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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 293 252
Rank change year-on-year -121 -41 +31
Permanent jobs citing JSON 280 360 901
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.98% 1.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.67% 4.61% 5.36%
Number of salaries quoted 196 289 717
10th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,882 £46,960 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -9.03%
75th Percentile £75,250 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,875 £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 7,628 7,812 16,815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.13% 21.22% 20.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5,788 5,939 14,045
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,296 £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 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -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 13 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 13 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 -36 96 £70,000 -3.45% 76
South East -73 64 £62,500 -1.96% 63
East of England +13 57 £55,000 +15.79% 23
North of England -63 36 £55,000 +4.76% 29
North West -26 25 £55,000 +4.76% 16
Midlands -63 13 £47,500 -9.95% 13
Yorkshire -63 9 £73,499 +40.00% 12
West Midlands -24 8 £47,500 -11.53% 4
South West -58 6 £31,500 -49.60% 12
East Midlands -55 5 £50,750 -2.87% 9
North East -30 2 £46,250 -40.32% 1
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 22 (7.86%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.50%) Confluence
4 5 (1.79%) Anypoint
5 3 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.07%) IIS
6 2 (0.71%) CMS
6 2 (0.71%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.71%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.36%) Apache
7 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.36%) CICS
7 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.36%) JBoss
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.07%) Trello
4 2 (0.71%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.36%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.36%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.79%) Shopify
2 3 (1.07%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.71%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.36%) Magento
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 104 (37.14%) Azure
2 53 (18.93%) AWS
3 52 (18.57%) Power Platform
4 29 (10.36%) Power Automate
5 28 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (8.21%) Serverless
8 21 (7.50%) Boomi
8 21 (7.50%) GitHub
8 21 (7.50%) SaaS
9 19 (6.79%) PowerApps
10 18 (6.43%) Azure Logic Apps
11 16 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (5.36%) GCP
13 14 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
14 13 (4.64%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (4.29%) Apigee
16 11 (3.93%) Amazon S3
16 11 (3.93%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.71%) Firewall
2 7 (2.50%) FTP
3 6 (2.14%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (2.14%) VPN
4 4 (1.43%) DNS
4 4 (1.43%) SSL
5 3 (1.07%) AMQP
5 3 (1.07%) BGP
5 3 (1.07%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.71%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.71%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.71%) LAN
6 2 (0.71%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.71%) WAN
7 1 (0.36%) CTI
7 1 (0.36%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (17.14%) Power BI
2 29 (10.36%) SQL Server
3 28 (10.00%) MySQL
4 26 (9.29%) Relational Database
5 23 (8.21%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (6.43%) Metadata
6 18 (6.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 13 (4.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (4.64%) RDBMS
8 9 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.14%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (2.14%) OLTP
10 5 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.43%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.43%) Power Query
11 4 (1.43%) Redis
12 3 (1.07%) Data Mining
12 3 (1.07%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.07%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (11.07%) Git
1 31 (11.07%) JIRA
2 19 (6.79%) GitLab
3 17 (6.07%) Jenkins
4 11 (3.93%) Postman
5 9 (3.21%) JUnit
6 7 (2.50%) ERwin
7 6 (2.14%) Mockito
7 6 (2.14%) Selenium
7 6 (2.14%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.79%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.79%) Maven
8 5 (1.79%) SpecFlow
8 5 (1.79%) Visual Studio
8 5 (1.79%) WebDriver
9 4 (1.43%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.43%) Browser DevTools
9 4 (1.43%) JMeter
10 3 (1.07%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.71%) Gradle
General
1 119 (42.50%) Social Skills
2 73 (26.07%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (13.93%) Finance
4 25 (8.93%) Law
5 17 (6.07%) Retail
6 16 (5.71%) Telecoms
7 15 (5.36%) German Language
8 14 (5.00%) Marketing
9 12 (4.29%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (4.29%) Public Sector
10 11 (3.93%) Health Technology
11 7 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.50%) Financial Institution
11 7 (2.50%) Legal
12 5 (1.79%) Advertising
13 3 (1.07%) Local Government
13 3 (1.07%) Publishing
14 2 (0.71%) Electronics
14 2 (0.71%) Front Office
14 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 99 (35.36%) Developer
2 49 (17.50%) Senior
3 40 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 34 (12.14%) Analyst
5 20 (7.14%) Data Analyst
6 18 (6.43%) Architect
6 18 (6.43%) Java Developer
7 17 (6.07%) Consultant
8 15 (5.36%) Support Engineer
9 11 (3.93%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (3.93%) Data Engineer
9 11 (3.93%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (3.93%) Network Engineer
9 11 (3.93%) Telecoms Engineer
10 10 (3.57%) Applications Support
11 9 (3.21%) Applications Architect
11 9 (3.21%) Integration Engineer
11 9 (3.21%) Oracle Developer
11 9 (3.21%) Senior Oracle Developer
12 8 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (55.36%) XML
2 108 (38.57%) REST
3 89 (31.79%) HTML
4 45 (16.07%) SOAP
5 41 (14.64%) CSS
6 33 (11.79%) .NET
7 32 (11.43%) Regular Expression
8 28 (10.00%) RESTful
9 25 (8.93%) Web Services
10 24 (8.57%) YAML
11 20 (7.14%) Middleware
12 19 (6.79%) Spring
13 17 (6.07%) Spring Boot
14 15 (5.36%) .NET Core
14 15 (5.36%) React
15 14 (5.00%) OAuth
16 13 (4.64%) Swagger
17 12 (4.29%) HTML5 Canvas
17 12 (4.29%) JWT
17 12 (4.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 47 (16.79%) Onboarding
2 36 (12.86%) Linux Command Line
3 30 (10.71%) Data Structures
4 23 (8.21%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (6.07%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (5.36%) Low-Code
7 12 (4.29%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (2.50%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.50%) e-Learning
9 6 (2.14%) NHS
9 6 (2.14%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.79%) Social Media
11 4 (1.43%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.43%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.43%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.07%) Driving Licence
12 3 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.07%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 42 (15.00%) Unix
2 32 (11.43%) Linux
3 8 (2.86%) Windows
4 5 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.71%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.36%) Android
7 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.36%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (26.07%) Agile
1 73 (26.07%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (22.14%) CI/CD
3 59 (21.07%) DevOps
4 53 (18.93%) Business Intelligence
5 52 (18.57%) AI
6 44 (15.71%) Data Modelling
7 43 (15.36%) Data Analysis
8 33 (11.79%) API Integration
8 33 (11.79%) Microservices
9 32 (11.43%) Analytics
9 32 (11.43%) Containerisation
9 32 (11.43%) User Experience
10 31 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (11.07%) Validation
11 29 (10.36%) LLM
12 28 (10.00%) ERP
12 28 (10.00%) Test Automation
13 23 (8.21%) Task Automation
13 23 (8.21%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 147 (52.50%) SQL
2 108 (38.57%) Python
3 93 (33.21%) JavaScript
4 59 (21.07%) Java
5 35 (12.50%) C#
6 29 (10.36%) PowerShell
7 16 (5.71%) TypeScript
8 13 (4.64%) Shell Script
8 13 (4.64%) T-SQL
9 12 (4.29%) PL/SQL
10 8 (2.86%) PHP
11 6 (2.14%) Groovy
12 4 (1.43%) Bicep
12 4 (1.43%) Ruby
13 3 (1.07%) ActionScript
13 3 (1.07%) ActionScript 2.0
13 3 (1.07%) Perl
13 3 (1.07%) VBA
14 2 (0.71%) Bash
14 2 (0.71%) R
Qualifications
1 55 (19.64%) Degree
2 26 (9.29%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (6.07%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.43%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.07%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.07%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.07%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.57%) QA
2 17 (6.07%) Data Quality
3 13 (4.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.93%) GDPR
5 10 (3.57%) SLA
6 8 (2.86%) HL7
7 7 (2.50%) Accessibility
7 7 (2.50%) TickIT
8 3 (1.07%) NCSC
8 3 (1.07%) NIST
9 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (11.43%) Docker
2 11 (3.93%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.07%) vSphere
4 2 (0.71%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.36%) iptables
Systems Management
1 30 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.00%) Ansible
3 13 (4.64%) Terraform
4 5 (1.79%) Kibana
5 4 (1.43%) Packer
6 2 (0.71%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.36%) Grafana
7 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.21%) Oracle
3 16 (5.71%) Cisco
4 14 (5.00%) Adobe
5 13 (4.64%) SAP
6 11 (3.93%) IBM
6 11 (3.93%) Red Hat
7 9 (3.21%) Google
7 9 (3.21%) Palo Alto
7 9 (3.21%) Splunk
8 8 (2.86%) F5
8 8 (2.86%) MuleSoft
9 7 (2.50%) Dell
9 7 (2.50%) Intapp
9 7 (2.50%) Sparx
9 7 (2.50%) Talend
10 6 (2.14%) IFS
10 6 (2.14%) Juniper
10 6 (2.14%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.14%) Workday