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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 300 210
Rank change year-on-year -60 -90 +35
Permanent jobs citing JSON 270 474 697
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.52% 0.94% 1.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.33% 4.34% 6.28%
Number of salaries quoted 199 312 578
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £49,875 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% -4.62% -7.14%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,125 £87,188
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £106,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% -6.40%

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 6,233 10,931 11,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.98% 21.68% 25.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,792 6,565 9,248
10th Percentile £36,025 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year - -0.76% -2.96%
75th Percentile £85,500 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.41%

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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 2025. 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 -21 96 £75,000 +7.14% 88
East of England +56 63 £55,000 -13.73% 46
South East -52 60 £56,250 -19.64% 111
North of England -6 30 £53,750 -6.52% 82
Midlands -6 23 £47,500 -9.52% 57
North West +30 22 £55,000 +4.76% 47
West Midlands +18 17 £47,500 -17.39% 31
East Midlands -12 6 £60,000 +18.81% 23
Yorkshire -31 4 £56,750 -9.20% 28
North East - 4 £45,000 - 7
South West -1 1 £60,000 +20.00% 36
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 10 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.22%) Confluence
3 5 (1.85%) Anypoint
3 5 (1.85%) CMS
4 3 (1.11%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.74%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.37%) Appian
6 1 (0.37%) CICS
6 1 (0.37%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.37%) IIS
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.59%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.11%) Trello
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.22%) Shopify
2 5 (1.85%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.11%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 78 (28.89%) Azure
2 40 (14.81%) AWS
3 31 (11.48%) GitHub
4 28 (10.37%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (9.63%) Power Platform
6 25 (9.26%) Serverless
7 24 (8.89%) Power Automate
8 19 (7.04%) Amazon EC2
8 19 (7.04%) Amazon ECS
8 19 (7.04%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (5.19%) Boomi
9 14 (5.19%) PaaS
9 14 (5.19%) PowerApps
10 13 (4.81%) SaaS
11 12 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
12 11 (4.07%) GCP
12 11 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (2.96%) iPaaS
14 7 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.07%) FTP
2 5 (1.85%) VPN
3 4 (1.48%) Cisco ISE
3 4 (1.48%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.48%) Firewall
3 4 (1.48%) HTTP
3 4 (1.48%) LAN
3 4 (1.48%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.48%) WAN
4 3 (1.11%) DNS
4 3 (1.11%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.37%) AMQP
5 1 (0.37%) DHCP
5 1 (0.37%) SSL
5 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.37%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (19.26%) Relational Database
2 38 (14.07%) SQL Server
3 24 (8.89%) MySQL
4 20 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (7.04%) Power BI
6 18 (6.67%) RDBMS
7 14 (5.19%) OLTP
8 11 (4.07%) NoSQL
8 11 (4.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (2.59%) GIS
11 6 (2.22%) Metadata
12 4 (1.48%) Electronic Patient Records
13 3 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.11%) Big Data
13 3 (1.11%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (1.11%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.11%) Power Query
13 3 (1.11%) Redis
13 3 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 21 (7.78%) Git
3 19 (7.04%) JMeter
3 19 (7.04%) JUnit
4 17 (6.30%) Mockito
5 12 (4.44%) JIRA
6 6 (2.22%) Axure RP
6 6 (2.22%) Postman
6 6 (2.22%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.11%) Selenium
8 2 (0.74%) Crashlytics
8 2 (0.74%) WebDriver
8 2 (0.74%) Xcode
9 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.37%) ESLint
9 1 (0.37%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.37%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.37%) Storybook
9 1 (0.37%) Testinfra
9 1 (0.37%) XCUITest
General
1 97 (35.93%) Social Skills
2 46 (17.04%) Law
3 41 (15.19%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (14.07%) Finance
5 29 (10.74%) Retail
6 25 (9.26%) Public Sector
7 15 (5.56%) German Language
8 11 (4.07%) Marketing
9 6 (2.22%) Legal
10 4 (1.48%) Automotive
10 4 (1.48%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.11%) Banking
11 3 (1.11%) Electronics
11 3 (1.11%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.11%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Publishing
13 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 117 (43.33%) Developer
2 42 (15.56%) Senior
3 36 (13.33%) Senior Developer
4 24 (8.89%) Analyst
5 20 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
6 19 (7.04%) Java Developer
7 17 (6.30%) Consultant
7 17 (6.30%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 15 (5.56%) Oracle Developer
8 15 (5.56%) Senior Oracle Developer
9 14 (5.19%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 12 (4.44%) Data Engineer
10 12 (4.44%) Lead
10 12 (4.44%) ServiceNow Developer
11 11 (4.07%) ServiceNow Consultant
11 11 (4.07%) Technical Consultant
12 10 (3.70%) Integration Engineer
12 10 (3.70%) Support Consultant
12 10 (3.70%) Support Engineer
13 8 (2.96%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (61.48%) XML
2 118 (43.70%) HTML
3 113 (41.85%) REST
4 45 (16.67%) CSS
5 41 (15.19%) Web Services
6 31 (11.48%) Regular Expression
7 27 (10.00%) React
7 27 (10.00%) SOAP
8 20 (7.41%) Spring
8 20 (7.41%) Spring Boot
9 18 (6.67%) Hibernate
9 18 (6.67%) jQuery
10 17 (6.30%) .NET
10 17 (6.30%) ActiveMQ
10 17 (6.30%) Apache Camel
10 17 (6.30%) WireMock
11 14 (5.19%) RESTful
12 13 (4.81%) YAML
13 12 (4.44%) AngularJS
14 11 (4.07%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 48 (17.78%) Onboarding
2 35 (12.96%) Linux Command Line
3 22 (8.15%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (5.93%) Low-Code
4 16 (5.93%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (4.07%) Data Structures
6 10 (3.70%) Cloud Native
6 10 (3.70%) Operational Technology
7 6 (2.22%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.85%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.48%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.48%) NHS
9 4 (1.48%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.48%) Semantic Web
10 3 (1.11%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.11%) Social Media
11 2 (0.74%) Blog
11 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 38 (14.07%) Unix
2 15 (5.56%) Linux
3 3 (1.11%) Android
3 3 (1.11%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.11%) Windows
4 2 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (31.11%) Agile
2 73 (27.04%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (21.48%) CI/CD
4 49 (18.15%) AI
5 47 (17.41%) DevOps
6 39 (14.44%) LLM
7 34 (12.59%) Data Analysis
8 32 (11.85%) Microservices
9 31 (11.48%) ETL
10 30 (11.11%) Test Automation
11 29 (10.74%) Business Intelligence
11 29 (10.74%) SDLC
12 28 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (10.37%) Full-Stack Development
12 28 (10.37%) Problem Management
12 28 (10.37%) Workflow
13 26 (9.63%) Analytics
13 26 (9.63%) API Integration
14 25 (9.26%) User Experience
15 23 (8.52%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 115 (42.59%) JavaScript
1 115 (42.59%) SQL
2 93 (34.44%) Python
3 44 (16.30%) Java
4 35 (12.96%) C#
5 30 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 23 (8.52%) Shell Script
7 16 (5.93%) PL/SQL
8 10 (3.70%) T-SQL
9 7 (2.59%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.22%) PHP
11 4 (1.48%) Bicep
12 3 (1.11%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.74%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.74%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.74%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.74%) Bash
13 2 (0.74%) C++
13 2 (0.74%) Ruby
13 2 (0.74%) Swift
Qualifications
1 44 (16.30%) Degree
2 24 (8.89%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.70%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.37%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.37%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.37%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.30%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.19%) QA
3 11 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.70%) Accessibility
4 10 (3.70%) GDPR
4 10 (3.70%) NCSC
4 10 (3.70%) NIST
5 7 (2.59%) HL7
System Software
1 37 (13.70%) Docker
2 4 (1.48%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.74%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.37%) iptables
Systems Management
1 31 (11.48%) Kubernetes
2 17 (6.30%) Kibana
3 11 (4.07%) Terraform
4 10 (3.70%) Ansible
5 5 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.48%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.74%) Grafana
8 1 (0.37%) Packer
8 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.52%) Oracle
2 23 (8.52%) ServiceNow
3 18 (6.67%) Splunk
4 17 (6.30%) Dynatrace
5 12 (4.44%) SAP
6 11 (4.07%) Cisco
7 9 (3.33%) Google
7 9 (3.33%) MuleSoft
8 8 (2.96%) Dell
8 8 (2.96%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.59%) Informatica
9 7 (2.59%) SnapLogic
9 7 (2.59%) Talend
10 6 (2.22%) IBM
10 6 (2.22%) Intapp
10 6 (2.22%) Workday
11 5 (1.85%) IFS
11 5 (1.85%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.85%) Software AG