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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 244 258
Rank change year-on-year -6 +14 -56
Contract jobs citing JSON 453 298 305
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.99% 1.08% 0.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.36% 4.90% 4.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 216 200
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £409 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £499 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% -5.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £572 £588 £622
90th Percentile £650 £667 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -1.18%
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 8,445 6,082 7,333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.53% 22.00% 21.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,525 4,168 5,030
10th Percentile £365 £350 £359
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 £644 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £501 £550
% change year-on-year +4.90% -9.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 155 228
10th Percentile £28.65 £31.25 £24.13
25th Percentile £46.25 £42.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -3.08% -5.42%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.61 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -8.33%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +1 258 £525 -3.64% 116
North of England -54 61 £450 +7.49% 24
South East -48 57 £500 +5.26% 46
Yorkshire -25 34 £500 +29.03% 10
Midlands -34 33 £425 -20.00% 15
West Midlands -24 29 £425 -22.73% 9
North West -50 27 £415 -6.74% 13
South West -25 18 £425 +13.33% 9
East of England -24 9 £475 +11.76% 10
East Midlands -16 4 - - 6
North East -40 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 25 (5.52%) Confluence
2 23 (5.08%) SharePoint
3 16 (3.53%) Apache
4 12 (2.65%) Apache Spark
5 10 (2.21%) Anypoint
6 9 (1.99%) Mule
7 6 (1.32%) CICS
8 5 (1.10%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.66%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.66%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.44%) IIS
10 2 (0.44%) JBoss
10 2 (0.44%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.44%) nginx
10 2 (0.44%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.22%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.32%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (3.75%) NetSuite
2 11 (2.43%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (1.32%) Maximo
5 4 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.66%) Findur
6 3 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.66%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.44%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.44%) Infor LN
7 2 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.44%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.22%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.22%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.22%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.22%) Shopify
8 1 (0.22%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 174 (38.41%) Azure
2 113 (24.94%) AWS
3 71 (15.67%) Azure DevOps
4 55 (12.14%) GCP
5 47 (10.38%) Power Platform
6 39 (8.61%) GitHub
7 38 (8.39%) Power Automate
8 37 (8.17%) Boomi
9 35 (7.73%) Serverless
10 30 (6.62%) Entra ID
10 30 (6.62%) PowerApps
11 24 (5.30%) Azure Logic Apps
12 21 (4.64%) GitHub Actions
13 20 (4.42%) Azure Service Bus
13 20 (4.42%) Dynamics 365
14 18 (3.97%) Amazon S3
14 18 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (3.75%) AtomSphere
15 17 (3.75%) SaaS
16 16 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.97%) HTTP
2 13 (2.87%) DNS
3 11 (2.43%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.99%) DHCP
5 7 (1.55%) BIG-IP
6 6 (1.32%) Firewall
7 5 (1.10%) Network Security
7 5 (1.10%) SSL
8 4 (0.88%) BGP
8 4 (0.88%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (0.88%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.88%) Intranet
8 4 (0.88%) SSH
8 4 (0.88%) VXLAN
9 3 (0.66%) FTP
9 3 (0.66%) NX-OS
9 3 (0.66%) SAN
9 3 (0.66%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.66%) TACACS
9 3 (0.66%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (8.61%) Metadata
2 35 (7.73%) MongoDB
3 34 (7.51%) SQL Server
4 28 (6.18%) Relational Database
5 23 (5.08%) Power BI
6 20 (4.42%) Parquet
6 20 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (3.97%) NoSQL
8 16 (3.53%) RDBMS
9 13 (2.87%) DynamoDB
10 9 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (1.99%) Delta Lake
10 9 (1.99%) Oracle Database
11 8 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (1.77%) Db2
11 8 (1.77%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (1.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (1.55%) BigQuery
12 7 (1.55%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 81 (17.88%) Git
2 45 (9.93%) JIRA
3 37 (8.17%) GitLab
4 34 (7.51%) Jenkins
5 24 (5.30%) Postman
6 16 (3.53%) Maven
6 16 (3.53%) Selenium
7 13 (2.87%) SonarQube
8 10 (2.21%) JUnit
9 9 (1.99%) ERwin
10 7 (1.55%) Claude Code
10 7 (1.55%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.55%) Gradle
11 6 (1.32%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.32%) Gatling
11 6 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (1.10%) WebDriver
13 4 (0.88%) MSI
13 4 (0.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 129 (28.48%) Social Skills
2 81 (17.88%) Finance
3 71 (15.67%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (10.38%) Public Sector
5 35 (7.73%) Banking
6 16 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (3.09%) Publishing
8 11 (2.43%) Marketing
9 10 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.99%) Legal
11 7 (1.55%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.55%) Retail
12 5 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.88%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.88%) Law
14 3 (0.66%) Back Office
14 3 (0.66%) Front Office
14 3 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.44%) Games
15 2 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 153 (33.77%) Developer
2 62 (13.69%) Senior
3 52 (11.48%) Architect
4 36 (7.95%) Analyst
5 26 (5.74%) Senior Developer
6 24 (5.30%) Data Engineer
7 21 (4.64%) Consultant
8 17 (3.75%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (3.75%) Integration Engineer
9 16 (3.53%) Business Analyst
9 16 (3.53%) Python Developer
10 15 (3.31%) Integration Architect
10 15 (3.31%) Python Engineer
11 13 (2.87%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 13 (2.87%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (2.65%) Java Developer
13 11 (2.43%) Integration Specialist
14 10 (2.21%) Integration Developer
14 10 (2.21%) Technical Analyst
15 9 (1.99%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (42.16%) REST
2 173 (38.19%) XML
3 92 (20.31%) SOAP
4 66 (14.57%) Kafka
5 51 (11.26%) .NET
6 49 (10.82%) Middleware
6 49 (10.82%) OAuth
7 43 (9.49%) RESTful
8 41 (9.05%) React
9 35 (7.73%) YAML
10 29 (6.40%) Web Services
11 28 (6.18%) OAuth2
12 25 (5.52%) Swagger
13 24 (5.30%) CSS
14 23 (5.08%) HTML
15 22 (4.86%) Node.js
16 21 (4.64%) JWT
16 21 (4.64%) OpenAPI
17 20 (4.42%) SAML
18 16 (3.53%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.61%) Product Ownership
2 33 (7.28%) Data Structures
3 25 (5.52%) Cloud Native
4 22 (4.86%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (3.97%) Algorithms
6 17 (3.75%) AI Agents
7 16 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (3.31%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (2.87%) Onboarding
10 10 (2.21%) Taxonomies
11 9 (1.99%) CMDB
11 9 (1.99%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.77%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.55%) Data Centre
13 7 (1.55%) Mobile App
14 6 (1.32%) Mainframe
14 6 (1.32%) Reference Data
14 6 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.84%) Linux
2 28 (6.18%) Windows
3 11 (2.43%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.21%) Unix
5 7 (1.55%) Android
5 7 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.32%) zOS
7 4 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.44%) Solaris
8 2 (0.44%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.44%) VMS
8 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.22%) CentOS
9 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (38.19%) CI/CD
2 152 (33.55%) DevOps
3 147 (32.45%) Agile
4 110 (24.28%) Problem-Solving
5 76 (16.78%) Data Modelling
6 73 (16.11%) Validation
7 69 (15.23%) AI
8 64 (14.13%) Event-Driven
9 60 (13.25%) Integration Patterns
10 59 (13.02%) Scrum
11 51 (11.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 51 (11.26%) Test Automation
12 50 (11.04%) API Integration
12 50 (11.04%) Microservices
13 48 (10.60%) Analytics
13 48 (10.60%) Stakeholder Management
13 48 (10.60%) Workflow
14 46 (10.15%) ETL
15 44 (9.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 43 (9.49%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 168 (37.09%) Python
2 165 (36.42%) SQL
3 104 (22.96%) JavaScript
4 95 (20.97%) Java
5 61 (13.47%) C#
6 49 (10.82%) PowerShell
7 29 (6.40%) Groovy
8 22 (4.86%) TypeScript
9 17 (3.75%) PL/SQL
10 15 (3.31%) Bash
11 14 (3.09%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.99%) VBA
13 8 (1.77%) Bicep
13 8 (1.77%) Scala
14 7 (1.55%) R
14 7 (1.55%) T-SQL
15 6 (1.32%) C++
15 6 (1.32%) JCL
15 6 (1.32%) Kotlin
16 5 (1.10%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 126 (27.81%) Security Cleared
2 99 (21.85%) SC Cleared
3 25 (5.52%) Degree
4 12 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (2.21%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.77%) CISSP
7 7 (1.55%) CISM
8 6 (1.32%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.88%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (0.88%) PhD
9 4 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.66%) 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 44 (9.71%) Data Quality
2 38 (8.39%) Accessibility
3 30 (6.62%) QA
4 19 (4.19%) GDPR
5 11 (2.43%) WCAG
6 9 (1.99%) ISO 20022
7 8 (1.77%) NIST
8 6 (1.32%) ISO 15022
9 5 (1.10%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.88%) HL7
11 3 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.66%) GRC
11 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.66%) 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 (12.14%) Docker
2 23 (5.08%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.66%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.44%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.44%) OpenSSH
5 2 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 59 (13.02%) Kubernetes
2 49 (10.82%) Terraform
3 41 (9.05%) Ansible
4 8 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.32%) Grafana
5 6 (1.32%) SCCM
6 3 (0.66%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.66%) Puppet
6 3 (0.66%) WMI
7 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.44%) Kibana
7 2 (0.44%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.44%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.44%) QRadar
8 1 (0.22%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.22%) Istio
8 1 (0.22%) logstash
8 1 (0.22%) Podman
8 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 108 (23.84%) Microsoft
2 89 (19.65%) Oracle
3 42 (9.27%) ServiceNow
4 30 (6.62%) MuleSoft
5 28 (6.18%) Databricks
5 28 (6.18%) Google
6 25 (5.52%) Salesforce
6 25 (5.52%) SAP
7 22 (4.86%) IBM
8 20 (4.42%) Workday
9 13 (2.87%) Splunk
10 11 (2.43%) Sonatype
10 11 (2.43%) webMethods
11 10 (2.21%) Informatica
11 10 (2.21%) VMware
12 9 (1.99%) Infoblox
13 8 (1.77%) F5
14 7 (1.55%) Foundry
14 7 (1.55%) Palantir
14 7 (1.55%) TIBCO