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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 308 231
Rank change year-on-year -86 -77 +22
Permanent jobs citing JSON 240 443 749
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.93% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.77% 4.28% 5.64%
Number of salaries quoted 172 293 618
10th Percentile £41,375 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £49,188 £45,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £81,701 £86,000 £106,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -6.40%

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 6,358 10,353 13,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.67% 21.64% 23.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,864 6,088 11,216
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £39,748
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -5.55%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £63,802
% change year-on-year - +1.88% -5.48%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 -18 89 £75,000 +7.14% 43
South East -53 52 £57,500 -11.54% 75
East of England +42 49 £55,000 -13.73% 36
North of England -7 26 £55,000 +4.76% 49
Midlands -8 24 £47,500 -9.52% 32
North West +17 18 £55,000 - 24
West Midlands +10 18 £47,500 -11.53% 8
East Midlands -10 6 £60,000 +15.38% 24
North East +8 4 £45,000 -41.94% 5
Yorkshire -36 4 £56,750 +8.10% 20
South West -4 1 £60,000 +15.38% 33
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 6 (2.50%) Confluence
3 5 (2.08%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.67%) CMS
5 3 (1.25%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.83%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.83%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.42%) Apache
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.42%) Appian
7 1 (0.42%) CICS
7 1 (0.42%) IIS
7 1 (0.42%) JBoss
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (2.92%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.25%) Trello
4 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.50%) NetSuite
1 6 (2.50%) Shopify
2 3 (1.25%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.42%) Magento
4 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 71 (29.58%) Azure
2 36 (15.00%) AWS
3 26 (10.83%) GitHub
4 25 (10.42%) Power Platform
5 23 (9.58%) Power Automate
5 23 (9.58%) Serverless
6 18 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (6.25%) Boomi
9 13 (5.42%) GCP
9 13 (5.42%) PowerApps
10 12 (5.00%) iPaaS
11 11 (4.58%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (4.17%) PaaS
13 7 (2.92%) SaaS
14 6 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (2.50%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.75%) FTP
2 7 (2.92%) VPN
3 3 (1.25%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (1.25%) Ethernet
3 3 (1.25%) Firewall
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%) AMQP
4 2 (0.83%) DNS
5 1 (0.42%) DHCP
5 1 (0.42%) HTTP
5 1 (0.42%) SSL
5 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.42%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (17.92%) Relational Database
2 31 (12.92%) SQL Server
3 19 (7.92%) MySQL
4 18 (7.50%) Power BI
5 16 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (5.83%) RDBMS
7 10 (4.17%) OLTP
8 9 (3.75%) NoSQL
9 8 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (2.92%) Metadata
11 6 (2.50%) Electronic Patient Records
12 3 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.25%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (1.25%) Power Query
12 3 (1.25%) Redis
12 3 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.83%) Data Mining
13 2 (0.83%) GIS
13 2 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (9.58%) Jenkins
2 17 (7.08%) Git
2 17 (7.08%) JUnit
3 14 (5.83%) JMeter
4 13 (5.42%) Mockito
5 11 (4.58%) JIRA
6 10 (4.17%) Postman
7 6 (2.50%) Axure RP
8 5 (2.08%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.67%) Maven
10 3 (1.25%) Selenium
11 2 (0.83%) Crashlytics
11 2 (0.83%) GitLab
12 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.42%) Gradle
12 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.42%) Subversion
12 1 (0.42%) Testinfra
12 1 (0.42%) Xcode
General
1 85 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 38 (15.83%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (15.42%) Finance
4 33 (13.75%) Law
5 29 (12.08%) Retail
6 21 (8.75%) Public Sector
7 15 (6.25%) German Language
8 10 (4.17%) Marketing
9 6 (2.50%) Health Technology
9 6 (2.50%) Legal
9 6 (2.50%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.25%) Electronics
10 3 (1.25%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.83%) Automotive
11 2 (0.83%) Banking
11 2 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.83%) Publishing
12 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 108 (45.00%) Developer
2 35 (14.58%) Senior
3 31 (12.92%) Senior Developer
4 23 (9.58%) Analyst
5 20 (8.33%) Java Developer
6 15 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
7 13 (5.42%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 12 (5.00%) Oracle Developer
8 12 (5.00%) Senior Oracle Developer
8 12 (5.00%) ServiceNow Developer
9 11 (4.58%) Architect
9 11 (4.58%) Consultant
9 11 (4.58%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 10 (4.17%) Integration Engineer
10 10 (4.17%) Support Engineer
11 9 (3.75%) Data Engineer
12 8 (3.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 8 (3.33%) Lead
12 8 (3.33%) Technical Consultant
13 7 (2.92%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (61.25%) XML
2 107 (44.58%) REST
3 91 (37.92%) HTML
4 36 (15.00%) Web Services
5 31 (12.92%) SOAP
6 29 (12.08%) Regular Expression
7 28 (11.67%) CSS
8 25 (10.42%) React
9 23 (9.58%) Spring
10 21 (8.75%) Spring Boot
11 16 (6.67%) Hibernate
12 15 (6.25%) jQuery
13 13 (5.42%) ActiveMQ
13 13 (5.42%) Apache Camel
13 13 (5.42%) Middleware
13 13 (5.42%) RESTful
13 13 (5.42%) WireMock
14 12 (5.00%) .NET
14 12 (5.00%) AngularJS
15 10 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (18.33%) Onboarding
2 35 (14.58%) Linux Command Line
3 18 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (7.08%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (6.67%) Low-Code
6 12 (5.00%) Data Structures
7 10 (4.17%) Operational Technology
8 7 (2.92%) Cloud Native
9 6 (2.50%) NHS
10 5 (2.08%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.67%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.67%) Semantic Web
12 3 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.25%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.25%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.25%) Reference Data
12 3 (1.25%) Social Media
13 2 (0.83%) PMI
13 2 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (15.00%) Unix
2 16 (6.67%) Linux
3 3 (1.25%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.25%) Windows
4 1 (0.42%) Android
4 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.42%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (31.25%) Agile
2 67 (27.92%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (22.08%) CI/CD
4 46 (19.17%) AI
5 40 (16.67%) DevOps
6 35 (14.58%) LLM
7 33 (13.75%) Data Analysis
8 29 (12.08%) Business Intelligence
9 28 (11.67%) ETL
10 27 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (10.83%) API Integration
12 24 (10.00%) Microservices
12 24 (10.00%) Test Automation
12 24 (10.00%) User Experience
12 24 (10.00%) Workflow
13 23 (9.58%) Analytics
13 23 (9.58%) Data Modelling
13 23 (9.58%) Validation
14 22 (9.17%) SDLC
15 20 (8.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 109 (45.42%) SQL
2 93 (38.75%) JavaScript
3 84 (35.00%) Python
4 49 (20.42%) Java
5 30 (12.50%) C#
6 26 (10.83%) PowerShell
7 18 (7.50%) Shell Script
8 13 (5.42%) PL/SQL
9 9 (3.75%) T-SQL
10 6 (2.50%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.67%) Bicep
11 4 (1.67%) PHP
12 3 (1.25%) ActionScript
12 3 (1.25%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.83%) Bash
13 2 (0.83%) C++
13 2 (0.83%) Ruby
14 1 (0.42%) COBOL
14 1 (0.42%) Groovy
14 1 (0.42%) Korn
Qualifications
1 45 (18.75%) Degree
2 24 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 13 (5.42%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (0.83%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.42%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.42%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.67%) QA
2 14 (5.83%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.75%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.75%) GDPR
3 9 (3.75%) HL7
4 7 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.50%) NCSC
5 6 (2.50%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (13.75%) Docker
2 3 (1.25%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.42%) iptables
Systems Management
1 29 (12.08%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.42%) Kibana
3 10 (4.17%) Ansible
3 10 (4.17%) Terraform
4 3 (1.25%) FortiGate
4 3 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.42%) Grafana
5 1 (0.42%) Packer
5 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.17%) Oracle
3 14 (5.83%) SAP
3 14 (5.83%) ServiceNow
3 14 (5.83%) Splunk
4 13 (5.42%) Dynatrace
5 10 (4.17%) Google
5 10 (4.17%) MuleSoft
6 9 (3.75%) Dell
7 8 (3.33%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.92%) Informatica
8 7 (2.92%) SnapLogic
8 7 (2.92%) Talend
9 6 (2.50%) IBM
9 6 (2.50%) Intapp
9 6 (2.50%) Workday
10 5 (2.08%) Epicor
10 5 (2.08%) HubSpot
10 5 (2.08%) Infor
10 5 (2.08%) Jitterbit