JSON Job Trends in England

JSON
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring JSON skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 366 300
Rank change year-on-year -74 -66 -63
Permanent jobs citing JSON 335 322 615
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.34% 0.74% 0.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.13% 4.05% 4.17%
Number of salaries quoted 236 241 437
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £83,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

JSON falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,702 7,948 14,763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.00% 18.24% 20.80%
Number of salaries quoted 7,945 5,315 10,347
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,750 £39,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -3.70%

JSON
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JSON relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

JSON job vacancy trend in England

JSON
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing JSON.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing JSON

JSON
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing JSON in England over the 6 months to 3 September 2026.

Salary histogram for JSON in England

JSON
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JSON within the England region over the 6 months to 3 September 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -39 126 £75,000 +15.38% 187
South East -45 77 £55,000 -15.38% 55
North of England -21 56 £55,000 - 39
North West -13 31 £62,500 +13.64% 28
East of England -60 27 £90,000 +71.43% 32
Midlands -36 26 £54,000 +7.46% 23
Yorkshire -36 20 £44,000 -31.25% 9
South West -67 19 £52,500 -6.67% 28
West Midlands -25 18 £60,450 +27.26% 16
East Midlands -20 8 £54,000 -10.00% 7
North East - 5 £45,000 - 4
JSON
UK

JSON
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 31 (9.25%) SharePoint
2 19 (5.67%) Confluence
3 13 (3.88%) IIS
4 11 (3.28%) Apache
5 9 (2.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (2.39%) CMS
7 6 (1.79%) WordPress
8 5 (1.49%) Drupal
9 3 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.90%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.90%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.60%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.60%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.30%) JBoss
11 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 22 (6.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.19%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.90%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.60%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.30%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.30%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.60%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.30%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.30%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 150 (44.78%) Azure
2 86 (25.67%) AWS
3 61 (18.21%) Power Platform
4 57 (17.01%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (14.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 34 (10.15%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (9.85%) Power Automate
7 33 (9.85%) Serverless
8 30 (8.96%) PowerApps
9 25 (7.46%) Azure Data Factory
10 23 (6.87%) Dynamics 365
10 23 (6.87%) GitHub
11 21 (6.27%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (5.67%) SaaS
13 18 (5.37%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 18 (5.37%) GCP
13 18 (5.37%) OneDrive
14 16 (4.78%) Boomi
15 13 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (3.58%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.58%) Firewall
2 10 (2.99%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.09%) DNS
4 6 (1.79%) HTTP
4 6 (1.79%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.90%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.90%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (0.90%) SSL
5 3 (0.90%) Wireless
6 2 (0.60%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.60%) MQTT
6 2 (0.60%) VPN
7 1 (0.30%) BGP
7 1 (0.30%) Broadband
7 1 (0.30%) FTP
7 1 (0.30%) Network Security
7 1 (0.30%) RTP
7 1 (0.30%) SCTP
7 1 (0.30%) SS7
7 1 (0.30%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (13.43%) Power BI
2 42 (12.54%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (9.55%) SQL Server
4 21 (6.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 21 (6.27%) Redis
4 21 (6.27%) Relational Database
5 19 (5.67%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (5.37%) MySQL
7 16 (4.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 13 (3.88%) Metadata
9 8 (2.39%) RDBMS
10 6 (1.79%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.49%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.19%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.19%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.19%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.19%) NoSQL
12 4 (1.19%) Power Query
13 3 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 64 (19.10%) Git
2 45 (13.43%) JIRA
3 28 (8.36%) Jenkins
4 20 (5.97%) GitLab
5 16 (4.78%) Selenium
6 13 (3.88%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.88%) Postman
7 12 (3.58%) JMeter
8 8 (2.39%) JUnit
9 7 (2.09%) Maven
9 7 (2.09%) Mockito
10 6 (1.79%) SoapUI
11 5 (1.49%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.49%) Gradle
11 5 (1.49%) Jasmine
11 5 (1.49%) Mocha
11 5 (1.49%) NUnit
11 5 (1.49%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.49%) Visual Studio
11 5 (1.49%) Zephyr
General
1 156 (46.57%) Social Skills
2 87 (25.97%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (18.51%) Finance
4 34 (10.15%) Organisational Skills
5 21 (6.27%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.48%) Retail
7 14 (4.18%) Marketing
8 12 (3.58%) Advertising
9 11 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.28%) Legal
10 10 (2.99%) Banking
10 10 (2.99%) Law
11 8 (2.39%) Health Technology
12 7 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.79%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.79%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.49%) Back Office
14 5 (1.49%) Local Government
15 4 (1.19%) Aviation
15 4 (1.19%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 126 (37.61%) Developer
2 79 (23.58%) Senior
3 43 (12.84%) Senior Developer
4 24 (7.16%) Analyst
5 23 (6.87%) .NET Developer
5 23 (6.87%) Architect
6 22 (6.57%) Lead
6 22 (6.57%) Software Engineer
7 18 (5.37%) Integration Engineer
7 18 (5.37%) Support Engineer
8 17 (5.07%) Ruby Developer
9 16 (4.78%) DevOps Engineer
9 16 (4.78%) Software Developer
10 15 (4.48%) Web Developer
11 14 (4.18%) Data Engineer
11 14 (4.18%) Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (4.18%) Technical Support
12 13 (3.88%) Senior Integration Engineer
13 12 (3.58%) Integration Architect
14 11 (3.28%) .NET Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (37.61%) XML
2 110 (32.84%) REST
3 88 (26.27%) HTML
4 83 (24.78%) .NET
5 76 (22.69%) CSS
6 50 (14.93%) RESTful
7 49 (14.63%) .NET Core
8 44 (13.13%) SOAP
9 40 (11.94%) ASP.NET
10 32 (9.55%) Middleware
11 30 (8.96%) JWT
12 27 (8.06%) Terraform
13 25 (7.46%) YAML
14 24 (7.16%) .NET Framework
14 24 (7.16%) React
15 22 (6.57%) HTML5 Canvas
16 20 (5.97%) Blazor
17 19 (5.67%) AngularJS
17 19 (5.67%) HTML5
17 19 (5.67%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.57%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (6.27%) Onboarding
3 20 (5.97%) Cloud Native
4 19 (5.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 19 (5.67%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (5.37%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (3.88%) Management Information System
7 12 (3.58%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.99%) Driving Licence
8 10 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.69%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.69%) Enterprise Cloud
9 9 (2.69%) Robotics
10 8 (2.39%) Taxonomies
11 7 (2.09%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.49%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.19%) PKI
13 4 (1.19%) Social Media
13 4 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (13.73%) Linux
2 45 (13.43%) Windows
3 17 (5.07%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.60%) Android
6 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.60%) Unix
7 1 (0.30%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (37.91%) Agile
2 112 (33.43%) DevOps
3 108 (32.24%) CI/CD
4 102 (30.45%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (16.72%) Test Automation
6 55 (16.42%) User Experience
7 53 (15.82%) Microservices
8 47 (14.03%) Scrum
9 43 (12.84%) Mentoring
9 43 (12.84%) Software Engineering
10 41 (12.24%) Containerisation
10 41 (12.24%) Data Modelling
11 40 (11.94%) AI
11 40 (11.94%) Roadmaps
12 38 (11.34%) Business Intelligence
13 36 (10.75%) Continuous Improvement
14 34 (10.15%) Clean Code
15 33 (9.85%) API Integration
16 32 (9.55%) Customer Service
16 32 (9.55%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 136 (40.60%) SQL
2 114 (34.03%) JavaScript
3 91 (27.16%) C#
4 83 (24.78%) Python
5 42 (12.54%) Java
6 31 (9.25%) PowerShell
7 22 (6.57%) TypeScript
8 18 (5.37%) C++
8 18 (5.37%) Ruby
9 12 (3.58%) PHP
9 12 (3.58%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.28%) T-SQL
11 9 (2.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.49%) Groovy
12 5 (1.49%) VBA
13 3 (0.90%) Bash
13 3 (0.90%) Perl
13 3 (0.90%) XPath
14 2 (0.60%) Lua
14 2 (0.60%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 45 (13.43%) Degree
2 31 (9.25%) Security Cleared
3 24 (7.16%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.99%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.39%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.79%) ISTQB
7 6 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.49%) ISEB
9 3 (0.90%) CCNP
9 3 (0.90%) CISSP
9 3 (0.90%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.60%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.60%) CASP
10 2 (0.60%) CCSP
10 2 (0.60%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (13.13%) QA
2 38 (11.34%) Accessibility
3 17 (5.07%) Data Quality
4 14 (4.18%) WCAG
5 12 (3.58%) TickIT
6 11 (3.28%) SLA
7 9 (2.69%) GDPR
8 4 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.90%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.90%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.30%) Basel III
11 1 (0.30%) Dublin Core
11 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.30%) PERC
System Software
1 52 (15.52%) Docker
2 5 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.49%) vSphere
3 4 (1.19%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (7.76%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.88%) Ansible
3 5 (1.49%) Grafana
3 5 (1.49%) Kibana
4 4 (1.19%) Packer
5 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.30%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 109 (32.54%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.16%) Adobe
3 17 (5.07%) Google
4 14 (4.18%) Splunk
5 10 (2.99%) SAP
6 8 (2.39%) Cisco
6 8 (2.39%) IBM
6 8 (2.39%) Oracle
7 7 (2.09%) Databricks
7 7 (2.09%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.09%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.79%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.49%) F5
9 5 (1.49%) Pega
9 5 (1.49%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.49%) VMware
10 4 (1.19%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.90%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.90%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.90%) Sparx