JWT Contracts

JSON Web Token (JWT)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for JWT skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JWT over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 539 645 747
Rank change year-on-year +106 +102 -115
Contract jobs citing JWT 40 39 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.093% 0.069% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.44% 0.30% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 26 64
10th Percentile £388 £434 £483
25th Percentile £507 £503 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% -10.68% +19.58%
75th Percentile £600 £570 £691
90th Percentile £627 £825 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £548 £543
% change year-on-year -7.40% +0.92% +28.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate £45.88 - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 - £55.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

JWT 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 9,060 12,931 23,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.02% 22.94% 26.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,282 9,442 17,368
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 148 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.53 £22.75
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.48 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -25.49% +18.18% +22.22%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JWT over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JWT in the UK

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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 9 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 2 June 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 +98 32 £588 +11.90% 14
London +96 18 £600 +14.29% 8
UK excluding London +50 13 £507 -7.40% 8
North of England +33 11 £506 -11.23% 5
Work from Home +104 10 £573 +0.44% 6
Yorkshire +22 8 £506 -11.23% 2
North West - 3 - - 3
South East - 1 - -
South West - 1 £600 -

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 (7.50%) nginx
2 1 (2.50%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 23 (57.50%) AWS
2 17 (42.50%) GCP
3 8 (20.00%) Azure
4 4 (10.00%) Serverless
5 3 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (7.50%) npm
5 3 (7.50%) Yarn
6 2 (5.00%) Apigee
6 2 (5.00%) GitHub
7 1 (2.50%) Azure API Management
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.50%) PaaS
7 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) HTTP
1 4 (10.00%) SSL
2 3 (7.50%) AMQP
3 2 (5.00%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (2.50%) Firewall
4 1 (2.50%) Internet
4 1 (2.50%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (7.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.50%) MySQL
3 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (25.00%) Git
1 10 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (17.50%) Sonatype Nexus
3 6 (15.00%) Maven
4 5 (12.50%) Cypress.io
4 5 (12.50%) JIRA
5 4 (10.00%) SonarQube
6 3 (7.50%) Bitbucket
6 3 (7.50%) Mocha
7 1 (2.50%) GitLab
7 1 (2.50%) VersionOne
7 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (42.50%) Banking
2 12 (30.00%) Finance
3 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
4 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (10.00%) Electronics
6 3 (7.50%) Investment Banking
6 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (22.50%) Software Engineer
2 8 (20.00%) Consultant
2 8 (20.00%) Senior
3 7 (17.50%) Security Consultant
4 5 (12.50%) Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Java Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Scala Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Scala Software Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Senior Scala Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 2 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) React Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Security Architect
8 1 (2.50%) Apigee Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Node.js Developer
8 1 (2.50%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (42.50%) OAuth
2 11 (27.50%) OpenID
3 10 (25.00%) GraphQL
3 10 (25.00%) RESTful
4 9 (22.50%) REST
5 8 (20.00%) gRPC
5 8 (20.00%) OpenAPI
5 8 (20.00%) Spring
6 7 (17.50%) JSON
7 6 (15.00%) Node.js
7 6 (15.00%) React
8 5 (12.50%) OAuth2
8 5 (12.50%) Spring Boot
8 5 (12.50%) Swagger
8 5 (12.50%) Web Services
9 4 (10.00%) .NET
9 4 (10.00%) http4s
9 4 (10.00%) Kafka
9 4 (10.00%) Lambda Expressions
9 4 (10.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 4 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (10.00%) Video\Live Streaming
3 3 (7.50%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.00%) PKI
5 1 (2.50%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.50%) Online Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Over-the-Top Content
5 1 (2.50%) STB
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) CI/CD
2 17 (42.50%) Agile
3 14 (35.00%) Software Engineering
4 11 (27.50%) Microservices
5 10 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (22.50%) Event-Driven
7 8 (20.00%) Cloud Security
7 8 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 8 (20.00%) SIEM
8 7 (17.50%) API Development
8 7 (17.50%) API Integration
8 7 (17.50%) DevOps
8 7 (17.50%) Kanban
8 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (12.50%) Containerisation
10 5 (12.50%) Data Integration
10 5 (12.50%) Data Privacy
10 5 (12.50%) Data Validation
10 5 (12.50%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 29 (72.50%) Java
2 8 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (17.50%) Python
4 5 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 4 (10.00%) Scala
6 3 (7.50%) Groovy
6 3 (7.50%) Kotlin
7 2 (5.00%) SQL
8 1 (2.50%) ABAP
8 1 (2.50%) Bash
8 1 (2.50%) C#
8 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) GDPR
1 5 (12.50%) HIPAA
2 4 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (10.00%) QA
3 3 (7.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (5.00%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (35.00%) Docker
2 4 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (45.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (15.00%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (15.00%) Terraform
3 4 (10.00%) Grafana
4 3 (7.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) Google
2 5 (12.50%) Okta
3 4 (10.00%) Oracle
3 4 (10.00%) Roku
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.00%) SAP
5 1 (2.50%) Ariba
5 1 (2.50%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.50%) ForgeRock
5 1 (2.50%) Leostream
5 1 (2.50%) Ping Identity
5 1 (2.50%) SaltStack
5 1 (2.50%) VMware