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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 459 359 323
Rank change year-on-year -100 -36 -97
Permanent jobs citing JSON 338 297 563
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.33% 0.69% 0.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.13% 3.90% 3.83%
Number of salaries quoted 230 225 380
10th Percentile £33,625 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,526 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £80,938 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,375 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.52% -7.12% -

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 10,807 7,620 14,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.55% 17.68% 21.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7,893 5,042 9,600
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%

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 September 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 September 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 -41 129 £75,000 +11.11% 252
South East -52 76 £55,000 -15.38% 74
North of England -53 56 £60,000 +9.09% 45
North West -23 32 £62,500 +13.64% 29
Midlands -37 30 £55,000 +15.79% 32
East of England -55 26 £90,000 +63.64% 28
West Midlands -41 21 £62,500 +31.58% 22
Yorkshire -23 20 £44,000 -21.43% 12
South West -63 18 £52,500 -6.67% 28
East Midlands -30 9 £54,000 -10.00% 10
North East -59 4 £38,000 -15.56% 5
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 33 (9.76%) SharePoint
2 19 (5.62%) Confluence
3 15 (4.44%) IIS
4 12 (3.55%) Apache
5 9 (2.66%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (2.07%) CMS
7 6 (1.78%) WordPress
8 5 (1.48%) Drupal
9 3 (0.89%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.89%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.59%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.30%) JBoss
11 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.30%) Umbraco
Applications
1 22 (6.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.18%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.89%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.59%) Lightworks
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.59%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.30%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.30%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.30%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 147 (43.49%) Azure
2 84 (24.85%) AWS
3 64 (18.93%) Power Platform
4 57 (16.86%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (14.50%) Azure Logic Apps
6 43 (12.72%) Serverless
7 35 (10.36%) Microsoft 365
7 35 (10.36%) Power Automate
8 28 (8.28%) Dynamics 365
8 28 (8.28%) PowerApps
9 25 (7.40%) AWS Lambda
9 25 (7.40%) Azure Data Factory
10 23 (6.80%) GitHub
11 17 (5.03%) SaaS
12 16 (4.73%) Azure Functions
12 16 (4.73%) Boomi
13 15 (4.44%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 15 (4.44%) OneDrive
14 14 (4.14%) Amazon S3
14 14 (4.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.25%) TCP/IP
2 7 (2.07%) Firewall
2 7 (2.07%) HTTP
2 7 (2.07%) Wireshark
3 6 (1.78%) DNS
4 3 (0.89%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.89%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (0.89%) Wireless
5 2 (0.59%) MQTT
5 2 (0.59%) VPN
6 1 (0.30%) Broadband
6 1 (0.30%) FTP
6 1 (0.30%) Network Security
6 1 (0.30%) RTP
6 1 (0.30%) RTSP
6 1 (0.30%) SCTP
6 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.30%) SS7
6 1 (0.30%) SSL
6 1 (0.30%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (13.02%) Power BI
2 40 (11.83%) SQL Server
3 39 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (5.92%) Redis
4 20 (5.92%) Relational Database
5 19 (5.62%) Azure SQL Database
5 19 (5.62%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (5.03%) MySQL
6 17 (5.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (2.96%) Data Lake
8 8 (2.37%) Metadata
9 7 (2.07%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (2.07%) Parquet
9 7 (2.07%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.48%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.18%) DynamoDB
11 4 (1.18%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.18%) Power Query
12 3 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 68 (20.12%) Git
2 42 (12.43%) JIRA
3 29 (8.58%) Jenkins
4 17 (5.03%) Selenium
5 16 (4.73%) GitLab
5 16 (4.73%) Postman
6 13 (3.85%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.85%) JMeter
7 8 (2.37%) JUnit
8 7 (2.07%) Maven
9 6 (1.78%) Mockito
9 6 (1.78%) SoapUI
9 6 (1.78%) Visual Studio
10 5 (1.48%) Gatling
10 5 (1.48%) Gradle
10 5 (1.48%) Jasmine
10 5 (1.48%) Mocha
10 5 (1.48%) NUnit
10 5 (1.48%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.48%) Zephyr
General
1 152 (44.97%) Social Skills
2 88 (26.04%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (18.34%) Finance
4 33 (9.76%) Organisational Skills
5 26 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.73%) Retail
7 15 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (3.85%) Marketing
9 12 (3.55%) Advertising
9 12 (3.55%) Legal
10 11 (3.25%) Banking
10 11 (3.25%) Law
11 8 (2.37%) Health Technology
12 6 (1.78%) Aviation
12 6 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.78%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.48%) Back Office
14 4 (1.18%) Investment Banking
14 4 (1.18%) Local Government
15 3 (0.89%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 134 (39.64%) Developer
2 83 (24.56%) Senior
3 45 (13.31%) Senior Developer
4 28 (8.28%) .NET Developer
5 27 (7.99%) Analyst
6 23 (6.80%) Lead
7 22 (6.51%) Architect
7 22 (6.51%) Software Engineer
8 17 (5.03%) Integration Engineer
8 17 (5.03%) Support Engineer
8 17 (5.03%) Web Developer
9 16 (4.73%) Data Engineer
9 16 (4.73%) DevOps Engineer
9 16 (4.73%) Ruby Developer
9 16 (4.73%) Software Developer
10 15 (4.44%) Full-Stack Developer
11 13 (3.85%) .NET Web Developer
11 13 (3.85%) Senior Integration Engineer
11 13 (3.85%) Technical Support
12 12 (3.55%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (38.76%) XML
2 114 (33.73%) REST
3 88 (26.04%) HTML
4 84 (24.85%) .NET
5 76 (22.49%) CSS
6 50 (14.79%) RESTful
7 48 (14.20%) .NET Core
8 45 (13.31%) SOAP
9 41 (12.13%) ASP.NET
10 31 (9.17%) Middleware
11 28 (8.28%) JWT
12 27 (7.99%) .NET Framework
12 27 (7.99%) Terraform
13 25 (7.40%) React
14 22 (6.51%) YAML
15 21 (6.21%) AngularJS
15 21 (6.21%) Blazor
16 19 (5.62%) HTML5
16 19 (5.62%) HTML5 Canvas
17 18 (5.33%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.80%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.92%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (5.92%) Onboarding
4 17 (5.03%) Analytical Mindset
5 16 (4.73%) Management Information System
6 15 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (4.14%) Product Ownership
8 12 (3.55%) Taxonomies
9 11 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (3.25%) Robotics
10 9 (2.66%) Driving Licence
10 9 (2.66%) Enterprise Cloud
11 7 (2.07%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.78%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.78%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.78%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.48%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.48%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 50 (14.79%) Windows
2 47 (13.91%) Linux
3 19 (5.62%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.59%) Android
6 2 (0.59%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.30%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (39.35%) Agile
2 114 (33.73%) DevOps
3 108 (31.95%) CI/CD
4 106 (31.36%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (17.75%) Test Automation
6 52 (15.38%) AI
6 52 (15.38%) Microservices
6 52 (15.38%) User Experience
7 49 (14.50%) Mentoring
8 46 (13.61%) Software Engineering
9 45 (13.31%) Scrum
10 42 (12.43%) Data Modelling
10 42 (12.43%) Roadmaps
11 36 (10.65%) Business Intelligence
12 34 (10.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 33 (9.76%) Clean Code
13 33 (9.76%) CRM
13 33 (9.76%) Validation
14 32 (9.47%) Containerisation
14 32 (9.47%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 145 (42.90%) SQL
2 119 (35.21%) JavaScript
3 95 (28.11%) C#
4 86 (25.44%) Python
5 45 (13.31%) Java
6 28 (8.28%) PowerShell
7 21 (6.21%) C++
8 20 (5.92%) TypeScript
9 17 (5.03%) Ruby
10 12 (3.55%) Shell Script
11 11 (3.25%) PHP
11 11 (3.25%) T-SQL
12 9 (2.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (1.78%) VBA
14 5 (1.48%) Groovy
15 4 (1.18%) XPath
16 3 (0.89%) Bash
16 3 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.89%) Perl
17 2 (0.59%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 44 (13.02%) Degree
2 36 (10.65%) Security Cleared
3 28 (8.28%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (2.96%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.96%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.78%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.48%) ISEB
9 4 (1.18%) CISSP
10 3 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.89%) CCNP
10 3 (0.89%) CCSP
11 2 (0.59%) CASP
11 2 (0.59%) CompTIA CySA+
11 2 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.59%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.59%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (13.31%) Accessibility
2 44 (13.02%) QA
3 23 (6.80%) Data Quality
4 18 (5.33%) WCAG
5 13 (3.85%) GDPR
6 12 (3.55%) TickIT
7 9 (2.66%) SLA
8 4 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.89%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.89%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.59%) Basel III
10 2 (0.59%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.30%) Dublin Core
11 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.30%) PERC
System Software
1 49 (14.50%) Docker
2 5 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.18%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.18%) vSphere
4 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (7.10%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.85%) Ansible
3 7 (2.07%) Kibana
4 5 (1.48%) Grafana
5 4 (1.18%) Packer
6 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.30%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.30%) logstash
7 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 116 (34.32%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.92%) Adobe
3 17 (5.03%) Google
4 13 (3.85%) Splunk
5 10 (2.96%) SAP
6 9 (2.66%) IBM
7 8 (2.37%) Dynatrace
8 7 (2.07%) Oracle
9 6 (1.78%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.48%) Databricks
10 5 (1.48%) Pega
10 5 (1.48%) VMware
11 4 (1.18%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.18%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.89%) CheckPoint
12 3 (0.89%) Cisco
12 3 (0.89%) McAfee
12 3 (0.89%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.89%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.89%) ServiceNow