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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 384 319
Rank change year-on-year -89 -65 -103
Permanent jobs citing JSON 308 270 523
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.62% 0.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.91% 3.64% 3.67%
Number of salaries quoted 204 209 323
10th Percentile £35,725 £41,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,526 £49,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
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 10,593 7,414 14,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.22% 17.09% 21.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,666 4,888 8,848
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -25 130 £75,000 +7.14% 258
South East -60 68 £55,000 -15.38% 57
North of England -63 41 £55,000 +2.33% 50
Midlands -39 29 £55,000 +15.79% 33
North West -25 23 £62,500 +8.70% 29
West Midlands -36 22 £61,700 +29.89% 20
East of England -64 20 £90,000 +63.64% 21
South West -66 16 £52,500 -12.50% 21
Yorkshire -22 15 £37,500 -1.32% 17
East Midlands -33 7 £54,000 -10.00% 12
North East -66 3 £31,000 -31.11% 5
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 (8.77%) SharePoint
2 18 (5.84%) Confluence
3 16 (5.19%) IIS
4 13 (4.22%) Apache
5 8 (2.60%) CMS
5 8 (2.60%) WordPress
6 7 (2.27%) Drupal
6 7 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.97%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.97%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.65%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.32%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.32%) JBoss
Applications
1 20 (6.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.30%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.97%) Lightworks
6 2 (0.65%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.32%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.65%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.32%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.32%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.32%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 136 (44.16%) Azure
2 75 (24.35%) AWS
3 55 (17.86%) Power Platform
4 54 (17.53%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (14.61%) Azure Logic Apps
6 36 (11.69%) Serverless
7 31 (10.06%) Microsoft 365
8 29 (9.42%) Power Automate
9 23 (7.47%) GitHub
10 22 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
10 22 (7.14%) PowerApps
11 19 (6.17%) Azure Data Factory
12 17 (5.52%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (5.52%) Azure Functions
13 14 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (4.55%) GCP
14 13 (4.22%) SaaS
15 12 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
17 10 (3.25%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.90%) TCP/IP
2 10 (3.25%) HTTP
3 7 (2.27%) Firewall
3 7 (2.27%) Wireshark
4 6 (1.95%) DNS
5 3 (0.97%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.97%) MQTT
5 3 (0.97%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (0.97%) Wireless
6 2 (0.65%) VPN
7 1 (0.32%) Broadband
7 1 (0.32%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.32%) FTP
7 1 (0.32%) Network Security
7 1 (0.32%) RTP
7 1 (0.32%) RTSP
7 1 (0.32%) SCTP
7 1 (0.32%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.32%) SS7
7 1 (0.32%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (13.31%) SQL Server
2 37 (12.01%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (11.04%) Power BI
4 19 (6.17%) MySQL
4 19 (6.17%) Redis
4 19 (6.17%) Relational Database
5 17 (5.52%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (4.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (3.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (3.25%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.92%) Metadata
10 7 (2.27%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (1.95%) Parquet
11 6 (1.95%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.62%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.97%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.97%) Power Query
14 2 (0.65%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 62 (20.13%) Git
2 27 (8.77%) JIRA
3 23 (7.47%) Jenkins
4 17 (5.52%) Selenium
5 14 (4.55%) Postman
6 12 (3.90%) JMeter
7 10 (3.25%) GitLab
8 8 (2.60%) Cucumber
9 7 (2.27%) JUnit
10 6 (1.95%) Maven
10 6 (1.95%) SoapUI
11 5 (1.62%) Gatling
11 5 (1.62%) Jasmine
11 5 (1.62%) Mocha
11 5 (1.62%) Mockito
11 5 (1.62%) NUnit
11 5 (1.62%) Visual Studio
11 5 (1.62%) Zephyr
12 4 (1.30%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.30%) REST Assured
General
1 131 (42.53%) Social Skills
2 72 (23.38%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (20.13%) Finance
4 27 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 26 (8.44%) Organisational Skills
6 15 (4.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (4.22%) Banking
7 13 (4.22%) Legal
8 12 (3.90%) Law
8 12 (3.90%) Retail
9 9 (2.92%) Advertising
10 8 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.27%) Marketing
12 6 (1.95%) Aviation
12 6 (1.95%) Back Office
12 6 (1.95%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.62%) Investment Banking
14 4 (1.30%) Health Technology
14 4 (1.30%) Publishing
15 3 (0.97%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 120 (38.96%) Developer
2 75 (24.35%) Senior
3 36 (11.69%) Senior Developer
4 27 (8.77%) .NET Developer
5 25 (8.12%) Analyst
6 21 (6.82%) Architect
6 21 (6.82%) Lead
6 21 (6.82%) Software Engineer
7 17 (5.52%) Integration Engineer
8 16 (5.19%) Web Developer
9 15 (4.87%) Full-Stack Developer
9 15 (4.87%) Ruby Developer
9 15 (4.87%) Software Developer
10 14 (4.55%) Data Engineer
11 13 (4.22%) .NET Web Developer
11 13 (4.22%) Senior Integration Engineer
12 12 (3.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 12 (3.90%) Integration Architect
13 11 (3.57%) Support Engineer
14 10 (3.25%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (39.29%) XML
2 104 (33.77%) REST
3 75 (24.35%) HTML
4 74 (24.03%) .NET
5 64 (20.78%) CSS
6 46 (14.94%) RESTful
7 42 (13.64%) .NET Core
8 38 (12.34%) ASP.NET
9 37 (12.01%) SOAP
10 26 (8.44%) JWT
11 25 (8.12%) .NET Framework
11 25 (8.12%) React
12 23 (7.47%) Middleware
12 23 (7.47%) Terraform
13 21 (6.82%) Blazor
14 20 (6.49%) AngularJS
14 20 (6.49%) HTML5
15 17 (5.52%) Razor View Engine
15 17 (5.52%) Web Services
15 17 (5.52%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.49%) Enterprise Software
2 20 (6.49%) Onboarding
3 16 (5.19%) Management Information System
4 15 (4.87%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
5 14 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (3.90%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.90%) Taxonomies
7 11 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (3.57%) Robotics
8 9 (2.92%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.27%) Driving Licence
10 6 (1.95%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.95%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.95%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.62%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.62%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.62%) PKI
11 5 (1.62%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (16.88%) Windows
2 41 (13.31%) Linux
3 18 (5.84%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.65%) Android
6 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.32%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (41.23%) Agile
2 106 (34.42%) DevOps
3 104 (33.77%) CI/CD
4 91 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (19.48%) AI
6 57 (18.51%) Test Automation
7 48 (15.58%) Software Engineering
8 47 (15.26%) Mentoring
9 46 (14.94%) Microservices
10 44 (14.29%) Scrum
11 41 (13.31%) User Experience
12 40 (12.99%) Data Modelling
13 37 (12.01%) Roadmaps
13 37 (12.01%) Validation
14 34 (11.04%) Continuous Improvement
15 33 (10.71%) Clean Code
16 32 (10.39%) Analytics
16 32 (10.39%) Data Integration
16 32 (10.39%) Stakeholder Management
16 32 (10.39%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 125 (40.58%) SQL
2 104 (33.77%) JavaScript
3 86 (27.92%) C#
4 84 (27.27%) Python
5 37 (12.01%) Java
6 26 (8.44%) PowerShell
7 21 (6.82%) C++
8 16 (5.19%) Ruby
9 14 (4.55%) TypeScript
10 12 (3.90%) PHP
11 10 (3.25%) Shell Script
11 10 (3.25%) T-SQL
12 9 (2.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (1.62%) VBA
14 4 (1.30%) XPath
15 3 (0.97%) Bash
15 3 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.65%) Bicep
16 2 (0.65%) RPG IV
16 2 (0.65%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 41 (13.31%) Degree
2 34 (11.04%) Security Cleared
3 27 (8.77%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.90%) Azure Certification
5 11 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.25%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.95%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.62%) ISEB
9 4 (1.30%) CISSP
10 3 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.97%) CCNP
10 3 (0.97%) CCSP
10 3 (0.97%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.65%) CASP
11 2 (0.65%) CompTIA CySA+
11 2 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (15.26%) Accessibility
2 36 (11.69%) QA
3 23 (7.47%) Data Quality
4 20 (6.49%) WCAG
5 13 (4.22%) GDPR
6 7 (2.27%) TickIT
7 4 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.30%) SLA
8 3 (0.97%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.97%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.65%) Basel III
9 2 (0.65%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.32%) Dublin Core
10 1 (0.32%) ECSS
10 1 (0.32%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.32%) PERC
System Software
1 46 (14.94%) Docker
2 7 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.95%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.30%) vSphere
5 3 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.65%) NFS
6 2 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (4.87%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.60%) Ansible
2 8 (2.60%) Grafana
3 6 (1.95%) Kibana
4 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.32%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.32%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.32%) logstash
5 1 (0.32%) QRadar
Vendors
1 108 (35.06%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.19%) Google
3 12 (3.90%) Adobe
4 11 (3.57%) Splunk
5 10 (3.25%) Dynatrace
5 10 (3.25%) SAP
6 7 (2.27%) Oracle
6 7 (2.27%) VMware
7 5 (1.62%) Foundry
7 5 (1.62%) IBM
7 5 (1.62%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.62%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.62%) Pega
7 5 (1.62%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.30%) Databricks
8 4 (1.30%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.97%) CheckPoint
9 3 (0.97%) F5
9 3 (0.97%) McAfee
9 3 (0.97%) Red Hat