JSON Contracts in the UK excluding London

JSON
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 257 193 156
Rank change year-on-year -64 -37 -15
Contract jobs citing JSON 140 292 508
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.69% 1.27% 1.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.30% 6.95% 8.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 191 302
10th Percentile £400 £400 £405
25th Percentile £475 £463 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £523 £508
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% +2.90% +19.59%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £588
90th Percentile £645 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £534 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +0.75% -3.64% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 28
10th Percentile - - £14.25
25th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £37.88
Median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £57.77
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +25.50% +5.04%
75th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £77.13
90th Percentile - - £78.55
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £61.52
% change year-on-year +10.34% +17.85% +6.07%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3,256 4,203 6,055
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.05% 18.27% 19.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,129 3,144 4,310
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £586
90th Percentile £691 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 87 146
10th Percentile £21.96 £22.20 £20.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%
75th Percentile £65.94 £74.13 £65.51
90th Percentile £74.85 £79.19 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

JSON
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing JSON as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for JSON in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JSON in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for JSON in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JSON in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JSON in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JSON in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for JSON in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
North of England -13 53 £534 +1.71% 21
North West -6 29 £534 -2.91% 13
South East -41 29 £513 -2.84% 24
South West +1 19 £525 -7.00% 8
Midlands +15 18 £581 -0.34% 22
Yorkshire +8 18 £624 +27.57% 7
Scotland +25 15 £513 +4.06% 2
West Midlands +20 12 £600 +20.00% 12
East of England +7 10 £533 +12.11% 14
North East +6 10 £550 -6.38% 1
East Midlands +9 6 £577 -3.83% 10
JSON
UK

JSON
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (9.29%) Confluence
2 6 (4.29%) Alfresco
2 6 (4.29%) Appian
2 6 (4.29%) Camunda
3 5 (3.57%) Apache
3 5 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.57%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.86%) Apache Solr
4 4 (2.86%) nginx
4 4 (2.86%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.14%) IIS
6 2 (1.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (1.43%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.71%) CMS
7 1 (0.71%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.71%) MetaMask
7 1 (0.71%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.71%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (5.71%) NetSuite
2 4 (2.86%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (2.14%) Maximo
4 2 (1.43%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 38 (27.14%) Azure
2 26 (18.57%) AWS
3 24 (17.14%) Serverless
4 16 (11.43%) GitHub
5 15 (10.71%) GCP
6 13 (9.29%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (6.43%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (6.43%) Kong
8 7 (5.00%) PaaS
8 7 (5.00%) Power Automate
9 6 (4.29%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (4.29%) Amazon S3
9 6 (4.29%) Apigee
9 6 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (4.29%) Azure Stack
9 6 (4.29%) Boomi
9 6 (4.29%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (4.29%) Snowflake
10 5 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (12.14%) DNS
2 16 (11.43%) Firewall
3 14 (10.00%) HTTP
4 13 (9.29%) TCP/IP
4 13 (9.29%) VPN
5 9 (6.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 6 (4.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 6 (4.29%) Kerberos
7 5 (3.57%) 5G
7 5 (3.57%) FTP
8 4 (2.86%) BGP
8 4 (2.86%) Diameter Protocol
8 4 (2.86%) HTTPS
8 4 (2.86%) IPsec
8 4 (2.86%) LTE
8 4 (2.86%) NetScaler
9 3 (2.14%) BIG-IP
9 3 (2.14%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (2.14%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (2.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (13.57%) NoSQL
3 15 (10.71%) Relational Database
4 14 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (9.29%) MongoDB
6 11 (7.86%) MySQL
6 11 (7.86%) RDBMS
7 10 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
8 8 (5.71%) SQL Server
9 6 (4.29%) Data Lake
9 6 (4.29%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (3.57%) Big Data
10 5 (3.57%) SQLite
11 4 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (2.86%) Couchbase
11 4 (2.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 3 (2.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.71%) Oracle Exadata
13 1 (0.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (28.57%) Git
2 24 (17.14%) JIRA
3 19 (13.57%) Jenkins
4 13 (9.29%) GitLab
5 10 (7.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (6.43%) CircleCI
6 9 (6.43%) Travis CI
7 7 (5.00%) Bitbucket
7 7 (5.00%) SonarQube
7 7 (5.00%) Visual Studio
8 5 (3.57%) Checkstyle
8 5 (3.57%) Postman
8 5 (3.57%) Subversion
9 4 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (2.14%) JUnit
10 3 (2.14%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (1.43%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.43%) Selenium
11 2 (1.43%) Xcode
12 1 (0.71%) Hudson
General
1 36 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (7.86%) Finance
4 7 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.29%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.29%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.57%) Legal
6 5 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.86%) Retail
8 3 (2.14%) Billing
9 2 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.43%) Marketing
9 2 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Back Office
10 1 (0.71%) Banking
10 1 (0.71%) Law
10 1 (0.71%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 33 (23.57%) Developer
2 19 (13.57%) Architect
3 14 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (7.86%) DBA
4 11 (7.86%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 9 (6.43%) Automation Engineer
6 7 (5.00%) Data Architect
6 7 (5.00%) Software Engineer
6 7 (5.00%) Tester
7 6 (4.29%) Analyst
7 6 (4.29%) Data Engineer
7 6 (4.29%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 6 (4.29%) Integration Developer
7 6 (4.29%) Senior
8 5 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (3.57%) Network Engineer
8 5 (3.57%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 4 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (2.86%) Consultant
9 4 (2.86%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (57.14%) XML
2 43 (30.71%) REST
3 24 (17.14%) YAML
4 17 (12.14%) HTML
5 16 (11.43%) .NET
6 15 (10.71%) SOAP
6 15 (10.71%) Web Services
7 14 (10.00%) Kafka
7 14 (10.00%) RESTful
8 13 (9.29%) CSS
8 13 (9.29%) Elastic Stack
9 12 (8.57%) .NET Framework
9 12 (8.57%) OpenID
10 6 (4.29%) .NET Core
10 6 (4.29%) Drools
10 6 (4.29%) jBPM
10 6 (4.29%) LDAP
10 6 (4.29%) OAuth
11 5 (3.57%) jQuery
11 5 (3.57%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.43%) Data Structures
2 9 (6.43%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (6.43%) Low-Code
2 9 (6.43%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.29%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (4.29%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (4.29%) Reference Data
5 5 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.57%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.86%) ASIC
6 4 (2.86%) FPGA
6 4 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.86%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.86%) Verilog
7 3 (2.14%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.43%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.43%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.29%) Linux
2 4 (2.86%) CentOS
2 4 (2.86%) Oracle Linux
2 4 (2.86%) Unix
2 4 (2.86%) Windows
3 3 (2.14%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.71%) AIX
4 1 (0.71%) Android
4 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.71%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (56.43%) Agile
2 48 (34.29%) DevOps
3 39 (27.86%) CI/CD
4 33 (23.57%) OO
5 29 (20.71%) Test Automation
6 28 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (17.86%) Scrum
8 21 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
9 20 (14.29%) Workflow
10 16 (11.43%) Containerisation
10 16 (11.43%) Mentoring
10 16 (11.43%) Microservices
10 16 (11.43%) Software Engineering
11 15 (10.71%) API Development
11 15 (10.71%) Data Modelling
11 15 (10.71%) SDLC
12 14 (10.00%) Data Mapping
12 14 (10.00%) Migration
13 12 (8.57%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 35 (25.00%) Python
2 31 (22.14%) Java
3 29 (20.71%) JavaScript
4 28 (20.00%) C#
4 28 (20.00%) SQL
5 17 (12.14%) PowerShell
6 16 (11.43%) Bash
7 9 (6.43%) C
8 8 (5.71%) ActionScript
8 8 (5.71%) Shell Script
8 8 (5.71%) T-SQL
9 6 (4.29%) Go
10 5 (3.57%) X++
11 4 (2.86%) PHP
11 4 (2.86%) SystemVerilog
11 4 (2.86%) Tcl
12 3 (2.14%) Assembly Language
12 3 (2.14%) BeanShell
12 3 (2.14%) C++
12 3 (2.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (7.86%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.00%) Degree
3 6 (4.29%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.57%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.43%) HND
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.86%) QA
2 7 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.57%) GDPR
4 4 (2.86%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.86%) NIST
5 1 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.71%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (12.14%) Docker
2 7 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.86%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (2.14%) OpenAM
4 3 (2.14%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (16.43%) Ansible
2 22 (15.71%) Terraform
3 18 (12.86%) Kubernetes
4 14 (10.00%) Grafana
5 13 (9.29%) Prometheus
6 10 (7.14%) Docker Swarm
6 10 (7.14%) Kibana
7 9 (6.43%) logstash
7 9 (6.43%) Progress Chef
7 9 (6.43%) Puppet
8 4 (2.86%) yum
9 1 (0.71%) Anchore
9 1 (0.71%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.71%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.71%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.71%) Packer
9 1 (0.71%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 27 (19.29%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.57%) Oracle
3 11 (7.86%) Salesforce
4 10 (7.14%) Splunk
5 9 (6.43%) Cadence
5 9 (6.43%) F5
5 9 (6.43%) Informatica
5 9 (6.43%) Pega
6 8 (5.71%) SAP
7 6 (4.29%) Talend
8 5 (3.57%) Google
8 5 (3.57%) IBM
9 4 (2.86%) Cisco
9 4 (2.86%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.14%) ForgeRock
10 3 (2.14%) Nintex
10 3 (2.14%) Synopsys
10 3 (2.14%) TOWER Software
10 3 (2.14%) Xilinx
11 2 (1.43%) Adobe