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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 228 265
Rank change year-on-year -13 +37 -52
Contract jobs citing JSON 498 325 290
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.07% 1.16% 0.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.03% 4.55% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 224 189
10th Percentile £349 £350 £400
25th Percentile £413 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -8.26% -0.91%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £625
90th Percentile £675 £680 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £548
% change year-on-year - -8.68% +1.30%
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 9,900 7,138 8,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.27% 25.55% 24.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,515 4,847 5,356
10th Percentile £380 £353 £363
25th Percentile £446 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.35%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 173 180
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.32 £27.68
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.60% +4.88%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.18% -10.71% +2.67%

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 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 26 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 26 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 -17 265 £525 -2.33% 252
North of England -66 62 £450 +0.67% 48
Midlands -4 61 £459 +1.94% 36
South East -42 59 £460 -3.16% 70
West Midlands -2 58 £459 -16.59% 25
Yorkshire -32 32 £469 +14.61% 17
North West -48 30 £429 -4.03% 28
South West -24 20 £548 +15.26% 39
East of England -38 12 £500 +12.68% 25
East Midlands -16 3 - - 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 (6.02%) SharePoint
2 25 (5.02%) Confluence
3 13 (2.61%) Apache
4 9 (1.81%) Anypoint
4 9 (1.81%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.81%) Mule
5 8 (1.61%) IIS
6 5 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (1.00%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.80%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.80%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.60%) CICS
8 3 (0.60%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.60%) ThingWorx
9 2 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.40%) JBoss
9 2 (0.40%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.40%) nginx
9 2 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.00%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.00%) Windchill
3 4 (0.80%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (4.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (3.61%) NetSuite
3 12 (2.41%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (1.20%) Maximo
4 6 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.80%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.40%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.40%) Infor LN
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.40%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.40%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.20%) Actimize
8 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.20%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 196 (39.36%) Azure
2 127 (25.50%) AWS
3 81 (16.27%) Azure DevOps
4 65 (13.05%) GCP
5 59 (11.85%) Power Platform
6 56 (11.24%) GitHub
7 48 (9.64%) Boomi
8 44 (8.84%) Power Automate
9 37 (7.43%) Serverless
10 33 (6.63%) Dynamics 365
10 33 (6.63%) PowerApps
11 30 (6.02%) Entra ID
12 29 (5.82%) Azure Logic Apps
13 26 (5.22%) Azure Functions
14 24 (4.82%) Azure Service Bus
15 21 (4.22%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (4.02%) AtomSphere
17 18 (3.61%) Amazon S3
18 17 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
18 17 (3.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (6.43%) HTTP
2 13 (2.61%) BGP
2 13 (2.61%) DNS
3 11 (2.21%) Ethernet VPN
3 11 (2.21%) TCP/IP
3 11 (2.21%) VXLAN
4 10 (2.01%) NX-OS
4 10 (2.01%) Wireless
5 9 (1.81%) DHCP
5 9 (1.81%) TACACS
6 8 (1.61%) Firewall
6 8 (1.61%) SD-WAN
6 8 (1.61%) WAN
7 7 (1.41%) BIG-IP
7 7 (1.41%) Network Security
8 6 (1.20%) SSL
9 5 (1.00%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.80%) Intranet
10 4 (0.80%) VPN
10 4 (0.80%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (9.64%) SQL Server
2 35 (7.03%) Metadata
3 32 (6.43%) MongoDB
4 25 (5.02%) Relational Database
5 24 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (4.22%) Parquet
6 21 (4.22%) Power BI
7 19 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (2.41%) NoSQL
9 11 (2.21%) RDBMS
10 9 (1.81%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.81%) DynamoDB
10 9 (1.81%) Oracle Database
10 9 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (1.61%) BigQuery
12 7 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (1.20%) Delta Lake
13 6 (1.20%) MySQL
13 6 (1.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 113 (22.69%) Git
2 52 (10.44%) GitLab
3 48 (9.64%) JIRA
4 37 (7.43%) Jenkins
5 24 (4.82%) Postman
6 22 (4.42%) Selenium
7 14 (2.81%) JUnit
7 14 (2.81%) Maven
8 13 (2.61%) Cucumber
9 11 (2.21%) SonarQube
10 8 (1.61%) Gatling
10 8 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
10 8 (1.61%) WebDriver
11 7 (1.41%) Claude Code
11 7 (1.41%) Gradle
12 6 (1.20%) Cypress.io
13 5 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (1.00%) ERwin
14 4 (0.80%) JMeter
14 4 (0.80%) MSI
General
1 144 (28.92%) Social Skills
2 85 (17.07%) Finance
3 69 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (11.24%) Public Sector
5 38 (7.63%) Banking
6 25 (5.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.41%) Manufacturing
8 11 (2.21%) Publishing
9 10 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.01%) Marketing
10 9 (1.81%) Legal
11 8 (1.61%) Back Office
11 8 (1.61%) Retail
12 7 (1.41%) Law
12 7 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.00%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.80%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.80%) Front Office
15 3 (0.60%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.60%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 167 (33.53%) Developer
2 81 (16.27%) Senior
3 59 (11.85%) Architect
4 36 (7.23%) Analyst
4 36 (7.23%) Senior Developer
5 24 (4.82%) Data Engineer
5 24 (4.82%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 20 (4.02%) Lead
7 17 (3.41%) Consultant
7 17 (3.41%) Security Engineer
8 16 (3.21%) Integration Engineer
9 15 (3.01%) Business Analyst
9 15 (3.01%) Python Developer
10 14 (2.81%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (2.61%) Integration Developer
12 12 (2.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 12 (2.41%) Integration Architect
12 12 (2.41%) Java Engineer
12 12 (2.41%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (43.98%) REST
2 195 (39.16%) XML
3 97 (19.48%) SOAP
4 67 (13.45%) Kafka
5 63 (12.65%) .NET
6 61 (12.25%) Middleware
7 59 (11.85%) OAuth
8 53 (10.64%) RESTful
9 52 (10.44%) React
10 49 (9.84%) Terraform
11 42 (8.43%) YAML
12 36 (7.23%) OAuth2
12 36 (7.23%) Swagger
13 33 (6.63%) HTML
14 32 (6.43%) OpenAPI
14 32 (6.43%) Web Services
15 29 (5.82%) CSS
16 27 (5.42%) JWT
16 27 (5.42%) RabbitMQ
17 26 (5.22%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.23%) Product Ownership
2 36 (7.23%) Data Structures
3 29 (5.82%) Cloud Native
3 29 (5.82%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (5.02%) Onboarding
5 23 (4.62%) AI Agents
6 18 (3.61%) Algorithms
6 18 (3.61%) Management Information System
7 17 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (3.41%) Taxonomies
8 16 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (2.81%) Data Centre
10 12 (2.41%) Virtual Team
11 11 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (2.01%) CMDB
13 8 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
13 8 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (1.61%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 39 (7.83%) Linux
2 37 (7.43%) Windows
3 10 (2.01%) Unix
3 10 (2.01%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.81%) Android
5 7 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.60%) zOS
8 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.40%) Solaris
8 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.20%) CentOS
9 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (38.76%) CI/CD
2 171 (34.34%) Agile
3 157 (31.53%) DevOps
4 116 (23.29%) Problem-Solving
5 89 (17.87%) AI
6 81 (16.27%) Data Modelling
7 75 (15.06%) Scrum
8 74 (14.86%) Validation
9 70 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 68 (13.65%) Event-Driven
11 66 (13.25%) Stakeholder Management
12 64 (12.85%) Test Automation
13 55 (11.04%) API Integration
14 54 (10.84%) Integration Patterns
15 51 (10.24%) Workflow
16 50 (10.04%) Infrastructure as Code
17 48 (9.64%) Migration
18 47 (9.44%) Microservices
19 46 (9.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 44 (8.84%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 171 (34.34%) Python
2 161 (32.33%) SQL
3 134 (26.91%) JavaScript
4 107 (21.49%) Java
5 78 (15.66%) C#
6 60 (12.05%) PowerShell
7 38 (7.63%) TypeScript
8 27 (5.42%) Groovy
9 18 (3.61%) Bash
9 18 (3.61%) PL/SQL
10 15 (3.01%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.81%) VBA
12 8 (1.61%) Bicep
12 8 (1.61%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.61%) Scala
13 7 (1.41%) C++
13 7 (1.41%) Go
14 6 (1.20%) T-SQL
15 5 (1.00%) C
15 5 (1.00%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 124 (24.90%) Security Cleared
2 99 (19.88%) SC Cleared
3 31 (6.22%) Degree
4 24 (4.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (3.21%) Azure Certification
5 16 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (2.81%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.01%) CISSP
9 9 (1.81%) CISM
10 5 (1.00%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.00%) CRISC
10 5 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.80%) CISA
11 4 (0.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 4 (0.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 4 (0.80%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.80%) PhD
12 2 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (10.04%) Accessibility
2 43 (8.63%) Data Quality
3 36 (7.23%) QA
4 24 (4.82%) GDPR
5 23 (4.62%) WCAG
6 14 (2.81%) NIST
7 12 (2.41%) ISO 20022
8 8 (1.61%) GRC
8 8 (1.61%) ISO 15022
8 8 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.80%) COBIT
9 4 (0.80%) HL7
9 4 (0.80%) NCSC
10 3 (0.60%) Basel III
10 3 (0.60%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.40%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.40%) SLA
12 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 57 (11.45%) Docker
2 29 (5.82%) Active Directory
3 21 (4.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.41%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.41%) NFS
5 7 (1.41%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.40%) OpenSSH
7 2 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 62 (12.45%) Kubernetes
2 50 (10.04%) Ansible
3 12 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.20%) SCCM
5 5 (1.00%) Grafana
6 4 (0.80%) Kibana
6 4 (0.80%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.60%) WMI
8 2 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.40%) Netcool
8 2 (0.40%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.40%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.40%) Puppet
8 2 (0.40%) QRadar
8 2 (0.40%) Tivoli
8 2 (0.40%) Tivoli Monitoring
9 1 (0.20%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.20%) Podman
9 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 126 (25.30%) Microsoft
2 98 (19.68%) Oracle
3 51 (10.24%) ServiceNow
4 37 (7.43%) MuleSoft
5 34 (6.83%) IBM
6 32 (6.43%) Google
7 27 (5.42%) Salesforce
8 25 (5.02%) SAP
9 21 (4.22%) VMware
10 20 (4.02%) Databricks
11 18 (3.61%) Cisco
11 18 (3.61%) Workday
12 14 (2.81%) Informatica
12 14 (2.81%) Splunk
13 13 (2.61%) Red Hat
14 12 (2.41%) Infoblox
15 11 (2.21%) OpenAI
15 11 (2.21%) TIBCO
15 11 (2.21%) webMethods
16 9 (1.81%) Dell