JWT Contract Job Trends

JSON Web Token (JWT)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring JWT skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 492 529
Rank change year-on-year -54 +37 +115
Contract jobs citing JWT 114 59 34
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.18% 0.088%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.13% 0.80% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 32 15
10th Percentile £455 £400 £328
25th Percentile £500 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £500 £555
Median % change year-on-year +12.25% -9.83% +0.82%
75th Percentile £656 £576 £600
90th Percentile £774 £599 £612
UK excluding London median daily rate £556 £500 £507
% change year-on-year +11.10% -1.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,113 7,410 8,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.90% 22.39% 22.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,579 4,962 5,789
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £663
90th Percentile £738 £741 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 177 236
10th Percentile £28.04 £29.70 £22.63
25th Percentile £41.25 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.45% +4.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £81.15 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £59.45
% change year-on-year +15.56% -5.39% +1.47%

JWT
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JWT relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

JWT job vacancy trend in the UK

JWT
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JWT.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JWT

JWT
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JWT over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JWT in the UK

JWT
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JWT.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JWT

JWT
Top 12 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 17 August 2026. 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 -60 92 £588 +17.50% 41
UK excluding London -64 55 £556 +11.10% 19
London -54 44 £600 +21.83% 24
North of England -55 23 £625 +13.38% 4
Work from Home -63 23 £575 +13.64% 19
South East - 19 £460 - 9
Yorkshire -21 15 £625 -
Scotland -6 7 £535 +22.69% 1
East of England -19 4 £850 +70.00% 1
North West -42 4 £725 +31.52% 2
North East - 4 £525 - 2
Northern Ireland +6 2 £650 +18.18% 1

JWT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (7.89%) Anypoint
2 8 (7.02%) Mule
3 3 (2.63%) Confluence
3 3 (2.63%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.75%) Apache
4 2 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.75%) IIS
5 1 (0.88%) nginx
5 1 (0.88%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (3.51%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.75%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 58 (50.88%) AWS
2 48 (42.11%) Azure
3 39 (34.21%) GCP
4 33 (28.95%) GitHub
5 23 (20.18%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (14.91%) Apigee
7 16 (14.04%) Serverless
8 15 (13.16%) Kong
9 13 (11.40%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (11.40%) Amazon S3
9 13 (11.40%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (8.77%) Azure API Management
10 10 (8.77%) Boomi
11 9 (7.89%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (7.89%) Azure Service Bus
11 9 (7.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 8 (7.02%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (5.26%) Cloud Run
13 6 (5.26%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.89%) HTTP
2 2 (1.75%) DSL
3 1 (0.88%) CTI
3 1 (0.88%) Firewall
3 1 (0.88%) Network Security
3 1 (0.88%) PSTN
3 1 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.88%) RTP
3 1 (0.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (17.54%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (14.04%) Redis
3 15 (13.16%) Relational Database
4 12 (10.53%) MongoDB
5 9 (7.89%) MySQL
5 9 (7.89%) NoSQL
6 7 (6.14%) DynamoDB
7 5 (4.39%) Hazelcast
7 5 (4.39%) RDBMS
7 5 (4.39%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.63%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.75%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.75%) ClickHouse
9 2 (1.75%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.88%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 23 (20.18%) Jenkins
2 22 (19.30%) Git
3 16 (14.04%) GitLab
4 9 (7.89%) Cypress.io
5 7 (6.14%) Maven
5 7 (6.14%) Mockito
5 7 (6.14%) Storybook
6 6 (5.26%) Gradle
6 6 (5.26%) JUnit
7 5 (4.39%) Bitbucket
7 5 (4.39%) Cucumber
8 4 (3.51%) JIRA
8 4 (3.51%) Snyk
8 4 (3.51%) TeamCity
9 3 (2.63%) git-flow
10 2 (1.75%) Flyway
10 2 (1.75%) Liquibase
10 2 (1.75%) MSBuild
10 2 (1.75%) Vite
10 2 (1.75%) webpack
General
1 24 (21.05%) Finance
2 23 (20.18%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (8.77%) Banking
4 6 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.51%) Investment Banking
5 4 (3.51%) Retail
6 3 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.63%) Publishing
6 3 (2.63%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.75%) Front Office
7 2 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.75%) Law
8 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Local Government
8 1 (0.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 54 (47.37%) Developer
2 33 (28.95%) Architect
3 27 (23.68%) Senior
4 24 (21.05%) Java Developer
5 16 (14.04%) Senior Developer
6 10 (8.77%) Senior Java Developer
7 9 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (7.02%) MuleSoft Developer
9 7 (6.14%) IAM Developer
10 6 (5.26%) Python Engineer
10 6 (5.26%) UI Architect
11 5 (4.39%) Backend Developer
11 5 (4.39%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.39%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (4.39%) Integration Architect
11 5 (4.39%) Senior Backend Developer
12 4 (3.51%) Integration Developer
12 4 (3.51%) Python Developer
12 4 (3.51%) Security Architect
12 4 (3.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (90.35%) OAuth
2 76 (66.67%) OAuth2
3 63 (55.26%) REST
4 38 (33.33%) RESTful
5 32 (28.07%) SOAP
6 26 (22.81%) JSON
6 26 (22.81%) OpenID
6 26 (22.81%) React
7 24 (21.05%) Kafka
8 23 (20.18%) Spring
8 23 (20.18%) Spring Boot
8 23 (20.18%) XML
9 21 (18.42%) SAML
9 21 (18.42%) Swagger
10 20 (17.54%) Middleware
10 20 (17.54%) OpenAPI
11 18 (15.79%) GraphQL
12 16 (14.04%) RabbitMQ
13 14 (12.28%) CSS
13 14 (12.28%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 35 (30.70%) Cloud Native
2 18 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.02%) Product Ownership
4 7 (6.14%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.39%) AI Agents
5 5 (4.39%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.51%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.51%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.75%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.75%) CMDB
8 2 (1.75%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.75%) PKI
8 2 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.75%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.88%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.26%) Linux
2 5 (4.39%) Android
3 4 (3.51%) Apple iOS
3 4 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.51%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (69.30%) CI/CD
2 63 (55.26%) Microservices
3 57 (50.00%) DevOps
4 45 (39.47%) Event-Driven
5 37 (32.46%) Containerisation
6 35 (30.70%) Agile
7 29 (25.44%) Infrastructure as Code
8 28 (24.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 27 (23.68%) Test Automation
10 25 (21.93%) API Management
10 25 (21.93%) Integration Patterns
10 25 (21.93%) Observability
10 25 (21.93%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (21.05%) AI
11 24 (21.05%) API Design
12 22 (19.30%) API Development
13 20 (17.54%) Technical Leadership
14 18 (15.79%) Scrum
15 16 (14.04%) Software Engineering
15 16 (14.04%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 45 (39.47%) Java
2 26 (22.81%) Python
3 24 (21.05%) TypeScript
4 22 (19.30%) JavaScript
4 22 (19.30%) SQL
5 8 (7.02%) C#
6 2 (1.75%) Bash
6 2 (1.75%) Cypher
6 2 (1.75%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.75%) PromQL
6 2 (1.75%) R
6 2 (1.75%) SHACL
6 2 (1.75%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.88%) Bicep
7 1 (0.88%) Dart
7 1 (0.88%) Go
7 1 (0.88%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.88%) Scala
7 1 (0.88%) Swift
Qualifications
1 20 (17.54%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.51%) Degree
4 3 (2.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.63%) CISSP
4 3 (2.63%) GIAC
5 2 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.75%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.88%) CEH
6 1 (0.88%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.88%) SANS
6 1 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.53%) QA
2 6 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.51%) WCAG
4 2 (1.75%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.75%) NIST
5 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.88%) GDPR
5 1 (0.88%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.88%) NCSC
5 1 (0.88%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.88%) PMO
5 1 (0.88%) SEPA
System Software
1 44 (38.60%) Docker
2 2 (1.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 51 (44.74%) Kubernetes
2 30 (26.32%) Terraform
3 22 (19.30%) Grafana
4 14 (12.28%) Prometheus
5 7 (6.14%) Argo
6 6 (5.26%) Ansible
7 2 (1.75%) Consul
7 2 (1.75%) Istio
7 2 (1.75%) Kibana
7 2 (1.75%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.88%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (18.42%) MuleSoft
2 20 (17.54%) Google
3 16 (14.04%) Salesforce
4 13 (11.40%) Oracle
5 9 (7.89%) Microsoft
6 8 (7.02%) IBM
7 7 (6.14%) Okta
8 6 (5.26%) Informatica
8 6 (5.26%) TIBCO
8 6 (5.26%) WSO2
9 5 (4.39%) SAP
10 4 (3.51%) Workday
11 2 (1.75%) Apple
11 2 (1.75%) FactSet
11 2 (1.75%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.75%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.75%) Solace
12 1 (0.88%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.88%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.88%) F5