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

 6 months to
25 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 257 233
Rank change year-on-year -2 -24 -34
Contract jobs citing JSON 384 227 366
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.93% 0.95% 1.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.83% 4.24% 4.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 175 266
10th Percentile £368 £363 £400
25th Percentile £429 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -6.37% -2.91%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £643 £707 £669
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £534
% change year-on-year - -6.37% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 £91.25 £75.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.65% +15.63% +10.34%
75th Percentile £54.06 £93.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £74.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year -48.65% +15.63% +10.34%

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 7,953 5,360 7,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.21% 22.36% 20.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,252 3,711 5,354
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.35%
75th Percentile £627 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £792
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 96 235
10th Percentile £30.61 £28.29 £22.60
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.01 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.18 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -9 198 £525 -4.55% 47
North of England -29 75 £432 -3.47% 21
South East -41 59 £525 +5.00% 29
North West -22 39 £400 -10.46% 11
Yorkshire -30 35 £460 -8.00% 6
Midlands -52 20 £500 -9.09% 6
West Midlands -52 16 £500 -9.09% 3
South West -18 14 £425 +13.33% 8
East of England -24 13 £506 +68.75% 2
North East -22 4 £550 +175.00% 4
East Midlands -25 4 - - 3
South Coast - 1 £625 -
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 20 (5.21%) Confluence
2 15 (3.91%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.86%) Apache
4 9 (2.34%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (1.30%) CICS
7 4 (1.04%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (1.04%) Mule
7 4 (1.04%) Oracle Service Bus
8 3 (0.78%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.78%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.78%) IIS
8 3 (0.78%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.52%) Mendix
9 2 (0.52%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.26%) JBoss
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.26%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.78%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (3.65%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.56%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (1.04%) Maximo
4 4 (1.04%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.78%) Findur
6 2 (0.52%) Actimize
6 2 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.52%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.26%) Magento
7 1 (0.26%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.26%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.26%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.26%) Shopify
7 1 (0.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 129 (33.59%) Azure
2 84 (21.88%) AWS
3 45 (11.72%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (10.94%) Serverless
5 38 (9.90%) Power Platform
6 34 (8.85%) GitHub
7 32 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 26 (6.77%) OCI
9 25 (6.51%) GCP
10 22 (5.73%) Power Automate
11 18 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (4.43%) Azure Functions
12 17 (4.43%) PaaS
13 16 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (3.91%) Azure Monitor
14 15 (3.91%) PowerApps
15 14 (3.65%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (3.39%) Amazon S3
16 13 (3.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 13 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.69%) HTTP
2 10 (2.60%) DNS
3 9 (2.34%) TCP/IP
4 8 (2.08%) BIG-IP
4 8 (2.08%) DHCP
5 6 (1.56%) Firewall
6 4 (1.04%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.78%) Network Security
8 2 (0.52%) DSL
8 2 (0.52%) FTP
8 2 (0.52%) Intranet
8 2 (0.52%) SMS
8 2 (0.52%) SSH
8 2 (0.52%) VPN
8 2 (0.52%) X.509
9 1 (0.26%) BGP
9 1 (0.26%) Internet
9 1 (0.26%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.26%) MPLS
9 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.85%) Relational Database
2 27 (7.03%) NoSQL
3 25 (6.51%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (6.25%) Metadata
5 23 (5.99%) RDBMS
5 23 (5.99%) SQL Server
6 20 (5.21%) MongoDB
7 19 (4.95%) Power BI
8 13 (3.39%) Parquet
9 12 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
11 10 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (2.34%) Delta Lake
12 9 (2.34%) DynamoDB
12 9 (2.34%) Oracle Database
13 8 (2.08%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.82%) MySQL
14 7 (1.82%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 52 (13.54%) Git
2 43 (11.20%) JIRA
3 41 (10.68%) Postman
4 23 (5.99%) Jenkins
5 20 (5.21%) GitLab
6 12 (3.13%) Maven
7 9 (2.34%) SoapUI
7 9 (2.34%) SonarQube
8 8 (2.08%) ERwin
9 7 (1.82%) JUnit
10 6 (1.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.30%) Gradle
11 5 (1.30%) Selenium
11 5 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (1.04%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.04%) ER Studio
12 4 (1.04%) Gatling
13 3 (0.78%) JMeter
13 3 (0.78%) MSTest
13 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 111 (28.91%) Social Skills
2 71 (18.49%) Finance
3 51 (13.28%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (9.11%) Banking
5 34 (8.85%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.43%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.34%) Marketing
8 6 (1.56%) Publishing
9 4 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.04%) Military
10 3 (0.78%) Back Office
10 3 (0.78%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.78%) Front Office
10 3 (0.78%) Law
10 3 (0.78%) Retail
11 2 (0.52%) Billing
11 2 (0.52%) Games
11 2 (0.52%) Legal
11 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 115 (29.95%) Developer
2 33 (8.59%) Architect
3 32 (8.33%) Senior
4 30 (7.81%) Data Engineer
5 21 (5.47%) Analyst
6 18 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (4.43%) Business Analyst
7 17 (4.43%) Consultant
8 16 (4.17%) Integration Engineer
9 15 (3.91%) Integration Specialist
9 15 (3.91%) Java Developer
9 15 (3.91%) Software Engineer
10 13 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (3.39%) DBA
11 11 (2.86%) Cloud Specialist
11 11 (2.86%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (2.86%) Oracle Specialist
11 11 (2.86%) PostgreSQL DBA
11 11 (2.86%) Python Developer
11 11 (2.86%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (39.84%) REST
2 150 (39.06%) XML
3 81 (21.09%) SOAP
4 51 (13.28%) Kafka
5 46 (11.98%) OAuth
6 37 (9.64%) RESTful
6 37 (9.64%) Web Services
7 36 (9.38%) React
8 33 (8.59%) .NET
8 33 (8.59%) YAML
9 31 (8.07%) HTML
10 29 (7.55%) CSS
11 25 (6.51%) Swagger
12 24 (6.25%) Node.js
13 22 (5.73%) Middleware
14 21 (5.47%) JWT
14 21 (5.47%) XSLT
15 20 (5.21%) OAuth2
16 18 (4.69%) Apache Avro
16 18 (4.69%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.99%) Product Ownership
2 22 (5.73%) Data Structures
3 14 (3.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (3.13%) Cloud Native
5 11 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.86%) Public Cloud
6 10 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.82%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.56%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.30%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.30%) DataPower
10 5 (1.30%) Digital Wallet
10 5 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.30%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.30%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.04%) CMDB
11 4 (1.04%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (1.04%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.21%) Linux
2 10 (2.60%) Windows
3 9 (2.34%) Unix
4 5 (1.30%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.30%) zOS
5 3 (0.78%) Android
5 3 (0.78%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.52%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.52%) VMS
7 1 (0.26%) Solaris
7 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (32.29%) DevOps
2 113 (29.43%) Agile
3 103 (26.82%) CI/CD
4 85 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
5 73 (19.01%) Validation
6 65 (16.93%) Data Modelling
7 53 (13.80%) Analytics
8 48 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
9 44 (11.46%) Microservices
10 42 (10.94%) API Integration
10 42 (10.94%) ERP
11 40 (10.42%) Event-Driven
12 39 (10.16%) AI
12 39 (10.16%) Data Pipeline
13 38 (9.90%) Software Engineering
14 34 (8.85%) ETL
14 34 (8.85%) Performance Tuning
15 32 (8.33%) Containerisation
16 31 (8.07%) Stakeholder Management
17 30 (7.81%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 149 (38.80%) Python
2 133 (34.64%) SQL
3 79 (20.57%) Java
3 79 (20.57%) JavaScript
4 48 (12.50%) C#
5 39 (10.16%) PowerShell
6 15 (3.91%) TypeScript
7 13 (3.39%) Groovy
7 13 (3.39%) Shell Script
8 12 (3.13%) T-SQL
9 9 (2.34%) Bash
10 8 (2.08%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.82%) Bicep
11 7 (1.82%) VBA
12 6 (1.56%) R
13 5 (1.30%) Go
13 5 (1.30%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.04%) JCL
15 3 (0.78%) Scala
15 3 (0.78%) XPath
Qualifications
1 108 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 79 (20.57%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.25%) Degree
4 15 (3.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.86%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.56%) CISM
7 6 (1.56%) CISSP
8 4 (1.04%) CCNP
8 4 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.78%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.52%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.26%) CCNA
11 1 (0.26%) CSPO
11 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.26%) OCP
11 1 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.26%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.07%) Data Quality
2 27 (7.03%) QA
3 18 (4.69%) GDPR
4 10 (2.60%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.82%) PSD2
6 6 (1.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (1.56%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.30%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.30%) ISO 20022
7 5 (1.30%) ISO 8583
7 5 (1.30%) NIST
7 5 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (1.04%) HL7
9 3 (0.78%) FATCA
9 3 (0.78%) WCAG
10 2 (0.52%) Basel III
10 2 (0.52%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.52%) SEPA
10 2 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (13.28%) Docker
2 10 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.52%) OpenSSH
4 2 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.26%) Firmware
5 1 (0.26%) HDFS
5 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 50 (13.02%) Kubernetes
2 43 (11.20%) Terraform
3 18 (4.69%) Ansible
4 13 (3.39%) Prometheus
5 12 (3.13%) Grafana
6 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.04%) Pingdom
7 3 (0.78%) Kibana
7 3 (0.78%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.78%) Puppet
8 2 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.52%) Argo
8 2 (0.52%) logstash
8 2 (0.52%) Podman
8 2 (0.52%) SCCM
8 2 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.26%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.26%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.26%) Istio
Vendors
1 73 (19.01%) Microsoft
1 73 (19.01%) Oracle
2 25 (6.51%) ServiceNow
3 22 (5.73%) Databricks
4 18 (4.69%) Splunk
5 17 (4.43%) SAP
6 16 (4.17%) MuleSoft
6 16 (4.17%) Workday
7 12 (3.13%) Adobe
8 10 (2.60%) F5
9 9 (2.34%) Foundry
9 9 (2.34%) webMethods
10 8 (2.08%) Confluent
10 8 (2.08%) Infoblox
10 8 (2.08%) Red Hat
10 8 (2.08%) Sonatype
11 7 (1.82%) IBM
12 6 (1.56%) Dell
12 6 (1.56%) OpenAI
13 5 (1.30%) PagerDuty
107 JSON jobs in England