JSON Contract Job Trends in Reading

JSON
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring JSON skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 80 81
Rank change year-on-year +11 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing JSON 7 11 5
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.00% 1.02% 0.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.07% 4.31% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 5
10th Percentile £383 - £350
25th Percentile £413 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -8.05%
75th Percentile £771 £525 £600
90th Percentile - - £615
Berkshire median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% -2.91%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 138 255 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 19.66% 23.57% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 180 88
10th Percentile £400 £382 £350
25th Percentile £475 £429 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +11.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £644 £628
90th Percentile £648 £670 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £71.62 £16.84
Median hourly rate £81.00 £73.25 £17.34
Median % change year-on-year +10.59% +322.40% -77.11%
75th Percentile - £74.87 £17.84
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £81.00 £58.30 £72.28
% change year-on-year +38.94% -19.34% -4.58%

JSON
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

JSON job vacancy trend in Reading

JSON
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing JSON

JSON
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JSON in Reading over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JSON in Reading

JSON
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing JSON

JSON
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 (28.57%) Appian
2 1 (14.29%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (28.57%) Serverless
1 2 (28.57%) Tricentis Tosca
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) BGP
1 1 (14.29%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (14.29%) MPLS
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
2 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
2 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) Robot Framework
2 2 (28.57%) Selenium
2 2 (28.57%) SonarQube
3 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Healthcare
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Head of Development
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Developer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Maximo Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) XML
2 4 (57.14%) REST
3 3 (42.86%) NETCONF
4 2 (28.57%) Jinja
4 2 (28.57%) SOAP
4 2 (28.57%) YANG
5 1 (14.29%) HTML
5 1 (14.29%) OAuth
5 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
5 1 (14.29%) PySpark
5 1 (14.29%) RESTCONF
5 1 (14.29%) RESTful
5 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) CentOS
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Microservices
2 3 (42.86%) Workflow
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) AI
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Data Mapping
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Network Load Balancing
4 1 (14.29%) Open Source
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Use Case
4 1 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
3 3 (42.86%) Java
3 3 (42.86%) SQL
4 2 (28.57%) Jython
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 2 (28.57%) Salesforce
2 2 (28.57%) Veracode
3 1 (14.29%) IBM
3 1 (14.29%) Pega