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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 313 257
Rank change year-on-year -92 -56 +25
Permanent jobs citing JSON 284 361 880
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.96% 1.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.66% 4.71% 5.20%
Number of salaries quoted 198 286 697
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £49,063 £46,427 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,585 £60,375 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.97% +0.63% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,125 £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 7,760 7,662 16,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.92% 20.46% 20.46%
Number of salaries quoted 5,868 5,885 14,104
10th Percentile £38,025 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,268 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% +10.45% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,064
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 23 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 23 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 -41 93 £66,000 -7.37% 33
East of England +6 64 £70,000 +47.37% 7
South East -73 62 £62,500 -3.85% 28
North of England -56 42 £60,000 +14.29% 21
North West -21 28 £60,000 +14.29% 13
Yorkshire -52 12 £73,499 +40.00% 7
Midlands -58 11 £47,500 -10.38% 12
West Midlands -39 7 £43,000 -19.91% 5
South West -61 6 £31,500 -48.57% 4
East Midlands -56 4 £47,500 -8.65% 7
North East -43 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 27 (9.51%) SharePoint
2 16 (5.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.41%) Confluence
3 4 (1.41%) IIS
4 3 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.70%) Anypoint
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 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.06%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.35%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.35%) Sketch
4 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) NetSuite
1 2 (0.70%) SAP Business One
1 2 (0.70%) Shopify
2 1 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.35%) Magento
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 112 (39.44%) Azure
2 58 (20.42%) Power Platform
3 50 (17.61%) AWS
4 31 (10.92%) Microsoft 365
5 28 (9.86%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (9.86%) Power Automate
6 25 (8.80%) PowerApps
7 24 (8.45%) Azure Logic Apps
7 24 (8.45%) Serverless
8 23 (8.10%) SaaS
9 22 (7.75%) Azure Data Factory
10 19 (6.69%) Boomi
10 19 (6.69%) GitHub
11 16 (5.63%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 16 (5.63%) OneDrive
12 15 (5.28%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (5.28%) Dynamics 365
13 13 (4.58%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (4.58%) GCP
14 12 (4.23%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.99%) Firewall
2 7 (2.46%) FTP
3 6 (2.11%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (2.11%) VPN
4 5 (1.76%) DNS
5 4 (1.41%) SSL
6 3 (1.06%) AMQP
6 3 (1.06%) BGP
7 2 (0.70%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.70%) Ethernet
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
8 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (18.66%) Power BI
2 28 (9.86%) MySQL
3 25 (8.80%) SQL Server
4 23 (8.10%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (7.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 21 (7.39%) Relational Database
7 20 (7.04%) Metadata
8 17 (5.99%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (3.87%) RDBMS
10 9 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (2.11%) Electronic Patient Records
11 6 (2.11%) OLTP
12 5 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (1.41%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.41%) Redis
14 3 (1.06%) Delta Lake
14 3 (1.06%) Power Query
14 3 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
15 2 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 33 (11.62%) JIRA
2 32 (11.27%) Git
3 19 (6.69%) GitLab
4 17 (5.99%) Jenkins
5 11 (3.87%) Postman
6 8 (2.82%) JUnit
7 7 (2.46%) ERwin
8 6 (2.11%) Maven
8 6 (2.11%) Selenium
8 6 (2.11%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.76%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (1.76%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.76%) Mockito
9 5 (1.76%) SpecFlow
9 5 (1.76%) WebDriver
10 4 (1.41%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.41%) Visual Studio
11 3 (1.06%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.06%) Gradle
11 3 (1.06%) JMeter
General
1 123 (43.31%) Social Skills
2 79 (27.82%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (15.14%) Finance
4 20 (7.04%) Law
4 20 (7.04%) Retail
5 16 (5.63%) Marketing
5 16 (5.63%) Telecoms
6 15 (5.28%) German Language
7 13 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (4.23%) Health Technology
9 8 (2.82%) Advertising
10 7 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.46%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.46%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.41%) Legal
12 3 (1.06%) Local Government
13 2 (0.70%) Electronics
13 2 (0.70%) Front Office
13 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.35%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 94 (33.10%) Developer
2 55 (19.37%) Senior
3 45 (15.85%) Senior Developer
4 31 (10.92%) Analyst
5 24 (8.45%) Architect
6 20 (7.04%) Data Analyst
7 19 (6.69%) Consultant
8 16 (5.63%) Java Developer
9 15 (5.28%) Support Engineer
10 11 (3.87%) Applications Architect
10 11 (3.87%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (3.87%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (3.87%) Network Engineer
10 11 (3.87%) Telecoms Engineer
11 10 (3.52%) Applications Support
11 10 (3.52%) Data Engineer
11 10 (3.52%) Lead
12 9 (3.17%) Oracle Developer
12 9 (3.17%) Senior Oracle Developer
12 9 (3.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (53.17%) XML
2 105 (36.97%) REST
3 94 (33.10%) HTML
4 50 (17.61%) SOAP
5 47 (16.55%) CSS
6 39 (13.73%) .NET
7 33 (11.62%) Regular Expression
8 26 (9.15%) Middleware
9 25 (8.80%) RESTful
9 25 (8.80%) YAML
10 21 (7.39%) .NET Core
10 21 (7.39%) Web Services
11 19 (6.69%) HTML5 Canvas
12 18 (6.34%) Spring
13 16 (5.63%) Microsoft Graph
13 16 (5.63%) OAuth
13 16 (5.63%) SPFx
13 16 (5.63%) Spring Boot
14 15 (5.28%) EDI
15 14 (4.93%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 45 (15.85%) Onboarding
2 36 (12.68%) Linux Command Line
3 28 (9.86%) Data Structures
4 23 (8.10%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (6.34%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (4.93%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (3.52%) Low-Code
8 8 (2.82%) Cloud Native
8 8 (2.82%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (2.46%) e-Learning
10 6 (2.11%) NHS
11 5 (1.76%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.76%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.41%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.41%) Reference Data
12 4 (1.41%) Social Media
12 4 (1.41%) Taxonomies
13 3 (1.06%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 37 (13.03%) Unix
2 29 (10.21%) Linux
3 10 (3.52%) Windows
4 7 (2.46%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.35%) Android
6 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (26.06%) Problem-Solving
2 66 (23.24%) Agile
3 65 (22.89%) DevOps
4 63 (22.18%) CI/CD
5 54 (19.01%) Business Intelligence
6 51 (17.96%) AI
7 47 (16.55%) Data Modelling
8 46 (16.20%) Data Analysis
9 35 (12.32%) API Integration
10 34 (11.97%) Microservices
10 34 (11.97%) User Experience
11 32 (11.27%) ERP
12 31 (10.92%) Validation
13 30 (10.56%) Containerisation
14 29 (10.21%) LLM
15 28 (9.86%) Analytics
16 27 (9.51%) Technical Leadership
17 26 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
17 26 (9.15%) Test Automation
18 25 (8.80%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 151 (53.17%) SQL
2 106 (37.32%) Python
3 91 (32.04%) JavaScript
4 59 (20.77%) Java
5 38 (13.38%) C#
6 33 (11.62%) PowerShell
7 21 (7.39%) TypeScript
8 12 (4.23%) PL/SQL
9 10 (3.52%) Shell Script
9 10 (3.52%) T-SQL
10 9 (3.17%) PHP
11 6 (2.11%) Groovy
12 4 (1.41%) VBA
13 3 (1.06%) ActionScript
13 3 (1.06%) ActionScript 2.0
13 3 (1.06%) Bicep
13 3 (1.06%) Perl
14 2 (0.70%) Bash
14 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.70%) R
Qualifications
1 55 (19.37%) Degree
2 25 (8.80%) Security Cleared
3 17 (5.99%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.76%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.06%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.06%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (1.06%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.15%) QA
2 16 (5.63%) Data Quality
3 13 (4.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.87%) SLA
4 11 (3.87%) TickIT
5 8 (2.82%) GDPR
6 7 (2.46%) HL7
7 6 (2.11%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.06%) NCSC
8 3 (1.06%) NIST
9 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.35%) PERC
9 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (10.56%) Docker
2 12 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.41%) vSphere
4 2 (0.70%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.35%) iptables
Systems Management
1 28 (9.86%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.28%) Ansible
3 13 (4.58%) Terraform
4 4 (1.41%) Kibana
4 4 (1.41%) Packer
5 2 (0.70%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.35%) Grafana
6 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 63 (22.18%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.39%) Adobe
3 20 (7.04%) Oracle
4 16 (5.63%) Cisco
5 11 (3.87%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.17%) Palo Alto
6 9 (3.17%) SAP
7 8 (2.82%) F5
7 8 (2.82%) IBM
8 7 (2.46%) Google
8 7 (2.46%) Sparx
8 7 (2.46%) Splunk
9 6 (2.11%) Juniper
9 6 (2.11%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.11%) VMware
10 5 (1.76%) Databricks
10 5 (1.76%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.76%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.41%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.41%) Intapp