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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 224 260
Rank change year-on-year -22 +36 -47
Contract jobs citing JSON 498 319 299
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.07% 1.15% 0.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.04% 4.56% 3.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 223 191
10th Percentile £350 £350 £400
25th Percentile £415 £409 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £656 £680 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £492 £550
% change year-on-year +1.63% -10.55% -
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 9,888 6,989 8,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.30% 25.17% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,498 4,764 5,468
10th Percentile £375 £354 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -5.45% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £673
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 163 177
10th Percentile £29.16 £31.32 £27.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.70 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.35% -12.48% -3.85%
75th Percentile £76.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.46
UK median hourly rate £66.83 £53.25 £61.60
% change year-on-year +25.50% -13.56% -2.99%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -15 268 £525 -2.33% 250
North of England -75 63 £463 +8.82% 41
South East -45 58 £460 -3.16% 75
Midlands -14 52 £447 -0.67% 30
West Midlands -18 48 £447 -18.73% 20
Yorkshire -34 35 £500 +23.15% 11
North West -48 28 £425 -4.92% 27
South West -26 21 £548 +28.82% 31
East of England -28 16 £500 +17.65% 28
East Midlands -7 4 - - 10
North East -39 3 £550 +175.00% 4
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 (6.02%) SharePoint
2 24 (4.82%) Confluence
3 14 (2.81%) Apache
4 10 (2.01%) Anypoint
5 9 (1.81%) Mule
6 8 (1.61%) Apache Spark
6 8 (1.61%) IIS
7 5 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (1.00%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.80%) CICS
8 4 (0.80%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.80%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.60%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.40%) JBoss
10 2 (0.40%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.40%) nginx
10 2 (0.40%) ThingWorx
10 2 (0.40%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.00%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.60%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.60%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 20 (4.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (3.82%) NetSuite
3 12 (2.41%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (1.20%) Maximo
5 5 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.60%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.40%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.40%) Infor LN
8 1 (0.20%) Magento
8 1 (0.20%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.20%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 193 (38.76%) Azure
2 126 (25.30%) AWS
3 80 (16.06%) Azure DevOps
4 61 (12.25%) GCP
5 57 (11.45%) Power Platform
6 52 (10.44%) GitHub
7 46 (9.24%) Boomi
7 46 (9.24%) Power Automate
8 38 (7.63%) Serverless
9 33 (6.63%) Dynamics 365
9 33 (6.63%) Entra ID
10 32 (6.43%) PowerApps
11 29 (5.82%) Azure Logic Apps
12 25 (5.02%) Azure Functions
13 23 (4.62%) Azure Service Bus
14 22 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (4.02%) AtomSphere
16 19 (3.82%) Amazon S3
17 18 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
18 17 (3.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (6.22%) HTTP
2 13 (2.61%) DNS
3 12 (2.41%) BGP
4 11 (2.21%) TCP/IP
5 10 (2.01%) Ethernet VPN
5 10 (2.01%) VXLAN
6 9 (1.81%) DHCP
6 9 (1.81%) NX-OS
6 9 (1.81%) Wireless
7 8 (1.61%) Firewall
7 8 (1.61%) TACACS
8 7 (1.41%) BIG-IP
8 7 (1.41%) Network Security
8 7 (1.41%) SD-WAN
8 7 (1.41%) WAN
9 6 (1.20%) SSL
10 5 (1.00%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.80%) Intranet
11 4 (0.80%) NAS
11 4 (0.80%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (9.44%) SQL Server
2 40 (8.03%) Metadata
3 32 (6.43%) MongoDB
4 26 (5.22%) Relational Database
5 22 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (4.02%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (4.02%) Parquet
6 20 (4.02%) Power BI
7 14 (2.81%) NoSQL
8 12 (2.41%) RDBMS
9 10 (2.01%) DynamoDB
10 9 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (1.81%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.81%) Oracle Database
10 9 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (1.61%) BigQuery
12 6 (1.20%) Db2
12 6 (1.20%) Delta Lake
12 6 (1.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 104 (20.88%) Git
2 46 (9.24%) GitLab
3 44 (8.84%) JIRA
4 38 (7.63%) Jenkins
5 24 (4.82%) Postman
6 22 (4.42%) Selenium
7 15 (3.01%) Maven
8 13 (2.61%) SonarQube
9 12 (2.41%) Cucumber
9 12 (2.41%) JUnit
10 9 (1.81%) ERwin
11 8 (1.61%) WebDriver
12 7 (1.41%) Claude Code
12 7 (1.41%) Gatling
12 7 (1.41%) Gradle
13 6 (1.20%) Cypress.io
13 6 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (1.00%) JMeter
15 4 (0.80%) MSI
General
1 143 (28.71%) Social Skills
2 82 (16.47%) Finance
3 72 (14.46%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (11.04%) Public Sector
5 34 (6.83%) Banking
6 26 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.61%) Publishing
8 11 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.21%) Marketing
9 10 (2.01%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.81%) Legal
11 8 (1.61%) Back Office
12 7 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.41%) Retail
13 5 (1.00%) Law
14 4 (0.80%) Front Office
15 3 (0.60%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.60%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.60%) Prime Brokerage
15 3 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 163 (32.73%) Developer
2 76 (15.26%) Senior
3 65 (13.05%) Architect
4 37 (7.43%) Analyst
5 35 (7.03%) Senior Developer
6 25 (5.02%) Data Engineer
7 24 (4.82%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 18 (3.61%) Consultant
8 18 (3.61%) Integration Engineer
9 17 (3.41%) DevOps Engineer
10 16 (3.21%) Lead
10 16 (3.21%) Security Engineer
11 15 (3.01%) Python Engineer
12 14 (2.81%) Business Analyst
12 14 (2.81%) Integration Architect
12 14 (2.81%) Python Developer
12 14 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (2.61%) Integration Developer
14 12 (2.41%) ServiceNow Developer
15 11 (2.21%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (42.97%) REST
2 190 (38.15%) XML
3 97 (19.48%) SOAP
4 69 (13.86%) Kafka
5 61 (12.25%) .NET
6 59 (11.85%) OAuth
7 56 (11.24%) Middleware
8 53 (10.64%) Terraform
9 49 (9.84%) React
10 48 (9.64%) RESTful
11 44 (8.84%) YAML
12 34 (6.83%) OAuth2
13 33 (6.63%) HTML
13 33 (6.63%) Swagger
14 30 (6.02%) CSS
14 30 (6.02%) Web Services
15 29 (5.82%) OpenAPI
16 27 (5.42%) JWT
17 25 (5.02%) XSLT
18 24 (4.82%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.23%) Product Ownership
2 37 (7.43%) Data Structures
3 29 (5.82%) Cloud Native
4 28 (5.62%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (4.42%) AI Agents
5 22 (4.42%) Onboarding
6 19 (3.82%) Algorithms
6 19 (3.82%) Management Information System
7 18 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (3.41%) Taxonomies
9 13 (2.61%) Data Centre
9 13 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (2.41%) Virtual Team
11 10 (2.01%) CMDB
11 10 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (1.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 7 (1.41%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 36 (7.23%) Windows
2 35 (7.03%) Linux
3 10 (2.01%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.81%) Unix
5 8 (1.61%) Android
6 7 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.80%) zOS
8 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.40%) Solaris
8 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.20%) CentOS
9 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.20%) VMS
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (39.16%) CI/CD
2 166 (33.33%) Agile
3 159 (31.93%) DevOps
4 116 (23.29%) Problem-Solving
5 90 (18.07%) Data Modelling
6 86 (17.27%) AI
7 82 (16.47%) Validation
8 72 (14.46%) Event-Driven
9 69 (13.86%) Scrum
10 64 (12.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 60 (12.05%) Integration Patterns
11 60 (12.05%) Stakeholder Management
12 58 (11.65%) Test Automation
13 53 (10.64%) Workflow
14 52 (10.44%) API Integration
15 50 (10.04%) Infrastructure as Code
15 50 (10.04%) Microservices
16 48 (9.64%) Migration
16 48 (9.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 47 (9.44%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 181 (36.35%) Python
2 165 (33.13%) SQL
3 127 (25.50%) JavaScript
4 106 (21.29%) Java
5 80 (16.06%) C#
6 57 (11.45%) PowerShell
7 32 (6.43%) TypeScript
8 29 (5.82%) Groovy
9 19 (3.82%) PL/SQL
10 14 (2.81%) Bash
11 13 (2.61%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.81%) VBA
13 8 (1.61%) Bicep
13 8 (1.61%) Scala
14 7 (1.41%) C++
14 7 (1.41%) Kotlin
15 6 (1.20%) Go
16 5 (1.00%) SPARQL
16 5 (1.00%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.80%) R
Qualifications
1 133 (26.71%) Security Cleared
2 105 (21.08%) SC Cleared
3 31 (6.22%) Degree
4 24 (4.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (3.21%) Azure Certification
6 14 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.81%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.61%) CISSP
9 7 (1.41%) CISM
10 5 (1.00%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.80%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.80%) PhD
12 2 (0.40%) CCNP
12 2 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.40%) GIAC
12 2 (0.40%) SSCP
13 1 (0.20%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (9.64%) Accessibility
2 44 (8.84%) Data Quality
3 34 (6.83%) QA
4 28 (5.62%) GDPR
5 22 (4.42%) WCAG
6 12 (2.41%) ISO 20022
7 10 (2.01%) NIST
8 8 (1.61%) ISO 15022
9 5 (1.00%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.00%) HL7
9 5 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.80%) GRC
10 4 (0.80%) NCSC
11 3 (0.60%) Basel III
12 2 (0.40%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.40%) SLA
13 1 (0.20%) SNOMED CT
13 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 57 (11.45%) Docker
2 30 (6.02%) Active Directory
3 20 (4.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.41%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.41%) NFS
6 6 (1.20%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.40%) OpenSSH
8 2 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 62 (12.45%) Kubernetes
2 49 (9.84%) Ansible
3 12 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.41%) Grafana
5 6 (1.20%) SCCM
6 4 (0.80%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.60%) Kibana
7 3 (0.60%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.60%) WMI
8 2 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.40%) Puppet
8 2 (0.40%) QRadar
9 1 (0.20%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.20%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.20%) logstash
9 1 (0.20%) Podman
9 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 122 (24.50%) Microsoft
2 96 (19.28%) Oracle
3 49 (9.84%) ServiceNow
4 36 (7.23%) MuleSoft
5 33 (6.63%) Google
6 31 (6.22%) IBM
7 27 (5.42%) Salesforce
7 27 (5.42%) SAP
8 24 (4.82%) Databricks
9 20 (4.02%) VMware
9 20 (4.02%) Workday
10 17 (3.41%) Cisco
11 14 (2.81%) Informatica
12 13 (2.61%) Splunk
13 12 (2.41%) Red Hat
14 11 (2.21%) Infoblox
14 11 (2.21%) TIBCO
14 11 (2.21%) webMethods
15 10 (2.01%) OpenAI
15 10 (2.01%) Sonatype