JSON Contract Job Trends in Manchester

JSON
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring JSON skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 75 85
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 +7
Contract jobs citing JSON 6 7 23
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.60% 0.60% 1.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.00% 3.04% 5.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 18
10th Percentile £366 £320 £444
25th Percentile £403 - £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £324 £519
Median % change year-on-year +31.17% -37.54% +3.75%
75th Percentile £447 £494 £538
90th Percentile £500 £543 £600
North West median daily rate £447 £355 £525
% change year-on-year +26.09% -32.48% +22.66%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 200 230 392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 20.04% 19.61% 23.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 146 320
10th Percentile £323 £324 £363
25th Percentile £398 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £548 £575 £600
90th Percentile £613 £744 £675
North West median daily rate £447 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -6.00% -9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £63.20 £60.50
25th Percentile - £64.25 £64.06
Median hourly rate £70.00 £69.50 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% +1.09% -2.14%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £77.81
90th Percentile - £74.20 £79.88
North West median hourly rate £51.00 £56.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year -9.88% +22.54% -34.03%

JSON
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

JSON job vacancy trend in Manchester

JSON
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing JSON.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing JSON

JSON
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JSON in Manchester over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JSON in Manchester

JSON
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing JSON.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing JSON

JSON
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (16.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Power Automate
1 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (33.33%) PowerApps
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) BrowserStack
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Power BI
2 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Healthcare
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Power Apps Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Test Lead
3 1 (16.67%) DBA
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) MongoDB DBA
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
2 3 (50.00%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (33.33%) REST
3 2 (33.33%) XML
4 1 (16.67%) Kafka
4 1 (16.67%) OAuth
4 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
4 1 (16.67%) RESTful
4 1 (16.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Low-Code
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (16.67%) API Development
4 1 (16.67%) Coaching
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) Database Security
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Network Load Balancing
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) User Stories
4 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Pega