JSON Contract Job Trends in the South West

JSON
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring JSON skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 124 133
Rank change year-on-year +13 +9 +21
Contract jobs citing JSON 4 14 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.20% 0.53% 0.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.47% 3.22% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 14
10th Percentile - £355 £287
25th Percentile £363 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £494
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +1.27% -21.00%
75th Percentile £514 £600 £579
90th Percentile £540 £645 £653
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £75.00 £73.75
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year - +3.23% +40.91%
75th Percentile - £85.00 £81.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £80.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -53.13% +14.29% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 273 435 533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 13.84% 16.42% 16.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 245 403
10th Percentile £312 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £438 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +2.38% -
75th Percentile £619 £630 £650
90th Percentile £670 £690 £725
England median daily rate £510 £550 £553
% change year-on-year -7.27% -0.45% -3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 51 34
10th Percentile £62.38 £65.00 £48.32
25th Percentile - - £63.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £77.38
90th Percentile £71.00 £85.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £54.85 £62.93 £61.25
% change year-on-year -12.84% +2.74% -2.26%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing JSON as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for JSON in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JSON in the South West over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JSON in the South West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 17 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
Dorset -1 2 £375 - 1
Somerset +4 1 £557 +59.14% 1
Wiltshire - 1 £475 - 2
JSON
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
1 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (25.00%) Apache Camel
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) JDBC
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) LDAP
3 1 (25.00%) ODBC
3 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) API Design
3 2 (50.00%) API Development
3 2 (50.00%) API Management
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) ITSM
4 1 (25.00%) OO
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) SOLID
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) BMC
1 1 (25.00%) HP
1 1 (25.00%) Ivanti
1 1 (25.00%) Remedy
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow