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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 329 296
Rank change year-on-year -92 -33 -20
Permanent jobs citing JSON 294 337 806
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 0.87% 0.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.47% 4.39% 4.65%
Number of salaries quoted 216 269 625
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,537
25th Percentile £46,526 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,335 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.34% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,813 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%

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 8,476 7,677 17,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.19% 19.84% 19.75%
Number of salaries quoted 6,450 5,235 14,276
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,850 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -36 110 £75,000 +11.11% 44
South East -30 75 £60,000 -7.69% 27
North of England -39 50 £55,000 - 15
East of England -7 35 £90,000 +89.47% 3
North West +6 33 £61,250 +11.36% 8
Yorkshire -37 15 £44,000 +8.64% 4
Midlands -49 10 £47,500 -16.67% 8
South West -67 8 £37,500 -37.50% 7
West Midlands -44 6 £41,500 -24.55% 5
East Midlands -24 4 £47,500 -20.83% 3
North East -42 2 £46,250 -40.32% 3
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 26 (8.84%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (3.06%) IIS
4 8 (2.72%) CMS
5 7 (2.38%) WordPress
6 6 (2.04%) Apache
7 5 (1.70%) Confluence
7 5 (1.70%) Drupal
8 3 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.68%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.68%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.34%) JBoss
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.02%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.34%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.34%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.34%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.34%) Magento
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 129 (43.88%) Azure
2 75 (25.51%) AWS
3 57 (19.39%) Power Platform
4 40 (13.61%) Microsoft 365
5 37 (12.59%) Azure Logic Apps
6 35 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
6 35 (11.90%) Serverless
7 25 (8.50%) SaaS
8 24 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (8.16%) PowerApps
9 23 (7.82%) Power Automate
10 22 (7.48%) Azure Data Factory
11 19 (6.46%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (6.46%) OneDrive
12 17 (5.78%) Boomi
12 17 (5.78%) Dynamics 365
13 16 (5.44%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (5.44%) GitHub
14 14 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (4.42%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.78%) Firewall
2 6 (2.04%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (1.70%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.70%) VPN
4 4 (1.36%) DNS
4 4 (1.36%) Wireshark
5 3 (1.02%) AMQP
5 3 (1.02%) BGP
5 3 (1.02%) FTP
5 3 (1.02%) HTTP
5 3 (1.02%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.02%) SSL
6 2 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.68%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.68%) LAN
6 2 (0.68%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.68%) WAN
7 1 (0.34%) MQTT
7 1 (0.34%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.34%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (16.67%) Power BI
2 35 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (10.54%) MySQL
4 22 (7.48%) Relational Database
4 22 (7.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 21 (7.14%) SQL Server
6 19 (6.46%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (5.44%) Metadata
8 13 (4.42%) RDBMS
9 11 (3.74%) Redis
10 7 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.70%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (1.36%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.02%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.02%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (0.68%) DynamoDB
14 2 (0.68%) MariaDB
14 2 (0.68%) OLTP
14 2 (0.68%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 46 (15.65%) Git
2 33 (11.22%) JIRA
3 26 (8.84%) Jenkins
4 22 (7.48%) GitLab
5 12 (4.08%) Postman
6 10 (3.40%) JUnit
7 8 (2.72%) Maven
8 7 (2.38%) ERwin
8 7 (2.38%) Mockito
8 7 (2.38%) Selenium
9 6 (2.04%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.04%) JMeter
9 6 (2.04%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.70%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.70%) Gradle
10 5 (1.70%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.70%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.36%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.36%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.02%) Visual Studio
General
1 132 (44.90%) Social Skills
2 85 (28.91%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (16.67%) Finance
4 21 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
5 19 (6.46%) Retail
6 16 (5.44%) Telecoms
7 15 (5.10%) Marketing
8 13 (4.42%) Advertising
9 12 (4.08%) Law
10 11 (3.74%) Health Technology
11 7 (2.38%) Financial Institution
12 6 (2.04%) Public Sector
13 5 (1.70%) Back Office
13 5 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.36%) German Language
15 3 (1.02%) Banking
15 3 (1.02%) Local Government
15 3 (1.02%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.68%) Aviation
16 2 (0.68%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 95 (32.31%) Developer
2 63 (21.43%) Senior
3 47 (15.99%) Senior Developer
4 26 (8.84%) Analyst
4 26 (8.84%) Architect
5 21 (7.14%) Consultant
6 20 (6.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (6.80%) Support Engineer
7 19 (6.46%) Data Analyst
8 16 (5.44%) Software Engineer
9 15 (5.10%) Java Developer
10 13 (4.42%) Lead
11 12 (4.08%) Automation Engineer
11 12 (4.08%) Integration Architect
11 12 (4.08%) Software Developer
12 11 (3.74%) Applications Architect
12 11 (3.74%) Network Engineer
12 11 (3.74%) Telecoms Engineer
13 10 (3.40%) IT Support
13 10 (3.40%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (41.84%) XML
2 114 (38.78%) REST
3 86 (29.25%) HTML
4 66 (22.45%) CSS
5 55 (18.71%) .NET
6 46 (15.65%) SOAP
7 38 (12.93%) .NET Core
8 36 (12.24%) Middleware
9 31 (10.54%) RESTful
9 31 (10.54%) YAML
10 24 (8.16%) JWT
10 24 (8.16%) React
11 21 (7.14%) HTML5 Canvas
11 21 (7.14%) OAuth
12 20 (6.80%) Microsoft Graph
12 20 (6.80%) Spring
13 19 (6.46%) ASP.NET
13 19 (6.46%) SPFx
14 18 (6.12%) EDI
14 18 (6.12%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.52%) Onboarding
2 24 (8.16%) Data Structures
3 23 (7.82%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (7.48%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (4.42%) Cloud Native
7 10 (3.40%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (3.06%) Enterprise Cloud
9 8 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (2.38%) Driving Licence
10 7 (2.38%) e-Learning
10 7 (2.38%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.38%) Public Cloud
11 6 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.70%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.70%) NHS
13 4 (1.36%) Robotics
13 4 (1.36%) Taxonomies
14 3 (1.02%) Low-Code
14 3 (1.02%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 46 (15.65%) Linux
2 26 (8.84%) Windows
3 12 (4.08%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.40%) Unix
5 4 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (30.27%) CI/CD
2 84 (28.57%) DevOps
3 82 (27.89%) Problem-Solving
4 77 (26.19%) Agile
5 53 (18.03%) Microservices
6 51 (17.35%) Data Modelling
7 48 (16.33%) Business Intelligence
8 42 (14.29%) User Experience
9 39 (13.27%) Containerisation
10 37 (12.59%) API Integration
10 37 (12.59%) Infrastructure as Code
11 35 (11.90%) ERP
12 33 (11.22%) AI
12 33 (11.22%) Test Automation
13 28 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
13 28 (9.52%) CRM
14 27 (9.18%) API Design
14 27 (9.18%) Mentoring
14 27 (9.18%) Validation
15 26 (8.84%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 147 (50.00%) SQL
2 107 (36.39%) JavaScript
3 98 (33.33%) Python
4 61 (20.75%) Java
5 56 (19.05%) C#
6 39 (13.27%) PowerShell
7 25 (8.50%) TypeScript
8 15 (5.10%) PHP
9 11 (3.74%) T-SQL
10 10 (3.40%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.72%) C++
11 8 (2.72%) PL/SQL
12 7 (2.38%) Ruby
13 6 (2.04%) Groovy
14 4 (1.36%) VBA
15 3 (1.02%) ActionScript
15 3 (1.02%) ActionScript 2.0
15 3 (1.02%) Bicep
15 3 (1.02%) Perl
16 2 (0.68%) Bash
Qualifications
1 40 (13.61%) Degree
2 33 (11.22%) Security Cleared
3 26 (8.84%) SC Cleared
4 19 (6.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.70%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.02%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.68%) CISSP
8 1 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.34%) CASP
8 1 (0.34%) CCSP
8 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.34%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.34%) GIAC
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.34%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.20%) QA
2 18 (6.12%) Accessibility
3 14 (4.76%) Data Quality
4 12 (4.08%) TickIT
5 11 (3.74%) SLA
6 10 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (2.04%) GDPR
7 6 (2.04%) HL7
7 6 (2.04%) WCAG
8 4 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.34%) PERC
System Software
1 43 (14.63%) Docker
2 12 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.36%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.36%) vSphere
4 2 (0.68%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (10.54%) Kubernetes
2 28 (9.52%) Terraform
3 14 (4.76%) Ansible
4 6 (2.04%) Kibana
5 4 (1.36%) Packer
6 2 (0.68%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.34%) QRadar
Vendors
1 78 (26.53%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.16%) Adobe
3 16 (5.44%) Cisco
4 14 (4.76%) Oracle
4 14 (4.76%) Splunk
5 11 (3.74%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.06%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.72%) F5
8 7 (2.38%) Dynatrace
8 7 (2.38%) Sparx
9 6 (2.04%) Google
9 6 (2.04%) Juniper
9 6 (2.04%) VMware
10 5 (1.70%) IBM
10 5 (1.70%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.70%) SAP
11 4 (1.36%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.36%) Databricks
11 4 (1.36%) MuleSoft
12 3 (1.02%) Fortinet