JSON Contracts in England

JSON
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for JSON skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JSON over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 226 206 178
Rank change year-on-year -20 -28 -33
Contract jobs citing JSON 388 647 1,172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.06% 1.32% 1.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.17% 5.71% 6.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 464 787
10th Percentile £400 £413 £412
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +14.58%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £654
90th Percentile £670 £806 £750
UK median daily rate £534 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.71% -4.55% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 26
10th Percentile - - £14.25
25th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £27.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £61.52
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +17.85% +6.07%
75th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £76.50
90th Percentile - - £79.25
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year +10.34% +28.89% -3.02%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

JSON is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,500 11,325 18,940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.40% 23.02% 26.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,320 8,400 14,211
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -0.88% +13.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 139 213
10th Percentile £22.27 £29.15 £23.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.03 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £65.01 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

JSON
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing JSON as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for JSON in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JSON in England.

Daily rate trend for JSON in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JSON in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JSON in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JSON in England.

Hourly rate trend for JSON in England

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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 12 May 2024. 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 +5 236 £535 -6.96% 74
North of England -20 52 £534 +1.71% 18
South East -36 34 £513 -2.38% 30
North West -5 29 £534 +1.71% 11
Midlands +17 19 £577 +2.58% 20
South West +4 19 £525 -7.00% 8
Yorkshire +14 17 £624 +27.57% 6
West Midlands +10 13 £581 +16.25% 12
North East +7 10 £550 - 1
East of England +3 10 £533 +12.11% 14
East Midlands +18 6 £577 -3.83% 8
JSON
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (5.93%) Confluence
2 13 (3.35%) Apache
3 10 (2.58%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.55%) Alfresco
5 6 (1.55%) Appian
5 6 (1.55%) Camunda
5 6 (1.55%) IIS
5 6 (1.55%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.29%) Apache Solr
6 5 (1.29%) OpenStack
7 4 (1.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (1.03%) nginx
8 3 (0.77%) CMS
8 3 (0.77%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.52%) GemFire
9 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.52%) SAS
9 2 (0.52%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.29%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.52%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 11 (2.84%) Salesforce CRM
2 8 (2.06%) NetSuite
3 5 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.77%) Endur
4 3 (0.77%) Maximo
4 3 (0.77%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.52%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.52%) WebTrends
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.26%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 118 (30.41%) Azure
2 65 (16.75%) AWS
3 63 (16.24%) Serverless
4 44 (11.34%) Power Platform
5 41 (10.57%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (7.73%) GitHub
7 28 (7.22%) Power Automate
8 26 (6.70%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (6.70%) GCP
8 26 (6.70%) PowerApps
9 21 (5.41%) AWS Step Functions
9 21 (5.41%) Azure Key Vault
10 20 (5.15%) PaaS
11 19 (4.90%) Amazon MSK
11 19 (4.90%) Azure Functions
11 19 (4.90%) Azure Logic Apps
12 18 (4.64%) Amazon S3
12 18 (4.64%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (3.61%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 33 (8.51%) BGP
2 30 (7.73%) Firewall
3 29 (7.47%) MPLS
4 28 (7.22%) HTTP
5 26 (6.70%) DNS
6 23 (5.93%) VPN
7 20 (5.15%) RSVP
8 18 (4.64%) HSRP
8 18 (4.64%) SNMP
8 18 (4.64%) TCP/IP
8 18 (4.64%) VPLS
9 17 (4.38%) Ethernet VPN
10 16 (4.12%) IPv4
10 16 (4.12%) VRRP
11 15 (3.87%) Cisco IOS
11 15 (3.87%) IOS XR
12 14 (3.61%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 13 (3.35%) SSH
14 12 (3.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 11 (2.84%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (11.86%) NoSQL
2 44 (11.34%) SQL Server
3 37 (9.54%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (8.76%) Relational Database
5 32 (8.25%) Parquet
5 32 (8.25%) Power BI
6 29 (7.47%) PostgreSQL
7 22 (5.67%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (5.15%) Azure SQL Database
8 20 (5.15%) Data Lake
8 20 (5.15%) DynamoDB
9 19 (4.90%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (4.90%) RDBMS
10 18 (4.64%) MySQL
11 17 (4.38%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (4.38%) MongoDB
12 13 (3.35%) Big Data
13 11 (2.84%) Snowflake Schema
14 10 (2.58%) Oracle Reports
15 9 (2.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 81 (20.88%) Git
2 52 (13.40%) JIRA
3 27 (6.96%) Jenkins
4 19 (4.90%) GitLab
4 19 (4.90%) Visual Studio
5 15 (3.87%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.35%) Postman
7 12 (3.09%) Selenium
8 11 (2.84%) Visual Studio Code
9 10 (2.58%) JUnit
9 10 (2.58%) SonarQube
10 9 (2.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (2.06%) CircleCI
11 8 (2.06%) Travis CI
11 8 (2.06%) Visual Studio Team System
12 7 (1.80%) Maven
12 7 (1.80%) TeamCity
13 6 (1.55%) Bitbucket
13 6 (1.55%) NUnit
13 6 (1.55%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 105 (27.06%) Social Skills
2 53 (13.66%) Finance
3 42 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (9.79%) Public Sector
5 23 (5.93%) Banking
6 14 (3.61%) Telecoms
7 13 (3.35%) Marketing
8 12 (3.09%) Manufacturing
8 12 (3.09%) Retail
9 10 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.32%) Front Office
11 8 (2.06%) Back Office
12 7 (1.80%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.55%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.29%) Advertising
14 5 (1.29%) Legal
14 5 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.77%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 98 (25.26%) Developer
2 59 (15.21%) Architect
3 34 (8.76%) Senior
4 32 (8.25%) Data Engineer
5 30 (7.73%) DevOps Engineer
6 27 (6.96%) Data Architect
7 21 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
8 20 (5.15%) Analyst
9 18 (4.64%) Java Developer
9 18 (4.64%) Network Engineer
10 17 (4.38%) Software Engineer
11 16 (4.12%) IP Expert
12 13 (3.35%) Business Analyst
12 13 (3.35%) Consultant
13 12 (3.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 12 (3.09%) Senior Developer
14 11 (2.84%) DBA
14 11 (2.84%) PostgreSQL DBA
14 11 (2.84%) Senior Architect
14 11 (2.84%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (52.58%) XML
2 117 (30.15%) REST
3 57 (14.69%) SOAP
4 53 (13.66%) HTML
5 50 (12.89%) .NET
6 49 (12.63%) CSS
7 43 (11.08%) YAML
8 37 (9.54%) Web Services
9 33 (8.51%) YANG
10 29 (7.47%) Apache Avro
10 29 (7.47%) NETCONF
11 28 (7.22%) RESTful
12 27 (6.96%) Kafka
13 24 (6.19%) Spring
14 23 (5.93%) jQuery
15 22 (5.67%) AngularJS
15 22 (5.67%) JSON Schema
16 21 (5.41%) ARM Templates
17 20 (5.15%) Node.js
17 20 (5.15%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.51%) Data Structures
2 23 (5.93%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (5.67%) Distributed Architecture
4 19 (4.90%) Product Ownership
5 16 (4.12%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.87%) Linux Command Line
7 14 (3.61%) Cloud Native
8 11 (2.84%) Reference Data
9 10 (2.58%) Public Cloud
10 9 (2.32%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.80%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.80%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.55%) Client/Server
12 6 (1.55%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.55%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.29%) Derivative
13 5 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.29%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 52 (13.40%) Linux
2 29 (7.47%) Unix
3 26 (6.70%) Windows
4 6 (1.55%) CentOS
5 4 (1.03%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.03%) Oracle Linux
5 4 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.03%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.52%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.26%) AIX
7 1 (0.26%) Android
7 1 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (45.36%) Agile
2 119 (30.67%) DevOps
3 86 (22.16%) CI/CD
4 72 (18.56%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (16.75%) Data Modelling
6 57 (14.69%) Scrum
7 53 (13.66%) Business Intelligence
7 53 (13.66%) Migration
8 51 (13.14%) Test Automation
9 49 (12.63%) Microservices
10 41 (10.57%) Continuous Integration
11 40 (10.31%) ETL
12 39 (10.05%) Analytics
12 39 (10.05%) OO
12 39 (10.05%) SDLC
13 34 (8.76%) Software Engineering
14 30 (7.73%) Workflow
15 29 (7.47%) Data Mapping
15 29 (7.47%) TDD
16 27 (6.96%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 139 (35.82%) SQL
2 105 (27.06%) Python
3 86 (22.16%) JavaScript
4 67 (17.27%) Java
5 64 (16.49%) C#
6 50 (12.89%) PowerShell
7 22 (5.67%) T-SQL
8 19 (4.90%) Bash
9 14 (3.61%) TypeScript
10 10 (2.58%) Perl
10 10 (2.58%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.06%) Apex Code
12 7 (1.80%) ActionScript
12 7 (1.80%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.80%) SOQL
13 6 (1.55%) PHP
14 5 (1.29%) C++
14 5 (1.29%) Groovy
14 5 (1.29%) X++
15 4 (1.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 58 (14.95%) Security Cleared
2 46 (11.86%) SC Cleared
3 32 (8.25%) Degree
4 15 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.35%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (2.06%) CCIE
6 8 (2.06%) CCIE Service Provider
7 6 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.29%) CCNP
8 5 (1.29%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.29%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.52%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.52%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.52%) CISSP
9 2 (0.52%) HND
10 1 (0.26%) GCIA
10 1 (0.26%) GIAC
10 1 (0.26%) GSEC
10 1 (0.26%) ISEB
10 1 (0.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (11.86%) QA
2 25 (6.44%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.61%) GDPR
4 5 (1.29%) HIPAA
4 5 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.03%) ISO 15022
5 4 (1.03%) NCSC
5 4 (1.03%) NIST
6 2 (0.52%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.52%) HL7
6 2 (0.52%) PMO
7 1 (0.26%) COREP
7 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.26%) IFRS
7 1 (0.26%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.26%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.26%) MiFID
7 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (9.28%) Docker
2 15 (3.87%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.29%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.03%) NFS
5 4 (1.03%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.77%) OpenAM
6 3 (0.77%) OpenIDM
6 3 (0.77%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.26%) Firmware
7 1 (0.26%) IAG
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 45 (11.60%) Terraform
2 40 (10.31%) Ansible
3 32 (8.25%) Kubernetes
4 16 (4.12%) Grafana
5 14 (3.61%) Kibana
6 12 (3.09%) logstash
6 12 (3.09%) Prometheus
7 11 (2.84%) Puppet
8 9 (2.32%) Docker Swarm
9 8 (2.06%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.80%) FortiGate
11 5 (1.29%) PingFederate
11 5 (1.29%) Podman
11 5 (1.29%) yum
12 3 (0.77%) Netcool
12 3 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.52%) TIBCO Hawk
14 1 (0.26%) Anchore
14 1 (0.26%) Data Guard
14 1 (0.26%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 86 (22.16%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.76%) Oracle
3 27 (6.96%) Nokia
4 25 (6.44%) Cisco
5 19 (4.90%) Salesforce
6 18 (4.64%) Splunk
7 16 (4.12%) Fortinet
7 16 (4.12%) Google
8 15 (3.87%) F5
9 13 (3.35%) SAP
10 11 (2.84%) Adobe
11 9 (2.32%) Informatica
11 9 (2.32%) Pega
11 9 (2.32%) ServiceNow
12 7 (1.80%) Optimizely
12 7 (1.80%) Palo Alto
13 6 (1.55%) IBM
13 6 (1.55%) Talend
14 5 (1.29%) Omniture
14 5 (1.29%) Tealium