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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 215 263 190
Rank change year-on-year +48 -73 -34
Contract jobs citing JSON 124 138 288
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.96% 0.67% 1.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.20% 4.17% 6.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 91 188
10th Percentile £325 £400 £404
25th Percentile £400 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £534 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% +1.71% +0.96%
75th Percentile £525 £610 £600
90th Percentile £575 £645 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.37% -2.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £75.00 £70.00
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - +10.34% +10.62%
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% +10.62%

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 2,383 3,313 4,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.52% 16.08% 18.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,661 2,174 3,085
10th Percentile £325 £325 £354
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £608 £600
90th Percentile £638 £690 £688
UK median daily rate £523 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -2.34% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 216 87
10th Percentile £33.91 £22.63 £22.20
25th Percentile £51.06 £43.00 £51.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £48.43 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.21% -25.49% +18.99%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.25 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.47 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +23.81%

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

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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 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JSON in the UK excluding London

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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 29 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 +60 43 £500 -9.09% 365
Scotland +21 25 £500 -2.44% 64
North of England -23 24 £447 -16.29% 301
North West -5 19 £447 -16.29% 137
Northern Ireland - 13 £408 - 25
Midlands +2 10 £550 -4.68% 252
East of England +26 5 £300 -43.66% 218
West Midlands +7 5 £550 -5.38% 135
East Midlands +5 5 £319 -44.80% 101
Yorkshire -7 4 £500 -19.61% 125
Wales - 4 £413 - 38
South West +29 2 £375 -28.57% 155
North East -10 1 £200 -63.64% 40
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 (7.26%) Anypoint
1 9 (7.26%) Mule
2 6 (4.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (4.03%) Apache
4 4 (3.23%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.23%) Mule ESB
5 3 (2.42%) Moodle
5 3 (2.42%) WebLogic
5 3 (2.42%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.61%) Apache Solr
6 2 (1.61%) CICS
6 2 (1.61%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.81%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.81%) CMS
7 1 (0.81%) IIS
7 1 (0.81%) JBoss
7 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.81%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.81%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.81%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) MadCap Flare
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.42%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 35 (28.23%) Azure
2 33 (26.61%) AWS
3 25 (20.16%) Serverless
4 15 (12.10%) GitHub
5 13 (10.48%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (8.87%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (5.65%) Amazon S3
8 6 (4.84%) Power Platform
9 5 (4.03%) GCP
9 5 (4.03%) OpenShift
9 5 (4.03%) SaaS
10 4 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (3.23%) Entra ID
10 4 (3.23%) Power Automate
11 3 (2.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.42%) Amazon Cognito
11 3 (2.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (2.42%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (2.42%) iPaaS
11 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.23%) HTTP
2 1 (0.81%) FTP
2 1 (0.81%) NFC
2 1 (0.81%) PPP
2 1 (0.81%) RTP
2 1 (0.81%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (17.74%) NoSQL
2 20 (16.13%) Relational Database
3 17 (13.71%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (12.90%) MongoDB
5 13 (10.48%) RDBMS
6 11 (8.87%) MySQL
7 8 (6.45%) Data Lake
7 8 (6.45%) Oracle Reports
7 8 (6.45%) SQL Server
8 7 (5.65%) Parquet
9 6 (4.84%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (4.03%) Hadoop
11 4 (3.23%) Big Data
12 3 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (2.42%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (2.42%) DB2
12 3 (2.42%) Delta Lake
12 3 (2.42%) DynamoDB
12 3 (2.42%) MariaDB
12 3 (2.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (19.35%) Git
2 8 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.65%) Postman
3 7 (5.65%) Selenium
4 4 (3.23%) GitLab
4 4 (3.23%) JIRA
4 4 (3.23%) JUnit
4 4 (3.23%) Maven
4 4 (3.23%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (2.42%) PHPUnit
5 3 (2.42%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.42%) webpack
6 2 (1.61%) Ant
6 2 (1.61%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.61%) JMeter
6 2 (1.61%) Mockito
6 2 (1.61%) Moq
6 2 (1.61%) SOAtest
6 2 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.61%) UI Automator
General
1 41 (33.06%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.32%) Finance
3 18 (14.52%) Public Sector
4 14 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (8.87%) Banking
6 6 (4.84%) Telecoms
7 5 (4.03%) Billing
7 5 (4.03%) Front Office
8 3 (2.42%) Law
9 2 (1.61%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.61%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.61%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.61%) Wholesale Banking
10 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (51.61%) Developer
2 16 (12.90%) Java Developer
3 14 (11.29%) Senior
4 13 (10.48%) Senior Developer
5 12 (9.68%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (9.68%) ServiceNow Developer
6 10 (8.06%) DBA
6 10 (8.06%) Software Engineer
7 9 (7.26%) MuleSoft Developer
8 6 (4.84%) Administrator
8 6 (4.84%) Analyst
8 6 (4.84%) Java Engineer
8 6 (4.84%) Java Software Developer
8 6 (4.84%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 6 (4.84%) SIEM Engineer
9 5 (4.03%) Cloud Developer
9 5 (4.03%) Designer
9 5 (4.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 5 (4.03%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (4.03%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (57.26%) XML
2 38 (30.65%) REST
3 29 (23.39%) RESTful
3 29 (23.39%) Web Services
4 24 (19.35%) SOAP
5 22 (17.74%) HTML
6 20 (16.13%) React
7 16 (12.90%) CSS
8 14 (11.29%) AngularJS
8 14 (11.29%) Kafka
9 11 (8.87%) .NET
9 11 (8.87%) Apache Avro
10 10 (8.06%) RAML
11 7 (5.65%) Node.js
11 7 (5.65%) Spring
11 7 (5.65%) Spring Boot
11 7 (5.65%) Swagger
12 6 (4.84%) ARM Templates
12 6 (4.84%) OAuth
12 6 (4.84%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.48%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.65%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.84%) CSOC
3 6 (4.84%) Derivative
3 6 (4.84%) Equities
3 6 (4.84%) Equity Derivative
4 5 (4.03%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (4.03%) Frameworx
4 5 (4.03%) TM Forum
5 4 (3.23%) CMDB
5 4 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.23%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.42%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.42%) e-Learning
6 3 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (2.42%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.23%) Linux
1 4 (3.23%) Unix
2 2 (1.61%) Windows
3 1 (0.81%) Android
3 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (44.35%) Agile
2 43 (34.68%) CI/CD
3 41 (33.06%) DevOps
4 35 (28.23%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (13.71%) Mentoring
6 16 (12.90%) Scrum
6 16 (12.90%) Test Automation
7 15 (12.10%) Microservices
8 14 (11.29%) Service Delivery
9 13 (10.48%) API Development
9 13 (10.48%) API Management
9 13 (10.48%) Software Engineering
10 12 (9.68%) User Experience
11 11 (8.87%) Coaching
11 11 (8.87%) Code Quality
11 11 (8.87%) Database Security
11 11 (8.87%) Process Improvement
12 10 (8.06%) Front End Development
12 10 (8.06%) Performance Optimisation
12 10 (8.06%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 42 (33.87%) JavaScript
2 38 (30.65%) SQL
3 35 (28.23%) Java
4 21 (16.94%) Python
5 10 (8.06%) C#
6 9 (7.26%) PowerShell
7 8 (6.45%) DataWeave
8 7 (5.65%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.23%) Bicep
9 4 (3.23%) Scala
10 3 (2.42%) Bash
10 3 (2.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (2.42%) PHP
10 3 (2.42%) XPath
11 2 (1.61%) COBOL
11 2 (1.61%) JCL
11 2 (1.61%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.61%) REXX
11 2 (1.61%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.61%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 13 (10.48%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.06%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.84%) GIAC
4 4 (3.23%) Degree
5 3 (2.42%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.42%) ISEB
5 3 (2.42%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.81%) CCNP
6 1 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.81%) JNCIP
6 1 (0.81%) OCP
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.81%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.29%) QA
2 7 (5.65%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.03%) SEPA
4 4 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.23%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (3.23%) GRC
5 3 (2.42%) WCAG
6 1 (0.81%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (16.13%) Docker
2 4 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.61%) HDFS
4 1 (0.81%) LXC
Systems Management
1 11 (8.87%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.65%) Terraform
3 5 (4.03%) Ansible
4 4 (3.23%) CloudHub
4 4 (3.23%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.42%) Grafana
5 3 (2.42%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.61%) Kibana
7 1 (0.81%) Oracle Identity Management
7 1 (0.81%) SCOM
Vendors
1 25 (20.16%) Oracle
2 20 (16.13%) ServiceNow
3 16 (12.90%) Microsoft
4 10 (8.06%) Salesforce
5 9 (7.26%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.42%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.42%) IBM
6 3 (2.42%) Splunk
7 2 (1.61%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.61%) Databricks
7 2 (1.61%) Informatica
7 2 (1.61%) Parasoft
7 2 (1.61%) SAP
8 1 (0.81%) Cisco
8 1 (0.81%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.81%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.81%) Perforce
8 1 (0.81%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.81%) Solace
8 1 (0.81%) Workday