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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 262 206
Rank change year-on-year +44 -56 -13
Contract jobs citing JSON 408 226 428
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.24% 0.86% 1.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.67% 3.85% 5.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 157 330
10th Percentile £358 £400 £384
25th Percentile £413 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £600
90th Percentile £831 £670 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% +0.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 7
10th Percentile - - £35.46
25th Percentile £46.25 £91.25 £53.13
Median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.65% +32.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £54.06 £93.75 £75.63
90th Percentile £82.00 - £81.25
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -48.65% +32.14% -6.67%

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 7,201 5,869 7,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.94% 22.37% 20.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,822 3,720 5,665
10th Percentile £358 £363 £356
25th Percentile £415 £430 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £658 £663
90th Percentile £737 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £513 £536 £535
% change year-on-year -4.38% +0.19% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 76 184
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.38 £26.06
25th Percentile £48.13 £45.51 £46.11
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.38 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.20 £76.03 £77.21
UK median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.40% +13.64% -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 2 February 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 2 February 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 2 February 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 +40 218 £575 +6.48% 68
North of England -3 79 £402 -28.31% 29
North West +16 58 £400 -10.11% 16
South East -23 33 £525 +2.44% 39
Midlands -39 28 £525 -7.41% 15
West Midlands -28 25 £531 -6.39% 6
Yorkshire -54 20 £563 -0.79% 13
East of England -11 13 £500 -16.67% 6
South West -12 12 £400 -2.44% 8
East Midlands -21 3 £450 - 9
North East - 1 £475 -
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 (5.15%) Confluence
2 12 (2.94%) Apache
3 11 (2.70%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.96%) JBoss
4 8 (1.96%) WebLogic
5 7 (1.72%) Appian
6 5 (1.23%) Anypoint
6 5 (1.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.98%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (0.98%) Mule
7 4 (0.98%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.98%) Oracle Service Bus
8 2 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.49%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.49%) IIS
8 2 (0.49%) nginx
9 1 (0.25%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.25%) CMS
9 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.25%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 10 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (4.66%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.47%) Maximo
4 5 (1.23%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.49%) Actimize
5 2 (0.49%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.25%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.25%) Endur
6 1 (0.25%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 122 (29.90%) Azure
2 88 (21.57%) AWS
3 41 (10.05%) GitHub
4 40 (9.80%) Azure Logic Apps
5 37 (9.07%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (8.82%) IaaS
6 36 (8.82%) Power Platform
7 35 (8.58%) Serverless
8 31 (7.60%) OCI
9 27 (6.62%) GCP
10 26 (6.37%) GitHub Actions
11 24 (5.88%) PaaS
12 19 (4.66%) Dynamics 365
13 18 (4.41%) SaaS
14 17 (4.17%) Power Automate
15 16 (3.92%) Azure Functions
15 16 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
16 15 (3.68%) PowerApps
17 14 (3.43%) Cloud Computing
18 13 (3.19%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 31 (7.60%) HTTP
2 29 (7.11%) HTTPS
3 16 (3.92%) Firewall
4 8 (1.96%) SSL
4 8 (1.96%) VPN
5 4 (0.98%) BGP
5 4 (0.98%) DNS
6 3 (0.74%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.74%) MPLS
6 3 (0.74%) NFC
6 3 (0.74%) PPP
7 2 (0.49%) 5G
7 2 (0.49%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.49%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.49%) SMS
7 2 (0.49%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.25%) Network Security
8 1 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.25%) VRRP
8 1 (0.25%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.62%) Relational Database
2 21 (5.15%) MongoDB
3 18 (4.41%) Power BI
3 18 (4.41%) RDBMS
4 17 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (3.92%) SQL Server
6 13 (3.19%) Metadata
6 13 (3.19%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.45%) Data Lake
7 10 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (1.47%) Big Data
9 6 (1.47%) MySQL
9 6 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (1.47%) Parquet
10 5 (1.23%) Delta Lake
11 4 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 65 (15.93%) Git
2 61 (14.95%) Postman
3 44 (10.78%) Jenkins
4 39 (9.56%) Selenium
5 37 (9.07%) JIRA
6 33 (8.09%) JUnit
7 27 (6.62%) GitLab
8 26 (6.37%) Cucumber
9 19 (4.66%) Maven
10 18 (4.41%) SonarQube
11 13 (3.19%) Bitbucket
12 11 (2.70%) Eclipse
13 10 (2.45%) Cypress.io
13 10 (2.45%) IntelliJ
14 8 (1.96%) Gradle
14 8 (1.96%) Robot Framework
15 7 (1.72%) Mockito
15 7 (1.72%) SoapUI
16 6 (1.47%) SpecFlow
16 6 (1.47%) TestRail
General
1 113 (27.70%) Social Skills
2 78 (19.12%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (15.69%) Finance
4 58 (14.22%) Public Sector
5 29 (7.11%) Banking
6 16 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (3.19%) Marketing
8 9 (2.21%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.72%) Military
11 4 (0.98%) Billing
11 4 (0.98%) Retail
12 3 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.74%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.74%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.49%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.49%) Law
13 2 (0.49%) Legal
13 2 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 150 (36.76%) Developer
2 48 (11.76%) Architect
3 36 (8.82%) Senior
4 27 (6.62%) Java Developer
5 25 (6.13%) Analyst
6 19 (4.66%) Software Engineer
7 18 (4.41%) Integration Specialist
7 18 (4.41%) Senior Developer
8 17 (4.17%) Data Engineer
9 16 (3.92%) Business Analyst
9 16 (3.92%) DevOps Engineer
10 15 (3.68%) Cloud Specialist
10 15 (3.68%) Lead
10 15 (3.68%) Oracle Specialist
11 13 (3.19%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 13 (3.19%) Integration Developer
11 13 (3.19%) webMethods Developer
12 12 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (2.45%) Consultant
13 10 (2.45%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (50.25%) REST
2 194 (47.55%) XML
3 100 (24.51%) SOAP
4 65 (15.93%) HTML
5 64 (15.69%) OAuth
6 42 (10.29%) RESTful
7 38 (9.31%) Spring
8 37 (9.07%) CSS
9 33 (8.09%) React
10 30 (7.35%) Spring Boot
10 30 (7.35%) Web Services
10 30 (7.35%) XSLT
11 27 (6.62%) Oracle Fusion
12 26 (6.37%) OAuth2
13 25 (6.13%) .NET
14 24 (5.88%) YAML
15 23 (5.64%) Kafka
15 23 (5.64%) Swagger
16 22 (5.39%) JWT
17 21 (5.15%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.62%) PKI
2 26 (6.37%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (4.17%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.92%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.19%) Cloud Native
6 12 (2.94%) Public Cloud
7 11 (2.70%) Low-Code
8 10 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.96%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.72%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.72%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.47%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.23%) Digital Wallet
12 5 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.98%) Marketing Technology
13 4 (0.98%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.98%) Replication
14 3 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 41 (10.05%) Linux
2 16 (3.92%) Unix
3 7 (1.72%) Android
3 7 (1.72%) Apple iOS
3 7 (1.72%) Windows
4 5 (1.23%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.25%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (39.22%) DevOps
2 146 (35.78%) Agile
3 136 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 85 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (15.44%) Microservices
6 61 (14.95%) Validation
7 50 (12.25%) Test Automation
8 49 (12.01%) ERP
8 49 (12.01%) Software Engineering
9 43 (10.54%) Deployment Automation
10 42 (10.29%) Analytics
11 41 (10.05%) Containerisation
12 40 (9.80%) Scrum
13 36 (8.82%) Data Modelling
13 36 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
14 35 (8.58%) Configuration Management
15 34 (8.33%) CRM
16 33 (8.09%) Integration Patterns
16 33 (8.09%) Migration
17 32 (7.84%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 100 (24.51%) SQL
2 92 (22.55%) Java
3 86 (21.08%) JavaScript
4 82 (20.10%) Python
5 58 (14.22%) PowerShell
6 54 (13.24%) C#
7 23 (5.64%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.45%) Groovy
8 10 (2.45%) Scala
9 9 (2.21%) T-SQL
10 7 (1.72%) C++
10 7 (1.72%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.47%) XPath
12 5 (1.23%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.74%) Jython
14 3 (0.74%) PHP
14 3 (0.74%) R
14 3 (0.74%) Swift
15 2 (0.49%) Korn
Qualifications
1 139 (34.07%) Security Cleared
2 108 (26.47%) SC Cleared
3 36 (8.82%) Degree
4 28 (6.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (4.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.70%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.21%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.23%) CCNP
9 5 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.23%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.98%) CTC Cleared
10 4 (0.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.74%) CEH
11 3 (0.74%) GIAC
11 3 (0.74%) GWAPT
12 2 (0.49%) CCNA
12 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.49%) OCP
12 2 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.39%) Accessibility
2 20 (4.90%) QA
3 9 (2.21%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.21%) WCAG
4 8 (1.96%) PSD2
5 6 (1.47%) GDPR
6 5 (1.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (1.23%) ISO 8583
6 5 (1.23%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.98%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.74%) HL7
8 3 (0.74%) NIST
9 2 (0.49%) SEPA
10 1 (0.25%) FATCA
10 1 (0.25%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.25%) MiFID
10 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 66 (16.18%) Docker
2 9 (2.21%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.49%) HDFS
4 1 (0.25%) KVM
4 1 (0.25%) Squid
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (10.05%) Kubernetes
2 26 (6.37%) Terraform
3 18 (4.41%) Ansible
4 15 (3.68%) Grafana
5 14 (3.43%) Kibana
6 13 (3.19%) Puppet
7 9 (2.21%) logstash
7 9 (2.21%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.23%) ITRS Geneos
8 5 (1.23%) Podman
8 5 (1.23%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.98%) Pingdom
10 3 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.49%) Argo
11 2 (0.49%) CloudHub
11 2 (0.49%) Fluentd
11 2 (0.49%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.49%) QRadar
12 1 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 59 (14.46%) Oracle
2 57 (13.97%) Microsoft
3 22 (5.39%) webMethods
4 17 (4.17%) IBM
4 17 (4.17%) SAP
5 16 (3.92%) MuleSoft
6 14 (3.43%) ServiceNow
6 14 (3.43%) Splunk
7 11 (2.70%) Adobe
7 11 (2.70%) Cisco
7 11 (2.70%) OpenAI
7 11 (2.70%) Software AG
8 9 (2.21%) Databricks
8 9 (2.21%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.96%) Axway
9 8 (1.96%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.72%) Veracode
11 6 (1.47%) F5
12 5 (1.23%) Foundry
12 5 (1.23%) Solace