JSON Contracts in the UK excluding London

JSON
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 249 202
Rank change year-on-year +29 -47 -40
Contract jobs citing JSON 116 152 302
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.91% 0.73% 1.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.88% 4.61% 6.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 104 204
10th Percentile £325 £409 £400
25th Percentile £408 £473 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £534 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +6.80% -0.05%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £600
90th Percentile £583 £645 £668
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 12
10th Percentile - £71.50 -
25th Percentile - £73.75 £70.00
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - +10.34% +61.11%
75th Percentile - £85.00 £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £92.50 £80.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +15.63% +10.34% +60.61%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

JSON
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing JSON as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for JSON in the UK excluding London

JSON
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JSON in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for JSON in the UK excluding London

JSON
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JSON in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JSON in the UK excluding London

JSON
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JSON in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for JSON in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSON within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East +51 39 £500 -2.44% 59
Scotland +17 27 £513 - 14
North of England -9 22 £447 -16.29% 47
North West +6 17 £447 -16.29% 28
Northern Ireland - 13 £408 - 5
Midlands +14 11 £563 -2.51% 17
West Midlands +8 7 £575 -1.08% 8
Yorkshire -2 5 £575 -7.78% 16
East of England +25 4 £300 -42.58% 29
East Midlands +8 4 £367 -36.40% 8
South West +26 1 £375 -30.23% 16
Wales - 1 - - 11
JSON
UK

JSON
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (7.76%) Anypoint
1 9 (7.76%) Mule
2 6 (5.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (4.31%) Apache
4 4 (3.45%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.45%) Mule ESB
5 3 (2.59%) Moodle
5 3 (2.59%) WebLogic
5 3 (2.59%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.72%) Apache Solr
6 2 (1.72%) CICS
6 2 (1.72%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.86%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.86%) Confluence
7 1 (0.86%) IIS
7 1 (0.86%) JBoss
7 1 (0.86%) nginx
7 1 (0.86%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.86%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.86%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.59%) iTrent
2 2 (1.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 34 (29.31%) AWS
2 30 (25.86%) Azure
3 29 (25.00%) Serverless
4 16 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (12.07%) GitHub
6 10 (8.62%) Amazon S3
7 8 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (5.17%) Amazon Cognito
8 6 (5.17%) AWS CloudTrail
9 5 (4.31%) GCP
9 5 (4.31%) OpenShift
10 4 (3.45%) Entra ID
10 4 (3.45%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.59%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.59%) CloudFront
11 3 (2.59%) iPaaS
11 3 (2.59%) Route 53
12 2 (1.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.72%) HTTP
2 1 (0.86%) BGP
2 1 (0.86%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (0.86%) FTP
2 1 (0.86%) MPLS
2 1 (0.86%) SSL
2 1 (0.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (23.28%) NoSQL
2 20 (17.24%) Relational Database
3 18 (15.52%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (14.66%) MongoDB
5 15 (12.93%) RDBMS
6 13 (11.21%) MySQL
7 10 (8.62%) Oracle Reports
7 10 (8.62%) Parquet
8 8 (6.90%) Data Lake
9 6 (5.17%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (5.17%) DynamoDB
9 6 (5.17%) SQL Server
10 5 (4.31%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (4.31%) Hadoop
11 4 (3.45%) Big Data
12 3 (2.59%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (2.59%) DB2
12 3 (2.59%) Delta Lake
13 2 (1.72%) Apache Hive
13 2 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 21 (18.10%) Git
2 7 (6.03%) Selenium
3 5 (4.31%) GitLab
3 5 (4.31%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.45%) JIRA
4 4 (3.45%) JUnit
4 4 (3.45%) Maven
4 4 (3.45%) Postman
5 3 (2.59%) PHPUnit
5 3 (2.59%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.59%) webpack
6 2 (1.72%) Ant
6 2 (1.72%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.72%) ERwin
6 2 (1.72%) JMeter
6 2 (1.72%) Mockito
6 2 (1.72%) Moq
6 2 (1.72%) SOAtest
6 2 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 38 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.52%) Finance
3 16 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 13 (11.21%) Banking
5 12 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.17%) Telecoms
7 5 (4.31%) Billing
7 5 (4.31%) Front Office
8 3 (2.59%) Law
9 2 (1.72%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.72%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.72%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.72%) Wholesale Banking
10 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 60 (51.72%) Developer
2 15 (12.93%) Java Developer
3 13 (11.21%) Senior
3 13 (11.21%) Senior Developer
4 12 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
4 12 (10.34%) DBA
4 12 (10.34%) ServiceNow Developer
5 9 (7.76%) MuleSoft Developer
6 8 (6.90%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 8 (6.90%) Software Engineer
7 6 (5.17%) Administrator
7 6 (5.17%) Cloud Developer
7 6 (5.17%) Java Engineer
7 6 (5.17%) Java Software Developer
7 6 (5.17%) SIEM Engineer
8 5 (4.31%) Designer
8 5 (4.31%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 5 (4.31%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (4.31%) Solutions Designer
9 4 (3.45%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (55.17%) XML
2 32 (27.59%) REST
3 28 (24.14%) RESTful
3 28 (24.14%) Web Services
4 20 (17.24%) SOAP
5 17 (14.66%) HTML
5 17 (14.66%) React
6 15 (12.93%) Kafka
7 14 (12.07%) CSS
8 12 (10.34%) AngularJS
9 11 (9.48%) Apache Avro
10 10 (8.62%) .NET
10 10 (8.62%) RAML
11 7 (6.03%) Spring Boot
12 6 (5.17%) AWS CDK
12 6 (5.17%) Node.js
12 6 (5.17%) OAuth
12 6 (5.17%) Spring
12 6 (5.17%) Swagger
12 6 (5.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.48%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.17%) CSOC
2 6 (5.17%) Derivative
2 6 (5.17%) Equities
2 6 (5.17%) Equity Derivative
2 6 (5.17%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.31%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (4.31%) Frameworx
3 5 (4.31%) TM Forum
4 4 (3.45%) CMDB
4 4 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.59%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.59%) e-Learning
5 3 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.59%) VLE
6 2 (1.72%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.72%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.31%) Unix
2 4 (3.45%) Linux
3 2 (1.72%) Windows
4 1 (0.86%) Android
4 1 (0.86%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.86%) CentOS
4 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (46.55%) Agile
2 40 (34.48%) CI/CD
3 38 (32.76%) DevOps
4 35 (30.17%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (15.52%) Mentoring
6 16 (13.79%) Scrum
7 14 (12.07%) Microservices
7 14 (12.07%) Service Delivery
8 13 (11.21%) Database Security
9 12 (10.34%) API Development
9 12 (10.34%) API Management
9 12 (10.34%) Software Engineering
10 11 (9.48%) Coaching
10 11 (9.48%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (9.48%) Process Improvement
11 10 (8.62%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (8.62%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (8.62%) Performance Optimisation
11 10 (8.62%) Security Operations
11 10 (8.62%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 42 (36.21%) SQL
2 37 (31.90%) JavaScript
3 30 (25.86%) Java
4 25 (21.55%) Python
5 8 (6.90%) C#
5 8 (6.90%) DataWeave
5 8 (6.90%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.17%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.45%) Scala
8 3 (2.59%) Bicep
8 3 (2.59%) PHP
8 3 (2.59%) XPath
9 2 (1.72%) Bash
9 2 (1.72%) COBOL
9 2 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.72%) JCL
9 2 (1.72%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.72%) REXX
9 2 (1.72%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.86%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 12 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.62%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.17%) AWS Certification
3 6 (5.17%) GIAC
4 1 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.86%) CCNP
4 1 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.86%) Degree
4 1 (0.86%) JNCIP
4 1 (0.86%) OCP
4 1 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.86%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.21%) QA
2 7 (6.03%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.45%) GRC
4 3 (2.59%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.72%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.86%) SLA
6 1 (0.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (20.69%) Docker
2 4 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.72%) HDFS
4 1 (0.86%) LXC
Systems Management
1 12 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.17%) Terraform
3 4 (3.45%) Ansible
3 4 (3.45%) CloudHub
4 3 (2.59%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.72%) Grafana
5 2 (1.72%) Kibana
5 2 (1.72%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.86%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.86%) SCOM
Vendors
1 26 (22.41%) Oracle
2 20 (17.24%) ServiceNow
3 14 (12.07%) Microsoft
4 9 (7.76%) MuleSoft
5 6 (5.17%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.59%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.59%) IBM
6 3 (2.59%) Splunk
7 2 (1.72%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.72%) Cisco
7 2 (1.72%) Databricks
7 2 (1.72%) Informatica
7 2 (1.72%) Parasoft
7 2 (1.72%) SAP
7 2 (1.72%) Sparx
8 1 (0.86%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.86%) Imperva
8 1 (0.86%) Perforce
8 1 (0.86%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.86%) Workday