JWT Contract Job Trends in Scotland

JSON Web Token (JWT)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring JWT skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JWT 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.50% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £431 - -
25th Percentile £503 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £542 - -
90th Percentile £547 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% -19.23%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

JWT 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 401 393 551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 24.88% 20.93% 22.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 254 386
10th Percentile £373 £356 £388
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.04% -1.54%
75th Percentile £545 £564 £545
90th Percentile £613 £700 £614
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 12
10th Percentile - - £29.52
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £53.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £57.72
Median % change year-on-year - -4.70% -3.29%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.50 £62.71
90th Percentile - - £77.58
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £61.60 £58.59
% change year-on-year -10.71% +5.14% -7.18%

JWT
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for JWT in Scotland

JWT
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing JWT.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing JWT

JWT
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JWT in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JWT in Scotland

JWT
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 JWT within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 September 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 - 5 £525 - 3
Glasgow - 3 £458 - 1
JWT
UK

JWT
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Anypoint
1 2 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (25.00%) Mule
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon ECS
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon EKS
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon S3
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon SQS
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (62.50%) Serverless
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) HTTP
2 2 (25.00%) AMQP
2 2 (25.00%) DSL
3 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) MLflow
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) OAuth
2 6 (75.00%) REST
3 5 (62.50%) AWS CDK
3 5 (62.50%) FastAPI
3 5 (62.50%) Hugging Face
3 5 (62.50%) NumPy
3 5 (62.50%) OpenCV
3 5 (62.50%) Pandas
3 5 (62.50%) PyTorch
3 5 (62.50%) SQLAlchemy
4 4 (50.00%) boto
5 3 (37.50%) SOAP
6 2 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (25.00%) Apache Camel
6 2 (25.00%) Kafka
6 2 (25.00%) OAuth2
6 2 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (25.00%) XML
7 1 (12.50%) LDAP
7 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (37.50%) Algorithms
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (12.50%) Clustering
4 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Scrum
2 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (75.00%) Kanban
3 5 (62.50%) API Development
3 5 (62.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (62.50%) LLM
3 5 (62.50%) Machine Learning
3 5 (62.50%) OCR
3 5 (62.50%) OOP
4 4 (50.00%) Async-Await
4 4 (50.00%) Pair Programming
4 4 (50.00%) TDD
5 3 (37.50%) API Design
5 3 (37.50%) API Integration
5 3 (37.50%) Code Quality
5 3 (37.50%) Community of Practice
5 3 (37.50%) Computer Vision
5 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
5 3 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) DataWeave
4 1 (12.50%) Groovy
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (62.50%) Grafana
3 2 (25.00%) Ansible
3 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (12.50%) ForgeRock
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft