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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 239 262
Rank change year-on-year -10 +23 -50
Contract jobs citing JSON 490 317 301
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.06% 1.14% 0.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.98% 4.49% 3.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 221 194
10th Percentile £356 £350 £400
25th Percentile £415 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £622
90th Percentile £656 £680 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £496 £550
% change year-on-year +0.81% -9.82% +0.92%
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 9,837 7,066 8,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.44% 24.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,467 4,807 5,471
10th Percentile £380 £355 £363
25th Percentile £441 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -5.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £664
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 278 170 180
10th Percentile £29.72 £31.57 £27.68
25th Percentile £52.97 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -12.60% -0.12%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
% change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% -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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -10 264 £525 -2.33% 254
North of England -62 62 £461 +8.53% 44
South East -36 57 £460 -3.16% 73
Midlands -18 52 £447 -0.67% 32
West Midlands -15 48 £447 -18.73% 22
Yorkshire -36 33 £500 +23.15% 11
North West -51 29 £427 -4.47% 29
South West -19 20 £548 +28.82% 29
East of England -26 16 £500 +17.65% 29
East Midlands -18 4 - - 10
North East -42 1 £550 +175.00% 5
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 30 (6.12%) SharePoint
2 24 (4.90%) Confluence
3 14 (2.86%) Apache
4 10 (2.04%) Anypoint
5 9 (1.84%) Mule
6 8 (1.63%) Apache Spark
6 8 (1.63%) IIS
7 5 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (1.02%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.82%) CICS
8 4 (0.82%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.82%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.61%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.41%) JBoss
10 2 (0.41%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.41%) nginx
10 2 (0.41%) ThingWorx
10 2 (0.41%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.02%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.61%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.61%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 20 (4.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (3.88%) NetSuite
3 12 (2.45%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (1.22%) Maximo
4 6 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.82%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.41%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.41%) Infor LN
8 1 (0.20%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Retail
8 1 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.20%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.20%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 190 (38.78%) Azure
2 125 (25.51%) AWS
3 79 (16.12%) Azure DevOps
4 61 (12.45%) GCP
5 56 (11.43%) Power Platform
6 52 (10.61%) GitHub
7 47 (9.59%) Boomi
8 44 (8.98%) Power Automate
9 37 (7.55%) Serverless
10 33 (6.73%) Dynamics 365
11 32 (6.53%) Entra ID
11 32 (6.53%) PowerApps
12 28 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
13 24 (4.90%) Azure Functions
14 23 (4.69%) Azure Service Bus
15 22 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (4.08%) AtomSphere
17 19 (3.88%) Amazon S3
18 17 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
18 17 (3.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (6.33%) HTTP
2 13 (2.65%) DNS
3 12 (2.45%) BGP
4 11 (2.24%) TCP/IP
5 10 (2.04%) Ethernet VPN
5 10 (2.04%) VXLAN
5 10 (2.04%) Wireless
6 9 (1.84%) DHCP
6 9 (1.84%) NX-OS
7 8 (1.63%) Firewall
7 8 (1.63%) SD-WAN
7 8 (1.63%) TACACS
7 8 (1.63%) WAN
8 7 (1.43%) BIG-IP
8 7 (1.43%) Network Security
9 6 (1.22%) SSL
10 5 (1.02%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.82%) Intranet
11 4 (0.82%) SSH
11 4 (0.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (9.18%) SQL Server
2 39 (7.96%) Metadata
3 28 (5.71%) MongoDB
4 24 (4.90%) Relational Database
5 22 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (4.08%) Parquet
7 19 (3.88%) Power BI
8 13 (2.65%) NoSQL
9 11 (2.24%) RDBMS
10 10 (2.04%) DynamoDB
11 9 (1.84%) Data Lake
11 9 (1.84%) Oracle Database
11 9 (1.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (1.63%) BigQuery
13 7 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (1.22%) Delta Lake
14 6 (1.22%) Redis
15 5 (1.02%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 107 (21.84%) Git
2 46 (9.39%) GitLab
3 44 (8.98%) JIRA
4 39 (7.96%) Jenkins
5 24 (4.90%) Postman
6 22 (4.49%) Selenium
7 15 (3.06%) Maven
8 13 (2.65%) SonarQube
9 12 (2.45%) Cucumber
9 12 (2.45%) JUnit
10 8 (1.63%) WebDriver
11 7 (1.43%) Claude Code
11 7 (1.43%) Gatling
11 7 (1.43%) Gradle
12 6 (1.22%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.22%) ERwin
12 6 (1.22%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.82%) JMeter
14 4 (0.82%) MSI
General
1 144 (29.39%) Social Skills
2 83 (16.94%) Finance
3 71 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (11.22%) Public Sector
5 36 (7.35%) Banking
6 26 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.65%) Publishing
8 10 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.04%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.04%) Marketing
9 9 (1.84%) Legal
10 8 (1.63%) Back Office
11 7 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.43%) Retail
12 5 (1.02%) Law
13 4 (0.82%) Front Office
14 3 (0.61%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.61%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.61%) Prime Brokerage
14 3 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 162 (33.06%) Developer
2 76 (15.51%) Senior
3 62 (12.65%) Architect
4 37 (7.55%) Analyst
5 35 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 24 (4.90%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 23 (4.69%) Data Engineer
8 18 (3.67%) Consultant
9 17 (3.47%) DevOps Engineer
10 16 (3.27%) Integration Engineer
10 16 (3.27%) Lead
10 16 (3.27%) Security Engineer
11 14 (2.86%) Business Analyst
11 14 (2.86%) Integration Architect
11 14 (2.86%) Python Developer
11 14 (2.86%) Python Engineer
11 14 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (2.65%) Integration Developer
13 12 (2.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 12 (2.45%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (43.47%) REST
2 186 (37.96%) XML
3 96 (19.59%) SOAP
4 68 (13.88%) Kafka
5 61 (12.45%) .NET
6 60 (12.24%) OAuth
7 57 (11.63%) Middleware
8 53 (10.82%) Terraform
9 49 (10.00%) RESTful
10 47 (9.59%) React
11 44 (8.98%) YAML
12 35 (7.14%) OAuth2
12 35 (7.14%) Swagger
13 32 (6.53%) HTML
14 31 (6.33%) OpenAPI
15 29 (5.92%) Web Services
16 28 (5.71%) CSS
17 27 (5.51%) JWT
18 25 (5.10%) XSLT
19 24 (4.90%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.37%) Product Ownership
2 34 (6.94%) Data Structures
3 29 (5.92%) Cloud Native
4 28 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (4.49%) AI Agents
5 22 (4.49%) Onboarding
6 19 (3.88%) Management Information System
7 18 (3.67%) Algorithms
7 18 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (3.47%) Taxonomies
9 13 (2.65%) Data Centre
9 13 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (2.45%) Virtual Team
11 11 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (2.04%) CMDB
13 8 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
13 8 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (1.63%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 36 (7.35%) Windows
2 35 (7.14%) Linux
3 10 (2.04%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.84%) Android
4 9 (1.84%) Unix
5 7 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.82%) zOS
7 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.41%) Solaris
7 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.20%) CentOS
8 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.20%) VMS
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (39.59%) CI/CD
2 166 (33.88%) Agile
3 158 (32.24%) DevOps
4 116 (23.67%) Problem-Solving
5 86 (17.55%) AI
6 83 (16.94%) Data Modelling
7 79 (16.12%) Validation
8 71 (14.49%) Event-Driven
9 70 (14.29%) Scrum
10 65 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 61 (12.45%) Stakeholder Management
12 58 (11.84%) Integration Patterns
12 58 (11.84%) Test Automation
13 51 (10.41%) API Integration
13 51 (10.41%) Infrastructure as Code
14 50 (10.20%) Workflow
15 48 (9.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 47 (9.59%) Migration
17 46 (9.39%) ETL
17 46 (9.39%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 176 (35.92%) Python
2 156 (31.84%) SQL
3 125 (25.51%) JavaScript
4 104 (21.22%) Java
5 79 (16.12%) C#
6 57 (11.63%) PowerShell
7 33 (6.73%) TypeScript
8 29 (5.92%) Groovy
9 18 (3.67%) PL/SQL
10 14 (2.86%) Bash
11 13 (2.65%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.84%) VBA
13 8 (1.63%) Bicep
13 8 (1.63%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.63%) Scala
14 7 (1.43%) C++
14 7 (1.43%) Go
15 5 (1.02%) SPARQL
16 4 (0.82%) C
16 4 (0.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 128 (26.12%) Security Cleared
2 99 (20.20%) SC Cleared
3 31 (6.33%) Degree
4 24 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (3.27%) Azure Certification
6 14 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.86%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.63%) CISSP
9 7 (1.43%) CISM
10 5 (1.02%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.82%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.82%) PhD
12 2 (0.41%) CCNP
12 2 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.41%) GIAC
12 2 (0.41%) SSCP
13 1 (0.20%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 41 (8.37%) Data Quality
3 35 (7.14%) QA
4 26 (5.31%) GDPR
5 22 (4.49%) WCAG
6 12 (2.45%) ISO 20022
7 10 (2.04%) NIST
8 8 (1.63%) ISO 15022
9 5 (1.02%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.82%) GRC
10 4 (0.82%) HL7
10 4 (0.82%) NCSC
11 3 (0.61%) Basel III
12 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.41%) SLA
13 1 (0.20%) SNOMED CT
13 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 57 (11.63%) Docker
2 30 (6.12%) Active Directory
3 20 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.43%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.43%) NFS
6 6 (1.22%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.41%) OpenSSH
8 2 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 62 (12.65%) Kubernetes
2 49 (10.00%) Ansible
3 11 (2.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.22%) Grafana
4 6 (1.22%) SCCM
5 4 (0.82%) Kustomize
6 3 (0.61%) Kibana
6 3 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.61%) WMI
7 2 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.41%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.41%) Puppet
7 2 (0.41%) QRadar
8 1 (0.20%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.20%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.20%) logstash
8 1 (0.20%) Podman
8 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 120 (24.49%) Microsoft
2 94 (19.18%) Oracle
3 49 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 37 (7.55%) MuleSoft
5 32 (6.53%) Google
6 31 (6.33%) IBM
7 27 (5.51%) Salesforce
7 27 (5.51%) SAP
8 20 (4.08%) Databricks
8 20 (4.08%) VMware
9 19 (3.88%) Workday
10 17 (3.47%) Cisco
11 14 (2.86%) Informatica
11 14 (2.86%) Splunk
12 12 (2.45%) Red Hat
13 11 (2.24%) Infoblox
13 11 (2.24%) TIBCO
13 11 (2.24%) webMethods
14 10 (2.04%) OpenAI
14 10 (2.04%) Sonatype