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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 349 301
Rank change year-on-year -74 -48 -38
Permanent jobs citing JSON 302 335 818
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 0.81% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.36% 4.25% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 226 259 610
10th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £34,715
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £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 £79,834 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £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 7,874 17,965
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.47% 19.11% 19.42%
Number of salaries quoted 6,873 5,320 14,424
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,989 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,575 £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 1 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 1 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 -42 108 £75,000 +11.11% 68
South East -30 85 £60,000 -7.69% 33
North of England -24 49 £55,000 - 28
North West 0 30 £62,500 +13.64% 18
East of England -18 29 £90,000 +89.47% 5
Yorkshire -26 14 £42,750 +5.56% 8
South West -67 14 £52,500 -12.50% 12
Midlands -51 9 £47,500 -20.17% 21
West Midlands -40 5 £43,000 -27.12% 11
North East -48 5 £45,000 -41.94% 2
East Midlands -28 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 (8.94%) 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 14 (4.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.99%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.99%) 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 (46.69%) Azure
2 79 (26.16%) AWS
3 61 (20.20%) Power Platform
4 44 (14.57%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (14.57%) Azure Logic Apps
5 43 (14.24%) Microsoft 365
6 32 (10.60%) Serverless
7 25 (8.28%) PowerApps
7 25 (8.28%) SaaS
8 24 (7.95%) Power Automate
9 23 (7.62%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (7.62%) Azure Data Factory
10 20 (6.62%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (6.29%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (6.29%) GitHub
11 19 (6.29%) OneDrive
12 15 (4.97%) Boomi
13 14 (4.64%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (4.64%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (4.64%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.29%) 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 (1.32%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.99%) BGP
5 3 (0.99%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.99%) 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 (16.23%) Power BI
2 39 (12.91%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (8.94%) MySQL
4 22 (7.28%) Relational Database
4 22 (7.28%) SQL Server
4 22 (7.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 20 (6.62%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (5.96%) Metadata
7 16 (5.30%) Redis
8 12 (3.97%) RDBMS
9 9 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.99%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.66%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.32%) Power Query
13 3 (0.99%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.99%) Parquet
13 3 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
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 87 (28.81%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (17.22%) Finance
4 23 (7.62%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (4.97%) Retail
5 15 (4.97%) Telecoms
6 14 (4.64%) Advertising
6 14 (4.64%) Marketing
7 10 (3.31%) Law
8 7 (2.32%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.32%) Health Technology
9 6 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.66%) Back Office
10 5 (1.66%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.32%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.99%) Aviation
12 3 (0.99%) Banking
12 3 (0.99%) Local Government
12 3 (0.99%) Publishing
13 2 (0.66%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 97 (32.12%) Developer
2 64 (21.19%) Senior
3 44 (14.57%) Senior Developer
4 28 (9.27%) Analyst
4 28 (9.27%) Architect
5 20 (6.62%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (6.62%) Support Engineer
6 19 (6.29%) Data Analyst
7 16 (5.30%) Software Engineer
8 15 (4.97%) Software Developer
9 14 (4.64%) Consultant
9 14 (4.64%) Integration Architect
10 13 (4.30%) Automation Engineer
10 13 (4.30%) Data Engineer
10 13 (4.30%) Lead
10 13 (4.30%) Technical Support
11 12 (3.97%) Applications Engineer
11 12 (3.97%) Integration Engineer
11 12 (3.97%) Ruby Developer
11 12 (3.97%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (39.07%) XML
2 113 (37.42%) REST
3 82 (27.15%) HTML
4 70 (23.18%) CSS
5 62 (20.53%) .NET
6 43 (14.24%) SOAP
7 42 (13.91%) .NET Core
8 39 (12.91%) RESTful
9 37 (12.25%) Middleware
10 31 (10.26%) YAML
11 26 (8.61%) JWT
12 23 (7.62%) ASP.NET
13 22 (7.28%) React
14 21 (6.95%) HTML5 Canvas
15 20 (6.62%) Microsoft Graph
16 19 (6.29%) OAuth
16 19 (6.29%) SPFx
17 18 (5.96%) HTML5
18 16 (5.30%) CSS3
18 16 (5.30%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.93%) Onboarding
2 24 (7.95%) Data Structures
3 21 (6.95%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (6.95%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (6.62%) Analytical Mindset
5 18 (5.96%) Cloud Native
6 10 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.98%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (2.65%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.65%) Robotics
9 7 (2.32%) Driving Licence
9 7 (2.32%) e-Learning
9 7 (2.32%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.99%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.32%) Taxonomies
12 3 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.99%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.99%) Security Posture
12 3 (0.99%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 48 (15.89%) Linux
2 35 (11.59%) 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 90 (29.80%) CI/CD
1 90 (29.80%) DevOps
2 88 (29.14%) Problem-Solving
3 85 (28.15%) Agile
4 54 (17.88%) Data Modelling
4 54 (17.88%) Microservices
5 47 (15.56%) User Experience
6 44 (14.57%) Business Intelligence
7 43 (14.24%) Containerisation
8 39 (12.91%) Infrastructure as Code
9 37 (12.25%) Test Automation
10 36 (11.92%) API Integration
11 32 (10.60%) AI
12 31 (10.26%) Analytics
12 31 (10.26%) API Design
12 31 (10.26%) ERP
12 31 (10.26%) Validation
13 30 (9.93%) Roadmaps
14 29 (9.60%) Integration Patterns
15 28 (9.27%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 145 (48.01%) SQL
2 102 (33.77%) JavaScript
3 101 (33.44%) Python
4 67 (22.19%) C#
5 50 (16.56%) 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%) C++
10 12 (3.97%) Ruby
10 12 (3.97%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.99%) Groovy
12 5 (1.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (1.32%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.32%) VBA
14 3 (0.99%) Bash
14 3 (0.99%) Bicep
14 3 (0.99%) Perl
15 2 (0.66%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 38 (12.58%) Degree
2 34 (11.26%) Security Cleared
3 25 (8.28%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.32%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.99%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.32%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.99%) 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 34 (11.26%) QA
2 22 (7.28%) 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 44 (14.57%) 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 30 (9.93%) 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 90 (29.80%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.95%) Adobe
3 16 (5.30%) Cisco
4 15 (4.97%) Splunk
5 13 (4.30%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.98%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.65%) F5
7 8 (2.65%) Oracle
7 8 (2.65%) VMware
8 7 (2.32%) Dynatrace
8 7 (2.32%) 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 (1.32%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.32%) Databricks
11 4 (1.32%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.99%) OpenAI