JSON Contracts in the Thames Valley

JSON
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring JSON skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JSON over the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 112 110
Rank change year-on-year +27 -2 +13
Contract jobs citing JSON 27 17 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.62% 0.73% 1.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.54% 4.51% 7.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 10 19
10th Percentile £345 £352 £363
25th Percentile £350 £445 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £566 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +2.95% -8.33%
75th Percentile £508 £585 £625
90th Percentile £532 £588 -
South East median daily rate £475 £560 £531
% change year-on-year -15.18% +5.41% +1.19%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 316 377 431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.97% 16.28% 15.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 262 313
10th Percentile £323 £363 £313
25th Percentile £400 £441 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £630 £652 £706
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 10
10th Percentile £13.25 £53.76 £16.46
25th Percentile £17.05 - -
Median hourly rate £27.76 £61.60 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.94% +23.20% +42.86%
75th Percentile £32.53 - £73.41
90th Percentile £56.65 - £79.30
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £58.59
% change year-on-year -18.83% +5.14% -2.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing JSON as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for JSON in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JSON in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for JSON in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JSON in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 11 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JSON in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JSON in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for JSON in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSON within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 August 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
Berkshire +27 22 £463 -19.21% 8
Buckinghamshire +9 4 £475 - 3
Oxfordshire -8 1 - - 3
JSON
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (7.41%) Confluence
1 2 (7.41%) IIS
1 2 (7.41%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.70%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (3.70%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) Azure
2 7 (25.93%) AWS
2 7 (25.93%) GitHub
3 6 (22.22%) Serverless
4 4 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (11.11%) SaaS
5 3 (11.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (7.41%) Figma
6 2 (7.41%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (3.70%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (3.70%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.70%) Azure App Service
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) HTTP
2 2 (7.41%) VPN
3 1 (3.70%) BGP
3 1 (3.70%) DNS
3 1 (3.70%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (3.70%) FTP
3 1 (3.70%) MPLS
3 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Data Lake
1 5 (18.52%) Relational Database
2 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
2 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.41%) RDBMS
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.70%) Metadata
3 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.70%) MySQL
3 1 (3.70%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Git
2 3 (11.11%) JIRA
2 3 (11.11%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (7.41%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.41%) JMeter
3 2 (7.41%) JUnit
3 2 (7.41%) Mockito
3 2 (7.41%) UI Automator
4 1 (3.70%) Eclipse
4 1 (3.70%) GitLab
4 1 (3.70%) Gradle
4 1 (3.70%) Maven
General
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Billing
2 5 (18.52%) Telecoms
3 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Designer
2 5 (18.52%) Salesforce Developer
2 5 (18.52%) SIEM Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Solutions Designer
3 4 (14.81%) Senior
4 3 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Cloud Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (7.41%) UI Developer
5 2 (7.41%) UI/UX Developer
5 2 (7.41%) UX Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Developer
6 1 (3.70%) IT Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) IT Support
6 1 (3.70%) Java Web Developer
6 1 (3.70%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (3.70%) JSP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (62.96%) REST
2 11 (40.74%) XML
3 9 (33.33%) HTML
4 7 (25.93%) Web Services
5 6 (22.22%) jQuery
6 5 (18.52%) Lightning Web Components
6 5 (18.52%) SOAP
7 4 (14.81%) RESTful
8 3 (11.11%) Ajax
8 3 (11.11%) CSS
8 3 (11.11%) React
9 2 (7.41%) .NET
9 2 (7.41%) ActiveMQ
9 2 (7.41%) Apache Camel
9 2 (7.41%) Hibernate
9 2 (7.41%) NETCONF
9 2 (7.41%) Spring
9 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
9 2 (7.41%) Vue
9 2 (7.41%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) CSOC
1 5 (18.52%) Frameworx
1 5 (18.52%) Onboarding
1 5 (18.52%) TM Forum
2 4 (14.81%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.70%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Windows
1 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.70%) CentOS
2 1 (3.70%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Mac OS
2 1 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Agile
2 11 (40.74%) CI/CD
3 9 (33.33%) DevOps
4 8 (29.63%) Microservices
4 8 (29.63%) Process Improvement
5 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (22.22%) Customer Service
6 6 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (18.52%) Business Strategy
7 5 (18.52%) CRM
7 5 (18.52%) Customer Experience
7 5 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (18.52%) Incident Response
7 5 (18.52%) Security Operations
7 5 (18.52%) Service Delivery
7 5 (18.52%) SIEM
7 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (18.52%) UML
7 5 (18.52%) Vulnerability Management
8 4 (14.81%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) Python
2 8 (29.63%) JavaScript
3 5 (18.52%) Java
4 4 (14.81%) SQL
5 3 (11.11%) Apex Code
5 3 (11.11%) SOQL
6 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
6 2 (7.41%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.70%) ActionScript
7 1 (3.70%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (3.70%) Bicep
7 1 (3.70%) C#
7 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) GIAC
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) A+ Certification
3 1 (3.70%) CCNP
3 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.70%) JNCIP
3 1 (3.70%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.41%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.41%) QA
2 2 (7.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.41%) Kibana
2 2 (7.41%) Terraform
3 1 (3.70%) Ansible
3 1 (3.70%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Salesforce
2 6 (22.22%) ServiceNow
3 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
4 3 (11.11%) Dynatrace
5 2 (7.41%) Cisco
5 2 (7.41%) Splunk
6 1 (3.70%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.70%) IBM
6 1 (3.70%) Oracle
6 1 (3.70%) Pega
6 1 (3.70%) SAP
6 1 (3.70%) UiPath