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

 6 months to
20 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 266 243
Rank change year-on-year -1 -23 -53
Contract jobs citing JSON 395 248 367
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.91% 1.00% 0.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.79% 4.41% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 187 253
10th Percentile £361 £363 £401
25th Percentile £415 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -6.37% -2.91%
75th Percentile £581 £591 £619
90th Percentile £650 £666 £710
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £534
% change year-on-year - -6.37% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £43.10 - £50.50
25th Percentile £46.25 £91.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £92.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.43% +15.63% +14.29%
75th Percentile £85.00 £93.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £87.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £92.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year -32.43% +15.63% +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 8,250 5,629 7,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.10% 22.61% 20.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,443 3,906 5,518
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £740 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 110 261
10th Percentile £30.66 £32.10 £22.75
25th Percentile £52.19 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.05 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £51.00
% change year-on-year +15.56% +10.29% -21.54%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -17 204 £525 -8.70% 43
North of England -39 72 £429 -3.60% 15
South East -47 61 £550 +15.79% 33
Yorkshire -29 39 £463 +13.08% 4
North West -36 33 £390 -12.36% 10
Midlands -49 22 £471 -14.32% 13
West Midlands -50 17 £471 -14.32% 7
South West -18 14 £400 +6.67% 8
East of England -23 14 £506 +68.75% 4
East Midlands -17 5 - - 6
North East -33 3 £550 +175.00% 1
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 27 (6.84%) Confluence
2 17 (4.30%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.04%) Apache
4 9 (2.28%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.77%) CICS
5 7 (1.77%) Mule
6 6 (1.52%) Anypoint
7 5 (1.27%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.76%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.51%) IIS
9 2 (0.51%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.51%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.51%) nginx
9 2 (0.51%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.25%) JBoss
10 1 (0.25%) Mendix
10 1 (0.25%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.27%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.77%) NetSuite
1 7 (1.77%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.52%) Maximo
3 5 (1.27%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.76%) Findur
4 3 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.51%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.25%) Actimize
6 1 (0.25%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.25%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.25%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.25%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.25%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.25%) Shopify
6 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 136 (34.43%) Azure
2 91 (23.04%) AWS
3 51 (12.91%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (11.14%) Power Platform
5 38 (9.62%) Serverless
6 30 (7.59%) GitHub
6 30 (7.59%) Power Automate
7 27 (6.84%) Azure Logic Apps
8 26 (6.58%) GCP
9 22 (5.57%) PowerApps
10 20 (5.06%) Boomi
11 18 (4.56%) Azure Functions
12 16 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (3.80%) Entra ID
13 15 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (3.80%) SaaS
14 14 (3.54%) Amazon S3
14 14 (3.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 14 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (3.54%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.80%) HTTP
2 11 (2.78%) DNS
3 10 (2.53%) BIG-IP
3 10 (2.53%) DHCP
3 10 (2.53%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.01%) HTTPS
4 4 (1.01%) Intranet
5 3 (0.76%) Firewall
5 3 (0.76%) FTP
5 3 (0.76%) SSH
6 2 (0.51%) DSL
6 2 (0.51%) Internet
6 2 (0.51%) NAS
6 2 (0.51%) Network Security
6 2 (0.51%) SAN
6 2 (0.51%) X.509
7 1 (0.25%) SSL
7 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.85%) Metadata
2 28 (7.09%) SQL Server
3 26 (6.58%) Relational Database
4 23 (5.82%) MongoDB
4 23 (5.82%) Power BI
5 21 (5.32%) NoSQL
6 19 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (4.05%) Parquet
8 14 (3.54%) RDBMS
9 13 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (3.29%) DynamoDB
10 11 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (2.53%) Oracle Database
12 9 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (2.03%) Db2
13 8 (2.03%) Delta Lake
14 7 (1.77%) Data Lake
15 6 (1.52%) MySQL
15 6 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 58 (14.68%) Git
2 48 (12.15%) JIRA
3 29 (7.34%) Postman
4 23 (5.82%) GitLab
5 22 (5.57%) Jenkins
6 13 (3.29%) Maven
7 10 (2.53%) SonarQube
8 7 (1.77%) ERwin
9 5 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (1.27%) Claude Code
9 5 (1.27%) JUnit
9 5 (1.27%) SoapUI
9 5 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (1.27%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.01%) Gatling
10 4 (1.01%) Gradle
10 4 (1.01%) Selenium
11 3 (0.76%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.76%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.76%) Terragrunt
General
1 120 (30.38%) Social Skills
2 82 (20.76%) Finance
3 59 (14.94%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (9.62%) Banking
5 35 (8.86%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.53%) Marketing
8 9 (2.28%) Publishing
9 7 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.27%) Legal
10 5 (1.27%) Retail
11 4 (1.01%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.01%) Law
12 3 (0.76%) Back Office
12 3 (0.76%) Front Office
12 3 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.76%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.76%) Military
12 3 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.51%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 133 (33.67%) Developer
2 38 (9.62%) Senior
3 37 (9.37%) Architect
4 33 (8.35%) Data Engineer
5 25 (6.33%) Analyst
6 17 (4.30%) Business Analyst
7 16 (4.05%) Senior Developer
8 15 (3.80%) Consultant
8 15 (3.80%) Full-Stack Developer
8 15 (3.80%) Integration Engineer
9 14 (3.54%) DevOps Engineer
10 13 (3.29%) Java Developer
11 12 (3.04%) Integration Specialist
12 11 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (2.78%) Integration Architect
12 11 (2.78%) Python Developer
12 11 (2.78%) Software Developer
13 9 (2.28%) Python Engineer
13 9 (2.28%) ServiceNow Developer
13 9 (2.28%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (38.48%) REST
2 146 (36.96%) XML
3 84 (21.27%) SOAP
4 49 (12.41%) Kafka
5 43 (10.89%) OAuth
6 38 (9.62%) RESTful
7 37 (9.37%) .NET
7 37 (9.37%) React
8 36 (9.11%) Web Services
9 33 (8.35%) Middleware
10 31 (7.85%) CSS
11 28 (7.09%) YAML
12 26 (6.58%) HTML
13 25 (6.33%) Node.js
14 22 (5.57%) Swagger
15 21 (5.32%) OAuth2
16 19 (4.81%) JWT
17 18 (4.56%) Apache Avro
18 17 (4.30%) AngularJS
18 17 (4.30%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.34%) Product Ownership
2 25 (6.33%) Data Structures
3 14 (3.54%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.28%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.03%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.77%) CMDB
8 7 (1.77%) DataPower
8 7 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.77%) Mainframe
8 7 (1.77%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.52%) Online Banking
9 6 (1.52%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.27%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.27%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.27%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.81%) Linux
2 16 (4.05%) Windows
3 10 (2.53%) Unix
4 7 (1.77%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.77%) zOS
5 4 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.76%) Android
6 3 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.51%) Solaris
7 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.51%) VMS
7 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.25%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (32.66%) CI/CD
2 121 (30.63%) Agile
2 121 (30.63%) DevOps
3 102 (25.82%) Problem-Solving
4 68 (17.22%) Validation
5 67 (16.96%) Data Modelling
6 56 (14.18%) Integration Patterns
7 53 (13.42%) AI
8 48 (12.15%) Analytics
9 45 (11.39%) Microservices
10 43 (10.89%) Data Pipeline
11 42 (10.63%) Event-Driven
11 42 (10.63%) Stakeholder Management
12 39 (9.87%) Performance Tuning
12 39 (9.87%) Software Engineering
12 39 (9.87%) Workflow
13 38 (9.62%) API Integration
13 38 (9.62%) ETL
14 37 (9.37%) ERP
15 35 (8.86%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 156 (39.49%) Python
2 149 (37.72%) SQL
3 85 (21.52%) JavaScript
4 78 (19.75%) Java
5 57 (14.43%) C#
6 46 (11.65%) PowerShell
7 19 (4.81%) TypeScript
8 18 (4.56%) Groovy
9 15 (3.80%) Shell Script
10 14 (3.54%) PL/SQL
11 11 (2.78%) Bash
11 11 (2.78%) T-SQL
12 10 (2.53%) VBA
13 6 (1.52%) Bicep
13 6 (1.52%) JCL
14 5 (1.27%) Go
14 5 (1.27%) R
15 3 (0.76%) C
15 3 (0.76%) C++
15 3 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 107 (27.09%) Security Cleared
2 82 (20.76%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.33%) Degree
4 15 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (3.54%) Azure Certification
6 13 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.77%) CISM
7 7 (1.77%) CISSP
8 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.01%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.51%) CCNP
10 2 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.51%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.25%) CEH
11 1 (0.25%) CRISC
11 1 (0.25%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.25%) GCIA
11 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.25%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.11%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.58%) QA
3 20 (5.06%) GDPR
4 15 (3.80%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.77%) ISO 20022
6 6 (1.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (1.52%) NIST
7 5 (1.27%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.27%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.27%) PSD2
7 5 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (1.01%) HL7
8 4 (1.01%) ISO 8583
8 4 (1.01%) WCAG
9 3 (0.76%) FATCA
9 3 (0.76%) GRC
9 3 (0.76%) ISO 15022
9 3 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.76%) NCSC
10 2 (0.51%) SEPA
System Software
1 44 (11.14%) Docker
2 15 (3.80%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.51%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.51%) OpenSSH
5 2 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 45 (11.39%) Kubernetes
2 43 (10.89%) Terraform
3 29 (7.34%) Ansible
4 11 (2.78%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.03%) Grafana
6 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.51%) Argo
8 2 (0.51%) Kibana
8 2 (0.51%) SCCM
8 2 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.51%) WMI
9 1 (0.25%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.25%) Istio
9 1 (0.25%) logstash
9 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.25%) Puppet
9 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 85 (21.52%) Microsoft
2 69 (17.47%) Oracle
3 30 (7.59%) ServiceNow
4 23 (5.82%) Databricks
5 22 (5.57%) MuleSoft
5 22 (5.57%) SAP
6 19 (4.81%) Workday
7 16 (4.05%) Splunk
8 12 (3.04%) Foundry
9 11 (2.78%) IBM
10 10 (2.53%) F5
10 10 (2.53%) Infoblox
10 10 (2.53%) Salesforce
10 10 (2.53%) Sonatype
10 10 (2.53%) webMethods
11 8 (2.03%) Adobe
11 8 (2.03%) Confluent
11 8 (2.03%) Dell
11 8 (2.03%) Google
12 7 (1.77%) Palantir
105 JSON jobs in England