JSON Contracts in Scotland

JSON
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 89 106 141
Rank change year-on-year +17 +35 -30
Contract jobs citing JSON 27 23 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.66% 1.04% 0.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.99% 4.93% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 11 17
10th Percentile £441 £363 £442
25th Percentile £474 £453 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £559 £591 £511
90th Percentile £569 £638 £532
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 386 467 691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.75% 21.06% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 302 527
10th Percentile £348 £328 £406
25th Percentile £408 £411 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £549
90th Percentile £600 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £33.58 £49.99
25th Percentile - £44.94 £53.38
Median hourly rate - £53.75 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - -8.94% +24.93%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £64.52
90th Percentile - - £67.81
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

JSON
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for JSON in Scotland

JSON
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for JSON in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for JSON in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for JSON in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSON within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +13 13 £496 -0.05% 6
Glasgow -5 6 £559 -4.53% 7
Lanarkshire - 6 £525 - 1
JSON
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) AWS
2 9 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 9 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (33.33%) Serverless
3 8 (29.63%) Azure
4 6 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (22.22%) Amazon Cognito
4 6 (22.22%) AWS CloudTrail
4 6 (22.22%) GitHub
5 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (11.11%) CloudFront
5 3 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 3 (11.11%) Route 53
6 2 (7.41%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (7.41%) Power Automate
6 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
6 2 (7.41%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) Amazon Athena
1 6 (22.22%) DynamoDB
1 6 (22.22%) Parquet
2 5 (18.52%) MySQL
2 5 (18.52%) Relational Database
3 3 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (7.41%) MariaDB
4 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (7.41%) Power Query
4 2 (7.41%) Redis
5 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) Ant
2 2 (7.41%) Selenium
2 2 (7.41%) webpack
3 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.70%) JUnit
3 1 (3.70%) Mercurial
3 1 (3.70%) MSTest
3 1 (3.70%) NUnit
3 1 (3.70%) Postman
3 1 (3.70%) Ranorex
3 1 (3.70%) Subversion
General
1 17 (62.96%) Social Skills
2 8 (29.63%) Public Sector
3 5 (18.52%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (74.07%) Developer
2 12 (44.44%) ServiceNow Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Cloud Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Senior
3 6 (22.22%) Senior Developer
4 5 (18.52%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) AWS Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
7 2 (7.41%) AWS Software Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Java Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Consultant
8 1 (3.70%) Junior
8 1 (3.70%) Junior Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Junior Java Developer
8 1 (3.70%) QA Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (51.85%) XML
2 9 (33.33%) CSS
2 9 (33.33%) HTML
3 6 (22.22%) AWS CDK
3 6 (22.22%) REST
4 5 (18.52%) SOAP
4 5 (18.52%) Web Services
5 4 (14.81%) RESTful
6 3 (11.11%) JSON Schema
6 3 (11.11%) Node.js
6 3 (11.11%) OAuth
6 3 (11.11%) YAML
7 2 (7.41%) ARM Templates
7 2 (7.41%) HTML5 Canvas
7 2 (7.41%) TypeORM
8 1 (3.70%) JAX-RS
8 1 (3.70%) OpenAPI
8 1 (3.70%) Playwright
8 1 (3.70%) Swagger
8 1 (3.70%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) CMDB
2 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.41%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (7.41%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.70%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) Agile
1 11 (40.74%) CI/CD
2 10 (37.04%) Coaching
2 10 (37.04%) ITSM
3 9 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
3 9 (33.33%) DevOps
3 9 (33.33%) Service Delivery
4 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (22.22%) Event-Driven
5 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (18.52%) Asset Management
7 4 (14.81%) IT Asset Management
7 4 (14.81%) Mentoring
7 4 (14.81%) Security Operations
7 4 (14.81%) Thought Leadership
8 3 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
8 3 (11.11%) Fintech
8 3 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
8 3 (11.11%) Impact Assessments
8 3 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 16 (59.26%) JavaScript
2 11 (40.74%) SQL
3 8 (29.63%) Python
4 6 (22.22%) Java
5 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 3 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 2 (7.41%) Bash
6 2 (7.41%) Bicep
6 2 (7.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (3.70%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) GRC
2 3 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Ansible
1 2 (7.41%) Grafana
1 2 (7.41%) Progress Chef
1 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
1 2 (7.41%) Terraform
2 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (48.15%) ServiceNow
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) Workday