JSON Contracts in the North West

JSON
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 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 103 109 98
Rank change year-on-year +6 -11 +34
Contract jobs citing JSON 17 28 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.86% 1.02% 1.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.89% 5.57% 9.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 23 47
10th Percentile £409 £505 £413
25th Percentile £445 £508 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £534 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.29% +6.80% -4.76%
75th Percentile £448 £558 £650
90th Percentile £478 £575 £685
England median daily rate £510 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 437 503 592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 22.21% 18.26% 18.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 369 464
10th Percentile £363 £363 £337
25th Percentile £401 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £577
90th Percentile £638 £750 £647
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 3
10th Percentile - £37.63 £39.24
25th Percentile £65.25 £45.88 £41.40
Median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%
75th Percentile £74.69 £71.87 -
90th Percentile £83.13 £75.05 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for JSON in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for JSON in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JSON in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JSON in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for JSON in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +12 11 £445 -16.67% 17
Cheshire -5 4 £470 -7.94% 5
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (11.76%) CICS
1 2 (11.76%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) Serverless
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (76.47%) MongoDB
2 12 (70.59%) NoSQL
2 12 (70.59%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (70.59%) RDBMS
2 12 (70.59%) Relational Database
3 10 (58.82%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (35.29%) MySQL
5 3 (17.65%) DB2
5 3 (17.65%) Hadoop
6 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
1 2 (11.76%) Selenium
1 2 (11.76%) SOAtest
2 1 (5.88%) Jasmine
2 1 (5.88%) Mocha
General
1 6 (35.29%) Banking
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) General Ledger
3 2 (11.76%) Retail Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) DBA
2 8 (47.06%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 5 (29.41%) Administrator
4 3 (17.65%) Architect
4 3 (17.65%) MongoDB DBA
5 2 (11.76%) Test Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Database Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (5.88%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Mainframe Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (82.35%) XML
2 10 (58.82%) Kafka
3 2 (11.76%) J2EE
3 2 (11.76%) Web Services
4 1 (5.88%) CSS
4 1 (5.88%) HTML
4 1 (5.88%) Jest
4 1 (5.88%) Node.js
4 1 (5.88%) Nunjucks
4 1 (5.88%) RAML
4 1 (5.88%) REST
4 1 (5.88%) RESTful
4 1 (5.88%) Sass
4 1 (5.88%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Mainframe
1 2 (11.76%) Mobile Payment
1 2 (11.76%) VSAM
2 1 (5.88%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Unix
2 1 (5.88%) Android
2 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Agile
2 13 (76.47%) Database Security
3 12 (70.59%) Mentoring
4 10 (58.82%) DevOps
4 10 (58.82%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (11.76%) API Testing
6 2 (11.76%) ETL
6 2 (11.76%) Impact Analysis
6 2 (11.76%) Migration
6 2 (11.76%) Performance Management
6 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.76%) Risk Assessment
6 2 (11.76%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
6 2 (11.76%) Test Planning
6 2 (11.76%) Test Strategy
6 2 (11.76%) User Stories
7 1 (5.88%) API Integration
7 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) COBOL
1 2 (11.76%) Java
1 2 (11.76%) JCL
1 2 (11.76%) REXX
2 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.88%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (88.24%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) Ab Initio
2 2 (11.76%) Informatica
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Parasoft
3 1 (5.88%) Cloudera
3 1 (5.88%) CyberArk
3 1 (5.88%) IBM
3 1 (5.88%) Imperva
3 1 (5.88%) Splunk