JSON
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 228 200 171
Rank change year-on-year -28 -29 -23
Contract jobs citing JSON 429 767 1,495
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.01% 1.34% 1.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.82% 5.79% 6.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 521 977
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £650
90th Percentile £675 £806 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £534 £518 £508
% change year-on-year +3.19% +1.82% +19.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 16 33
10th Percentile - - £14.25
25th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £32.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +26.09% -0.86%
75th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £75.00
90th Percentile - - £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £72.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +10.34% +45.00% -9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,901 13,257 23,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.92% 23.22% 26.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,172 9,669 17,311
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 150 242
10th Percentile £21.25 £29.58 £22.75
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £74.80 £81.13 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year -26.36% +28.36% +11.67%

JSON
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JSON in the UK

JSON
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for JSON in the UK

JSON
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JSON over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JSON in the UK

JSON
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for JSON in the UK

JSON
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 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
England -30 375 £536 -2.50% 168
London +16 227 £533 -7.30% 74
Work from Home +1 171 £540 +5.88% 104
UK excluding London -65 142 £534 +3.19% 100
North of England -17 53 £534 +1.71% 21
South East -37 30 £513 -2.38% 26
North West -6 29 £534 -2.91% 14
South West +9 19 £525 -7.00% 9
Midlands +18 18 £581 +3.29% 19
Yorkshire +14 18 £624 +27.57% 7
Scotland +38 16 £481 -2.28% 5
West Midlands +11 12 £600 +20.00% 10
East of England +8 10 £533 +21.71% 14
North East +7 10 £550 -6.38%
East Midlands +11 6 £577 -3.83% 9

JSON
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 25 (5.83%) Confluence
2 13 (3.03%) Apache
2 13 (3.03%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.40%) Alfresco
4 6 (1.40%) Appian
4 6 (1.40%) Camunda
4 6 (1.40%) IIS
5 5 (1.17%) Apache Solr
5 5 (1.17%) CMS
5 5 (1.17%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.17%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.93%) nginx
7 3 (0.70%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.47%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.47%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.17%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.47%) Mingle
5 2 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (3.50%) Salesforce CRM
2 9 (2.10%) NetSuite
3 5 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.70%) Endur
4 3 (0.70%) Maximo
4 3 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.70%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.47%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.47%) WebTrends
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.23%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 134 (31.24%) Azure
2 72 (16.78%) AWS
3 65 (15.15%) Serverless
4 42 (9.79%) Power Platform
5 41 (9.56%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (8.86%) GitHub
7 32 (7.46%) GCP
8 26 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (6.06%) Power Automate
9 23 (5.36%) PaaS
9 23 (5.36%) PowerApps
10 21 (4.90%) AWS Step Functions
10 21 (4.90%) Azure Key Vault
11 19 (4.43%) Amazon MSK
11 19 (4.43%) Azure Functions
11 19 (4.43%) Azure Logic Apps
12 18 (4.20%) Amazon S3
12 18 (4.20%) Azure Monitor
13 16 (3.73%) Azure Stack
14 14 (3.26%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 34 (7.93%) Firewall
2 33 (7.69%) BGP
3 29 (6.76%) DNS
3 29 (6.76%) HTTP
3 29 (6.76%) MPLS
4 26 (6.06%) VPN
5 19 (4.43%) TCP/IP
6 18 (4.20%) RSVP
7 17 (3.96%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 17 (3.96%) HSRP
7 17 (3.96%) SNMP
7 17 (3.96%) VPLS
8 15 (3.50%) Ethernet VPN
9 14 (3.26%) Cisco IOS
9 14 (3.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 14 (3.26%) IOS XR
9 14 (3.26%) IPv4
9 14 (3.26%) VRRP
10 13 (3.03%) SSH
11 12 (2.80%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (11.19%) NoSQL
2 46 (10.72%) SQL Server
3 44 (10.26%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (8.39%) Relational Database
5 32 (7.46%) Parquet
6 31 (7.23%) Power BI
7 30 (6.99%) PostgreSQL
8 22 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
9 20 (4.66%) Data Lake
9 20 (4.66%) DynamoDB
9 20 (4.66%) MongoDB
9 20 (4.66%) RDBMS
10 19 (4.43%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (3.96%) MySQL
13 16 (3.73%) Big Data
13 16 (3.73%) Snowflake Schema
14 11 (2.56%) Oracle Reports
15 8 (1.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 97 (22.61%) Git
2 58 (13.52%) JIRA
3 39 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 31 (7.23%) GitLab
5 20 (4.66%) Visual Studio
6 16 (3.73%) Visual Studio Code
7 15 (3.50%) Cucumber
7 15 (3.50%) Postman
8 14 (3.26%) SonarQube
9 12 (2.80%) JUnit
9 12 (2.80%) Selenium
10 11 (2.56%) Maven
11 10 (2.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 10 (2.33%) Bitbucket
12 9 (2.10%) CircleCI
12 9 (2.10%) Travis CI
13 8 (1.86%) Visual Studio Team System
14 7 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (1.63%) TeamCity
15 6 (1.40%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 122 (28.44%) Social Skills
2 57 (13.29%) Finance
3 48 (11.19%) Public Sector
4 45 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (6.06%) Banking
6 18 (4.20%) Marketing
6 18 (4.20%) Telecoms
7 13 (3.03%) Manufacturing
8 12 (2.80%) Retail
9 9 (2.10%) Front Office
9 9 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.86%) Back Office
11 7 (1.63%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.17%) Advertising
13 5 (1.17%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.17%) Legal
13 5 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.70%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 120 (27.97%) Developer
2 66 (15.38%) Architect
3 40 (9.32%) Senior
4 32 (7.46%) Data Engineer
5 31 (7.23%) Data Architect
5 31 (7.23%) DevOps Engineer
6 22 (5.13%) Analyst
7 20 (4.66%) Azure Engineer
7 20 (4.66%) Java Developer
7 20 (4.66%) Network Engineer
8 19 (4.43%) Software Engineer
9 16 (3.73%) Senior Developer
10 15 (3.50%) Salesforce Developer
11 14 (3.26%) IP Expert
12 13 (3.03%) Consultant
13 12 (2.80%) Business Analyst
13 12 (2.80%) DBA
13 12 (2.80%) PostgreSQL DBA
14 11 (2.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 11 (2.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (54.08%) XML
2 132 (30.77%) REST
3 61 (14.22%) SOAP
4 56 (13.05%) HTML
5 52 (12.12%) CSS
6 50 (11.66%) .NET
6 50 (11.66%) Web Services
7 46 (10.72%) YAML
8 38 (8.86%) RESTful
9 33 (7.69%) YANG
10 29 (6.76%) Apache Avro
10 29 (6.76%) Kafka
10 29 (6.76%) NETCONF
10 29 (6.76%) Spring
11 27 (6.29%) jQuery
12 26 (6.06%) AngularJS
13 23 (5.36%) JSON Schema
13 23 (5.36%) Node.js
14 21 (4.90%) ARM Templates
14 21 (4.90%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 27 (6.29%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.36%) Enterprise Software
4 20 (4.66%) Distributed Architecture
5 16 (3.73%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.50%) Linux Command Line
7 14 (3.26%) Cloud Native
8 13 (3.03%) Reference Data
9 10 (2.33%) Public Cloud
10 9 (2.10%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.86%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.63%) CMDB
12 7 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.63%) Onboarding
13 6 (1.40%) Client/Server
13 6 (1.40%) Data Centre
13 6 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
13 6 (1.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (12.12%) Linux
2 29 (6.76%) Unix
3 26 (6.06%) Windows
4 6 (1.40%) CentOS
5 4 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.93%) Oracle Linux
5 4 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.93%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.23%) AIX
6 1 (0.23%) Android
6 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (46.15%) Agile
2 126 (29.37%) DevOps
3 97 (22.61%) CI/CD
4 79 (18.41%) Problem-Solving
5 77 (17.95%) Data Modelling
6 61 (14.22%) Scrum
6 61 (14.22%) Test Automation
7 59 (13.75%) Microservices
8 55 (12.82%) Migration
9 53 (12.35%) Business Intelligence
10 50 (11.66%) Continuous Integration
11 46 (10.72%) ETL
11 46 (10.72%) OO
12 43 (10.02%) Analytics
12 43 (10.02%) SDLC
13 37 (8.62%) Software Engineering
14 31 (7.23%) Data Mapping
15 30 (6.99%) Data Protection
15 30 (6.99%) TDD
15 30 (6.99%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 143 (33.33%) SQL
2 108 (25.17%) Python
3 95 (22.14%) JavaScript
4 75 (17.48%) Java
5 62 (14.45%) C#
6 49 (11.42%) PowerShell
7 21 (4.90%) T-SQL
8 20 (4.66%) Bash
9 14 (3.26%) TypeScript
10 13 (3.03%) Apex Code
10 13 (3.03%) Perl
11 12 (2.80%) SOQL
12 10 (2.33%) C
12 10 (2.33%) Go
12 10 (2.33%) Shell Script
13 9 (2.10%) ActionScript
13 9 (2.10%) PL/SQL
14 6 (1.40%) PHP
15 5 (1.17%) Groovy
15 5 (1.17%) X++
Qualifications
1 62 (14.45%) Security Cleared
2 49 (11.42%) SC Cleared
3 37 (8.62%) Degree
4 18 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (1.63%) CCIE
6 7 (1.63%) CCIE Service Provider
7 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.17%) CCNP
8 5 (1.17%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.93%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.47%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.47%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.47%) CISSP
10 2 (0.47%) HND
11 1 (0.23%) GCIA
11 1 (0.23%) GIAC
11 1 (0.23%) ISEB
11 1 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (11.42%) QA
2 30 (6.99%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.26%) GDPR
4 5 (1.17%) HIPAA
4 5 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.17%) NCSC
5 4 (0.93%) ISO 15022
5 4 (0.93%) NIST
6 3 (0.70%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.47%) HL7
7 2 (0.47%) PMO
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.23%) MiFID
8 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (9.56%) Docker
2 21 (4.90%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.40%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.17%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.93%) NFS
6 4 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.70%) OpenAM
7 3 (0.70%) OpenIDM
7 3 (0.70%) vCloud
7 3 (0.70%) vSphere
8 2 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.23%) Firmware
9 1 (0.23%) IAG
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (11.66%) Terraform
2 46 (10.72%) Ansible
3 31 (7.23%) Kubernetes
4 16 (3.73%) Grafana
5 15 (3.50%) Kibana
5 15 (3.50%) Puppet
6 13 (3.03%) logstash
6 13 (3.03%) Prometheus
7 12 (2.80%) Progress Chef
8 10 (2.33%) Docker Swarm
9 8 (1.86%) FortiGate
10 5 (1.17%) PingFederate
10 5 (1.17%) Podman
10 5 (1.17%) yum
11 3 (0.70%) Autotask
11 3 (0.70%) Netcool
12 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.47%) TIBCO Hawk
12 2 (0.47%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.23%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 84 (19.58%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.39%) Oracle
3 26 (6.06%) Cisco
3 26 (6.06%) Nokia
4 23 (5.36%) Salesforce
5 19 (4.43%) Splunk
6 18 (4.20%) F5
7 17 (3.96%) Google
8 15 (3.50%) Fortinet
9 13 (3.03%) SAP
9 13 (3.03%) ServiceNow
10 11 (2.56%) Adobe
11 10 (2.33%) Pega
12 9 (2.10%) Cadence
12 9 (2.10%) Informatica
12 9 (2.10%) Talend
13 8 (1.86%) Palo Alto
14 7 (1.63%) IBM
14 7 (1.63%) Optimizely
15 6 (1.40%) TOWER Software