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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 233 261
Rank change year-on-year -20 +28 -54
Contract jobs citing JSON 453 306 307
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.99% 1.11% 0.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.36% 5.00% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 223 202
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -5.24% -4.55%
75th Percentile £571 £588 £621
90th Percentile £650 £640 £686
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 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 £43.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £87.63 - -
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 8,454 6,126 7,334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.54% 22.17% 22.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,534 4,206 5,037
10th Percentile £363 £350 £358
25th Percentile £431 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £640 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 152 226
10th Percentile £28.72 £31.25 £24.09
25th Percentile £46.39 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -3.08% -7.35%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.91 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -7 256 £525 -3.64% 111
North of England -66 62 £450 +7.49% 25
South East -58 60 £500 +5.26% 44
Yorkshire -30 34 £488 +25.81% 10
Midlands -37 33 £425 -17.07% 19
West Midlands -36 29 £425 -22.73% 12
North West -43 28 £415 -6.74% 15
South West -25 16 £485 +29.33% 9
East of England -24 9 £475 +11.76% 10
East Midlands -12 4 - - 7
North East -40 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 25 (5.52%) Confluence
2 23 (5.08%) SharePoint
3 14 (3.09%) Apache
4 12 (2.65%) Apache Spark
5 10 (2.21%) Anypoint
6 9 (1.99%) Mule
7 6 (1.32%) CICS
8 5 (1.10%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.66%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.66%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.44%) IIS
10 2 (0.44%) JBoss
10 2 (0.44%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.44%) nginx
10 2 (0.44%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.22%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.32%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (3.75%) NetSuite
2 11 (2.43%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (1.32%) Maximo
5 3 (0.66%) Findur
5 3 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.66%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.44%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
6 2 (0.44%) Infor LN
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.44%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.22%) Magento
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.22%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.22%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.22%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 174 (38.41%) Azure
2 111 (24.50%) AWS
3 71 (15.67%) Azure DevOps
4 52 (11.48%) GCP
5 48 (10.60%) Power Platform
6 38 (8.39%) GitHub
6 38 (8.39%) Power Automate
7 37 (8.17%) Boomi
8 35 (7.73%) Serverless
9 30 (6.62%) Entra ID
9 30 (6.62%) PowerApps
10 24 (5.30%) Azure Logic Apps
11 20 (4.42%) Azure Service Bus
11 20 (4.42%) Dynamics 365
11 20 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (3.97%) Amazon S3
12 18 (3.97%) AtomSphere
12 18 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (3.75%) SaaS
14 16 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.97%) HTTP
2 13 (2.87%) DNS
3 11 (2.43%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.99%) DHCP
5 7 (1.55%) BIG-IP
6 5 (1.10%) Firewall
6 5 (1.10%) SSL
7 4 (0.88%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.88%) Intranet
7 4 (0.88%) Network Security
7 4 (0.88%) SSH
8 3 (0.66%) BGP
8 3 (0.66%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.66%) FTP
8 3 (0.66%) SAN
8 3 (0.66%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.66%) VXLAN
8 3 (0.66%) WAN
9 2 (0.44%) NX-OS
9 2 (0.44%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (8.17%) Metadata
1 37 (8.17%) SQL Server
2 34 (7.51%) MongoDB
3 28 (6.18%) Relational Database
4 24 (5.30%) Power BI
5 20 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (3.97%) NoSQL
6 18 (3.97%) Parquet
7 16 (3.53%) RDBMS
8 13 (2.87%) DynamoDB
9 10 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (1.99%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (1.99%) Delta Lake
10 9 (1.99%) Oracle Database
11 8 (1.77%) Db2
11 8 (1.77%) Oracle Reports
12 7 (1.55%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.32%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 82 (18.10%) Git
2 46 (10.15%) JIRA
3 35 (7.73%) GitLab
4 32 (7.06%) Jenkins
5 24 (5.30%) Postman
6 16 (3.53%) Selenium
7 15 (3.31%) Maven
8 12 (2.65%) SonarQube
9 10 (2.21%) JUnit
10 8 (1.77%) ERwin
11 7 (1.55%) Claude Code
11 7 (1.55%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.55%) Gradle
12 6 (1.32%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.32%) Gatling
12 6 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (1.10%) WebDriver
14 4 (0.88%) MSI
14 4 (0.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 131 (28.92%) Social Skills
2 83 (18.32%) Finance
3 72 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (10.60%) Public Sector
5 35 (7.73%) Banking
6 16 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.87%) Publishing
8 12 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (2.43%) Marketing
10 9 (1.99%) Legal
11 7 (1.55%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.55%) Retail
12 5 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.88%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.88%) Law
14 3 (0.66%) Back Office
14 3 (0.66%) Front Office
14 3 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.44%) Games
15 2 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 155 (34.22%) Developer
2 60 (13.25%) Senior
3 50 (11.04%) Architect
4 36 (7.95%) Analyst
5 26 (5.74%) Senior Developer
6 24 (5.30%) Data Engineer
7 21 (4.64%) Consultant
8 17 (3.75%) Integration Engineer
8 17 (3.75%) Python Developer
9 16 (3.53%) Business Analyst
9 16 (3.53%) DevOps Engineer
10 15 (3.31%) Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (3.09%) Integration Architect
11 14 (3.09%) Python Engineer
12 13 (2.87%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 12 (2.65%) Java Developer
14 11 (2.43%) Integration Specialist
15 10 (2.21%) Integration Developer
15 10 (2.21%) Technical Analyst
16 9 (1.99%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (41.28%) REST
2 174 (38.41%) XML
3 93 (20.53%) SOAP
4 65 (14.35%) Kafka
5 51 (11.26%) .NET
6 49 (10.82%) OAuth
7 48 (10.60%) Middleware
8 43 (9.49%) React
8 43 (9.49%) RESTful
9 35 (7.73%) YAML
10 31 (6.84%) Web Services
11 28 (6.18%) OAuth2
12 24 (5.30%) CSS
12 24 (5.30%) Swagger
13 23 (5.08%) HTML
14 21 (4.64%) JWT
14 21 (4.64%) Node.js
15 20 (4.42%) OpenAPI
15 20 (4.42%) SAML
16 16 (3.53%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.83%) Product Ownership
2 33 (7.28%) Data Structures
3 24 (5.30%) Cloud Native
4 22 (4.86%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (3.97%) Algorithms
6 16 (3.53%) AI Agents
6 16 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (2.87%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (2.87%) Onboarding
9 10 (2.21%) Taxonomies
10 9 (1.99%) CMDB
10 9 (1.99%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.77%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.55%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.32%) Data Centre
13 6 (1.32%) Mainframe
13 6 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.62%) Linux
2 27 (5.96%) Windows
3 11 (2.43%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.21%) Unix
5 8 (1.77%) Android
6 7 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.32%) zOS
8 4 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.66%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.44%) Solaris
10 2 (0.44%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.44%) VMS
10 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.22%) CentOS
11 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (37.53%) CI/CD
2 150 (33.11%) Agile
2 150 (33.11%) DevOps
3 112 (24.72%) Problem-Solving
4 77 (17.00%) Data Modelling
5 73 (16.11%) Validation
6 67 (14.79%) AI
7 63 (13.91%) Event-Driven
8 61 (13.47%) Scrum
9 60 (13.25%) Integration Patterns
10 51 (11.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 51 (11.26%) Test Automation
11 49 (10.82%) Microservices
12 48 (10.60%) Analytics
12 48 (10.60%) Workflow
13 47 (10.38%) API Integration
13 47 (10.38%) Stakeholder Management
14 46 (10.15%) ETL
15 44 (9.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 41 (9.05%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 168 (37.09%) Python
2 167 (36.87%) SQL
3 105 (23.18%) JavaScript
4 92 (20.31%) Java
5 63 (13.91%) C#
6 51 (11.26%) PowerShell
7 29 (6.40%) Groovy
8 22 (4.86%) TypeScript
9 17 (3.75%) PL/SQL
10 15 (3.31%) Bash
11 14 (3.09%) Shell Script
12 10 (2.21%) Bicep
13 9 (1.99%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.99%) VBA
14 8 (1.77%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.55%) R
15 7 (1.55%) Scala
16 6 (1.32%) C++
16 6 (1.32%) JCL
17 5 (1.10%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 128 (28.26%) Security Cleared
2 101 (22.30%) SC Cleared
3 26 (5.74%) Degree
4 12 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (2.43%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.77%) CISSP
7 7 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.55%) CISM
8 6 (1.32%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.88%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (0.88%) PhD
9 4 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.66%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.44%) CCNP
11 2 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.44%) GIAC
11 2 (0.44%) SSCP
12 1 (0.22%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (9.49%) Data Quality
2 38 (8.39%) Accessibility
3 32 (7.06%) QA
4 19 (4.19%) GDPR
5 11 (2.43%) WCAG
6 9 (1.99%) ISO 20022
7 8 (1.77%) NIST
8 6 (1.32%) ISO 15022
9 5 (1.10%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.88%) HL7
11 3 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.66%) GRC
11 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.66%) NCSC
12 2 (0.44%) Basel III
12 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.44%) SLA
13 1 (0.22%) COREP
13 1 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 54 (11.92%) Docker
2 23 (5.08%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.44%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.44%) OpenSSH
5 2 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.44%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 59 (13.02%) Kubernetes
2 47 (10.38%) Terraform
3 39 (8.61%) Ansible
4 8 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.32%) Grafana
5 6 (1.32%) SCCM
6 4 (0.88%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.66%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.66%) Puppet
7 3 (0.66%) WMI
8 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.44%) Kibana
8 2 (0.44%) QRadar
9 1 (0.22%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.22%) Istio
9 1 (0.22%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.22%) logstash
9 1 (0.22%) Podman
9 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 110 (24.28%) Microsoft
2 89 (19.65%) Oracle
3 41 (9.05%) ServiceNow
4 29 (6.40%) MuleSoft
5 27 (5.96%) Google
6 25 (5.52%) Databricks
6 25 (5.52%) Salesforce
7 24 (5.30%) SAP
8 22 (4.86%) IBM
9 20 (4.42%) Workday
10 14 (3.09%) Splunk
11 11 (2.43%) webMethods
12 10 (2.21%) Sonatype
13 9 (1.99%) Informatica
14 8 (1.77%) F5
14 8 (1.77%) Infoblox
14 8 (1.77%) VMware
15 7 (1.55%) Foundry
15 7 (1.55%) Palantir
15 7 (1.55%) TIBCO