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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 378 432
Rank change year-on-year +44 +54 +48
Contract jobs citing JWT 11 13 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.079% 0.062% 0.035%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.43% 0.38% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 5
10th Percentile £498 £358 £440
25th Percentile £500 £444 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.77% -3.62% -4.11%
75th Percentile £583 £538 £570
90th Percentile £593 £575 -
UK median daily rate £525 £589 £525
% change year-on-year -10.83% +12.14% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £45.88 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £45.88 -
% change year-on-year +36.22% - -

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 2,585 3,459 4,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.47% 16.37% 17.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,767 2,214 3,034
10th Percentile £317 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.99%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 242 93
10th Percentile £31.36 £24.20 £22.28
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% -6.72% +13.64%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.87 £74.40 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%

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 2 July 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 +1 3 £500 -0.99% 25
Yorkshire -7 3 £500 -0.99% 10
East of England - 3 £500 - 11
Scotland - 2 £600 - 5
East Midlands - 1 £540 - 6
Midlands - 1 £540 - 13
Wales - 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 1
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 4 (36.36%) Anypoint
1 4 (36.36%) Mule
2 1 (9.09%) Apache
2 1 (9.09%) JBoss
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (9.09%) nginx
2 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
2 1 (9.09%) WebLogic
2 1 (9.09%) WebLogic Portal
2 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
2 1 (9.09%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
3 3 (27.27%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub
4 2 (18.18%) Serverless
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (9.09%) IaaS
5 1 (9.09%) npm
5 1 (9.09%) OCI
5 1 (9.09%) PaaS
5 1 (9.09%) SaaS
5 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) HTTP
1 2 (18.18%) Kerberos
1 2 (18.18%) SSL
2 1 (9.09%) AMQP
2 1 (9.09%) DSL
2 1 (9.09%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 3 (27.27%) GitLab
3 2 (18.18%) Git
4 1 (9.09%) Babel
4 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
4 1 (9.09%) JIRA
4 1 (9.09%) Maven
4 1 (9.09%) Mockito
4 1 (9.09%) Toad
4 1 (9.09%) webpack
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Retail
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Integration Architect
2 2 (18.18%) LDAP Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft Architect
3 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft Developer
3 1 (9.09%) React Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) OAuth
2 5 (45.45%) REST
2 5 (45.45%) SAML
2 5 (45.45%) SOAP
3 4 (36.36%) JSON
3 4 (36.36%) Kafka
4 3 (27.27%) Middleware
5 2 (18.18%) Apache Camel
5 2 (18.18%) LDAP
5 2 (18.18%) MUnit
5 2 (18.18%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (18.18%) React
5 2 (18.18%) RESTful
5 2 (18.18%) Swagger
5 2 (18.18%) Web Services
5 2 (18.18%) XML
6 1 (9.09%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (9.09%) Next.js
6 1 (9.09%) OpenAPI
6 1 (9.09%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 2 (18.18%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) Clustering
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) API Design
3 4 (36.36%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (36.36%) Integration Patterns
3 4 (36.36%) Microservices
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) API Development
4 3 (27.27%) Batch Processing
4 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
4 3 (27.27%) Identity Management
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
5 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
5 2 (18.18%) OO
5 2 (18.18%) OOD
5 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (18.18%) PLM
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) DataWeave
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) Apex Code
4 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
4 1 (9.09%) Python
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
2 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) LXC
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) CloudHub
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) MuleSoft
2 4 (36.36%) Salesforce
3 2 (18.18%) ForgeRock
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle
4 1 (9.09%) Atlassian
4 1 (9.09%) IBM
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.09%) Okta
4 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
4 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 1 (9.09%) Talend