JWT Contracts in England

JSON Web Token (JWT)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring JWT skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JWT over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 522 623
Rank change year-on-year +61 +101 +62
Contract jobs citing JWT 24 20 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.099% 0.054% 0.059%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.44% 0.27% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 22
10th Percentile £416 £375 £485
25th Percentile £458 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -6.00%
75th Percentile £585 £594 £588
90th Percentile £599 £600 £825
UK median daily rate £545 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +3.81% - -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £45.88 -
UK median hourly rate - £45.88 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

JWT 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 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

JWT
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for JWT in England

JWT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for JWT in England

JWT
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JWT in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JWT in England

JWT
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 JWT within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +48 19 £523 -11.06% 28
North of England +13 3 £500 -4.76% 5
Yorkshire +5 3 £500 -4.76%
East Midlands - 1 £540 -
Midlands - 1 £540 -
East of England - 1 - - 2
JWT
UK

JWT
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 1 (4.17%) CICS
1 1 (4.17%) CMS
1 1 (4.17%) Confluence
1 1 (4.17%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) AWS
1 11 (45.83%) Azure
2 9 (37.50%) GCP
3 5 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (20.83%) Serverless
4 4 (16.67%) GitHub
5 3 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (4.17%) Apigee
6 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Run
6 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.17%) npm
6 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (33.33%) HTTP
2 6 (25.00%) HTTPS
3 2 (8.33%) Kerberos
4 1 (4.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 4 (16.67%) Redis
3 3 (12.50%) MySQL
3 3 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.17%) BigQuery
4 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.17%) DB2
4 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Git
2 5 (20.83%) Jenkins
3 4 (16.67%) Maven
4 3 (12.50%) Eclipse
4 3 (12.50%) Gradle
4 3 (12.50%) IntelliJ
4 3 (12.50%) JUnit
4 3 (12.50%) Mockito
4 3 (12.50%) TestNG
5 1 (4.17%) Babel
5 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
5 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
5 1 (4.17%) GitLab
5 1 (4.17%) JIRA
5 1 (4.17%) MLflow
5 1 (4.17%) Mocha
5 1 (4.17%) Postman
5 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio
5 1 (4.17%) webpack
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Finance
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (12.50%) Digital Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Lead
3 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (8.33%) Java Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) LDAP Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Lead Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (8.33%) React Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) ForgeRock Developer
5 1 (4.17%) ForgeRock Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (70.83%) OAuth
2 11 (45.83%) RESTful
3 10 (41.67%) SAML
4 9 (37.50%) SOAP
5 8 (33.33%) REST
6 7 (29.17%) LDAP
7 6 (25.00%) JSON
8 5 (20.83%) Node.js
8 5 (20.83%) React
8 5 (20.83%) Spring
8 5 (20.83%) Spring Boot
8 5 (20.83%) Swagger
9 3 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (12.50%) Hibernate
9 3 (12.50%) Kafka
9 3 (12.50%) OpenAPI
10 2 (8.33%) HTML
10 2 (8.33%) Middleware
10 2 (8.33%) OpenID
10 2 (8.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Replication
2 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.17%) DataPower
2 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.17%) IoT
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Code
2 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.17%) N-Tier
2 1 (4.17%) PKI
2 1 (4.17%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
1 2 (8.33%) Unix
2 1 (4.17%) Android
2 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) DevOps
2 10 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 8 (33.33%) Microservices
4 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.83%) Agile
5 5 (20.83%) API Design
5 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
5 5 (20.83%) Event-Driven
5 5 (20.83%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
5 5 (20.83%) SOLID
5 5 (20.83%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (16.67%) API Management
6 4 (16.67%) Design Patterns
6 4 (16.67%) Domain-Driven Design
6 4 (16.67%) Software Engineering
7 3 (12.50%) API Development
7 3 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
7 3 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) Java
2 12 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 10 (41.67%) Python
4 6 (25.00%) Groovy
5 4 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 3 (12.50%) SQL
7 2 (8.33%) C#
8 1 (4.17%) Apex Code
8 1 (4.17%) Bash
8 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
8 1 (4.17%) Ruby
8 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
8 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
8 1 (4.17%) XPath
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Docker
2 6 (25.00%) OpenAM
2 6 (25.00%) OpenDJ
2 6 (25.00%) OpenIDM
3 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.67%) Terraform
3 3 (12.50%) Grafana
3 3 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.17%) CA Endevor
4 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) ForgeRock
2 4 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (4.17%) IBM
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.17%) Okta
3 1 (4.17%) Ping Identity
3 1 (4.17%) Salesforce