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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 349 287
Rank change year-on-year -78 -62 -26
Permanent jobs citing JSON 301 346 827
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 0.82% 0.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.35% 4.35% 4.65%
Number of salaries quoted 226 266 620
10th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,748
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £79,834 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,875 £83,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £63,000 £58,350
% change year-on-year -0.79% +7.97% -10.23%

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 8,985 7,961 17,801
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.46% 18.92% 19.33%
Number of salaries quoted 6,869 5,399 14,280
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,877 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,298 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -10.49%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -41 107 £75,000 +9.09% 60
South East -35 85 £57,500 -11.54% 31
North of England -16 49 £55,000 - 27
North West -10 30 £62,500 +13.64% 18
East of England -22 29 £90,000 +89.47% 5
Yorkshire -19 14 £42,750 +5.56% 7
South West -76 14 £52,500 -12.50% 12
Midlands -39 9 £47,500 -20.17% 20
West Midlands -35 5 £43,000 -27.12% 10
North East -40 5 £45,000 -41.94% 2
East Midlands -22 4 £47,500 -20.83% 10
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 (8.97%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (3.32%) Confluence
4 9 (2.99%) IIS
5 8 (2.66%) CMS
6 7 (2.33%) WordPress
7 6 (1.99%) Apache
8 5 (1.66%) Drupal
9 4 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.66%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.33%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.33%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.00%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.00%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.66%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.33%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.33%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.33%) Magento
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 141 (46.84%) Azure
2 79 (26.25%) AWS
3 61 (20.27%) Power Platform
4 44 (14.62%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (14.62%) Azure Logic Apps
5 43 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
6 32 (10.63%) Serverless
7 25 (8.31%) PowerApps
7 25 (8.31%) SaaS
8 24 (7.97%) Power Automate
9 23 (7.64%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (7.64%) Azure Data Factory
10 20 (6.64%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (6.31%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (6.31%) GitHub
11 19 (6.31%) OneDrive
12 15 (4.98%) Boomi
13 14 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (4.32%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.31%) Firewall
2 6 (1.99%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (1.99%) DNS
2 6 (1.99%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.66%) HTTP
4 4 (1.33%) Wireshark
5 3 (1.00%) BGP
5 3 (1.00%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.00%) SSL
6 2 (0.66%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.66%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.66%) LAN
6 2 (0.66%) MQTT
6 2 (0.66%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.66%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.66%) WAN
7 1 (0.33%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.33%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.33%) VoIP
7 1 (0.33%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (16.28%) Power BI
2 40 (13.29%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (8.64%) MySQL
4 23 (7.64%) SQL Server
5 22 (7.31%) Relational Database
5 22 (7.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 20 (6.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 18 (5.98%) Metadata
8 16 (5.32%) Redis
9 12 (3.99%) RDBMS
10 9 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.99%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.66%) Delta Lake
13 4 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (1.33%) Power Query
14 3 (1.00%) DynamoDB
14 3 (1.00%) Parquet
14 3 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
14 3 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 51 (16.94%) Git
2 37 (12.29%) JIRA
3 24 (7.97%) Jenkins
4 23 (7.64%) GitLab
5 10 (3.32%) JUnit
5 10 (3.32%) Postman
6 8 (2.66%) ERwin
6 8 (2.66%) Maven
7 7 (2.33%) Mockito
7 7 (2.33%) Selenium
8 6 (1.99%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.99%) JMeter
8 6 (1.99%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.66%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (1.66%) Gradle
9 5 (1.66%) SpecFlow
9 5 (1.66%) WebDriver
10 4 (1.33%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.33%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 142 (47.18%) Social Skills
2 87 (28.90%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (17.28%) Finance
4 23 (7.64%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (4.98%) Retail
6 14 (4.65%) Advertising
6 14 (4.65%) Marketing
6 14 (4.65%) Telecoms
7 10 (3.32%) Law
8 7 (2.33%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.99%) Health Technology
9 6 (1.99%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.66%) Back Office
11 4 (1.33%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.00%) Aviation
12 3 (1.00%) Banking
12 3 (1.00%) Local Government
12 3 (1.00%) Publishing
13 2 (0.66%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 99 (32.89%) Developer
2 64 (21.26%) Senior
3 44 (14.62%) Senior Developer
4 28 (9.30%) Analyst
5 26 (8.64%) Architect
6 20 (6.64%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (6.64%) Support Engineer
7 19 (6.31%) Data Analyst
8 16 (5.32%) Software Engineer
9 15 (4.98%) Software Developer
10 13 (4.32%) Automation Engineer
10 13 (4.32%) Consultant
10 13 (4.32%) Data Engineer
10 13 (4.32%) Integration Architect
10 13 (4.32%) Lead
10 13 (4.32%) Technical Support
11 12 (3.99%) Applications Engineer
11 12 (3.99%) Integration Engineer
11 12 (3.99%) Ruby Developer
11 12 (3.99%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (39.20%) XML
2 111 (36.88%) REST
3 82 (27.24%) HTML
4 70 (23.26%) CSS
5 63 (20.93%) .NET
6 42 (13.95%) .NET Core
6 42 (13.95%) SOAP
7 39 (12.96%) RESTful
8 36 (11.96%) Middleware
9 31 (10.30%) YAML
10 25 (8.31%) JWT
11 24 (7.97%) ASP.NET
12 22 (7.31%) React
13 21 (6.98%) HTML5 Canvas
14 20 (6.64%) Microsoft Graph
15 19 (6.31%) SPFx
16 18 (5.98%) HTML5
16 18 (5.98%) OAuth
17 16 (5.32%) CSS3
17 16 (5.32%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.97%) Onboarding
2 24 (7.97%) Data Structures
3 21 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (6.64%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (6.64%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (5.98%) Cloud Native
6 10 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.99%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (2.66%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.66%) Robotics
9 7 (2.33%) Driving Licence
9 7 (2.33%) e-Learning
9 7 (2.33%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.99%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.33%) Taxonomies
12 3 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.00%) Low-Code
12 3 (1.00%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 47 (15.61%) Linux
2 35 (11.63%) Windows
3 14 (4.65%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.99%) Unix
5 4 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (29.57%) CI/CD
1 89 (29.57%) DevOps
2 87 (28.90%) Problem-Solving
3 85 (28.24%) Agile
4 53 (17.61%) Data Modelling
4 53 (17.61%) Microservices
5 46 (15.28%) User Experience
6 43 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 43 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 39 (12.96%) Infrastructure as Code
8 37 (12.29%) Test Automation
9 36 (11.96%) API Integration
10 32 (10.63%) AI
11 31 (10.30%) Analytics
11 31 (10.30%) API Design
12 30 (9.97%) ERP
12 30 (9.97%) Roadmaps
12 30 (9.97%) Validation
13 28 (9.30%) Integration Patterns
13 28 (9.30%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 143 (47.51%) SQL
2 101 (33.55%) JavaScript
2 101 (33.55%) Python
3 68 (22.59%) C#
4 48 (15.95%) Java
5 42 (13.95%) PowerShell
6 25 (8.31%) TypeScript
7 17 (5.65%) T-SQL
8 15 (4.98%) PHP
9 12 (3.99%) C++
9 12 (3.99%) Ruby
9 12 (3.99%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.99%) Groovy
11 5 (1.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.33%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.33%) VBA
13 3 (1.00%) Bash
13 3 (1.00%) Bicep
13 3 (1.00%) Perl
14 2 (0.66%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 37 (12.29%) Degree
2 34 (11.30%) Security Cleared
3 25 (8.31%) SC Cleared
4 19 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.33%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.99%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.33%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.00%) CISSP
9 2 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.66%) CASP
9 2 (0.66%) CCSP
9 2 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.66%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (10.96%) QA
2 22 (7.31%) Accessibility
3 19 (6.31%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.99%) TickIT
5 11 (3.65%) SLA
6 10 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.99%) GDPR
7 6 (1.99%) WCAG
8 4 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (1.00%) ISO 20022
9 3 (1.00%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.33%) PERC
10 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (14.29%) Docker
2 14 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.99%) vSphere
4 4 (1.33%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.66%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (9.97%) Terraform
2 27 (8.97%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.99%) Ansible
4 6 (1.99%) Kibana
5 4 (1.33%) Packer
6 2 (0.66%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.33%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 91 (30.23%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.97%) Adobe
3 16 (5.32%) Cisco
4 15 (4.98%) Splunk
5 13 (4.32%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.99%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.66%) F5
7 8 (2.66%) Oracle
7 8 (2.66%) VMware
8 7 (2.33%) Dynatrace
8 7 (2.33%) Sparx
9 6 (1.99%) Juniper
9 6 (1.99%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.66%) Google
10 5 (1.66%) IBM
10 5 (1.66%) SAP
11 4 (1.33%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.33%) Databricks
11 4 (1.33%) MuleSoft
12 3 (1.00%) OpenAI