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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 117 116
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 +38
Contract jobs citing JSON 12 5 39
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.45% 0.27% 1.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.00% 1.37% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 26
10th Percentile £310 - £313
25th Percentile £363 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £410 £465
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -11.83% -6.53%
75th Percentile £438 £441 £538
90th Percentile £543 £462 £575
England median daily rate £525 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -1.87% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £53.75
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £77.50
75th Percentile - - £81.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £92.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -48.65% +32.14% -6.67%

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 400 364 468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.91% 19.41% 14.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 214 340
10th Percentile £350 £377 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £665 £650
90th Percentile £700 £734 £720
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 23 38
10th Percentile £61.25 £61.25 £48.32
25th Percentile - £61.88 £48.72
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year - +25.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile - £66.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £68.75 £78.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.40% +13.64% -15.38%

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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

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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 6 February 2026.

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 6 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
Bristol - 6 £375 - 1
Gloucestershire -1 5 £400 - 3
Wiltshire -24 1 - -
JSON
England

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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 (8.33%) Confluence
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Figma
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (8.33%) OCI
3 1 (8.33%) PaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) HTTP
1 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (25.00%) Git
3 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Banking
3 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (16.67%) Finance
5 1 (8.33%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (8.33%) Military
5 1 (8.33%) Retail
5 1 (8.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) iOS Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Automation Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Service Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Developer
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Integration Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Technical Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) CSS
1 3 (25.00%) REST
1 3 (25.00%) SOAP
1 3 (25.00%) SwiftUI
1 3 (25.00%) XML
2 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (16.67%) Bootstrap
2 2 (16.67%) HTML
2 2 (16.67%) OAuth
2 2 (16.67%) OAuth2
3 1 (8.33%) .NET
3 1 (8.33%) Ajax
3 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
3 1 (8.33%) JSON Schema
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (8.33%) Shiny
3 1 (8.33%) Tidyverse
3 1 (8.33%) XSD
3 1 (8.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) CMDB
2 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Android
1 3 (25.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Unix
3 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) iOS Development
3 3 (25.00%) Workflow
4 2 (16.67%) CAD
4 2 (16.67%) Change Management
4 2 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 2 (16.67%) ITSM
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (16.67%) User Experience
4 2 (16.67%) Validation
5 1 (8.33%) ERD
5 1 (8.33%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 3 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) Go
4 1 (8.33%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) R
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle