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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 238 276
Rank change year-on-year -10 +38 -67
Contract jobs citing JSON 493 322 285
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.07% 1.16% 0.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.05% 4.56% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 221 184
10th Percentile £350 £350 £400
25th Percentile £413 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £548
Median % change year-on-year - -8.68% -0.45%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £622
90th Percentile £675 £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 9,771 7,063 8,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.18% 25.46% 24.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,433 4,796 5,307
10th Percentile £380 £354 £363
25th Percentile £447 £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 £666
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 257 170 178
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.57 £27.53
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.61
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.70 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.83% -12.48% +4.17%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -17 263 £525 -1.87% 194
Midlands 0 61 £459 +4.26% 32
North of England -66 60 £455 +1.79% 42
South East -29 59 £460 -3.16% 55
West Midlands -2 58 £459 -6.38% 21
Yorkshire -33 30 £475 +16.14% 16
North West -59 30 £429 -4.03% 22
South West -22 20 £548 +15.26% 29
East of England -26 11 £500 +12.68% 19
East Midlands -16 3 - - 11
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 30 (6.09%) SharePoint
2 25 (5.07%) Confluence
3 12 (2.43%) Apache
4 9 (1.83%) Anypoint
4 9 (1.83%) Mule
5 8 (1.62%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.62%) IIS
6 5 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (1.01%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.81%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.81%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.61%) CICS
8 3 (0.61%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.61%) ThingWorx
9 2 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.41%) JBoss
9 2 (0.41%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.41%) nginx
9 2 (0.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.01%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.01%) Windchill
3 4 (0.81%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (4.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (3.65%) NetSuite
3 12 (2.43%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (1.22%) Maximo
4 6 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.81%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.41%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.41%) Infor LN
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.41%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.41%) 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
1 194 (39.35%) Azure
2 124 (25.15%) AWS
3 80 (16.23%) Azure DevOps
4 64 (12.98%) GCP
5 59 (11.97%) Power Platform
6 54 (10.95%) GitHub
7 47 (9.53%) Boomi
8 44 (8.92%) Power Automate
9 35 (7.10%) Serverless
10 33 (6.69%) Dynamics 365
10 33 (6.69%) PowerApps
11 30 (6.09%) Entra ID
12 28 (5.68%) Azure Logic Apps
13 26 (5.27%) Azure Functions
14 23 (4.67%) Azure Service Bus
15 21 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (4.06%) AtomSphere
17 18 (3.65%) Amazon S3
18 17 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
18 17 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (6.49%) HTTP
2 13 (2.64%) BGP
2 13 (2.64%) DNS
3 11 (2.23%) Ethernet VPN
3 11 (2.23%) TCP/IP
3 11 (2.23%) VXLAN
4 10 (2.03%) NX-OS
4 10 (2.03%) Wireless
5 9 (1.83%) DHCP
5 9 (1.83%) TACACS
6 8 (1.62%) Firewall
6 8 (1.62%) SD-WAN
6 8 (1.62%) WAN
7 7 (1.42%) BIG-IP
7 7 (1.42%) Network Security
8 6 (1.22%) SSL
9 5 (1.01%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.81%) Intranet
10 4 (0.81%) SSH
10 4 (0.81%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (9.74%) SQL Server
2 34 (6.90%) Metadata
3 32 (6.49%) MongoDB
4 25 (5.07%) Relational Database
5 24 (4.87%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (4.26%) Parquet
6 21 (4.26%) Power BI
7 19 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (2.23%) NoSQL
8 11 (2.23%) RDBMS
9 9 (1.83%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.83%) Oracle Database
9 9 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (1.62%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (1.42%) DynamoDB
12 6 (1.22%) Delta Lake
12 6 (1.22%) MySQL
12 6 (1.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 111 (22.52%) Git
2 50 (10.14%) GitLab
3 48 (9.74%) JIRA
4 37 (7.51%) Jenkins
5 24 (4.87%) Postman
6 22 (4.46%) Selenium
7 14 (2.84%) JUnit
7 14 (2.84%) Maven
8 13 (2.64%) Cucumber
9 11 (2.23%) SonarQube
10 8 (1.62%) Gatling
10 8 (1.62%) Team Foundation Server
10 8 (1.62%) WebDriver
11 7 (1.42%) Claude Code
11 7 (1.42%) Gradle
12 6 (1.22%) Cypress.io
13 5 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (1.01%) ERwin
14 4 (0.81%) JMeter
14 4 (0.81%) MSI
General
1 144 (29.21%) Social Skills
2 85 (17.24%) Finance
3 69 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (11.36%) Public Sector
5 38 (7.71%) Banking
6 25 (5.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.43%) Manufacturing
8 11 (2.23%) Publishing
9 10 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.03%) Marketing
10 9 (1.83%) Legal
11 8 (1.62%) Back Office
11 8 (1.62%) Retail
12 7 (1.42%) Law
12 7 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.01%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.81%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.81%) Front Office
15 3 (0.61%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.61%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 165 (33.47%) Developer
2 80 (16.23%) Senior
3 59 (11.97%) Architect
4 36 (7.30%) Analyst
5 35 (7.10%) Senior Developer
6 24 (4.87%) Data Engineer
6 24 (4.87%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 20 (4.06%) Lead
8 17 (3.45%) Consultant
8 17 (3.45%) Security Engineer
9 15 (3.04%) Business Analyst
9 15 (3.04%) Integration Engineer
9 15 (3.04%) Python Developer
10 14 (2.84%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (2.64%) Integration Developer
12 12 (2.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 12 (2.43%) Java Engineer
12 12 (2.43%) Python Engineer
12 12 (2.43%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (44.02%) REST
2 194 (39.35%) XML
3 97 (19.68%) SOAP
4 64 (12.98%) Kafka
5 62 (12.58%) .NET
6 61 (12.37%) Middleware
7 58 (11.76%) OAuth
8 52 (10.55%) RESTful
9 50 (10.14%) React
10 47 (9.53%) Terraform
11 42 (8.52%) YAML
12 35 (7.10%) OAuth2
13 34 (6.90%) Swagger
14 33 (6.69%) HTML
15 32 (6.49%) Web Services
16 30 (6.09%) OpenAPI
17 29 (5.88%) CSS
18 27 (5.48%) RabbitMQ
19 26 (5.27%) JWT
19 26 (5.27%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.32%) Product Ownership
2 36 (7.30%) Data Structures
3 29 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 28 (5.68%) Cloud Native
5 24 (4.87%) Onboarding
6 23 (4.67%) AI Agents
7 18 (3.65%) Algorithms
7 18 (3.65%) Management Information System
8 17 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (3.45%) Taxonomies
9 16 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (2.84%) Data Centre
11 12 (2.43%) Virtual Team
12 11 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (2.03%) CMDB
14 8 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
14 8 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (1.62%) Mobile App
14 8 (1.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 39 (7.91%) Linux
2 37 (7.51%) Windows
3 10 (2.03%) Unix
3 10 (2.03%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.83%) Android
5 7 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.61%) zOS
8 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.41%) Solaris
8 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.20%) CentOS
9 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (38.54%) CI/CD
2 169 (34.28%) Agile
3 154 (31.24%) DevOps
4 116 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 89 (18.05%) AI
6 80 (16.23%) Data Modelling
7 75 (15.21%) Scrum
8 73 (14.81%) Validation
9 70 (14.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 65 (13.18%) Stakeholder Management
11 64 (12.98%) Event-Driven
12 62 (12.58%) Test Automation
13 55 (11.16%) API Integration
14 52 (10.55%) Integration Patterns
15 51 (10.34%) Workflow
16 50 (10.14%) Infrastructure as Code
17 47 (9.53%) Migration
18 46 (9.33%) Microservices
18 46 (9.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 43 (8.72%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 168 (34.08%) Python
2 159 (32.25%) SQL
3 134 (27.18%) JavaScript
4 106 (21.50%) Java
5 77 (15.62%) C#
6 60 (12.17%) PowerShell
7 36 (7.30%) TypeScript
8 27 (5.48%) Groovy
9 18 (3.65%) Bash
9 18 (3.65%) PL/SQL
10 15 (3.04%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.83%) VBA
12 8 (1.62%) Bicep
12 8 (1.62%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.62%) Scala
13 7 (1.42%) C++
13 7 (1.42%) Go
14 6 (1.22%) T-SQL
15 5 (1.01%) C
15 5 (1.01%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 121 (24.54%) Security Cleared
2 96 (19.47%) SC Cleared
3 31 (6.29%) Degree
4 24 (4.87%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (3.25%) Azure Certification
5 16 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (2.84%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.03%) CISSP
9 9 (1.83%) CISM
10 5 (1.01%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.01%) CRISC
10 5 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.81%) CISA
11 4 (0.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 4 (0.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 4 (0.81%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.81%) PhD
12 2 (0.41%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (10.14%) Accessibility
2 42 (8.52%) Data Quality
3 36 (7.30%) QA
4 23 (4.67%) GDPR
4 23 (4.67%) WCAG
5 14 (2.84%) NIST
6 12 (2.43%) ISO 20022
7 8 (1.62%) GRC
7 8 (1.62%) ISO 15022
7 8 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.81%) COBIT
8 4 (0.81%) HL7
8 4 (0.81%) NCSC
9 3 (0.61%) Basel III
9 3 (0.61%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.41%) SLA
11 1 (0.20%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 56 (11.36%) Docker
2 29 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 21 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.42%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.42%) NFS
5 7 (1.42%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.41%) OpenSSH
7 2 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 62 (12.58%) Kubernetes
2 50 (10.14%) Ansible
3 12 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.22%) SCCM
5 5 (1.01%) Grafana
6 4 (0.81%) Kibana
6 4 (0.81%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.61%) WMI
8 2 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.41%) Netcool
8 2 (0.41%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 2 (0.41%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.41%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.41%) Puppet
8 2 (0.41%) QRadar
8 2 (0.41%) Tivoli
8 2 (0.41%) Tivoli Monitoring
9 1 (0.20%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.20%) Podman
9 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 125 (25.35%) Microsoft
2 98 (19.88%) Oracle
3 51 (10.34%) ServiceNow
4 36 (7.30%) MuleSoft
5 34 (6.90%) IBM
6 32 (6.49%) Google
7 27 (5.48%) Salesforce
8 25 (5.07%) SAP
9 21 (4.26%) VMware
10 20 (4.06%) Databricks
11 18 (3.65%) Cisco
11 18 (3.65%) Workday
12 14 (2.84%) Splunk
13 13 (2.64%) Informatica
13 13 (2.64%) Red Hat
14 12 (2.43%) Infoblox
15 11 (2.23%) OpenAI
15 11 (2.23%) TIBCO
15 11 (2.23%) webMethods
16 9 (1.83%) Dell