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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 235 257
Rank change year-on-year -15 +22 -51
Contract jobs citing JSON 459 308 309
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.00% 1.12% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.38% 5.00% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 225 203
10th Percentile £357 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £409 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.19% -3.09%
75th Percentile £573 £588 £625
90th Percentile £650 £639 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £525
% change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 4
10th Percentile £47.08 - £50.50
25th Percentile £56.19 £31.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £73.75 £37.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.67% -53.13% +14.29%
75th Percentile £85.94 £43.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £87.63 - -
UK median hourly rate £73.75 £37.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year +96.67% -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 8,538 6,155 7,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.65% 22.30% 21.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,584 4,225 5,039
10th Percentile £364 £350 £360
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 152 228
10th Percentile £28.86 £31.25 £23.94
25th Percentile £46.66 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.63
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -1.12% -7.29%
75th Percentile £73.11 £67.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.91 £74.13
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% +10.00% -16.67%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 8 August 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 0 257 £525 -4.09% 101
North of England -67 65 £450 +7.53% 26
South East -45 62 £500 +5.26% 40
Yorkshire -22 37 £475 +22.58% 12
Midlands -33 33 £425 -20.00% 18
West Midlands -34 29 £425 -22.73% 11
North West -49 28 £415 -6.74% 14
South West -33 16 £485 +29.33% 7
East of England -20 9 £475 +11.76% 9
East Midlands -12 4 - - 7
North East -41 3 £550 +175.00%
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 25 (5.45%) Confluence
2 23 (5.01%) SharePoint
3 14 (3.05%) Apache
4 12 (2.61%) Apache Spark
5 10 (2.18%) Anypoint
5 10 (2.18%) Mule
6 6 (1.31%) CICS
7 5 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.65%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.65%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.44%) IIS
9 2 (0.44%) JBoss
9 2 (0.44%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.44%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.44%) nginx
9 2 (0.44%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.31%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (3.70%) NetSuite
2 11 (2.40%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (1.31%) Maximo
5 3 (0.65%) Findur
5 3 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.44%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
6 2 (0.44%) Infor LN
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.44%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.22%) Magento
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.22%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.22%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.22%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 174 (37.91%) Azure
2 111 (24.18%) AWS
3 72 (15.69%) Azure DevOps
4 52 (11.33%) GCP
5 48 (10.46%) Power Platform
6 38 (8.28%) GitHub
6 38 (8.28%) Power Automate
7 37 (8.06%) Boomi
8 35 (7.63%) Serverless
9 30 (6.54%) Entra ID
9 30 (6.54%) PowerApps
10 24 (5.23%) Azure Logic Apps
11 20 (4.36%) Dynamics 365
11 20 (4.36%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (4.14%) Azure Service Bus
13 18 (3.92%) Amazon S3
13 18 (3.92%) AtomSphere
13 18 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (3.92%) SaaS
14 16 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.92%) HTTP
2 13 (2.83%) DNS
3 11 (2.40%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.96%) DHCP
5 7 (1.53%) BIG-IP
6 5 (1.09%) Firewall
6 5 (1.09%) SSL
7 4 (0.87%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.87%) Intranet
7 4 (0.87%) Network Security
7 4 (0.87%) SSH
8 3 (0.65%) BGP
8 3 (0.65%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.65%) FTP
8 3 (0.65%) SAN
8 3 (0.65%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.65%) VXLAN
8 3 (0.65%) WAN
9 2 (0.44%) NX-OS
9 2 (0.44%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (8.28%) Metadata
2 36 (7.84%) SQL Server
3 34 (7.41%) MongoDB
4 27 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 24 (5.23%) Power BI
6 20 (4.36%) NoSQL
6 20 (4.36%) Parquet
7 19 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (3.49%) RDBMS
10 13 (2.83%) DynamoDB
11 11 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (2.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (1.96%) Delta Lake
13 9 (1.96%) Oracle Database
14 8 (1.74%) Db2
14 8 (1.74%) Oracle Reports
15 7 (1.53%) Data Lake
16 6 (1.31%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 81 (17.65%) Git
2 46 (10.02%) JIRA
3 34 (7.41%) GitLab
4 32 (6.97%) Jenkins
5 24 (5.23%) Postman
6 16 (3.49%) Selenium
7 15 (3.27%) Maven
8 12 (2.61%) SonarQube
9 11 (2.40%) JUnit
10 8 (1.74%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.74%) ERwin
11 7 (1.53%) Claude Code
11 7 (1.53%) Gradle
12 6 (1.31%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.31%) Gatling
12 6 (1.31%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (1.09%) REST Assured
13 5 (1.09%) WebDriver
14 4 (0.87%) Visual Studio
General
1 133 (28.98%) Social Skills
2 84 (18.30%) Finance
3 72 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (10.68%) Public Sector
5 35 (7.63%) Banking
6 16 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.05%) Publishing
8 11 (2.40%) Marketing
9 8 (1.74%) Legal
10 7 (1.53%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.53%) Retail
11 5 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.87%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.87%) Law
13 3 (0.65%) Back Office
13 3 (0.65%) Front Office
13 3 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.44%) Games
Job Titles
1 154 (33.55%) Developer
2 60 (13.07%) Senior
3 50 (10.89%) Architect
4 36 (7.84%) Analyst
5 26 (5.66%) Data Engineer
5 26 (5.66%) Senior Developer
6 21 (4.58%) Consultant
7 17 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (3.70%) Integration Engineer
7 17 (3.70%) Python Developer
8 16 (3.49%) Business Analyst
9 15 (3.27%) Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (3.05%) Integration Architect
10 14 (3.05%) Python Engineer
11 13 (2.83%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 11 (2.40%) Integration Specialist
12 11 (2.40%) Java Developer
13 10 (2.18%) Integration Developer
13 10 (2.18%) Technical Analyst
14 9 (1.96%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (40.52%) REST
2 174 (37.91%) XML
3 94 (20.48%) SOAP
4 67 (14.60%) Kafka
5 50 (10.89%) .NET
6 49 (10.68%) OAuth
7 47 (10.24%) Middleware
8 43 (9.37%) React
9 42 (9.15%) RESTful
10 36 (7.84%) YAML
11 33 (7.19%) Web Services
12 28 (6.10%) OAuth2
13 24 (5.23%) CSS
13 24 (5.23%) Swagger
14 22 (4.79%) HTML
14 22 (4.79%) Node.js
15 21 (4.58%) JWT
16 20 (4.36%) OpenAPI
16 20 (4.36%) SAML
17 16 (3.49%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.71%) Product Ownership
2 33 (7.19%) Data Structures
3 23 (5.01%) Cloud Native
4 21 (4.58%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (3.92%) Algorithms
6 16 (3.49%) AI Agents
6 16 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (2.83%) Onboarding
9 10 (2.18%) Taxonomies
10 9 (1.96%) CMDB
10 9 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.96%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.74%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.53%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.31%) Data Centre
13 6 (1.31%) Mainframe
13 6 (1.31%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.75%) Linux
2 27 (5.88%) Windows
3 11 (2.40%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.18%) Unix
5 8 (1.74%) Android
6 7 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.31%) zOS
8 4 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.44%) Solaris
10 2 (0.44%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.44%) VMS
10 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.22%) CentOS
11 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (37.47%) CI/CD
2 152 (33.12%) DevOps
3 151 (32.90%) Agile
4 114 (24.84%) Problem-Solving
5 79 (17.21%) Data Modelling
6 74 (16.12%) Validation
7 68 (14.81%) AI
8 63 (13.73%) Event-Driven
9 61 (13.29%) Integration Patterns
9 61 (13.29%) Scrum
10 52 (11.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (10.89%) Analytics
12 49 (10.68%) Test Automation
13 48 (10.46%) ETL
13 48 (10.46%) Microservices
13 48 (10.46%) Workflow
14 47 (10.24%) Stakeholder Management
15 46 (10.02%) API Integration
16 44 (9.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 42 (9.15%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 174 (37.91%) Python
2 168 (36.60%) SQL
3 104 (22.66%) JavaScript
4 93 (20.26%) Java
5 63 (13.73%) C#
6 51 (11.11%) PowerShell
7 30 (6.54%) Groovy
8 22 (4.79%) TypeScript
9 18 (3.92%) PL/SQL
10 15 (3.27%) Bash
11 14 (3.05%) Shell Script
12 10 (2.18%) Bicep
13 9 (1.96%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.96%) VBA
14 8 (1.74%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.53%) R
15 7 (1.53%) Scala
16 6 (1.31%) C++
16 6 (1.31%) JCL
17 5 (1.09%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 129 (28.10%) Security Cleared
2 101 (22.00%) SC Cleared
3 26 (5.66%) Degree
4 13 (2.83%) Azure Certification
5 12 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.74%) CISSP
7 7 (1.53%) CISM
8 6 (1.31%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.87%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (0.87%) PhD
9 4 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.65%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.44%) CCNP
11 2 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.44%) GIAC
11 2 (0.44%) SSCP
12 1 (0.22%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (9.37%) Data Quality
2 38 (8.28%) Accessibility
3 31 (6.75%) QA
4 19 (4.14%) GDPR
5 11 (2.40%) WCAG
6 9 (1.96%) ISO 20022
7 8 (1.74%) NIST
8 6 (1.31%) ISO 15022
9 5 (1.09%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.87%) HL7
11 3 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.65%) GRC
11 3 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.65%) NCSC
12 2 (0.44%) Basel III
12 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.44%) SLA
13 1 (0.22%) COREP
13 1 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 55 (11.98%) Docker
2 23 (5.01%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.44%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.44%) OpenSSH
5 2 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.44%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 60 (13.07%) Kubernetes
2 49 (10.68%) Terraform
3 39 (8.50%) Ansible
4 8 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.31%) Grafana
5 6 (1.31%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.31%) SCCM
6 3 (0.65%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.65%) Puppet
6 3 (0.65%) WMI
7 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.44%) Kibana
7 2 (0.44%) QRadar
8 1 (0.22%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.22%) Istio
8 1 (0.22%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.22%) logstash
8 1 (0.22%) Podman
8 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 110 (23.97%) Microsoft
2 90 (19.61%) Oracle
3 41 (8.93%) ServiceNow
4 29 (6.32%) MuleSoft
5 27 (5.88%) Google
6 25 (5.45%) Databricks
6 25 (5.45%) Salesforce
7 24 (5.23%) SAP
8 22 (4.79%) IBM
9 20 (4.36%) Workday
10 16 (3.49%) Splunk
11 11 (2.40%) Sonatype
11 11 (2.40%) webMethods
12 9 (1.96%) Informatica
13 8 (1.74%) F5
13 8 (1.74%) Infoblox
13 8 (1.74%) VMware
14 7 (1.53%) Foundry
14 7 (1.53%) Palantir
14 7 (1.53%) TIBCO