JWT Contracts in the UK excluding London

JSON Web Token (JWT)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring JWT skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JWT 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 328 389 449
Rank change year-on-year +61 +60 +15
Contract jobs citing JWT 8 10 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.048% 0.054%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.34% 0.30% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 8
10th Percentile £497 £406 £463
25th Percentile £499 £513 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -4.11% +1.39%
75th Percentile £589 £538 £570
90th Percentile £596 £541 -
UK median daily rate £545 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +3.81% - -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £45.88 -
UK median hourly rate - £45.88 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

JWT 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%

JWT
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for JWT in the UK excluding London

JWT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for JWT in the UK excluding London

JWT
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 JWT 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
North of England +13 3 £500 -4.76% 4
Yorkshire +5 3 £500 -4.76%
Scotland - 1 £600 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £540 -
Midlands - 1 £540 -
Wales - 1 - -
East of England - 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 2
JWT
UK

JWT
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 1 (12.50%) Anypoint
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) JBoss
1 1 (12.50%) Mule
1 1 (12.50%) nginx
1 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
1 1 (12.50%) WebLogic
1 1 (12.50%) WebLogic Portal
1 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
1 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) IaaS
4 1 (12.50%) npm
4 1 (12.50%) OCI
4 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 1 (12.50%) PaaS
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) HTTP
1 2 (25.00%) Kerberos
1 2 (25.00%) SSL
2 1 (12.50%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Babel
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Maven
2 1 (12.50%) Mockito
2 1 (12.50%) Toad
2 1 (12.50%) webpack
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) LDAP Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) ForgeRock Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Integration Architect
2 1 (12.50%) MuleSoft Architect
2 1 (12.50%) MuleSoft Developer
2 1 (12.50%) React Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) SAML
2 4 (50.00%) JSON
2 4 (50.00%) OAuth
3 3 (37.50%) Middleware
4 2 (25.00%) LDAP
4 2 (25.00%) React
4 2 (25.00%) REST
4 2 (25.00%) RESTful
4 2 (25.00%) SOAP
4 2 (25.00%) Swagger
5 1 (12.50%) Apache Camel
5 1 (12.50%) Kafka
5 1 (12.50%) Node.js
5 1 (12.50%) OpenID
5 1 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (12.50%) RAML
5 1 (12.50%) Spring
5 1 (12.50%) Spring Batch
5 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
5 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Replication
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 3 (37.50%) Identity Management
3 3 (37.50%) Integration Patterns
3 3 (37.50%) Microservices
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) API Management
4 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (25.00%) PLM
4 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
5 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Apex Code
2 1 (12.50%) DataWeave
2 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) SLA
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) LXC
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Identity Management
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) MuleSoft
2 2 (25.00%) ForgeRock
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
3 1 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) Okta
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) Talend