JSON
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for JSON skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JSON over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 236 202 176
Rank change year-on-year -34 -26 -30
Contract jobs citing JSON 451 797 1,488
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.04% 1.33% 1.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.08% 5.72% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 562 994
10th Percentile £403 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £671 £650
90th Percentile £675 £800 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £534 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +6.80% -2.91% +22.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 24
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £45.07
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +60.86% -18.05%
75th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £56.56
90th Percentile - - £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £44.75
% change year-on-year +10.34% +62.01% -18.64%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

JSON is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

JSON
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JSON as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JSON in the UK

JSON
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for JSON in the UK

JSON
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JSON over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JSON in the UK

JSON
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for JSON in the UK

JSON
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England -8 391 £538 -2.27% 160
London +6 239 £538 -6.43% 65
Work from Home +5 183 £540 +5.88% 95
UK excluding London -45 153 £534 +6.80% 99
North of England -14 51 £534 +6.80% 32
South East -23 34 £513 - 25
North West -15 29 £534 +6.80% 20
Scotland +34 23 £513 +2.50% 5
South West +15 21 £538 -4.78% 8
Midlands +12 19 £577 +4.91% 12
Yorkshire +11 15 £624 +27.57% 9
West Midlands +24 13 £581 +23.67% 9
North East +13 11 £491 -10.82% 3
East of England +12 9 £523 +10.00% 13
East Midlands +15 6 £577 -3.83% 3

JSON
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 24 (5.32%) Confluence
2 12 (2.66%) Apache
2 12 (2.66%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.77%) IIS
3 8 (1.77%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.55%) CMS
5 6 (1.33%) Alfresco
5 6 (1.33%) Appian
5 6 (1.33%) Camunda
6 5 (1.11%) Apache Solr
6 5 (1.11%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.89%) GemFire
7 4 (0.89%) nginx
7 4 (0.89%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.67%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.44%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.33%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.44%) Mingle
6 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (3.55%) Salesforce CRM
2 9 (2.00%) NetSuite
3 5 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.67%) Endur
4 3 (0.67%) Maximo
4 3 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.67%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.44%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.44%) WebTrends
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Utilities
6 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 132 (29.27%) Azure
2 76 (16.85%) AWS
3 69 (15.30%) Serverless
4 45 (9.98%) Power Platform
5 42 (9.31%) Azure DevOps
6 37 (8.20%) GitHub
7 28 (6.21%) GCP
7 28 (6.21%) Power Automate
8 26 (5.76%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (5.76%) PowerApps
9 23 (5.10%) PaaS
10 22 (4.88%) AWS Step Functions
10 22 (4.88%) Azure Functions
11 21 (4.66%) Amazon S3
11 21 (4.66%) Azure Key Vault
12 19 (4.21%) Amazon MSK
12 19 (4.21%) Azure Logic Apps
13 17 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
14 16 (3.55%) Azure Stack
15 15 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 40 (8.87%) BGP
2 36 (7.98%) MPLS
3 33 (7.32%) Firewall
4 28 (6.21%) DNS
5 27 (5.99%) HTTP
6 23 (5.10%) VPN
7 22 (4.88%) RSVP
8 20 (4.43%) HSRP
8 20 (4.43%) SNMP
8 20 (4.43%) VPLS
9 19 (4.21%) Cisco IOS
9 19 (4.21%) IOS XR
10 18 (3.99%) Ethernet VPN
11 17 (3.77%) IPv4
11 17 (3.77%) VRRP
12 16 (3.55%) TCP/IP
13 15 (3.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 15 (3.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 13 (2.88%) 5G
15 11 (2.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (11.31%) NoSQL
1 51 (11.31%) SQL Server
2 45 (9.98%) Data Warehouse
3 38 (8.43%) Relational Database
4 37 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
5 33 (7.32%) Power BI
6 32 (7.10%) Parquet
7 23 (5.10%) Amazon RDS
7 23 (5.10%) RDBMS
8 21 (4.66%) MongoDB
9 20 (4.43%) Azure SQL Database
9 20 (4.43%) DynamoDB
10 19 (4.21%) Amazon Redshift
10 19 (4.21%) Data Lake
11 18 (3.99%) MySQL
12 16 (3.55%) Big Data
12 16 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (3.55%) Snowflake Schema
13 12 (2.66%) Oracle Reports
14 10 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 98 (21.73%) Git
2 57 (12.64%) JIRA
3 36 (7.98%) Jenkins
4 33 (7.32%) GitLab
5 20 (4.43%) Visual Studio
6 18 (3.99%) Visual Studio Code
7 15 (3.33%) Postman
8 14 (3.10%) SonarQube
9 13 (2.88%) Cucumber
10 12 (2.66%) Selenium
11 10 (2.22%) Bitbucket
11 10 (2.22%) JUnit
11 10 (2.22%) Visual Studio Team System
12 8 (1.77%) Maven
13 7 (1.55%) NUnit
13 7 (1.55%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (1.55%) TeamCity
14 6 (1.33%) CircleCI
14 6 (1.33%) Travis CI
General
1 128 (28.38%) Social Skills
2 58 (12.86%) Finance
3 51 (11.31%) Public Sector
4 40 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (6.21%) Banking
6 17 (3.77%) Marketing
7 16 (3.55%) Telecoms
8 14 (3.10%) Manufacturing
9 13 (2.88%) Retail
10 11 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.77%) Back Office
12 7 (1.55%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.33%) Front Office
13 6 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.11%) Advertising
14 5 (1.11%) Legal
14 5 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.89%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 126 (27.94%) Developer
2 69 (15.30%) Architect
3 42 (9.31%) Senior
4 33 (7.32%) Data Architect
4 33 (7.32%) Data Engineer
5 30 (6.65%) DevOps Engineer
6 25 (5.54%) Analyst
7 24 (5.32%) Network Engineer
8 21 (4.66%) Azure Engineer
9 20 (4.43%) Java Developer
9 20 (4.43%) Software Engineer
10 17 (3.77%) IP Expert
11 16 (3.55%) Senior Developer
12 15 (3.33%) Business Analyst
12 15 (3.33%) Salesforce Developer
13 13 (2.88%) Consultant
13 13 (2.88%) DBA
13 13 (2.88%) PostgreSQL DBA
14 12 (2.66%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 11 (2.44%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (53.44%) XML
2 133 (29.49%) REST
3 57 (12.64%) .NET
3 57 (12.64%) SOAP
4 52 (11.53%) HTML
5 49 (10.86%) CSS
6 47 (10.42%) Web Services
7 42 (9.31%) YAML
8 39 (8.65%) RESTful
8 39 (8.65%) YANG
9 36 (7.98%) NETCONF
10 32 (7.10%) Kafka
11 29 (6.43%) Apache Avro
11 29 (6.43%) jQuery
11 29 (6.43%) Spring
12 23 (5.10%) Node.js
13 22 (4.88%) AngularJS
13 22 (4.88%) JSON Schema
14 21 (4.66%) .NET Framework
14 21 (4.66%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.76%) Data Structures
2 26 (5.76%) Product Ownership
3 24 (5.32%) Distributed Architecture
4 21 (4.66%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (3.55%) Management Information System
6 14 (3.10%) Cloud Native
7 13 (2.88%) Reference Data
8 12 (2.66%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.00%) Low-Code
10 9 (2.00%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.77%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.55%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.33%) Client/Server
13 6 (1.33%) Data Centre
13 6 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
13 6 (1.33%) PKI
14 5 (1.11%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 50 (11.09%) Linux
2 30 (6.65%) Windows
3 25 (5.54%) Unix
4 7 (1.55%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.33%) CentOS
6 5 (1.11%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.89%) Oracle Linux
7 4 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.44%) Android
8 2 (0.44%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.22%) AIX
9 1 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (43.90%) Agile
2 138 (30.60%) DevOps
3 96 (21.29%) CI/CD
4 82 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 78 (17.29%) Problem-Solving
6 65 (14.41%) Microservices
6 65 (14.41%) Test Automation
7 57 (12.64%) Business Intelligence
7 57 (12.64%) Migration
7 57 (12.64%) Scrum
8 46 (10.20%) ETL
9 45 (9.98%) Continuous Integration
10 44 (9.76%) Analytics
10 44 (9.76%) OO
11 42 (9.31%) SDLC
12 37 (8.20%) Software Engineering
13 31 (6.87%) Data Mapping
13 31 (6.87%) Data Protection
14 30 (6.65%) Computer Science
15 29 (6.43%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 147 (32.59%) SQL
2 115 (25.50%) Python
3 101 (22.39%) JavaScript
4 81 (17.96%) Java
5 70 (15.52%) C#
6 51 (11.31%) PowerShell
7 21 (4.66%) T-SQL
8 16 (3.55%) TypeScript
9 15 (3.33%) Bash
10 13 (2.88%) Apex Code
10 13 (2.88%) Perl
11 12 (2.66%) PL/SQL
11 12 (2.66%) SOQL
12 10 (2.22%) Go
12 10 (2.22%) Shell Script
13 9 (2.00%) C
14 6 (1.33%) ActionScript
14 6 (1.33%) PHP
15 5 (1.11%) X++
16 4 (0.89%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 69 (15.30%) Security Cleared
2 53 (11.75%) SC Cleared
3 40 (8.87%) Degree
4 20 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (2.00%) CCIE
6 9 (2.00%) CCIE Service Provider
7 8 (1.77%) CCNP
8 6 (1.33%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.11%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.44%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.44%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.44%) CISSP
11 2 (0.44%) HND
12 1 (0.22%) GIAC
12 1 (0.22%) ISEB
12 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (10.20%) QA
2 28 (6.21%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.10%) GDPR
4 5 (1.11%) HIPAA
4 5 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.11%) NCSC
5 4 (0.89%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.89%) ISO 15022
5 4 (0.89%) NIST
6 2 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.44%) HL7
6 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.44%) PMO
7 1 (0.22%) COREP
7 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.22%) IFRS
7 1 (0.22%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.22%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.22%) MiFID
7 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (8.87%) Docker
2 23 (5.10%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.33%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.11%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.89%) NFS
6 4 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.67%) OpenAM
7 3 (0.67%) OpenIDM
7 3 (0.67%) vCloud
7 3 (0.67%) vSphere
8 2 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.22%) Firmware
9 1 (0.22%) IAG
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (10.86%) Terraform
2 46 (10.20%) Ansible
3 31 (6.87%) Kubernetes
4 15 (3.33%) Grafana
5 12 (2.66%) Kibana
5 12 (2.66%) Puppet
6 10 (2.22%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.00%) FortiGate
7 9 (2.00%) logstash
7 9 (2.00%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.55%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (1.11%) PingFederate
9 5 (1.11%) yum
10 3 (0.67%) Autotask
10 3 (0.67%) Netcool
10 3 (0.67%) Podman
10 3 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.44%) TIBCO Hawk
11 2 (0.44%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 88 (19.51%) Microsoft
2 40 (8.87%) Oracle
3 33 (7.32%) Nokia
4 31 (6.87%) Cisco
5 24 (5.32%) Salesforce
6 17 (3.77%) Fortinet
7 16 (3.55%) F5
7 16 (3.55%) Google
8 14 (3.10%) Splunk
9 12 (2.66%) Pega
10 11 (2.44%) Adobe
10 11 (2.44%) SAP
11 9 (2.00%) Informatica
11 9 (2.00%) Palo Alto
11 9 (2.00%) Talend
12 8 (1.77%) Cadence
12 8 (1.77%) IBM
12 8 (1.77%) ServiceNow
13 7 (1.55%) Optimizely
14 6 (1.33%) VMware