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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 345 305
Rank change year-on-year -88 -40 -55
Permanent jobs citing JSON 330 344 641
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 0.79% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.44% 4.46% 4.70%
Number of salaries quoted 241 258 485
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,400
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,500 £83,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,375 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.52% +0.63% -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 9,600 7,707 13,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.31% 17.69% 18.75%
Number of salaries quoted 7,227 5,159 10,320
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%

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 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for JSON in England

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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 7 August 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 -31 118 £75,000 +11.11% 106
South East -31 87 £55,000 -15.38% 41
North of England -32 53 £55,000 - 27
North West -6 33 £62,500 +13.64% 14
East of England -46 28 £90,000 +89.47% 9
Midlands -31 20 £52,500 -11.02% 18
South West -61 19 £52,500 - 8
Yorkshire -14 15 £44,000 +8.64% 13
West Midlands -31 12 £46,250 -21.61% 11
East Midlands -25 8 £54,000 -4.42% 7
North East - 5 £45,000 -
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 28 (8.48%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.85%) Confluence
3 11 (3.33%) Apache
3 11 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (3.03%) IIS
5 8 (2.42%) CMS
6 7 (2.12%) WordPress
7 5 (1.52%) Drupal
8 4 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.91%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.61%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.61%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.30%) JBoss
11 1 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.21%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.91%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.61%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.30%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 143 (43.33%) Azure
2 88 (26.67%) AWS
3 58 (17.58%) Power Platform
4 50 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (14.55%) Azure Logic Apps
6 37 (11.21%) Microsoft 365
7 30 (9.09%) Serverless
8 27 (8.18%) PowerApps
9 26 (7.88%) Power Automate
10 23 (6.97%) GitHub
11 22 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
12 20 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
13 19 (5.76%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 19 (5.76%) OneDrive
13 19 (5.76%) SaaS
14 15 (4.55%) Boomi
15 14 (4.24%) GCP
16 13 (3.94%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (3.94%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.36%) Firewall
2 8 (2.42%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.12%) DNS
4 6 (1.82%) HTTP
4 6 (1.82%) Wireshark
5 5 (1.52%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (0.91%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.91%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (0.91%) SSL
6 3 (0.91%) Wireless
7 2 (0.61%) MQTT
8 1 (0.30%) BGP
8 1 (0.30%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.30%) Diameter Protocol
8 1 (0.30%) RTP
8 1 (0.30%) RTSP
8 1 (0.30%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.30%) SS7
8 1 (0.30%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (13.94%) Power BI
2 44 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (7.27%) SQL Server
4 22 (6.67%) Relational Database
5 21 (6.36%) Redis
6 20 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 20 (6.06%) MySQL
7 16 (4.85%) Metadata
7 16 (4.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 15 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (3.33%) RDBMS
10 6 (1.82%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.82%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.52%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.21%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.21%) Power Query
13 3 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.91%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.91%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 62 (18.79%) Git
2 43 (13.03%) JIRA
3 26 (7.88%) Jenkins
4 25 (7.58%) GitLab
5 15 (4.55%) Selenium
6 11 (3.33%) Cucumber
6 11 (3.33%) Postman
7 10 (3.03%) JMeter
8 8 (2.42%) JUnit
9 7 (2.12%) ERwin
9 7 (2.12%) Maven
9 7 (2.12%) Mockito
10 5 (1.52%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.52%) Gradle
10 5 (1.52%) Jasmine
10 5 (1.52%) Mocha
10 5 (1.52%) NUnit
10 5 (1.52%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.52%) Visual Studio
10 5 (1.52%) WebDriver
General
1 145 (43.94%) Social Skills
2 88 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (17.88%) Finance
4 29 (8.79%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.24%) Marketing
7 13 (3.94%) Advertising
7 13 (3.94%) Retail
8 12 (3.64%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.73%) Law
10 8 (2.42%) Legal
11 7 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.82%) Banking
12 6 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.82%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.82%) Health Technology
12 6 (1.82%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.52%) Back Office
13 5 (1.52%) Local Government
14 4 (1.21%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 117 (35.45%) Developer
2 75 (22.73%) Senior
3 43 (13.03%) Senior Developer
4 23 (6.97%) Analyst
4 23 (6.97%) Architect
5 22 (6.67%) Software Engineer
6 20 (6.06%) .NET Developer
7 19 (5.76%) Lead
8 18 (5.45%) Support Engineer
9 17 (5.15%) Integration Engineer
9 17 (5.15%) Ruby Developer
9 17 (5.15%) Software Developer
10 16 (4.85%) Automation Engineer
10 16 (4.85%) Data Engineer
10 16 (4.85%) DevOps Engineer
11 14 (4.24%) Full-Stack Developer
12 13 (3.94%) Network Engineer
12 13 (3.94%) Technical Support
12 13 (3.94%) Web Developer
13 12 (3.64%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (37.27%) XML
2 107 (32.42%) REST
3 86 (26.06%) HTML
4 83 (25.15%) .NET
5 74 (22.42%) CSS
6 49 (14.85%) RESTful
7 45 (13.64%) .NET Core
8 39 (11.82%) ASP.NET
8 39 (11.82%) SOAP
9 32 (9.70%) Middleware
10 31 (9.39%) YAML
11 30 (9.09%) JWT
12 24 (7.27%) React
13 21 (6.36%) HTML5 Canvas
14 20 (6.06%) .NET Framework
14 20 (6.06%) Microsoft Graph
15 19 (5.76%) AngularJS
15 19 (5.76%) Razor View Engine
15 19 (5.76%) SPFx
16 18 (5.45%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.97%) Onboarding
2 22 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 19 (5.76%) Cloud Native
4 19 (5.76%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (5.45%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (5.15%) Data Structures
7 11 (3.33%) Product Ownership
8 10 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.73%) Driving Licence
9 9 (2.73%) Enterprise Cloud
9 9 (2.73%) Management Information System
9 9 (2.73%) Robotics
10 8 (2.42%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.82%) e-Learning
12 4 (1.21%) PKI
12 4 (1.21%) Social Media
13 3 (0.91%) Clustering
13 3 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.91%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 53 (16.06%) Linux
2 43 (13.03%) Windows
3 15 (4.55%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.52%) Unix
6 4 (1.21%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.30%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (36.67%) Agile
2 105 (31.82%) DevOps
3 103 (31.21%) CI/CD
4 94 (28.48%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (17.27%) Microservices
6 51 (15.45%) Test Automation
7 50 (15.15%) User Experience
8 49 (14.85%) Containerisation
9 46 (13.94%) Data Modelling
10 43 (13.03%) Scrum
11 40 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
12 39 (11.82%) Software Engineering
13 38 (11.52%) Mentoring
14 35 (10.61%) API Integration
14 35 (10.61%) Infrastructure as Code
15 33 (10.00%) AI
15 33 (10.00%) Analytics
15 33 (10.00%) Clean Code
16 32 (9.70%) API Design
16 32 (9.70%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 137 (41.52%) SQL
2 111 (33.64%) JavaScript
3 102 (30.91%) Python
4 87 (26.36%) C#
5 44 (13.33%) Java
6 34 (10.30%) PowerShell
7 25 (7.58%) TypeScript
8 18 (5.45%) C++
8 18 (5.45%) Ruby
9 14 (4.24%) Shell Script
10 13 (3.94%) PHP
11 12 (3.64%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.52%) Groovy
13 4 (1.21%) Bash
13 4 (1.21%) VBA
14 3 (0.91%) Perl
15 2 (0.61%) Lua
15 2 (0.61%) Search Processing Language
15 2 (0.61%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (12.73%) Degree
2 34 (10.30%) Security Cleared
3 25 (7.58%) SC Cleared
4 18 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.64%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.82%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.91%) CCNP
9 3 (0.91%) CISSP
9 3 (0.91%) ISEB
9 3 (0.91%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.91%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.61%) CASP
10 2 (0.61%) CCSP
10 2 (0.61%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.61%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (11.82%) QA
2 28 (8.48%) Accessibility
3 18 (5.45%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.64%) TickIT
5 9 (2.73%) SLA
6 8 (2.42%) WCAG
7 4 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.21%) GDPR
8 3 (0.91%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.91%) ISO 8583
8 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.61%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.30%) PERC
System Software
1 52 (15.76%) Docker
2 9 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.12%) vSphere
4 4 (1.21%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (8.48%) Terraform
2 26 (7.88%) Kubernetes
3 14 (4.24%) Ansible
4 6 (1.82%) Kibana
5 4 (1.21%) Packer
6 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.30%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.30%) Grafana
7 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 99 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.27%) Adobe
3 15 (4.55%) Cisco
4 14 (4.24%) Splunk
5 13 (3.94%) Google
5 13 (3.94%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.73%) F5
7 8 (2.42%) Databricks
7 8 (2.42%) Oracle
7 8 (2.42%) SAP
7 8 (2.42%) VMware
8 7 (2.12%) Dynatrace
8 7 (2.12%) IBM
9 6 (1.82%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.82%) Sparx
10 5 (1.52%) Juniper
10 5 (1.52%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.52%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.21%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.21%) CheckPoint