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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 335 293
Rank change year-on-year -87 -42 -22
Permanent jobs citing JSON 289 329 817
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 0.87% 0.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.46% 4.43% 4.77%
Number of salaries quoted 213 262 641
10th Percentile £36,700 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,526 £46,960 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £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 8,359 7,435 17,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.08% 19.58% 19.83%
Number of salaries quoted 6,361 5,069 14,220
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,698 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,367 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +10.61% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -18 110 £70,000 +3.70% 50
South East -24 74 £60,000 -7.69% 31
North of England -13 47 £57,500 +4.55% 21
East of England -18 35 £90,000 +89.47% 3
North West -7 32 £62,500 +13.64% 13
Yorkshire -33 13 £44,000 +8.64% 4
Midlands -43 9 £45,250 -20.61% 9
South West -71 8 £37,500 -37.50% 8
West Midlands -46 6 £41,500 -27.19% 6
East Midlands -36 3 £47,500 -24.30% 3
North East -37 2 £46,250 -40.32% 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 26 (9.00%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (3.11%) IIS
4 8 (2.77%) CMS
5 7 (2.42%) WordPress
6 5 (1.73%) Apache
6 5 (1.73%) Confluence
6 5 (1.73%) Drupal
7 3 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.69%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.69%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.69%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.35%) JBoss
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (3.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.04%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.35%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.35%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.35%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.35%) Magento
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 126 (43.60%) Azure
2 76 (26.30%) AWS
3 57 (19.72%) Power Platform
4 38 (13.15%) Microsoft 365
5 35 (12.11%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (12.11%) Azure Logic Apps
5 35 (12.11%) Serverless
6 25 (8.65%) SaaS
7 24 (8.30%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (8.30%) PowerApps
8 23 (7.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 23 (7.96%) Power Automate
9 19 (6.57%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 19 (6.57%) OneDrive
10 17 (5.88%) Boomi
11 16 (5.54%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (5.54%) Dynamics 365
11 16 (5.54%) GitHub
12 14 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (4.84%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.88%) Firewall
2 6 (2.08%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (2.08%) VPN
3 4 (1.38%) DNS
3 4 (1.38%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.04%) AMQP
4 3 (1.04%) BGP
4 3 (1.04%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.04%) SSL
4 3 (1.04%) Wireshark
5 2 (0.69%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.69%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.69%) FTP
5 2 (0.69%) HTTP
5 2 (0.69%) LAN
5 2 (0.69%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.69%) WAN
6 1 (0.35%) Broadband
6 1 (0.35%) CTI
6 1 (0.35%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (17.30%) Power BI
2 35 (12.11%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (11.07%) MySQL
4 22 (7.61%) Relational Database
4 22 (7.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 20 (6.92%) SQL Server
6 19 (6.57%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (5.54%) Metadata
8 13 (4.50%) RDBMS
9 11 (3.81%) Redis
10 7 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (2.08%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (1.38%) MongoDB
14 3 (1.04%) Delta Lake
14 3 (1.04%) Snowflake Schema
14 3 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 2 (0.69%) OLTP
15 2 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
15 2 (0.69%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 46 (15.92%) Git
2 33 (11.42%) JIRA
3 26 (9.00%) Jenkins
4 22 (7.61%) GitLab
5 12 (4.15%) Postman
6 10 (3.46%) JUnit
7 8 (2.77%) Maven
8 7 (2.42%) ERwin
8 7 (2.42%) Mockito
8 7 (2.42%) Selenium
9 6 (2.08%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.08%) JMeter
9 6 (2.08%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.73%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.73%) Gradle
10 5 (1.73%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.73%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.38%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.38%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 130 (44.98%) Social Skills
2 84 (29.07%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (16.61%) Finance
4 20 (6.92%) Organisational Skills
5 19 (6.57%) Retail
6 15 (5.19%) Marketing
6 15 (5.19%) Telecoms
7 12 (4.15%) Health Technology
8 11 (3.81%) Advertising
8 11 (3.81%) Law
9 7 (2.42%) Financial Institution
10 6 (2.08%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.73%) Back Office
11 5 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.38%) German Language
13 3 (1.04%) Banking
13 3 (1.04%) Local Government
13 3 (1.04%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.69%) Billing
14 2 (0.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 93 (32.18%) Developer
2 62 (21.45%) Senior
3 47 (16.26%) Senior Developer
4 27 (9.34%) Analyst
5 25 (8.65%) Architect
6 22 (7.61%) Consultant
7 20 (6.92%) Data Analyst
7 20 (6.92%) DevOps Engineer
8 18 (6.23%) Support Engineer
9 15 (5.19%) Java Developer
9 15 (5.19%) Software Engineer
10 12 (4.15%) Lead
11 11 (3.81%) Applications Architect
11 11 (3.81%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (3.81%) Integration Architect
11 11 (3.81%) Network Engineer
11 11 (3.81%) Software Developer
11 11 (3.81%) Telecoms Engineer
12 10 (3.46%) Technical Support
13 9 (3.11%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (41.87%) XML
2 114 (39.45%) REST
3 82 (28.37%) HTML
4 65 (22.49%) CSS
5 55 (19.03%) .NET
6 45 (15.57%) SOAP
7 38 (13.15%) .NET Core
8 36 (12.46%) Middleware
9 31 (10.73%) YAML
10 30 (10.38%) RESTful
11 24 (8.30%) JWT
12 23 (7.96%) React
13 21 (7.27%) HTML5 Canvas
13 21 (7.27%) OAuth
14 20 (6.92%) Microsoft Graph
14 20 (6.92%) Spring
15 19 (6.57%) ASP.NET
15 19 (6.57%) SPFx
16 18 (6.23%) EDI
16 18 (6.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.34%) Onboarding
2 24 (8.30%) Data Structures
3 23 (7.96%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (7.27%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (4.50%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (4.15%) Cloud Native
7 11 (3.81%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (3.11%) Enterprise Cloud
9 8 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (2.42%) e-Learning
10 7 (2.42%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.42%) Public Cloud
11 6 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (2.08%) NHS
12 5 (1.73%) Driving Licence
13 4 (1.38%) Management Information System
13 4 (1.38%) Robotics
13 4 (1.38%) Taxonomies
14 3 (1.04%) PMI
14 3 (1.04%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 44 (15.22%) Linux
2 23 (7.96%) Windows
3 10 (3.46%) Unix
3 10 (3.46%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (30.80%) CI/CD
2 83 (28.72%) DevOps
3 78 (26.99%) Problem-Solving
4 76 (26.30%) Agile
5 53 (18.34%) Microservices
6 49 (16.96%) Business Intelligence
6 49 (16.96%) Data Modelling
7 42 (14.53%) User Experience
8 38 (13.15%) API Integration
8 38 (13.15%) Containerisation
9 37 (12.80%) Infrastructure as Code
10 35 (12.11%) ERP
11 33 (11.42%) Test Automation
12 32 (11.07%) AI
13 28 (9.69%) Collaborative Working
13 28 (9.69%) CRM
14 27 (9.34%) API Design
14 27 (9.34%) Validation
15 26 (9.00%) Mentoring
16 25 (8.65%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 147 (50.87%) SQL
2 107 (37.02%) JavaScript
3 96 (33.22%) Python
4 61 (21.11%) Java
5 54 (18.69%) C#
6 36 (12.46%) PowerShell
7 25 (8.65%) TypeScript
8 15 (5.19%) PHP
9 11 (3.81%) T-SQL
10 10 (3.46%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.77%) PL/SQL
12 7 (2.42%) Ruby
13 6 (2.08%) C++
13 6 (2.08%) Groovy
14 4 (1.38%) VBA
15 3 (1.04%) ActionScript
15 3 (1.04%) ActionScript 2.0
15 3 (1.04%) Bicep
15 3 (1.04%) Perl
16 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 38 (13.15%) Degree
2 33 (11.42%) Security Cleared
3 26 (9.00%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.73%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.04%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.04%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.04%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.35%) CISSP
7 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.35%) GIAC
7 1 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.35%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.03%) QA
2 18 (6.23%) Accessibility
3 14 (4.84%) Data Quality
4 12 (4.15%) TickIT
5 11 (3.81%) SLA
6 10 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (2.42%) HL7
8 6 (2.08%) GDPR
8 6 (2.08%) WCAG
9 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.35%) PERC
System Software
1 42 (14.53%) Docker
2 12 (4.15%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.38%) vSphere
4 2 (0.69%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (10.73%) Kubernetes
2 28 (9.69%) Terraform
3 14 (4.84%) Ansible
4 6 (2.08%) Kibana
5 4 (1.38%) Packer
6 2 (0.69%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.35%) QRadar
Vendors
1 74 (25.61%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.30%) Adobe
3 16 (5.54%) Cisco
4 14 (4.84%) Oracle
5 13 (4.50%) Splunk
6 11 (3.81%) Red Hat
7 9 (3.11%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.77%) F5
9 7 (2.42%) Dynatrace
9 7 (2.42%) Sparx
10 6 (2.08%) Google
10 6 (2.08%) Juniper
10 6 (2.08%) VMware
11 5 (1.73%) IBM
11 5 (1.73%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.73%) SAP
12 4 (1.38%) AppDynamics
12 4 (1.38%) Databricks
12 4 (1.38%) MuleSoft
13 3 (1.04%) Fortinet