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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 258 239
Rank change year-on-year -3 -19 -44
Contract jobs citing JSON 386 223 353
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.93% 0.93% 0.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.82% 4.14% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 173 251
10th Percentile £363 £363 £406
25th Percentile £430 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.55% -6.54% -2.73%
75th Percentile £578 £588 £613
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £534
% change year-on-year - -6.37% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 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 £59.38 £93.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £76.00 - -
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 8,009 5,390 7,673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.21% 22.51% 20.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,292 3,735 5,418
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £636 £660 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £538
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 106 242
10th Percentile £30.98 £31.28 £22.53
25th Percentile £51.81 £43.70 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.00 £66.94
90th Percentile £79.10 £81.01 £74.95
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 3 June 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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -14 199 £525 -3.58% 77
North of England -30 70 £447 - 25
South East -42 61 £525 +5.00% 41
Yorkshire -26 37 £463 -7.50% 8
North West -22 32 £393 -12.05% 16
Midlands -43 22 £488 -11.36% 12
West Midlands -45 17 £488 -11.36% 7
South West -16 14 £425 +13.33% 8
East of England -21 14 £506 +68.75% 7
East Midlands -27 5 - - 5
North East -27 4 £550 +175.00% 1
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 (5.18%) Confluence
2 15 (3.89%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.85%) Apache
4 9 (2.33%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.81%) CICS
5 7 (1.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (1.04%) Mule
6 4 (1.04%) Oracle Service Bus
6 4 (1.04%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.78%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.78%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.78%) IIS
7 3 (0.78%) Mule ESB
8 2 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.52%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.52%) nginx
8 2 (0.52%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.26%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
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 13 (3.37%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.55%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (1.04%) Maximo
4 4 (1.04%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.78%) Findur
5 3 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.52%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.26%) Actimize
7 1 (0.26%) Magento
7 1 (0.26%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.26%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.26%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.26%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.26%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.26%) Shopify
7 1 (0.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 130 (33.68%) Azure
2 87 (22.54%) AWS
3 48 (12.44%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (10.62%) Power Platform
5 38 (9.84%) Serverless
6 34 (8.81%) GitHub
7 30 (7.77%) Azure Logic Apps
8 25 (6.48%) Power Automate
9 23 (5.96%) GCP
10 22 (5.70%) OCI
11 19 (4.92%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (4.40%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (4.40%) PowerApps
13 16 (4.15%) Azure Functions
14 15 (3.89%) PaaS
15 14 (3.63%) Amazon S3
15 14 (3.63%) Boomi
16 13 (3.37%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (3.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 13 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.15%) HTTP
2 12 (3.11%) DNS
3 11 (2.85%) TCP/IP
4 10 (2.59%) BIG-IP
4 10 (2.59%) DHCP
5 6 (1.55%) Firewall
6 3 (0.78%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.78%) Intranet
6 3 (0.78%) Network Security
7 2 (0.52%) DSL
7 2 (0.52%) FTP
7 2 (0.52%) Internet
7 2 (0.52%) NAS
7 2 (0.52%) SAN
7 2 (0.52%) SMS
7 2 (0.52%) SSH
7 2 (0.52%) VPN
7 2 (0.52%) X.509
8 1 (0.26%) SSL
8 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.74%) Relational Database
2 24 (6.22%) Metadata
3 23 (5.96%) SQL Server
4 21 (5.44%) NoSQL
5 19 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (4.92%) Power BI
6 17 (4.40%) RDBMS
7 14 (3.63%) MongoDB
7 14 (3.63%) Parquet
8 11 (2.85%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (2.85%) DynamoDB
8 11 (2.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (2.59%) Oracle Database
10 9 (2.33%) Delta Lake
11 8 (2.07%) Data Lake
11 8 (2.07%) DB2
12 6 (1.55%) MySQL
12 6 (1.55%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 51 (13.21%) Git
2 44 (11.40%) JIRA
3 39 (10.10%) Postman
4 23 (5.96%) GitLab
5 20 (5.18%) Jenkins
6 12 (3.11%) Maven
7 9 (2.33%) SoapUI
7 9 (2.33%) SonarQube
8 8 (2.07%) ERwin
9 6 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (1.55%) JUnit
10 5 (1.30%) Gradle
10 5 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (1.04%) ER Studio
11 4 (1.04%) Gatling
11 4 (1.04%) Selenium
12 3 (0.78%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.78%) MSTest
12 3 (0.78%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.78%) Terragrunt
General
1 116 (30.05%) Social Skills
2 71 (18.39%) Finance
3 51 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.33%) Banking
5 33 (8.55%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.59%) Marketing
8 6 (1.55%) Publishing
9 5 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.04%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.04%) Legal
10 4 (1.04%) Military
10 4 (1.04%) Retail
11 3 (0.78%) Back Office
11 3 (0.78%) Front Office
11 3 (0.78%) Law
11 3 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.52%) Games
12 2 (0.52%) Local Government
12 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 120 (31.09%) Developer
2 34 (8.81%) Architect
2 34 (8.81%) Senior
3 30 (7.77%) Data Engineer
4 22 (5.70%) Analyst
5 18 (4.66%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (4.40%) Business Analyst
7 16 (4.15%) Consultant
8 15 (3.89%) Integration Engineer
8 15 (3.89%) Integration Specialist
9 14 (3.63%) Software Engineer
10 13 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
11 12 (3.11%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (3.11%) Java Developer
11 12 (3.11%) Senior Developer
11 12 (3.11%) Software Developer
12 11 (2.85%) Lead
12 11 (2.85%) Python Developer
13 10 (2.59%) Cloud Specialist
13 10 (2.59%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (39.38%) REST
2 144 (37.31%) XML
3 83 (21.50%) SOAP
4 46 (11.92%) Kafka
5 45 (11.66%) OAuth
6 39 (10.10%) Web Services
7 37 (9.59%) .NET
8 36 (9.33%) React
8 36 (9.33%) RESTful
9 32 (8.29%) YAML
10 31 (8.03%) CSS
11 30 (7.77%) HTML
12 25 (6.48%) Middleware
13 24 (6.22%) Node.js
14 23 (5.96%) Swagger
15 20 (5.18%) XSLT
16 19 (4.92%) JWT
16 19 (4.92%) OAuth2
17 18 (4.66%) Apache Avro
18 16 (4.15%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.74%) Product Ownership
2 17 (4.40%) Data Structures
3 12 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (2.85%) Cloud Native
5 10 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.59%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.59%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.81%) DataPower
7 7 (1.81%) Mainframe
7 7 (1.81%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.55%) Online Banking
9 5 (1.30%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.30%) Digital Wallet
9 5 (1.30%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.30%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.04%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.70%) Linux
2 12 (3.11%) Windows
3 9 (2.33%) Unix
4 7 (1.81%) zOS
5 5 (1.30%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.78%) Android
6 3 (0.78%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.52%) Solaris
7 2 (0.52%) VMS
7 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (30.83%) DevOps
2 109 (28.24%) Agile
2 109 (28.24%) CI/CD
3 86 (22.28%) Problem-Solving
4 71 (18.39%) Validation
5 65 (16.84%) Data Modelling
6 51 (13.21%) Analytics
6 51 (13.21%) Integration Patterns
7 41 (10.62%) API Integration
7 41 (10.62%) ERP
8 40 (10.36%) AI
8 40 (10.36%) Data Pipeline
8 40 (10.36%) Microservices
8 40 (10.36%) Software Engineering
9 39 (10.10%) Event-Driven
10 36 (9.33%) Performance Tuning
11 34 (8.81%) ETL
12 33 (8.55%) Containerisation
12 33 (8.55%) Stakeholder Management
13 31 (8.03%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 155 (40.16%) Python
2 140 (36.27%) SQL
3 80 (20.73%) JavaScript
4 78 (20.21%) Java
5 51 (13.21%) C#
6 40 (10.36%) PowerShell
7 15 (3.89%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.63%) Shell Script
9 13 (3.37%) Groovy
10 12 (3.11%) T-SQL
11 11 (2.85%) Bash
11 11 (2.85%) PL/SQL
12 10 (2.59%) VBA
13 7 (1.81%) Bicep
14 6 (1.55%) JCL
15 5 (1.30%) Go
15 5 (1.30%) Kotlin
15 5 (1.30%) R
16 3 (0.78%) C
16 3 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 109 (28.24%) Security Cleared
2 82 (21.24%) SC Cleared
3 23 (5.96%) Degree
4 16 (4.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (3.11%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.55%) CISM
7 6 (1.55%) CISSP
8 4 (1.04%) CCNP
8 4 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.78%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.78%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.26%) CBAP
10 1 (0.26%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.26%) GCIA
10 1 (0.26%) GIAC
10 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.26%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.51%) Data Quality
2 28 (7.25%) QA
3 19 (4.92%) GDPR
4 12 (3.11%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.81%) PSD2
6 6 (1.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (1.55%) ISO 20022
6 6 (1.55%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.30%) HIPAA
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%) ISO 15022
9 3 (0.78%) NCSC
9 3 (0.78%) WCAG
10 2 (0.52%) Basel III
10 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (11.92%) Docker
2 11 (2.85%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.52%) OpenSSH
5 2 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.26%) Firmware
6 1 (0.26%) HDFS
6 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 46 (11.92%) Kubernetes
2 44 (11.40%) Terraform
3 22 (5.70%) Ansible
4 13 (3.37%) Prometheus
5 12 (3.11%) Grafana
6 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.78%) Kibana
7 3 (0.78%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.78%) Puppet
8 2 (0.52%) Argo
8 2 (0.52%) logstash
8 2 (0.52%) Pingdom
8 2 (0.52%) SCCM
8 2 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.26%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.26%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.26%) Istio
9 1 (0.26%) Podman
Vendors
1 78 (20.21%) Microsoft
2 70 (18.13%) Oracle
3 24 (6.22%) Databricks
4 23 (5.96%) ServiceNow
5 20 (5.18%) SAP
6 18 (4.66%) MuleSoft
7 17 (4.40%) Splunk
7 17 (4.40%) Workday
8 12 (3.11%) Adobe
8 12 (3.11%) F5
9 11 (2.85%) Foundry
10 10 (2.59%) Infoblox
11 9 (2.33%) IBM
11 9 (2.33%) webMethods
12 8 (2.07%) Confluent
12 8 (2.07%) Red Hat
12 8 (2.07%) Sonatype
13 7 (1.81%) Dell
14 6 (1.55%) OpenAI
15 5 (1.30%) VMware