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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 257 249
Rank change year-on-year -2 -8 -50
Contract jobs citing JSON 435 275 341
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.97% 1.01% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.13% 4.55% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 198 233
10th Percentile £358 £362 £400
25th Percentile £418 £416 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £619
90th Percentile £650 £663 £693
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 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 £56.25 £85.00
90th Percentile £87.63 £78.75 -
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 8,486 6,048 7,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.96% 22.25% 21.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,581 4,154 5,423
10th Percentile £363 £355 £353
25th Percentile £430 £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 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.70% -2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 140 256
10th Percentile £30.20 £31.20 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.94 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £57.13
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +9.41% -10.04%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.35%

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 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 16 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 16 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 -1 230 £525 -8.50% 31
North of England -49 73 £430 -3.37% 13
South East -38 66 £525 +10.53% 26
Yorkshire -23 41 £461 +12.78% 3
North West -46 32 £393 -11.80% 10
Midlands -42 31 £450 -18.18% 15
West Midlands -38 26 £450 -18.18% 6
South West -17 15 £425 +13.33% 7
East of England -19 12 £519 +29.69% 4
East Midlands -11 5 - - 9
North East -36 3 £550 +175.00%
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 30 (6.90%) Confluence
2 22 (5.06%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.76%) Apache
4 10 (2.30%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.84%) Anypoint
5 8 (1.84%) Mule
6 7 (1.61%) CICS
7 5 (1.15%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.69%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.69%) IIS
8 3 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.46%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.46%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.46%) nginx
9 2 (0.46%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.46%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.23%) JBoss
10 1 (0.23%) Mendix
Applications
1 10 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.38%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (2.76%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.61%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.38%) Maximo
3 6 (1.38%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.69%) Findur
5 3 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.46%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
6 2 (0.46%) Infor LN
6 2 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.46%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.23%) Magento
7 1 (0.23%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.23%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.23%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.23%) Shopify
7 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 153 (35.17%) Azure
2 93 (21.38%) AWS
3 64 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (11.03%) Power Platform
5 39 (8.97%) Serverless
6 35 (8.05%) Power Automate
7 34 (7.82%) GitHub
8 32 (7.36%) GCP
9 28 (6.44%) Boomi
10 26 (5.98%) PowerApps
11 25 (5.75%) Azure Logic Apps
12 21 (4.83%) Entra ID
13 19 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
14 18 (4.14%) Azure Functions
15 17 (3.91%) Amazon S3
15 17 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
16 16 (3.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 16 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
16 16 (3.68%) SaaS
17 15 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.68%) HTTP
2 13 (2.99%) TCP/IP
3 12 (2.76%) DNS
4 10 (2.30%) BIG-IP
4 10 (2.30%) DHCP
5 4 (0.92%) HTTPS
5 4 (0.92%) Intranet
5 4 (0.92%) Network Security
5 4 (0.92%) SSH
6 3 (0.69%) Firewall
6 3 (0.69%) FTP
6 3 (0.69%) SSL
7 2 (0.46%) DSL
7 2 (0.46%) Internet
7 2 (0.46%) NAS
7 2 (0.46%) SAN
7 2 (0.46%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.46%) WAN
7 2 (0.46%) Wireless
7 2 (0.46%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (8.74%) SQL Server
2 34 (7.82%) Metadata
3 29 (6.67%) MongoDB
4 26 (5.98%) Relational Database
5 25 (5.75%) Power BI
6 20 (4.60%) NoSQL
6 20 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (3.91%) Parquet
8 13 (2.99%) DynamoDB
8 13 (2.99%) RDBMS
8 13 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (2.30%) Oracle Database
10 9 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (2.07%) Db2
10 9 (2.07%) Delta Lake
11 8 (1.84%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.61%) MySQL
13 6 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 73 (16.78%) Git
2 51 (11.72%) JIRA
3 31 (7.13%) Postman
4 27 (6.21%) GitLab
4 27 (6.21%) Jenkins
5 12 (2.76%) Maven
6 10 (2.30%) SonarQube
7 9 (2.07%) Selenium
8 8 (1.84%) JUnit
9 7 (1.61%) ERwin
10 6 (1.38%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (1.38%) Visual Studio
11 5 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.15%) Claude Code
11 5 (1.15%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.15%) Gradle
12 4 (0.92%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.92%) Gatling
12 4 (0.92%) SoapUI
12 4 (0.92%) WebDriver
General
1 127 (29.20%) Social Skills
2 82 (18.85%) Finance
3 68 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 36 (8.28%) Banking
6 21 (4.83%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.30%) Publishing
9 8 (1.84%) Marketing
10 7 (1.61%) Retail
11 5 (1.15%) Legal
11 5 (1.15%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.92%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.92%) Law
13 3 (0.69%) Back Office
13 3 (0.69%) Front Office
13 3 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.46%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 148 (34.02%) Developer
2 48 (11.03%) Senior
3 40 (9.20%) Architect
4 34 (7.82%) Analyst
5 32 (7.36%) Data Engineer
6 22 (5.06%) Senior Developer
7 18 (4.14%) Business Analyst
8 17 (3.91%) Integration Engineer
9 16 (3.68%) Python Developer
10 15 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (3.22%) Consultant
11 14 (3.22%) DevOps Engineer
12 13 (2.99%) Azure Engineer
13 12 (2.76%) Integration Architect
13 12 (2.76%) Java Developer
14 10 (2.30%) Integration Developer
14 10 (2.30%) Integration Specialist
14 10 (2.30%) Software Developer
15 9 (2.07%) Python Engineer
15 9 (2.07%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (38.62%) REST
2 166 (38.16%) XML
3 90 (20.69%) SOAP
4 59 (13.56%) Kafka
5 46 (10.57%) RESTful
6 42 (9.66%) React
7 41 (9.43%) .NET
7 41 (9.43%) OAuth
8 39 (8.97%) Middleware
9 37 (8.51%) Web Services
10 32 (7.36%) YAML
11 27 (6.21%) Swagger
12 26 (5.98%) CSS
13 24 (5.52%) Node.js
14 22 (5.06%) OAuth2
15 20 (4.60%) HTML
16 18 (4.14%) OpenAPI
17 17 (3.91%) XSLT
18 16 (3.68%) Apache Avro
18 16 (3.68%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.59%) Data Structures
1 33 (7.59%) Product Ownership
2 14 (3.22%) Cloud Native
2 14 (3.22%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (2.99%) Algorithms
3 13 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (2.99%) Onboarding
4 12 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (2.53%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.07%) Taxonomies
6 9 (2.07%) Virtual Team
7 8 (1.84%) AI Agents
7 8 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.61%) CMDB
8 7 (1.61%) DataPower
8 7 (1.61%) Mainframe
8 7 (1.61%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.38%) Online Banking
10 5 (1.15%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.60%) Linux
2 19 (4.37%) Windows
3 10 (2.30%) Unix
4 8 (1.84%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.61%) Android
5 7 (1.61%) zOS
6 5 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.69%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.46%) Solaris
8 2 (0.46%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.46%) VMS
8 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.23%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (34.02%) CI/CD
2 143 (32.87%) Agile
3 133 (30.57%) DevOps
4 109 (25.06%) Problem-Solving
5 76 (17.47%) Data Modelling
6 71 (16.32%) Validation
7 58 (13.33%) AI
8 56 (12.87%) Integration Patterns
9 52 (11.95%) Analytics
10 51 (11.72%) Event-Driven
11 50 (11.49%) Scrum
12 48 (11.03%) ETL
13 47 (10.80%) Data Pipeline
13 47 (10.80%) Workflow
14 45 (10.34%) API Integration
15 44 (10.11%) Stakeholder Management
16 42 (9.66%) Microservices
17 40 (9.20%) Software Engineering
18 38 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
18 38 (8.74%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 168 (38.62%) Python
2 161 (37.01%) SQL
3 89 (20.46%) JavaScript
4 84 (19.31%) Java
5 63 (14.48%) C#
6 50 (11.49%) PowerShell
7 25 (5.75%) Groovy
8 22 (5.06%) TypeScript
9 16 (3.68%) PL/SQL
9 16 (3.68%) Shell Script
10 13 (2.99%) Bash
11 12 (2.76%) T-SQL
12 11 (2.53%) VBA
13 8 (1.84%) Bicep
14 7 (1.61%) Kotlin
15 6 (1.38%) Go
15 6 (1.38%) JCL
15 6 (1.38%) R
15 6 (1.38%) Scala
16 4 (0.92%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 118 (27.13%) Security Cleared
2 92 (21.15%) SC Cleared
3 24 (5.52%) Degree
4 16 (3.68%) Azure Certification
5 12 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.84%) CISSP
6 8 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.61%) CISM
8 4 (0.92%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.69%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.46%) GIAC
10 2 (0.46%) SSCP
11 1 (0.23%) CEH
11 1 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.23%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.23%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.23%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (8.97%) Data Quality
2 30 (6.90%) QA
3 28 (6.44%) Accessibility
4 20 (4.60%) GDPR
5 8 (1.84%) WCAG
6 6 (1.38%) ISO 20022
6 6 (1.38%) NIST
7 5 (1.15%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.15%) HL7
7 5 (1.15%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.92%) ISO 15022
9 3 (0.69%) FATCA
9 3 (0.69%) GRC
9 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.69%) NCSC
9 3 (0.69%) PSD2
9 3 (0.69%) SLA
10 2 (0.46%) Basel III
System Software
1 46 (10.57%) Docker
2 16 (3.68%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.46%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.46%) OpenSSH
5 2 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 52 (11.95%) Kubernetes
2 45 (10.34%) Terraform
3 36 (8.28%) Ansible
4 9 (2.07%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.38%) Grafana
6 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.69%) WMI
8 2 (0.46%) Kibana
8 2 (0.46%) QRadar
8 2 (0.46%) SCCM
8 2 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.23%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.23%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.23%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.23%) Istio
9 1 (0.23%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.23%) logstash
9 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 99 (22.76%) Microsoft
2 79 (18.16%) Oracle
3 33 (7.59%) ServiceNow
4 23 (5.29%) Databricks
4 23 (5.29%) MuleSoft
5 22 (5.06%) SAP
6 20 (4.60%) Workday
7 17 (3.91%) Splunk
8 16 (3.68%) Salesforce
9 15 (3.45%) IBM
10 14 (3.22%) Google
11 12 (2.76%) Foundry
12 10 (2.30%) F5
12 10 (2.30%) Infoblox
12 10 (2.30%) Sonatype
12 10 (2.30%) webMethods
13 8 (1.84%) Dell
14 7 (1.61%) Palantir
15 6 (1.38%) Confluent
15 6 (1.38%) OpenAI