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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 242 227
Rank change year-on-year -2 -15 -36
Contract jobs citing JSON 410 241 386
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.09% 0.99% 1.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.23% 4.40% 5.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 185 295
10th Percentile £358 £400 £386
25th Percentile £413 £445 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.19% +0.57%
75th Percentile £618 £594 £600
90th Percentile £808 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £529
% change year-on-year - -5.48% +0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 5
10th Percentile - - £28.81
25th Percentile £46.25 £91.25 £48.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.65% +32.14% -1.75%
75th Percentile £48.75 £93.75 -
90th Percentile £57.25 - £76.75
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -48.65% +32.14% -1.75%

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 7,832 5,477 7,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.88% 22.56% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,258 3,762 5,367
10th Percentile £359 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -0.56% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £790 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 86 178
10th Percentile £35.25 £27.30 £20.81
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.56 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.55 £82.53 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 0 211 £550 +5.26% 59
North of England -18 80 £402 -10.17% 29
North West -2 51 £394 -11.52% 12
South East -40 49 £500 - 44
Yorkshire -43 28 £455 -21.89% 15
Midlands -52 26 £500 -5.88% 14
West Midlands -37 22 £500 -9.09% 6
South West -10 15 £400 - 5
East of England -25 12 £525 +16.67% 25
East Midlands -32 4 - - 8
North East - 3 £550 - 2
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 22 (5.37%) Confluence
2 15 (3.66%) Apache
3 10 (2.44%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (1.22%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.98%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.98%) JBoss
6 4 (0.98%) Mule
6 4 (0.98%) Oracle Service Bus
6 4 (0.98%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.73%) CICS
7 3 (0.73%) IIS
8 2 (0.49%) Mendix
8 2 (0.49%) Mule ESB
8 2 (0.49%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.24%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (3.90%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (2.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.22%) Maximo
3 5 (1.22%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.73%) Findur
4 3 (0.73%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.49%) Actimize
5 2 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.24%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.24%) Endur
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.24%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.24%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.24%) Shopify
6 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 122 (29.76%) Azure
2 93 (22.68%) AWS
3 41 (10.00%) GitHub
4 40 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (9.51%) Serverless
6 38 (9.27%) Power Platform
7 37 (9.02%) IaaS
8 31 (7.56%) Azure Logic Apps
9 28 (6.83%) GitHub Actions
9 28 (6.83%) OCI
10 27 (6.59%) GCP
11 20 (4.88%) PaaS
12 17 (4.15%) Power Automate
12 17 (4.15%) SaaS
13 16 (3.90%) Azure Data Factory
14 15 (3.66%) Azure Functions
15 14 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (3.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 13 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
16 13 (3.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.80%) HTTP
2 11 (2.68%) Firewall
2 11 (2.68%) HTTPS
3 7 (1.71%) VPN
4 6 (1.46%) DNS
5 5 (1.22%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.73%) BIG-IP
6 3 (0.73%) DHCP
6 3 (0.73%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.49%) 5G
7 2 (0.49%) BGP
7 2 (0.49%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.49%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.49%) MPLS
7 2 (0.49%) Network Security
7 2 (0.49%) NFC
7 2 (0.49%) PPP
7 2 (0.49%) SMS
7 2 (0.49%) SSL
8 1 (0.24%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.05%) Relational Database
2 27 (6.59%) NoSQL
3 26 (6.34%) MongoDB
4 23 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (5.61%) Power BI
4 23 (5.61%) RDBMS
5 19 (4.63%) SQL Server
6 17 (4.15%) Metadata
7 15 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (3.41%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.68%) Oracle Reports
9 11 (2.68%) Parquet
9 11 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.71%) Delta Lake
12 6 (1.46%) Big Data
12 6 (1.46%) MySQL
13 5 (1.22%) Oracle Database
13 5 (1.22%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 64 (15.61%) Git
2 52 (12.68%) Postman
3 46 (11.22%) JIRA
4 37 (9.02%) Jenkins
5 23 (5.61%) JUnit
5 23 (5.61%) Selenium
6 20 (4.88%) GitLab
6 20 (4.88%) Maven
7 16 (3.90%) Cucumber
8 10 (2.44%) SoapUI
9 7 (1.71%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.71%) Mockito
9 7 (1.71%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.46%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.46%) Eclipse
10 6 (1.46%) Gradle
10 6 (1.46%) IntelliJ
10 6 (1.46%) SpecFlow
10 6 (1.46%) TestRail
10 6 (1.46%) Zephyr
General
1 116 (28.29%) Social Skills
2 81 (19.76%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (17.07%) Finance
4 51 (12.44%) Public Sector
5 34 (8.29%) Banking
6 19 (4.63%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (3.17%) Marketing
8 6 (1.46%) Military
9 5 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.98%) Billing
10 4 (0.98%) Publishing
10 4 (0.98%) Retail
11 3 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.49%) Back Office
12 2 (0.49%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.49%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.49%) Law
13 1 (0.24%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.24%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 133 (32.44%) Developer
2 51 (12.44%) Architect
3 29 (7.07%) Data Engineer
4 25 (6.10%) Analyst
5 24 (5.85%) Java Developer
6 23 (5.61%) Senior
7 17 (4.15%) Business Analyst
7 17 (4.15%) Software Engineer
8 15 (3.66%) Consultant
8 15 (3.66%) DevOps Engineer
9 13 (3.17%) Cloud Specialist
9 13 (3.17%) DBA
9 13 (3.17%) Integration Engineer
9 13 (3.17%) Integration Specialist
9 13 (3.17%) Lead
9 13 (3.17%) Oracle Specialist
10 11 (2.68%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (2.44%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 9 (2.20%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (2.20%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (45.12%) REST
2 177 (43.17%) XML
3 89 (21.71%) SOAP
4 58 (14.15%) OAuth
5 48 (11.71%) HTML
6 38 (9.27%) RESTful
7 37 (9.02%) Web Services
8 36 (8.78%) Kafka
8 36 (8.78%) React
9 30 (7.32%) CSS
9 30 (7.32%) Spring
10 27 (6.59%) Spring Boot
10 27 (6.59%) Swagger
11 26 (6.34%) JWT
11 26 (6.34%) OAuth2
11 26 (6.34%) YAML
12 25 (6.10%) .NET
13 24 (5.85%) Node.js
13 24 (5.85%) XSLT
14 22 (5.37%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.83%) PKI
2 27 (6.59%) Self-Motivation
3 25 (6.10%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.90%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.17%) Public Cloud
6 11 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (2.44%) Cloud Native
7 10 (2.44%) Low-Code
8 9 (2.20%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.46%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.22%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.22%) Digital Wallet
11 5 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.98%) CMDB
12 4 (0.98%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.98%) Wiki
13 3 (0.73%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 32 (7.80%) Linux
2 16 (3.90%) Unix
3 7 (1.71%) Android
3 7 (1.71%) Apple iOS
3 7 (1.71%) Windows
4 5 (1.22%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.73%) zOS
6 2 (0.49%) VMS
6 2 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.24%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (36.34%) Agile
2 143 (34.88%) DevOps
3 117 (28.54%) CI/CD
4 92 (22.44%) Problem-Solving
5 76 (18.54%) Validation
6 61 (14.88%) Microservices
7 60 (14.63%) Data Modelling
8 49 (11.95%) Analytics
9 47 (11.46%) Integration Patterns
9 47 (11.46%) Software Engineering
10 40 (9.76%) ERP
11 39 (9.51%) Data Pipeline
12 36 (8.78%) Containerisation
13 34 (8.29%) Stakeholder Management
14 32 (7.80%) Configuration Management
14 32 (7.80%) CRM
14 32 (7.80%) ETL
14 32 (7.80%) Test Automation
15 31 (7.56%) API Integration
16 30 (7.32%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 122 (29.76%) SQL
2 119 (29.02%) Python
3 89 (21.71%) Java
4 78 (19.02%) JavaScript
5 59 (14.39%) PowerShell
6 53 (12.93%) C#
7 21 (5.12%) TypeScript
8 17 (4.15%) T-SQL
9 14 (3.41%) Groovy
10 10 (2.44%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.71%) Bicep
11 7 (1.71%) R
11 7 (1.71%) XPath
12 5 (1.22%) C++
12 5 (1.22%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.22%) Scala
13 3 (0.73%) C
13 3 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.73%) Go
13 3 (0.73%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 144 (35.12%) Security Cleared
2 106 (25.85%) SC Cleared
3 35 (8.54%) Degree
4 24 (5.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (3.17%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.71%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.22%) CCNP
8 5 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.22%) CTC Cleared
9 4 (0.98%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.49%) CCNA
11 2 (0.49%) CISM
11 2 (0.49%) CISSP
11 2 (0.49%) OCP
11 2 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.24%) CEH
12 1 (0.24%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.59%) QA
2 17 (4.15%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.41%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.20%) GDPR
5 8 (1.95%) PSD2
5 8 (1.95%) WCAG
6 5 (1.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (1.22%) ISO 20022
6 5 (1.22%) ISO 8583
6 5 (1.22%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.98%) HL7
8 3 (0.73%) FATCA
9 2 (0.49%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.49%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.49%) NIST
9 2 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.49%) SEPA
10 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.24%) MiFID
10 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (12.68%) Docker
2 7 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.49%) HDFS
4 1 (0.24%) Firmware
4 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (11.95%) Kubernetes
2 29 (7.07%) Terraform
3 16 (3.90%) Grafana
4 13 (3.17%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.93%) Ansible
6 11 (2.68%) Kibana
7 8 (1.95%) Puppet
8 5 (1.22%) logstash
9 4 (0.98%) Pingdom
9 4 (0.98%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.73%) Podman
11 2 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.49%) Argo
11 2 (0.49%) CloudHub
11 2 (0.49%) Fluentd
11 2 (0.49%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.49%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.49%) QRadar
12 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 66 (16.10%) Oracle
2 62 (15.12%) Microsoft
3 22 (5.37%) Splunk
4 20 (4.88%) ServiceNow
5 17 (4.15%) Databricks
6 15 (3.66%) MuleSoft
7 13 (3.17%) Adobe
8 12 (2.93%) IBM
8 12 (2.93%) SAP
9 9 (2.20%) OpenAI
9 9 (2.20%) webMethods
10 7 (1.71%) F5
10 7 (1.71%) Foundry
10 7 (1.71%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.71%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.71%) Workday
11 6 (1.46%) Google
12 5 (1.22%) Confluent
12 5 (1.22%) Software AG
12 5 (1.22%) Sonatype