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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 296 246
Rank change year-on-year -102 -50 +24
Permanent jobs citing JSON 245 438 805
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 1.00% 1.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.65% 4.51% 5.29%
Number of salaries quoted 175 300 666
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £38,066
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +2.40% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,813 £80,000
90th Percentile £81,750 £90,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -7.41%

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 6,717 9,721 15,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.06% 22.27% 22.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5,154 5,993 12,934
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,450 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,212 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.83% +7.66% -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 21 February 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 21 February 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 92 £75,000 +3.45% 55
South East -83 57 £55,000 -3.93% 36
East of England +38 45 £55,000 -6.54% 10
North of England -49 25 £55,000 - 32
Midlands -25 21 £47,500 -10.54% 13
North West -8 17 £55,000 -4.35% 25
West Midlands -15 16 £47,500 -13.64% 12
East Midlands -32 5 £60,000 +15.38% 1
North East -11 4 £45,000 -41.94% 3
Yorkshire -50 4 £55,750 +6.19% 4
South West -29 2 £66,250 -1.85% 11
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 11 (4.49%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.04%) Anypoint
3 5 (2.04%) Confluence
4 4 (1.63%) CMS
5 2 (0.82%) IIS
5 2 (0.82%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.82%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.41%) Apache
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.41%) CICS
6 1 (0.41%) JBoss
6 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.86%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.22%) Trello
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.45%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.04%) Shopify
3 3 (1.22%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.41%) Magento
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 81 (33.06%) Azure
2 40 (16.33%) AWS
3 37 (15.10%) Power Platform
4 26 (10.61%) GitHub
5 22 (8.98%) Power Automate
6 20 (8.16%) Serverless
7 19 (7.76%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (5.71%) Boomi
10 13 (5.31%) PowerApps
10 13 (5.31%) SaaS
11 12 (4.90%) GCP
12 11 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (4.49%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (4.08%) iPaaS
13 10 (4.08%) PaaS
14 9 (3.67%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (3.67%) Entra ID
15 7 (2.86%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.27%) Firewall
2 7 (2.86%) FTP
2 7 (2.86%) VPN
3 3 (1.22%) AMQP
3 3 (1.22%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (1.22%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (1.22%) Ethernet
3 3 (1.22%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.22%) LAN
3 3 (1.22%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.22%) WAN
4 2 (0.82%) BGP
4 2 (0.82%) DNS
5 1 (0.41%) CTI
5 1 (0.41%) DHCP
5 1 (0.41%) HTTP
5 1 (0.41%) SSL
5 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 34 (13.88%) SQL Server
3 30 (12.24%) Power BI
4 25 (10.20%) MySQL
5 21 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (6.12%) RDBMS
7 11 (4.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (3.67%) Metadata
9 6 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.45%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (2.45%) NoSQL
9 6 (2.45%) OLTP
10 4 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.22%) Crystal Reports
11 3 (1.22%) Power Query
11 3 (1.22%) Tableau
12 2 (0.82%) Big Data
12 2 (0.82%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 21 (8.57%) Git
2 19 (7.76%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.12%) Postman
4 13 (5.31%) JUnit
5 10 (4.08%) JIRA
5 10 (4.08%) JMeter
6 9 (3.67%) Mockito
7 8 (3.27%) GitLab
8 7 (2.86%) Selenium
9 6 (2.45%) Axure RP
10 5 (2.04%) Visual Studio
10 5 (2.04%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.63%) Maven
11 4 (1.63%) SpecFlow
12 3 (1.22%) ERwin
13 2 (0.82%) Crashlytics
14 1 (0.41%) Browser DevTools
14 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
14 1 (0.41%) REST Assured
14 1 (0.41%) Testinfra
General
1 87 (35.51%) Social Skills
2 51 (20.82%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (16.73%) Finance
4 30 (12.24%) Law
5 26 (10.61%) Retail
6 17 (6.94%) Public Sector
7 15 (6.12%) German Language
8 10 (4.08%) Telecoms
9 9 (3.67%) Marketing
10 6 (2.45%) Health Technology
10 6 (2.45%) Legal
11 4 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.22%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.22%) Publishing
13 2 (0.82%) Advertising
13 2 (0.82%) Electronics
13 2 (0.82%) Front Office
13 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.41%) Banking
14 1 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 98 (40.00%) Developer
2 32 (13.06%) Senior
3 30 (12.24%) Analyst
4 27 (11.02%) Senior Developer
5 19 (7.76%) Java Developer
6 15 (6.12%) Data Analyst
7 13 (5.31%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (4.90%) Architect
8 12 (4.90%) Consultant
9 11 (4.49%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 11 (4.49%) Support Engineer
10 9 (3.67%) Integration Engineer
10 9 (3.67%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 9 (3.67%) Oracle Developer
10 9 (3.67%) Senior Oracle Developer
11 8 (3.27%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 8 (3.27%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 8 (3.27%) Lead
11 8 (3.27%) ServiceNow Developer
11 8 (3.27%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (60.41%) XML
2 110 (44.90%) REST
3 78 (31.84%) HTML
4 31 (12.65%) SOAP
4 31 (12.65%) Web Services
5 29 (11.84%) Regular Expression
6 26 (10.61%) CSS
6 26 (10.61%) React
7 22 (8.98%) Spring
8 20 (8.16%) Spring Boot
9 19 (7.76%) .NET
10 17 (6.94%) RESTful
11 15 (6.12%) Middleware
12 14 (5.71%) YAML
13 13 (5.31%) Hibernate
14 11 (4.49%) AngularJS
14 11 (4.49%) jQuery
14 11 (4.49%) Node.js
15 10 (4.08%) Razor View Engine
16 9 (3.67%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 52 (21.22%) Onboarding
2 36 (14.69%) Linux Command Line
3 27 (11.02%) Data Structures
4 18 (7.35%) Low-Code
4 18 (7.35%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (6.53%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (3.67%) Operational Technology
7 6 (2.45%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.45%) NHS
8 5 (2.04%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.63%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.22%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.22%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.22%) PMI
10 3 (1.22%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.22%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.22%) Semantic Web
10 3 (1.22%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 39 (15.92%) Unix
2 21 (8.57%) Linux
3 5 (2.04%) Windows
4 3 (1.22%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.41%) Android
5 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (27.76%) Agile
2 62 (25.31%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (22.04%) CI/CD
4 53 (21.63%) AI
5 42 (17.14%) DevOps
6 39 (15.92%) Business Intelligence
7 38 (15.51%) Data Modelling
8 36 (14.69%) Data Analysis
9 32 (13.06%) LLM
10 30 (12.24%) API Integration
11 29 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (11.43%) Microservices
12 28 (11.43%) Validation
13 25 (10.20%) Test Automation
14 24 (9.80%) Analytics
14 24 (9.80%) ETL
14 24 (9.80%) User Experience
15 22 (8.98%) Workflow
16 21 (8.57%) Decision-Making
16 21 (8.57%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 122 (49.80%) SQL
2 99 (40.41%) Python
3 85 (34.69%) JavaScript
4 53 (21.63%) Java
5 36 (14.69%) C#
6 34 (13.88%) PowerShell
7 14 (5.71%) Shell Script
7 14 (5.71%) T-SQL
8 11 (4.49%) PL/SQL
9 6 (2.45%) PHP
9 6 (2.45%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.63%) Bicep
11 3 (1.22%) ActionScript
11 3 (1.22%) ActionScript 2.0
11 3 (1.22%) Bash
12 2 (0.82%) C++
12 2 (0.82%) Ruby
13 1 (0.41%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.41%) Groovy
13 1 (0.41%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 49 (20.00%) Degree
2 25 (10.20%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.22%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.22%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (1.22%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.41%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.41%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.94%) Data Quality
1 17 (6.94%) QA
2 15 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.49%) GDPR
4 10 (4.08%) Accessibility
5 9 (3.67%) HL7
6 5 (2.04%) NCSC
6 5 (2.04%) NIST
7 2 (0.82%) SLA
8 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (12.24%) Docker
2 8 (3.27%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.22%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.41%) iptables
Systems Management
1 26 (10.61%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.08%) Ansible
2 10 (4.08%) Kibana
2 10 (4.08%) Terraform
3 3 (1.22%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.41%) Grafana
4 1 (0.41%) Packer
4 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.98%) Oracle
3 13 (5.31%) SAP
4 11 (4.49%) Splunk
5 10 (4.08%) Cisco
6 9 (3.67%) Dynatrace
6 9 (3.67%) Google
6 9 (3.67%) Salesforce
7 8 (3.27%) Dell
7 8 (3.27%) MuleSoft
7 8 (3.27%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.86%) Talend
9 6 (2.45%) F5
9 6 (2.45%) IBM
9 6 (2.45%) IFS
9 6 (2.45%) Informatica
9 6 (2.45%) Intapp
9 6 (2.45%) SnapLogic
9 6 (2.45%) Workday
10 5 (2.04%) Jitterbit