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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 239 259
Rank change year-on-year -10 +20 -45
Contract jobs citing JSON 476 313 303
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.04% 1.15% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.88% 4.61% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 223 199
10th Percentile £353 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% -1.82%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £656 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £498 £540
% change year-on-year +0.50% -7.87% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 4
10th Percentile £49.20 - £50.50
25th Percentile £61.25 £31.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £85.00 £37.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +126.67% -53.13% +14.29%
75th Percentile £92.11 £43.75 £85.00
90th Percentile - £76.88 -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £37.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +126.67% -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 9,748 6,796 8,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.36% 24.97% 24.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,417 4,663 5,509
10th Percentile £380 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
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 265 163 178
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £32.83
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.05 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% -14.19% +0.28%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £71.60 £74.61
UK median hourly rate £66.83 £52.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +27.30% -15.32% -0.80%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -10 268 £525 -2.33% 199
North of England -69 63 £460 +10.05% 41
South East -57 53 £460 -3.16% 56
Midlands -18 44 £425 -24.44% 22
West Midlands -17 40 £425 -26.09% 15
Yorkshire -25 36 £500 +23.46% 11
North West -55 27 £420 -3.36% 28
South West -30 20 £545 +45.33% 30
East of England -19 14 £500 +17.65% 29
East Midlands -20 4 - - 7
North East -35 3 £550 +175.00% 4
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 24 (5.04%) Confluence
1 24 (5.04%) SharePoint
2 20 (4.20%) Apache
3 12 (2.52%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.10%) Anypoint
5 9 (1.89%) Mule
6 6 (1.26%) IIS
7 5 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.05%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.84%) CICS
8 4 (0.84%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.84%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.63%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.42%) JBoss
10 2 (0.42%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.42%) nginx
10 2 (0.42%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.05%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.21%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 18 (3.78%) NetSuite
2 15 (3.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (2.31%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (1.26%) Maximo
5 4 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.63%) Findur
6 3 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.63%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.42%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.42%) Infor LN
7 2 (0.42%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.21%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.21%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.21%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.21%) Shopify
8 1 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 189 (39.71%) Azure
2 123 (25.84%) AWS
3 81 (17.02%) Azure DevOps
4 57 (11.97%) GCP
5 52 (10.92%) Power Platform
6 46 (9.66%) GitHub
7 40 (8.40%) Boomi
7 40 (8.40%) Power Automate
8 34 (7.14%) Serverless
9 31 (6.51%) Entra ID
9 31 (6.51%) PowerApps
10 29 (6.09%) Dynamics 365
11 27 (5.67%) Azure Logic Apps
12 23 (4.83%) GitHub Actions
13 22 (4.62%) Azure Service Bus
14 20 (4.20%) Amazon S3
15 19 (3.99%) Azure Functions
16 18 (3.78%) AtomSphere
17 16 (3.36%) SaaS
18 15 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.67%) HTTP
2 13 (2.73%) DNS
3 11 (2.31%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.89%) DHCP
5 8 (1.68%) BGP
5 8 (1.68%) Ethernet VPN
5 8 (1.68%) VXLAN
6 7 (1.47%) BIG-IP
6 7 (1.47%) NX-OS
7 6 (1.26%) Firewall
7 6 (1.26%) SD-WAN
7 6 (1.26%) WAN
7 6 (1.26%) Wireless
8 5 (1.05%) HTTPS
8 5 (1.05%) Network Security
9 4 (0.84%) Intranet
9 4 (0.84%) SSH
9 4 (0.84%) SSL
9 4 (0.84%) TACACS
10 3 (0.63%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (9.03%) SQL Server
2 40 (8.40%) Metadata
3 31 (6.51%) MongoDB
4 25 (5.25%) Relational Database
5 23 (4.83%) Parquet
6 22 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (4.41%) Power BI
8 19 (3.99%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (3.36%) NoSQL
10 12 (2.52%) RDBMS
11 11 (2.31%) DynamoDB
12 10 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.89%) Data Lake
13 9 (1.89%) Delta Lake
13 9 (1.89%) Oracle Database
14 8 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (1.47%) BigQuery
16 6 (1.26%) Db2
16 6 (1.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 94 (19.75%) Git
2 44 (9.24%) JIRA
3 43 (9.03%) GitLab
4 38 (7.98%) Jenkins
5 22 (4.62%) Postman
6 21 (4.41%) Selenium
7 15 (3.15%) Maven
8 13 (2.73%) SonarQube
9 11 (2.31%) Cucumber
9 11 (2.31%) JUnit
10 9 (1.89%) ERwin
11 8 (1.68%) WebDriver
12 7 (1.47%) Claude Code
13 6 (1.26%) Cypress.io
13 6 (1.26%) Gatling
13 6 (1.26%) Gradle
13 6 (1.26%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (1.05%) JMeter
15 4 (0.84%) MSI
General
1 136 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 78 (16.39%) Finance
3 72 (15.13%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (11.13%) Public Sector
5 33 (6.93%) Banking
6 22 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.73%) Publishing
8 11 (2.31%) Marketing
9 10 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.89%) Legal
11 8 (1.68%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.47%) Retail
13 6 (1.26%) Back Office
14 5 (1.05%) Law
15 3 (0.63%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.63%) Front Office
15 3 (0.63%) Prime Brokerage
16 2 (0.42%) Games
16 2 (0.42%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 155 (32.56%) Developer
2 76 (15.97%) Senior
3 60 (12.61%) Architect
4 36 (7.56%) Analyst
5 33 (6.93%) Senior Developer
6 27 (5.67%) Data Engineer
7 20 (4.20%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 18 (3.78%) Integration Engineer
9 17 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
10 16 (3.36%) Consultant
11 15 (3.15%) Python Engineer
12 14 (2.94%) Business Analyst
12 14 (2.94%) Python Developer
13 13 (2.73%) Integration Architect
13 13 (2.73%) Java Developer
14 12 (2.52%) Lead
14 12 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (2.31%) Full-Stack Developer
15 11 (2.31%) Integration Developer
15 11 (2.31%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (41.60%) REST
2 178 (37.39%) XML
3 89 (18.70%) SOAP
4 69 (14.50%) Kafka
5 59 (12.39%) .NET
6 53 (11.13%) Middleware
6 53 (11.13%) OAuth
7 48 (10.08%) Terraform
8 46 (9.66%) React
8 46 (9.66%) RESTful
9 38 (7.98%) YAML
10 30 (6.30%) HTML
11 29 (6.09%) OAuth2
12 27 (5.67%) CSS
12 27 (5.67%) Swagger
13 24 (5.04%) JWT
13 24 (5.04%) Node.js
13 24 (5.04%) OpenAPI
13 24 (5.04%) Web Services
14 22 (4.62%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.82%) Product Ownership
2 34 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 27 (5.67%) Cloud Native
4 23 (4.83%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (4.20%) AI Agents
6 19 (3.99%) Algorithms
7 18 (3.78%) Onboarding
8 17 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
9 16 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (2.94%) Management Information System
11 13 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (2.73%) Taxonomies
12 11 (2.31%) Data Centre
13 10 (2.10%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.89%) CMDB
14 9 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (1.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 7 (1.47%) Mobile App
17 6 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
17 6 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.93%) Linux
2 32 (6.72%) Windows
3 10 (2.10%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.89%) Unix
5 7 (1.47%) Android
5 7 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.84%) zOS
7 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.42%) Solaris
7 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.21%) CentOS
8 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.21%) VMS
8 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (39.29%) CI/CD
2 160 (33.61%) Agile
3 159 (33.40%) DevOps
4 111 (23.32%) Problem-Solving
5 85 (17.86%) Data Modelling
6 81 (17.02%) Validation
7 78 (16.39%) AI
8 71 (14.92%) Event-Driven
9 68 (14.29%) Scrum
10 58 (12.18%) Integration Patterns
11 57 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
12 56 (11.76%) Test Automation
13 55 (11.55%) Stakeholder Management
14 51 (10.71%) API Integration
14 51 (10.71%) Microservices
15 49 (10.29%) Workflow
16 48 (10.08%) Infrastructure as Code
17 47 (9.87%) ETL
17 47 (9.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 44 (9.24%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 177 (37.18%) Python
2 169 (35.50%) SQL
3 115 (24.16%) JavaScript
4 105 (22.06%) Java
5 74 (15.55%) C#
6 53 (11.13%) PowerShell
7 28 (5.88%) Groovy
7 28 (5.88%) TypeScript
8 19 (3.99%) PL/SQL
9 15 (3.15%) Bash
10 13 (2.73%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.89%) VBA
12 8 (1.68%) Bicep
12 8 (1.68%) R
12 8 (1.68%) Scala
13 7 (1.47%) C++
13 7 (1.47%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.26%) Kotlin
15 5 (1.05%) Go
15 5 (1.05%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 134 (28.15%) Security Cleared
2 104 (21.85%) SC Cleared
3 26 (5.46%) Degree
4 19 (3.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (2.73%) Azure Certification
5 13 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.52%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.68%) CISSP
9 7 (1.47%) CISM
10 5 (1.05%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.84%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.84%) PhD
12 2 (0.42%) CCNP
12 2 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.42%) GIAC
12 2 (0.42%) SSCP
13 1 (0.21%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.45%) Data Quality
2 43 (9.03%) Accessibility
3 32 (6.72%) QA
4 24 (5.04%) GDPR
5 17 (3.57%) WCAG
6 12 (2.52%) ISO 20022
7 9 (1.89%) NIST
8 8 (1.68%) ISO 15022
9 5 (1.05%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.05%) HL7
9 5 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.84%) GRC
10 4 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.84%) NCSC
11 3 (0.63%) Basel III
12 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.42%) SLA
13 1 (0.21%) SNOMED CT
13 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 56 (11.76%) Docker
2 27 (5.67%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.05%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.05%) NFS
6 4 (0.84%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.42%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.42%) OpenSSH
8 2 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 63 (13.24%) Kubernetes
2 44 (9.24%) Ansible
3 9 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.26%) SCCM
5 5 (1.05%) Grafana
6 4 (0.84%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.63%) Kibana
7 3 (0.63%) WMI
8 2 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.42%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.42%) Puppet
8 2 (0.42%) QRadar
9 1 (0.21%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.21%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.21%) Istio
9 1 (0.21%) logstash
9 1 (0.21%) Podman
9 1 (0.21%) WSUS
Vendors
1 112 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 91 (19.12%) Oracle
3 42 (8.82%) ServiceNow
4 32 (6.72%) MuleSoft
5 31 (6.51%) Google
6 28 (5.88%) Databricks
6 28 (5.88%) IBM
7 27 (5.67%) Salesforce
8 26 (5.46%) SAP
9 21 (4.41%) Workday
10 16 (3.36%) VMware
11 12 (2.52%) Informatica
11 12 (2.52%) Splunk
12 11 (2.31%) Cisco
12 11 (2.31%) webMethods
13 10 (2.10%) Red Hat
13 10 (2.10%) Sonatype
14 9 (1.89%) Infoblox
14 9 (1.89%) TIBCO
15 8 (1.68%) F5