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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 384 331
Rank change year-on-year -66 -53 -111
Permanent jobs citing JSON 339 279 538
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.33% 0.65% 0.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.13% 3.75% 3.74%
Number of salaries quoted 228 213 335
10th Percentile £34,975 £41,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,526 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £81,875 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,875 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,375 £61,500
% change year-on-year +3.52% -1.83% -5.38%

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 10,829 7,437 14,377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.43% 17.29% 21.59%
Number of salaries quoted 7,867 4,911 8,995
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -28 135 £75,000 +7.14% 195
South East -52 78 £55,000 -15.38% 53
North of England -48 53 £61,250 +11.36% 40
North West -28 30 £62,500 +13.64% 22
Midlands -49 30 £55,000 +15.79% 34
East of England -56 23 £90,000 +63.64% 22
West Midlands -41 21 £62,500 +31.58% 23
Yorkshire -21 19 £44,000 -11.56% 14
South West -67 17 £52,500 -6.67% 28
East Midlands -35 9 £54,000 -11.84% 11
North East -64 4 £38,000 -15.56% 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 31 (9.14%) SharePoint
2 19 (5.60%) Confluence
3 17 (5.01%) IIS
4 12 (3.54%) Apache
5 10 (2.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (2.36%) CMS
7 7 (2.06%) WordPress
8 6 (1.77%) Drupal
9 3 (0.88%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.88%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.59%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.29%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.29%) JBoss
11 1 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.29%) Umbraco
Applications
1 21 (6.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.18%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.88%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.59%) Lightworks
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.59%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.29%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.29%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.29%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 146 (43.07%) Azure
2 86 (25.37%) AWS
3 63 (18.58%) Power Platform
4 59 (17.40%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (14.16%) Azure Logic Apps
6 45 (13.27%) Serverless
7 33 (9.73%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (9.73%) Power Automate
8 28 (8.26%) Dynamics 365
9 26 (7.67%) PowerApps
10 25 (7.37%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (7.08%) GitHub
12 23 (6.78%) Azure Data Factory
13 17 (5.01%) Azure Functions
14 16 (4.72%) Boomi
15 14 (4.13%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (4.13%) Amazon S3
15 14 (4.13%) SaaS
16 13 (3.83%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (3.83%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.24%) TCP/IP
2 9 (2.65%) HTTP
3 7 (2.06%) Firewall
3 7 (2.06%) Wireshark
4 6 (1.77%) DNS
5 3 (0.88%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.88%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (0.88%) Wireless
6 2 (0.59%) MQTT
6 2 (0.59%) VPN
7 1 (0.29%) Broadband
7 1 (0.29%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.29%) FTP
7 1 (0.29%) Network Security
7 1 (0.29%) RTP
7 1 (0.29%) RTSP
7 1 (0.29%) SCTP
7 1 (0.29%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.29%) SS7
7 1 (0.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (12.39%) Power BI
2 41 (12.09%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (12.09%) SQL Server
3 21 (6.19%) Relational Database
4 20 (5.90%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (5.90%) Redis
5 19 (5.60%) MySQL
6 17 (5.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 16 (4.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (2.95%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (2.06%) Metadata
9 7 (2.06%) NoSQL
9 7 (2.06%) Parquet
9 7 (2.06%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.18%) DynamoDB
11 4 (1.18%) Power Query
12 3 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 69 (20.35%) Git
2 40 (11.80%) JIRA
3 30 (8.85%) Jenkins
4 17 (5.01%) Selenium
5 16 (4.72%) GitLab
5 16 (4.72%) Postman
6 13 (3.83%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.83%) JMeter
7 8 (2.36%) JUnit
8 7 (2.06%) Maven
9 6 (1.77%) Mockito
9 6 (1.77%) SoapUI
9 6 (1.77%) Visual Studio
10 5 (1.47%) Gatling
10 5 (1.47%) Gradle
10 5 (1.47%) Jasmine
10 5 (1.47%) Mocha
10 5 (1.47%) NUnit
10 5 (1.47%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.47%) Zephyr
General
1 152 (44.84%) Social Skills
2 87 (25.66%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (18.58%) Finance
4 31 (9.14%) Organisational Skills
5 27 (7.96%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.72%) Retail
7 15 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (3.83%) Banking
8 13 (3.83%) Legal
8 13 (3.83%) Marketing
9 12 (3.54%) Law
10 10 (2.95%) Advertising
11 7 (2.06%) Back Office
11 7 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.06%) Health Technology
12 6 (1.77%) Aviation
12 6 (1.77%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.47%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.88%) Local Government
14 3 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 136 (40.12%) Developer
2 83 (24.48%) Senior
3 44 (12.98%) Senior Developer
4 29 (8.55%) Analyst
5 28 (8.26%) .NET Developer
6 22 (6.49%) Architect
6 22 (6.49%) Lead
6 22 (6.49%) Software Engineer
7 17 (5.01%) Integration Engineer
8 16 (4.72%) Data Engineer
8 16 (4.72%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (4.72%) Ruby Developer
8 16 (4.72%) Software Developer
8 16 (4.72%) Web Developer
9 15 (4.42%) Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (4.13%) Support Engineer
11 13 (3.83%) .NET Web Developer
11 13 (3.83%) Integration Architect
11 13 (3.83%) Senior Integration Engineer
12 10 (2.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (39.23%) XML
2 116 (34.22%) REST
3 85 (25.07%) HTML
4 80 (23.60%) .NET
5 73 (21.53%) CSS
6 51 (15.04%) RESTful
7 45 (13.27%) .NET Core
7 45 (13.27%) SOAP
8 40 (11.80%) ASP.NET
9 31 (9.14%) Middleware
10 29 (8.55%) JWT
11 28 (8.26%) Terraform
12 26 (7.67%) .NET Framework
13 25 (7.37%) React
14 22 (6.49%) YAML
15 21 (6.19%) AngularJS
15 21 (6.19%) Blazor
16 20 (5.90%) HTML5
17 18 (5.31%) Razor View Engine
17 18 (5.31%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.08%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.90%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (5.90%) Onboarding
4 17 (5.01%) Management Information System
5 16 (4.72%) Analytical Mindset
6 15 (4.42%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (4.13%) Product Ownership
8 12 (3.54%) Taxonomies
9 11 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (3.24%) Robotics
10 9 (2.65%) Enterprise Cloud
11 8 (2.36%) Driving Licence
12 7 (2.06%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.77%) AI Agents
13 6 (1.77%) Low-Code
13 6 (1.77%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.77%) Virtual Team
14 5 (1.47%) Data Structures
14 5 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 53 (15.63%) Windows
2 47 (13.86%) Linux
3 19 (5.60%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.59%) Android
6 2 (0.59%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.29%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (40.12%) Agile
2 119 (35.10%) DevOps
3 113 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 106 (31.27%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (17.99%) Test Automation
6 57 (16.81%) AI
7 53 (15.63%) Microservices
8 50 (14.75%) Mentoring
9 48 (14.16%) User Experience
10 47 (13.86%) Scrum
10 47 (13.86%) Software Engineering
11 44 (12.98%) Roadmaps
12 43 (12.68%) Data Modelling
13 36 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
14 34 (10.03%) CRM
14 34 (10.03%) Translating Business Requirements
14 34 (10.03%) Validation
15 33 (9.73%) Business Intelligence
15 33 (9.73%) Clean Code
15 33 (9.73%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 142 (41.89%) SQL
2 116 (34.22%) JavaScript
3 91 (26.84%) C#
3 91 (26.84%) Python
4 46 (13.57%) Java
5 28 (8.26%) PowerShell
6 21 (6.19%) C++
7 17 (5.01%) Ruby
7 17 (5.01%) TypeScript
8 12 (3.54%) PHP
8 12 (3.54%) Shell Script
9 11 (3.24%) T-SQL
10 10 (2.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (1.77%) VBA
12 5 (1.47%) Groovy
13 4 (1.18%) XPath
14 3 (0.88%) Bash
14 3 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.88%) Perl
15 2 (0.59%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 42 (12.39%) Degree
2 38 (11.21%) Security Cleared
3 30 (8.85%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.24%) Azure Certification
4 11 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (2.95%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (1.77%) ISTQB
7 5 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.47%) ISEB
8 4 (1.18%) CISSP
9 3 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (0.88%) CCNP
9 3 (0.88%) CCSP
10 2 (0.59%) CASP
10 2 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.59%) GIAC
10 2 (0.59%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.59%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (13.57%) Accessibility
2 44 (12.98%) QA
3 23 (6.78%) Data Quality
4 19 (5.60%) WCAG
5 13 (3.83%) GDPR
6 12 (3.54%) TickIT
7 7 (2.06%) SLA
8 4 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.88%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.88%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.59%) Basel III
10 2 (0.59%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.29%) Dublin Core
11 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.29%) PERC
System Software
1 50 (14.75%) Docker
2 7 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.77%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.18%) vSphere
5 3 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.59%) NFS
6 2 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (7.37%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.13%) Ansible
3 7 (2.06%) Grafana
3 7 (2.06%) Kibana
4 4 (1.18%) Packer
5 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.29%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.29%) logstash
6 1 (0.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 115 (33.92%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.01%) Adobe
2 17 (5.01%) Google
3 12 (3.54%) Splunk
4 10 (2.95%) Dynatrace
4 10 (2.95%) IBM
4 10 (2.95%) SAP
5 7 (2.06%) Oracle
5 7 (2.06%) VMware
6 6 (1.77%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.47%) Databricks
7 5 (1.47%) Pega
8 4 (1.18%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.18%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.18%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.88%) CheckPoint
9 3 (0.88%) Cisco
9 3 (0.88%) F5
9 3 (0.88%) McAfee
9 3 (0.88%) Red Hat