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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 260 241
Rank change year-on-year -12 -19 -52
Contract jobs citing JSON 386 239 361
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.90% 0.97% 0.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.72% 4.29% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 185 249
10th Percentile £363 £361 £400
25th Percentile £426 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -6.54% -2.73%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £619
90th Percentile £650 £673 £695
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £534
% change year-on-year - -6.37% -1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile £43.63 - £50.50
25th Percentile £46.25 £91.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £92.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.54% +15.63% +14.29%
75th Percentile £79.69 £93.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £86.88 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £92.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year -40.54% +15.63% +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 8,174 5,566 7,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.08% 22.54% 20.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,387 3,859 5,456
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 £518 £535
% change year-on-year +1.45% -3.27% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 110 257
10th Percentile £30.45 £32.10 £22.75
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.05 £74.70
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year +13.04% +11.11% -20.38%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -19 200 £525 -8.50% 69
North of England -38 66 £450 +1.12% 23
South East -43 60 £550 +15.79% 35
Yorkshire -25 38 £463 +13.08% 7
North West -35 27 £390 -12.36% 13
Midlands -45 22 £471 -14.32% 15
West Midlands -46 17 £471 -14.32% 9
South West -16 15 £400 +6.67% 11
East of England -20 14 £506 +68.75% 5
East Midlands -23 5 - - 6
North East -30 4 £550 +175.00% 3
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 23 (5.96%) Confluence
2 17 (4.40%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.85%) Apache
4 9 (2.33%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.81%) CICS
5 7 (1.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (1.30%) Mule
6 5 (1.30%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (1.04%) Anypoint
7 4 (1.04%) Oracle Service Bus
8 3 (0.78%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.52%) IIS
9 2 (0.52%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.52%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.52%) nginx
9 2 (0.52%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.26%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.26%) JBoss
10 1 (0.26%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.30%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.07%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.55%) Maximo
3 6 (1.55%) NetSuite
4 4 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.78%) Findur
5 3 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.52%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.26%) Actimize
7 1 (0.26%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.26%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.26%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.26%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.26%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.26%) Shopify
7 1 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 133 (34.46%) Azure
2 92 (23.83%) AWS
3 50 (12.95%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (11.40%) Power Platform
5 39 (10.10%) Serverless
6 31 (8.03%) GitHub
7 29 (7.51%) Power Automate
8 27 (6.99%) Azure Logic Apps
9 26 (6.74%) GCP
10 21 (5.44%) PowerApps
11 18 (4.66%) Azure Functions
11 18 (4.66%) Boomi
11 18 (4.66%) OCI
12 16 (4.15%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (4.15%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (3.89%) SaaS
14 14 (3.63%) Amazon S3
15 13 (3.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 13 (3.37%) Entra ID
15 13 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.15%) HTTP
2 11 (2.85%) DNS
3 10 (2.59%) BIG-IP
3 10 (2.59%) DHCP
3 10 (2.59%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.04%) HTTPS
4 4 (1.04%) Intranet
5 3 (0.78%) Firewall
5 3 (0.78%) FTP
5 3 (0.78%) SSH
6 2 (0.52%) DSL
6 2 (0.52%) Internet
6 2 (0.52%) NAS
6 2 (0.52%) Network Security
6 2 (0.52%) SAN
6 2 (0.52%) X.509
7 1 (0.26%) SMS
7 1 (0.26%) SSL
7 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.51%) Metadata
2 23 (5.96%) SQL Server
3 22 (5.70%) Power BI
3 22 (5.70%) Relational Database
4 21 (5.44%) NoSQL
5 19 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (4.66%) MongoDB
7 15 (3.89%) Parquet
8 13 (3.37%) DynamoDB
8 13 (3.37%) RDBMS
9 12 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (2.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (2.59%) Oracle Database
12 9 (2.33%) Delta Lake
13 8 (2.07%) Db2
14 7 (1.81%) Data Lake
15 6 (1.55%) MySQL
15 6 (1.55%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 53 (13.73%) Git
2 47 (12.18%) JIRA
3 30 (7.77%) Postman
4 19 (4.92%) GitLab
5 18 (4.66%) Jenkins
6 13 (3.37%) Maven
7 10 (2.59%) SonarQube
8 7 (1.81%) ERwin
9 5 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (1.30%) JUnit
9 5 (1.30%) SoapUI
9 5 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (1.30%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.04%) Gatling
10 4 (1.04%) Gradle
11 3 (0.78%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.78%) MSTest
11 3 (0.78%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.78%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.78%) Terragrunt
General
1 122 (31.61%) Social Skills
2 74 (19.17%) Finance
3 57 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (8.81%) Banking
4 34 (8.81%) Public Sector
5 18 (4.66%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (2.59%) Marketing
7 9 (2.33%) Publishing
8 7 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.30%) Legal
9 5 (1.30%) Retail
10 4 (1.04%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.04%) Law
11 3 (0.78%) Back Office
11 3 (0.78%) Front Office
11 3 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.78%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.78%) Military
11 3 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.52%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 126 (32.64%) Developer
2 36 (9.33%) Architect
2 36 (9.33%) Senior
3 33 (8.55%) Data Engineer
4 24 (6.22%) Analyst
5 16 (4.15%) Business Analyst
6 15 (3.89%) Consultant
6 15 (3.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (3.89%) Integration Engineer
7 14 (3.63%) Full-Stack Developer
7 14 (3.63%) Senior Developer
8 13 (3.37%) Java Developer
9 12 (3.11%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (3.11%) Software Developer
10 11 (2.85%) Integration Architect
10 11 (2.85%) Integration Specialist
10 11 (2.85%) Python Developer
11 10 (2.59%) Software Engineer
12 9 (2.33%) ServiceNow Developer
12 9 (2.33%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (39.12%) REST
2 143 (37.05%) XML
3 85 (22.02%) SOAP
4 46 (11.92%) Kafka
5 43 (11.14%) OAuth
6 37 (9.59%) .NET
6 37 (9.59%) React
6 37 (9.59%) RESTful
7 36 (9.33%) Web Services
8 31 (8.03%) CSS
9 29 (7.51%) Middleware
9 29 (7.51%) YAML
10 27 (6.99%) HTML
11 25 (6.48%) Node.js
12 22 (5.70%) OAuth2
12 22 (5.70%) Swagger
13 21 (5.44%) XSLT
14 18 (4.66%) Apache Avro
15 17 (4.40%) AngularJS
15 17 (4.40%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.99%) Product Ownership
2 20 (5.18%) Data Structures
3 14 (3.63%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.85%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.81%) CMDB
7 7 (1.81%) DataPower
7 7 (1.81%) Mainframe
7 7 (1.81%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.55%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.55%) Online Banking
8 6 (1.55%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.30%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.04%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.04%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.18%) Linux
2 13 (3.37%) Windows
3 10 (2.59%) Unix
4 7 (1.81%) zOS
5 5 (1.30%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.52%) Android
8 2 (0.52%) Solaris
8 2 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.52%) VMS
8 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.26%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (31.35%) CI/CD
2 117 (30.31%) DevOps
3 115 (29.79%) Agile
4 98 (25.39%) Problem-Solving
5 68 (17.62%) Data Modelling
6 67 (17.36%) Validation
7 57 (14.77%) Integration Patterns
8 49 (12.69%) Analytics
9 47 (12.18%) Microservices
10 46 (11.92%) AI
11 44 (11.40%) Event-Driven
12 41 (10.62%) ERP
13 39 (10.10%) Data Pipeline
13 39 (10.10%) Performance Tuning
13 39 (10.10%) Software Engineering
13 39 (10.10%) Stakeholder Management
14 36 (9.33%) ETL
15 35 (9.07%) API Integration
15 35 (9.07%) Scrum
16 33 (8.55%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 155 (40.16%) Python
2 142 (36.79%) SQL
3 85 (22.02%) JavaScript
4 77 (19.95%) Java
5 53 (13.73%) C#
6 39 (10.10%) PowerShell
7 17 (4.40%) Groovy
8 16 (4.15%) TypeScript
9 14 (3.63%) PL/SQL
9 14 (3.63%) Shell Script
10 11 (2.85%) T-SQL
11 10 (2.59%) Bash
11 10 (2.59%) VBA
12 6 (1.55%) Bicep
12 6 (1.55%) JCL
13 5 (1.30%) Go
13 5 (1.30%) R
14 3 (0.78%) C
14 3 (0.78%) C++
14 3 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 105 (27.20%) Security Cleared
2 80 (20.73%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.48%) Degree
4 15 (3.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (3.63%) Azure Certification
6 13 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.81%) CISM
7 7 (1.81%) CISSP
8 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.04%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.52%) CCNP
10 2 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.26%) CEH
11 1 (0.26%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.26%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.26%) GCIA
11 1 (0.26%) GIAC
11 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.26%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.81%) Data Quality
2 24 (6.22%) QA
3 20 (5.18%) GDPR
4 12 (3.11%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (1.55%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.55%) NIST
6 5 (1.30%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.30%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.30%) PSD2
6 5 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.04%) HL7
7 4 (1.04%) ISO 8583
7 4 (1.04%) WCAG
8 3 (0.78%) FATCA
8 3 (0.78%) GRC
8 3 (0.78%) ISO 15022
8 3 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.78%) NCSC
9 2 (0.52%) SEPA
System Software
1 44 (11.40%) Docker
2 13 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.52%) OpenSSH
5 2 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.26%) Firmware
6 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 44 (11.40%) Kubernetes
2 43 (11.14%) Terraform
3 23 (5.96%) Ansible
4 11 (2.85%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.07%) Grafana
6 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.52%) Argo
8 2 (0.52%) Kibana
8 2 (0.52%) SCCM
8 2 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.26%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.26%) Istio
9 1 (0.26%) logstash
9 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.26%) Puppet
9 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 83 (21.50%) Microsoft
2 71 (18.39%) Oracle
3 28 (7.25%) ServiceNow
4 24 (6.22%) Databricks
5 21 (5.44%) SAP
6 20 (5.18%) MuleSoft
7 18 (4.66%) Workday
8 16 (4.15%) Splunk
9 12 (3.11%) Foundry
10 11 (2.85%) F5
10 11 (2.85%) IBM
11 10 (2.59%) Infoblox
11 10 (2.59%) Sonatype
11 10 (2.59%) webMethods
12 9 (2.33%) Adobe
13 8 (2.07%) Confluent
13 8 (2.07%) Dell
13 8 (2.07%) Google
14 7 (1.81%) Palantir
14 7 (1.81%) Salesforce