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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 263 258
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 -66
Contract jobs citing JSON 424 267 351
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.95% 1.00% 0.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.02% 4.46% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 197 239
10th Percentile £361 £362 £400
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £620
90th Percentile £650 £666 £703
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 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 £68.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £87.63 £83.75 -
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 8,440 5,982 7,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.99% 22.42% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,567 4,110 5,530
10th Percentile £363 £355 £350
25th Percentile £428 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £780 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.74% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 129 266
10th Percentile £30.25 £30.65 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £46.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% -0.94% -10.31%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.68 £80.20 £74.47
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 8 July 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 July 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 July 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 -3 226 £525 -8.70% 54
North of England -46 73 £438 -1.52% 21
South East -45 63 £525 +10.53% 29
Yorkshire -13 41 £463 +4.93% 5
North West -42 32 £393 -11.80% 15
Midlands -45 27 £455 -17.27% 15
West Midlands -44 22 £455 -17.27% 7
South West -24 15 £425 +13.33% 11
East of England -21 12 £519 +38.33% 3
East Midlands -13 5 - - 7
North East -35 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 29 (6.84%) Confluence
2 20 (4.72%) SharePoint
3 13 (3.07%) Apache
4 10 (2.36%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.89%) Anypoint
5 8 (1.89%) Mule
6 7 (1.65%) CICS
7 5 (1.18%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.71%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.47%) IIS
9 2 (0.47%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.47%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.47%) nginx
9 2 (0.47%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.47%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.24%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.24%) JBoss
10 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.42%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (2.36%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.65%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (1.42%) Maximo
3 6 (1.42%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.71%) Findur
5 3 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.47%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.24%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 1 (0.24%) Infor LN
7 1 (0.24%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.24%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.24%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.24%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.24%) Shopify
7 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 145 (34.20%) Azure
2 91 (21.46%) AWS
3 58 (13.68%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (11.08%) Power Platform
5 40 (9.43%) Serverless
6 35 (8.25%) GitHub
7 33 (7.78%) Power Automate
8 30 (7.08%) GCP
9 25 (5.90%) Azure Logic Apps
9 25 (5.90%) PowerApps
10 24 (5.66%) Boomi
11 20 (4.72%) Entra ID
12 19 (4.48%) Azure Functions
12 19 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
14 16 (3.77%) Amazon S3
14 16 (3.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 16 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
14 16 (3.77%) SaaS
15 14 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.30%) HTTP
2 12 (2.83%) TCP/IP
3 11 (2.59%) DNS
4 10 (2.36%) BIG-IP
4 10 (2.36%) DHCP
5 4 (0.94%) HTTPS
5 4 (0.94%) Intranet
5 4 (0.94%) Network Security
6 3 (0.71%) Firewall
6 3 (0.71%) FTP
6 3 (0.71%) SSH
7 2 (0.47%) DSL
7 2 (0.47%) Internet
7 2 (0.47%) NAS
7 2 (0.47%) SAN
7 2 (0.47%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.47%) SSL
7 2 (0.47%) WAN
7 2 (0.47%) Wireless
7 2 (0.47%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.02%) Metadata
1 34 (8.02%) SQL Server
2 28 (6.60%) MongoDB
3 26 (6.13%) Relational Database
4 25 (5.90%) Power BI
5 20 (4.72%) NoSQL
5 20 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (3.77%) Parquet
7 13 (3.07%) DynamoDB
7 13 (3.07%) RDBMS
8 11 (2.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (2.36%) Oracle Database
10 9 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (2.12%) Db2
10 9 (2.12%) Delta Lake
11 8 (1.89%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.42%) MySQL
12 6 (1.42%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 70 (16.51%) Git
2 49 (11.56%) JIRA
3 32 (7.55%) Postman
4 26 (6.13%) GitLab
4 26 (6.13%) Jenkins
5 13 (3.07%) Maven
6 10 (2.36%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.65%) ERwin
7 7 (1.65%) JUnit
7 7 (1.65%) Selenium
8 5 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.18%) Claude Code
8 5 (1.18%) Gradle
8 5 (1.18%) SoapUI
8 5 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (1.18%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.94%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.94%) JMeter
10 3 (0.71%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.71%) MSTest
General
1 124 (29.25%) Social Skills
2 80 (18.87%) Finance
3 64 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (9.67%) Public Sector
5 36 (8.49%) Banking
6 20 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.36%) Publishing
8 8 (1.89%) Marketing
8 8 (1.89%) Retail
9 5 (1.18%) Legal
10 4 (0.94%) Financial Institution
10 4 (0.94%) Law
10 4 (0.94%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.71%) Back Office
11 3 (0.71%) Front Office
11 3 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.71%) Military
11 3 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 143 (33.73%) Developer
2 46 (10.85%) Senior
3 38 (8.96%) Architect
4 34 (8.02%) Data Engineer
5 30 (7.08%) Analyst
6 20 (4.72%) Senior Developer
7 17 (4.01%) Integration Engineer
8 16 (3.77%) Business Analyst
8 16 (3.77%) Python Developer
9 15 (3.54%) Consultant
10 14 (3.30%) Full-Stack Developer
11 13 (3.07%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (2.83%) Azure Engineer
12 12 (2.83%) Integration Specialist
12 12 (2.83%) Java Developer
13 11 (2.59%) Integration Architect
14 9 (2.12%) Integration Developer
14 9 (2.12%) Python Engineer
14 9 (2.12%) ServiceNow Developer
14 9 (2.12%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (38.68%) REST
2 159 (37.50%) XML
3 88 (20.75%) SOAP
4 57 (13.44%) Kafka
5 43 (10.14%) RESTful
6 41 (9.67%) React
7 39 (9.20%) OAuth
8 38 (8.96%) Web Services
9 37 (8.73%) .NET
10 36 (8.49%) Middleware
11 31 (7.31%) YAML
12 26 (6.13%) CSS
13 25 (5.90%) Node.js
13 25 (5.90%) Swagger
14 20 (4.72%) OAuth2
15 19 (4.48%) HTML
16 18 (4.25%) XSLT
17 17 (4.01%) OpenAPI
18 16 (3.77%) Apache Avro
18 16 (3.77%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.31%) Data Structures
1 31 (7.31%) Product Ownership
2 15 (3.54%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (2.83%) Algorithms
4 12 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (2.83%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.59%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.89%) AI Agents
7 8 (1.89%) Taxonomies
7 8 (1.89%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.65%) CMDB
8 7 (1.65%) DataPower
8 7 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.65%) Mainframe
8 7 (1.65%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.65%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.42%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.95%) Linux
2 16 (3.77%) Windows
3 10 (2.36%) Unix
4 7 (1.65%) Android
4 7 (1.65%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.65%) zOS
5 5 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.47%) Solaris
7 2 (0.47%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.47%) VMS
7 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.24%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (33.49%) CI/CD
2 136 (32.08%) Agile
3 128 (30.19%) DevOps
4 106 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 74 (17.45%) Data Modelling
6 69 (16.27%) Validation
7 59 (13.92%) AI
8 56 (13.21%) Integration Patterns
9 51 (12.03%) Analytics
10 48 (11.32%) Event-Driven
11 46 (10.85%) Data Pipeline
11 46 (10.85%) Scrum
12 45 (10.61%) ETL
13 44 (10.38%) API Integration
13 44 (10.38%) Workflow
14 42 (9.91%) Microservices
15 41 (9.67%) Software Engineering
15 41 (9.67%) Stakeholder Management
16 38 (8.96%) ERP
17 37 (8.73%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 167 (39.39%) Python
2 156 (36.79%) SQL
3 84 (19.81%) Java
3 84 (19.81%) JavaScript
4 59 (13.92%) C#
5 48 (11.32%) PowerShell
6 22 (5.19%) Groovy
6 22 (5.19%) TypeScript
7 17 (4.01%) Shell Script
8 15 (3.54%) PL/SQL
9 12 (2.83%) Bash
10 11 (2.59%) T-SQL
11 10 (2.36%) VBA
12 8 (1.89%) Bicep
13 7 (1.65%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.42%) Go
14 6 (1.42%) JCL
15 5 (1.18%) R
15 5 (1.18%) Scala
16 4 (0.94%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 117 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 91 (21.46%) SC Cleared
3 24 (5.66%) Degree
4 15 (3.54%) Azure Certification
5 12 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.89%) CISSP
7 7 (1.65%) CISM
7 7 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.94%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.47%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.47%) GIAC
9 2 (0.47%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.47%) SSCP
10 1 (0.24%) CEH
10 1 (0.24%) CRISC
10 1 (0.24%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.24%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (9.20%) Data Quality
2 29 (6.84%) QA
3 25 (5.90%) Accessibility
4 19 (4.48%) GDPR
5 6 (1.42%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.42%) NIST
5 6 (1.42%) WCAG
6 5 (1.18%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.18%) HL7
6 5 (1.18%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.94%) ISO 15022
8 3 (0.71%) FATCA
8 3 (0.71%) GRC
8 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.71%) NCSC
8 3 (0.71%) PSD2
8 3 (0.71%) SLA
9 2 (0.47%) Basel III
System Software
1 44 (10.38%) Docker
2 15 (3.54%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.47%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.47%) OpenSSH
5 2 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 49 (11.56%) Kubernetes
2 45 (10.61%) Terraform
3 33 (7.78%) Ansible
4 9 (2.12%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.42%) Grafana
6 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.47%) Kibana
8 2 (0.47%) QRadar
8 2 (0.47%) SCCM
8 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.47%) WMI
9 1 (0.24%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.24%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.24%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.24%) Istio
9 1 (0.24%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.24%) logstash
9 1 (0.24%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 95 (22.41%) Microsoft
2 76 (17.92%) Oracle
3 32 (7.55%) ServiceNow
4 23 (5.42%) Databricks
5 22 (5.19%) MuleSoft
5 22 (5.19%) SAP
6 20 (4.72%) Workday
7 17 (4.01%) Splunk
8 14 (3.30%) Salesforce
9 13 (3.07%) IBM
10 12 (2.83%) Foundry
10 12 (2.83%) Google
11 10 (2.36%) F5
11 10 (2.36%) Infoblox
11 10 (2.36%) Sonatype
11 10 (2.36%) webMethods
12 8 (1.89%) Dell
13 7 (1.65%) Palantir
14 6 (1.42%) Confluent
14 6 (1.42%) OpenAI