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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 116 166
Rank change year-on-year -42 +50 -24
Contract jobs citing JSON 50 39 32
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.88% 1.31% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.83% 7.94% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 31 23
10th Percentile £402 £350 £400
25th Percentile £463 £395 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% -0.49%
75th Percentile £575 £539 £576
90th Percentile £598 £656 £697
England median daily rate £500 £505 £534
% change year-on-year -0.99% -5.43% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £70.00
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -48.65% +32.14% -

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 858 491 756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.12% 16.46% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 317 458
10th Percentile £350 £350 £314
25th Percentile £413 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £619
90th Percentile £693 £663 £675
England median daily rate £525 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -1.59% -3.00% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 16 33
10th Percentile £40.00 £28.68 £35.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £47.75 £55.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.63 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% -6.45% -2.61%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.47 £77.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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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 16 April 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 16 April 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
Thames Valley -46 19 £500 - 10
Hampshire -10 18 £500 +9.89% 8
Buckinghamshire -14 11 £525 -4.55% 6
Berkshire -45 8 £475 -5.00% 3
West Sussex - 7 £500 -
Surrey -21 2 £456 -29.13% 3
Kent - 2 £550 -
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England

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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 2 (4.00%) IIS
2 1 (2.00%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 15 (30.00%) Azure
2 6 (12.00%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (8.00%) Azure Functions
4 4 (8.00%) Power Platform
4 4 (8.00%) Serverless
5 3 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.00%) Azure AI
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (4.00%) OCI
7 1 (2.00%) AtomSphere
7 1 (2.00%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.00%) Boomi
7 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) HTTP
2 1 (2.00%) Firewall
2 1 (2.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (8.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.00%) Parquet
3 3 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.00%) Power BI
4 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.00%) Couchbase
5 1 (2.00%) DB2
5 1 (2.00%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Git
1 4 (8.00%) Postman
2 3 (6.00%) JIRA
3 2 (4.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.00%) JMeter
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 11 (22.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.00%) Billing
4 2 (4.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (32.00%) Developer
2 9 (18.00%) Software Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (12.00%) Consultant
4 6 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Architect
5 5 (10.00%) Python Developer
5 5 (10.00%) Software Developer
6 4 (8.00%) ServiceNow Consultant
7 3 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Implementation Consultant
8 2 (4.00%) Integration Consultant
8 2 (4.00%) Integration Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Oracle Consultant
8 2 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Product Owner
8 2 (4.00%) Technical Consultant
8 2 (4.00%) Web Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (52.00%) XML
2 20 (40.00%) REST
3 12 (24.00%) SOAP
4 9 (18.00%) React
4 9 (18.00%) YAML
5 5 (10.00%) AngularJS
5 5 (10.00%) RESTful
5 5 (10.00%) Web Services
6 4 (8.00%) .NET
6 4 (8.00%) JSON Schema
6 4 (8.00%) Swagger
7 3 (6.00%) .NET Framework
7 3 (6.00%) CSS
7 3 (6.00%) Entity Framework
8 2 (4.00%) LINQ
8 2 (4.00%) Node.js
8 2 (4.00%) scikit-learn
8 2 (4.00%) Spring
8 2 (4.00%) Spring Boot
8 2 (4.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Data Structures
2 4 (8.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (8.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.00%) TM Forum
4 2 (4.00%) Wiki
5 1 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.00%) IoT
5 1 (2.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (2.00%) Windows
2 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (34.00%) Agile
2 14 (28.00%) DevOps
2 14 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (24.00%) Software Engineering
4 8 (16.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (16.00%) Containerisation
4 8 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (16.00%) Microservices
5 7 (14.00%) AI
5 7 (14.00%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (14.00%) LLM
5 7 (14.00%) Waterfall
6 6 (12.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (10.00%) Generative AI
7 5 (10.00%) Integration Patterns
7 5 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (8.00%) API Design
8 4 (8.00%) Backlog Refinement
8 4 (8.00%) Data Science
8 4 (8.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 24 (48.00%) Python
2 12 (24.00%) JavaScript
2 12 (24.00%) SQL
3 9 (18.00%) C#
4 5 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 5 (10.00%) T-SQL
5 4 (8.00%) Java
6 3 (6.00%) Bicep
7 2 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (4.00%) Kotlin
7 2 (4.00%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.00%) C
8 1 (2.00%) C++
8 1 (2.00%) Go
8 1 (2.00%) Groovy
8 1 (2.00%) Jython
8 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (42.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) QA
2 2 (4.00%) HL7
3 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.00%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (14.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (4.00%) Terraform
3 1 (2.00%) Ansible
3 1 (2.00%) Podman
3 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (16.00%) ServiceNow
2 6 (12.00%) Red Hat
3 4 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.00%) Databricks
4 3 (6.00%) Oracle
5 2 (4.00%) Foundry
5 2 (4.00%) InterSystems
5 2 (4.00%) OpenAI
5 2 (4.00%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.00%) Splunk
6 1 (2.00%) Citrix
6 1 (2.00%) Solace
6 1 (2.00%) TIBCO
6 1 (2.00%) VMware
6 1 (2.00%) webMethods