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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 341 291
Rank change year-on-year -97 -50 -26
Permanent jobs citing JSON 297 333 831
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.84% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.43% 4.27% 4.56%
Number of salaries quoted 220 262 621
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,813 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,896 £81,250 £73,353
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £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 8,663 7,798 18,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.43% 19.71% 19.26%
Number of salaries quoted 6,602 5,240 14,659
10th Percentile £40,638 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -30 111 £75,000 +11.11% 70
South East -27 79 £60,000 -7.69% 35
North of England -14 48 £55,000 - 25
North West +10 31 £62,500 +13.64% 14
East of England -14 30 £90,000 +89.47% 5
Yorkshire -29 14 £42,750 +5.56% 8
South West -67 11 £50,000 -16.67% 11
Midlands -26 10 £47,500 -16.67% 14
West Midlands -32 6 £41,500 -24.55% 8
East Midlands -25 4 £47,500 -20.83% 6
North East -42 3 £45,000 -41.94% 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 (8.75%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (3.03%) IIS
4 8 (2.69%) CMS
5 7 (2.36%) Confluence
5 7 (2.36%) WordPress
6 6 (2.02%) Apache
7 5 (1.68%) Drupal
8 3 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.67%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.67%) 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 12 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.01%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.67%) 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 (0.67%) 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 Business One
2 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 137 (46.13%) Azure
2 75 (25.25%) AWS
3 59 (19.87%) Power Platform
4 42 (14.14%) Azure Logic Apps
5 41 (13.80%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (13.13%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (10.77%) Serverless
8 25 (8.42%) PowerApps
9 24 (8.08%) Power Automate
9 24 (8.08%) SaaS
10 23 (7.74%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
12 19 (6.40%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (6.40%) OneDrive
13 18 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
14 17 (5.72%) Boomi
14 17 (5.72%) GitHub
15 15 (5.05%) Amazon EC2
16 14 (4.71%) GCP
17 13 (4.38%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.40%) Firewall
2 6 (2.02%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (2.02%) DNS
3 5 (1.68%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.35%) HTTP
4 4 (1.35%) Wireshark
5 3 (1.01%) BGP
5 3 (1.01%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.01%) SSL
5 3 (1.01%) VPN
6 2 (0.67%) AMQP
6 2 (0.67%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.67%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.67%) FTP
6 2 (0.67%) LAN
6 2 (0.67%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.67%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.67%) WAN
7 1 (0.34%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.34%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (16.50%) Power BI
2 35 (11.78%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (9.76%) MySQL
4 22 (7.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 21 (7.07%) Relational Database
6 20 (6.73%) SQL Server
7 19 (6.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 16 (5.39%) Metadata
9 13 (4.38%) RDBMS
9 13 (4.38%) Redis
10 8 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.68%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (1.01%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.01%) Electronic Patient Records
13 3 (1.01%) Power Query
13 3 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (0.67%) DynamoDB
14 2 (0.67%) MariaDB
14 2 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 46 (15.49%) Git
2 35 (11.78%) JIRA
3 24 (8.08%) Jenkins
4 22 (7.41%) GitLab
5 12 (4.04%) Postman
6 10 (3.37%) JUnit
7 8 (2.69%) ERwin
7 8 (2.69%) Maven
8 7 (2.36%) Mockito
8 7 (2.36%) Selenium
9 6 (2.02%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.02%) JMeter
9 6 (2.02%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.68%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.68%) Gradle
10 5 (1.68%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.68%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.35%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.35%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.01%) Visual Studio
General
1 137 (46.13%) Social Skills
2 87 (29.29%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (16.84%) Finance
4 21 (7.07%) Organisational Skills
5 18 (6.06%) Retail
6 15 (5.05%) Telecoms
7 14 (4.71%) Advertising
7 14 (4.71%) Marketing
8 10 (3.37%) Law
9 9 (3.03%) Health Technology
10 7 (2.36%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.68%) Back Office
11 5 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.68%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.01%) Banking
12 3 (1.01%) Local Government
13 2 (0.67%) Billing
13 2 (0.67%) Front Office
13 2 (0.67%) German Language
13 2 (0.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 95 (31.99%) Developer
2 65 (21.89%) Senior
3 45 (15.15%) Senior Developer
4 28 (9.43%) Architect
5 27 (9.09%) Analyst
6 20 (6.73%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (6.73%) Support Engineer
7 19 (6.40%) Data Analyst
8 18 (6.06%) Consultant
9 15 (5.05%) Software Engineer
10 14 (4.71%) Software Developer
11 13 (4.38%) Automation Engineer
11 13 (4.38%) Integration Architect
11 13 (4.38%) Java Developer
11 13 (4.38%) Lead
12 11 (3.70%) Applications Architect
12 11 (3.70%) Network Engineer
12 11 (3.70%) Technical Support
12 11 (3.70%) Telecoms Engineer
13 10 (3.37%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (39.73%) XML
2 116 (39.06%) REST
3 82 (27.61%) HTML
4 66 (22.22%) CSS
5 58 (19.53%) .NET
6 45 (15.15%) SOAP
7 40 (13.47%) .NET Core
8 36 (12.12%) Middleware
9 34 (11.45%) RESTful
10 31 (10.44%) YAML
11 26 (8.75%) JWT
12 22 (7.41%) OAuth
12 22 (7.41%) React
13 21 (7.07%) HTML5 Canvas
14 20 (6.73%) ASP.NET
14 20 (6.73%) Microsoft Graph
15 19 (6.40%) SPFx
16 18 (6.06%) EDI
17 17 (5.72%) HTML5
17 17 (5.72%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.43%) Onboarding
2 24 (8.08%) Data Structures
3 23 (7.74%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (6.73%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (6.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 15 (5.05%) Cloud Native
7 10 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (3.03%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (2.36%) Driving Licence
9 7 (2.36%) e-Learning
9 7 (2.36%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.36%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (2.02%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.68%) Robotics
12 4 (1.35%) Taxonomies
13 3 (1.01%) NHS
13 3 (1.01%) PMI
13 3 (1.01%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 47 (15.82%) Linux
2 30 (10.10%) Windows
3 14 (4.71%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.69%) Unix
5 6 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (29.63%) CI/CD
2 86 (28.96%) DevOps
3 85 (28.62%) Problem-Solving
4 79 (26.60%) Agile
5 53 (17.85%) Microservices
6 52 (17.51%) Data Modelling
7 46 (15.49%) User Experience
8 45 (15.15%) Business Intelligence
9 40 (13.47%) Containerisation
10 39 (13.13%) API Integration
11 37 (12.46%) Infrastructure as Code
12 35 (11.78%) ERP
13 34 (11.45%) Test Automation
14 32 (10.77%) AI
15 30 (10.10%) Analytics
16 29 (9.76%) API Design
16 29 (9.76%) Validation
17 28 (9.43%) Collaborative Working
17 28 (9.43%) Mentoring
17 28 (9.43%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 145 (48.82%) SQL
2 103 (34.68%) JavaScript
3 97 (32.66%) Python
4 61 (20.54%) C#
5 55 (18.52%) Java
6 41 (13.80%) PowerShell
7 25 (8.42%) TypeScript
8 16 (5.39%) PHP
9 14 (4.71%) T-SQL
10 12 (4.04%) Shell Script
11 9 (3.03%) C++
11 9 (3.03%) Ruby
12 6 (2.02%) Groovy
12 6 (2.02%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.35%) VBA
14 3 (1.01%) ActionScript
14 3 (1.01%) ActionScript 2.0
14 3 (1.01%) Bash
14 3 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.01%) Perl
Qualifications
1 40 (13.47%) Degree
2 34 (11.45%) Security Cleared
3 25 (8.42%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.36%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.35%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.01%) CISSP
7 3 (1.01%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (1.01%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.67%) CASP
8 2 (0.67%) CCSP
8 2 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.67%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (11.45%) QA
2 20 (6.73%) Accessibility
3 16 (5.39%) Data Quality
4 12 (4.04%) TickIT
5 11 (3.70%) SLA
6 10 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (2.02%) GDPR
7 6 (2.02%) WCAG
8 4 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.35%) HL7
9 2 (0.67%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.67%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.34%) PERC
System Software
1 41 (13.80%) Docker
2 14 (4.71%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.02%) vSphere
4 4 (1.35%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (9.43%) Kubernetes
1 28 (9.43%) Terraform
2 12 (4.04%) Ansible
3 6 (2.02%) Kibana
4 4 (1.35%) Packer
5 2 (0.67%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.34%) QRadar
Vendors
1 82 (27.61%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.08%) Adobe
3 16 (5.39%) Cisco
4 15 (5.05%) Splunk
5 13 (4.38%) Oracle
5 13 (4.38%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.03%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.69%) F5
7 8 (2.69%) VMware
8 7 (2.36%) Dynatrace
8 7 (2.36%) Sparx
9 6 (2.02%) Google
9 6 (2.02%) Juniper
9 6 (2.02%) SAP
10 5 (1.68%) IBM
10 5 (1.68%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.68%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.35%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.35%) Databricks
12 3 (1.01%) Fortinet