JWT Contract Job Trends in London

JSON Web Token (JWT)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring JWT skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 380 423
Rank change year-on-year +34 +43 +112
Contract jobs citing JWT 25 13 11
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.19% 0.081% 0.053%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.71% 0.30% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 8
10th Percentile £403 £401 £458
25th Percentile £425 £527 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £725
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -17.24% +7.41%
75th Percentile £600 - £828
90th Percentile £662 £624 £841
England median daily rate £506 £543 £650
% change year-on-year -6.82% -16.46% -3.70%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,498 4,343 5,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.13% 27.06% 26.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,370 2,890 4,085
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £713 £713
90th Percentile £800 £850 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 23 41
10th Percentile £31.94 £23.88 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.48 £36.50 £41.25
Median hourly rate £51.44 £42.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.04% -29.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £61.25 £61.97 £73.65
90th Percentile £84.40 £74.20 £90.00
England median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -16.92% +13.04% -11.54%

JWT
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JWT relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

JWT job vacancy trend in London

JWT
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing JWT.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing JWT

JWT
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JWT in London over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JWT in London

JWT
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JWT within the London region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
Central London +12 5 £660 +19.03% 1
West London 0 2 £512 +25.18% 1
JWT
England

JWT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 5 (20.00%) Apache
2 3 (12.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (12.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (8.00%) CICS
3 2 (8.00%) CMS
3 2 (8.00%) Confluence
3 2 (8.00%) Headless CMS
4 1 (4.00%) Anypoint
4 1 (4.00%) Mule
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Magento
2 1 (4.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) AWS
2 6 (24.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) GCP
3 3 (12.00%) Cloud Run
3 3 (12.00%) Firebase
3 3 (12.00%) GitHub
3 3 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (8.00%) Apigee
4 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.00%) Google Gemini
4 2 (8.00%) Vertex AI
5 1 (4.00%) Azure AI
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (4.00%) iPaaS
5 1 (4.00%) OCI
5 1 (4.00%) Prefect
5 1 (4.00%) Serverless
5 1 (4.00%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) AMQP
1 1 (4.00%) DSL
1 1 (4.00%) HTTP
1 1 (4.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (12.00%) Flink
2 3 (12.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.00%) DB2
4 1 (4.00%) Big Data
4 1 (4.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (12.00%) GitLab
3 2 (8.00%) JIRA
3 2 (8.00%) Snyk
3 2 (8.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (4.00%) Ant
4 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.00%) Git
4 1 (4.00%) Postman
General
1 10 (40.00%) Finance
1 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Banking
3 2 (8.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Digital Health
4 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.00%) Architect
2 5 (20.00%) Senior
3 3 (12.00%) Backend Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Lead
3 3 (12.00%) Senior Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 2 (8.00%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Data Integration Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Mobile Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (84.00%) OAuth
2 15 (60.00%) RESTful
3 11 (44.00%) OAuth2
4 10 (40.00%) GraphQL
5 7 (28.00%) React
5 7 (28.00%) REST
5 7 (28.00%) Spring
6 6 (24.00%) Node.js
6 6 (24.00%) Spring Boot
7 5 (20.00%) JSON
7 5 (20.00%) SOAP
8 4 (16.00%) CSS
8 4 (16.00%) HTML
8 4 (16.00%) Redux
9 3 (12.00%) CSS3
9 3 (12.00%) HTML5
9 3 (12.00%) Next.js
9 3 (12.00%) Web Services
9 3 (12.00%) XSLT
9 3 (12.00%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (16.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (16.00%) Mobile App
3 3 (12.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (8.00%) DataPower
4 2 (8.00%) Wiki
5 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) zOS
2 1 (4.00%) Android
2 1 (4.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) CI/CD
1 18 (72.00%) DevOps
2 11 (44.00%) Agile
3 9 (36.00%) API Design
4 8 (32.00%) Microservices
5 7 (28.00%) AI
5 7 (28.00%) User Experience
6 6 (24.00%) Event-Driven
7 5 (20.00%) Analytics
7 5 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (20.00%) Data Privacy
7 5 (20.00%) ETL
7 5 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (20.00%) Machine Learning
8 4 (16.00%) Clean Code
8 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
8 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (16.00%) Data Encryption
8 4 (16.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) Java
2 9 (36.00%) TypeScript
3 7 (28.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (20.00%) Python
5 4 (16.00%) Go
5 4 (16.00%) SQL
6 2 (8.00%) Kotlin
6 2 (8.00%) XPath
7 1 (4.00%) C#
7 1 (4.00%) DataWeave
7 1 (4.00%) Groovy
7 1 (4.00%) Objective-C
7 1 (4.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) GDPR
2 4 (16.00%) QA
3 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) OpenAM
2 1 (4.00%) OpenDJ
2 1 (4.00%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.00%) Grafana
2 4 (16.00%) Kibana
2 4 (16.00%) Prometheus
2 4 (16.00%) Terraform
3 2 (8.00%) CA Endevor
4 1 (4.00%) Ansible
4 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Google
2 3 (12.00%) OpenAI
3 2 (8.00%) IBM
4 1 (4.00%) ForgeRock
4 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.00%) Okta
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle