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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 117 172
Rank change year-on-year -43 +55 -41
Contract jobs citing JSON 65 44 31
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.00% 1.31% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.86% 7.67% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 34 19
10th Percentile £300 £350 £350
25th Percentile £453 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £560
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -15.18% +5.66%
75th Percentile £588 £513 £589
90th Percentile £638 £550 £695
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.05% -4.76% -4.55%

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 947 574 799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.58% 17.09% 14.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 393 536
10th Percentile £321 £313 £325
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £619 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £637 £663
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 22 47
10th Percentile £38.25 £21.48 £35.00
25th Percentile £51.25 £33.68 £56.65
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -18.83% -1.44%
75th Percentile - £56.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.68 £58.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -8.19%

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

JSON
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JSON in the South East over the 6 months to 15 July 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 15 July 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 -15 26 £550 +10.55% 9
Thames Valley -41 22 £513 +5.13% 12
Buckinghamshire -25 13 £500 +5.26% 5
West Sussex - 8 £299 - 1
Berkshire -44 7 £625 +25.00% 5
Surrey -25 4 £460 -3.16% 6
Kent - 2 £550 - 1
Oxfordshire - 2 £625 - 2
East Sussex - 1 - - 2
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 2 (3.08%) IIS
2 1 (1.54%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) SAP MDG
1 1 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (29.23%) Azure
2 6 (9.23%) AWS
2 6 (9.23%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (9.23%) Azure Functions
2 6 (9.23%) Azure Monitor
2 6 (9.23%) Serverless
3 5 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.15%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (4.62%) Azure Storage
6 2 (3.08%) Azure AI
6 2 (3.08%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 2 (3.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.08%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (3.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (3.08%) Azure Table
6 2 (3.08%) Boomi
6 2 (3.08%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.54%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.54%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.15%) HTTP
2 2 (3.08%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.54%) DNS
3 1 (1.54%) Firewall
3 1 (1.54%) SNMP
3 1 (1.54%) SSH
3 1 (1.54%) SSL
3 1 (1.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.31%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (9.23%) NoSQL
3 5 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (6.15%) MongoDB
4 4 (6.15%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (4.62%) Parquet
5 3 (4.62%) Power BI
6 2 (3.08%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (3.08%) Couchbase
6 2 (3.08%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.08%) Db2
6 2 (3.08%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.54%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.54%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 10 (15.38%) Postman
2 6 (9.23%) Git
3 4 (6.15%) JIRA
4 2 (3.08%) JMeter
4 2 (3.08%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.54%) Oracle Forms
General
1 11 (16.92%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.23%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.08%) Finance
4 2 (3.08%) Legal
4 2 (3.08%) Marketing
4 2 (3.08%) Retail
5 1 (1.54%) Automotive
5 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (41.54%) Developer
2 14 (21.54%) Full-Stack Developer
3 7 (10.77%) Data Engineer
3 7 (10.77%) Software Developer
4 5 (7.69%) Architect
4 5 (7.69%) Python Developer
5 4 (6.15%) Consultant
5 4 (6.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Senior
5 4 (6.15%) ServiceNow Consultant
6 3 (4.62%) Azure Developer
6 3 (4.62%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Backend Developer
6 3 (4.62%) Integration Developer
6 3 (4.62%) React Developer
6 3 (4.62%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) Implementation Consultant
7 2 (3.08%) Integration Architect
7 2 (3.08%) Technical Architect
7 2 (3.08%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (41.54%) REST
2 22 (33.85%) XML
3 17 (26.15%) React
4 12 (18.46%) RESTful
4 12 (18.46%) SOAP
5 10 (15.38%) JSON Schema
6 9 (13.85%) .NET
7 8 (12.31%) Web Services
8 7 (10.77%) CSS
9 5 (7.69%) AngularJS
9 5 (7.69%) HTML
9 5 (7.69%) Kafka
9 5 (7.69%) OAuth
10 4 (6.15%) .NET Core
10 4 (6.15%) SAML
10 4 (6.15%) Swagger
11 3 (4.62%) .NET Framework
11 3 (4.62%) Spring
11 3 (4.62%) Spring Boot
11 3 (4.62%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.85%) Data Structures
2 5 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.15%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.08%) Wiki
5 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) IoT
5 1 (1.54%) PKI
5 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) Linux
2 1 (1.54%) Windows
2 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (27.69%) Full-Stack Development
2 17 (26.15%) Agile
3 16 (24.62%) CI/CD
3 16 (24.62%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 12 (18.46%) AI
5 12 (18.46%) Data Pipeline
5 12 (18.46%) DevOps
6 11 (16.92%) Containerisation
7 10 (15.38%) LLM
8 9 (13.85%) Microservices
9 8 (12.31%) Generative AI
10 7 (10.77%) Optimization Problems
10 7 (10.77%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (10.77%) Waterfall
11 6 (9.23%) CRM
11 6 (9.23%) Data Engineering
11 6 (9.23%) Data Management
11 6 (9.23%) Decision-Making
11 6 (9.23%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (40.00%) Python
2 22 (33.85%) SQL
3 15 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 11 (16.92%) C#
5 7 (10.77%) TypeScript
6 6 (9.23%) PowerShell
7 5 (7.69%) Java
7 5 (7.69%) PL/SQL
8 4 (6.15%) T-SQL
9 3 (4.62%) Bicep
10 2 (3.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.54%) Bash
11 1 (1.54%) C
11 1 (1.54%) C++
11 1 (1.54%) Go
11 1 (1.54%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 28 (43.08%) Security Cleared
2 26 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.69%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.08%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.54%) CCNA
5 1 (1.54%) CCNP
5 1 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.54%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.85%) QA
2 3 (4.62%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.08%) GDPR
3 2 (3.08%) HL7
3 2 (3.08%) NCSC
4 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.54%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (7.69%) Docker
2 3 (4.62%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.15%) Terraform
3 2 (3.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (3.08%) Ansible
3 2 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.54%) Grafana
4 1 (1.54%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.54%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.85%) ServiceNow
3 7 (10.77%) Oracle
4 3 (4.62%) Splunk
5 2 (3.08%) Databricks
5 2 (3.08%) Foundry
5 2 (3.08%) InterSystems
5 2 (3.08%) MuleSoft
5 2 (3.08%) OpenAI
5 2 (3.08%) Solace
5 2 (3.08%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.54%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.54%) Cisco
6 1 (1.54%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.54%) Google
6 1 (1.54%) IBM
6 1 (1.54%) SAP
6 1 (1.54%) VMware
6 1 (1.54%) webMethods
6 1 (1.54%) WSO2