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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 236 252
Rank change year-on-year -16 +16 -43
Contract jobs citing JSON 460 304 307
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.01% 1.10% 0.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.44% 5.00% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 218 202
10th Percentile £360 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £409 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £529
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -6.47% -2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £587 £624
90th Percentile £655 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 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 £43.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £87.63 - -
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 8,460 6,078 7,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.50% 22.04% 22.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,523 4,158 5,022
10th Percentile £368 £350 £359
25th Percentile £432 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.41% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 158 214
10th Percentile £28.44 £31.25 £24.05
25th Percentile £45.31 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% -1.83%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £55.63
% change year-on-year +18.45% -1.35% -6.54%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 19 August 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 +4 258 £525 -2.78% 77
North of England -69 62 £450 +7.53% 22
South East -57 58 £475 - 43
Midlands -17 37 £425 -20.00% 14
Yorkshire -27 35 £500 +29.03% 9
West Midlands -33 32 £425 -22.73% 9
North West -58 27 £415 -6.95% 12
South West -30 18 £485 +29.33% 12
East of England -30 10 £475 +11.76% 11
East Midlands -14 5 - - 5
North East -36 3 £550 +175.00% 1
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 24 (5.22%) Confluence
2 21 (4.57%) SharePoint
3 16 (3.48%) Apache
4 12 (2.61%) Apache Spark
5 10 (2.17%) Anypoint
6 9 (1.96%) Mule
7 6 (1.30%) CICS
8 5 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.65%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.65%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.43%) IIS
10 2 (0.43%) JBoss
10 2 (0.43%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.43%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.43%) nginx
10 2 (0.43%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.09%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.22%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 18 (3.91%) NetSuite
2 11 (2.39%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (1.30%) Maximo
5 4 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.65%) Findur
6 3 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.43%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.43%) Infor LN
7 2 (0.43%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.22%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.22%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.22%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.22%) Shopify
8 1 (0.22%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 181 (39.35%) Azure
2 117 (25.43%) AWS
3 74 (16.09%) Azure DevOps
4 57 (12.39%) GCP
5 45 (9.78%) Power Platform
6 44 (9.57%) GitHub
7 39 (8.48%) Boomi
8 36 (7.83%) Power Automate
9 35 (7.61%) Serverless
10 30 (6.52%) Entra ID
11 29 (6.30%) PowerApps
12 24 (5.22%) Azure Logic Apps
13 22 (4.78%) GitHub Actions
14 21 (4.57%) Dynamics 365
15 20 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
16 18 (3.91%) Amazon S3
16 18 (3.91%) AtomSphere
16 18 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
17 17 (3.70%) SaaS
18 14 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.91%) HTTP
2 13 (2.83%) DNS
3 11 (2.39%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.96%) DHCP
5 8 (1.74%) BGP
5 8 (1.74%) Ethernet VPN
5 8 (1.74%) VXLAN
6 7 (1.52%) BIG-IP
6 7 (1.52%) NX-OS
7 6 (1.30%) Firewall
8 5 (1.09%) Network Security
8 5 (1.09%) SSL
9 4 (0.87%) HTTPS
9 4 (0.87%) Intranet
9 4 (0.87%) SSH
9 4 (0.87%) TACACS
10 3 (0.65%) FTP
10 3 (0.65%) SAN
10 3 (0.65%) WAN
10 3 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (8.70%) Metadata
2 35 (7.61%) MongoDB
2 35 (7.61%) SQL Server
3 28 (6.09%) Relational Database
4 22 (4.78%) Parquet
4 22 (4.78%) Power BI
5 21 (4.57%) NoSQL
5 21 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (3.48%) RDBMS
8 13 (2.83%) DynamoDB
9 10 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (1.96%) Delta Lake
10 9 (1.96%) Oracle Database
11 8 (1.74%) Db2
11 8 (1.74%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (1.52%) BigQuery
12 7 (1.52%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 85 (18.48%) Git
2 44 (9.57%) JIRA
3 42 (9.13%) GitLab
4 35 (7.61%) Jenkins
5 22 (4.78%) Postman
6 17 (3.70%) Selenium
7 16 (3.48%) Maven
8 14 (3.04%) SonarQube
9 10 (2.17%) JUnit
10 9 (1.96%) ERwin
11 8 (1.74%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.52%) Claude Code
12 7 (1.52%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.52%) Gradle
13 6 (1.30%) Gatling
13 6 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
13 6 (1.30%) WebDriver
14 5 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (1.09%) JMeter
15 4 (0.87%) MSI
General
1 131 (28.48%) Social Skills
2 81 (17.61%) Finance
3 73 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (10.43%) Public Sector
5 35 (7.61%) Banking
6 17 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (3.04%) Publishing
8 11 (2.39%) Marketing
9 10 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.96%) Legal
11 8 (1.74%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.52%) Retail
13 5 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.87%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.87%) Law
15 3 (0.65%) Back Office
16 2 (0.43%) Front Office
16 2 (0.43%) Games
16 2 (0.43%) German Language
16 2 (0.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 153 (33.26%) Developer
2 66 (14.35%) Senior
3 54 (11.74%) Architect
4 34 (7.39%) Analyst
5 27 (5.87%) Senior Developer
6 24 (5.22%) Data Engineer
7 21 (4.57%) Consultant
8 18 (3.91%) Integration Engineer
9 17 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
10 16 (3.48%) Python Developer
11 15 (3.26%) Python Engineer
12 14 (3.04%) Business Analyst
12 14 (3.04%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 14 (3.04%) Integration Architect
13 13 (2.83%) Full-Stack Developer
14 12 (2.61%) Java Developer
15 11 (2.39%) Integration Developer
16 10 (2.17%) Integration Specialist
16 10 (2.17%) ServiceNow Developer
16 10 (2.17%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (42.83%) REST
2 174 (37.83%) XML
3 92 (20.00%) SOAP
4 68 (14.78%) Kafka
5 52 (11.30%) .NET
6 51 (11.09%) Middleware
7 48 (10.43%) OAuth
8 44 (9.57%) RESTful
9 42 (9.13%) React
10 39 (8.48%) YAML
11 29 (6.30%) Web Services
12 27 (5.87%) OAuth2
13 25 (5.43%) CSS
14 24 (5.22%) HTML
14 24 (5.22%) Swagger
15 22 (4.78%) Node.js
15 22 (4.78%) SAML
16 21 (4.57%) JWT
17 20 (4.35%) OpenAPI
18 16 (3.48%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.91%) Product Ownership
2 33 (7.17%) Data Structures
3 27 (5.87%) Cloud Native
4 24 (5.22%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (4.13%) AI Agents
5 19 (4.13%) Algorithms
6 17 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (3.26%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.83%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.39%) Data Centre
10 10 (2.17%) Taxonomies
11 9 (1.96%) CMDB
11 9 (1.96%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.96%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.52%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.30%) Mainframe
13 6 (1.30%) Online Banking
13 6 (1.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.74%) Linux
2 28 (6.09%) Windows
3 11 (2.39%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.17%) Unix
5 7 (1.52%) Android
5 7 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.30%) zOS
7 4 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.43%) Solaris
8 2 (0.43%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.43%) VMS
8 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.22%) CentOS
9 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (39.35%) CI/CD
2 157 (34.13%) DevOps
3 153 (33.26%) Agile
4 112 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
5 80 (17.39%) Data Modelling
6 78 (16.96%) Validation
7 70 (15.22%) AI
8 67 (14.57%) Event-Driven
9 63 (13.70%) Scrum
10 60 (13.04%) Integration Patterns
11 53 (11.52%) API Integration
11 53 (11.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 53 (11.52%) Test Automation
12 52 (11.30%) Microservices
13 48 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
14 47 (10.22%) Analytics
14 47 (10.22%) ETL
14 47 (10.22%) Workflow
15 45 (9.78%) Infrastructure as Code
16 44 (9.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 173 (37.61%) Python
2 168 (36.52%) SQL
3 107 (23.26%) JavaScript
4 95 (20.65%) Java
5 64 (13.91%) C#
6 49 (10.65%) PowerShell
7 29 (6.30%) Groovy
8 23 (5.00%) TypeScript
9 18 (3.91%) PL/SQL
10 15 (3.26%) Bash
11 14 (3.04%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.96%) VBA
13 8 (1.74%) Bicep
13 8 (1.74%) Scala
13 8 (1.74%) T-SQL
14 7 (1.52%) R
15 6 (1.30%) C++
15 6 (1.30%) JCL
15 6 (1.30%) Kotlin
16 5 (1.09%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 125 (27.17%) Security Cleared
2 98 (21.30%) SC Cleared
3 24 (5.22%) Degree
4 13 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (2.39%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.74%) CISSP
7 7 (1.52%) CISM
8 6 (1.30%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.87%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (0.87%) PhD
10 3 (0.65%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.43%) CCNP
11 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.43%) GIAC
11 2 (0.43%) SSCP
12 1 (0.22%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (9.57%) Data Quality
2 39 (8.48%) Accessibility
3 32 (6.96%) QA
4 20 (4.35%) GDPR
5 11 (2.39%) WCAG
6 9 (1.96%) ISO 20022
7 8 (1.74%) NIST
8 6 (1.30%) ISO 15022
9 5 (1.09%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.87%) HL7
11 3 (0.65%) GRC
11 3 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.65%) NCSC
12 2 (0.43%) Basel III
12 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.43%) SLA
13 1 (0.22%) COREP
13 1 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 57 (12.39%) Docker
2 23 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.87%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.43%) OpenSSH
6 2 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 60 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 50 (10.87%) Terraform
3 45 (9.78%) Ansible
4 8 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.30%) SCCM
6 5 (1.09%) Grafana
7 3 (0.65%) Kustomize
7 3 (0.65%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.65%) Puppet
7 3 (0.65%) WMI
8 2 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.43%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.43%) QRadar
9 1 (0.22%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.22%) Istio
9 1 (0.22%) Kibana
9 1 (0.22%) logstash
9 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 107 (23.26%) Microsoft
2 91 (19.78%) Oracle
3 47 (10.22%) ServiceNow
4 31 (6.74%) MuleSoft
5 30 (6.52%) Google
6 28 (6.09%) Databricks
7 26 (5.65%) Salesforce
7 26 (5.65%) SAP
8 23 (5.00%) IBM
9 21 (4.57%) Workday
10 13 (2.83%) Splunk
11 11 (2.39%) Cisco
11 11 (2.39%) Informatica
11 11 (2.39%) Sonatype
11 11 (2.39%) VMware
11 11 (2.39%) webMethods
12 10 (2.17%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.96%) Infoblox
14 8 (1.74%) F5
14 8 (1.74%) TIBCO