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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 292 237
Rank change year-on-year -118 -55 +45
Permanent jobs citing JSON 237 407 877
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 1.03% 1.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.46% 4.59% 5.45%
Number of salaries quoted 171 306 709
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £36,200
25th Percentile £48,125 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £74,375 £83,438 £77,500
90th Percentile £81,750 £91,250 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -11.11%

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 6,848 8,874 16,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.74% 22.42% 21.84%
Number of salaries quoted 5,228 6,096 13,608
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,175
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -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 9 March 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 March 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 -41 89 £70,000 -3.45% 61
South East -73 56 £55,000 - 73
East of England +31 44 £55,000 -11.18% 38
North of England -41 25 £55,000 +4.76% 51
North West -16 17 £55,000 -4.35% 25
Midlands -43 16 £47,500 -9.95% 32
West Midlands -14 11 £47,500 -12.59% 16
East Midlands -35 5 £54,000 +3.85% 11
North East -14 4 £45,000 -41.94% 7
Yorkshire -52 4 £55,750 +31.18% 19
South West -46 1 £72,500 +18.37% 19
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 12 (5.06%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.11%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.69%) Confluence
5 3 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.84%) CMS
6 2 (0.84%) IIS
6 2 (0.84%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.84%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.42%) Apache
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.42%) CICS
7 1 (0.42%) JBoss
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.53%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.27%) Trello
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.11%) Shopify
2 4 (1.69%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.27%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.42%) Magento
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 83 (35.02%) Azure
2 38 (16.03%) Power Platform
3 37 (15.61%) AWS
4 23 (9.70%) GitHub
5 21 (8.86%) Power Automate
6 20 (8.44%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (6.33%) Serverless
9 14 (5.91%) Boomi
10 13 (5.49%) SaaS
11 12 (5.06%) GCP
12 11 (4.64%) PowerApps
13 10 (4.22%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (4.22%) iPaaS
14 9 (3.80%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (3.80%) PaaS
15 8 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (3.38%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (3.38%) Apigee
15 8 (3.38%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.06%) Firewall
2 7 (2.95%) FTP
2 7 (2.95%) VPN
3 4 (1.69%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (1.69%) DNS
4 3 (1.27%) AMQP
4 3 (1.27%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (1.27%) Ethernet
4 3 (1.27%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.27%) LAN
4 3 (1.27%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.27%) WAN
5 2 (0.84%) BGP
6 1 (0.42%) CTI
6 1 (0.42%) DHCP
6 1 (0.42%) HTTP
6 1 (0.42%) SSL
6 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.92%) Power BI
2 32 (13.50%) SQL Server
3 28 (11.81%) Relational Database
4 24 (10.13%) MySQL
5 17 (7.17%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (5.49%) RDBMS
7 12 (5.06%) Metadata
8 11 (4.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.53%) Electronic Patient Records
10 6 (2.53%) OLTP
11 4 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.69%) NoSQL
12 3 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.27%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (1.27%) Power Query
12 3 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.27%) Tableau
13 2 (0.84%) Delta Lake
13 2 (0.84%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 23 (9.70%) Git
2 14 (5.91%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.06%) Postman
4 9 (3.80%) GitLab
4 9 (3.80%) JIRA
4 9 (3.80%) JUnit
5 7 (2.95%) Selenium
6 6 (2.53%) Axure RP
6 6 (2.53%) JMeter
6 6 (2.53%) Mockito
7 5 (2.11%) SpecFlow
7 5 (2.11%) Visual Studio
7 5 (2.11%) WebDriver
8 4 (1.69%) ERwin
8 4 (1.69%) Maven
9 2 (0.84%) Crashlytics
10 1 (0.42%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.42%) Gradle
10 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 86 (36.29%) Social Skills
2 50 (21.10%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (16.03%) Finance
4 28 (11.81%) Law
5 20 (8.44%) Retail
6 15 (6.33%) German Language
7 14 (5.91%) Public Sector
8 12 (5.06%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.95%) Legal
9 7 (2.95%) Marketing
10 6 (2.53%) Health Technology
11 5 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.69%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.27%) Publishing
14 2 (0.84%) Advertising
14 2 (0.84%) Electronics
14 2 (0.84%) Front Office
14 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.42%) Banking
15 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (37.55%) Developer
2 32 (13.50%) Senior
3 30 (12.66%) Analyst
4 26 (10.97%) Senior Developer
5 17 (7.17%) Data Analyst
6 16 (6.75%) Java Developer
7 13 (5.49%) Architect
7 13 (5.49%) Consultant
8 11 (4.64%) Support Engineer
9 10 (4.22%) Data Engineer
9 10 (4.22%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (4.22%) Integration Engineer
10 9 (3.80%) Oracle Developer
10 9 (3.80%) Senior Oracle Developer
11 8 (3.38%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (3.38%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 8 (3.38%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
11 8 (3.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 8 (3.38%) SQL Analyst
11 8 (3.38%) SSRS Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (61.18%) XML
2 100 (42.19%) REST
3 74 (31.22%) HTML
4 31 (13.08%) Regular Expression
5 30 (12.66%) SOAP
6 27 (11.39%) Web Services
7 25 (10.55%) CSS
8 22 (9.28%) React
9 21 (8.86%) .NET
10 19 (8.02%) Spring
11 17 (7.17%) RESTful
11 17 (7.17%) Spring Boot
12 16 (6.75%) YAML
13 11 (4.64%) Node.js
14 10 (4.22%) Hibernate
14 10 (4.22%) Middleware
15 9 (3.80%) FHIR
15 9 (3.80%) Swagger
16 8 (3.38%) jQuery
17 7 (2.95%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 48 (20.25%) Onboarding
2 36 (15.19%) Linux Command Line
3 27 (11.39%) Data Structures
4 20 (8.44%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (7.17%) Low-Code
6 12 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.53%) NHS
8 5 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (2.11%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.11%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.69%) e-Learning
9 4 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.69%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.27%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.27%) PMI
10 3 (1.27%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.27%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.27%) Semantic Web
10 3 (1.27%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 40 (16.88%) Unix
2 23 (9.70%) Linux
3 7 (2.95%) Windows
4 3 (1.27%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.42%) Android
6 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.42%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (27.43%) Agile
2 58 (24.47%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (21.94%) AI
4 49 (20.68%) CI/CD
5 42 (17.72%) Business Intelligence
6 41 (17.30%) DevOps
7 38 (16.03%) Data Modelling
8 36 (15.19%) Data Analysis
9 30 (12.66%) LLM
10 26 (10.97%) Validation
11 25 (10.55%) API Integration
11 25 (10.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (10.55%) Microservices
12 24 (10.13%) Analytics
12 24 (10.13%) User Experience
13 23 (9.70%) Test Automation
14 22 (9.28%) ETL
15 19 (8.02%) Containerisation
15 19 (8.02%) Decision-Making
16 18 (7.59%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 121 (51.05%) SQL
2 96 (40.51%) Python
3 78 (32.91%) JavaScript
4 50 (21.10%) Java
5 32 (13.50%) C#
6 28 (11.81%) PowerShell
7 14 (5.91%) T-SQL
8 13 (5.49%) Shell Script
9 11 (4.64%) PL/SQL
10 8 (3.38%) TypeScript
11 5 (2.11%) PHP
12 3 (1.27%) ActionScript
12 3 (1.27%) ActionScript 2.0
12 3 (1.27%) Bicep
13 2 (0.84%) Bash
13 2 (0.84%) C++
13 2 (0.84%) R
13 2 (0.84%) Ruby
14 1 (0.42%) COBOL
14 1 (0.42%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 47 (19.83%) Degree
2 24 (10.13%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.91%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.27%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.27%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.84%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.42%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.42%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.59%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.75%) QA
3 14 (5.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.22%) Accessibility
4 10 (4.22%) GDPR
5 9 (3.80%) HL7
6 5 (2.11%) NCSC
6 5 (2.11%) NIST
7 2 (0.84%) SLA
8 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (11.39%) Docker
2 10 (4.22%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.27%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.84%) vSphere
5 1 (0.42%) iptables
Systems Management
1 22 (9.28%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.80%) Ansible
2 9 (3.80%) Terraform
3 7 (2.95%) Kibana
4 3 (1.27%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.42%) Grafana
5 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (14.35%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.28%) Oracle
3 13 (5.49%) SAP
4 12 (5.06%) Cisco
5 9 (3.80%) Google
6 8 (3.38%) Dell
6 8 (3.38%) MuleSoft
6 8 (3.38%) Splunk
7 7 (2.95%) F5
7 7 (2.95%) Intapp
7 7 (2.95%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.95%) Talend
8 6 (2.53%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.53%) IBM
8 6 (2.53%) IFS
8 6 (2.53%) Informatica
8 6 (2.53%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.53%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.53%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.53%) Workday