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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 342 298
Rank change year-on-year -75 -44 -29
Permanent jobs citing JSON 302 335 820
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.83% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.41% 4.29% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 227 259 613
10th Percentile £35,250 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £79,668 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £83,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.40% +4.58% -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 8,856 7,806 18,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.48% 19.40% 19.37%
Number of salaries quoted 6,760 5,274 14,494
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £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 £66,350 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.03% +10.58% -11.11%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -36 109 £75,000 +11.11% 50
South East -40 84 £60,000 -7.69% 34
North of England -19 49 £55,000 - 18
North West +7 30 £62,500 +13.64% 13
East of England -18 29 £90,000 +89.47% 4
Yorkshire -30 14 £42,750 +5.56% 4
South West -69 14 £52,500 -12.50% 9
Midlands -32 9 £47,500 -20.17% 15
West Midlands -28 5 £43,000 -27.12% 7
North East -39 5 £45,000 -41.94% 1
East Midlands -24 4 £47,500 -20.83% 8
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 (8.94%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (3.31%) Confluence
4 9 (2.98%) IIS
5 8 (2.65%) CMS
6 7 (2.32%) WordPress
7 6 (1.99%) Apache
8 5 (1.66%) Drupal
9 4 (1.32%) 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 13 (4.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.99%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.99%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.33%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.33%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
3 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%) NetSuite
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 (46.69%) Azure
2 78 (25.83%) AWS
3 61 (20.20%) Power Platform
4 44 (14.57%) Azure Logic Apps
5 43 (14.24%) Azure DevOps
6 42 (13.91%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (10.93%) Serverless
8 26 (8.61%) SaaS
9 25 (8.28%) PowerApps
10 24 (7.95%) AWS Lambda
10 24 (7.95%) Power Automate
11 23 (7.62%) Azure Data Factory
12 20 (6.62%) Dynamics 365
13 19 (6.29%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 19 (6.29%) GitHub
13 19 (6.29%) OneDrive
14 16 (5.30%) Boomi
15 15 (4.97%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (4.30%) Amazon S3
16 13 (4.30%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.29%) Firewall
2 6 (1.99%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (1.99%) DNS
3 5 (1.66%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.32%) HTTP
4 4 (1.32%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.99%) BGP
5 3 (0.99%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.99%) SSL
6 2 (0.66%) AMQP
6 2 (0.66%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.66%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.66%) LAN
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%) MQTT
7 1 (0.33%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.33%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (16.23%) Power BI
2 38 (12.58%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (8.94%) MySQL
4 23 (7.62%) SQL Server
5 22 (7.28%) Relational Database
5 22 (7.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 20 (6.62%) Azure SQL Database
7 18 (5.96%) Metadata
8 15 (4.97%) Redis
9 12 (3.97%) RDBMS
10 9 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.99%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.66%) Delta Lake
13 4 (1.32%) Power Query
14 3 (0.99%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.99%) Parquet
14 3 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
14 3 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 2 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 51 (16.89%) Git
2 37 (12.25%) JIRA
3 24 (7.95%) Jenkins
4 23 (7.62%) GitLab
5 11 (3.64%) Postman
6 10 (3.31%) JUnit
7 8 (2.65%) ERwin
7 8 (2.65%) Maven
8 7 (2.32%) Mockito
8 7 (2.32%) Selenium
9 6 (1.99%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.99%) JMeter
9 6 (1.99%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.66%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.66%) Gradle
10 5 (1.66%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.66%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.32%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.32%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 143 (47.35%) Social Skills
2 89 (29.47%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (17.22%) Finance
4 22 (7.28%) Organisational Skills
5 17 (5.63%) Retail
6 15 (4.97%) Telecoms
7 14 (4.64%) Advertising
7 14 (4.64%) Marketing
8 10 (3.31%) Law
9 7 (2.32%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.32%) Health Technology
10 6 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.66%) Back Office
11 5 (1.66%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.32%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.99%) Banking
13 3 (0.99%) Local Government
13 3 (0.99%) Publishing
14 2 (0.66%) Billing
14 2 (0.66%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 98 (32.45%) Developer
2 63 (20.86%) Senior
3 44 (14.57%) Senior Developer
4 29 (9.60%) Architect
5 28 (9.27%) Analyst
6 20 (6.62%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (6.62%) Support Engineer
7 19 (6.29%) Data Analyst
8 17 (5.63%) Software Engineer
9 15 (4.97%) Consultant
9 15 (4.97%) Integration Architect
9 15 (4.97%) Software Developer
10 13 (4.30%) Automation Engineer
10 13 (4.30%) Data Engineer
10 13 (4.30%) Lead
11 12 (3.97%) Java Developer
11 12 (3.97%) Technical Support
11 12 (3.97%) Telecoms Engineer
12 11 (3.64%) Applications Architect
12 11 (3.64%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (40.07%) XML
2 116 (38.41%) REST
3 82 (27.15%) HTML
4 69 (22.85%) CSS
5 61 (20.20%) .NET
6 46 (15.23%) SOAP
7 41 (13.58%) .NET Core
8 38 (12.58%) Middleware
9 37 (12.25%) RESTful
10 31 (10.26%) YAML
11 26 (8.61%) JWT
12 23 (7.62%) React
13 22 (7.28%) ASP.NET
14 21 (6.95%) HTML5 Canvas
15 20 (6.62%) Microsoft Graph
15 20 (6.62%) OAuth
16 19 (6.29%) SPFx
17 18 (5.96%) HTML5
18 17 (5.63%) EDI
19 16 (5.30%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.60%) Onboarding
2 24 (7.95%) Data Structures
3 23 (7.62%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (6.62%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (6.62%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (5.96%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.98%) Enterprise Cloud
6 9 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.65%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.32%) Driving Licence
8 7 (2.32%) e-Learning
8 7 (2.32%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.32%) Robotics
9 6 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.99%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.32%) Taxonomies
11 3 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.99%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.99%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 47 (15.56%) Linux
2 33 (10.93%) Windows
3 14 (4.64%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.99%) Unix
5 4 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (29.47%) CI/CD
1 89 (29.47%) DevOps
1 89 (29.47%) Problem-Solving
2 85 (28.15%) Agile
3 55 (18.21%) Data Modelling
4 53 (17.55%) Microservices
5 46 (15.23%) User Experience
6 44 (14.57%) Business Intelligence
7 42 (13.91%) Containerisation
8 38 (12.58%) Infrastructure as Code
9 37 (12.25%) API Integration
10 35 (11.59%) Test Automation
11 33 (10.93%) ERP
12 31 (10.26%) AI
12 31 (10.26%) Analytics
12 31 (10.26%) Integration Patterns
12 31 (10.26%) Validation
13 30 (9.93%) API Design
13 30 (9.93%) Roadmaps
14 28 (9.27%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 147 (48.68%) SQL
2 101 (33.44%) JavaScript
3 99 (32.78%) Python
4 66 (21.85%) C#
5 53 (17.55%) Java
6 42 (13.91%) PowerShell
7 25 (8.28%) TypeScript
8 17 (5.63%) T-SQL
9 16 (5.30%) PHP
10 12 (3.97%) Shell Script
11 11 (3.64%) C++
11 11 (3.64%) Ruby
12 6 (1.99%) Groovy
13 5 (1.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (1.66%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.32%) VBA
15 3 (0.99%) Bash
15 3 (0.99%) Bicep
15 3 (0.99%) Perl
16 2 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 38 (12.58%) Degree
2 34 (11.26%) Security Cleared
3 25 (8.28%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.32%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.99%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.99%) CISSP
7 3 (0.99%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.66%) CASP
8 2 (0.66%) CCSP
8 2 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.66%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.66%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.33%) GIAC
9 1 (0.33%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.59%) QA
2 21 (6.95%) Accessibility
3 19 (6.29%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.97%) TickIT
5 11 (3.64%) SLA
6 10 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.99%) GDPR
7 6 (1.99%) WCAG
8 4 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.99%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.99%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.33%) HL7
10 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.33%) PERC
10 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (14.24%) Docker
2 14 (4.64%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.99%) vSphere
4 4 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.66%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (9.60%) Terraform
2 28 (9.27%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.97%) Ansible
4 6 (1.99%) Kibana
5 4 (1.32%) Packer
6 2 (0.66%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.33%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 89 (29.47%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.95%) Adobe
3 16 (5.30%) Cisco
4 15 (4.97%) Splunk
5 13 (4.30%) Red Hat
6 11 (3.64%) Oracle
7 9 (2.98%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.65%) F5
8 8 (2.65%) VMware
9 7 (2.32%) Dynatrace
9 7 (2.32%) Sparx
10 6 (1.99%) Juniper
10 6 (1.99%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.99%) SAP
11 5 (1.66%) Google
11 5 (1.66%) IBM
11 5 (1.66%) MuleSoft
12 4 (1.32%) AppDynamics
12 4 (1.32%) Databricks
13 3 (0.99%) OpenAI