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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 310 205
Rank change year-on-year -41 -105 +33
Permanent jobs citing JSON 276 520 766
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 0.89% 1.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.49% 4.27% 6.37%
Number of salaries quoted 203 330 650
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,813 £85,938
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,875 £106,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -14.81% -1.92%

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 6,149 12,178 12,024
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.07% 20.96% 26.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4,654 7,374 9,971
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 2025. 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 -15 99 £75,000 +7.14% 38
South East -24 71 £60,000 -5.88% 37
East of England +58 61 £55,000 -13.73% 17
North of England -24 26 £52,500 -4.55% 22
Midlands +12 24 £47,500 -9.52% 15
North West +26 19 £55,000 - 10
West Midlands +29 18 £47,500 -17.39% 9
East Midlands +10 6 £60,000 +18.81% 6
North East +17 4 £45,000 - 5
Yorkshire -31 3 £43,500 -33.08% 7
South West +5 2 £60,000 +20.00% 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 10 (3.62%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.17%) Anypoint
2 6 (2.17%) Confluence
3 5 (1.81%) CMS
4 3 (1.09%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.36%) Appian
6 1 (0.36%) CICS
6 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.36%) IIS
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.54%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.09%) Trello
4 1 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.17%) Shopify
2 4 (1.45%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.09%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 85 (30.80%) Azure
2 41 (14.86%) AWS
3 35 (12.68%) GitHub
4 31 (11.23%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (10.14%) Serverless
6 27 (9.78%) Power Platform
7 26 (9.42%) Power Automate
8 22 (7.97%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (7.61%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (7.61%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (5.07%) Boomi
10 14 (5.07%) PaaS
10 14 (5.07%) PowerApps
11 12 (4.35%) GCP
11 12 (4.35%) SaaS
12 11 (3.99%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (3.62%) Azure Service Bus
13 10 (3.62%) iPaaS
13 10 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.26%) FTP
2 5 (1.81%) Cisco ISE
2 5 (1.81%) Ethernet
2 5 (1.81%) Firewall
2 5 (1.81%) LAN
2 5 (1.81%) SD-WAN
2 5 (1.81%) WAN
3 4 (1.45%) HTTP
4 3 (1.09%) DNS
4 3 (1.09%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.72%) VPN
6 1 (0.36%) DHCP
6 1 (0.36%) SSL
6 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.36%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (19.93%) Relational Database
2 41 (14.86%) SQL Server
3 22 (7.97%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (7.61%) RDBMS
5 20 (7.25%) Power BI
6 19 (6.88%) MySQL
7 15 (5.43%) OLTP
8 11 (3.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (3.26%) NoSQL
11 7 (2.54%) GIS
12 5 (1.81%) Metadata
12 5 (1.81%) Redis
13 4 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (1.45%) Power Query
14 3 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (1.09%) Big Data
14 3 (1.09%) Crystal Reports
14 3 (1.09%) Hadoop
14 3 (1.09%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 29 (10.51%) Git
1 29 (10.51%) Jenkins
2 23 (8.33%) JMeter
2 23 (8.33%) JUnit
3 21 (7.61%) Mockito
4 12 (4.35%) JIRA
5 9 (3.26%) Visual Studio
6 6 (2.17%) Axure RP
6 6 (2.17%) Postman
7 4 (1.45%) MSBuild
7 4 (1.45%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (1.45%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (1.09%) Selenium
9 2 (0.72%) Crashlytics
9 2 (0.72%) WebDriver
9 2 (0.72%) webpack
9 2 (0.72%) Xcode
10 1 (0.36%) ESLint
10 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.36%) Testinfra
General
1 100 (36.23%) Social Skills
2 47 (17.03%) Law
3 43 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (12.68%) Finance
5 29 (10.51%) Public Sector
5 29 (10.51%) Retail
6 16 (5.80%) Marketing
7 11 (3.99%) German Language
8 7 (2.54%) Legal
9 4 (1.45%) Automotive
9 4 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.09%) Banking
10 3 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.09%) Front Office
11 2 (0.72%) Electronics
11 2 (0.72%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.72%) Publishing
11 2 (0.72%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.36%) Billing
12 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 127 (46.01%) Developer
2 44 (15.94%) Senior
3 39 (14.13%) Senior Developer
4 23 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 22 (7.97%) Analyst
6 21 (7.61%) Java Developer
7 18 (6.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 15 (5.43%) Consultant
8 15 (5.43%) Mid-Level Java Developer
8 15 (5.43%) Oracle Developer
8 15 (5.43%) Senior Oracle Developer
9 13 (4.71%) Lead
9 13 (4.71%) ServiceNow Consultant
10 12 (4.35%) Data Engineer
10 12 (4.35%) Support Consultant
11 11 (3.99%) Integration Engineer
11 11 (3.99%) ServiceNow Developer
12 10 (3.62%) Architect
12 10 (3.62%) Support Engineer
13 9 (3.26%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (61.96%) XML
2 128 (46.38%) HTML
3 116 (42.03%) REST
4 55 (19.93%) CSS
5 43 (15.58%) Web Services
6 28 (10.14%) Regular Expression
7 27 (9.78%) React
8 25 (9.06%) SOAP
9 22 (7.97%) .NET
10 21 (7.61%) ActiveMQ
10 21 (7.61%) Apache Camel
10 21 (7.61%) Hibernate
10 21 (7.61%) jQuery
10 21 (7.61%) Spring
10 21 (7.61%) Spring Boot
10 21 (7.61%) WireMock
11 20 (7.25%) RESTful
12 14 (5.07%) AngularJS
13 13 (4.71%) YAML
14 11 (3.99%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 45 (16.30%) Onboarding
2 29 (10.51%) Linux Command Line
3 24 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (7.25%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (5.43%) Low-Code
6 11 (3.99%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.62%) Cloud Native
7 10 (3.62%) Operational Technology
8 8 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.90%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.54%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.81%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.45%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.09%) BYOD
12 3 (1.09%) Reference Data
12 3 (1.09%) Semantic Web
12 3 (1.09%) Social Media
13 2 (0.72%) Blog
13 2 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 2 (0.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 35 (12.68%) Unix
2 13 (4.71%) Linux
3 4 (1.45%) Windows
4 3 (1.09%) Android
4 3 (1.09%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.72%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.72%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.36%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (31.88%) Agile
2 77 (27.90%) Problem-Solving
3 61 (22.10%) CI/CD
4 50 (18.12%) DevOps
5 47 (17.03%) AI
6 44 (15.94%) Microservices
7 37 (13.41%) LLM
8 33 (11.96%) Full-Stack Development
8 33 (11.96%) Workflow
9 31 (11.23%) Data Analysis
9 31 (11.23%) ETL
9 31 (11.23%) SDLC
10 29 (10.51%) Problem Management
10 29 (10.51%) Test Automation
11 28 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (9.78%) API Integration
12 27 (9.78%) User Experience
13 26 (9.42%) Analytics
13 26 (9.42%) Business Intelligence
13 26 (9.42%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 125 (45.29%) JavaScript
2 117 (42.39%) SQL
3 96 (34.78%) Python
4 46 (16.67%) Java
5 41 (14.86%) C#
6 29 (10.51%) PowerShell
7 27 (9.78%) Shell Script
8 16 (5.80%) PL/SQL
9 10 (3.62%) T-SQL
9 10 (3.62%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.17%) PHP
11 5 (1.81%) Go
12 4 (1.45%) Bicep
13 3 (1.09%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.72%) Bash
14 2 (0.72%) C++
14 2 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.72%) Ruby
14 2 (0.72%) Swift
15 1 (0.36%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 42 (15.22%) Degree
2 25 (9.06%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.62%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.09%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.72%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.36%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.36%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.25%) QA
2 16 (5.80%) Data Quality
3 14 (5.07%) Accessibility
4 13 (4.71%) GDPR
5 11 (3.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (3.62%) NCSC
6 10 (3.62%) NIST
7 4 (1.45%) HL7
8 1 (0.36%) DICOM
System Software
1 43 (15.58%) Docker
2 5 (1.81%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.72%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.36%) iptables
Systems Management
1 35 (12.68%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.61%) Kibana
3 12 (4.35%) Terraform
4 9 (3.26%) Ansible
5 5 (1.81%) FortiGate
5 5 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.72%) Grafana
7 1 (0.36%) Packer
7 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.06%) ServiceNow
3 24 (8.70%) Oracle
4 22 (7.97%) Splunk
5 21 (7.61%) Dynatrace
6 12 (4.35%) Cisco
7 10 (3.62%) Google
7 10 (3.62%) MuleSoft
7 10 (3.62%) SAP
8 8 (2.90%) Informatica
9 7 (2.54%) Dell
9 7 (2.54%) SnapLogic
9 7 (2.54%) Talend
10 6 (2.17%) IBM
10 6 (2.17%) Intapp
10 6 (2.17%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.81%) CheckPoint
11 5 (1.81%) IFS
11 5 (1.81%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.81%) Workday