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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 300 257
Rank change year-on-year -106 -43 +29
Permanent jobs citing JSON 285 360 879
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.96% 1.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.68% 4.66% 5.22%
Number of salaries quoted 199 285 696
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £49,375 £46,960 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% +1.25% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
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 7,752 7,733 16,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.94% 20.64% 20.44%
Number of salaries quoted 5,869 5,896 14,030
10th Percentile £38,100 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -32 93 £66,000 -7.37% 45
East of England +15 63 £65,000 +36.84% 7
South East -80 62 £62,500 -3.85% 30
North of England -46 42 £60,000 +14.29% 25
North West -21 28 £60,000 +14.29% 15
Yorkshire -60 12 £73,499 +40.00% 9
Midlands -70 12 £47,500 -9.95% 12
West Midlands -40 7 £43,000 -19.91% 5
South West -66 6 £31,500 -49.60% 6
East Midlands -55 5 £50,750 -2.87% 7
North East -41 2 £46,250 -40.32% 1
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 26 (9.12%) SharePoint
2 16 (5.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.40%) Confluence
3 4 (1.40%) IIS
4 3 (1.05%) Anypoint
4 3 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.70%) CMS
5 2 (0.70%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.70%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.35%) Apache
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.35%) CICS
6 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.35%) JBoss
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.05%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.35%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.35%) Sketch
4 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Shopify
2 2 (0.70%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.70%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.35%) Magento
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 112 (39.30%) Azure
2 57 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 51 (17.89%) AWS
4 31 (10.88%) Microsoft 365
5 29 (10.18%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (10.18%) Power Automate
6 24 (8.42%) PowerApps
6 24 (8.42%) Serverless
7 23 (8.07%) Azure Logic Apps
7 23 (8.07%) SaaS
8 21 (7.37%) Azure Data Factory
9 20 (7.02%) Boomi
9 20 (7.02%) GitHub
10 16 (5.61%) Dynamics 365
11 15 (5.26%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 15 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (5.26%) OneDrive
12 13 (4.56%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (4.56%) GCP
13 12 (4.21%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.96%) Firewall
2 7 (2.46%) FTP
3 6 (2.11%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (2.11%) VPN
4 5 (1.75%) DNS
5 4 (1.40%) SSL
6 3 (1.05%) AMQP
6 3 (1.05%) BGP
7 2 (0.70%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.70%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.70%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.70%) LAN
7 2 (0.70%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.70%) WAN
8 1 (0.35%) Broadband
8 1 (0.35%) CTI
8 1 (0.35%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (18.25%) Power BI
2 28 (9.82%) MySQL
3 26 (9.12%) SQL Server
4 23 (8.07%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (7.72%) Relational Database
5 22 (7.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 20 (7.02%) Metadata
7 16 (5.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (3.86%) RDBMS
9 9 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.11%) Electronic Patient Records
10 6 (2.11%) OLTP
11 5 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.40%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.40%) Redis
13 3 (1.05%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.05%) Power Query
13 3 (1.05%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (0.70%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 33 (11.58%) JIRA
2 32 (11.23%) Git
3 19 (6.67%) GitLab
4 17 (5.96%) Jenkins
5 11 (3.86%) Postman
6 8 (2.81%) JUnit
7 7 (2.46%) ERwin
8 6 (2.11%) Maven
8 6 (2.11%) Selenium
8 6 (2.11%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.75%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (1.75%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.75%) Mockito
9 5 (1.75%) SpecFlow
9 5 (1.75%) WebDriver
10 4 (1.40%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.40%) Visual Studio
11 3 (1.05%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.05%) Gradle
11 3 (1.05%) JMeter
General
1 124 (43.51%) Social Skills
2 79 (27.72%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (15.09%) Finance
4 21 (7.37%) Law
5 20 (7.02%) Retail
6 16 (5.61%) Marketing
6 16 (5.61%) Telecoms
7 15 (5.26%) German Language
8 13 (4.56%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (4.21%) Health Technology
10 8 (2.81%) Advertising
10 8 (2.81%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.46%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.75%) Legal
13 3 (1.05%) Local Government
14 2 (0.70%) Electronics
14 2 (0.70%) Front Office
14 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 95 (33.33%) Developer
2 55 (19.30%) Senior
3 45 (15.79%) Senior Developer
4 31 (10.88%) Analyst
5 23 (8.07%) Architect
6 20 (7.02%) Data Analyst
7 19 (6.67%) Consultant
8 16 (5.61%) Java Developer
9 15 (5.26%) Support Engineer
10 11 (3.86%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (3.86%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (3.86%) Network Engineer
10 11 (3.86%) Telecoms Engineer
11 10 (3.51%) Applications Architect
11 10 (3.51%) Applications Support
11 10 (3.51%) Data Engineer
11 10 (3.51%) Lead
12 9 (3.16%) Oracle Developer
12 9 (3.16%) Senior Oracle Developer
12 9 (3.16%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (52.98%) XML
2 105 (36.84%) REST
3 94 (32.98%) HTML
4 50 (17.54%) SOAP
5 47 (16.49%) CSS
6 39 (13.68%) .NET
7 33 (11.58%) Regular Expression
8 27 (9.47%) RESTful
9 26 (9.12%) Middleware
10 25 (8.77%) YAML
11 22 (7.72%) Web Services
12 20 (7.02%) .NET Core
13 18 (6.32%) HTML5 Canvas
13 18 (6.32%) Spring
14 16 (5.61%) Spring Boot
15 15 (5.26%) EDI
15 15 (5.26%) Microsoft Graph
15 15 (5.26%) OAuth
15 15 (5.26%) SPFx
16 14 (4.91%) React
Miscellaneous
1 45 (15.79%) Onboarding
2 36 (12.63%) Linux Command Line
3 28 (9.82%) Data Structures
4 23 (8.07%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (5.96%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (4.91%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (3.86%) Low-Code
8 8 (2.81%) Cloud Native
8 8 (2.81%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (2.46%) e-Learning
10 6 (2.11%) NHS
11 5 (1.75%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.75%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.40%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.40%) Reference Data
12 4 (1.40%) Social Media
12 4 (1.40%) Taxonomies
13 3 (1.05%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 39 (13.68%) Unix
2 31 (10.88%) Linux
3 10 (3.51%) Windows
4 7 (2.46%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.35%) Android
6 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
2 67 (23.51%) Agile
3 65 (22.81%) DevOps
4 63 (22.11%) CI/CD
5 53 (18.60%) AI
5 53 (18.60%) Business Intelligence
6 46 (16.14%) Data Analysis
6 46 (16.14%) Data Modelling
7 35 (12.28%) API Integration
8 34 (11.93%) User Experience
9 33 (11.58%) Microservices
10 32 (11.23%) ERP
11 31 (10.88%) Containerisation
11 31 (10.88%) Validation
12 29 (10.18%) Analytics
12 29 (10.18%) LLM
13 27 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (9.47%) Test Automation
14 26 (9.12%) Technical Leadership
15 25 (8.77%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 150 (52.63%) SQL
2 107 (37.54%) Python
3 92 (32.28%) JavaScript
4 59 (20.70%) Java
5 39 (13.68%) C#
6 32 (11.23%) PowerShell
7 20 (7.02%) TypeScript
8 12 (4.21%) PL/SQL
9 11 (3.86%) Shell Script
10 10 (3.51%) T-SQL
11 9 (3.16%) PHP
12 6 (2.11%) Groovy
13 4 (1.40%) VBA
14 3 (1.05%) ActionScript
14 3 (1.05%) ActionScript 2.0
14 3 (1.05%) Bicep
14 3 (1.05%) Perl
14 3 (1.05%) Ruby
15 2 (0.70%) Bash
15 2 (0.70%) R
Qualifications
1 55 (19.30%) Degree
2 25 (8.77%) Security Cleared
3 17 (5.96%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.75%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.05%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (1.05%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.12%) QA
2 16 (5.61%) Data Quality
3 13 (4.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.86%) SLA
4 11 (3.86%) TickIT
5 9 (3.16%) GDPR
6 7 (2.46%) HL7
7 6 (2.11%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.05%) NCSC
8 3 (1.05%) NIST
9 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.35%) PERC
9 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (10.53%) Docker
2 12 (4.21%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.40%) vSphere
4 2 (0.70%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.35%) iptables
Systems Management
1 28 (9.82%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.26%) Ansible
3 13 (4.56%) Terraform
4 4 (1.40%) Kibana
4 4 (1.40%) Packer
5 2 (0.70%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.35%) Grafana
6 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 62 (21.75%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.37%) Oracle
3 20 (7.02%) Adobe
4 16 (5.61%) Cisco
5 11 (3.86%) Red Hat
6 10 (3.51%) SAP
7 9 (3.16%) IBM
7 9 (3.16%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.81%) F5
9 7 (2.46%) Google
9 7 (2.46%) Sparx
9 7 (2.46%) Splunk
10 6 (2.11%) Juniper
10 6 (2.11%) MuleSoft
10 6 (2.11%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.11%) VMware
11 5 (1.75%) Databricks
11 5 (1.75%) Dell
11 5 (1.75%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.75%) Talend