JSON Contract Job Trends in the South East

JSON
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring JSON skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 129 156
Rank change year-on-year -43 +27 -12
Contract jobs citing JSON 55 36 28
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.83% 1.03% 0.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.58% 5.58% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 30 15
10th Percentile £262 £350 £383
25th Percentile £363 £422 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £573
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -17.03% +4.09%
75th Percentile £573 £525 £626
90th Percentile £651 £578 £688
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 986 645 805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.88% 18.49% 17.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 437 550
10th Percentile £325 £293 £325
25th Percentile £431 £380 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £551 £619
90th Percentile £725 £625 £675
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 17 29
10th Percentile £29.07 £24.69 £27.00
25th Percentile £54.84 £46.25 £56.65
Median hourly rate £68.11 £50.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +36.22% -18.83% +2.67%
75th Percentile £70.13 £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.44 £58.00 £74.89
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +24.94% -13.60% -3.85%

JSON
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

JSON job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing JSON.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing JSON

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JSON in the South East over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JSON in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing JSON.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing JSON

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSON within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. 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
Hampshire -24 19 £563 +18.11% 3
Thames Valley -48 15 £450 -5.26% 24
Surrey -15 11 £460 -3.16% 5
West Sussex -22 8 £270 -48.57% 3
Buckinghamshire -28 8 £375 -21.05% 2
Berkshire -36 5 £538 +16.22% 15
Oxfordshire -21 2 £625 - 7
East Sussex - 2 £275 - 5
JSON
England

JSON
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (1.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) SAP MDG
1 1 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.82%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 22 (40.00%) Azure
2 15 (27.27%) AWS
3 11 (20.00%) Boomi
4 10 (18.18%) GCP
5 9 (16.36%) iPaaS
6 8 (14.55%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (7.27%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (7.27%) Azure Storage
8 3 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.64%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.64%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (3.64%) Azure Table
9 2 (3.64%) Power Automate
9 2 (3.64%) Serverless
10 1 (1.82%) Azure App Service
10 1 (1.82%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.82%) Kong
10 1 (1.82%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.82%) Smartsheet
10 1 (1.82%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.36%) HTTP
2 2 (3.64%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.82%) DNS
3 1 (1.82%) SNMP
3 1 (1.82%) SSH
3 1 (1.82%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.82%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (7.27%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.64%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.64%) Couchbase
3 2 (3.64%) Db2
3 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.64%) Parquet
3 2 (3.64%) RDBMS
3 2 (3.64%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.82%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.82%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.82%) MySQL
4 1 (1.82%) Power BI
4 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (14.55%) Postman
2 5 (9.09%) Git
3 3 (5.45%) JIRA
4 2 (3.64%) JMeter
4 2 (3.64%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle Forms
General
1 6 (10.91%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (9.09%) Finance
3 4 (7.27%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.45%) Marketing
5 2 (3.64%) Legal
5 2 (3.64%) Retail
6 1 (1.82%) Automotive
6 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (41.82%) Developer
2 12 (21.82%) Architect
3 11 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (14.55%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Integration Developer
6 4 (7.27%) React Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Senior
7 3 (5.45%) Software Developer
7 3 (5.45%) UI Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Azure Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Consultant
8 2 (3.64%) Gen AI Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Integration Architect
8 2 (3.64%) Python Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) QA Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (49.09%) REST
2 26 (47.27%) XML
3 16 (29.09%) SOAP
4 15 (27.27%) RESTful
5 14 (25.45%) OAuth
6 13 (23.64%) React
7 12 (21.82%) Kafka
8 11 (20.00%) Middleware
8 11 (20.00%) SAML
9 9 (16.36%) .NET
9 9 (16.36%) OpenAPI
9 9 (16.36%) Swagger
10 8 (14.55%) ActiveMQ
10 8 (14.55%) EDI
10 8 (14.55%) GraphQL
10 8 (14.55%) JSON Schema
10 8 (14.55%) JWT
10 8 (14.55%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (12.73%) HTML
11 7 (12.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (14.55%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (9.09%) Data Structures
3 5 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 4 (7.27%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.82%) IoT
5 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.82%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (27.27%) Agile
1 15 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 14 (25.45%) Full-Stack Development
3 11 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (18.18%) DevOps
4 10 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 9 (16.36%) API Design
5 9 (16.36%) API Management
5 9 (16.36%) Event-Driven
5 9 (16.36%) Webhook
6 8 (14.55%) Batch Processing
6 8 (14.55%) Enterprise Architecture
6 8 (14.55%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 8 (14.55%) Integration Patterns
7 7 (12.73%) AI
8 6 (10.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (10.91%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (10.91%) Test Automation
8 6 (10.91%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (29.09%) JavaScript
2 15 (27.27%) SQL
3 13 (23.64%) Python
4 9 (16.36%) TypeScript
5 7 (12.73%) C#
5 7 (12.73%) Java
6 5 (9.09%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.82%) Bash
8 1 (1.82%) Bicep
8 1 (1.82%) XPath
Qualifications
1 16 (29.09%) Security Cleared
2 14 (25.45%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.64%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.64%) Degree
5 1 (1.82%) CCNA
5 1 (1.82%) CCNP
5 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.73%) QA
2 3 (5.45%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.64%) GDPR
3 2 (3.64%) NCSC
4 1 (1.82%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (5.45%) Active Directory
1 3 (5.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.82%) Ansible
3 1 (1.82%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (25.45%) Oracle
2 13 (23.64%) Microsoft
3 11 (20.00%) MuleSoft
4 9 (16.36%) TIBCO
5 8 (14.55%) Google
5 8 (14.55%) IBM
5 8 (14.55%) Informatica
5 8 (14.55%) WSO2
6 6 (10.91%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.64%) Databricks
7 2 (3.64%) Salesforce
7 2 (3.64%) Solace
8 1 (1.82%) Cisco
8 1 (1.82%) Dell
8 1 (1.82%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (1.82%) SAP
8 1 (1.82%) Splunk
8 1 (1.82%) webMethods
8 1 (1.82%) Workday