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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 254 247
Rank change year-on-year -6 -7 -50
Contract jobs citing JSON 397 250 367
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.91% 1.00% 0.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.79% 4.40% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 186 252
10th Percentile £360 £361 £400
25th Percentile £415 £416 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -6.54% -2.73%
75th Percentile £581 £592 £622
90th Percentile £650 £667 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.45% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile £47.08 £37.25 £50.50
25th Percentile £56.19 £46.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £73.75 £65.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -18.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £85.94 £81.25 £85.00
90th Percentile £87.63 £88.75 -
UK median hourly rate £73.75 £65.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +13.46% -18.75% +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 8,282 5,682 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.07% 22.64% 21.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,471 3,948 5,519
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 £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £538
% change year-on-year +2.14% -4.37% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 116 263
10th Percentile £30.61 £31.78 £22.96
25th Percentile £51.25 £49.06 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% +4.67% -13.46%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.14 £81.01 £74.49
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -9 204 £525 -8.65% 49
North of England -39 73 £430 -3.48% 17
South East -48 60 £550 +15.79% 34
Yorkshire -26 39 £463 +13.50% 4
North West -30 34 £390 -12.36% 12
Midlands -47 25 £458 -16.82% 13
West Midlands -45 20 £458 -16.82% 5
South West -34 14 £400 +6.67% 9
East of England -18 13 £513 +70.83% 4
East Midlands -17 5 - - 8
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 28 (7.05%) Confluence
2 18 (4.53%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.02%) Apache
4 9 (2.27%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.76%) CICS
5 7 (1.76%) Mule
6 6 (1.51%) Anypoint
7 5 (1.26%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.76%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.50%) IIS
9 2 (0.50%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.50%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.50%) nginx
9 2 (0.50%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.25%) JBoss
10 1 (0.25%) Mendix
10 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.26%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.02%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.76%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.51%) Maximo
4 5 (1.26%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.76%) Findur
5 3 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.50%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.25%) Magento
7 1 (0.25%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.25%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.25%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.25%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.25%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.25%) Shopify
7 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 137 (34.51%) Azure
2 91 (22.92%) AWS
3 54 (13.60%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (11.08%) Power Platform
5 39 (9.82%) Serverless
6 32 (8.06%) Power Automate
7 29 (7.30%) GitHub
8 27 (6.80%) GCP
9 26 (6.55%) Azure Logic Apps
10 23 (5.79%) PowerApps
11 21 (5.29%) Boomi
12 19 (4.79%) Azure Functions
13 16 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (3.78%) Entra ID
14 15 (3.78%) SaaS
15 14 (3.53%) Amazon S3
15 14 (3.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 14 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
15 14 (3.53%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.53%) HTTP
2 11 (2.77%) DNS
3 10 (2.52%) BIG-IP
3 10 (2.52%) DHCP
3 10 (2.52%) 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 (0.50%) DSL
6 2 (0.50%) Internet
6 2 (0.50%) NAS
6 2 (0.50%) Network Security
6 2 (0.50%) SAN
6 2 (0.50%) X.509
7 1 (0.25%) SSL
7 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.81%) Metadata
2 30 (7.56%) SQL Server
3 26 (6.55%) MongoDB
4 25 (6.30%) Relational Database
5 23 (5.79%) Power BI
6 20 (5.04%) NoSQL
7 19 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (4.03%) Parquet
9 14 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (3.27%) DynamoDB
10 13 (3.27%) RDBMS
11 11 (2.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (2.52%) Oracle Database
13 9 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (2.02%) Db2
14 8 (2.02%) Delta Lake
15 7 (1.76%) Data Lake
16 6 (1.51%) MySQL
16 6 (1.51%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 62 (15.62%) Git
2 47 (11.84%) JIRA
3 30 (7.56%) Postman
4 25 (6.30%) GitLab
5 23 (5.79%) Jenkins
6 13 (3.27%) Maven
7 10 (2.52%) SonarQube
8 7 (1.76%) ERwin
9 6 (1.51%) JUnit
9 6 (1.51%) Selenium
10 5 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (1.26%) Claude Code
10 5 (1.26%) SoapUI
10 5 (1.26%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (1.26%) Visual Studio
11 4 (1.01%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.01%) Gatling
11 4 (1.01%) Gradle
12 3 (0.76%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.76%) MSTest
General
1 120 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 79 (19.90%) Finance
3 60 (15.11%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (9.57%) Public Sector
5 37 (9.32%) Banking
6 17 (4.28%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.27%) Marketing
7 9 (2.27%) Publishing
8 5 (1.26%) Legal
8 5 (1.26%) Retail
9 4 (1.01%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.01%) Law
10 3 (0.76%) Back Office
10 3 (0.76%) Front Office
10 3 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.76%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.76%) Military
10 3 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 130 (32.75%) Developer
2 39 (9.82%) Senior
3 38 (9.57%) Architect
4 33 (8.31%) Data Engineer
5 29 (7.30%) Analyst
6 18 (4.53%) Business Analyst
7 16 (4.03%) Senior Developer
8 15 (3.78%) Consultant
8 15 (3.78%) Integration Engineer
9 14 (3.53%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (3.27%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (3.02%) Integration Specialist
11 12 (3.02%) Java Developer
12 11 (2.77%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (2.77%) Integration Architect
12 11 (2.77%) Python Developer
13 10 (2.52%) Software Developer
14 9 (2.27%) Integration Developer
14 9 (2.27%) Technical Analyst
14 9 (2.27%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (38.29%) REST
2 150 (37.78%) XML
3 86 (21.66%) SOAP
4 51 (12.85%) Kafka
5 42 (10.58%) OAuth
6 38 (9.57%) RESTful
7 37 (9.32%) .NET
8 36 (9.07%) React
8 36 (9.07%) Web Services
9 33 (8.31%) Middleware
10 28 (7.05%) CSS
10 28 (7.05%) YAML
11 25 (6.30%) Node.js
12 22 (5.54%) HTML
12 22 (5.54%) Swagger
13 20 (5.04%) OAuth2
14 19 (4.79%) JWT
15 18 (4.53%) XSLT
16 17 (4.28%) Apache Avro
17 16 (4.03%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.56%) Product Ownership
2 26 (6.55%) Data Structures
3 15 (3.78%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (3.02%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.27%) Algorithms
6 9 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.27%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.76%) CMDB
7 7 (1.76%) DataPower
7 7 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.76%) Mainframe
7 7 (1.76%) Public Cloud
7 7 (1.76%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.51%) Online Banking
8 6 (1.51%) Taxonomies
9 5 (1.26%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.26%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.53%) Linux
2 16 (4.03%) Windows
3 10 (2.52%) Unix
4 7 (1.76%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.76%) 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 (0.50%) Solaris
7 2 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.50%) VMS
7 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.25%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (33.00%) CI/CD
2 126 (31.74%) Agile
3 124 (31.23%) DevOps
4 103 (25.94%) Problem-Solving
5 70 (17.63%) Data Modelling
6 68 (17.13%) Validation
7 57 (14.36%) Integration Patterns
8 55 (13.85%) AI
9 47 (11.84%) Analytics
10 45 (11.34%) Microservices
11 43 (10.83%) Data Pipeline
11 43 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
12 42 (10.58%) Event-Driven
13 40 (10.08%) API Integration
14 39 (9.82%) ETL
14 39 (9.82%) Scrum
14 39 (9.82%) Workflow
15 38 (9.57%) Performance Tuning
15 38 (9.57%) Software Engineering
16 37 (9.32%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 158 (39.80%) Python
2 150 (37.78%) SQL
3 83 (20.91%) JavaScript
4 79 (19.90%) Java
5 58 (14.61%) C#
6 48 (12.09%) PowerShell
7 19 (4.79%) Groovy
8 18 (4.53%) TypeScript
9 15 (3.78%) Shell Script
10 14 (3.53%) PL/SQL
11 11 (2.77%) Bash
11 11 (2.77%) T-SQL
12 10 (2.52%) VBA
13 7 (1.76%) Bicep
14 6 (1.51%) JCL
15 5 (1.26%) Go
15 5 (1.26%) R
16 3 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.76%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 110 (27.71%) Security Cleared
2 85 (21.41%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.30%) Degree
4 15 (3.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (3.53%) Azure Certification
6 13 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.02%) CISSP
8 7 (1.76%) CISM
9 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.01%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.50%) CCNP
11 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.50%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.50%) GIAC
11 2 (0.50%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.50%) SSCP
12 1 (0.25%) CEH
12 1 (0.25%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.32%) Data Quality
2 25 (6.30%) QA
3 20 (5.04%) GDPR
4 18 (4.53%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.51%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.51%) NIST
5 6 (1.51%) WCAG
6 5 (1.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (1.26%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.26%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.01%) HL7
7 4 (1.01%) PSD2
8 3 (0.76%) FATCA
8 3 (0.76%) GRC
8 3 (0.76%) ISO 15022
8 3 (0.76%) ISO 8583
8 3 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.76%) NCSC
9 2 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (11.08%) Docker
2 15 (3.78%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.50%) OpenSSH
5 2 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 46 (11.59%) Kubernetes
2 43 (10.83%) Terraform
3 30 (7.56%) Ansible
4 10 (2.52%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.76%) Grafana
6 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.50%) Kibana
8 2 (0.50%) QRadar
8 2 (0.50%) SCCM
8 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.50%) WMI
9 1 (0.25%) Argo
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
Vendors
1 89 (22.42%) Microsoft
2 71 (17.88%) Oracle
3 30 (7.56%) ServiceNow
4 23 (5.79%) Databricks
5 22 (5.54%) MuleSoft
5 22 (5.54%) SAP
6 19 (4.79%) Workday
7 17 (4.28%) Splunk
8 12 (3.02%) Foundry
9 11 (2.77%) IBM
9 11 (2.77%) Salesforce
10 10 (2.52%) F5
10 10 (2.52%) Infoblox
10 10 (2.52%) Sonatype
10 10 (2.52%) webMethods
11 9 (2.27%) Google
12 8 (2.02%) Dell
13 7 (1.76%) Confluent
13 7 (1.76%) Palantir
14 6 (1.51%) OpenAI