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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 265 227
Rank change year-on-year +39 -38 -25
Contract jobs citing JSON 418 232 393
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.14% 0.94% 1.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.34% 4.16% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 175 301
10th Percentile £358 £400 £393
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £600
90th Percentile £808 £683 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 6
10th Percentile - - £32.14
25th Percentile £46.25 £91.25 £54.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.65% +32.14% -1.75%
75th Percentile £48.75 £93.75 £78.44
90th Percentile £57.25 - £81.25
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -48.65% +32.14% -

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 7,826 5,573 7,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.42% 22.59% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,244 3,752 5,399
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £428 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +0.93% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 86 200
10th Percentile £35.03 £27.30 £20.82
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.19 £39.98
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £71.13 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.85 £82.53 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 13 March 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 +19 213 £570 +7.55% 63
North of England -8 81 £402 -10.22% 29
North West +4 53 £400 -10.11% 16
South East -44 50 £506 +1.25% 42
Midlands -44 31 £475 -10.59% 19
West Midlands -40 28 £475 -13.64% 12
Yorkshire -38 27 £453 -24.43% 11
South West -15 14 £400 - 8
East of England -20 10 £513 +13.89% 18
East Midlands -33 3 - - 7
North East - 1 £475 - 2
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 26 (6.22%) Confluence
2 16 (3.83%) Apache
3 12 (2.87%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.91%) JBoss
4 8 (1.91%) WebLogic
5 6 (1.44%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (1.20%) Anypoint
6 5 (1.20%) Mule
7 4 (0.96%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (0.96%) Oracle Service Bus
8 3 (0.72%) Appian
8 3 (0.72%) CICS
8 3 (0.72%) IIS
8 3 (0.72%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.48%) Mendix
9 2 (0.48%) Mule ESB
10 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.24%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (4.31%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.44%) Maximo
4 5 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.48%) Actimize
5 2 (0.48%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.24%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.24%) Endur
6 1 (0.24%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.24%) Shopify
6 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 112 (26.79%) Azure
2 92 (22.01%) AWS
3 43 (10.29%) GitHub
4 38 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 37 (8.85%) IaaS
5 37 (8.85%) Serverless
6 32 (7.66%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (7.42%) Azure Logic Apps
7 31 (7.42%) OCI
8 27 (6.46%) GCP
8 27 (6.46%) GitHub Actions
9 22 (5.26%) PaaS
10 18 (4.31%) SaaS
11 16 (3.83%) Power Automate
12 14 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (3.35%) Azure Functions
12 14 (3.35%) Cloud Computing
12 14 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
12 14 (3.35%) PowerApps
13 13 (3.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 34 (8.13%) HTTP
2 16 (3.83%) HTTPS
3 11 (2.63%) Firewall
4 7 (1.67%) VPN
5 6 (1.44%) DNS
6 5 (1.20%) SSL
6 5 (1.20%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.72%) BIG-IP
7 3 (0.72%) DHCP
7 3 (0.72%) Kerberos
7 3 (0.72%) NFC
7 3 (0.72%) PPP
8 2 (0.48%) 5G
8 2 (0.48%) BGP
8 2 (0.48%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (0.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.48%) MPLS
8 2 (0.48%) Network Security
8 2 (0.48%) SMS
9 1 (0.24%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.18%) Relational Database
2 27 (6.46%) MongoDB
3 24 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (5.50%) NoSQL
5 22 (5.26%) RDBMS
6 21 (5.02%) Power BI
7 20 (4.78%) SQL Server
8 16 (3.83%) Metadata
9 15 (3.59%) Data Lake
10 14 (3.35%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (2.39%) Oracle Reports
13 9 (2.15%) Parquet
14 8 (1.91%) MySQL
15 7 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
15 7 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
16 6 (1.44%) Big Data
17 5 (1.20%) Hadoop
17 5 (1.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 5 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 69 (16.51%) Git
2 55 (13.16%) Postman
3 46 (11.00%) JIRA
4 40 (9.57%) Jenkins
5 33 (7.89%) Selenium
6 30 (7.18%) JUnit
7 26 (6.22%) GitLab
8 22 (5.26%) Cucumber
9 21 (5.02%) Maven
10 12 (2.87%) SonarQube
11 11 (2.63%) Bitbucket
11 11 (2.63%) Eclipse
12 10 (2.39%) IntelliJ
12 10 (2.39%) SoapUI
13 7 (1.67%) Cypress.io
13 7 (1.67%) Gradle
13 7 (1.67%) Mockito
14 6 (1.44%) SpecFlow
14 6 (1.44%) TestRail
14 6 (1.44%) Zephyr
General
1 125 (29.90%) Social Skills
2 81 (19.38%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (16.51%) Finance
4 50 (11.96%) Public Sector
5 35 (8.37%) Banking
6 19 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.87%) Marketing
8 9 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.44%) Military
10 5 (1.20%) Retail
11 4 (0.96%) Billing
11 4 (0.96%) Publishing
11 4 (0.96%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.72%) Law
12 3 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.48%) Back Office
13 2 (0.48%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.48%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.48%) Legal
Job Titles
1 148 (35.41%) Developer
2 48 (11.48%) Architect
3 26 (6.22%) Analyst
3 26 (6.22%) Data Engineer
4 25 (5.98%) Java Developer
5 24 (5.74%) Senior
6 20 (4.78%) Software Engineer
7 18 (4.31%) Business Analyst
8 16 (3.83%) DevOps Engineer
9 15 (3.59%) Lead
10 14 (3.35%) Consultant
11 13 (3.11%) Cloud Specialist
11 13 (3.11%) Integration Specialist
11 13 (3.11%) Oracle Specialist
12 12 (2.87%) DBA
13 11 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
14 10 (2.39%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 10 (2.39%) Technical Analyst
15 9 (2.15%) Administrator
15 9 (2.15%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (46.65%) REST
2 187 (44.74%) XML
3 96 (22.97%) SOAP
4 60 (14.35%) OAuth
5 59 (14.11%) HTML
6 41 (9.81%) RESTful
7 39 (9.33%) Web Services
8 36 (8.61%) CSS
9 33 (7.89%) React
9 33 (7.89%) Spring
10 32 (7.66%) Kafka
11 27 (6.46%) YAML
12 26 (6.22%) .NET
12 26 (6.22%) OAuth2
12 26 (6.22%) Spring Boot
12 26 (6.22%) Swagger
13 25 (5.98%) JWT
13 25 (5.98%) Oracle Fusion
13 25 (5.98%) XSLT
14 21 (5.02%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.70%) PKI
2 27 (6.46%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (5.50%) Data Structures
4 17 (4.07%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.35%) Public Cloud
6 11 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (2.63%) Low-Code
7 10 (2.39%) Cloud Native
8 8 (1.91%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.44%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.20%) Digital Wallet
11 5 (1.20%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.20%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.96%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.96%) CMDB
12 4 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.96%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 38 (9.09%) Linux
2 21 (5.02%) Unix
3 9 (2.15%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.91%) Android
5 7 (1.67%) Windows
6 6 (1.44%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.72%) zOS
8 2 (0.48%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.24%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (36.84%) Agile
2 149 (35.65%) DevOps
3 128 (30.62%) CI/CD
4 102 (24.40%) Problem-Solving
5 67 (16.03%) Validation
6 60 (14.35%) Microservices
7 51 (12.20%) Data Modelling
7 51 (12.20%) Software Engineering
8 46 (11.00%) Analytics
9 44 (10.53%) ERP
10 41 (9.81%) Containerisation
10 41 (9.81%) Integration Patterns
11 39 (9.33%) Scrum
11 39 (9.33%) Stakeholder Management
12 37 (8.85%) Test Automation
13 34 (8.13%) Data Pipeline
14 33 (7.89%) Configuration Management
15 32 (7.66%) API Integration
15 32 (7.66%) CRM
15 32 (7.66%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 111 (26.56%) SQL
2 108 (25.84%) Python
3 93 (22.25%) Java
4 88 (21.05%) JavaScript
5 55 (13.16%) PowerShell
6 53 (12.68%) C#
7 23 (5.50%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.35%) Groovy
8 14 (3.35%) T-SQL
9 10 (2.39%) Shell Script
10 9 (2.15%) Scala
11 7 (1.67%) Bicep
11 7 (1.67%) C++
11 7 (1.67%) R
11 7 (1.67%) XPath
12 6 (1.44%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.96%) Go
13 4 (0.96%) Swift
14 3 (0.72%) C
14 3 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 140 (33.49%) Security Cleared
2 104 (24.88%) SC Cleared
3 35 (8.37%) Degree
4 24 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (3.11%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.91%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.20%) CCNP
8 5 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.20%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.96%) CTC Cleared
9 4 (0.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.48%) CCNA
10 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.48%) OCP
10 2 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.24%) CBAP
11 1 (0.24%) CEH
11 1 (0.24%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.18%) QA
2 16 (3.83%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.63%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.15%) WCAG
5 8 (1.91%) PSD2
6 6 (1.44%) GDPR
7 5 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (1.20%) ISO 20022
7 5 (1.20%) ISO 8583
7 5 (1.20%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.72%) FATCA
8 3 (0.72%) HL7
9 2 (0.48%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.48%) NIST
9 2 (0.48%) SEPA
10 1 (0.24%) MiFID
10 1 (0.24%) NCSC
10 1 (0.24%) PMO
10 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (14.35%) Docker
2 7 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.48%) HDFS
4 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 48 (11.48%) Kubernetes
2 30 (7.18%) Terraform
3 16 (3.83%) Ansible
3 16 (3.83%) Grafana
4 14 (3.35%) Prometheus
5 13 (3.11%) Puppet
6 11 (2.63%) Kibana
7 5 (1.20%) logstash
7 5 (1.20%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.96%) Pingdom
8 4 (0.96%) Podman
8 4 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.48%) Argo
9 2 (0.48%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.48%) Fluentd
9 2 (0.48%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.48%) QRadar
10 1 (0.24%) Istio
Vendors
1 67 (16.03%) Oracle
2 62 (14.83%) Microsoft
3 23 (5.50%) Splunk
4 18 (4.31%) ServiceNow
5 15 (3.59%) MuleSoft
5 15 (3.59%) webMethods
6 14 (3.35%) IBM
7 11 (2.63%) Adobe
7 11 (2.63%) Databricks
8 10 (2.39%) OpenAI
9 9 (2.15%) SAP
10 8 (1.91%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.91%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.67%) F5
12 6 (1.44%) Cisco
12 6 (1.44%) Foundry
12 6 (1.44%) Software AG
13 5 (1.20%) mParticle
13 5 (1.20%) Talend
13 5 (1.20%) Workday