JSON Contract Job Trends in the North West

JSON
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring JSON skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 103 107
Rank change year-on-year +11 +4 -9
Contract jobs citing JSON 49 15 34
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.99% 0.70% 1.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.61% 4.30% 6.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 9 29
10th Percentile £358 £323 £478
25th Percentile £379 £324 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £435 £533
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -18.39% +24.53%
75th Percentile £503 £445 £538
90th Percentile £680 £450 £600
England median daily rate £520 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -0.95% -1.50% -3.09%
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% +6.49%

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 510 349 564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 20.75% 16.30% 21.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 227 448
10th Percentile £325 £354 £366
25th Percentile £380 £401 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £550 £550 £619
90th Percentile £664 £638 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 6 31
10th Percentile £50.25 £41.09 £45.88
25th Percentile £53.44 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £62.75 £55.84 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +12.37% +20.92% +3.36%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.75 £64.38
90th Percentile £74.98 £76.63 £73.75
England median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.20
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.74% -19.70%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

JSON job vacancy trend in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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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 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JSON in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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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 15 December 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
Cheshire -9 20 £395 +2.60% 7
Manchester +6 18 £402 -8.64% 23
Merseyside - 6 £510 - 3
Lancashire - 5 £670 - 9
JSON
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (4.08%) Mule
1 2 (4.08%) Mule ESB
2 1 (2.04%) Anypoint
2 1 (2.04%) JBoss
2 1 (2.04%) nginx
2 1 (2.04%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.04%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 13 (26.53%) Azure
2 9 (18.37%) AWS
2 9 (18.37%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (14.29%) Apigee
4 6 (12.24%) npm
4 6 (12.24%) Serverless
5 5 (10.20%) Power Platform
6 4 (8.16%) Azure AKS
6 4 (8.16%) GCP
6 4 (8.16%) Power Automate
7 3 (6.12%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (6.12%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (6.12%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (6.12%) Entra ID
7 3 (6.12%) Kong
7 3 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (6.12%) PowerApps
8 2 (4.08%) AtomSphere
8 2 (4.08%) Boomi
8 2 (4.08%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.37%) HTTPS
2 4 (8.16%) HTTP
3 3 (6.12%) DNS
3 3 (6.12%) Firewall
4 2 (4.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.41%) MongoDB
1 10 (20.41%) Relational Database
2 9 (18.37%) NoSQL
2 9 (18.37%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (18.37%) RDBMS
3 6 (12.24%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (10.20%) Power BI
5 2 (4.08%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 11 (22.45%) Git
2 9 (18.37%) Postman
3 6 (12.24%) Cypress.io
3 6 (12.24%) Grunt
3 6 (12.24%) gulp
3 6 (12.24%) JUnit
3 6 (12.24%) SonarQube
4 5 (10.20%) Jenkins
5 2 (4.08%) GitLab
5 2 (4.08%) Gradle
5 2 (4.08%) IntelliJ
5 2 (4.08%) JIRA
6 1 (2.04%) Android Studio
6 1 (2.04%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.04%) fastlane
6 1 (2.04%) Xcode
6 1 (2.04%) XCTest
General
1 15 (30.61%) Public Sector
2 5 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.16%) Finance
3 4 (8.16%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Banking
4 3 (6.12%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.08%) Military
6 1 (2.04%) Automotive
6 1 (2.04%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (59.18%) Developer
2 10 (20.41%) Java Developer
3 8 (16.33%) DBA
4 5 (10.20%) Administrator
4 5 (10.20%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 5 (10.20%) Senior
4 5 (10.20%) Senior Developer
4 5 (10.20%) Senior Java Developer
4 5 (10.20%) UI Developer
5 4 (8.16%) Analyst
5 4 (8.16%) Apigee Developer
6 3 (6.12%) Business Analyst
6 3 (6.12%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Developer
6 3 (6.12%) Power Apps Developer
6 3 (6.12%) Security Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (6.12%) Technical Business Analyst
6 3 (6.12%) webMethods Developer
7 2 (4.08%) Azure Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (57.14%) XML
2 18 (36.73%) REST
3 13 (26.53%) SOAP
3 13 (26.53%) Spring
3 13 (26.53%) Spring Boot
4 12 (24.49%) HTML
4 12 (24.49%) React
5 11 (22.45%) RESTful
6 10 (20.41%) OAuth
7 8 (16.33%) jQuery
8 7 (14.29%) AngularJS
8 7 (14.29%) CSS
8 7 (14.29%) JWT
8 7 (14.29%) Node.js
9 6 (12.24%) CSS3
9 6 (12.24%) Jest
9 6 (12.24%) Kafka
9 6 (12.24%) LESS
9 6 (12.24%) Nightwatchjs
9 6 (12.24%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) Data Structures
2 5 (10.20%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (10.20%) Low-Code
3 3 (6.12%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.08%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.04%) CMDB
5 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.04%) IVR
5 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.12%) Windows
2 2 (4.08%) Linux
3 1 (2.04%) Android
3 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (55.10%) DevOps
2 25 (51.02%) CI/CD
3 15 (30.61%) Agile
3 15 (30.61%) Microservices
4 13 (26.53%) Unit Testing
5 10 (20.41%) API Development
6 9 (18.37%) Database Security
6 9 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (18.37%) Validation
7 8 (16.33%) API Testing
7 8 (16.33%) Computer Science
7 8 (16.33%) Test Automation
8 7 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
8 7 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 7 (14.29%) Use Case
9 6 (12.24%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (12.24%) Front End Development
9 6 (12.24%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (12.24%) TDD
9 6 (12.24%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.69%) Java
2 9 (18.37%) JavaScript
3 6 (12.24%) SQL
4 4 (8.16%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.12%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (6.12%) Python
6 2 (4.08%) C#
6 2 (4.08%) Groovy
6 2 (4.08%) Kotlin
6 2 (4.08%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.08%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.04%) Objective-C
7 1 (2.04%) Swift
7 1 (2.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (30.61%) Security Cleared
2 13 (26.53%) Degree
3 9 (18.37%) SC Cleared
4 8 (16.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (12.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (6.12%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.04%) CCNP
7 1 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (32.65%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.12%) NIST
3 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 9 (18.37%) Docker
2 3 (6.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (24.49%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (4.08%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (22.45%) Microsoft
1 11 (22.45%) Oracle
2 6 (12.24%) Perforce
2 6 (12.24%) Splunk
3 4 (8.16%) MuleSoft
4 3 (6.12%) IBM
4 3 (6.12%) LogRhythm
4 3 (6.12%) SAP
4 3 (6.12%) Software AG
4 3 (6.12%) webMethods
5 2 (4.08%) AppDynamics
5 2 (4.08%) Axway
5 2 (4.08%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.04%) Netlify
6 1 (2.04%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.04%) Pega
6 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow