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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 261 221
Rank change year-on-year +24 -40 -17
Contract jobs citing JSON 423 229 389
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.10% 0.94% 1.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.29% 4.17% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 182 292
10th Percentile £358 £377 £400
25th Percentile £421 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -6.37% +0.28%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £600
90th Percentile £803 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £534
% change year-on-year - -6.37% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile - - £26.42
25th Percentile £46.25 £91.25 £42.76
Median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.65% +32.14% -
75th Percentile £48.75 £93.75 -
90th Percentile £57.25 - -
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 8,001 5,487 7,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.72% 22.52% 19.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,361 3,797 5,387
10th Percentile £359 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 87 156
10th Percentile £35.03 £26.76 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.98 £83.38 £73.13
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +0.78% +35.79% -26.92%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 4 April 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 +21 215 £552 +5.55% 65
North of England -18 83 £402 -10.27% 33
South East -44 49 £500 - 44
North West -11 48 £391 -12.08% 15
Yorkshire -35 34 £463 -20.60% 15
Midlands -50 30 £511 -11.22% 15
West Midlands -37 25 £511 -13.11% 6
East of England -21 16 £519 +38.33% 25
South West -15 15 £485 +21.25% 3
East Midlands -29 5 - - 9
North East - 4 £550 - 3
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 21 (4.96%) Confluence
2 18 (4.26%) Apache
3 10 (2.36%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.36%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (1.18%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.95%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.95%) CICS
6 4 (0.95%) JBoss
6 4 (0.95%) Mule
6 4 (0.95%) Oracle Service Bus
6 4 (0.95%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.71%) IIS
8 2 (0.47%) Mendix
8 2 (0.47%) Mule ESB
8 2 (0.47%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.24%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (3.78%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.42%) Maximo
4 5 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.95%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.71%) Findur
7 2 (0.47%) Actimize
7 2 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.24%) Cerner Millennium
8 1 (0.24%) Magento
8 1 (0.24%) ProductWriter
8 1 (0.24%) ResourceLink
8 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.24%) Shopify
8 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 122 (28.84%) Azure
2 95 (22.46%) AWS
3 44 (10.40%) GitHub
4 41 (9.69%) Serverless
5 37 (8.75%) IaaS
5 37 (8.75%) Power Platform
6 36 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (7.57%) Azure Logic Apps
8 31 (7.33%) GCP
9 30 (7.09%) OCI
10 29 (6.86%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (4.73%) PaaS
12 19 (4.49%) SaaS
13 16 (3.78%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (3.78%) Azure Data Factory
13 16 (3.78%) Power Automate
14 15 (3.55%) Apigee
14 15 (3.55%) Azure Functions
15 13 (3.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 13 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 33 (7.80%) HTTP
2 10 (2.36%) Firewall
3 9 (2.13%) DNS
3 9 (2.13%) HTTPS
4 8 (1.89%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.65%) VPN
6 6 (1.42%) BIG-IP
6 6 (1.42%) DHCP
7 3 (0.71%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.47%) 5G
8 2 (0.47%) BGP
8 2 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.47%) MPLS
8 2 (0.47%) Network Security
8 2 (0.47%) SMS
8 2 (0.47%) SSL
9 1 (0.24%) DSL
9 1 (0.24%) NFC
9 1 (0.24%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.57%) Relational Database
2 28 (6.62%) NoSQL
3 26 (6.15%) MongoDB
4 23 (5.44%) Metadata
5 22 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (5.20%) RDBMS
6 21 (4.96%) Power BI
7 20 (4.73%) SQL Server
8 15 (3.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (3.07%) Data Lake
9 13 (3.07%) Parquet
10 12 (2.84%) Oracle Reports
11 11 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (1.65%) Delta Lake
14 7 (1.65%) Hadoop
15 6 (1.42%) DynamoDB
16 5 (1.18%) Oracle Database
16 5 (1.18%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 63 (14.89%) Git
2 52 (12.29%) Postman
3 45 (10.64%) JIRA
4 35 (8.27%) Jenkins
5 23 (5.44%) Maven
6 22 (5.20%) GitLab
7 20 (4.73%) JUnit
7 20 (4.73%) Selenium
8 14 (3.31%) Cucumber
9 10 (2.36%) SoapUI
9 10 (2.36%) SonarQube
10 7 (1.65%) Mockito
11 6 (1.42%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.42%) ERwin
11 6 (1.42%) Gradle
11 6 (1.42%) IntelliJ
11 6 (1.42%) SpecFlow
11 6 (1.42%) TestRail
11 6 (1.42%) Zephyr
12 5 (1.18%) MSTest
General
1 115 (27.19%) Social Skills
2 75 (17.73%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (16.31%) Finance
4 48 (11.35%) Public Sector
5 40 (9.46%) Banking
6 20 (4.73%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (3.07%) Marketing
8 6 (1.42%) Military
8 6 (1.42%) Publishing
9 5 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.95%) Billing
10 4 (0.95%) Retail
11 3 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.47%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.47%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.47%) Games
12 2 (0.47%) Law
12 2 (0.47%) Legal
13 1 (0.24%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 134 (31.68%) Developer
2 56 (13.24%) Architect
3 32 (7.57%) Data Engineer
4 26 (6.15%) Senior
5 24 (5.67%) Analyst
5 24 (5.67%) Java Developer
6 19 (4.49%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (4.26%) Software Engineer
8 17 (4.02%) Business Analyst
9 16 (3.78%) Consultant
10 14 (3.31%) Integration Engineer
10 14 (3.31%) Integration Specialist
11 13 (3.07%) Cloud Specialist
11 13 (3.07%) DBA
11 13 (3.07%) Lead
11 13 (3.07%) Oracle Specialist
12 11 (2.60%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (2.36%) Administrator
13 10 (2.36%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 10 (2.36%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (43.97%) REST
2 171 (40.43%) XML
3 88 (20.80%) SOAP
4 59 (13.95%) OAuth
5 45 (10.64%) HTML
6 42 (9.93%) Kafka
7 39 (9.22%) RESTful
8 38 (8.98%) Web Services
9 36 (8.51%) React
10 31 (7.33%) YAML
11 30 (7.09%) Node.js
12 29 (6.86%) CSS
12 29 (6.86%) Swagger
13 28 (6.62%) .NET
13 28 (6.62%) JWT
13 28 (6.62%) OAuth2
13 28 (6.62%) Spring
14 25 (5.91%) Spring Boot
15 24 (5.67%) XSLT
16 22 (5.20%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.62%) PKI
2 27 (6.38%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (5.67%) Data Structures
4 15 (3.55%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.07%) Public Cloud
6 11 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (2.36%) Cloud Native
7 10 (2.36%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.89%) Low-Code
9 8 (1.89%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.42%) Reference Data
11 5 (1.18%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.18%) Digital Wallet
11 5 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.95%) DataPower
12 4 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
12 4 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.15%) Linux
2 13 (3.07%) Unix
3 7 (1.65%) Android
3 7 (1.65%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.42%) Windows
5 4 (0.95%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.95%) zOS
6 2 (0.47%) VMS
6 2 (0.47%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.24%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (34.75%) Agile
2 138 (32.62%) DevOps
3 118 (27.90%) CI/CD
4 92 (21.75%) Problem-Solving
5 80 (18.91%) Validation
6 63 (14.89%) Data Modelling
7 61 (14.42%) Microservices
8 54 (12.77%) Analytics
9 51 (12.06%) Integration Patterns
10 48 (11.35%) Software Engineering
11 44 (10.40%) Data Pipeline
12 42 (9.93%) ERP
13 38 (8.98%) API Integration
14 36 (8.51%) Containerisation
14 36 (8.51%) ETL
15 35 (8.27%) Stakeholder Management
15 35 (8.27%) Test Automation
16 34 (8.04%) CRM
17 31 (7.33%) Configuration Management
18 30 (7.09%) AI
Programming Languages
1 133 (31.44%) Python
2 123 (29.08%) SQL
3 91 (21.51%) Java
4 76 (17.97%) JavaScript
5 56 (13.24%) PowerShell
6 54 (12.77%) C#
7 23 (5.44%) TypeScript
8 17 (4.02%) Groovy
8 17 (4.02%) T-SQL
9 11 (2.60%) Shell Script
10 8 (1.89%) R
11 7 (1.65%) Bicep
11 7 (1.65%) Scala
11 7 (1.65%) XPath
12 5 (1.18%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.18%) VBA
13 4 (0.95%) Bash
13 4 (0.95%) C++
14 3 (0.71%) JCL
14 3 (0.71%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 148 (34.99%) Security Cleared
2 109 (25.77%) SC Cleared
3 33 (7.80%) Degree
4 24 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.84%) Azure Certification
5 12 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.65%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.18%) CCNP
7 5 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.18%) CTC Cleared
8 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.47%) CCNA
9 2 (0.47%) CISM
9 2 (0.47%) CISSP
9 2 (0.47%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.47%) OCP
9 2 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.24%) CBAP
10 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.15%) QA
2 25 (5.91%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.84%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.60%) GDPR
5 8 (1.89%) PSD2
5 8 (1.89%) WCAG
6 6 (1.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (1.18%) ISO 20022
7 5 (1.18%) ISO 8583
7 5 (1.18%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.95%) HL7
9 3 (0.71%) FATCA
9 3 (0.71%) NIST
10 2 (0.47%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.47%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.47%) SEPA
10 2 (0.47%) SLA
11 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 52 (12.29%) Docker
2 6 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.47%) HDFS
5 1 (0.24%) Firmware
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 52 (12.29%) Kubernetes
2 35 (8.27%) Terraform
3 17 (4.02%) Grafana
4 14 (3.31%) Ansible
4 14 (3.31%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.13%) Kibana
6 8 (1.89%) Puppet
7 4 (0.95%) Pingdom
7 4 (0.95%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.71%) logstash
8 3 (0.71%) Podman
9 2 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.47%) Argo
9 2 (0.47%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.47%) Fluentd
9 2 (0.47%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.47%) QRadar
10 1 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.24%) Istio
Vendors
1 69 (16.31%) Oracle
2 62 (14.66%) Microsoft
3 23 (5.44%) Splunk
4 20 (4.73%) Databricks
5 17 (4.02%) ServiceNow
6 16 (3.78%) MuleSoft
7 14 (3.31%) Adobe
8 11 (2.60%) IBM
8 11 (2.60%) SAP
9 10 (2.36%) webMethods
10 9 (2.13%) F5
11 8 (1.89%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.89%) Sonatype
11 8 (1.89%) Workday
12 7 (1.65%) Foundry
12 7 (1.65%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.65%) Salesforce
13 6 (1.42%) Google
13 6 (1.42%) Infoblox
13 6 (1.42%) Talend