JWT Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

JSON Web Token (JWT)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 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 285 338 462
Rank change year-on-year +53 +124 +107
Contract jobs citing JWT 19 7 15
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.19% 0.046% 0.058%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.74% 0.19% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 10
10th Percentile £424 £523 £524
25th Percentile £470 £538 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +0.88% -1.21%
75th Percentile £566 £613 £683
90th Percentile £596 £628 £828
UK median daily rate £545 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +3.81% - -5.66%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 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%

JWT
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

JWT 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 JWT.

JWT daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

JWT
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

JWT daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

JWT
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 1 (5.26%) CMS
1 1 (5.26%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) GCP
2 9 (47.37%) AWS
3 8 (42.11%) Azure
4 4 (21.05%) Serverless
5 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (15.79%) GitHub
5 3 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (15.79%) Google Compute Engine
6 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (5.26%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (5.26%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) HTTP
2 2 (10.53%) HTTPS
3 1 (5.26%) FTP
3 1 (5.26%) Kerberos
3 1 (5.26%) Network Security
3 1 (5.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) MongoDB
1 6 (31.58%) MySQL
1 6 (31.58%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (21.05%) NoSQL
2 4 (21.05%) Redis
3 3 (15.79%) Metadata
4 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
4 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
4 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Jenkins
2 4 (21.05%) GitLab
2 4 (21.05%) Mockito
3 3 (15.79%) Eclipse
3 3 (15.79%) Git
3 3 (15.79%) Gradle
3 3 (15.79%) IntelliJ
3 3 (15.79%) JUnit
3 3 (15.79%) Maven
3 3 (15.79%) TestNG
4 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
4 1 (5.26%) MLflow
4 1 (5.26%) Mocha
4 1 (5.26%) Toad
General
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Developer
2 7 (36.84%) Lead
3 4 (21.05%) Java Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Java Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Senior
4 3 (15.79%) Digital Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Lead Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Lead Java Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Node.js Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.26%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (5.26%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Lead .NET Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (78.95%) OAuth
2 9 (47.37%) REST
3 8 (42.11%) RESTful
3 8 (42.11%) Spring
3 8 (42.11%) Spring Boot
4 4 (21.05%) Node.js
4 4 (21.05%) SAML
5 3 (15.79%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (15.79%) GWT
5 3 (15.79%) Hibernate
5 3 (15.79%) JSON
5 3 (15.79%) Kafka
5 3 (15.79%) LDAP
5 3 (15.79%) OpenAPI
5 3 (15.79%) React
5 3 (15.79%) Servlets
5 3 (15.79%) SOAP
5 3 (15.79%) Spring Security
5 3 (15.79%) Swagger
6 2 (10.53%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Code
2 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Microservices
2 10 (52.63%) DevOps
3 9 (47.37%) API Design
3 9 (47.37%) CI/CD
3 9 (47.37%) Containerisation
4 5 (26.32%) Agile
4 5 (26.32%) Design Patterns
4 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
4 5 (26.32%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (21.05%) API Management
5 4 (21.05%) Domain-Driven Design
5 4 (21.05%) Event-Driven
5 4 (21.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 4 (21.05%) Migration
5 4 (21.05%) SOLID
6 3 (15.79%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (15.79%) Cloud Security
6 3 (15.79%) Fintech
6 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Java
2 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
2 4 (21.05%) Python
2 4 (21.05%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) TypeScript
3 2 (10.53%) Groovy
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
4 1 (5.26%) C#
4 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.26%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (52.63%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) OpenAM
2 2 (10.53%) OpenDJ
2 2 (10.53%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
2 4 (21.05%) Terraform
3 3 (15.79%) Grafana
3 3 (15.79%) Prometheus
3 3 (15.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Google
2 4 (21.05%) Oracle
3 3 (15.79%) ForgeRock
4 2 (10.53%) Okta
5 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
5 1 (5.26%) Axway
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.26%) MuleSoft
5 1 (5.26%) Talend