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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 260 248
Rank change year-on-year 0 -12 -51
Contract jobs citing JSON 413 257 358
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.94% 0.98% 0.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.95% 4.38% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 190 245
10th Percentile £362 £360 £400
25th Percentile £425 £410 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -6.19% -3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £592 £619
90th Percentile £650 £671 £708
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.19% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 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 £68.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £87.63 £83.75 -
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 8,347 5,872 7,954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.01% 22.50% 21.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,508 4,046 5,542
10th Percentile £363 £355 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 126 264
10th Percentile £30.30 £30.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.44 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £58.15
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% -0.90% -10.54%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.42 £80.51 £74.48
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -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 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 3 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 3 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 -7 216 £525 -8.70% 60
North of England -37 73 £430 -3.37% 27
South East -41 63 £525 +10.53% 31
Yorkshire -24 40 £463 +13.08% 7
North West -34 33 £391 -12.08% 18
Midlands -48 26 £456 -17.05% 20
West Midlands -49 21 £456 -17.05% 10
South West -15 15 £425 +13.33% 12
East of England -17 12 £519 +53.70% 5
East Midlands -14 5 - - 10
North East -35 3 £550 +175.00% 2
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 28 (6.78%) Confluence
2 20 (4.84%) SharePoint
3 13 (3.15%) Apache
4 10 (2.42%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.69%) Anypoint
5 7 (1.69%) CICS
5 7 (1.69%) Mule
6 5 (1.21%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.73%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.48%) IIS
8 2 (0.48%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.48%) Mule ESB
8 2 (0.48%) nginx
8 2 (0.48%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.48%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.24%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.24%) JBoss
9 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.45%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (2.42%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.69%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (1.45%) Maximo
4 5 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.21%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (1.21%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.73%) Findur
5 3 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.48%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.24%) Magento
7 1 (0.24%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.24%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.24%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.24%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.24%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.24%) Shopify
7 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 139 (33.66%) Azure
2 91 (22.03%) AWS
3 56 (13.56%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (10.90%) Power Platform
5 40 (9.69%) Serverless
6 32 (7.75%) Power Automate
7 31 (7.51%) GitHub
8 29 (7.02%) GCP
9 25 (6.05%) Azure Logic Apps
10 23 (5.57%) Boomi
10 23 (5.57%) PowerApps
11 19 (4.60%) Azure Functions
12 18 (4.36%) Entra ID
13 17 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
14 16 (3.87%) Amazon S3
14 16 (3.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 16 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
14 16 (3.87%) SaaS
15 15 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
16 14 (3.39%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.15%) HTTP
2 12 (2.91%) TCP/IP
3 11 (2.66%) DNS
4 10 (2.42%) BIG-IP
4 10 (2.42%) DHCP
5 4 (0.97%) HTTPS
5 4 (0.97%) Intranet
5 4 (0.97%) Network Security
6 3 (0.73%) Firewall
6 3 (0.73%) FTP
6 3 (0.73%) SSH
7 2 (0.48%) DSL
7 2 (0.48%) Internet
7 2 (0.48%) NAS
7 2 (0.48%) SAN
7 2 (0.48%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.48%) WAN
7 2 (0.48%) Wireless
7 2 (0.48%) X.509
8 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (7.99%) Metadata
2 32 (7.75%) SQL Server
3 28 (6.78%) MongoDB
4 26 (6.30%) Relational Database
5 25 (6.05%) Power BI
6 20 (4.84%) NoSQL
7 19 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (3.87%) Parquet
9 13 (3.15%) DynamoDB
9 13 (3.15%) RDBMS
10 11 (2.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (2.42%) Oracle Database
12 9 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (2.18%) Db2
12 9 (2.18%) Delta Lake
13 8 (1.94%) Data Lake
14 6 (1.45%) MySQL
14 6 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 69 (16.71%) Git
2 48 (11.62%) JIRA
3 32 (7.75%) Postman
4 25 (6.05%) GitLab
5 24 (5.81%) Jenkins
6 13 (3.15%) Maven
7 10 (2.42%) SonarQube
8 7 (1.69%) ERwin
8 7 (1.69%) Selenium
9 6 (1.45%) JUnit
10 5 (1.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (1.21%) Claude Code
10 5 (1.21%) SoapUI
10 5 (1.21%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (1.21%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.97%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.97%) Gradle
11 4 (0.97%) JMeter
12 3 (0.73%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.73%) WebDriver
General
1 121 (29.30%) Social Skills
2 79 (19.13%) Finance
3 63 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (9.69%) Public Sector
5 36 (8.72%) Banking
6 19 (4.60%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.18%) Publishing
8 8 (1.94%) Marketing
9 7 (1.69%) Retail
10 5 (1.21%) Legal
11 4 (0.97%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.97%) Law
12 3 (0.73%) Back Office
12 3 (0.73%) Front Office
12 3 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.73%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.73%) Military
12 3 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.48%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 134 (32.45%) Developer
2 43 (10.41%) Senior
3 38 (9.20%) Architect
4 34 (8.23%) Data Engineer
5 30 (7.26%) Analyst
6 18 (4.36%) Senior Developer
7 16 (3.87%) Business Analyst
7 16 (3.87%) Integration Engineer
8 15 (3.63%) Consultant
9 14 (3.39%) Full-Stack Developer
9 14 (3.39%) Python Developer
10 13 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (2.91%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (2.91%) Integration Specialist
12 11 (2.66%) Integration Architect
12 11 (2.66%) Java Developer
13 9 (2.18%) Integration Developer
13 9 (2.18%) ServiceNow Developer
13 9 (2.18%) Software Developer
13 9 (2.18%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (38.26%) REST
2 156 (37.77%) XML
3 86 (20.82%) SOAP
4 55 (13.32%) Kafka
5 41 (9.93%) RESTful
6 39 (9.44%) OAuth
7 38 (9.20%) React
8 37 (8.96%) .NET
8 37 (8.96%) Web Services
9 35 (8.47%) Middleware
10 31 (7.51%) YAML
11 26 (6.30%) CSS
12 25 (6.05%) Node.js
13 23 (5.57%) Swagger
14 19 (4.60%) HTML
14 19 (4.60%) OAuth2
15 18 (4.36%) XSLT
16 17 (4.12%) JWT
17 16 (3.87%) Apache Avro
17 16 (3.87%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.02%) Data Structures
1 29 (7.02%) Product Ownership
2 15 (3.63%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (2.91%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.66%) Algorithms
5 11 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.66%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.94%) Taxonomies
7 8 (1.94%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.69%) AI Agents
8 7 (1.69%) CMDB
8 7 (1.69%) DataPower
8 7 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.69%) Mainframe
8 7 (1.69%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.45%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.45%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.08%) Linux
2 16 (3.87%) Windows
3 10 (2.42%) Unix
4 7 (1.69%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.69%) zOS
5 6 (1.45%) Android
6 5 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.73%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.48%) Solaris
8 2 (0.48%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.48%) VMS
8 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.24%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (33.41%) CI/CD
2 131 (31.72%) Agile
3 125 (30.27%) DevOps
4 105 (25.42%) Problem-Solving
5 72 (17.43%) Data Modelling
6 68 (16.46%) Validation
7 58 (14.04%) AI
8 56 (13.56%) Integration Patterns
9 50 (12.11%) Analytics
10 46 (11.14%) Event-Driven
11 45 (10.90%) Data Pipeline
12 43 (10.41%) API Integration
12 43 (10.41%) ETL
12 43 (10.41%) Microservices
12 43 (10.41%) Scrum
12 43 (10.41%) Workflow
13 41 (9.93%) Stakeholder Management
14 40 (9.69%) Software Engineering
15 37 (8.96%) ERP
15 37 (8.96%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 165 (39.95%) Python
2 154 (37.29%) SQL
3 82 (19.85%) Java
3 82 (19.85%) JavaScript
4 58 (14.04%) C#
5 48 (11.62%) PowerShell
6 21 (5.08%) Groovy
7 20 (4.84%) TypeScript
8 17 (4.12%) Shell Script
9 15 (3.63%) PL/SQL
10 12 (2.91%) Bash
11 11 (2.66%) T-SQL
12 10 (2.42%) VBA
13 8 (1.94%) Bicep
14 6 (1.45%) Go
14 6 (1.45%) JCL
14 6 (1.45%) Kotlin
15 5 (1.21%) R
15 5 (1.21%) Scala
16 4 (0.97%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 116 (28.09%) Security Cleared
2 90 (21.79%) SC Cleared
3 24 (5.81%) Degree
4 15 (3.63%) Azure Certification
5 13 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.94%) CISSP
8 7 (1.69%) CISM
9 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.97%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.48%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.48%) GIAC
11 2 (0.48%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.48%) SSCP
12 1 (0.24%) CEH
12 1 (0.24%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.24%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (9.20%) Data Quality
2 28 (6.78%) QA
3 22 (5.33%) Accessibility
4 19 (4.60%) GDPR
5 6 (1.45%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.45%) NIST
5 6 (1.45%) WCAG
6 5 (1.21%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.21%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.97%) HL7
7 4 (0.97%) ISO 15022
8 3 (0.73%) FATCA
8 3 (0.73%) GRC
8 3 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.73%) NCSC
8 3 (0.73%) PSD2
9 2 (0.48%) Basel III
9 2 (0.48%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 44 (10.65%) Docker
2 15 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.48%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.48%) OpenSSH
5 2 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 48 (11.62%) Kubernetes
2 44 (10.65%) Terraform
3 33 (7.99%) Ansible
4 9 (2.18%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.45%) Grafana
6 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.48%) Kibana
8 2 (0.48%) QRadar
8 2 (0.48%) SCCM
8 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.48%) WMI
9 1 (0.24%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.24%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.24%) Istio
9 1 (0.24%) logstash
9 1 (0.24%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 91 (22.03%) Microsoft
2 74 (17.92%) Oracle
3 32 (7.75%) ServiceNow
4 23 (5.57%) Databricks
5 22 (5.33%) MuleSoft
5 22 (5.33%) SAP
6 20 (4.84%) Workday
7 17 (4.12%) Splunk
8 13 (3.15%) Salesforce
9 12 (2.91%) Foundry
9 12 (2.91%) IBM
10 11 (2.66%) Google
11 10 (2.42%) F5
11 10 (2.42%) Infoblox
11 10 (2.42%) Sonatype
11 10 (2.42%) webMethods
12 8 (1.94%) Dell
13 7 (1.69%) Palantir
14 6 (1.45%) Confluent
14 6 (1.45%) OpenAI