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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 342 297
Rank change year-on-year -84 -45 -50
Permanent jobs citing JSON 329 348 694
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.80% 0.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.52% 4.41% 4.74%
Number of salaries quoted 248 263 524
10th Percentile £35,500 £36,400 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,896 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £83,750
UK median annual salary £60,900 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.56% +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 9,352 7,898 14,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.43% 18.18% 18.87%
Number of salaries quoted 7,121 5,340 11,425
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,870
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
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 £88,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 26 July 2026.

Salary histogram for JSON in England

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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 26 July 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 -33 115 £75,000 +11.11% 46
South East -30 92 £55,000 -15.38% 31
North of England -21 50 £55,000 - 9
North West +1 30 £62,500 +13.64% 6
East of England -31 29 £90,000 +89.47% 7
South West -66 19 £52,500 -6.67% 8
Midlands -37 17 £47,500 -20.83% 13
Yorkshire -28 15 £42,750 +5.56% 3
West Midlands -23 10 £45,000 -25.00% 10
East Midlands -31 7 £53,250 -5.75% 3
North East - 5 £45,000 -
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 28 (8.51%) SharePoint
2 15 (4.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (4.26%) Confluence
4 10 (3.04%) IIS
5 9 (2.74%) Apache
6 8 (2.43%) CMS
7 7 (2.13%) WordPress
8 5 (1.52%) Drupal
9 4 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.61%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.61%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.30%) JBoss
11 1 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.22%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.91%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.61%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.30%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 149 (45.29%) Azure
2 88 (26.75%) AWS
3 62 (18.84%) Power Platform
4 49 (14.89%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
6 41 (12.46%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (9.42%) Serverless
8 27 (8.21%) PowerApps
9 26 (7.90%) Power Automate
10 24 (7.29%) SaaS
11 23 (6.99%) Azure Data Factory
11 23 (6.99%) GitHub
12 22 (6.69%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (6.08%) Dynamics 365
14 19 (5.78%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 19 (5.78%) OneDrive
15 16 (4.86%) Boomi
16 13 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
17 12 (3.65%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.38%) Firewall
2 7 (2.13%) DNS
2 7 (2.13%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.82%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (1.82%) HTTP
4 5 (1.52%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.91%) BGP
5 3 (0.91%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.91%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (0.91%) SSL
6 2 (0.61%) MQTT
6 2 (0.61%) Wireless
7 1 (0.30%) Broadband
7 1 (0.30%) CTI
7 1 (0.30%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.30%) LAN
7 1 (0.30%) RTP
7 1 (0.30%) SS7
7 1 (0.30%) VoIP
7 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (14.89%) Power BI
2 45 (13.68%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (8.81%) SQL Server
4 25 (7.60%) MySQL
5 24 (7.29%) Relational Database
6 20 (6.08%) Azure SQL Database
6 20 (6.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 19 (5.78%) Redis
8 17 (5.17%) Metadata
9 14 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (3.65%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.82%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.52%) Delta Lake
13 4 (1.22%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.22%) DynamoDB
13 4 (1.22%) Power Query
14 3 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.91%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.91%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 59 (17.93%) Git
2 41 (12.46%) JIRA
3 26 (7.90%) GitLab
3 26 (7.90%) Jenkins
4 13 (3.95%) Selenium
5 12 (3.65%) Postman
6 10 (3.04%) Cucumber
6 10 (3.04%) JMeter
7 8 (2.43%) ERwin
7 8 (2.43%) JUnit
8 7 (2.13%) Mockito
9 6 (1.82%) Maven
9 6 (1.82%) WebDriver
10 5 (1.52%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.52%) Gradle
10 5 (1.52%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.52%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.52%) Visual Studio
11 4 (1.22%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.22%) Bitbucket
General
1 147 (44.68%) Social Skills
2 93 (28.27%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (17.93%) Finance
4 27 (8.21%) Organisational Skills
5 14 (4.26%) Advertising
5 14 (4.26%) Marketing
5 14 (4.26%) Retail
6 13 (3.95%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.95%) Telecoms
7 9 (2.74%) Law
8 7 (2.13%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.82%) Banking
9 6 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.82%) Health Technology
9 6 (1.82%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.52%) Back Office
11 4 (1.22%) Aviation
11 4 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.22%) Legal
11 4 (1.22%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 116 (35.26%) Developer
2 72 (21.88%) Senior
3 44 (13.37%) Senior Developer
4 28 (8.51%) Analyst
5 23 (6.99%) Architect
6 20 (6.08%) .NET Developer
7 19 (5.78%) Software Engineer
7 19 (5.78%) Support Engineer
8 18 (5.47%) DevOps Engineer
9 17 (5.17%) Lead
9 17 (5.17%) Software Developer
10 16 (4.86%) Automation Engineer
10 16 (4.86%) Data Analyst
11 15 (4.56%) Data Engineer
11 15 (4.56%) Full-Stack Developer
11 15 (4.56%) Integration Engineer
11 15 (4.56%) Ruby Developer
12 13 (3.95%) Consultant
12 13 (3.95%) Technical Support
12 13 (3.95%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (39.51%) XML
2 109 (33.13%) REST
3 86 (26.14%) HTML
4 82 (24.92%) .NET
5 74 (22.49%) CSS
6 48 (14.59%) RESTful
7 44 (13.37%) .NET Core
8 40 (12.16%) SOAP
9 37 (11.25%) ASP.NET
10 34 (10.33%) Middleware
11 31 (9.42%) YAML
12 28 (8.51%) JWT
13 23 (6.99%) React
14 21 (6.38%) HTML5 Canvas
15 20 (6.08%) .NET Framework
15 20 (6.08%) Microsoft Graph
16 19 (5.78%) SPFx
17 18 (5.47%) AngularJS
17 18 (5.47%) HTML5
17 18 (5.47%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.51%) Onboarding
2 22 (6.69%) Data Structures
2 22 (6.69%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (6.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 19 (5.78%) Cloud Native
4 19 (5.78%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (4.86%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.74%) Enterprise Cloud
6 9 (2.74%) Robotics
7 8 (2.43%) Driving Licence
7 8 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.43%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.43%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.13%) e-Learning
8 7 (2.13%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.22%) PKI
9 4 (1.22%) Social Media
9 4 (1.22%) Taxonomies
10 3 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 52 (15.81%) Linux
2 41 (12.46%) Windows
3 15 (4.56%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.82%) Unix
6 4 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.30%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (33.43%) Agile
2 102 (31.00%) DevOps
3 99 (30.09%) CI/CD
4 95 (28.88%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (17.63%) Microservices
6 53 (16.11%) Data Modelling
7 48 (14.59%) Containerisation
7 48 (14.59%) Test Automation
7 48 (14.59%) User Experience
8 43 (13.07%) Business Intelligence
9 39 (11.85%) Infrastructure as Code
10 37 (11.25%) API Integration
10 37 (11.25%) Scrum
11 36 (10.94%) Software Engineering
12 35 (10.64%) AI
12 35 (10.64%) Mentoring
13 33 (10.03%) Analytics
13 33 (10.03%) API Design
14 32 (9.73%) Roadmaps
15 31 (9.42%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 148 (44.98%) SQL
2 114 (34.65%) JavaScript
3 108 (32.83%) Python
4 88 (26.75%) C#
5 49 (14.89%) Java
6 41 (12.46%) PowerShell
7 26 (7.90%) TypeScript
8 17 (5.17%) C++
9 16 (4.86%) Ruby
9 16 (4.86%) T-SQL
10 14 (4.26%) PHP
10 14 (4.26%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (1.52%) Groovy
12 4 (1.22%) Bash
12 4 (1.22%) VBA
13 3 (0.91%) Bicep
13 3 (0.91%) Perl
13 3 (0.91%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.61%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 42 (12.77%) Degree
2 34 (10.33%) Security Cleared
3 24 (7.29%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.04%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.82%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.22%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.91%) CISSP
9 3 (0.91%) ISEB
9 3 (0.91%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.61%) CASP
10 2 (0.61%) CCNP
10 2 (0.61%) CCSP
10 2 (0.61%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.61%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (10.94%) QA
2 25 (7.60%) Accessibility
3 20 (6.08%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.65%) TickIT
5 10 (3.04%) SLA
6 8 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (2.13%) WCAG
8 6 (1.82%) GDPR
9 4 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.91%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.91%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.61%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.30%) PERC
System Software
1 48 (14.59%) Docker
2 13 (3.95%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.13%) vSphere
4 4 (1.22%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (8.51%) Terraform
2 26 (7.90%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.95%) Ansible
4 6 (1.82%) Kibana
5 4 (1.22%) Packer
6 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.30%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 103 (31.31%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.29%) Adobe
3 17 (5.17%) Cisco
4 15 (4.56%) Splunk
5 14 (4.26%) Red Hat
6 12 (3.65%) Google
7 11 (3.34%) Oracle
8 9 (2.74%) F5
8 9 (2.74%) Palo Alto
9 8 (2.43%) SAP
9 8 (2.43%) VMware
10 7 (2.13%) Dynatrace
10 7 (2.13%) IBM
10 7 (2.13%) Sparx
11 6 (1.82%) Databricks
11 6 (1.82%) Juniper
11 6 (1.82%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.52%) MuleSoft
13 4 (1.22%) AppDynamics
13 4 (1.22%) Pega