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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 269 205
Rank change year-on-year +68 -64 -1
Contract jobs citing JSON 437 253 428
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.37% 0.89% 1.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.19% 4.05% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 175 334
10th Percentile £357 £400 £380
25th Percentile £413 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £600
90th Percentile £796 £665 £684
UK median daily rate £500 £524 £525
% change year-on-year -4.58% -0.19% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 11
10th Percentile - - £48.75
25th Percentile £31.25 £91.25 £62.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.65% +32.14% -4.42%
75th Percentile £48.75 £93.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £67.88 - £81.25
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -48.65% +32.14% +12.00%

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 7,059 6,242 7,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.20% 21.88% 21.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,708 3,999 5,799
10th Percentile £352 £359 £363
25th Percentile £413 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £632 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £768
UK median daily rate £505 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -6.48% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 75 166
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £31.63
25th Percentile £45.00 £43.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +20.45% -20.17%
75th Percentile £66.75 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.26 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -3.20% +19.05% -19.23%

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025. 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 +62 238 £543 -1.27% 80
North of England -5 76 £414 -23.07% 109
North West +19 52 £402 -7.59% 61
South East -17 32 £475 -11.21% 136
Midlands -34 27 £488 -13.18% 87
West Midlands -20 24 £525 -6.96% 49
Yorkshire -37 23 £518 -8.72% 41
East of England -10 17 £475 +58.33% 78
South West +1 12 £413 +0.61% 50
East Midlands -21 3 £450 - 33
North East - 1 £475 - 7
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 28 (6.41%) Confluence
2 13 (2.97%) Apache
3 10 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.29%) WebLogic
4 9 (2.06%) JBoss
5 7 (1.60%) Appian
6 6 (1.37%) Anypoint
6 6 (1.37%) Mule
6 6 (1.37%) nginx
6 6 (1.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (1.14%) OpenStack
7 5 (1.14%) Oracle Service Bus
8 4 (0.92%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.92%) Mule ESB
8 4 (0.92%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.46%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.46%) IIS
9 2 (0.46%) Moodle
10 1 (0.23%) CMS
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (3.20%) Oracle ERP
2 12 (2.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (2.06%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (1.37%) Maximo
5 2 (0.46%) Actimize
5 2 (0.46%) Endur
5 2 (0.46%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.23%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.23%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.23%) SAP MRS
6 1 (0.23%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 128 (29.29%) Azure
2 88 (20.14%) AWS
3 44 (10.07%) GitHub
4 38 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (8.70%) Power Platform
5 34 (7.78%) IaaS
6 32 (7.32%) Azure Logic Apps
6 32 (7.32%) Serverless
7 27 (6.18%) GCP
8 26 (5.95%) GitHub Actions
9 25 (5.72%) OCI
10 22 (5.03%) Power Automate
11 20 (4.58%) Dynamics 365
11 20 (4.58%) PaaS
12 19 (4.35%) PowerApps
13 17 (3.89%) SaaS
14 16 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
14 16 (3.66%) Azure Monitor
15 14 (3.20%) Azure AKS
15 14 (3.20%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.32%) HTTP
2 29 (6.64%) HTTPS
3 17 (3.89%) SSL
4 16 (3.66%) Firewall
5 9 (2.06%) VPN
6 5 (1.14%) DNS
7 4 (0.92%) BGP
7 4 (0.92%) NFC
7 4 (0.92%) PPP
8 3 (0.69%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.69%) MPLS
8 3 (0.69%) SMS
8 3 (0.69%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.46%) 5G
9 2 (0.46%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (0.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 1 (0.23%) IPsec
10 1 (0.23%) Network Security
10 1 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
10 1 (0.23%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (7.78%) Relational Database
2 24 (5.49%) MongoDB
3 23 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (5.26%) Power BI
4 20 (4.58%) SQL Server
5 17 (3.89%) RDBMS
6 12 (2.75%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.29%) Data Lake
7 10 (2.29%) Metadata
8 9 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (1.60%) Big Data
10 7 (1.60%) Oracle Database
11 6 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
11 6 (1.37%) MySQL
11 6 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (1.37%) Parquet
12 5 (1.14%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 75 (17.16%) Git
2 56 (12.81%) Postman
3 50 (11.44%) JIRA
4 42 (9.61%) Selenium
5 41 (9.38%) Jenkins
6 35 (8.01%) JUnit
7 30 (6.86%) GitLab
8 28 (6.41%) Cucumber
9 18 (4.12%) Maven
10 16 (3.66%) SonarQube
11 14 (3.20%) Gradle
12 13 (2.97%) Bitbucket
12 13 (2.97%) Eclipse
13 12 (2.75%) Cypress.io
14 11 (2.52%) IntelliJ
15 8 (1.83%) Robot Framework
16 7 (1.60%) Mockito
16 7 (1.60%) SpecFlow
17 6 (1.37%) SoapUI
17 6 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 114 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 73 (16.70%) Analytical Skills
3 71 (16.25%) Finance
4 62 (14.19%) Public Sector
5 30 (6.86%) Banking
6 13 (2.97%) Marketing
7 11 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.29%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.14%) Digital Healthcare
10 5 (1.14%) Military
11 4 (0.92%) Billing
11 4 (0.92%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.92%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.69%) Back Office
12 3 (0.69%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.69%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.69%) Retail
13 2 (0.46%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 170 (38.90%) Developer
2 57 (13.04%) Architect
3 48 (10.98%) Senior
4 30 (6.86%) Java Developer
5 26 (5.95%) Software Engineer
6 24 (5.49%) Analyst
6 24 (5.49%) Senior Developer
7 16 (3.66%) Lead
8 15 (3.43%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (3.20%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 14 (3.20%) Integration Specialist
10 13 (2.97%) Consultant
10 13 (2.97%) Data Engineer
10 13 (2.97%) webMethods Developer
11 12 (2.75%) Business Analyst
12 11 (2.52%) Cloud Specialist
12 11 (2.52%) Integration Developer
12 11 (2.52%) Oracle Specialist
12 11 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (2.29%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (47.83%) REST
2 200 (45.77%) XML
3 101 (23.11%) SOAP
4 90 (20.59%) HTML
5 66 (15.10%) OAuth
6 61 (13.96%) RESTful
7 45 (10.30%) Spring
8 43 (9.84%) CSS
9 39 (8.92%) Web Services
10 38 (8.70%) React
11 34 (7.78%) AngularJS
11 34 (7.78%) Spring Boot
12 32 (7.32%) OAuth2
13 25 (5.72%) HTML5
13 25 (5.72%) XSLT
14 24 (5.49%) .NET
14 24 (5.49%) Kafka
15 23 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
16 22 (5.03%) Swagger
17 21 (4.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.18%) PKI
2 26 (5.95%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (3.89%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.66%) Cloud Native
4 16 (3.66%) Mobile App
4 16 (3.66%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.52%) Low-Code
7 9 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.06%) Public Cloud
8 8 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.83%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.37%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.14%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.14%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.92%) Replication
11 4 (0.92%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 44 (10.07%) Linux
2 16 (3.66%) Unix
3 11 (2.52%) Apple iOS
4 10 (2.29%) Android
5 8 (1.83%) Windows
6 6 (1.37%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.46%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.46%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.23%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.23%) tvOS
8 1 (0.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (41.88%) DevOps
2 178 (40.73%) Agile
3 140 (32.04%) CI/CD
4 83 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
5 80 (18.31%) Microservices
6 56 (12.81%) Scrum
7 55 (12.59%) Test Automation
7 55 (12.59%) Validation
8 52 (11.90%) Software Engineering
9 46 (10.53%) Containerisation
10 43 (9.84%) Deployment Automation
11 40 (9.15%) Integration Patterns
12 38 (8.70%) Computer Science
13 37 (8.47%) ERP
14 36 (8.24%) Migration
15 35 (8.01%) Analytics
15 35 (8.01%) Configuration Management
15 35 (8.01%) Data Modelling
16 32 (7.32%) API Management
16 32 (7.32%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 109 (24.94%) Java
2 108 (24.71%) SQL
3 103 (23.57%) JavaScript
4 85 (19.45%) Python
5 59 (13.50%) PowerShell
6 50 (11.44%) C#
7 23 (5.26%) TypeScript
8 11 (2.52%) C++
8 11 (2.52%) T-SQL
9 10 (2.29%) Scala
10 9 (2.06%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.83%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.60%) XPath
13 6 (1.37%) Groovy
13 6 (1.37%) Swift
14 5 (1.14%) Objective-C
14 5 (1.14%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.92%) Bash
15 4 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.92%) VBA
Qualifications
1 138 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 109 (24.94%) SC Cleared
3 46 (10.53%) Degree
4 33 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (2.06%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.14%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.92%) CCNP
9 4 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.92%) CTC Cleared
9 4 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (0.69%) CEH
10 3 (0.69%) GIAC
10 3 (0.69%) GWAPT
11 2 (0.46%) CompTIA CySA+
11 2 (0.46%) GCIH
11 2 (0.46%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.46%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.49%) Accessibility
2 23 (5.26%) QA
3 10 (2.29%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.06%) WCAG
5 4 (0.92%) GDPR
5 4 (0.92%) PSD2
6 3 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.69%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.69%) NIST
7 2 (0.46%) HL7
7 2 (0.46%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.23%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.23%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.23%) MiFID
8 1 (0.23%) SEPA
System Software
1 72 (16.48%) Docker
2 10 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.46%) HDFS
4 1 (0.23%) KVM
4 1 (0.23%) Squid
4 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 42 (9.61%) Kubernetes
2 23 (5.26%) Terraform
3 19 (4.35%) Ansible
4 15 (3.43%) Kibana
5 14 (3.20%) Grafana
5 14 (3.20%) Puppet
6 11 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (2.29%) logstash
8 7 (1.60%) Prometheus
9 6 (1.37%) Podman
9 6 (1.37%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.14%) ITRS Geneos
11 4 (0.92%) Pingdom
12 3 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.69%) CloudHub
12 3 (0.69%) Control-M
12 3 (0.69%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.46%) Fluentd
13 2 (0.46%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.46%) QRadar
Vendors
1 67 (15.33%) Oracle
2 61 (13.96%) Microsoft
3 25 (5.72%) ServiceNow
4 23 (5.26%) SAP
5 22 (5.03%) webMethods
6 20 (4.58%) IBM
7 18 (4.12%) Splunk
8 16 (3.66%) MuleSoft
9 11 (2.52%) Cisco
9 11 (2.52%) Software AG
10 10 (2.29%) Red Hat
10 10 (2.29%) Salesforce
11 9 (2.06%) BMC
11 9 (2.06%) Databricks
11 9 (2.06%) HP
11 9 (2.06%) Ivanti
11 9 (2.06%) Remedy
11 9 (2.06%) TIBCO
12 8 (1.83%) Adobe
12 8 (1.83%) Workday