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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 306 265
Rank change year-on-year -116 -41 +20
Permanent jobs citing JSON 275 358 872
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 0.95% 1.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.56% 4.70% 5.15%
Number of salaries quoted 194 283 690
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £49,063 £46,250 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,585 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.34% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,125 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,625 £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 7,733 7,612 16,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.83% 20.23% 20.38%
Number of salaries quoted 5,846 5,857 14,106
10th Percentile £39,563 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,064
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 25 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 25 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 -46 93 £65,000 -7.14% 37
South East -73 61 £63,750 -1.92% 38
East of England +5 59 £82,500 +73.68% 15
North of England -44 39 £57,500 +9.52% 24
North West -34 26 £60,000 +14.29% 10
Yorkshire -59 11 £70,000 +33.33% 11
Midlands -66 11 £47,500 -11.53% 21
West Midlands -40 7 £43,000 -20.87% 7
South West -69 6 £31,500 -48.57% 10
East Midlands -66 4 £47,500 -8.65% 14
North East -42 2 £46,250 -40.32% 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 27 (9.82%) SharePoint
2 16 (5.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.45%) Confluence
3 4 (1.45%) IIS
4 3 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.09%) CMS
5 2 (0.73%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.73%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.73%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.73%) WordPress
6 1 (0.36%) Apache
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.36%) CICS
6 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.36%) Drupal
6 1 (0.36%) JBoss
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.09%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.36%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.36%) Sketch
3 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) NetSuite
1 2 (0.73%) Shopify
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.36%) Magento
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 111 (40.36%) Azure
2 56 (20.36%) Power Platform
3 52 (18.91%) AWS
4 31 (11.27%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (9.82%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (9.45%) Power Automate
7 25 (9.09%) Serverless
8 24 (8.73%) Azure Logic Apps
9 23 (8.36%) PowerApps
9 23 (8.36%) SaaS
10 22 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
11 19 (6.91%) Boomi
12 17 (6.18%) GitHub
13 16 (5.82%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 16 (5.82%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (5.82%) OneDrive
14 15 (5.45%) Dynamics 365
15 13 (4.73%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (4.73%) GCP
16 12 (4.36%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.18%) Firewall
2 6 (2.18%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (2.18%) VPN
3 5 (1.82%) DNS
3 5 (1.82%) FTP
4 4 (1.45%) SSL
5 3 (1.09%) AMQP
5 3 (1.09%) BGP
6 2 (0.73%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.73%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.73%) LAN
6 2 (0.73%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.73%) WAN
7 1 (0.36%) Broadband
7 1 (0.36%) CTI
7 1 (0.36%) DHCP
7 1 (0.36%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (18.55%) Power BI
2 27 (9.82%) MySQL
3 23 (8.36%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (8.36%) SQL Server
4 22 (8.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 20 (7.27%) Relational Database
6 19 (6.91%) Metadata
7 17 (6.18%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (4.00%) RDBMS
9 8 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.18%) Electronic Patient Records
10 6 (2.18%) OLTP
11 5 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.45%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.45%) Redis
13 3 (1.09%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.09%) Power Query
13 3 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 33 (12.00%) Git
1 33 (12.00%) JIRA
2 19 (6.91%) GitLab
3 18 (6.55%) Jenkins
4 11 (4.00%) Postman
5 8 (2.91%) JUnit
6 7 (2.55%) ERwin
6 7 (2.55%) Maven
7 6 (2.18%) Selenium
7 6 (2.18%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.82%) Browser DevTools
8 5 (1.82%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.82%) Mockito
8 5 (1.82%) SpecFlow
8 5 (1.82%) WebDriver
9 4 (1.45%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.45%) Gradle
10 3 (1.09%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.09%) JMeter
10 3 (1.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 120 (43.64%) Social Skills
2 78 (28.36%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (14.91%) Finance
4 20 (7.27%) Law
4 20 (7.27%) Retail
5 16 (5.82%) Marketing
5 16 (5.82%) Telecoms
6 13 (4.73%) German Language
6 13 (4.73%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (4.36%) Health Technology
8 8 (2.91%) Advertising
9 7 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.55%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.55%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.45%) Legal
11 3 (1.09%) Local Government
12 2 (0.73%) Electronics
12 2 (0.73%) Front Office
12 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.36%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 93 (33.82%) Developer
2 55 (20.00%) Senior
3 45 (16.36%) Senior Developer
4 29 (10.55%) Analyst
5 24 (8.73%) Architect
6 20 (7.27%) Data Analyst
7 19 (6.91%) Consultant
8 16 (5.82%) Java Developer
9 15 (5.45%) Support Engineer
10 12 (4.36%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (4.00%) Applications Architect
11 11 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (4.00%) Network Engineer
11 11 (4.00%) Telecoms Engineer
12 10 (3.64%) Lead
13 9 (3.27%) Data Engineer
13 9 (3.27%) Integration Architect
13 9 (3.27%) Oracle Developer
13 9 (3.27%) Senior Oracle Developer
13 9 (3.27%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (51.64%) XML
2 102 (37.09%) REST
3 89 (32.36%) HTML
4 48 (17.45%) CSS
4 48 (17.45%) SOAP
5 38 (13.82%) .NET
6 29 (10.55%) Regular Expression
7 26 (9.45%) Middleware
7 26 (9.45%) YAML
8 25 (9.09%) RESTful
9 21 (7.64%) .NET Core
10 19 (6.91%) HTML5 Canvas
10 19 (6.91%) Web Services
11 18 (6.55%) Spring
12 16 (5.82%) Microsoft Graph
12 16 (5.82%) OAuth
12 16 (5.82%) SPFx
12 16 (5.82%) Spring Boot
13 15 (5.45%) EDI
14 14 (5.09%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 41 (14.91%) Onboarding
2 32 (11.64%) Linux Command Line
3 27 (9.82%) Data Structures
4 23 (8.36%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (5.09%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (3.64%) Low-Code
8 8 (2.91%) Cloud Native
8 8 (2.91%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (2.55%) e-Learning
10 6 (2.18%) NHS
10 6 (2.18%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.82%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.45%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.45%) Reference Data
12 4 (1.45%) Social Media
12 4 (1.45%) Taxonomies
13 3 (1.09%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 33 (12.00%) Unix
2 30 (10.91%) Linux
3 9 (3.27%) Windows
4 7 (2.55%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.36%) Android
6 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.36%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
2 67 (24.36%) Agile
3 65 (23.64%) DevOps
4 62 (22.55%) CI/CD
5 52 (18.91%) Business Intelligence
6 46 (16.73%) AI
6 46 (16.73%) Data Modelling
7 42 (15.27%) Data Analysis
8 35 (12.73%) API Integration
8 35 (12.73%) Microservices
9 33 (12.00%) User Experience
10 31 (11.27%) ERP
10 31 (11.27%) Validation
11 30 (10.91%) Containerisation
12 28 (10.18%) Analytics
13 26 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (9.45%) Technical Leadership
14 25 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
14 25 (9.09%) LLM
15 24 (8.73%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 145 (52.73%) SQL
2 102 (37.09%) Python
3 91 (33.09%) JavaScript
4 59 (21.45%) Java
5 38 (13.82%) C#
6 33 (12.00%) PowerShell
7 20 (7.27%) TypeScript
8 12 (4.36%) PL/SQL
9 10 (3.64%) PHP
9 10 (3.64%) Shell Script
9 10 (3.64%) T-SQL
10 6 (2.18%) Groovy
11 4 (1.45%) VBA
12 3 (1.09%) ActionScript
12 3 (1.09%) ActionScript 2.0
12 3 (1.09%) Bicep
12 3 (1.09%) Perl
13 2 (0.73%) Bash
13 2 (0.73%) R
13 2 (0.73%) VB
Qualifications
1 50 (18.18%) Degree
2 26 (9.45%) Security Cleared
3 18 (6.55%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.82%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.09%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (1.09%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.09%) QA
2 15 (5.45%) Data Quality
3 13 (4.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.00%) SLA
4 11 (4.00%) TickIT
5 8 (2.91%) GDPR
6 7 (2.55%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.55%) HL7
7 3 (1.09%) NCSC
7 3 (1.09%) NIST
8 2 (0.73%) WCAG
9 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.36%) PERC
System Software
1 30 (10.91%) Docker
2 12 (4.36%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.45%) vSphere
4 2 (0.73%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.36%) iptables
Systems Management
1 28 (10.18%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.82%) Ansible
3 14 (5.09%) Terraform
4 4 (1.45%) Kibana
4 4 (1.45%) Packer
5 2 (0.73%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.36%) Grafana
6 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 60 (21.82%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.64%) Adobe
3 20 (7.27%) Oracle
4 16 (5.82%) Cisco
5 11 (4.00%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.27%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.91%) F5
7 8 (2.91%) IBM
8 7 (2.55%) Google
8 7 (2.55%) SAP
8 7 (2.55%) Sparx
8 7 (2.55%) Splunk
9 6 (2.18%) Juniper
9 6 (2.18%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.18%) VMware
10 5 (1.82%) Databricks
10 5 (1.82%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.82%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.45%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.45%) Intapp