JSON Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

JSON
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring JSON skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JSON 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 208 172 180
Rank change year-on-year -36 +8 -28
Contract jobs citing JSON 96 182 358
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.97% 1.19% 1.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.74% 4.97% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 127 244
10th Percentile £350 £390 £413
25th Percentile £446 £468 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £510
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +5.88% -3.77%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £638
90th Percentile £650 £683 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - £70.00
25th Percentile £91.25 - £70.94
Median hourly rate £92.50 - £73.75
75th Percentile £93.75 - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £92.50 £80.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +15.63% +10.34% +60.61%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

JSON 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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

JSON
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing JSON as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

JSON trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing JSON.

JSON daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing JSON over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

JSON daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing JSON.

JSON hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (5.21%) Apache
1 5 (5.21%) Apache Spark
1 5 (5.21%) Moodle
2 4 (4.17%) Confluence
3 3 (3.13%) Anypoint
3 3 (3.13%) Mule
3 3 (3.13%) WebSphere
4 2 (2.08%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (2.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.04%) Appian
5 1 (1.04%) CMS
5 1 (1.04%) IIS
5 1 (1.04%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.04%) Mule ESB
5 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.08%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.04%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) iTrent
2 1 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 27 (28.13%) Azure
2 23 (23.96%) Serverless
3 20 (20.83%) AWS
4 19 (19.79%) GitHub
5 15 (15.63%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (14.58%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (14.58%) Power Platform
7 6 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (5.21%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (5.21%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (5.21%) Azure AKS
8 5 (5.21%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (5.21%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (5.21%) Power Automate
9 4 (4.17%) Amazon S3
9 4 (4.17%) Firebase
9 4 (4.17%) GCP
9 4 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.46%) HTTP
2 4 (4.17%) SMTP
3 3 (3.13%) FTP
4 2 (2.08%) DNS
4 2 (2.08%) POP3
4 2 (2.08%) SMS
4 2 (2.08%) SSL
4 2 (2.08%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.04%) SSH
5 1 (1.04%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.58%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 10 (10.42%) MongoDB
3 10 (10.42%) Relational Database
4 9 (9.38%) Power BI
5 8 (8.33%) DynamoDB
5 8 (8.33%) MySQL
6 7 (7.29%) SQL Server
7 6 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (6.25%) Parquet
7 6 (6.25%) RDBMS
8 4 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (4.17%) Big Data
9 3 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (3.13%) Apache Hive
9 3 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.08%) BigQuery
10 2 (2.08%) Impala
10 2 (2.08%) Power Query
10 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (22.92%) Git
2 7 (7.29%) Postman
3 5 (5.21%) git-flow
3 5 (5.21%) JIRA
3 5 (5.21%) PHPUnit
4 2 (2.08%) Android Studio
4 2 (2.08%) Gradle
4 2 (2.08%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.04%) Ant
5 1 (1.04%) ERwin
5 1 (1.04%) JUnit
5 1 (1.04%) MSTest
5 1 (1.04%) NUnit
5 1 (1.04%) Ranorex
5 1 (1.04%) RStudio
5 1 (1.04%) Selenium
5 1 (1.04%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.04%) webpack
General
1 26 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.71%) Banking
3 11 (11.46%) Public Sector
4 10 (10.42%) Finance
5 4 (4.17%) Billing
5 4 (4.17%) Marketing
5 4 (4.17%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.08%) Law
7 2 (2.08%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (1.04%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.04%) Front Office
8 1 (1.04%) German Language
8 1 (1.04%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Retail
8 1 (1.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (54.17%) Developer
2 10 (10.42%) AWS Engineer
2 10 (10.42%) Senior
3 9 (9.38%) ServiceNow Developer
4 8 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 7 (7.29%) Data Engineer
6 6 (6.25%) AWS Developer
6 6 (6.25%) DBA
6 6 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (5.21%) Azure Data Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 5 (5.21%) Java Developer
7 5 (5.21%) Moodle Developer
7 5 (5.21%) Node.js Developer
7 5 (5.21%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 4 (4.17%) Android Developer
8 4 (4.17%) Designer
8 4 (4.17%) Lead
8 4 (4.17%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (43.75%) XML
2 23 (23.96%) REST
2 23 (23.96%) RESTful
3 19 (19.79%) HTML
3 19 (19.79%) Web Services
4 17 (17.71%) CSS
4 17 (17.71%) SOAP
5 13 (13.54%) React
6 10 (10.42%) .NET
6 10 (10.42%) AngularJS
6 10 (10.42%) Kafka
7 8 (8.33%) AWS CDK
7 8 (8.33%) Node.js
7 8 (8.33%) WebSockets
8 7 (7.29%) Apache Avro
8 7 (7.29%) YAML
9 6 (6.25%) OAuth
10 5 (5.21%) Apache Cordova
10 5 (5.21%) LESS
10 5 (5.21%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.21%) Data Structures
1 5 (5.21%) e-Learning
1 5 (5.21%) Product Ownership
1 5 (5.21%) VLE
2 4 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.17%) Frameworx
2 4 (4.17%) TM Forum
3 2 (2.08%) Derivative
3 2 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.08%) Equities
3 2 (2.08%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.08%) Reference Data
3 2 (2.08%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (1.04%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.04%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.21%) Android
1 5 (5.21%) Unix
2 2 (2.08%) Linux
2 2 (2.08%) Windows
3 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (31.25%) DevOps
2 29 (30.21%) Agile
3 23 (23.96%) CI/CD
4 16 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 15 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (13.54%) Scrum
7 12 (12.50%) Microservices
8 10 (10.42%) Clean Code
9 9 (9.38%) Data Modelling
9 9 (9.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (9.38%) Technical Leadership
9 9 (9.38%) User Experience
10 8 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (8.33%) ETL
10 8 (8.33%) Fintech
10 8 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (8.33%) Service Delivery
10 8 (8.33%) Test Automation
11 7 (7.29%) API Development
11 7 (7.29%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 37 (38.54%) SQL
2 30 (31.25%) JavaScript
3 23 (23.96%) Python
4 15 (15.63%) Java
5 10 (10.42%) C#
5 10 (10.42%) TypeScript
6 7 (7.29%) PowerShell
7 6 (6.25%) Kotlin
8 5 (5.21%) Bicep
8 5 (5.21%) PHP
8 5 (5.21%) T-SQL
9 4 (4.17%) Bash
9 4 (4.17%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (4.17%) Scala
10 2 (2.08%) DataWeave
11 1 (1.04%) ActionScript
11 1 (1.04%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.04%) Go
11 1 (1.04%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.54%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.17%) Degree
4 3 (3.13%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.38%) QA
2 2 (2.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.04%) GDPR
3 1 (1.04%) GRC
System Software
1 16 (16.67%) Docker
2 3 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.08%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (5.21%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.17%) Grafana
2 4 (4.17%) Terraform
3 2 (2.08%) Ansible
3 2 (2.08%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.04%) CloudHub
4 1 (1.04%) Istio
4 1 (1.04%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.04%) SCOM
Vendors
1 16 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 14 (14.58%) Oracle
3 10 (10.42%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.25%) Databricks
5 5 (5.21%) Google
6 4 (4.17%) Salesforce
7 3 (3.13%) MuleSoft
7 3 (3.13%) Pega
8 2 (2.08%) SAP
9 1 (1.04%) Axway
9 1 (1.04%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (1.04%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.04%) IBM
9 1 (1.04%) Mercator
9 1 (1.04%) Okta
9 1 (1.04%) Sparx
9 1 (1.04%) webMethods