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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 112 127
Rank change year-on-year -18 +15 +15
Contract jobs citing JSON 14 1 20
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.42% 0.059% 0.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.89% 0.34% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 9
10th Percentile £546 - £405
25th Percentile £546 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £375 £550
Median % change year-on-year +46.00% -31.82% -2.57%
75th Percentile £549 £388 £575
90th Percentile £550 - £595
England median daily rate £500 £510 £535
% change year-on-year -1.96% -4.58% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £75.00
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year -48.65% +15.63% +10.34%

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 485 294 432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.59% 17.32% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 190 285
10th Percentile £325 £355 £313
25th Percentile £404 £434 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £548 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% +4.38% -
75th Percentile £588 £630 £663
90th Percentile £715 £725 £704
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 39 53
10th Percentile £59.25 £61.25 £43.75
25th Percentile £61.25 £63.75 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile - £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.50 £68.75 £85.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

JSON
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

JSON job vacancy trend in the South West

JSON
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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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 7 May 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
Bristol - 7 £545 - 1
Gloucestershire - 4 - - 3
Wiltshire - 2 £550 -
Somerset - 1 - -
JSON
England

JSON
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Maximo
2 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Power Automate
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.14%) OCI
3 1 (7.14%) PaaS
3 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) HTTP
1 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
1 1 (7.14%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (7.14%) GIS
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
1 1 (7.14%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Banking
2 1 (7.14%) Military
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Integration Manager
3 3 (21.43%) Automation Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Power Platform Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 1 (7.14%) GIS Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Technical Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) REST
2 6 (42.86%) SOAP
2 6 (42.86%) XML
3 4 (28.57%) JDBC
3 4 (28.57%) Middleware
4 2 (14.29%) OAuth
4 2 (14.29%) OAuth2
5 1 (7.14%) .NET
5 1 (7.14%) Ajax
5 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
5 1 (7.14%) FHIR
5 1 (7.14%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (7.14%) RESTful
5 1 (7.14%) Web Services
5 1 (7.14%) XSD
5 1 (7.14%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Low-Code
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Android
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Workflow
2 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 4 (28.57%) Data Mapping
3 3 (21.43%) Integration Patterns
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) Workflow Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 2 (14.29%) Integration Testing
5 1 (7.14%) Agile
5 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (7.14%) Customer Engagement
5 1 (7.14%) Data Integration
5 1 (7.14%) Data Migration
5 1 (7.14%) Identity Management
5 1 (7.14%) Information Security
5 1 (7.14%) Migration
5 1 (7.14%) Open Source
5 1 (7.14%) Software Engineering
5 1 (7.14%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) SQL
2 7 (50.00%) Java
3 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 4 (28.57%) Python
4 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.14%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.14%) HL7
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) Oracle
3 4 (28.57%) webMethods
4 3 (21.43%) IBM
5 1 (7.14%) InterSystems