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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 305 242
Rank change year-on-year -95 -63 +23
Permanent jobs citing JSON 240 437 806
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.99% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.59% 4.42% 5.35%
Number of salaries quoted 171 294 666
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £38,066
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £81,750 £90,000 £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 6,688 9,879 15,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.17% 22.31% 22.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5,141 5,963 12,829
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 £110,000 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,209 £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 18 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 18 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 -34 90 £75,000 +3.45% 54
South East -58 55 £55,000 -8.33% 39
East of England +37 44 £55,000 -6.54% 10
North of England -39 25 £55,000 -4.35% 26
Midlands -16 22 £47,500 -9.52% 15
North West +3 17 £55,000 -4.35% 19
West Midlands -5 16 £47,500 -12.59% 13
East Midlands -22 6 £60,000 +15.38% 2
North East -3 4 £45,000 -41.94% 2
Yorkshire -46 4 £55,750 +6.19% 5
South West -19 1 £60,000 -11.11% 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 9 (3.75%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.08%) Anypoint
3 5 (2.08%) Confluence
4 4 (1.67%) CMS
5 2 (0.83%) IIS
5 2 (0.83%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.83%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.83%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.42%) Apache
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.42%) CICS
6 1 (0.42%) JBoss
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (2.92%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.25%) Trello
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.50%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.08%) Shopify
3 3 (1.25%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.42%) Magento
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 82 (34.17%) Azure
2 37 (15.42%) AWS
3 35 (14.58%) Power Platform
4 26 (10.83%) GitHub
5 22 (9.17%) Power Automate
6 19 (7.92%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (7.92%) Serverless
7 18 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (5.83%) Boomi
9 13 (5.42%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (5.42%) PowerApps
9 13 (5.42%) SaaS
10 12 (5.00%) GCP
11 11 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (4.58%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (4.17%) iPaaS
12 10 (4.17%) PaaS
13 9 (3.75%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (3.75%) Entra ID
14 6 (2.50%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.92%) FTP
1 7 (2.92%) VPN
2 6 (2.50%) Firewall
3 3 (1.25%) AMQP
3 3 (1.25%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (1.25%) Ethernet
3 3 (1.25%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.25%) LAN
3 3 (1.25%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.25%) WAN
4 2 (0.83%) BGP
4 2 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (0.83%) DNS
5 1 (0.42%) CTI
5 1 (0.42%) DHCP
5 1 (0.42%) HTTP
5 1 (0.42%) SSL
5 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.58%) Relational Database
2 34 (14.17%) SQL Server
3 28 (11.67%) Power BI
4 25 (10.42%) MySQL
5 21 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (5.83%) RDBMS
7 11 (4.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (3.75%) Metadata
9 7 (2.92%) NoSQL
10 6 (2.50%) Electronic Patient Records
10 6 (2.50%) OLTP
11 5 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.25%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (1.25%) Power Query
13 3 (1.25%) Tableau
14 2 (0.83%) Big Data
14 2 (0.83%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 19 (7.92%) Git
1 19 (7.92%) Jenkins
2 15 (6.25%) Postman
3 13 (5.42%) JUnit
4 10 (4.17%) JMeter
5 9 (3.75%) JIRA
5 9 (3.75%) Mockito
6 6 (2.50%) Axure RP
6 6 (2.50%) GitLab
6 6 (2.50%) Selenium
7 5 (2.08%) Visual Studio
8 4 (1.67%) Maven
8 4 (1.67%) WebDriver
9 3 (1.25%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.83%) Crashlytics
10 2 (0.83%) ERwin
11 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.42%) Subversion
11 1 (0.42%) Testinfra
11 1 (0.42%) Xcode
General
1 84 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 49 (20.42%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (17.08%) Finance
4 30 (12.50%) Law
5 26 (10.83%) Retail
6 18 (7.50%) Public Sector
7 15 (6.25%) German Language
8 10 (4.17%) Marketing
9 9 (3.75%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.50%) Health Technology
10 6 (2.50%) Legal
11 3 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.25%) Electronics
11 3 (1.25%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.83%) Advertising
12 2 (0.83%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.83%) Front Office
12 2 (0.83%) Publishing
13 1 (0.42%) Banking
13 1 (0.42%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 100 (41.67%) Developer
2 32 (13.33%) Senior
3 30 (12.50%) Analyst
4 28 (11.67%) Senior Developer
5 19 (7.92%) Java Developer
6 15 (6.25%) Data Analyst
7 13 (5.42%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (5.00%) Architect
9 11 (4.58%) Consultant
9 11 (4.58%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 11 (4.58%) Support Engineer
10 9 (3.75%) Integration Engineer
10 9 (3.75%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 9 (3.75%) Oracle Developer
10 9 (3.75%) Senior Oracle Developer
11 8 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 8 (3.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 8 (3.33%) Lead
11 8 (3.33%) ServiceNow Developer
11 8 (3.33%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (60.00%) XML
2 107 (44.58%) REST
3 77 (32.08%) HTML
4 31 (12.92%) Web Services
5 29 (12.08%) Regular Expression
5 29 (12.08%) SOAP
6 25 (10.42%) CSS
6 25 (10.42%) React
7 22 (9.17%) Spring
8 20 (8.33%) Spring Boot
9 17 (7.08%) .NET
9 17 (7.08%) RESTful
10 15 (6.25%) Middleware
11 13 (5.42%) Hibernate
12 12 (5.00%) YAML
13 11 (4.58%) AngularJS
13 11 (4.58%) jQuery
13 11 (4.58%) Node.js
14 10 (4.17%) Razor View Engine
15 9 (3.75%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 52 (21.67%) Onboarding
2 35 (14.58%) Linux Command Line
3 26 (10.83%) Data Structures
4 18 (7.50%) Low-Code
5 17 (7.08%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (3.75%) Operational Technology
8 7 (2.92%) Cloud Native
9 6 (2.50%) NHS
10 5 (2.08%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.67%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.67%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.67%) Semantic Web
12 3 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.25%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.25%) PMI
12 3 (1.25%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.25%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 38 (15.83%) Unix
2 20 (8.33%) Linux
3 5 (2.08%) Windows
4 3 (1.25%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.42%) Android
5 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.42%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (27.08%) Agile
2 61 (25.42%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (22.50%) CI/CD
4 53 (22.08%) AI
5 43 (17.92%) DevOps
6 38 (15.83%) Data Modelling
7 37 (15.42%) Business Intelligence
7 37 (15.42%) Data Analysis
8 33 (13.75%) LLM
9 30 (12.50%) Validation
10 29 (12.08%) API Integration
10 29 (12.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (10.83%) Microservices
12 25 (10.42%) Test Automation
13 24 (10.00%) ETL
13 24 (10.00%) User Experience
14 22 (9.17%) Analytics
14 22 (9.17%) Workflow
15 21 (8.75%) SDLC
16 20 (8.33%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 120 (50.00%) SQL
2 97 (40.42%) Python
3 84 (35.00%) JavaScript
4 51 (21.25%) Java
5 35 (14.58%) C#
6 34 (14.17%) PowerShell
7 14 (5.83%) Shell Script
7 14 (5.83%) T-SQL
8 11 (4.58%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.08%) Bicep
9 5 (2.08%) PHP
9 5 (2.08%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.25%) ActionScript
10 3 (1.25%) ActionScript 2.0
11 2 (0.83%) Bash
11 2 (0.83%) C++
11 2 (0.83%) Ruby
12 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.42%) Groovy
12 1 (0.42%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 49 (20.42%) Degree
2 26 (10.83%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.25%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (1.25%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.42%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.42%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.50%) Data Quality
1 18 (7.50%) QA
2 15 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.58%) GDPR
4 10 (4.17%) Accessibility
5 9 (3.75%) HL7
6 5 (2.08%) NCSC
6 5 (2.08%) NIST
7 2 (0.83%) SLA
8 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (12.50%) Docker
2 8 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.25%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.42%) iptables
Systems Management
1 26 (10.83%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.17%) Ansible
2 10 (4.17%) Terraform
3 9 (3.75%) Kibana
4 3 (1.25%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.42%) Grafana
5 1 (0.42%) Packer
5 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.75%) Oracle
3 14 (5.83%) SAP
4 11 (4.58%) Splunk
5 9 (3.75%) Dynatrace
5 9 (3.75%) Google
5 9 (3.75%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.33%) Cisco
6 8 (3.33%) Dell
6 8 (3.33%) MuleSoft
6 8 (3.33%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.92%) Talend
8 6 (2.50%) IBM
8 6 (2.50%) IFS
8 6 (2.50%) Informatica
8 6 (2.50%) Intapp
8 6 (2.50%) SnapLogic
8 6 (2.50%) Workday
9 5 (2.08%) Epicor
9 5 (2.08%) Software AG