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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 311 255
Rank change year-on-year -108 -56 +31
Permanent jobs citing JSON 284 358 887
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.96% 1.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.67% 4.60% 5.26%
Number of salaries quoted 197 284 703
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £47,092 £46,960 £44,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,625 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% +2.71% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,250 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,500 £90,000 £87,500
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 7,746 7,785 16,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.00% 20.84% 20.45%
Number of salaries quoted 5,856 5,911 14,075
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,295 £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 £100,038
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 20 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 20 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 -32 93 £68,000 -4.56% 43
South East -74 65 £62,500 -3.85% 30
East of England +5 59 £55,000 +15.79% 6
North of England -51 41 £55,000 +4.76% 26
North West -21 27 £55,000 +4.76% 14
Midlands -58 12 £47,500 -9.95% 14
Yorkshire -59 12 £73,499 +40.00% 11
West Midlands -46 7 £43,000 -19.91% 5
South West -59 6 £31,500 -49.60% 6
East Midlands -60 5 £50,750 -2.87% 9
North East -37 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 24 (8.45%) SharePoint
2 14 (4.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.11%) Confluence
4 4 (1.41%) IIS
5 3 (1.06%) Anypoint
5 3 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.70%) CMS
6 2 (0.70%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.70%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.35%) Apache
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.35%) CICS
7 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.35%) JBoss
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.06%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.70%) Trello
5 1 (0.35%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.35%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Shopify
2 2 (0.70%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.70%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.35%) Magento
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 108 (38.03%) Azure
2 53 (18.66%) AWS
2 53 (18.66%) Power Platform
3 28 (9.86%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (9.51%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (9.51%) Power Automate
5 25 (8.80%) Serverless
6 23 (8.10%) SaaS
7 21 (7.39%) PowerApps
8 20 (7.04%) Azure Logic Apps
9 19 (6.69%) Boomi
9 19 (6.69%) GitHub
10 18 (6.34%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (5.28%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (4.93%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (4.93%) Dynamics 365
12 14 (4.93%) GCP
13 12 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (4.23%) Amazon S3
13 12 (4.23%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.99%) Firewall
2 7 (2.46%) FTP
3 6 (2.11%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (2.11%) VPN
4 5 (1.76%) DNS
5 4 (1.41%) SSL
6 3 (1.06%) AMQP
6 3 (1.06%) BGP
6 3 (1.06%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.70%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.70%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.70%) LAN
7 2 (0.70%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.70%) WAN
8 1 (0.35%) CTI
8 1 (0.35%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (17.25%) Power BI
2 29 (10.21%) MySQL
3 27 (9.51%) SQL Server
4 24 (8.45%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (8.45%) Relational Database
5 21 (7.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 20 (7.04%) Metadata
7 14 (4.93%) Azure SQL Database
8 13 (4.58%) RDBMS
9 9 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.11%) Electronic Patient Records
10 6 (2.11%) OLTP
11 5 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.41%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.41%) Power Query
12 4 (1.41%) Redis
13 3 (1.06%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 33 (11.62%) JIRA
2 32 (11.27%) Git
3 19 (6.69%) GitLab
4 18 (6.34%) Jenkins
5 11 (3.87%) Postman
6 9 (3.17%) JUnit
7 7 (2.46%) ERwin
8 6 (2.11%) Maven
8 6 (2.11%) Mockito
8 6 (2.11%) Selenium
8 6 (2.11%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.76%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (1.76%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.76%) SpecFlow
9 5 (1.76%) Visual Studio
9 5 (1.76%) WebDriver
10 4 (1.41%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.41%) JMeter
11 3 (1.06%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.06%) Gradle
General
1 120 (42.25%) Social Skills
2 76 (26.76%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (15.14%) Finance
4 22 (7.75%) Law
5 18 (6.34%) Retail
6 16 (5.63%) Telecoms
7 15 (5.28%) German Language
7 15 (5.28%) Marketing
8 13 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (4.23%) Health Technology
10 11 (3.87%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.46%) Financial Institution
12 6 (2.11%) Advertising
13 5 (1.76%) Legal
14 3 (1.06%) Local Government
14 3 (1.06%) Publishing
15 2 (0.70%) Electronics
15 2 (0.70%) Front Office
15 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 96 (33.80%) Developer
2 52 (18.31%) Senior
3 43 (15.14%) Senior Developer
4 34 (11.97%) Analyst
5 22 (7.75%) Architect
6 21 (7.39%) Data Analyst
7 17 (5.99%) Consultant
7 17 (5.99%) Java Developer
8 15 (5.28%) Support Engineer
9 11 (3.87%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (3.87%) Data Engineer
9 11 (3.87%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (3.87%) Network Engineer
9 11 (3.87%) Telecoms Engineer
10 10 (3.52%) Applications Architect
10 10 (3.52%) Applications Support
10 10 (3.52%) Lead
11 9 (3.17%) Oracle Developer
11 9 (3.17%) Senior Oracle Developer
11 9 (3.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (53.87%) XML
2 106 (37.32%) REST
3 93 (32.75%) HTML
4 48 (16.90%) SOAP
5 45 (15.85%) CSS
6 36 (12.68%) .NET
7 33 (11.62%) Regular Expression
8 27 (9.51%) RESTful
9 25 (8.80%) YAML
10 24 (8.45%) Middleware
11 23 (8.10%) Web Services
12 19 (6.69%) Spring
13 17 (5.99%) .NET Core
13 17 (5.99%) Spring Boot
14 15 (5.28%) HTML5 Canvas
14 15 (5.28%) OAuth
15 14 (4.93%) React
16 13 (4.58%) EDI
16 13 (4.58%) JWT
16 13 (4.58%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 46 (16.20%) Onboarding
2 36 (12.68%) Linux Command Line
3 29 (10.21%) Data Structures
4 23 (8.10%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (6.34%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (4.93%) Analytical Mindset
7 12 (4.23%) Low-Code
8 8 (2.82%) Cloud Native
9 7 (2.46%) e-Learning
10 6 (2.11%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (2.11%) NHS
10 6 (2.11%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.76%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.76%) Social Media
12 4 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.41%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.41%) Taxonomies
13 3 (1.06%) Data Centre
13 3 (1.06%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 40 (14.08%) Unix
2 32 (11.27%) Linux
3 10 (3.52%) Windows
4 7 (2.46%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.70%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.35%) Android
7 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (25.70%) Problem-Solving
2 71 (25.00%) Agile
3 64 (22.54%) CI/CD
4 63 (22.18%) DevOps
5 52 (18.31%) AI
5 52 (18.31%) Business Intelligence
6 46 (16.20%) Data Analysis
6 46 (16.20%) Data Modelling
7 34 (11.97%) API Integration
7 34 (11.97%) Microservices
8 33 (11.62%) User Experience
9 31 (10.92%) Analytics
9 31 (10.92%) Containerisation
9 31 (10.92%) Validation
10 30 (10.56%) ERP
11 29 (10.21%) LLM
12 28 (9.86%) Test Automation
13 27 (9.51%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (8.10%) Collaborative Working
14 23 (8.10%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 150 (52.82%) SQL
2 107 (37.68%) Python
3 93 (32.75%) JavaScript
4 60 (21.13%) Java
5 36 (12.68%) C#
6 30 (10.56%) PowerShell
7 17 (5.99%) TypeScript
8 12 (4.23%) PL/SQL
8 12 (4.23%) Shell Script
9 11 (3.87%) T-SQL
10 9 (3.17%) PHP
11 6 (2.11%) Groovy
12 4 (1.41%) Ruby
12 4 (1.41%) VBA
13 3 (1.06%) ActionScript
13 3 (1.06%) ActionScript 2.0
13 3 (1.06%) Bicep
13 3 (1.06%) Perl
14 2 (0.70%) Bash
14 2 (0.70%) R
Qualifications
1 55 (19.37%) Degree
2 26 (9.15%) Security Cleared
3 17 (5.99%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.76%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.06%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.06%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.06%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.15%) QA
2 17 (5.99%) Data Quality
3 13 (4.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.87%) SLA
5 9 (3.17%) GDPR
5 9 (3.17%) TickIT
6 8 (2.82%) HL7
7 6 (2.11%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.06%) NCSC
8 3 (1.06%) NIST
9 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (10.92%) Docker
2 12 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.41%) vSphere
4 2 (0.70%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.35%) iptables
Systems Management
1 29 (10.21%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.28%) Ansible
3 13 (4.58%) Terraform
4 5 (1.76%) Kibana
5 4 (1.41%) Packer
6 2 (0.70%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.35%) Grafana
7 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (20.07%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.39%) Oracle
3 17 (5.99%) Adobe
4 16 (5.63%) Cisco
5 11 (3.87%) Red Hat
6 10 (3.52%) SAP
7 9 (3.17%) IBM
7 9 (3.17%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.82%) F5
8 8 (2.82%) Google
8 8 (2.82%) Splunk
9 7 (2.46%) Sparx
10 6 (2.11%) Juniper
10 6 (2.11%) MuleSoft
10 6 (2.11%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.11%) VMware
11 5 (1.76%) Dell
11 5 (1.76%) Intapp
11 5 (1.76%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.76%) Talend