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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 306 245
Rank change year-on-year -99 -61 +35
Permanent jobs citing JSON 268 361 903
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.99% 1.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.59% 4.59% 5.41%
Number of salaries quoted 190 291 727
10th Percentile £40,725 £36,250 £36,150
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,230 £46,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £75,188 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £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 7,464 7,873 16,683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.37% 21.53% 21.04%
Number of salaries quoted 5,673 5,972 13,977
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,350 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +10.58% -11.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,209 £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 5 April 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 5 April 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 -54 91 £70,000 -3.45% 65
South East -71 64 £62,500 - 44
East of England +18 55 £55,000 +15.79% 25
North of England -57 31 £55,000 +4.76% 33
North West -25 21 £55,000 +4.76% 15
Midlands -61 14 £47,500 -10.38% 15
West Midlands -31 8 £47,500 -11.53% 6
Yorkshire -57 8 £76,997 +62.10% 15
East Midlands -50 6 £47,500 -9.09% 9
South West -54 6 £31,500 -47.50% 3
North East -21 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 20 (7.46%) SharePoint
2 12 (4.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.61%) Confluence
4 5 (1.87%) Anypoint
5 3 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.75%) CMS
6 2 (0.75%) IIS
6 2 (0.75%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.75%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.37%) Apache
7 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.37%) CICS
7 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.37%) JBoss
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.12%) Trello
4 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.37%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.37%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.37%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.87%) Shopify
2 3 (1.12%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.75%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.37%) Magento
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 98 (36.57%) Azure
2 48 (17.91%) AWS
2 48 (17.91%) Power Platform
3 27 (10.07%) Power Automate
4 26 (9.70%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (8.58%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (7.84%) GitHub
7 20 (7.46%) SaaS
7 20 (7.46%) Serverless
8 18 (6.72%) Boomi
9 17 (6.34%) PowerApps
10 16 (5.97%) Azure Logic Apps
11 15 (5.60%) GCP
12 14 (5.22%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (5.22%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (4.48%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (4.10%) OpenShift
15 10 (3.73%) Amazon S3
15 10 (3.73%) Apigee
15 10 (3.73%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.97%) Firewall
2 7 (2.61%) FTP
3 6 (2.24%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (2.24%) VPN
4 4 (1.49%) DNS
4 4 (1.49%) SSL
5 3 (1.12%) AMQP
5 3 (1.12%) BGP
5 3 (1.12%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.75%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.75%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.75%) LAN
6 2 (0.75%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.75%) WAN
7 1 (0.37%) CTI
7 1 (0.37%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (16.42%) Power BI
2 31 (11.57%) SQL Server
3 27 (10.07%) MySQL
3 27 (10.07%) Relational Database
4 20 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (6.72%) Metadata
6 15 (5.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 13 (4.85%) RDBMS
8 11 (4.10%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.24%) Electronic Patient Records
10 6 (2.24%) OLTP
11 5 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.49%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.12%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (1.12%) Data Mining
13 3 (1.12%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.12%) Redis
13 3 (1.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (11.19%) Git
2 27 (10.07%) JIRA
3 18 (6.72%) GitLab
4 16 (5.97%) Jenkins
5 9 (3.36%) JUnit
5 9 (3.36%) Postman
6 7 (2.61%) ERwin
7 6 (2.24%) Mockito
7 6 (2.24%) Selenium
7 6 (2.24%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.87%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.87%) SpecFlow
8 5 (1.87%) Visual Studio
8 5 (1.87%) WebDriver
9 4 (1.49%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.49%) JMeter
9 4 (1.49%) Maven
10 3 (1.12%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.12%) Browser DevTools
11 2 (0.75%) Crashlytics
General
1 111 (41.42%) Social Skills
2 65 (24.25%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (14.18%) Finance
4 25 (9.33%) Law
5 16 (5.97%) Retail
5 16 (5.97%) Telecoms
6 15 (5.60%) German Language
7 12 (4.48%) Public Sector
8 11 (4.10%) Marketing
9 10 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (3.36%) Health Technology
11 7 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.61%) Financial Institution
11 7 (2.61%) Legal
12 4 (1.49%) Advertising
13 3 (1.12%) Local Government
13 3 (1.12%) Publishing
14 2 (0.75%) Electronics
14 2 (0.75%) Front Office
14 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 97 (36.19%) Developer
2 44 (16.42%) Senior
3 35 (13.06%) Senior Developer
4 32 (11.94%) Analyst
5 19 (7.09%) Data Analyst
6 18 (6.72%) Java Developer
7 17 (6.34%) Consultant
8 15 (5.60%) Architect
9 13 (4.85%) Support Engineer
10 11 (4.10%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (4.10%) Network Engineer
10 11 (4.10%) Telecoms Engineer
11 10 (3.73%) Applications Support
11 10 (3.73%) Data Engineer
11 10 (3.73%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.73%) Integration Engineer
12 9 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (3.36%) Oracle Developer
12 9 (3.36%) Senior Oracle Developer
13 8 (2.99%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (57.09%) XML
2 104 (38.81%) REST
3 85 (31.72%) HTML
4 39 (14.55%) SOAP
5 37 (13.81%) CSS
6 32 (11.94%) .NET
6 32 (11.94%) Regular Expression
7 25 (9.33%) RESTful
7 25 (9.33%) Web Services
8 22 (8.21%) YAML
9 19 (7.09%) Spring
10 18 (6.72%) React
11 17 (6.34%) Spring Boot
12 15 (5.60%) Middleware
13 13 (4.85%) .NET Core
13 13 (4.85%) OAuth
14 12 (4.48%) Node.js
15 11 (4.10%) Jinja
15 11 (4.10%) Swagger
16 10 (3.73%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 47 (17.54%) Onboarding
2 36 (13.43%) Linux Command Line
3 30 (11.19%) Data Structures
4 23 (8.58%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (5.97%) Low-Code
6 10 (3.73%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.61%) e-Learning
8 6 (2.24%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.24%) NHS
9 5 (1.87%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.49%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.49%) Social Media
11 3 (1.12%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.12%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.12%) PMI
11 3 (1.12%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.12%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 42 (15.67%) Unix
2 31 (11.57%) Linux
3 8 (2.99%) Windows
4 4 (1.49%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.75%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.37%) Android
7 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (26.49%) Agile
2 66 (24.63%) Problem-Solving
3 60 (22.39%) CI/CD
4 55 (20.52%) DevOps
5 53 (19.78%) AI
6 52 (19.40%) Business Intelligence
7 41 (15.30%) Data Modelling
8 39 (14.55%) Data Analysis
9 32 (11.94%) Microservices
10 31 (11.57%) Analytics
10 31 (11.57%) API Integration
11 30 (11.19%) Containerisation
11 30 (11.19%) User Experience
12 29 (10.82%) LLM
12 29 (10.82%) Validation
13 28 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (10.45%) Test Automation
14 23 (8.58%) ERP
15 22 (8.21%) Task Automation
16 21 (7.84%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 139 (51.87%) SQL
2 105 (39.18%) Python
3 88 (32.84%) JavaScript
4 57 (21.27%) Java
5 34 (12.69%) C#
6 28 (10.45%) PowerShell
7 16 (5.97%) TypeScript
8 13 (4.85%) Shell Script
8 13 (4.85%) T-SQL
9 12 (4.48%) PL/SQL
10 7 (2.61%) PHP
11 6 (2.24%) Groovy
12 4 (1.49%) Bicep
13 3 (1.12%) ActionScript
13 3 (1.12%) ActionScript 2.0
13 3 (1.12%) Perl
13 3 (1.12%) Ruby
14 2 (0.75%) C++
14 2 (0.75%) VB
14 2 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 55 (20.52%) Degree
2 26 (9.70%) Security Cleared
3 16 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (5.97%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.49%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.12%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.12%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.84%) QA
2 18 (6.72%) Data Quality
3 13 (4.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.10%) GDPR
5 8 (2.99%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.99%) HL7
5 8 (2.99%) SLA
6 4 (1.49%) TickIT
7 3 (1.12%) NCSC
7 3 (1.12%) NIST
8 1 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (10.45%) Docker
2 11 (4.10%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.12%) vSphere
4 2 (0.75%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.37%) iptables
Systems Management
1 27 (10.07%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.85%) Ansible
3 12 (4.48%) Terraform
4 5 (1.87%) Kibana
5 4 (1.49%) Packer
6 2 (0.75%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.37%) Grafana
7 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (16.79%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.58%) Oracle
3 16 (5.97%) Cisco
4 13 (4.85%) SAP
5 11 (4.10%) Adobe
5 11 (4.10%) IBM
5 11 (4.10%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.36%) Google
6 9 (3.36%) Palo Alto
6 9 (3.36%) Splunk
7 8 (2.99%) F5
7 8 (2.99%) MuleSoft
8 7 (2.61%) Dell
8 7 (2.61%) Intapp
8 7 (2.61%) Sparx
8 7 (2.61%) Talend
9 6 (2.24%) IFS
9 6 (2.24%) Juniper
9 6 (2.24%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.24%) Workday