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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 268 214
Rank change year-on-year +43 -54 -15
Contract jobs citing JSON 414 223 422
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.25% 0.86% 1.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.70% 3.83% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 156 325
10th Percentile £358 £400 £382
25th Percentile £413 £462 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £529 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +0.80% -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £600
90th Percentile £823 £671 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% +0.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 7
10th Percentile - - £35.46
25th Percentile £46.25 £91.25 £53.13
Median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.65% +32.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £54.06 £93.75 £75.63
90th Percentile £82.00 - £81.25
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -48.65% +32.14% -6.67%

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 7,262 5,829 7,838
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.96% 22.36% 20.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,866 3,693 5,643
10th Percentile £358 £363 £355
25th Percentile £415 £430 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £659
90th Percentile £738 £788 £753
UK median daily rate £513 £537 £534
% change year-on-year -4.61% +0.61% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 76 181
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.38 £25.75
25th Percentile £50.00 £45.51 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.03 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -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 3 February 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 3 February 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 3 February 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 +49 220 £570 +5.12% 63
North of England -11 80 £414 -26.26% 26
North West +11 58 £400 -10.11% 15
South East -24 34 £513 - 40
Midlands -42 30 £468 -17.55% 13
West Midlands -23 27 £496 -12.48% 4
Yorkshire -46 21 £563 -0.79% 11
East of England -8 13 £500 -16.67% 6
South West -12 12 £400 -2.44% 8
East Midlands -26 3 £450 - 9
North East - 1 £475 -
South Coast - 1 £625 -
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 (5.56%) Confluence
2 12 (2.90%) Apache
3 11 (2.66%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.93%) JBoss
4 8 (1.93%) WebLogic
5 7 (1.69%) Appian
6 5 (1.21%) Anypoint
6 5 (1.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.97%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (0.97%) Mule
7 4 (0.97%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.97%) Oracle Service Bus
8 2 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.48%) IIS
8 2 (0.48%) nginx
9 1 (0.24%) CICS
9 1 (0.24%) CMS
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.24%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 10 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (4.59%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (2.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.45%) Maximo
4 5 (1.21%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.48%) Actimize
5 2 (0.48%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.24%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.24%) Endur
6 1 (0.24%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 122 (29.47%) Azure
2 88 (21.26%) AWS
3 41 (9.90%) GitHub
4 40 (9.66%) Azure Logic Apps
5 37 (8.94%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (8.70%) IaaS
6 36 (8.70%) Power Platform
7 35 (8.45%) Serverless
8 31 (7.49%) OCI
9 27 (6.52%) GCP
10 26 (6.28%) GitHub Actions
11 24 (5.80%) PaaS
12 19 (4.59%) Dynamics 365
13 18 (4.35%) SaaS
14 17 (4.11%) Power Automate
15 16 (3.86%) Azure Functions
15 16 (3.86%) Azure Monitor
16 15 (3.62%) PowerApps
17 14 (3.38%) Cloud Computing
18 13 (3.14%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.73%) HTTP
2 29 (7.00%) HTTPS
3 16 (3.86%) Firewall
4 8 (1.93%) SSL
4 8 (1.93%) VPN
5 5 (1.21%) DNS
6 4 (0.97%) BGP
7 3 (0.72%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.72%) MPLS
7 3 (0.72%) NFC
7 3 (0.72%) PPP
7 3 (0.72%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.48%) 5G
8 2 (0.48%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (0.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.48%) Network Security
8 2 (0.48%) SMS
9 1 (0.24%) DHCP
9 1 (0.24%) IPsec
9 1 (0.24%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.00%) Relational Database
2 21 (5.07%) MongoDB
3 18 (4.35%) Power BI
3 18 (4.35%) RDBMS
4 17 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (3.86%) SQL Server
6 13 (3.14%) Metadata
6 13 (3.14%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.42%) Data Lake
7 10 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (1.93%) MySQL
9 6 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.45%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (1.45%) Big Data
9 6 (1.45%) Oracle Database
9 6 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (1.45%) Parquet
10 5 (1.21%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 65 (15.70%) Git
2 61 (14.73%) Postman
3 44 (10.63%) Jenkins
4 39 (9.42%) JIRA
4 39 (9.42%) Selenium
5 33 (7.97%) JUnit
6 28 (6.76%) GitLab
7 26 (6.28%) Cucumber
8 19 (4.59%) Maven
9 18 (4.35%) SonarQube
10 13 (3.14%) Bitbucket
11 11 (2.66%) Eclipse
12 10 (2.42%) Cypress.io
12 10 (2.42%) IntelliJ
13 8 (1.93%) Gradle
13 8 (1.93%) Robot Framework
14 7 (1.69%) Mockito
14 7 (1.69%) SoapUI
15 6 (1.45%) SpecFlow
15 6 (1.45%) TestRail
General
1 115 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 78 (18.84%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (15.94%) Finance
4 59 (14.25%) Public Sector
5 29 (7.00%) Banking
6 17 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (3.14%) Marketing
8 9 (2.17%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.69%) Military
11 4 (0.97%) Billing
11 4 (0.97%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.97%) Retail
12 3 (0.72%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.72%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.48%) Law
13 2 (0.48%) Legal
13 2 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 151 (36.47%) Developer
2 49 (11.84%) Architect
3 36 (8.70%) Senior
4 27 (6.52%) Java Developer
5 25 (6.04%) Analyst
6 20 (4.83%) Software Engineer
7 19 (4.59%) Data Engineer
8 18 (4.35%) Integration Specialist
8 18 (4.35%) Senior Developer
9 16 (3.86%) Business Analyst
9 16 (3.86%) DevOps Engineer
10 15 (3.62%) Cloud Specialist
10 15 (3.62%) Lead
10 15 (3.62%) Oracle Specialist
11 13 (3.14%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 13 (3.14%) Integration Developer
11 13 (3.14%) webMethods Developer
12 12 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (2.42%) Consultant
13 10 (2.42%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (50.00%) REST
2 196 (47.34%) XML
3 101 (24.40%) SOAP
4 65 (15.70%) HTML
4 65 (15.70%) OAuth
5 43 (10.39%) RESTful
6 39 (9.42%) Spring
7 37 (8.94%) CSS
8 33 (7.97%) React
9 31 (7.49%) Spring Boot
9 31 (7.49%) Web Services
9 31 (7.49%) XSLT
10 27 (6.52%) Oracle Fusion
11 26 (6.28%) OAuth2
12 25 (6.04%) .NET
13 24 (5.80%) Kafka
13 24 (5.80%) YAML
14 23 (5.56%) JWT
14 23 (5.56%) Swagger
15 21 (5.07%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.52%) PKI
2 26 (6.28%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (4.11%) Data Structures
3 17 (4.11%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.14%) Cloud Native
5 12 (2.90%) Public Cloud
6 11 (2.66%) Low-Code
7 10 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.93%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.69%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.69%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.45%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.21%) Digital Wallet
11 5 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.97%) Marketing Technology
12 4 (0.97%) Private Cloud
12 4 (0.97%) Replication
12 4 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (10.14%) Linux
2 18 (4.35%) Unix
3 7 (1.69%) Android
3 7 (1.69%) Apple iOS
3 7 (1.69%) Windows
4 5 (1.21%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.24%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (39.13%) DevOps
2 149 (35.99%) Agile
3 136 (32.85%) CI/CD
4 87 (21.01%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (15.22%) Microservices
5 63 (15.22%) Validation
6 51 (12.32%) Software Engineering
7 50 (12.08%) Test Automation
8 49 (11.84%) ERP
9 43 (10.39%) Analytics
9 43 (10.39%) Deployment Automation
10 42 (10.14%) Containerisation
11 41 (9.90%) Scrum
12 38 (9.18%) Data Modelling
13 36 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
14 35 (8.45%) Configuration Management
15 34 (8.21%) CRM
15 34 (8.21%) Integration Patterns
16 33 (7.97%) Migration
17 32 (7.73%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 102 (24.64%) SQL
2 95 (22.95%) Java
3 87 (21.01%) JavaScript
4 85 (20.53%) Python
5 58 (14.01%) PowerShell
6 54 (13.04%) C#
7 23 (5.56%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.42%) Groovy
8 10 (2.42%) Scala
8 10 (2.42%) Shell Script
9 9 (2.17%) T-SQL
10 8 (1.93%) C++
11 7 (1.69%) XPath
12 5 (1.21%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.72%) C
14 3 (0.72%) Jython
14 3 (0.72%) PHP
14 3 (0.72%) R
14 3 (0.72%) Swift
Qualifications
1 142 (34.30%) Security Cleared
2 110 (26.57%) SC Cleared
3 36 (8.70%) Degree
4 28 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.66%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.17%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.21%) CCNP
9 5 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.21%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.97%) CTC Cleared
10 4 (0.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.72%) CEH
11 3 (0.72%) GIAC
11 3 (0.72%) GWAPT
12 2 (0.48%) CCNA
12 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.48%) OCP
12 2 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.31%) Accessibility
2 20 (4.83%) QA
3 10 (2.42%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.17%) WCAG
5 8 (1.93%) PSD2
6 6 (1.45%) GDPR
7 5 (1.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (1.21%) ISO 8583
7 5 (1.21%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.97%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.72%) FATCA
9 3 (0.72%) HL7
9 3 (0.72%) NIST
10 2 (0.48%) SEPA
11 1 (0.24%) ISO 15022
11 1 (0.24%) MiFID
11 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 66 (15.94%) Docker
2 9 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.48%) HDFS
4 1 (0.24%) KVM
4 1 (0.24%) Squid
4 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (10.39%) Kubernetes
2 26 (6.28%) Terraform
3 19 (4.59%) Ansible
4 15 (3.62%) Grafana
5 14 (3.38%) Kibana
6 13 (3.14%) Puppet
7 10 (2.42%) Prometheus
8 9 (2.17%) logstash
9 5 (1.21%) ITRS Geneos
9 5 (1.21%) Podman
9 5 (1.21%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.97%) Pingdom
11 3 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.48%) Argo
12 2 (0.48%) CloudHub
12 2 (0.48%) Fluentd
12 2 (0.48%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.48%) QRadar
13 1 (0.24%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 61 (14.73%) Oracle
2 59 (14.25%) Microsoft
3 22 (5.31%) webMethods
4 18 (4.35%) IBM
5 17 (4.11%) SAP
6 16 (3.86%) MuleSoft
7 15 (3.62%) Splunk
8 14 (3.38%) ServiceNow
9 11 (2.66%) Adobe
9 11 (2.66%) Cisco
9 11 (2.66%) OpenAI
9 11 (2.66%) Software AG
10 9 (2.17%) Databricks
10 9 (2.17%) Red Hat
10 9 (2.17%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.93%) Axway
12 7 (1.69%) F5
12 7 (1.69%) Veracode
13 5 (1.21%) PagerDuty
13 5 (1.21%) Solace