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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 299 213
Rank change year-on-year -60 -86 +32
Permanent jobs citing JSON 268 467 702
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.51% 0.94% 1.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.30% 4.34% 6.14%
Number of salaries quoted 198 307 583
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £49,813 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £73,438 £82,500 £86,875
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,250 £107,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £59,425 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.24% -8.58% -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 6,228 10,769 11,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.89% 21.60% 24.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4,800 6,423 9,570
10th Percentile £35,854 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,938 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 28 December 2025.

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 28 December 2025. 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 0 95 £75,000 +7.14% 127
East of England +58 62 £55,000 -13.73% 80
South East -56 59 £56,250 -13.46% 143
North of England -8 30 £53,750 -6.52% 124
Midlands -4 23 £47,500 -9.52% 98
North West +18 22 £55,000 - 69
West Midlands +13 17 £47,500 -14.56% 49
East Midlands -9 6 £60,000 +18.81% 42
Yorkshire -36 4 £56,750 -5.42% 48
North East - 4 £45,000 - 7
South West -7 1 £60,000 +20.00% 63
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 (3.36%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.24%) Confluence
3 5 (1.87%) Anypoint
3 5 (1.87%) CMS
4 3 (1.12%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.75%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.75%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.37%) Apache
6 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.37%) Appian
6 1 (0.37%) CICS
6 1 (0.37%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.37%) IIS
6 1 (0.37%) JBoss
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.61%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.12%) Trello
4 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.24%) Shopify
2 5 (1.87%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.12%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 78 (29.10%) Azure
2 38 (14.18%) AWS
3 31 (11.57%) GitHub
4 27 (10.07%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (9.33%) Power Platform
6 23 (8.58%) Power Automate
6 23 (8.58%) Serverless
7 17 (6.34%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (6.34%) Amazon ECS
7 17 (6.34%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (5.22%) Boomi
9 13 (4.85%) PaaS
9 13 (4.85%) PowerApps
9 13 (4.85%) SaaS
10 12 (4.48%) GCP
11 11 (4.10%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (3.36%) iPaaS
13 7 (2.61%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.10%) FTP
2 6 (2.24%) VPN
3 4 (1.49%) Cisco ISE
3 4 (1.49%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.49%) Firewall
3 4 (1.49%) HTTP
3 4 (1.49%) LAN
3 4 (1.49%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.49%) WAN
4 3 (1.12%) DNS
4 3 (1.12%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.37%) AMQP
5 1 (0.37%) DHCP
5 1 (0.37%) SSL
5 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.37%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (18.66%) Relational Database
2 38 (14.18%) SQL Server
3 25 (9.33%) MySQL
4 18 (6.72%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (6.72%) Power BI
5 16 (5.97%) RDBMS
6 13 (4.85%) OLTP
7 11 (4.10%) NoSQL
7 11 (4.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.61%) GIS
10 6 (2.24%) Metadata
11 5 (1.87%) Electronic Patient Records
12 3 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.12%) Big Data
12 3 (1.12%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (1.12%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.12%) Power Query
12 3 (1.12%) Redis
12 3 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (9.33%) Jenkins
2 21 (7.84%) Git
3 17 (6.34%) JMeter
3 17 (6.34%) JUnit
4 15 (5.60%) Mockito
5 13 (4.85%) JIRA
6 7 (2.61%) Postman
7 6 (2.24%) Axure RP
7 6 (2.24%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.12%) Selenium
9 2 (0.75%) Crashlytics
9 2 (0.75%) WebDriver
9 2 (0.75%) Xcode
10 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.37%) ESLint
10 1 (0.37%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.37%) Storybook
10 1 (0.37%) Subversion
10 1 (0.37%) Testinfra
10 1 (0.37%) XCUITest
General
1 97 (36.19%) Social Skills
2 45 (16.79%) Law
3 41 (15.30%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (13.81%) Finance
5 29 (10.82%) Retail
6 23 (8.58%) Public Sector
7 15 (5.60%) German Language
8 11 (4.10%) Marketing
9 6 (2.24%) Legal
10 5 (1.87%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.49%) Automotive
11 4 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.49%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.12%) Banking
12 3 (1.12%) Electronics
12 3 (1.12%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.75%) Publishing
14 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 114 (42.54%) Developer
2 41 (15.30%) Senior
3 35 (13.06%) Senior Developer
4 24 (8.96%) Analyst
5 18 (6.72%) Consultant
5 18 (6.72%) Full-Stack Developer
5 18 (6.72%) Java Developer
6 15 (5.60%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 14 (5.22%) Oracle Developer
7 14 (5.22%) Senior Oracle Developer
8 13 (4.85%) Mid-Level Java Developer
9 12 (4.48%) Data Engineer
9 12 (4.48%) Lead
9 12 (4.48%) ServiceNow Developer
9 12 (4.48%) Technical Consultant
10 11 (4.10%) ServiceNow Consultant
11 10 (3.73%) Integration Engineer
11 10 (3.73%) Support Consultant
11 10 (3.73%) Support Engineer
12 8 (2.99%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (61.57%) XML
2 115 (42.91%) HTML
3 112 (41.79%) REST
4 46 (17.16%) CSS
5 40 (14.93%) Web Services
6 30 (11.19%) Regular Expression
7 28 (10.45%) SOAP
8 27 (10.07%) React
9 20 (7.46%) Spring
9 20 (7.46%) Spring Boot
10 17 (6.34%) .NET
10 17 (6.34%) Hibernate
10 17 (6.34%) jQuery
11 15 (5.60%) ActiveMQ
11 15 (5.60%) Apache Camel
11 15 (5.60%) WireMock
12 14 (5.22%) RESTful
13 13 (4.85%) AngularJS
14 12 (4.48%) YAML
15 11 (4.10%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 47 (17.54%) Onboarding
2 35 (13.06%) Linux Command Line
3 20 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (5.97%) Low-Code
4 16 (5.97%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (4.10%) Data Structures
6 10 (3.73%) Operational Technology
7 9 (3.36%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.24%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.87%) NHS
9 5 (1.87%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.49%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.49%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.49%) Semantic Web
11 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.12%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.12%) Social Media
12 2 (0.75%) Blog
12 2 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 37 (13.81%) Unix
2 16 (5.97%) Linux
3 3 (1.12%) Android
3 3 (1.12%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.12%) Windows
4 2 (0.75%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (30.60%) Agile
2 74 (27.61%) Problem-Solving
3 56 (20.90%) CI/CD
4 47 (17.54%) AI
4 47 (17.54%) DevOps
5 38 (14.18%) LLM
6 33 (12.31%) Data Analysis
7 31 (11.57%) ETL
7 31 (11.57%) Microservices
8 29 (10.82%) Business Intelligence
8 29 (10.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (10.82%) Test Automation
9 28 (10.45%) Problem Management
10 26 (9.70%) API Integration
10 26 (9.70%) Full-Stack Development
10 26 (9.70%) SDLC
10 26 (9.70%) Workflow
11 25 (9.33%) Analytics
11 25 (9.33%) User Experience
12 23 (8.58%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 116 (43.28%) SQL
2 114 (42.54%) JavaScript
3 90 (33.58%) Python
4 44 (16.42%) Java
5 35 (13.06%) C#
6 29 (10.82%) PowerShell
7 21 (7.84%) Shell Script
8 15 (5.60%) PL/SQL
9 10 (3.73%) T-SQL
10 7 (2.61%) PHP
10 7 (2.61%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.49%) Bicep
12 3 (1.12%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.75%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.75%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.75%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.75%) Bash
13 2 (0.75%) C++
13 2 (0.75%) Ruby
13 2 (0.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 44 (16.42%) Degree
2 23 (8.58%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.73%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.75%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.37%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.37%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.37%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.34%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.60%) QA
3 10 (3.73%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.73%) GDPR
3 10 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.36%) NCSC
4 9 (3.36%) NIST
5 8 (2.99%) HL7
System Software
1 36 (13.43%) Docker
2 4 (1.49%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.75%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.37%) iptables
Systems Management
1 30 (11.19%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.60%) Kibana
3 11 (4.10%) Terraform
4 10 (3.73%) Ansible
5 5 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.49%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.75%) Grafana
8 1 (0.37%) Packer
8 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 35 (13.06%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.58%) ServiceNow
3 22 (8.21%) Oracle
4 16 (5.97%) Splunk
5 15 (5.60%) Dynatrace
6 12 (4.48%) SAP
7 11 (4.10%) Cisco
8 10 (3.73%) Google
9 9 (3.36%) MuleSoft
10 8 (2.99%) Dell
10 8 (2.99%) Salesforce
11 7 (2.61%) Informatica
11 7 (2.61%) SnapLogic
11 7 (2.61%) Talend
12 6 (2.24%) IBM
12 6 (2.24%) Intapp
12 6 (2.24%) Workday
13 5 (1.87%) Epicor
13 5 (1.87%) IFS
13 5 (1.87%) OpenAI