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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 262 242
Rank change year-on-year -2 -20 -52
Contract jobs citing JSON 396 226 359
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.93% 0.93% 0.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.86% 4.11% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 176 253
10th Percentile £368 £363 £406
25th Percentile £431 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -7.06% -2.18%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £613
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 3
10th Percentile £44.15 - -
25th Percentile £46.25 £91.25 £75.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.65% +15.63% +14.29%
75th Percentile £59.38 £93.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £76.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year -48.65% +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 8,143 5,498 7,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.20% 22.56% 20.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,370 3,803 5,451
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £633 £656 £675
90th Percentile £738 £790 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £535
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 108 247
10th Percentile £32.50 £31.69 £22.65
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%
75th Percentile £73.34 £68.19 £69.38
90th Percentile £80.90 £81.11 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.97
% change year-on-year +4.00% +27.64% -24.67%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -10 205 £525 -4.55% 45
North of England -25 71 £449 +0.34% 19
South East -37 64 £538 +10.54% 31
Yorkshire -25 38 £463 -7.50% 7
North West -22 32 £393 -12.05% 11
Midlands -48 22 £488 -11.36% 12
West Midlands -46 17 £488 -11.36% 6
South West -16 14 £425 +13.33% 7
East of England -21 14 £506 +68.75% 6
East Midlands -28 5 - - 6
North East -22 4 £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 20 (5.05%) Confluence
2 16 (4.04%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.78%) Apache
4 9 (2.27%) Apache Spark
5 8 (2.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 7 (1.77%) CICS
7 5 (1.26%) Mule
8 4 (1.01%) Anypoint
8 4 (1.01%) Oracle Service Bus
8 4 (1.01%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.76%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.76%) Mule ESB
10 2 (0.51%) IIS
10 2 (0.51%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.51%) nginx
10 2 (0.51%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.25%) JBoss
11 1 (0.25%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.01%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (3.28%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.52%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (1.26%) Maximo
4 5 (1.26%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.76%) Findur
5 3 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.51%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.25%) Actimize
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%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 132 (33.33%) Azure
2 91 (22.98%) AWS
3 49 (12.37%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 40 (10.10%) Serverless
6 32 (8.08%) GitHub
7 29 (7.32%) Azure Logic Apps
8 28 (7.07%) Power Automate
9 26 (6.57%) GCP
10 24 (6.06%) OCI
11 20 (5.05%) PowerApps
12 18 (4.55%) Azure Functions
12 18 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
14 16 (4.04%) Boomi
15 15 (3.79%) PaaS
16 14 (3.54%) Amazon S3
17 13 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
17 13 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
17 13 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.04%) HTTP
2 11 (2.78%) DNS
3 10 (2.53%) BIG-IP
3 10 (2.53%) DHCP
3 10 (2.53%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.01%) Intranet
5 3 (0.76%) Firewall
5 3 (0.76%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.51%) DSL
6 2 (0.51%) FTP
6 2 (0.51%) Internet
6 2 (0.51%) NAS
6 2 (0.51%) Network Security
6 2 (0.51%) SAN
6 2 (0.51%) SMS
6 2 (0.51%) SSH
6 2 (0.51%) X.509
7 1 (0.25%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.25%) SSL
7 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.07%) Metadata
2 26 (6.57%) Relational Database
3 22 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 21 (5.30%) NoSQL
4 21 (5.30%) Power BI
5 20 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (4.29%) RDBMS
7 16 (4.04%) MongoDB
8 14 (3.54%) Parquet
9 12 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (3.03%) DynamoDB
10 11 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (2.53%) Oracle Database
12 9 (2.27%) Delta Lake
13 8 (2.02%) Data Lake
13 8 (2.02%) Db2
14 6 (1.52%) MySQL
14 6 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 52 (13.13%) Git
2 43 (10.86%) JIRA
3 39 (9.85%) Postman
4 22 (5.56%) GitLab
5 20 (5.05%) Jenkins
6 14 (3.54%) Maven
7 11 (2.78%) SonarQube
8 9 (2.27%) SoapUI
9 8 (2.02%) ERwin
10 6 (1.52%) Gradle
10 6 (1.52%) JUnit
11 5 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.26%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (1.26%) Visual Studio
12 4 (1.01%) ER Studio
12 4 (1.01%) Gatling
13 3 (0.76%) JMeter
13 3 (0.76%) MSTest
13 3 (0.76%) Oracle APEX
13 3 (0.76%) Selenium
General
1 120 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 75 (18.94%) Finance
3 52 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (9.34%) Banking
5 34 (8.59%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.78%) Marketing
8 8 (2.02%) Publishing
9 5 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.26%) Legal
9 5 (1.26%) Retail
10 4 (1.01%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.01%) Military
11 3 (0.76%) Back Office
11 3 (0.76%) Front Office
11 3 (0.76%) Law
11 3 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.51%) Local Government
12 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.51%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 126 (31.82%) Developer
2 37 (9.34%) Architect
2 37 (9.34%) Senior
3 32 (8.08%) Data Engineer
4 22 (5.56%) Analyst
5 19 (4.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (4.04%) Business Analyst
7 15 (3.79%) Consultant
7 15 (3.79%) Integration Engineer
7 15 (3.79%) Integration Specialist
8 14 (3.54%) Full-Stack Developer
9 13 (3.28%) Java Developer
9 13 (3.28%) Senior Developer
9 13 (3.28%) Software Engineer
10 12 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (3.03%) Software Developer
11 11 (2.78%) Python Developer
12 10 (2.53%) Cloud Specialist
12 10 (2.53%) Integration Architect
12 10 (2.53%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (39.65%) REST
2 148 (37.37%) XML
3 88 (22.22%) SOAP
4 48 (12.12%) OAuth
5 47 (11.87%) Kafka
6 41 (10.35%) Web Services
7 38 (9.60%) .NET
8 37 (9.34%) React
8 37 (9.34%) RESTful
9 32 (8.08%) CSS
9 32 (8.08%) YAML
10 30 (7.58%) HTML
11 27 (6.82%) Middleware
12 25 (6.31%) Node.js
13 24 (6.06%) Swagger
14 23 (5.81%) XSLT
15 22 (5.56%) JWT
15 22 (5.56%) OAuth2
16 18 (4.55%) Apache Avro
17 16 (4.04%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.57%) Product Ownership
2 18 (4.55%) Data Structures
3 13 (3.28%) Cloud Native
4 11 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (2.78%) Public Cloud
5 10 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.53%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.77%) CMDB
7 7 (1.77%) DataPower
7 7 (1.77%) Mainframe
7 7 (1.77%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.52%) Online Banking
9 5 (1.26%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.26%) Digital Wallet
9 5 (1.26%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.26%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.26%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.56%) Linux
2 11 (2.78%) Windows
3 10 (2.53%) Unix
4 7 (1.77%) zOS
5 4 (1.01%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.76%) Android
6 3 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.51%) Solaris
7 2 (0.51%) VMS
7 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (30.81%) DevOps
2 116 (29.29%) CI/CD
3 113 (28.54%) Agile
4 92 (23.23%) Problem-Solving
5 69 (17.42%) Validation
6 68 (17.17%) Data Modelling
7 55 (13.89%) Integration Patterns
8 54 (13.64%) Analytics
9 45 (11.36%) Event-Driven
9 45 (11.36%) Microservices
10 44 (11.11%) AI
10 44 (11.11%) ERP
11 41 (10.35%) Data Pipeline
12 40 (10.10%) Software Engineering
13 39 (9.85%) Performance Tuning
14 38 (9.60%) API Integration
15 35 (8.84%) ETL
15 35 (8.84%) Stakeholder Management
16 34 (8.59%) Containerisation
17 32 (8.08%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 154 (38.89%) Python
2 144 (36.36%) SQL
3 85 (21.46%) JavaScript
4 81 (20.45%) Java
5 54 (13.64%) C#
6 38 (9.60%) PowerShell
7 16 (4.04%) TypeScript
8 15 (3.79%) Groovy
9 14 (3.54%) Shell Script
10 13 (3.28%) PL/SQL
11 11 (2.78%) T-SQL
12 10 (2.53%) Bash
12 10 (2.53%) VBA
13 7 (1.77%) Bicep
14 6 (1.52%) JCL
15 5 (1.26%) Go
15 5 (1.26%) Kotlin
15 5 (1.26%) R
16 3 (0.76%) C
16 3 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 110 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 83 (20.96%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.06%) Degree
4 16 (4.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (3.28%) Azure Certification
5 13 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.52%) CISM
6 6 (1.52%) CISSP
7 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (0.76%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.76%) CCNP
8 3 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.51%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.25%) CEH
10 1 (0.25%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.25%) GCIA
10 1 (0.25%) GIAC
10 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.25%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 27 (6.82%) QA
3 19 (4.80%) GDPR
4 12 (3.03%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.77%) ISO 20022
5 7 (1.77%) PSD2
6 6 (1.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (1.52%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.26%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.26%) ISO 8583
7 5 (1.26%) NIST
7 5 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (1.01%) HL7
8 4 (1.01%) ISO 15022
9 3 (0.76%) FATCA
9 3 (0.76%) GRC
9 3 (0.76%) NCSC
9 3 (0.76%) WCAG
10 2 (0.51%) Basel III
10 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 46 (11.62%) Docker
2 12 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.51%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.51%) OpenSSH
5 2 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.25%) Firmware
6 1 (0.25%) HDFS
6 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 47 (11.87%) Kubernetes
2 44 (11.11%) Terraform
3 22 (5.56%) Ansible
4 12 (3.03%) Prometheus
5 11 (2.78%) Grafana
6 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.51%) Argo
8 2 (0.51%) Kibana
8 2 (0.51%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.51%) Puppet
8 2 (0.51%) SCCM
8 2 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.25%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.25%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.25%) Istio
9 1 (0.25%) logstash
9 1 (0.25%) Pingdom
9 1 (0.25%) Podman
9 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 83 (20.96%) Microsoft
2 75 (18.94%) Oracle
3 25 (6.31%) ServiceNow
4 24 (6.06%) Databricks
5 21 (5.30%) SAP
6 19 (4.80%) MuleSoft
7 18 (4.55%) Workday
8 17 (4.29%) Splunk
9 12 (3.03%) Adobe
10 11 (2.78%) F5
10 11 (2.78%) Foundry
10 11 (2.78%) IBM
11 10 (2.53%) Infoblox
11 10 (2.53%) Sonatype
12 9 (2.27%) webMethods
13 8 (2.02%) Confluent
14 7 (1.77%) Dell
14 7 (1.77%) Red Hat
15 6 (1.52%) Google
15 6 (1.52%) Salesforce