JSON Contract Job Trends in the North of England

JSON
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring JSON skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 136 125
Rank change year-on-year -8 -11 -8
Contract jobs citing JSON 81 26 61
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.45% 0.80% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.55% 3.98% 6.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 22 47
10th Percentile £350 £412 £400
25th Percentile £363 £445 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £448 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.22% -14.71% +8.25%
75th Percentile £506 £549 £538
90th Percentile £594 £623 £575
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -48.65% +32.14% -1.75%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,236 653 943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 22.13% 20.12% 19.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 848 457 667
10th Percentile £358 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £485 £495
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -2.02% -5.71%
75th Percentile £560 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £545 £540
% change year-on-year -3.67% +0.93% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 7 35
10th Percentile £52.50 £65.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £55.19 £67.63 £41.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £85.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% +84.06% -26.11%
75th Percentile £74.82 £99.32 £65.63
90th Percentile £87.45 £102.00 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

JSON job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing JSON.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing JSON

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JSON in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JSON in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing JSON.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing JSON

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 13 March 2026. 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
North West +4 53 £400 -10.11% 19
Yorkshire -38 27 £453 -24.43% 14
North East - 1 £475 - 3
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 10 (12.35%) Confluence
2 1 (1.23%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.23%) Mule
2 1 (1.23%) Mule ESB
2 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (6.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 22 (27.16%) AWS
2 20 (24.69%) Azure
3 13 (16.05%) Serverless
4 11 (13.58%) Apigee
5 9 (11.11%) GCP
6 8 (9.88%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (9.88%) Power Platform
7 7 (8.64%) Kong
8 6 (7.41%) OpenShift
9 5 (6.17%) AtomSphere
9 5 (6.17%) Boomi
9 5 (6.17%) GitHub
9 5 (6.17%) PowerApps
9 5 (6.17%) SaaS
10 4 (4.94%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (4.94%) Power Automate
11 3 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (3.70%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.88%) HTTPS
2 7 (8.64%) HTTP
3 6 (7.41%) DNS
4 4 (4.94%) Firewall
4 4 (4.94%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.70%) BIG-IP
5 3 (3.70%) DHCP
6 1 (1.23%) Network Security
6 1 (1.23%) SSL
6 1 (1.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.05%) MongoDB
1 13 (16.05%) NoSQL
1 13 (16.05%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (16.05%) RDBMS
1 13 (16.05%) Relational Database
2 10 (12.35%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (6.17%) Metadata
3 5 (6.17%) Power BI
4 2 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.47%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.47%) Delta Lake
4 2 (2.47%) Spark SQL
4 2 (2.47%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.23%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.23%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 15 (18.52%) JIRA
2 12 (14.81%) Jenkins
2 12 (14.81%) Postman
3 10 (12.35%) Git
4 4 (4.94%) Maven
4 4 (4.94%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.70%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.70%) GitLab
6 2 (2.47%) Gradle
6 2 (2.47%) IntelliJ
6 2 (2.47%) Selenium
6 2 (2.47%) SpecFlow
6 2 (2.47%) TestRail
6 2 (2.47%) Zephyr
7 1 (1.23%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.23%) fastlane
7 1 (1.23%) JUnit
7 1 (1.23%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.23%) Travis CI
7 1 (1.23%) XCTest
General
1 23 (28.40%) Finance
2 21 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 16 (19.75%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (14.81%) Documentation Skills
4 12 (14.81%) Public Sector
5 8 (9.88%) Banking
6 3 (3.70%) Publishing
7 1 (1.23%) Automotive
7 1 (1.23%) Military
7 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (28.40%) Developer
2 12 (14.81%) Analyst
2 12 (14.81%) DBA
3 11 (13.58%) Business Analyst
4 9 (11.11%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 8 (9.88%) Data Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) Architect
6 6 (7.41%) Technical Analyst
6 6 (7.41%) Technical Business Analyst
7 5 (6.17%) Administrator
7 5 (6.17%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Payments Analyst
7 5 (6.17%) Payments Business Analyst
8 4 (4.94%) Apigee Developer
8 4 (4.94%) Integration Developer
8 4 (4.94%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.94%) React Developer
8 4 (4.94%) Service Support Manager
8 4 (4.94%) ServiceNow Manager
8 4 (4.94%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (59.26%) XML
2 32 (39.51%) REST
3 23 (28.40%) SOAP
4 17 (20.99%) Kafka
5 11 (13.58%) OAuth
5 11 (13.58%) Swagger
6 10 (12.35%) JWT
7 9 (11.11%) RESTful
8 8 (9.88%) HTML
8 8 (9.88%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (8.64%) Spring
9 7 (8.64%) Spring Boot
10 6 (7.41%) Apache Avro
10 6 (7.41%) OpenAPI
10 6 (7.41%) Protocol Buffers
11 5 (6.17%) CSS
11 5 (6.17%) YAML
12 4 (4.94%) Hibernate
12 4 (4.94%) JAX-RS
12 4 (4.94%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.64%) Data Structures
2 6 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (6.17%) Digital Wallet
3 5 (6.17%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (4.94%) Low-Code
4 4 (4.94%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.70%) IVR
6 2 (2.47%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.47%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.23%) CMDB
7 1 (1.23%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.47%) Linux
1 2 (2.47%) Windows
2 1 (1.23%) Android
2 1 (1.23%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.23%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (50.62%) Agile
2 36 (44.44%) DevOps
3 34 (41.98%) CI/CD
4 28 (34.57%) Validation
5 26 (32.10%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (20.99%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (19.75%) Integration Patterns
8 15 (18.52%) Analytics
9 14 (17.28%) Computer Science
10 13 (16.05%) Database Security
11 12 (14.81%) API Testing
11 12 (14.81%) Requirements Gathering
12 11 (13.58%) Disaster Recovery
12 11 (13.58%) Mentoring
12 11 (13.58%) Translating Business Requirements
12 11 (13.58%) Workshop Facilitation
13 10 (12.35%) API Design
13 10 (12.35%) Microservices
14 9 (11.11%) API Integration
14 9 (11.11%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 23 (28.40%) Python
2 16 (19.75%) Java
3 13 (16.05%) SQL
4 12 (14.81%) JavaScript
5 9 (11.11%) Groovy
6 8 (9.88%) C#
7 4 (4.94%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.94%) T-SQL
7 4 (4.94%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.47%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.47%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (2.47%) VBA
8 2 (2.47%) XPath
9 1 (1.23%) Bicep
9 1 (1.23%) Go
9 1 (1.23%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.23%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.23%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (1.23%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.23%) Swift
Qualifications
1 17 (20.99%) Degree
2 14 (17.28%) Computer Science Degree
2 14 (17.28%) Security Cleared
3 10 (12.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (7.41%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.70%) CCNP
5 3 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.47%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.23%) CEH
7 1 (1.23%) GIAC
7 1 (1.23%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.17%) Accessibility
1 5 (6.17%) PCI DSS
1 5 (6.17%) PSD2
2 3 (3.70%) ISO 8583
2 3 (3.70%) QA
3 2 (2.47%) NIST
4 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (7.41%) Docker
2 2 (2.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (17.28%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.88%) Prometheus
2 8 (9.88%) Terraform
3 5 (6.17%) Grafana
4 4 (4.94%) Ansible
5 2 (2.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.23%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.23%) Kibana
6 1 (1.23%) logstash
6 1 (1.23%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 15 (18.52%) Oracle
3 12 (14.81%) Splunk
4 6 (7.41%) MuleSoft
4 6 (7.41%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.94%) F5
5 4 (4.94%) Sonatype
6 3 (3.70%) Databricks
6 3 (3.70%) Infoblox
7 2 (2.47%) Foundry
7 2 (2.47%) IBM
7 2 (2.47%) LogRhythm
7 2 (2.47%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.47%) SAP
7 2 (2.47%) Software AG
7 2 (2.47%) webMethods
8 1 (1.23%) Axway
8 1 (1.23%) Cribl.io
8 1 (1.23%) Dell
8 1 (1.23%) LogicMonitor