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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 344 306
Rank change year-on-year -71 -38 -36
Permanent jobs citing JSON 302 337 829
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.84% 0.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.41% 4.32% 4.49%
Number of salaries quoted 226 264 620
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £34,715
25th Percentile £46,319 £48,438 £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 £79,189 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,125 £83,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £63,000 £58,350
% change year-on-year -0.79% +7.97% -10.23%

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 8,846 7,807 18,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.51% 19.51% 19.27%
Number of salaries quoted 6,760 5,267 14,848
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,825 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,296 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -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 22 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 22 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 -29 110 £75,000 +11.11% 44
South East -28 84 £60,000 -7.69% 35
North of England -17 49 £55,000 - 16
North West +7 30 £62,500 +13.64% 11
East of England -16 29 £90,000 +89.47% 4
Yorkshire -22 14 £42,750 +5.56% 4
South West -73 13 £52,500 -12.50% 9
Midlands -44 9 £47,500 -16.67% 12
West Midlands -30 5 £43,000 -21.82% 6
North East -46 5 £45,000 -41.94% 1
East Midlands -25 4 £47,500 -20.83% 6
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 27 (8.94%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (3.31%) Confluence
4 9 (2.98%) IIS
5 8 (2.65%) CMS
6 7 (2.32%) WordPress
7 6 (1.99%) Apache
8 5 (1.66%) Drupal
9 3 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.66%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.66%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.33%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.33%) JBoss
11 1 (0.33%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 13 (4.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.99%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.99%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.33%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.33%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.33%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.33%) Magento
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.33%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 140 (46.36%) Azure
2 76 (25.17%) AWS
3 60 (19.87%) Power Platform
4 42 (13.91%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (13.91%) Azure Logic Apps
4 42 (13.91%) Microsoft 365
5 32 (10.60%) Serverless
6 26 (8.61%) SaaS
7 25 (8.28%) PowerApps
8 24 (7.95%) Power Automate
9 23 (7.62%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (7.62%) Azure Data Factory
10 19 (6.29%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 19 (6.29%) Dynamics 365
10 19 (6.29%) GitHub
10 19 (6.29%) OneDrive
11 17 (5.63%) Boomi
12 15 (4.97%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (4.64%) GCP
14 13 (4.30%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.29%) Firewall
2 6 (1.99%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (1.99%) DNS
3 5 (1.66%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.32%) HTTP
4 4 (1.32%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.99%) BGP
5 3 (0.99%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.99%) SSL
6 2 (0.66%) AMQP
6 2 (0.66%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.66%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.66%) LAN
6 2 (0.66%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.66%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.66%) VPN
6 2 (0.66%) WAN
7 1 (0.33%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.33%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.33%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (16.23%) Power BI
2 36 (11.92%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (9.27%) MySQL
4 22 (7.28%) Relational Database
4 22 (7.28%) SQL Server
4 22 (7.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 20 (6.62%) Azure SQL Database
6 17 (5.63%) Metadata
7 14 (4.64%) Redis
8 12 (3.97%) RDBMS
9 8 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.99%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.32%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.99%) Power Query
12 3 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.66%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.66%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 50 (16.56%) Git
2 38 (12.58%) JIRA
3 24 (7.95%) Jenkins
4 23 (7.62%) GitLab
5 12 (3.97%) Postman
6 10 (3.31%) JUnit
7 8 (2.65%) ERwin
7 8 (2.65%) Maven
8 7 (2.32%) Mockito
8 7 (2.32%) Selenium
9 6 (1.99%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.99%) JMeter
9 6 (1.99%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.66%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.66%) Gradle
10 5 (1.66%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.66%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.32%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.32%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 142 (47.02%) Social Skills
2 90 (29.80%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (16.89%) Finance
4 22 (7.28%) Organisational Skills
5 19 (6.29%) Retail
6 15 (4.97%) Telecoms
7 14 (4.64%) Advertising
7 14 (4.64%) Marketing
8 10 (3.31%) Law
9 8 (2.65%) Health Technology
10 7 (2.32%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.66%) Back Office
12 5 (1.66%) Public Sector
13 4 (1.32%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.99%) Banking
14 3 (0.99%) Local Government
14 3 (0.99%) Publishing
15 2 (0.66%) Billing
15 2 (0.66%) Legal
Job Titles
1 100 (33.11%) Developer
2 64 (21.19%) Senior
3 45 (14.90%) Senior Developer
4 29 (9.60%) Architect
5 28 (9.27%) Analyst
6 20 (6.62%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (6.62%) Support Engineer
7 19 (6.29%) Data Analyst
8 16 (5.30%) Consultant
8 16 (5.30%) Software Engineer
9 15 (4.97%) Software Developer
10 14 (4.64%) Integration Architect
11 13 (4.30%) Automation Engineer
11 13 (4.30%) Java Developer
11 13 (4.30%) Lead
12 12 (3.97%) Technical Support
13 11 (3.64%) Applications Architect
13 11 (3.64%) Applications Engineer
13 11 (3.64%) Network Engineer
13 11 (3.64%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (39.74%) XML
2 116 (38.41%) REST
3 83 (27.48%) HTML
4 69 (22.85%) CSS
5 60 (19.87%) .NET
6 46 (15.23%) SOAP
7 40 (13.25%) .NET Core
8 38 (12.58%) Middleware
9 36 (11.92%) RESTful
10 31 (10.26%) YAML
11 27 (8.94%) JWT
12 23 (7.62%) React
13 22 (7.28%) OAuth
14 21 (6.95%) ASP.NET
14 21 (6.95%) HTML5 Canvas
15 20 (6.62%) Microsoft Graph
16 19 (6.29%) SPFx
17 18 (5.96%) EDI
17 18 (5.96%) HTML5
18 17 (5.63%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.27%) Onboarding
2 24 (7.95%) Data Structures
2 24 (7.95%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (6.62%) Analytical Mindset
3 20 (6.62%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (5.63%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.98%) Enterprise Cloud
5 9 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.32%) Driving Licence
6 7 (2.32%) e-Learning
6 7 (2.32%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.32%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.99%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.99%) Robotics
8 4 (1.32%) Taxonomies
9 3 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.99%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.99%) PMI
9 3 (0.99%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 47 (15.56%) Linux
2 32 (10.60%) Windows
3 14 (4.64%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.99%) Unix
5 4 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (29.14%) CI/CD
1 88 (29.14%) DevOps
1 88 (29.14%) Problem-Solving
2 83 (27.48%) Agile
3 54 (17.88%) Data Modelling
4 53 (17.55%) Microservices
5 46 (15.23%) User Experience
6 45 (14.90%) Business Intelligence
7 41 (13.58%) Containerisation
8 39 (12.91%) API Integration
9 38 (12.58%) Infrastructure as Code
10 34 (11.26%) ERP
10 34 (11.26%) Test Automation
11 31 (10.26%) AI
12 30 (9.93%) API Design
12 30 (9.93%) Validation
13 29 (9.60%) Analytics
13 29 (9.60%) Integration Patterns
13 29 (9.60%) Mentoring
13 29 (9.60%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 149 (49.34%) SQL
2 104 (34.44%) JavaScript
3 96 (31.79%) Python
4 64 (21.19%) C#
5 56 (18.54%) Java
6 41 (13.58%) PowerShell
7 25 (8.28%) TypeScript
8 17 (5.63%) PHP
9 16 (5.30%) T-SQL
10 12 (3.97%) Shell Script
11 10 (3.31%) C++
11 10 (3.31%) Ruby
12 6 (1.99%) Groovy
12 6 (1.99%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (1.32%) VBA
14 3 (0.99%) Bash
14 3 (0.99%) Bicep
14 3 (0.99%) Perl
15 2 (0.66%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 39 (12.91%) Degree
2 34 (11.26%) Security Cleared
3 25 (8.28%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.32%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.66%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.99%) CISSP
7 3 (0.99%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.99%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (0.99%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.66%) CASP
8 2 (0.66%) CCSP
8 2 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.66%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.59%) QA
2 20 (6.62%) Accessibility
3 17 (5.63%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.97%) TickIT
5 11 (3.64%) SLA
6 10 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.99%) GDPR
7 6 (1.99%) WCAG
8 4 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.99%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.99%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.66%) HL7
11 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.33%) PERC
11 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 42 (13.91%) Docker
2 14 (4.64%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.99%) vSphere
4 4 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.66%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (9.27%) Kubernetes
1 28 (9.27%) Terraform
2 12 (3.97%) Ansible
3 6 (1.99%) Kibana
4 4 (1.32%) Packer
5 2 (0.66%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.33%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 87 (28.81%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.95%) Adobe
3 16 (5.30%) Cisco
4 15 (4.97%) Splunk
5 13 (4.30%) Oracle
5 13 (4.30%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.98%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.65%) F5
7 8 (2.65%) VMware
8 7 (2.32%) Dynatrace
8 7 (2.32%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.32%) Sparx
9 6 (1.99%) Google
9 6 (1.99%) Juniper
9 6 (1.99%) MuleSoft
9 6 (1.99%) SAP
10 5 (1.66%) IBM
11 4 (1.32%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.32%) Databricks
12 3 (0.99%) OpenAI