JWT Contracts

JSON Web Token (JWT)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 474 559 659
Rank change year-on-year +85 +100 +97
Contract jobs citing JWT 39 27 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.063% 0.067%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.59% 0.30% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 12 25
10th Percentile £415 £372 £469
25th Percentile £478 £484 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £531 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% +1.19% -5.91%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £570
90th Percentile £600 - £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £545 £525 £548
% change year-on-year +3.81% -4.11% +1.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £45.88 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £45.88 -

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 6,560 8,919 13,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.58% 20.74% 23.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,517 6,180 9,848
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -2.91% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 244 156
10th Percentile £29.25 £21.25 £30.38
25th Percentile £50.53 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £68.38 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.10 £74.85 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +28.00%

JWT
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JWT in the UK

JWT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for JWT in the UK

JWT
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JWT over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JWT in the UK

JWT
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for JWT in the UK

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Top 12 Contract 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 13 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
England +74 26 £506 -4.75% 31
Work from Home +63 21 £538 -6.43% 30
London +47 21 £506 -14.78% 24
UK excluding London +43 8 £545 +3.81% 16
North of England +17 3 £500 -4.76% 2
Yorkshire +14 3 £500 -4.76%
East Midlands - 1 £540 -
Midlands - 1 £540 -
Wales - 1 - -
East of England - 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 2
Scotland - 1 £600 - 1

JWT
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 3 (7.69%) Apache
2 2 (5.13%) Anypoint
2 2 (5.13%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.13%) Mule
3 1 (2.56%) CICS
3 1 (2.56%) CMS
3 1 (2.56%) Confluence
3 1 (2.56%) JBoss
3 1 (2.56%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.56%) nginx
3 1 (2.56%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.56%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.56%) WebLogic Portal
3 1 (2.56%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.56%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 22 (56.41%) AWS
2 17 (43.59%) Azure
3 16 (41.03%) GCP
4 8 (20.51%) Serverless
5 7 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (17.95%) GitHub
6 6 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (12.82%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (7.69%) Amazon Cognito
8 3 (7.69%) Google Compute Engine
9 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
9 2 (5.13%) Azure Functions
9 2 (5.13%) Entra ID
10 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (2.56%) Azure App Service
10 1 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (2.56%) Azure Storage
10 1 (2.56%) Cloud Functions
10 1 (2.56%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.95%) HTTP
2 5 (12.82%) HTTPS
3 3 (7.69%) SSL
4 2 (5.13%) Kerberos
5 1 (2.56%) FTP
5 1 (2.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 6 (15.38%) MySQL
2 6 (15.38%) NoSQL
3 4 (10.26%) Redis
4 3 (7.69%) Metadata
5 2 (5.13%) Flink
5 2 (5.13%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.56%) Big Data
6 1 (2.56%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.56%) DB2
6 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (28.21%) Jenkins
2 8 (20.51%) Git
3 5 (12.82%) GitLab
3 5 (12.82%) Maven
4 4 (10.26%) Mockito
5 3 (7.69%) Eclipse
5 3 (7.69%) Gradle
5 3 (7.69%) IntelliJ
5 3 (7.69%) JUnit
5 3 (7.69%) TestNG
6 2 (5.13%) JIRA
7 1 (2.56%) Babel
7 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.56%) MLflow
7 1 (2.56%) Mocha
7 1 (2.56%) Postman
7 1 (2.56%) Toad
7 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
7 1 (2.56%) webpack
General
1 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Finance
2 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.56%) Banking
3 1 (2.56%) Marketing
3 1 (2.56%) Retail
3 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (53.85%) Developer
2 7 (17.95%) Lead
3 6 (15.38%) Senior
4 5 (12.82%) Java Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Java Developer
5 4 (10.26%) Senior Developer
5 4 (10.26%) Software Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Digital Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Lead Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Lead Java Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) .NET Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Backend Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.13%) LDAP Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (5.13%) MuleSoft Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Node.js Developer
7 2 (5.13%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (82.05%) OAuth
2 20 (51.28%) RESTful
3 14 (35.90%) REST
4 13 (33.33%) SAML
4 13 (33.33%) SOAP
5 11 (28.21%) JSON
6 10 (25.64%) Spring
6 10 (25.64%) Spring Boot
7 7 (17.95%) GraphQL
7 7 (17.95%) Node.js
7 7 (17.95%) React
7 7 (17.95%) Swagger
8 6 (15.38%) LDAP
9 5 (12.82%) OpenAPI
9 5 (12.82%) XML
10 4 (10.26%) .NET
10 4 (10.26%) ASP.NET
10 4 (10.26%) Kafka
10 4 (10.26%) OpenID
11 3 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Cloud Native
1 4 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.69%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.13%) N-Tier
3 2 (5.13%) PKI
3 2 (5.13%) Replication
4 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.56%) DataPower
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) IoT
4 1 (2.56%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Unix
3 1 (2.56%) Android
3 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (61.54%) DevOps
2 22 (56.41%) CI/CD
3 17 (43.59%) Microservices
4 15 (38.46%) Containerisation
5 10 (25.64%) API Design
5 10 (25.64%) Event-Driven
5 10 (25.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 9 (23.08%) Agile
6 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (20.51%) API Management
8 7 (17.95%) Mentoring
8 7 (17.95%) User Experience
9 6 (15.38%) Design Patterns
9 6 (15.38%) Front End Development
9 6 (15.38%) SOLID
10 5 (12.82%) API Development
10 5 (12.82%) Artificial Intelligence
10 5 (12.82%) Deployment Automation
10 5 (12.82%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (12.82%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (48.72%) Java
2 12 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 10 (25.64%) Python
4 6 (15.38%) SQL
5 5 (12.82%) Groovy
5 5 (12.82%) TypeScript
6 4 (10.26%) C#
7 3 (7.69%) Go
8 2 (5.13%) DataWeave
8 2 (5.13%) Ruby
8 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
8 2 (5.13%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.56%) Apex Code
9 1 (2.56%) Bash
9 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
9 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.56%) Degree
3 1 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) GDPR
2 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.13%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) SLA
3 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (41.03%) Docker
2 5 (12.82%) OpenAM
2 5 (12.82%) OpenDJ
2 5 (12.82%) OpenIDM
3 4 (10.26%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.56%) LXC
Systems Management
1 19 (48.72%) Kubernetes
2 6 (15.38%) Grafana
2 6 (15.38%) Prometheus
2 6 (15.38%) Terraform
3 5 (12.82%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (7.69%) Kibana
5 1 (2.56%) Ansible
5 1 (2.56%) CA Endevor
5 1 (2.56%) CloudHub
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) ForgeRock
1 7 (17.95%) Google
2 5 (12.82%) Oracle
3 4 (10.26%) MuleSoft
4 2 (5.13%) IBM
4 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.13%) Okta
4 2 (5.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.56%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.56%) Axway
5 1 (2.56%) Dell
5 1 (2.56%) Ping Identity
5 1 (2.56%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.56%) Talend