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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 296 237
Rank change year-on-year -105 -59 +28
Permanent jobs citing JSON 240 435 814
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 0.97% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.63% 4.39% 5.39%
Number of salaries quoted 172 292 668
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £39,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,125 £49,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £63,000 £64,097
Median % change year-on-year -6.75% -1.71% -8.43%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £81,563
90th Percentile £81,261 £86,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -7.59%

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 6,613 9,903 15,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.35% 22.13% 22.94%
Number of salaries quoted 5,072 5,974 12,869
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,250 £101,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.66% +7.48% -8.89%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 86 £75,000 +3.45% 57
South East -62 54 £55,000 -12.00% 37
East of England +36 45 £55,000 -11.18% 7
North of England -32 27 £55,000 -4.35% 28
Midlands -10 24 £47,500 -9.52% 18
North West +16 18 £55,000 -4.35% 19
West Midlands -2 18 £47,500 -11.53% 13
East Midlands -21 6 £60,000 +15.38% 5
Yorkshire -45 5 £43,500 -17.14% 7
North East -4 4 £45,000 -41.94% 2
South West -29 1 £60,000 -11.11% 13
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 (3.75%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.50%) Confluence
4 5 (2.08%) Anypoint
5 4 (1.67%) CMS
6 3 (1.25%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.83%) IIS
7 2 (0.83%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.83%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.42%) Apache
8 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.42%) Appian
8 1 (0.42%) CICS
8 1 (0.42%) JBoss
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (2.92%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.25%) Trello
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.50%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.08%) Shopify
3 3 (1.25%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.42%) Magento
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 83 (34.58%) Azure
2 37 (15.42%) AWS
3 33 (13.75%) Power Platform
4 27 (11.25%) GitHub
5 23 (9.58%) Power Automate
6 19 (7.92%) Serverless
7 18 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (6.25%) Boomi
9 13 (5.42%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (5.42%) GCP
9 13 (5.42%) PowerApps
9 13 (5.42%) SaaS
10 11 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (4.58%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (4.58%) iPaaS
11 10 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (4.17%) PaaS
12 8 (3.33%) Entra ID
13 6 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.92%) FTP
1 7 (2.92%) VPN
2 4 (1.67%) Firewall
3 3 (1.25%) AMQP
3 3 (1.25%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (1.25%) Ethernet
3 3 (1.25%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.25%) LAN
3 3 (1.25%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.25%) WAN
4 2 (0.83%) BGP
4 2 (0.83%) DNS
5 1 (0.42%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.42%) CTI
5 1 (0.42%) DHCP
5 1 (0.42%) HTTP
5 1 (0.42%) SSL
5 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.42%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (15.42%) Relational Database
2 36 (15.00%) SQL Server
3 26 (10.83%) Power BI
4 25 (10.42%) MySQL
5 20 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (5.42%) RDBMS
7 10 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (3.75%) NoSQL
9 8 (3.33%) Metadata
10 6 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.50%) Electronic Patient Records
10 6 (2.50%) OLTP
11 5 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.25%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (1.25%) Power Query
13 2 (0.83%) Big Data
13 2 (0.83%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (7.92%) Jenkins
2 17 (7.08%) Git
3 14 (5.83%) Postman
4 13 (5.42%) JUnit
5 10 (4.17%) JIRA
5 10 (4.17%) JMeter
6 9 (3.75%) Mockito
7 6 (2.50%) Axure RP
8 5 (2.08%) Selenium
8 5 (2.08%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.67%) Maven
10 3 (1.25%) GitLab
10 3 (1.25%) WebDriver
11 2 (0.83%) Crashlytics
11 2 (0.83%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.42%) Android Studio
12 1 (0.42%) Gradle
12 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.42%) Testinfra
General
1 84 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 46 (19.17%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (16.67%) Finance
4 30 (12.50%) Law
5 27 (11.25%) Retail
6 19 (7.92%) Public Sector
7 15 (6.25%) German Language
8 10 (4.17%) Marketing
9 7 (2.92%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.50%) Health Technology
10 6 (2.50%) Legal
11 3 (1.25%) Electronics
11 3 (1.25%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.83%) Publishing
13 1 (0.42%) Automotive
13 1 (0.42%) Banking
13 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.42%) Local Government
13 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 101 (42.08%) Developer
2 32 (13.33%) Senior
3 30 (12.50%) Analyst
4 28 (11.67%) Senior Developer
5 17 (7.08%) Java Developer
6 13 (5.42%) Data Analyst
6 13 (5.42%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (5.00%) Architect
7 12 (5.00%) Support Engineer
8 11 (4.58%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 10 (4.17%) Consultant
10 9 (3.75%) Integration Engineer
10 9 (3.75%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 9 (3.75%) Oracle Developer
10 9 (3.75%) Senior Oracle Developer
10 9 (3.75%) ServiceNow Developer
11 8 (3.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 8 (3.33%) Lead
12 7 (2.92%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
12 7 (2.92%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (59.58%) XML
2 110 (45.83%) REST
3 79 (32.92%) HTML
4 31 (12.92%) SOAP
4 31 (12.92%) Web Services
5 29 (12.08%) Regular Expression
6 26 (10.83%) CSS
6 26 (10.83%) React
7 20 (8.33%) Spring
8 18 (7.50%) Spring Boot
9 16 (6.67%) .NET
9 16 (6.67%) RESTful
10 15 (6.25%) Middleware
11 13 (5.42%) Hibernate
12 11 (4.58%) AngularJS
12 11 (4.58%) jQuery
12 11 (4.58%) Node.js
12 11 (4.58%) Razor View Engine
13 10 (4.17%) OAuth
13 10 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (21.67%) Onboarding
2 35 (14.58%) Linux Command Line
3 23 (9.58%) Data Structures
4 18 (7.50%) Low-Code
5 16 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (4.17%) Operational Technology
7 8 (3.33%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.50%) NHS
9 5 (2.08%) Data Centre
9 5 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.67%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.67%) Semantic Web
11 3 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.25%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.25%) PMI
11 3 (1.25%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.25%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.25%) Social Media
12 2 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (15.42%) Unix
2 17 (7.08%) Linux
3 3 (1.25%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.25%) Windows
4 1 (0.42%) Android
4 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.42%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (28.33%) Agile
2 66 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (22.08%) CI/CD
4 51 (21.25%) AI
5 42 (17.50%) DevOps
6 36 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
6 36 (15.00%) Data Analysis
7 35 (14.58%) Data Modelling
8 34 (14.17%) LLM
9 30 (12.50%) Validation
10 29 (12.08%) API Integration
10 29 (12.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (11.25%) ETL
12 25 (10.42%) Test Automation
12 25 (10.42%) User Experience
13 23 (9.58%) Analytics
13 23 (9.58%) Microservices
14 22 (9.17%) Workflow
15 21 (8.75%) SDLC
16 19 (7.92%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 119 (49.58%) SQL
2 91 (37.92%) Python
3 85 (35.42%) JavaScript
4 48 (20.00%) Java
5 36 (15.00%) C#
6 34 (14.17%) PowerShell
7 14 (5.83%) Shell Script
7 14 (5.83%) T-SQL
8 11 (4.58%) PL/SQL
9 6 (2.50%) Bicep
10 5 (2.08%) PHP
10 5 (2.08%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.25%) ActionScript
11 3 (1.25%) ActionScript 2.0
12 2 (0.83%) Bash
12 2 (0.83%) C++
12 2 (0.83%) Ruby
13 1 (0.42%) COBOL
13 1 (0.42%) VB
13 1 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 47 (19.58%) Degree
2 26 (10.83%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.25%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (1.25%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.42%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.42%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.50%) Data Quality
2 17 (7.08%) QA
3 14 (5.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.58%) GDPR
5 10 (4.17%) Accessibility
6 9 (3.75%) HL7
7 5 (2.08%) NCSC
7 5 (2.08%) NIST
8 2 (0.83%) SLA
9 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (12.50%) Docker
2 7 (2.92%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.25%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.42%) iptables
Systems Management
1 26 (10.83%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.17%) Ansible
2 10 (4.17%) Terraform
3 9 (3.75%) Kibana
4 3 (1.25%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.42%) Grafana
6 1 (0.42%) Packer
6 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.75%) Oracle
3 14 (5.83%) SAP
4 11 (4.58%) Splunk
5 9 (3.75%) Dell
5 9 (3.75%) Dynatrace
5 9 (3.75%) Google
5 9 (3.75%) MuleSoft
5 9 (3.75%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.75%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.92%) Informatica
6 7 (2.92%) SnapLogic
6 7 (2.92%) Talend
7 6 (2.50%) Cisco
7 6 (2.50%) IBM
7 6 (2.50%) IFS
7 6 (2.50%) Intapp
7 6 (2.50%) Workday
8 5 (2.08%) Jitterbit
8 5 (2.08%) TIBCO