JSON Contracts in the Midlands

JSON
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring JSON skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JSON over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 118 121
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 -20
Contract jobs citing JSON 10 20 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.49% 0.72% 0.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.60% 4.80% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 23
10th Percentile £324 £375 £413
25th Percentile £437 £438 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £577 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.68% -1.79% +17.50%
75th Percentile £581 £625 £625
90th Percentile £603 £645 -
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.37% -2.91% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 384 417 571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.68% 14.98% 17.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 287 443
10th Percentile £305 £288 £313
25th Percentile £368 £361 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +2.63% -
75th Percentile £539 £621 £594
90th Percentile £638 £718 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £557
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.26% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 18 0
10th Percentile - £10.90 -
25th Percentile £33.91 £14.16 -
Median hourly rate £41.96 £26.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +59.83% - -
75th Percentile £50.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile - £57.38 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +23.81%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for JSON in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for JSON in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JSON in the Midlands over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JSON in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for JSON in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSON within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 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
East Midlands +7 5 £319 -44.80% 10
West Midlands +5 5 £550 -5.38% 15
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (30.00%) Moodle
2 2 (20.00%) Apache
2 2 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (10.00%) npm
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (20.00%) Apache Hudi
2 2 (20.00%) Apache Iceberg
2 2 (20.00%) Big Data
2 2 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (20.00%) Delta Lake
2 2 (20.00%) Flink
2 2 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (20.00%) Parquet
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
2 3 (30.00%) PHPUnit
2 3 (30.00%) Postman
3 1 (10.00%) Grunt
3 1 (10.00%) gulp
3 1 (10.00%) Selenium
3 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
3 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Law
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Moodle Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Scala Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Leader
4 1 (10.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) XML
2 3 (30.00%) Behat
2 3 (30.00%) Kafka
2 3 (30.00%) RESTful
3 2 (20.00%) .NET
3 2 (20.00%) Apache Avro
3 2 (20.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) Ajax
4 1 (10.00%) CSS
4 1 (10.00%) CSS3
4 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (10.00%) HTML5
4 1 (10.00%) J2EE
4 1 (10.00%) JDBC
4 1 (10.00%) jQuery
4 1 (10.00%) Node.js
4 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (10.00%) SOAP
4 1 (10.00%) Spring
4 1 (10.00%) XHR
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) e-Learning
1 3 (30.00%) VLE
2 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Agile
1 4 (40.00%) Code Quality
1 4 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (30.00%) Data Management
2 3 (30.00%) Scrum
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) ETL
3 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (20.00%) Open Source
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Backlog Refinement
4 1 (10.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (10.00%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (30.00%) PHP
4 2 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) Scala
5 1 (10.00%) C#
5 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Perforce
3 1 (10.00%) Solace