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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 235 251
Rank change year-on-year -19 +16 -34
Contract jobs citing JSON 486 310 314
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.05% 1.11% 0.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.93% 4.44% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 219 203
10th Percentile £355 £350 £400
25th Percentile £413 £409 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £656 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 4
10th Percentile £51.25 - £50.50
25th Percentile £71.38 £31.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £85.48 £37.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +127.93% -53.13% +14.29%
75th Percentile £92.11 £43.75 £85.00
90th Percentile - £76.88 -
UK median hourly rate £85.48 £37.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +127.93% -53.13% +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 9,867 6,979 8,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.29% 25.08% 24.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,481 4,774 5,525
10th Percentile £381 £355 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% -5.64% -0.90%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 164 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.36 £27.38
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.27 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.35 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% -13.04% -0.79%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £71.40 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -1.44%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 +4 267 £525 -2.78% 147
North of England -67 63 £463 +8.82% 30
South East -42 55 £460 -3.16% 55
Midlands -17 47 £425 -22.73% 22
West Midlands -16 43 £425 -26.09% 14
Yorkshire -32 35 £500 +23.15% 12
North West -52 28 £425 -2.52% 16
South West -25 21 £548 +28.82% 25
East of England -20 16 £500 +17.65% 25
East Midlands -17 4 - - 8
North East -43 3 £550 +175.00% 3
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 28 (5.76%) SharePoint
2 24 (4.94%) Confluence
3 17 (3.50%) Apache
4 10 (2.06%) Anypoint
5 9 (1.85%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.85%) Mule
6 8 (1.65%) IIS
7 5 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (1.03%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.82%) CICS
8 4 (0.82%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.82%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.62%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.41%) JBoss
10 2 (0.41%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.41%) nginx
10 2 (0.41%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.03%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.62%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.21%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 17 (3.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 17 (3.50%) NetSuite
2 11 (2.26%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.23%) Maximo
4 4 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.62%) Findur
5 3 (0.62%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.62%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.41%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
6 2 (0.41%) Infor LN
6 2 (0.41%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.21%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.21%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.21%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 194 (39.92%) Azure
2 124 (25.51%) AWS
3 83 (17.08%) Azure DevOps
4 58 (11.93%) GCP
5 55 (11.32%) Power Platform
6 49 (10.08%) GitHub
7 44 (9.05%) Power Automate
8 43 (8.85%) Boomi
9 37 (7.61%) Serverless
10 32 (6.58%) PowerApps
11 31 (6.38%) Dynamics 365
11 31 (6.38%) Entra ID
12 30 (6.17%) Azure Logic Apps
13 24 (4.94%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (4.73%) Azure Functions
14 23 (4.73%) Azure Service Bus
15 19 (3.91%) Amazon S3
15 19 (3.91%) AtomSphere
16 16 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
16 16 (3.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (5.97%) HTTP
2 13 (2.67%) DNS
3 11 (2.26%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.85%) BGP
4 9 (1.85%) DHCP
5 8 (1.65%) Ethernet VPN
5 8 (1.65%) VXLAN
5 8 (1.65%) Wireless
6 7 (1.44%) BIG-IP
6 7 (1.44%) Firewall
6 7 (1.44%) NX-OS
6 7 (1.44%) SD-WAN
6 7 (1.44%) WAN
7 6 (1.23%) Network Security
8 5 (1.03%) HTTPS
8 5 (1.03%) SSL
8 5 (1.03%) TACACS
9 4 (0.82%) Intranet
9 4 (0.82%) SSH
10 3 (0.62%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (9.05%) SQL Server
2 40 (8.23%) Metadata
3 31 (6.38%) MongoDB
4 25 (5.14%) Relational Database
5 22 (4.53%) Parquet
5 22 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (4.12%) Power BI
7 19 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (3.09%) NoSQL
9 12 (2.47%) RDBMS
10 10 (2.06%) DynamoDB
11 9 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (1.85%) Oracle Database
11 9 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (1.65%) Data Lake
12 8 (1.65%) Delta Lake
13 7 (1.44%) BigQuery
14 6 (1.23%) Db2
14 6 (1.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 97 (19.96%) Git
2 44 (9.05%) JIRA
3 43 (8.85%) GitLab
4 38 (7.82%) Jenkins
5 22 (4.53%) Postman
6 21 (4.32%) Selenium
7 15 (3.09%) Maven
8 13 (2.67%) SonarQube
9 11 (2.26%) Cucumber
9 11 (2.26%) JUnit
10 9 (1.85%) ERwin
11 8 (1.65%) WebDriver
12 7 (1.44%) Claude Code
12 7 (1.44%) Gradle
13 6 (1.23%) Cypress.io
13 6 (1.23%) Gatling
13 6 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (1.03%) JMeter
15 4 (0.82%) MSI
General
1 138 (28.40%) Social Skills
2 81 (16.67%) Finance
3 73 (15.02%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 34 (7.00%) Banking
6 24 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.67%) Publishing
8 11 (2.26%) Marketing
9 10 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.85%) Legal
11 8 (1.65%) Back Office
11 8 (1.65%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.23%) Retail
14 5 (1.03%) Law
15 3 (0.62%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.62%) Front Office
15 3 (0.62%) Prime Brokerage
16 2 (0.41%) Games
16 2 (0.41%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 157 (32.30%) Developer
2 77 (15.84%) Senior
3 61 (12.55%) Architect
4 37 (7.61%) Analyst
5 34 (7.00%) Senior Developer
6 25 (5.14%) Data Engineer
7 22 (4.53%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 19 (3.91%) Integration Engineer
9 17 (3.50%) Consultant
9 17 (3.50%) DevOps Engineer
10 15 (3.09%) Python Engineer
11 14 (2.88%) Business Analyst
11 14 (2.88%) Python Developer
12 13 (2.67%) Integration Architect
12 13 (2.67%) Lead
12 13 (2.67%) Security Engineer
12 13 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (2.47%) Integration Developer
14 11 (2.26%) Full-Stack Developer
14 11 (2.26%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (42.39%) REST
2 184 (37.86%) XML
3 93 (19.14%) SOAP
4 70 (14.40%) Kafka
5 60 (12.35%) .NET
6 55 (11.32%) Middleware
6 55 (11.32%) OAuth
7 51 (10.49%) Terraform
8 47 (9.67%) RESTful
9 46 (9.47%) React
10 40 (8.23%) YAML
11 32 (6.58%) OAuth2
12 30 (6.17%) HTML
12 30 (6.17%) Swagger
13 27 (5.56%) CSS
14 26 (5.35%) OpenAPI
15 25 (5.14%) JWT
15 25 (5.14%) Web Services
16 23 (4.73%) SAML
16 23 (4.73%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.64%) Product Ownership
2 35 (7.20%) Data Structures
3 28 (5.76%) Cloud Native
4 25 (5.14%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (4.53%) AI Agents
6 19 (3.91%) Algorithms
7 18 (3.70%) Onboarding
8 17 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
9 16 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (3.29%) Management Information System
10 15 (3.09%) Taxonomies
11 13 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (2.26%) Data Centre
12 11 (2.26%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.85%) CMDB
13 9 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
14 8 (1.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 7 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
15 7 (1.44%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 35 (7.20%) Linux
2 34 (7.00%) Windows
3 10 (2.06%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.85%) Unix
5 8 (1.65%) Android
6 7 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.82%) zOS
8 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.41%) Solaris
8 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.21%) CentOS
9 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.21%) VMS
9 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (39.30%) CI/CD
2 164 (33.74%) Agile
3 161 (33.13%) DevOps
4 112 (23.05%) Problem-Solving
5 88 (18.11%) Data Modelling
6 84 (17.28%) AI
7 81 (16.67%) Validation
8 72 (14.81%) Event-Driven
9 68 (13.99%) Scrum
10 60 (12.35%) Integration Patterns
11 59 (12.14%) Continuous Improvement
12 57 (11.73%) Stakeholder Management
13 56 (11.52%) Test Automation
14 52 (10.70%) Microservices
15 50 (10.29%) API Integration
15 50 (10.29%) Workflow
16 48 (9.88%) Infrastructure as Code
17 47 (9.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 46 (9.47%) ETL
19 44 (9.05%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 179 (36.83%) Python
2 167 (34.36%) SQL
3 118 (24.28%) JavaScript
4 103 (21.19%) Java
5 77 (15.84%) C#
6 57 (11.73%) PowerShell
7 29 (5.97%) TypeScript
8 28 (5.76%) Groovy
9 19 (3.91%) PL/SQL
10 14 (2.88%) Bash
11 13 (2.67%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.85%) VBA
13 8 (1.65%) Bicep
13 8 (1.65%) Scala
14 7 (1.44%) C++
14 7 (1.44%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.44%) T-SQL
15 5 (1.03%) Go
15 5 (1.03%) R
15 5 (1.03%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 134 (27.57%) Security Cleared
2 104 (21.40%) SC Cleared
3 28 (5.76%) Degree
4 22 (4.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (3.09%) Azure Certification
6 14 (2.88%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.65%) CISSP
10 7 (1.44%) CISM
11 5 (1.03%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.82%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.82%) PhD
13 2 (0.41%) CCNP
13 2 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.41%) GIAC
13 2 (0.41%) SSCP
14 1 (0.21%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.26%) Accessibility
2 44 (9.05%) Data Quality
3 33 (6.79%) QA
4 26 (5.35%) GDPR
5 19 (3.91%) WCAG
6 12 (2.47%) ISO 20022
7 9 (1.85%) NIST
8 8 (1.65%) ISO 15022
9 5 (1.03%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.03%) HL7
9 5 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.82%) GRC
10 4 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.82%) NCSC
11 3 (0.62%) Basel III
12 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.41%) SLA
13 1 (0.21%) SNOMED CT
13 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 56 (11.52%) Docker
2 29 (5.97%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.44%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.44%) NFS
6 4 (0.82%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.41%) OpenSSH
8 2 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 62 (12.76%) Kubernetes
2 46 (9.47%) Ansible
3 11 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.44%) Grafana
5 6 (1.23%) SCCM
6 4 (0.82%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.62%) Kibana
7 3 (0.62%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.62%) WMI
8 2 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.41%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.41%) Puppet
8 2 (0.41%) QRadar
9 1 (0.21%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.21%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.21%) logstash
9 1 (0.21%) Podman
9 1 (0.21%) WSUS
Vendors
1 116 (23.87%) Microsoft
2 92 (18.93%) Oracle
3 44 (9.05%) ServiceNow
4 34 (7.00%) MuleSoft
5 32 (6.58%) Google
6 29 (5.97%) IBM
7 26 (5.35%) Databricks
7 26 (5.35%) Salesforce
8 25 (5.14%) SAP
9 21 (4.32%) Workday
10 18 (3.70%) VMware
11 13 (2.67%) Cisco
11 13 (2.67%) Informatica
12 12 (2.47%) Splunk
13 11 (2.26%) webMethods
14 10 (2.06%) OpenAI
14 10 (2.06%) Red Hat
14 10 (2.06%) Sonatype
14 10 (2.06%) TIBCO
15 9 (1.85%) Infoblox