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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 227 267
Rank change year-on-year -27 +40 -53
Contract jobs citing JSON 494 334 286
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.07% 1.20% 0.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.03% 4.72% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 230 188
10th Percentile £343 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% -1.82%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £620
90th Percentile £675 £681 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% -
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 9,819 7,073 7,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.20% 25.48% 24.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,457 4,774 5,204
10th Percentile £381 £355 £363
25th Percentile £449 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £526 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.54% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 173 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £35.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.60 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.82% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.20 £70.00 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +20.37% -13.60% +4.17%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -23 264 £525 -1.41% 252
South East -27 59 £460 -3.16% 71
North of England -75 59 £449 +0.34% 49
Midlands -1 58 £450 +2.27% 36
West Midlands -4 56 £450 -8.16% 25
North West -54 30 £429 -4.03% 29
Yorkshire -32 29 £460 -2.66% 15
South West -20 22 £545 +36.25% 37
East of England -29 11 £538 +16.22% 25
East Midlands -10 2 - - 11
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 (6.07%) SharePoint
2 26 (5.26%) Confluence
3 11 (2.23%) Apache
4 9 (1.82%) Anypoint
4 9 (1.82%) Mule
5 8 (1.62%) IIS
6 6 (1.21%) Apache Spark
7 5 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (1.01%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.81%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.81%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.61%) CICS
9 3 (0.61%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.61%) ThingWorx
10 2 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.40%) JBoss
10 2 (0.40%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.40%) nginx
10 2 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.21%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.01%) Windchill
4 4 (0.81%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (4.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (3.64%) NetSuite
3 13 (2.63%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (1.01%) Maximo
6 4 (0.81%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.40%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
8 2 (0.40%) Infor LN
8 2 (0.40%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.40%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.20%) Actimize
9 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Retail
9 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.20%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.20%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 200 (40.49%) Azure
2 130 (26.32%) AWS
3 85 (17.21%) Azure DevOps
4 65 (13.16%) GCP
5 61 (12.35%) Power Platform
6 57 (11.54%) GitHub
7 49 (9.92%) Boomi
8 44 (8.91%) Power Automate
9 37 (7.49%) Serverless
10 34 (6.88%) Entra ID
11 33 (6.68%) Dynamics 365
11 33 (6.68%) PowerApps
12 28 (5.67%) Azure Functions
12 28 (5.67%) Azure Logic Apps
13 23 (4.66%) Azure Service Bus
14 22 (4.45%) AtomSphere
15 21 (4.25%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (3.85%) Amazon S3
17 17 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
18 16 (3.24%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (6.07%) HTTP
2 13 (2.63%) BGP
3 11 (2.23%) Ethernet VPN
3 11 (2.23%) VXLAN
4 10 (2.02%) DNS
4 10 (2.02%) NX-OS
4 10 (2.02%) Wireless
5 9 (1.82%) TACACS
6 8 (1.62%) Firewall
6 8 (1.62%) SD-WAN
6 8 (1.62%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.62%) WAN
7 7 (1.42%) Network Security
8 6 (1.21%) DHCP
8 6 (1.21%) SSL
8 6 (1.21%) X.509
9 5 (1.01%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.81%) Intranet
10 4 (0.81%) NAS
10 4 (0.81%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (10.32%) SQL Server
2 35 (7.09%) Metadata
3 33 (6.68%) MongoDB
4 26 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (5.26%) Relational Database
5 22 (4.45%) Power BI
6 21 (4.25%) Parquet
7 19 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (2.63%) NoSQL
9 11 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (2.23%) RDBMS
9 11 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (2.02%) Oracle Database
11 9 (1.82%) Data Lake
12 8 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (1.62%) BigQuery
13 7 (1.42%) Delta Lake
13 7 (1.42%) DynamoDB
13 7 (1.42%) MySQL
13 7 (1.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 118 (23.89%) Git
2 50 (10.12%) GitLab
3 47 (9.51%) JIRA
4 37 (7.49%) Jenkins
5 24 (4.86%) Postman
6 22 (4.45%) Selenium
7 14 (2.83%) JUnit
8 13 (2.63%) Cucumber
8 13 (2.63%) Maven
9 10 (2.02%) SonarQube
10 9 (1.82%) Team Foundation Server
11 8 (1.62%) Gatling
11 8 (1.62%) WebDriver
12 7 (1.42%) Claude Code
12 7 (1.42%) Gradle
13 6 (1.21%) Cypress.io
14 5 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (1.01%) ERwin
15 4 (0.81%) JMeter
15 4 (0.81%) MSI
General
1 141 (28.54%) Social Skills
2 88 (17.81%) Finance
3 70 (14.17%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (11.94%) Public Sector
5 35 (7.09%) Banking
6 25 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.63%) Manufacturing
8 11 (2.23%) Publishing
9 10 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.02%) Marketing
10 8 (1.62%) Back Office
10 8 (1.62%) Legal
10 8 (1.62%) Retail
11 7 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.21%) Law
13 5 (1.01%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.81%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.81%) Front Office
15 3 (0.61%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.61%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 169 (34.21%) Developer
2 78 (15.79%) Senior
3 55 (11.13%) Architect
4 37 (7.49%) Analyst
5 33 (6.68%) Senior Developer
6 24 (4.86%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 23 (4.66%) Data Engineer
8 21 (4.25%) Lead
9 18 (3.64%) Security Engineer
10 16 (3.24%) Consultant
10 16 (3.24%) Python Developer
11 15 (3.04%) Business Analyst
11 15 (3.04%) Integration Developer
11 15 (3.04%) Integration Engineer
12 14 (2.83%) DevOps Engineer
12 14 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (2.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 12 (2.43%) Full-Stack Developer
14 12 (2.43%) Java Engineer
14 12 (2.43%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (44.13%) REST
2 197 (39.88%) XML
3 96 (19.43%) SOAP
4 65 (13.16%) OAuth
5 64 (12.96%) .NET
6 61 (12.35%) Kafka
6 61 (12.35%) Middleware
7 55 (11.13%) RESTful
8 53 (10.73%) Terraform
9 52 (10.53%) React
10 41 (8.30%) YAML
11 38 (7.69%) OAuth2
12 36 (7.29%) Swagger
13 34 (6.88%) Web Services
14 32 (6.48%) HTML
15 31 (6.28%) OpenAPI
16 27 (5.47%) CSS
16 27 (5.47%) JWT
17 26 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
17 26 (5.26%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.30%) Product Ownership
2 36 (7.29%) Data Structures
3 34 (6.88%) Enterprise Software
4 31 (6.28%) Cloud Native
5 26 (5.26%) AI Agents
6 25 (5.06%) Onboarding
7 20 (4.05%) Management Information System
8 17 (3.44%) Algorithms
8 17 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (3.44%) Taxonomies
9 15 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (2.83%) Data Centre
11 12 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (2.43%) Virtual Team
12 11 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (2.02%) CMDB
14 9 (1.82%) Mobile App
15 8 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
15 8 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
15 8 (1.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 42 (8.50%) Linux
2 40 (8.10%) Windows
3 10 (2.02%) Android
3 10 (2.02%) Unix
3 10 (2.02%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.61%) zOS
7 2 (0.40%) Solaris
7 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.20%) CentOS
8 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (40.08%) CI/CD
2 167 (33.81%) Agile
3 162 (32.79%) DevOps
4 115 (23.28%) Problem-Solving
5 92 (18.62%) AI
6 81 (16.40%) Data Modelling
7 77 (15.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 76 (15.38%) Validation
9 73 (14.78%) Scrum
10 66 (13.36%) Event-Driven
11 65 (13.16%) Test Automation
12 62 (12.55%) Stakeholder Management
13 56 (11.34%) Infrastructure as Code
14 54 (10.93%) Integration Patterns
15 51 (10.32%) API Integration
16 50 (10.12%) Workflow
17 48 (9.72%) Migration
18 46 (9.31%) Microservices
18 46 (9.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 46 (9.31%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 170 (34.41%) Python
2 167 (33.81%) SQL
3 133 (26.92%) JavaScript
4 105 (21.26%) Java
5 78 (15.79%) C#
6 64 (12.96%) PowerShell
7 39 (7.89%) TypeScript
8 27 (5.47%) Groovy
9 20 (4.05%) Bash
10 18 (3.64%) PL/SQL
11 17 (3.44%) Shell Script
12 12 (2.43%) Bicep
13 9 (1.82%) Go
13 9 (1.82%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.42%) C++
14 7 (1.42%) T-SQL
15 6 (1.21%) Scala
15 6 (1.21%) VBA
16 5 (1.01%) C
16 5 (1.01%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 125 (25.30%) Security Cleared
2 97 (19.64%) SC Cleared
3 31 (6.28%) Degree
4 24 (4.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (3.85%) Azure Certification
6 16 (3.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (3.04%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (2.02%) CISSP
10 9 (1.82%) CISM
11 6 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (1.01%) AWS Certification
12 5 (1.01%) CRISC
13 4 (0.81%) CISA
13 4 (0.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 4 (0.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 4 (0.81%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.81%) PhD
14 2 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (10.12%) Accessibility
2 40 (8.10%) Data Quality
3 37 (7.49%) QA
4 23 (4.66%) WCAG
5 22 (4.45%) GDPR
6 13 (2.63%) NIST
7 12 (2.43%) ISO 20022
8 8 (1.62%) GRC
8 8 (1.62%) ISO 15022
8 8 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.81%) COBIT
9 4 (0.81%) HL7
9 4 (0.81%) NCSC
10 3 (0.61%) Basel III
10 3 (0.61%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.40%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.20%) SLA
12 1 (0.20%) SNOMED CT
12 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 57 (11.54%) Docker
2 33 (6.68%) Active Directory
3 21 (4.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.42%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.42%) NFS
4 7 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.42%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.40%) OpenSSH
6 2 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 65 (13.16%) Kubernetes
2 51 (10.32%) Ansible
3 13 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.21%) Grafana
4 6 (1.21%) SCCM
5 4 (0.81%) Kibana
5 4 (0.81%) Kustomize
6 3 (0.61%) WMI
7 2 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.40%) Netcool
7 2 (0.40%) Netcool/OMNIbus
7 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.40%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.40%) Puppet
7 2 (0.40%) QRadar
7 2 (0.40%) Tivoli
7 2 (0.40%) Tivoli Monitoring
8 1 (0.20%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.20%) Podman
8 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 129 (26.11%) Microsoft
2 97 (19.64%) Oracle
3 49 (9.92%) ServiceNow
4 36 (7.29%) MuleSoft
5 35 (7.09%) Google
6 34 (6.88%) IBM
7 27 (5.47%) Salesforce
8 26 (5.26%) SAP
9 21 (4.25%) Databricks
9 21 (4.25%) VMware
10 18 (3.64%) Cisco
11 17 (3.44%) Workday
12 14 (2.83%) Informatica
12 14 (2.83%) OpenAI
13 13 (2.63%) Red Hat
13 13 (2.63%) Splunk
14 10 (2.02%) Dell
14 10 (2.02%) TIBCO
15 9 (1.82%) webMethods
15 9 (1.82%) WSO2