
2 27 (6.91%) Windows
3 25 (6.39%) Unix
4 6 (1.53%) CentOS
5 5 (1.28%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.02%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.02%) Oracle Linux
6 4 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.26%) AIX
8 1 (0.26%) Android
8 1 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (43.48%) Agile
2 126 (32.23%) DevOps
3 84 (21.48%) CI/CD
4 68 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (16.62%) Data Modelling
6 54 (13.81%) Business Intelligence
7 53 (13.55%) Scrum
8 52 (13.30%) Migration
8 52 (13.30%) Test Automation
9 50 (12.79%) Microservices
10 39 (9.97%) Analytics
10 39 (9.97%) ETL
11 37 (9.46%) SDLC
12 36 (9.21%) Continuous Integration
12 36 (9.21%) OO
13 32 (8.18%) Software Engineering
14 29 (7.42%) Data Mapping
15 28 (7.16%) Workflow
16 26 (6.65%) TDD
17 25 (6.39%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 139 (35.55%) SQL
2 107 (27.37%) Python
3 85 (21.74%) JavaScript
4 67 (17.14%) C#
5 64 (16.37%) Java
6 49 (12.53%) PowerShell
7 21 (5.37%) T-SQL
8 15 (3.84%) Bash
8 15 (3.84%) TypeScript
9 10 (2.56%) Perl
9 10 (2.56%) Shell Script
10 9 (2.30%) PL/SQL
11 8 (2.05%) Apex Code
12 7 (1.79%) SOQL
13 6 (1.53%) PHP
14 5 (1.28%) ActionScript
14 5 (1.28%) X++
15 4 (1.02%) C++
15 4 (1.02%) Groovy
15 4 (1.02%) Swift
Qualifications
1 61 (15.60%) Security Cleared
2 48 (12.28%) SC Cleared
3 33 (8.44%) Degree
4 17 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.30%) CCIE
6 9 (2.30%) CCIE Service Provider
7 8 (2.05%) CCNP
8 6 (1.53%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.28%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.51%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.51%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.51%) CISSP
10 2 (0.51%) HND
11 1 (0.26%) GCIA
11 1 (0.26%) GIAC
11 1 (0.26%) GSEC
11 1 (0.26%) ISEB
11 1 (0.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (11.25%) QA
2 23 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.58%) GDPR
4 5 (1.28%) HIPAA
4 5 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.02%) ISO 15022
5 4 (1.02%) NCSC
5 4 (1.02%) NIST
6 2 (0.51%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.51%) HL7
6 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.51%) PMO
7 1 (0.26%) COREP
7 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.26%) IFRS
7 1 (0.26%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.26%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.26%) MiFID
7 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (8.70%) Docker
2 15 (3.84%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.28%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.02%) NFS
5 4 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.77%) OpenAM
6 3 (0.77%) OpenIDM
6 3 (0.77%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.26%) Firmware
7 1 (0.26%) IAG
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 44 (11.25%) Terraform
2 41 (10.49%) Ansible
3 31 (7.93%) Kubernetes
4 15 (3.84%) Grafana
5 11 (2.81%) Kibana
6 10 (2.56%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.30%) logstash
7 9 (2.30%) Puppet
8 8 (2.05%) FortiGate
9 7 (1.79%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (1.53%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.28%) PingFederate
11 5 (1.28%) yum
12 3 (0.77%) Netcool
12 3 (0.77%) Podman
12 3 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.51%) TIBCO Hawk
14 1 (0.26%) Data Guard
14 1 (0.26%) HP Quality Center
14 1 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 87 (22.25%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.46%) Oracle
3 32 (8.18%) Nokia
4 29 (7.42%) Cisco
5 19 (4.86%) Salesforce
6 17 (4.35%) Fortinet
7 15 (3.84%) Google
8 14 (3.58%) F5
8 14 (3.58%) Splunk
9 11 (2.81%) Adobe
9 11 (2.81%) SAP
10 9 (2.30%) Informatica
10 9 (2.30%) Pega
11 8 (2.05%) Palo Alto
12 7 (1.79%) Optimizely
13 6 (1.53%) IBM
13 6 (1.53%) ServiceNow
13 6 (1.53%) Talend
14 5 (1.28%) Omniture
14 5 (1.28%) Tealium