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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 254 252
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 -54
Contract jobs citing JSON 460 289 320
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.02% 1.05% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.39% 4.72% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 212 214
10th Percentile £363 £358 £375
25th Percentile £415 £412 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.19% -3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £619
90th Percentile £650 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 4
10th Percentile £47.08 - £50.50
25th Percentile £56.19 £31.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £73.75 £37.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.67% -53.13% +14.29%
75th Percentile £85.94 £43.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £87.63 - -
UK median hourly rate £73.75 £37.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +96.67% -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 8,530 6,125 7,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.86% 22.21% 21.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,592 4,224 5,184
10th Percentile £363 £350 £360
25th Percentile £430 £413 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.16% -5.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £809
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 139 235
10th Percentile £29.54 £31.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £50.88 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.20 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -16.00%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +1 251 £525 -4.55% 46
North of England -48 72 £447 +6.72% 9
South East -51 67 £525 +10.53% 31
Yorkshire -20 41 £461 +13.61% 3
Midlands -30 33 £447 -18.73% 13
North West -42 31 £404 -9.27% 6
West Midlands -33 28 £447 -18.73% 10
South West -26 15 £485 +29.33% 9
East of England -27 11 £525 +23.53% 7
East Midlands -13 5 - - 3
North East -41 3 £550 +175.00%
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 (6.09%) Confluence
2 22 (4.78%) SharePoint
3 14 (3.04%) Apache
4 12 (2.61%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.74%) Anypoint
5 8 (1.74%) Mule
6 7 (1.52%) CICS
7 5 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.65%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.43%) IIS
9 2 (0.43%) JBoss
9 2 (0.43%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.43%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.43%) nginx
9 2 (0.43%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.43%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.22%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.30%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (3.48%) NetSuite
2 10 (2.17%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.30%) Maximo
4 4 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.65%) Findur
5 3 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.43%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
6 2 (0.43%) Infor LN
6 2 (0.43%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.22%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.22%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.22%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.22%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.22%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 165 (35.87%) Azure
2 105 (22.83%) AWS
3 68 (14.78%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (10.65%) Power Platform
5 47 (10.22%) GCP
6 40 (8.70%) Serverless
7 36 (7.83%) GitHub
8 35 (7.61%) Power Automate
9 34 (7.39%) Boomi
10 27 (5.87%) PowerApps
11 25 (5.43%) Azure Logic Apps
12 23 (5.00%) Entra ID
13 21 (4.57%) GitHub Actions
14 18 (3.91%) Amazon S3
14 18 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
14 18 (3.91%) Azure Functions
14 18 (3.91%) SaaS
15 17 (3.70%) AtomSphere
15 17 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 16 (3.48%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.91%) HTTP
2 14 (3.04%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.83%) DNS
4 11 (2.39%) DHCP
5 10 (2.17%) BIG-IP
6 5 (1.09%) Network Security
6 5 (1.09%) SSL
7 4 (0.87%) Firewall
7 4 (0.87%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.87%) Intranet
7 4 (0.87%) SSH
8 3 (0.65%) FTP
8 3 (0.65%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.65%) WAN
9 2 (0.43%) DSL
9 2 (0.43%) Internet
9 2 (0.43%) NAS
9 2 (0.43%) SAN
9 2 (0.43%) Wireless
9 2 (0.43%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (8.26%) Metadata
2 37 (8.04%) SQL Server
3 30 (6.52%) MongoDB
4 28 (6.09%) Relational Database
5 25 (5.43%) Power BI
6 21 (4.57%) NoSQL
7 20 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (4.35%) Parquet
7 20 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (3.26%) RDBMS
9 13 (2.83%) DynamoDB
9 13 (2.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (2.17%) Oracle Database
12 9 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (1.96%) Data Lake
12 9 (1.96%) Db2
12 9 (1.96%) Delta Lake
13 8 (1.74%) Oracle Reports
14 7 (1.52%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 78 (16.96%) Git
2 50 (10.87%) JIRA
3 30 (6.52%) GitLab
3 30 (6.52%) Jenkins
4 29 (6.30%) Postman
5 14 (3.04%) Maven
6 12 (2.61%) SonarQube
7 10 (2.17%) Selenium
8 9 (1.96%) JUnit
9 8 (1.74%) ERwin
10 6 (1.30%) Claude Code
10 6 (1.30%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.30%) Gradle
10 6 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.09%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.87%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.87%) JMeter
12 4 (0.87%) SoapUI
12 4 (0.87%) WebDriver
General
1 133 (28.91%) Social Skills
2 85 (18.48%) Finance
3 71 (15.43%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (10.87%) Public Sector
5 35 (7.61%) Banking
6 20 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.61%) Publishing
9 10 (2.17%) Marketing
10 7 (1.52%) Retail
11 5 (1.09%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.09%) Legal
11 5 (1.09%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.87%) Law
13 3 (0.65%) Back Office
13 3 (0.65%) Front Office
13 3 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.43%) Games
Job Titles
1 153 (33.26%) Developer
2 55 (11.96%) Senior
3 45 (9.78%) Architect
4 35 (7.61%) Analyst
5 32 (6.96%) Data Engineer
6 24 (5.22%) Senior Developer
7 18 (3.91%) Consultant
7 18 (3.91%) Integration Engineer
7 18 (3.91%) Python Developer
8 17 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
9 16 (3.48%) Business Analyst
10 15 (3.26%) Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (3.04%) Python Engineer
12 13 (2.83%) Azure Engineer
13 12 (2.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 12 (2.61%) Integration Architect
13 12 (2.61%) Java Developer
14 11 (2.39%) Integration Developer
15 10 (2.17%) Software Developer
15 10 (2.17%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (39.78%) REST
2 172 (37.39%) XML
3 96 (20.87%) SOAP
4 66 (14.35%) Kafka
5 47 (10.22%) OAuth
6 45 (9.78%) RESTful
7 42 (9.13%) .NET
7 42 (9.13%) Middleware
7 42 (9.13%) React
8 40 (8.70%) Web Services
9 36 (7.83%) YAML
10 26 (5.65%) Node.js
10 26 (5.65%) Swagger
11 25 (5.43%) OAuth2
12 23 (5.00%) CSS
13 20 (4.35%) OpenAPI
13 20 (4.35%) XSLT
14 19 (4.13%) SAML
15 18 (3.91%) Apache Avro
15 18 (3.91%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.61%) Product Ownership
2 34 (7.39%) Data Structures
3 20 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 18 (3.91%) Algorithms
5 17 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (3.26%) AI Agents
7 14 (3.04%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (3.04%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (2.17%) Management Information System
9 10 (2.17%) Taxonomies
9 10 (2.17%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.52%) CMDB
10 7 (1.52%) DataPower
10 7 (1.52%) Mainframe
10 7 (1.52%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.22%) Linux
2 22 (4.78%) Windows
3 12 (2.61%) Unix
4 9 (1.96%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.52%) Android
5 7 (1.52%) zOS
6 5 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.43%) Solaris
8 2 (0.43%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.43%) VMS
8 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.22%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (35.43%) CI/CD
2 148 (32.17%) Agile
3 143 (31.09%) DevOps
4 116 (25.22%) Problem-Solving
5 81 (17.61%) Data Modelling
6 74 (16.09%) Validation
7 70 (15.22%) AI
8 58 (12.61%) Event-Driven
8 58 (12.61%) Integration Patterns
9 56 (12.17%) Analytics
10 55 (11.96%) ETL
10 55 (11.96%) Scrum
11 50 (10.87%) Workflow
12 49 (10.65%) Data Pipeline
13 48 (10.43%) Microservices
14 47 (10.22%) API Integration
15 44 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
15 44 (9.57%) Software Engineering
15 44 (9.57%) Stakeholder Management
16 41 (8.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 181 (39.35%) Python
2 171 (37.17%) SQL
3 94 (20.43%) JavaScript
4 86 (18.70%) Java
5 66 (14.35%) C#
6 52 (11.30%) PowerShell
7 30 (6.52%) Groovy
8 20 (4.35%) TypeScript
9 17 (3.70%) PL/SQL
9 17 (3.70%) Shell Script
10 15 (3.26%) Bash
11 11 (2.39%) T-SQL
11 11 (2.39%) VBA
12 9 (1.96%) Bicep
13 7 (1.52%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.52%) Scala
14 6 (1.30%) Go
14 6 (1.30%) JCL
14 6 (1.30%) R
15 5 (1.09%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 128 (27.83%) Security Cleared
2 98 (21.30%) SC Cleared
3 27 (5.87%) Degree
4 17 (3.70%) Azure Certification
5 11 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.74%) CISSP
8 7 (1.52%) CISM
9 5 (1.09%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.87%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.87%) PhD
10 4 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.65%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.43%) CCNP
12 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.43%) GIAC
12 2 (0.43%) SSCP
13 1 (0.22%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (9.57%) Data Quality
2 31 (6.74%) Accessibility
3 30 (6.52%) QA
4 19 (4.13%) GDPR
5 8 (1.74%) WCAG
6 7 (1.52%) ISO 20022
6 7 (1.52%) NIST
7 5 (1.09%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.09%) HL7
7 5 (1.09%) ISO 15022
7 5 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.65%) FATCA
8 3 (0.65%) GRC
8 3 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.65%) NCSC
8 3 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.65%) SLA
9 2 (0.43%) Basel III
10 1 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 54 (11.74%) Docker
2 18 (3.91%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.43%) OpenSSH
5 2 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.22%) Firmware
6 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 62 (13.48%) Kubernetes
2 50 (10.87%) Terraform
3 39 (8.48%) Ansible
4 10 (2.17%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.52%) Grafana
6 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.65%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.65%) Puppet
7 3 (0.65%) SCCM
7 3 (0.65%) WMI
8 2 (0.43%) Kibana
8 2 (0.43%) QRadar
9 1 (0.22%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.22%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.22%) Istio
9 1 (0.22%) logstash
9 1 (0.22%) Podman
9 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 104 (22.61%) Microsoft
2 90 (19.57%) Oracle
3 35 (7.61%) ServiceNow
4 25 (5.43%) Google
4 25 (5.43%) MuleSoft
5 24 (5.22%) Databricks
6 23 (5.00%) SAP
7 21 (4.57%) Workday
8 20 (4.35%) Salesforce
9 19 (4.13%) IBM
9 19 (4.13%) Splunk
10 12 (2.61%) Foundry
10 12 (2.61%) OpenAI
11 11 (2.39%) F5
11 11 (2.39%) Sonatype
12 10 (2.17%) Infoblox
12 10 (2.17%) webMethods
13 8 (1.74%) Dell
14 7 (1.52%) Informatica
14 7 (1.52%) Palantir