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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 254 237
Rank change year-on-year -12 -17 -39
Contract jobs citing JSON 405 249 366
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.93% 0.99% 0.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.89% 4.37% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 185 251
10th Percentile £358 £361 £400
25th Percentile £415 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -6.37% -2.91%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £620
90th Percentile £650 £668 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £534
% change year-on-year - -6.37% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile £47.08 £37.25 £50.50
25th Percentile £56.19 £46.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £73.75 £65.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -18.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £85.94 £81.25 £85.00
90th Percentile £87.63 £88.75 -
UK median hourly rate £73.75 £65.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +13.46% -18.75% +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 8,278 5,701 7,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.07% 22.62% 21.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,466 3,955 5,502
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £538
% change year-on-year +2.14% -4.37% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 118 263
10th Percentile £30.45 £30.95 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £47.19 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% +4.67% -13.46%
75th Percentile £74.45 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.63 £81.01 £74.49
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +1 209 £525 -8.65% 50
North of England -30 73 £427 -4.04% 18
South East -41 62 £525 +10.53% 34
Yorkshire -19 39 £463 +13.50% 4
North West -34 34 £390 -12.36% 13
Midlands -50 26 £456 -17.05% 15
West Midlands -45 21 £456 -17.05% 7
South West -23 14 £400 +6.67% 9
East of England -21 13 £513 +70.83% 4
East Midlands -9 5 - - 8
North East -29 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 28 (6.91%) Confluence
2 18 (4.44%) SharePoint
3 13 (3.21%) Apache
4 10 (2.47%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.73%) CICS
5 7 (1.73%) Mule
6 6 (1.48%) Anypoint
7 5 (1.23%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.74%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.49%) IIS
9 2 (0.49%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.49%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.49%) nginx
9 2 (0.49%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.49%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.25%) JBoss
10 1 (0.25%) Mendix
10 1 (0.25%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.23%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.98%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.73%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.48%) Maximo
4 5 (1.23%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.74%) Findur
5 3 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.49%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.25%) Magento
7 1 (0.25%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.25%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.25%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.25%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.25%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.25%) Shopify
7 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 139 (34.32%) Azure
2 93 (22.96%) AWS
3 54 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (10.86%) Power Platform
5 40 (9.88%) Serverless
6 32 (7.90%) Power Automate
7 29 (7.16%) GCP
7 29 (7.16%) GitHub
8 26 (6.42%) Azure Logic Apps
9 23 (5.68%) PowerApps
10 21 (5.19%) Boomi
11 19 (4.69%) Azure Functions
12 17 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (3.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 15 (3.70%) Amazon S3
14 15 (3.70%) Entra ID
14 15 (3.70%) SaaS
15 14 (3.46%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (3.46%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.46%) HTTP
2 11 (2.72%) DNS
3 10 (2.47%) BIG-IP
3 10 (2.47%) DHCP
3 10 (2.47%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.99%) HTTPS
4 4 (0.99%) Intranet
5 3 (0.74%) Firewall
5 3 (0.74%) FTP
5 3 (0.74%) SSH
6 2 (0.49%) DSL
6 2 (0.49%) Internet
6 2 (0.49%) NAS
6 2 (0.49%) Network Security
6 2 (0.49%) SAN
6 2 (0.49%) X.509
7 1 (0.25%) SSL
7 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.15%) Metadata
2 31 (7.65%) SQL Server
3 28 (6.91%) MongoDB
4 26 (6.42%) Relational Database
5 23 (5.68%) Power BI
6 21 (5.19%) NoSQL
7 19 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (3.95%) Parquet
9 15 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (3.46%) RDBMS
11 13 (3.21%) DynamoDB
12 11 (2.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (2.47%) Oracle Database
14 9 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
14 9 (2.22%) Db2
14 9 (2.22%) Delta Lake
15 8 (1.98%) Data Lake
16 6 (1.48%) MySQL
16 6 (1.48%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 64 (15.80%) Git
2 47 (11.60%) JIRA
3 31 (7.65%) Postman
4 25 (6.17%) GitLab
5 24 (5.93%) Jenkins
6 13 (3.21%) Maven
7 10 (2.47%) SonarQube
8 7 (1.73%) ERwin
9 6 (1.48%) JUnit
9 6 (1.48%) Selenium
10 5 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (1.23%) Claude Code
10 5 (1.23%) SoapUI
10 5 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (1.23%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.99%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.99%) Gatling
11 4 (0.99%) Gradle
11 4 (0.99%) JMeter
12 3 (0.74%) Oracle APEX
General
1 120 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 81 (20.00%) Finance
3 62 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 37 (9.14%) Banking
6 17 (4.20%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.22%) Marketing
7 9 (2.22%) Publishing
8 5 (1.23%) Legal
8 5 (1.23%) Retail
9 4 (0.99%) Financial Institution
9 4 (0.99%) Law
10 3 (0.74%) Back Office
10 3 (0.74%) Front Office
10 3 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.74%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.74%) Military
10 3 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.49%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 132 (32.59%) Developer
2 40 (9.88%) Senior
3 38 (9.38%) Architect
4 34 (8.40%) Data Engineer
5 31 (7.65%) Analyst
6 18 (4.44%) Business Analyst
7 16 (3.95%) Senior Developer
8 15 (3.70%) Consultant
8 15 (3.70%) Integration Engineer
9 14 (3.46%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (3.21%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (2.96%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (2.96%) Integration Specialist
11 12 (2.96%) Java Developer
12 11 (2.72%) Integration Architect
12 11 (2.72%) Python Developer
13 10 (2.47%) Software Developer
13 10 (2.47%) Technical Analyst
14 9 (2.22%) Integration Developer
14 9 (2.22%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (37.78%) REST
2 151 (37.28%) XML
3 85 (20.99%) SOAP
4 55 (13.58%) Kafka
5 42 (10.37%) OAuth
6 40 (9.88%) RESTful
7 38 (9.38%) .NET
7 38 (9.38%) React
8 37 (9.14%) Web Services
9 34 (8.40%) Middleware
10 29 (7.16%) CSS
10 29 (7.16%) YAML
11 25 (6.17%) Node.js
12 23 (5.68%) HTML
13 22 (5.43%) Swagger
14 20 (4.94%) OAuth2
15 19 (4.69%) JWT
16 18 (4.44%) XSLT
17 17 (4.20%) Apache Avro
18 16 (3.95%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 28 (6.91%) Data Structures
3 15 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (2.96%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.72%) Algorithms
6 11 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.72%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.98%) Taxonomies
8 8 (1.98%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.73%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.73%) CMDB
9 7 (1.73%) DataPower
9 7 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.73%) Mainframe
9 7 (1.73%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.48%) Online Banking
11 5 (1.23%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.69%) Linux
2 16 (3.95%) Windows
3 10 (2.47%) Unix
4 7 (1.73%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.73%) zOS
5 5 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.99%) Android
7 3 (0.74%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.49%) Solaris
8 2 (0.49%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.49%) VMS
8 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.25%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (33.58%) CI/CD
2 129 (31.85%) Agile
3 125 (30.86%) DevOps
4 103 (25.43%) Problem-Solving
5 71 (17.53%) Data Modelling
6 70 (17.28%) Validation
7 58 (14.32%) AI
8 57 (14.07%) Integration Patterns
9 49 (12.10%) Analytics
10 46 (11.36%) Microservices
11 45 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
12 44 (10.86%) Event-Driven
13 43 (10.62%) Stakeholder Management
14 42 (10.37%) ETL
15 41 (10.12%) API Integration
15 41 (10.12%) Workflow
16 40 (9.88%) Scrum
17 39 (9.63%) Software Engineering
18 38 (9.38%) Performance Tuning
19 37 (9.14%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 161 (39.75%) Python
2 156 (38.52%) SQL
3 84 (20.74%) JavaScript
4 81 (20.00%) Java
5 59 (14.57%) C#
6 49 (12.10%) PowerShell
7 19 (4.69%) Groovy
7 19 (4.69%) TypeScript
8 16 (3.95%) Shell Script
9 15 (3.70%) PL/SQL
10 12 (2.96%) Bash
11 11 (2.72%) T-SQL
12 10 (2.47%) VBA
13 7 (1.73%) Bicep
14 6 (1.48%) JCL
15 5 (1.23%) Go
15 5 (1.23%) R
16 4 (0.99%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.99%) Scala
16 4 (0.99%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 111 (27.41%) Security Cleared
2 86 (21.23%) SC Cleared
3 26 (6.42%) Degree
4 15 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (3.46%) Azure Certification
5 14 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.98%) CISSP
7 7 (1.73%) CISM
8 6 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.99%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.49%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.49%) GIAC
10 2 (0.49%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.49%) SSCP
11 1 (0.25%) CCNP
11 1 (0.25%) CEH
11 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.25%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 25 (6.17%) QA
3 21 (5.19%) Accessibility
4 20 (4.94%) GDPR
5 7 (1.73%) ISO 20022
6 6 (1.48%) NIST
6 6 (1.48%) WCAG
7 5 (1.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (1.23%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.23%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.99%) HL7
8 4 (0.99%) ISO 15022
8 4 (0.99%) PSD2
9 3 (0.74%) FATCA
9 3 (0.74%) GRC
9 3 (0.74%) ISO 8583
9 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.74%) NCSC
10 2 (0.49%) Basel III
System Software
1 45 (11.11%) Docker
2 15 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.49%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.49%) OpenSSH
5 2 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 48 (11.85%) Kubernetes
2 44 (10.86%) Terraform
3 31 (7.65%) Ansible
4 10 (2.47%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.73%) Grafana
6 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.49%) Kibana
8 2 (0.49%) QRadar
8 2 (0.49%) SCCM
8 2 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.49%) WMI
9 1 (0.25%) Argo
9 1 (0.25%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.25%) Istio
9 1 (0.25%) logstash
9 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 90 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 72 (17.78%) Oracle
3 30 (7.41%) ServiceNow
4 23 (5.68%) Databricks
5 22 (5.43%) MuleSoft
5 22 (5.43%) SAP
6 19 (4.69%) Workday
7 17 (4.20%) Splunk
8 12 (2.96%) Foundry
8 12 (2.96%) IBM
9 11 (2.72%) Salesforce
10 10 (2.47%) F5
10 10 (2.47%) Google
10 10 (2.47%) Infoblox
10 10 (2.47%) Sonatype
10 10 (2.47%) webMethods
11 8 (1.98%) Dell
12 7 (1.73%) Confluent
12 7 (1.73%) Palantir
13 6 (1.48%) OpenAI