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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 225 268
Rank change year-on-year -18 +43 -59
Contract jobs citing JSON 499 324 292
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.07% 1.16% 0.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.03% 4.56% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 223 190
10th Percentile £350 £350 £400
25th Percentile £414 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £548
Median % change year-on-year - -8.68% -0.45%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £622
90th Percentile £671 £680 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +1.67%
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 9,923 7,112 8,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.32% 25.53% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,524 4,834 5,399
10th Percentile £380 £353 £363
25th Percentile £443 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
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 274 172 180
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.29 £27.68
25th Percentile £51.56 £42.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £66.83 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +21.51% -12.60% +0.68%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.85 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.51% -10.96% +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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -27 266 £525 -2.78% 240
North of England -51 64 £461 +5.79% 42
South East -43 59 £460 -3.16% 66
Midlands -9 56 £450 - 34
West Midlands -1 53 £450 -18.18% 23
Yorkshire -24 35 £500 +22.70% 15
North West -58 29 £427 -4.47% 24
South West -22 20 £548 +15.26% 34
East of England -33 15 £475 +11.76% 20
East Midlands -12 3 - - 11
North East -43 1 £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 31 (6.21%) SharePoint
2 25 (5.01%) Confluence
3 13 (2.61%) Apache
4 9 (1.80%) Anypoint
4 9 (1.80%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.80%) Mule
5 8 (1.60%) IIS
6 5 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (1.00%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.80%) CICS
7 4 (0.80%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.80%) WebSphere
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 (1.40%) 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 (4.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (3.61%) NetSuite
3 12 (2.40%) 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%) Magento
8 1 (0.20%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Retail
8 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 193 (38.68%) Azure
2 129 (25.85%) AWS
3 81 (16.23%) Azure DevOps
4 63 (12.63%) GCP
5 57 (11.42%) GitHub
6 56 (11.22%) Power Platform
7 48 (9.62%) Boomi
8 45 (9.02%) Power Automate
9 39 (7.82%) Serverless
10 34 (6.81%) PowerApps
11 33 (6.61%) Dynamics 365
12 30 (6.01%) Entra ID
13 29 (5.81%) Azure Logic Apps
14 26 (5.21%) Azure Functions
15 24 (4.81%) Azure Service Bus
16 22 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
17 20 (4.01%) AtomSphere
18 19 (3.81%) Amazon S3
19 18 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
20 17 (3.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (6.41%) HTTP
2 13 (2.61%) BGP
2 13 (2.61%) DNS
3 11 (2.20%) Ethernet VPN
3 11 (2.20%) TCP/IP
3 11 (2.20%) VXLAN
4 10 (2.00%) NX-OS
4 10 (2.00%) Wireless
5 9 (1.80%) DHCP
5 9 (1.80%) TACACS
6 8 (1.60%) Firewall
6 8 (1.60%) SD-WAN
6 8 (1.60%) WAN
7 7 (1.40%) BIG-IP
7 7 (1.40%) 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 (9.62%) SQL Server
2 39 (7.82%) Metadata
3 30 (6.01%) MongoDB
4 24 (4.81%) Relational Database
5 23 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (4.21%) Parquet
7 20 (4.01%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (3.41%) Power BI
9 12 (2.40%) NoSQL
10 11 (2.20%) RDBMS
11 10 (2.00%) DynamoDB
12 9 (1.80%) Data Lake
12 9 (1.80%) Oracle Database
12 9 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (1.60%) BigQuery
14 7 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (1.20%) Delta Lake
15 6 (1.20%) Redis
16 5 (1.00%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 110 (22.04%) Git
2 50 (10.02%) GitLab
3 44 (8.82%) JIRA
4 40 (8.02%) Jenkins
5 24 (4.81%) Postman
6 22 (4.41%) Selenium
7 16 (3.21%) Maven
8 14 (2.81%) JUnit
9 13 (2.61%) Cucumber
9 13 (2.61%) SonarQube
10 8 (1.60%) Gatling
10 8 (1.60%) WebDriver
11 7 (1.40%) Claude Code
11 7 (1.40%) Gradle
11 7 (1.40%) Team Foundation Server
12 6 (1.20%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.20%) ERwin
13 5 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.80%) JMeter
14 4 (0.80%) MSI
General
1 144 (28.86%) Social Skills
2 87 (17.43%) Finance
3 69 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (11.42%) Public Sector
5 39 (7.82%) Banking
6 26 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.61%) Publishing
8 12 (2.40%) Manufacturing
9 10 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.00%) Marketing
10 9 (1.80%) Legal
11 8 (1.60%) Back Office
11 8 (1.60%) Retail
12 7 (1.40%) Law
12 7 (1.40%) 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 (33.47%) Developer
2 78 (15.63%) Senior
3 61 (12.22%) Architect
4 38 (7.62%) Analyst
5 36 (7.21%) Senior Developer
6 24 (4.81%) Data Engineer
6 24 (4.81%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 20 (4.01%) Lead
8 17 (3.41%) Consultant
8 17 (3.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (3.41%) Security Engineer
9 16 (3.21%) Integration Engineer
10 15 (3.01%) Business Analyst
10 15 (3.01%) Python Developer
11 14 (2.81%) Python Engineer
11 14 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (2.61%) Integration Architect
12 13 (2.61%) Integration Developer
13 12 (2.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 12 (2.40%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (44.09%) REST
2 193 (38.68%) XML
3 97 (19.44%) SOAP
4 68 (13.63%) Kafka
5 62 (12.42%) .NET
6 61 (12.22%) Middleware
7 59 (11.82%) OAuth
8 53 (10.62%) Terraform
9 52 (10.42%) RESTful
10 51 (10.22%) React
11 44 (8.82%) YAML
12 36 (7.21%) OAuth2
13 35 (7.01%) Swagger
14 32 (6.41%) HTML
14 32 (6.41%) Web Services
15 31 (6.21%) OpenAPI
16 28 (5.61%) CSS
17 27 (5.41%) JWT
18 26 (5.21%) XSLT
19 24 (4.81%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.42%) Product Ownership
2 36 (7.21%) Data Structures
3 30 (6.01%) Cloud Native
4 29 (5.81%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (4.81%) Onboarding
6 23 (4.61%) AI Agents
7 18 (3.61%) Algorithms
7 18 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (3.61%) Management Information System
8 17 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (3.41%) Taxonomies
9 14 (2.81%) Data Centre
10 13 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (2.40%) Virtual Team
12 11 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (2.00%) CMDB
14 8 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
14 8 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (1.60%) Mobile App
14 8 (1.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.62%) Linux
2 37 (7.41%) Windows
3 10 (2.00%) Unix
3 10 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.80%) Android
5 7 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.80%) zOS
7 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
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
1 197 (39.48%) CI/CD
2 169 (33.87%) Agile
3 160 (32.06%) DevOps
4 118 (23.65%) Problem-Solving
5 87 (17.43%) AI
6 85 (17.03%) Data Modelling
7 77 (15.43%) Validation
8 72 (14.43%) Scrum
9 70 (14.03%) Event-Driven
10 68 (13.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 65 (13.03%) Stakeholder Management
12 63 (12.63%) Test Automation
13 57 (11.42%) Integration Patterns
14 52 (10.42%) API Integration
14 52 (10.42%) Infrastructure as Code
15 51 (10.22%) Workflow
16 49 (9.82%) Migration
17 47 (9.42%) Microservices
17 47 (9.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 46 (9.22%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 175 (35.07%) Python
2 160 (32.06%) SQL
3 132 (26.45%) JavaScript
4 107 (21.44%) Java
5 78 (15.63%) C#
6 60 (12.02%) PowerShell
7 37 (7.41%) TypeScript
8 29 (5.81%) Groovy
9 18 (3.61%) PL/SQL
10 17 (3.41%) Bash
11 16 (3.21%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.80%) VBA
13 8 (1.60%) Bicep
13 8 (1.60%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.60%) Scala
14 7 (1.40%) C++
14 7 (1.40%) Go
15 5 (1.00%) C
15 5 (1.00%) SPARQL
15 5 (1.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 128 (25.65%) Security Cleared
2 101 (20.24%) SC Cleared
3 31 (6.21%) Degree
4 24 (4.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (3.21%) Azure Certification
6 14 (2.81%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.20%) CISSP
9 5 (1.00%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.00%) CISM
9 5 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.80%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 4 (0.80%) PhD
11 2 (0.40%) CCNP
11 2 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.40%) GIAC
11 2 (0.40%) SSCP
12 1 (0.20%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (10.02%) Accessibility
2 42 (8.42%) Data Quality
3 34 (6.81%) QA
4 24 (4.81%) GDPR
5 23 (4.61%) WCAG
6 12 (2.40%) ISO 20022
7 10 (2.00%) NIST
8 8 (1.60%) ISO 15022
9 4 (0.80%) GRC
9 4 (0.80%) HL7
9 4 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
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%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 58 (11.62%) Docker
2 29 (5.81%) Active Directory
3 21 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.40%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.40%) NFS
5 7 (1.40%) 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 65 (13.03%) Kubernetes
2 50 (10.02%) Ansible
3 12 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.20%) Grafana
4 6 (1.20%) SCCM
5 4 (0.80%) Kibana
5 4 (0.80%) Kustomize
6 3 (0.60%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.60%) 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%) 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%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 125 (25.05%) Microsoft
2 95 (19.04%) Oracle
3 51 (10.22%) ServiceNow
4 37 (7.41%) MuleSoft
5 34 (6.81%) IBM
6 32 (6.41%) Google
7 27 (5.41%) Salesforce
8 25 (5.01%) SAP
9 22 (4.41%) Databricks
10 21 (4.21%) VMware
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 (2.40%) Infoblox
15 11 (2.20%) OpenAI
15 11 (2.20%) TIBCO
15 11 (2.20%) webMethods
16 10 (2.00%) Sonatype