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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 260 246
Rank change year-on-year -4 -14 -47
Contract jobs citing JSON 399 247 364
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.92% 0.99% 0.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.82% 4.37% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 185 250
10th Percentile £359 £363 £400
25th Percentile £415 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -6.54% -2.73%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £621
90th Percentile £650 £668 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.45% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £47.08 - £50.50
25th Percentile £56.19 £91.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £73.75 £92.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.27% +15.63% +14.29%
75th Percentile £85.94 £93.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £87.63 - -
UK median hourly rate £73.75 £92.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year -20.27% +15.63% +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 8,281 5,656 7,869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.06% 22.58% 21.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,470 3,926 5,494
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 £740 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 115 264
10th Percentile £30.61 £32.69 £23.07
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £55.63
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +7.87% -14.42%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.14 £81.01 £74.48
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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -7 205 £525 -8.70% 42
North of England -43 73 £427 -4.04% 16
South East -46 60 £550 +15.79% 31
Yorkshire -24 39 £463 +13.50% 4
North West -39 34 £382 -14.13% 11
Midlands -41 25 £458 -16.82% 10
West Midlands -44 20 £458 -16.82% 4
East of England -17 14 £506 +68.75% 4
South West -20 14 £400 +6.67% 8
East Midlands -17 5 - - 6
North East -33 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 (7.02%) Confluence
2 18 (4.51%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.01%) Apache
4 9 (2.26%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.75%) CICS
5 7 (1.75%) Mule
6 6 (1.50%) Anypoint
7 5 (1.25%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.75%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.50%) IIS
9 2 (0.50%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.50%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.50%) nginx
9 2 (0.50%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.25%) JBoss
10 1 (0.25%) Mendix
10 1 (0.25%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.25%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.01%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.75%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (1.50%) Maximo
4 5 (1.25%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.75%) Findur
5 3 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.50%) 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
1 138 (34.59%) Azure
2 92 (23.06%) AWS
3 54 (13.53%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (11.28%) Power Platform
5 39 (9.77%) Serverless
6 32 (8.02%) Power Automate
7 30 (7.52%) GitHub
8 27 (6.77%) Azure Logic Apps
8 27 (6.77%) GCP
9 23 (5.76%) PowerApps
10 21 (5.26%) Boomi
11 19 (4.76%) Azure Functions
12 16 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (3.76%) Entra ID
13 15 (3.76%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (3.76%) SaaS
14 14 (3.51%) Amazon S3
14 14 (3.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 14 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (3.51%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.76%) HTTP
2 11 (2.76%) DNS
3 10 (2.51%) BIG-IP
3 10 (2.51%) DHCP
3 10 (2.51%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.00%) HTTPS
4 4 (1.00%) Intranet
5 3 (0.75%) Firewall
5 3 (0.75%) FTP
5 3 (0.75%) SSH
6 2 (0.50%) DSL
6 2 (0.50%) Internet
6 2 (0.50%) NAS
6 2 (0.50%) Network Security
6 2 (0.50%) SAN
6 2 (0.50%) X.509
7 1 (0.25%) SSL
7 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.77%) Metadata
2 29 (7.27%) SQL Server
3 25 (6.27%) MongoDB
3 25 (6.27%) Relational Database
4 23 (5.76%) Power BI
5 21 (5.26%) NoSQL
6 19 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (4.01%) Parquet
8 14 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (3.26%) DynamoDB
9 13 (3.26%) RDBMS
10 11 (2.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (2.51%) Oracle Database
12 9 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (2.01%) Db2
13 8 (2.01%) Delta Lake
14 7 (1.75%) Data Lake
15 6 (1.50%) MySQL
15 6 (1.50%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 61 (15.29%) Git
2 48 (12.03%) JIRA
3 30 (7.52%) Postman
4 24 (6.02%) GitLab
5 23 (5.76%) Jenkins
6 13 (3.26%) Maven
7 10 (2.51%) SonarQube
8 7 (1.75%) ERwin
9 6 (1.50%) JUnit
9 6 (1.50%) Selenium
10 5 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (1.25%) Claude Code
10 5 (1.25%) Gatling
10 5 (1.25%) SoapUI
10 5 (1.25%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (1.25%) Visual Studio
11 4 (1.00%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.00%) Gradle
12 3 (0.75%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.75%) MSTest
General
1 122 (30.58%) Social Skills
2 81 (20.30%) Finance
3 60 (15.04%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (9.77%) Banking
5 38 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.51%) Marketing
8 9 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.26%) Publishing
9 5 (1.25%) Legal
9 5 (1.25%) Retail
10 4 (1.00%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.00%) Law
11 3 (0.75%) Back Office
11 3 (0.75%) Front Office
11 3 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.75%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.75%) Military
11 3 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.50%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 133 (33.33%) Developer
2 39 (9.77%) Senior
3 38 (9.52%) Architect
4 33 (8.27%) Data Engineer
5 29 (7.27%) Analyst
6 18 (4.51%) Business Analyst
7 16 (4.01%) Senior Developer
8 15 (3.76%) Consultant
8 15 (3.76%) Integration Engineer
9 14 (3.51%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (3.26%) DevOps Engineer
10 13 (3.26%) Java Developer
11 12 (3.01%) Integration Specialist
12 11 (2.76%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (2.76%) Integration Architect
12 11 (2.76%) Python Developer
13 10 (2.51%) Software Developer
14 9 (2.26%) Integration Developer
14 9 (2.26%) Technical Analyst
14 9 (2.26%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (38.35%) REST
2 149 (37.34%) XML
3 86 (21.55%) SOAP
4 51 (12.78%) Kafka
5 44 (11.03%) OAuth
6 39 (9.77%) RESTful
7 38 (9.52%) .NET
8 37 (9.27%) React
9 36 (9.02%) Web Services
10 33 (8.27%) Middleware
11 30 (7.52%) CSS
12 28 (7.02%) YAML
13 25 (6.27%) HTML
13 25 (6.27%) Node.js
14 22 (5.51%) OAuth2
14 22 (5.51%) Swagger
15 19 (4.76%) JWT
16 18 (4.51%) Apache Avro
16 18 (4.51%) XSLT
17 16 (4.01%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.52%) Product Ownership
2 25 (6.27%) Data Structures
3 15 (3.76%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (3.01%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.76%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.26%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.01%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.75%) CMDB
8 7 (1.75%) DataPower
8 7 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.75%) Mainframe
8 7 (1.75%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.75%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.50%) Online Banking
9 6 (1.50%) Taxonomies
10 5 (1.25%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.25%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.51%) Linux
2 16 (4.01%) Windows
3 10 (2.51%) Unix
4 7 (1.75%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.75%) zOS
5 4 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.75%) Android
6 3 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.50%) Solaris
7 2 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.50%) VMS
7 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.25%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 126 (31.58%) Agile
3 123 (30.83%) DevOps
4 104 (26.07%) Problem-Solving
5 69 (17.29%) Data Modelling
5 69 (17.29%) Validation
6 57 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
7 54 (13.53%) AI
8 47 (11.78%) Analytics
9 46 (11.53%) Microservices
10 44 (11.03%) Event-Driven
11 43 (10.78%) Data Pipeline
11 43 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
12 39 (9.77%) API Integration
12 39 (9.77%) ETL
12 39 (9.77%) Performance Tuning
12 39 (9.77%) Scrum
12 39 (9.77%) Workflow
13 38 (9.52%) Software Engineering
14 37 (9.27%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 157 (39.35%) Python
2 151 (37.84%) SQL
3 86 (21.55%) JavaScript
4 80 (20.05%) Java
5 58 (14.54%) C#
6 46 (11.53%) PowerShell
7 19 (4.76%) Groovy
7 19 (4.76%) TypeScript
8 15 (3.76%) Shell Script
9 14 (3.51%) PL/SQL
10 11 (2.76%) Bash
10 11 (2.76%) T-SQL
11 10 (2.51%) VBA
12 7 (1.75%) Bicep
13 6 (1.50%) JCL
14 5 (1.25%) Go
14 5 (1.25%) R
15 3 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.75%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.75%) Scala
Qualifications
1 110 (27.57%) Security Cleared
2 85 (21.30%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.27%) Degree
4 15 (3.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (3.51%) Azure Certification
6 13 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.75%) CISM
7 7 (1.75%) CISSP
8 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.00%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.50%) CCNP
10 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.50%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.50%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.25%) CEH
11 1 (0.25%) CRISC
11 1 (0.25%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.25%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.27%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.52%) QA
3 21 (5.26%) GDPR
4 18 (4.51%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.75%) ISO 20022
6 6 (1.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (1.50%) NIST
6 6 (1.50%) WCAG
7 5 (1.25%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.25%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.25%) PSD2
7 5 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (1.00%) HL7
8 4 (1.00%) ISO 8583
9 3 (0.75%) FATCA
9 3 (0.75%) GRC
9 3 (0.75%) ISO 15022
9 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.75%) NCSC
10 2 (0.50%) SEPA
System Software
1 45 (11.28%) Docker
2 15 (3.76%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.50%) OpenSSH
5 2 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 47 (11.78%) Kubernetes
2 44 (11.03%) Terraform
3 30 (7.52%) Ansible
4 11 (2.76%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.01%) Grafana
6 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.50%) Argo
8 2 (0.50%) Kibana
8 2 (0.50%) SCCM
8 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.50%) WMI
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
9 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 89 (22.31%) Microsoft
2 71 (17.79%) Oracle
3 30 (7.52%) ServiceNow
4 23 (5.76%) Databricks
5 22 (5.51%) MuleSoft
5 22 (5.51%) SAP
6 19 (4.76%) Workday
7 16 (4.01%) Splunk
8 12 (3.01%) Foundry
9 11 (2.76%) IBM
9 11 (2.76%) Salesforce
10 10 (2.51%) F5
10 10 (2.51%) Infoblox
10 10 (2.51%) Sonatype
10 10 (2.51%) webMethods
11 9 (2.26%) Google
12 8 (2.01%) Confluent
12 8 (2.01%) Dell
13 7 (1.75%) Adobe
13 7 (1.75%) Palantir