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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 108 131
Rank change year-on-year +7 +23 -17
Contract jobs citing JSON 19 11 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.09% 0.54% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.60% 2.64% 5.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 23
10th Percentile £437 - £455
25th Percentile £497 £363 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £568 £634 £538
90th Percentile £625 £809 £544
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%

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 413 416 642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.65% 20.47% 23.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 290 468
10th Percentile £313 £325 £393
25th Percentile £408 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -3.60% -4.05%
75th Percentile £538 £559 £538
90th Percentile £600 £675 £625
UK median daily rate £511 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.31% -1.82% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - £33.58 £18.90
25th Percentile £52.50 £44.94 £27.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.75 £47.73
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +12.61% +0.48%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.50 £59.03
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +15.21%

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

JSON
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JSON in Scotland over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JSON in Scotland

JSON
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 20 July 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 +16 8 £500 -27.27% 5
Glasgow -16 8 £572 +52.53% 2
Lanarkshire - 2 £525 - 1
JSON
UK

JSON
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
3 3 (15.79%) GitHub
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Copilot
3 3 (15.79%) Power Automate
3 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
3 3 (15.79%) Serverless
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.26%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (15.79%) DynamoDB
1 3 (15.79%) MariaDB
1 3 (15.79%) MongoDB
1 3 (15.79%) MySQL
1 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (15.79%) Power Query
1 3 (15.79%) Redis
1 3 (15.79%) Relational Database
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (10.53%) Parquet
2 2 (10.53%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.53%) JUnit
2 2 (10.53%) Selenium
3 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.26%) GitLab
3 1 (5.26%) Maven
3 1 (5.26%) Mercurial
3 1 (5.26%) MSTest
3 1 (5.26%) NUnit
3 1 (5.26%) Postman
3 1 (5.26%) Ranorex
3 1 (5.26%) Subversion
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Public Sector
3 5 (26.32%) Finance
4 2 (10.53%) Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Developer
2 7 (36.84%) ServiceNow Developer
3 5 (26.32%) Senior
3 5 (26.32%) Senior Developer
4 3 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Java Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Developer
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Cloud Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Data Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Junior
6 1 (5.26%) Junior Developer
6 1 (5.26%) QA Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) XML
2 7 (36.84%) REST
3 5 (26.32%) SOAP
3 5 (26.32%) Web Services
4 4 (21.05%) CSS
4 4 (21.05%) HTML
4 4 (21.05%) YAML
5 3 (15.79%) ARM Templates
5 3 (15.79%) HTML5 Canvas
5 3 (15.79%) Spring
6 2 (10.53%) AWS CDK
6 2 (10.53%) J2EE
6 2 (10.53%) Kafka
6 2 (10.53%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (10.53%) RESTful
6 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
7 1 (5.26%) Apache Camel
7 1 (5.26%) JAX-RS
7 1 (5.26%) JPA
7 1 (5.26%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) CMDB
1 3 (15.79%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (15.79%) Low-Code
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.26%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
1 8 (42.11%) DevOps
2 7 (36.84%) Agile
2 7 (36.84%) ITSM
3 6 (31.58%) Kanban
4 5 (26.32%) Asset Management
4 5 (26.32%) Coaching
4 5 (26.32%) Customer Requirements
4 5 (26.32%) Design Patterns
4 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
5 4 (21.05%) IT Asset Management
5 4 (21.05%) Security Operations
5 4 (21.05%) Thought Leadership
6 3 (15.79%) Analytics
6 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (15.79%) Microservices
6 3 (15.79%) Scrum
6 3 (15.79%) Service Delivery
6 3 (15.79%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) JavaScript
1 11 (57.89%) SQL
2 9 (47.37%) Java
3 5 (26.32%) Python
4 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
5 3 (15.79%) Bash
5 3 (15.79%) Bicep
5 3 (15.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (5.26%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.26%) GRC
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Prometheus
1 4 (21.05%) Terraform
2 3 (15.79%) Ansible
2 3 (15.79%) Grafana
2 3 (15.79%) Progress Chef
3 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) ServiceNow
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) IBM
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Workday