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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 261 222
Rank change year-on-year +37 -39 -22
Contract jobs citing JSON 423 244 401
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.19% 0.95% 1.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.48% 4.19% 5.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 183 301
10th Percentile £358 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £457 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £533 £533
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% +0.08% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £600
90th Percentile £800 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £529
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.76% -0.19%
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% -3.45%
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% -

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 7,720 5,829 7,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.73% 22.70% 20.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,178 3,838 5,493
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £419 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.10% -1.69% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 81 211
10th Percentile £35.13 £27.11 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.63
90th Percentile £80.00 £81.01 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +22 217 £575 +4.55% 49
North of England -9 85 £408 -18.50% 36
North West +5 56 £400 -10.11% 25
South East -27 47 £513 +1.49% 32
Midlands -41 31 £475 -16.23% 12
Yorkshire -51 28 £463 -18.43% 8
West Midlands -37 27 £500 -11.82% 9
South West -17 13 £400 -2.44% 10
East of England -15 11 £506 +12.50% 10
East Midlands -19 4 £450 +22.62% 3
North East - 1 £475 - 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 27 (6.38%) Confluence
2 12 (2.84%) Apache
2 12 (2.84%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.89%) JBoss
3 8 (1.89%) WebLogic
4 6 (1.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (1.18%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.18%) Appian
5 5 (1.18%) Mule
6 4 (0.95%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.95%) Oracle Service Bus
7 3 (0.71%) CICS
7 3 (0.71%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.47%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.47%) IIS
8 2 (0.47%) Mendix
8 2 (0.47%) Mule ESB
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (4.49%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.42%) Maximo
4 5 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.47%) Actimize
5 2 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.24%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.24%) Endur
6 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.24%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 117 (27.66%) Azure
2 90 (21.28%) AWS
3 41 (9.69%) Power Platform
4 40 (9.46%) GitHub
5 38 (8.98%) Serverless
6 36 (8.51%) IaaS
7 35 (8.27%) Azure Logic Apps
8 31 (7.33%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (7.33%) OCI
9 27 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
10 25 (5.91%) GCP
11 23 (5.44%) PaaS
12 19 (4.49%) Power Automate
12 19 (4.49%) SaaS
13 18 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
14 17 (4.02%) Azure Monitor
15 16 (3.78%) Azure Functions
15 16 (3.78%) PowerApps
16 14 (3.31%) Azure Data Factory
16 14 (3.31%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 34 (8.04%) HTTP
2 17 (4.02%) HTTPS
3 12 (2.84%) Firewall
4 7 (1.65%) VPN
5 6 (1.42%) DNS
6 5 (1.18%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.95%) SSL
8 3 (0.71%) BIG-IP
8 3 (0.71%) DHCP
8 3 (0.71%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.71%) NFC
8 3 (0.71%) PPP
9 2 (0.47%) 5G
9 2 (0.47%) BGP
9 2 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (0.47%) MPLS
9 2 (0.47%) Network Security
9 2 (0.47%) SMS
10 1 (0.24%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.09%) Relational Database
2 27 (6.38%) MongoDB
3 24 (5.67%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (5.20%) Power BI
4 22 (5.20%) RDBMS
5 21 (4.96%) NoSQL
6 20 (4.73%) SQL Server
7 15 (3.55%) Metadata
8 14 (3.31%) Data Lake
9 13 (3.07%) Azure SQL Database
10 12 (2.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (2.36%) Oracle Reports
12 9 (2.13%) Parquet
13 8 (1.89%) MySQL
14 7 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (1.42%) Oracle Database
16 5 (1.18%) Delta Lake
16 5 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
16 5 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 66 (15.60%) Git
2 57 (13.48%) Postman
3 47 (11.11%) JIRA
4 40 (9.46%) Jenkins
5 35 (8.27%) Selenium
6 29 (6.86%) JUnit
7 28 (6.62%) GitLab
8 24 (5.67%) Cucumber
9 21 (4.96%) Maven
10 15 (3.55%) SonarQube
11 11 (2.60%) Bitbucket
11 11 (2.60%) Eclipse
12 10 (2.36%) IntelliJ
13 9 (2.13%) SoapUI
14 8 (1.89%) Cypress.io
14 8 (1.89%) Gradle
15 7 (1.65%) Mockito
16 6 (1.42%) SpecFlow
16 6 (1.42%) TestRail
16 6 (1.42%) Zephyr
General
1 125 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 84 (19.86%) Analytical Skills
3 76 (17.97%) Finance
4 52 (12.29%) Public Sector
5 34 (8.04%) Banking
6 21 (4.96%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.60%) Marketing
8 9 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.42%) Military
9 6 (1.42%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.95%) Billing
10 4 (0.95%) Retail
11 3 (0.71%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.71%) Law
11 3 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.71%) Publishing
12 2 (0.47%) Back Office
12 2 (0.47%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 147 (34.75%) Developer
2 51 (12.06%) Architect
3 30 (7.09%) Senior
4 27 (6.38%) Analyst
5 25 (5.91%) Data Engineer
6 22 (5.20%) Java Developer
7 21 (4.96%) Software Engineer
8 19 (4.49%) Business Analyst
9 16 (3.78%) Integration Specialist
10 15 (3.55%) Cloud Specialist
10 15 (3.55%) DevOps Engineer
10 15 (3.55%) Lead
10 15 (3.55%) Oracle Specialist
11 12 (2.84%) Consultant
11 12 (2.84%) DBA
11 12 (2.84%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 12 (2.84%) Integration Developer
12 11 (2.60%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (2.36%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (47.52%) REST
2 195 (46.10%) XML
3 97 (22.93%) SOAP
4 61 (14.42%) HTML
5 60 (14.18%) OAuth
6 40 (9.46%) Web Services
7 39 (9.22%) RESTful
8 36 (8.51%) CSS
9 34 (8.04%) Spring
10 33 (7.80%) Kafka
11 32 (7.57%) React
12 29 (6.86%) XSLT
13 27 (6.38%) .NET
13 27 (6.38%) Spring Boot
14 26 (6.15%) OAuth2
14 26 (6.15%) Oracle Fusion
14 26 (6.15%) YAML
15 25 (5.91%) Swagger
16 24 (5.67%) JWT
17 21 (4.96%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.38%) PKI
1 27 (6.38%) Self-Motivation
2 23 (5.44%) Data Structures
3 18 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.07%) Low-Code
4 13 (3.07%) Public Cloud
5 11 (2.60%) Cloud Native
5 11 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (1.89%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.18%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.18%) Digital Wallet
9 5 (1.18%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.18%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.18%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 39 (9.22%) Linux
2 21 (4.96%) Unix
3 8 (1.89%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.65%) Android
5 6 (1.42%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.42%) Windows
6 3 (0.71%) zOS
7 1 (0.24%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.24%) VMS
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (37.12%) Agile
2 148 (34.99%) DevOps
3 131 (30.97%) CI/CD
4 101 (23.88%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (15.37%) Validation
6 59 (13.95%) Microservices
7 53 (12.53%) Software Engineering
8 50 (11.82%) Analytics
9 48 (11.35%) Data Modelling
10 47 (11.11%) ERP
11 42 (9.93%) Scrum
12 41 (9.69%) Integration Patterns
13 40 (9.46%) Stakeholder Management
14 38 (8.98%) Containerisation
15 37 (8.75%) Test Automation
16 33 (7.80%) Configuration Management
17 32 (7.57%) Continuous Improvement
17 32 (7.57%) CRM
17 32 (7.57%) Data Pipeline
17 32 (7.57%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 110 (26.00%) SQL
2 102 (24.11%) Python
3 91 (21.51%) Java
4 88 (20.80%) JavaScript
5 59 (13.95%) PowerShell
6 57 (13.48%) C#
7 23 (5.44%) TypeScript
8 13 (3.07%) T-SQL
9 12 (2.84%) Groovy
10 11 (2.60%) Shell Script
11 9 (2.13%) Scala
12 7 (1.65%) Bicep
12 7 (1.65%) C++
12 7 (1.65%) XPath
13 6 (1.42%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.95%) Swift
15 3 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.71%) Go
15 3 (0.71%) PHP
15 3 (0.71%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 140 (33.10%) Security Cleared
2 103 (24.35%) SC Cleared
3 34 (8.04%) Degree
4 24 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (4.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (3.31%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.89%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.18%) CCNP
8 5 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.18%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.95%) CTC Cleared
9 4 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.47%) CCNA
10 2 (0.47%) CEH
10 2 (0.47%) GIAC
10 2 (0.47%) GWAPT
10 2 (0.47%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.47%) OCP
10 2 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.62%) QA
2 16 (3.78%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.60%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.89%) PSD2
4 8 (1.89%) WCAG
5 6 (1.42%) GDPR
6 5 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (1.18%) ISO 20022
6 5 (1.18%) ISO 8583
6 5 (1.18%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.71%) FATCA
7 3 (0.71%) HL7
8 2 (0.47%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.47%) NIST
8 2 (0.47%) SEPA
9 1 (0.24%) MiFID
9 1 (0.24%) NCSC
9 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (14.18%) Docker
2 7 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.47%) HDFS
4 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 45 (10.64%) Kubernetes
2 27 (6.38%) Terraform
3 17 (4.02%) Ansible
4 16 (3.78%) Grafana
5 14 (3.31%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.84%) Kibana
6 12 (2.84%) Puppet
7 6 (1.42%) logstash
8 4 (0.95%) Pingdom
8 4 (0.95%) Podman
8 4 (0.95%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.47%) Argo
10 2 (0.47%) CloudHub
10 2 (0.47%) Fluentd
10 2 (0.47%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.47%) QRadar
11 1 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 70 (16.55%) Oracle
2 66 (15.60%) Microsoft
3 23 (5.44%) Splunk
4 19 (4.49%) ServiceNow
5 15 (3.55%) MuleSoft
5 15 (3.55%) webMethods
6 14 (3.31%) IBM
7 11 (2.60%) Adobe
8 10 (2.36%) OpenAI
9 9 (2.13%) Databricks
10 8 (1.89%) Cisco
10 8 (1.89%) F5
10 8 (1.89%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.89%) SAP
11 7 (1.65%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.42%) Foundry
12 6 (1.42%) Software AG
13 5 (1.18%) mParticle
13 5 (1.18%) PagerDuty
13 5 (1.18%) Talend