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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 125 177
Rank change year-on-year -21 +52 -27
Contract jobs citing JSON 43 33 30
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.92% 1.05% 0.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.76% 6.37% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 18 23
10th Percentile £408 £460 £394
25th Percentile £466 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% - +2.09%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £581
90th Percentile £603 £663 £588
England median daily rate £525 £550 £529
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.97% -3.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile - - £58.75
25th Percentile £46.25 - £60.63
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £65.00
75th Percentile £48.75 - £68.13
90th Percentile - - £69.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -48.65% +32.14% -3.45%

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 746 518 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.90% 16.50% 14.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 536 326 431
10th Percentile £306 £350 £313
25th Percentile £411 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £633 £608
90th Percentile £675 £670 £678
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 9 45
10th Percentile £40.00 £58.68 £52.55
25th Percentile £46.25 £61.25 £56.40
Median hourly rate £52.50 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +0.81% -4.62%
75th Percentile £65.63 - £75.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £66.44 £77.80
England median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%

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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 15 February 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 February 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 -11 15 £550 - 9
Thames Valley -31 14 £525 +5.00% 9
Berkshire -20 10 £500 - 5
West Sussex -8 6 £575 +27.78% 3
Buckinghamshire -6 4 £525 -4.55% 3
Surrey -15 4 £475 -26.92%
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 1 (2.33%) Appian
1 1 (2.33%) CMS
1 1 (2.33%) Headless CMS
1 1 (2.33%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Maximo
2 1 (2.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.26%) Azure
2 6 (13.95%) Cloud Computing
2 6 (13.95%) Serverless
3 4 (9.30%) Azure Functions
3 4 (9.30%) Power Platform
4 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.98%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (4.65%) AtomSphere
5 2 (4.65%) AWS
5 2 (4.65%) Azure AI
5 2 (4.65%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 2 (4.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (4.65%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (4.65%) Boomi
5 2 (4.65%) OCI
5 2 (4.65%) SaaS
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) HTTP
2 3 (6.98%) NFC
2 3 (6.98%) PPP
3 1 (2.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (6.98%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.65%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.65%) Parquet
3 2 (4.65%) Power BI
3 2 (4.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (4.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.33%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Eclipse
1 3 (6.98%) Git
1 3 (6.98%) Postman
1 3 (6.98%) Valgrind
2 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.33%) GitLab
3 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.33%) JIRA
3 1 (2.33%) Robot Framework
3 1 (2.33%) Selenium
3 1 (2.33%) SoapUI
3 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (16.28%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.30%) Finance
4 2 (4.65%) Billing
4 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (25.58%) Developer
1 11 (25.58%) Software Engineer
2 6 (13.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Senior
4 4 (9.30%) Architect
4 4 (9.30%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) C++ Software Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Data Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Development Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Python Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Development Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Software Development Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Software Development Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (55.81%) XML
2 16 (37.21%) REST
3 8 (18.60%) YAML
4 7 (16.28%) SOAP
5 6 (13.95%) React
6 5 (11.63%) RESTful
7 3 (6.98%) Swagger
7 3 (6.98%) Web Services
8 2 (4.65%) .NET
8 2 (4.65%) FHIR
8 2 (4.65%) Flutter
8 2 (4.65%) Node.js
8 2 (4.65%) OpenAPI
8 2 (4.65%) Protocol Buffers
8 2 (4.65%) PyTorch
8 2 (4.65%) scikit-learn
8 2 (4.65%) TensorFlow
8 2 (4.65%) WebSockets
9 1 (2.33%) Entity Framework
9 1 (2.33%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.98%) Data Structures
1 3 (6.98%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (6.98%) Smartcard
2 2 (4.65%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.65%) TM Forum
2 2 (4.65%) Wiki
3 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.93%) Linux
2 4 (9.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.88%) Problem-Solving
1 15 (34.88%) Software Engineering
2 13 (30.23%) DevOps
3 10 (23.26%) Agile
4 8 (18.60%) AI
4 8 (18.60%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (16.28%) CI/CD
6 6 (13.95%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (13.95%) Integration Patterns
6 6 (13.95%) LLM
6 6 (13.95%) User Experience
7 5 (11.63%) Containerisation
7 5 (11.63%) CRM
7 5 (11.63%) Generative AI
7 5 (11.63%) Machine Learning
7 5 (11.63%) Microservices
8 4 (9.30%) Backlog Refinement
8 4 (9.30%) Data Management
8 4 (9.30%) Intelligent Automation
8 4 (9.30%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 24 (55.81%) Python
2 11 (25.58%) C#
3 10 (23.26%) SQL
4 9 (20.93%) JavaScript
5 8 (18.60%) Java
6 5 (11.63%) C++
6 5 (11.63%) T-SQL
7 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
8 2 (4.65%) Bicep
8 2 (4.65%) C
8 2 (4.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (4.65%) Groovy
8 2 (4.65%) Jython
8 2 (4.65%) Kotlin
9 1 (2.33%) Go
9 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (39.53%) Security Cleared
2 14 (32.56%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) QA
2 2 (4.65%) HL7
System Software
1 7 (16.28%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.33%) Ansible
2 1 (2.33%) Kibana
2 1 (2.33%) Podman
2 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (16.28%) Red Hat
2 4 (9.30%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.98%) Oracle
4 2 (4.65%) Databricks
4 2 (4.65%) Foundry
4 2 (4.65%) InterSystems
4 2 (4.65%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.33%) Cisco
5 1 (2.33%) Citrix
5 1 (2.33%) IBM
5 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.33%) Splunk
5 1 (2.33%) Veracode
5 1 (2.33%) VMware