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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 310 205
Rank change year-on-year -31 -105 +32
Permanent jobs citing JSON 289 531 759
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.62% 0.89% 1.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.51% 4.24% 6.28%
Number of salaries quoted 215 331 644
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 £81,625 £86,563
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £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 6,414 12,518 12,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.67% 20.91% 26.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,822 7,545 10,011
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
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 £86,250 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,056
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.60% +1.62%

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 28 November 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 28 November 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 -21 102 £75,000 +7.14% 46
South East -25 75 £62,500 -1.96% 43
East of England +61 60 £55,000 -13.73% 17
North of England -20 29 £55,000 - 17
Midlands +24 26 £47,500 -9.52% 16
North West +34 22 £55,000 - 5
West Midlands +32 19 £47,500 -17.39% 10
East Midlands +9 7 £60,000 +18.81% 5
North East +16 4 £45,000 - 7
South West +3 3 £61,250 +22.50% 3
Yorkshire -20 3 £43,500 -33.08% 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 11 (3.81%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.08%) Anypoint
2 6 (2.08%) Confluence
3 5 (1.73%) CMS
4 3 (1.04%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.69%) IIS
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.35%) Appian
6 1 (0.35%) CICS
6 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.42%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.04%) Trello
4 1 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.42%) Shopify
2 5 (1.73%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.04%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 92 (31.83%) Azure
2 43 (14.88%) AWS
3 37 (12.80%) GitHub
4 33 (11.42%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (10.03%) Power Platform
5 29 (10.03%) Serverless
6 27 (9.34%) Power Automate
7 22 (7.61%) Amazon EC2
8 21 (7.27%) Amazon ECS
8 21 (7.27%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (5.19%) PaaS
9 15 (5.19%) PowerApps
10 14 (4.84%) Boomi
11 13 (4.50%) SaaS
12 12 (4.15%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (4.15%) GCP
12 12 (4.15%) iPaaS
13 11 (3.81%) Azure Service Bus
13 11 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.11%) FTP
2 5 (1.73%) Cisco ISE
2 5 (1.73%) Ethernet
2 5 (1.73%) Firewall
2 5 (1.73%) LAN
2 5 (1.73%) SD-WAN
2 5 (1.73%) WAN
3 4 (1.38%) HTTP
4 3 (1.04%) DNS
4 3 (1.04%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.69%) VPN
6 1 (0.35%) DHCP
6 1 (0.35%) SSL
6 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.35%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (19.03%) Relational Database
2 43 (14.88%) SQL Server
3 23 (7.96%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (7.27%) RDBMS
5 20 (6.92%) MySQL
5 20 (6.92%) Power BI
6 16 (5.54%) OLTP
7 11 (3.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (3.11%) NoSQL
10 7 (2.42%) GIS
11 5 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.73%) Metadata
11 5 (1.73%) Redis
12 4 (1.38%) Power Query
13 3 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.04%) Big Data
13 3 (1.04%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (1.04%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.04%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 36 (12.46%) Git
2 29 (10.03%) Jenkins
3 23 (7.96%) JMeter
3 23 (7.96%) JUnit
4 21 (7.27%) Mockito
5 12 (4.15%) JIRA
6 10 (3.46%) Visual Studio
7 6 (2.08%) Axure RP
7 6 (2.08%) Postman
8 5 (1.73%) MSBuild
8 5 (1.73%) Octopus Deploy
8 5 (1.73%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (1.38%) Selenium
10 3 (1.04%) webpack
11 2 (0.69%) Babel
11 2 (0.69%) Crashlytics
11 2 (0.69%) WebDriver
11 2 (0.69%) Xcode
12 1 (0.35%) ESLint
12 1 (0.35%) Testinfra
General
1 102 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 46 (15.92%) Analytical Skills
2 46 (15.92%) Law
3 38 (13.15%) Finance
4 32 (11.07%) Retail
5 29 (10.03%) Public Sector
6 17 (5.88%) Marketing
7 11 (3.81%) German Language
8 7 (2.42%) Legal
9 4 (1.38%) Automotive
9 4 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.04%) Banking
10 3 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.04%) Front Office
11 2 (0.69%) Electronics
11 2 (0.69%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.69%) Publishing
11 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.35%) Billing
12 1 (0.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 136 (47.06%) Developer
2 47 (16.26%) Senior
3 42 (14.53%) Senior Developer
4 24 (8.30%) Full-Stack Developer
5 23 (7.96%) Analyst
6 21 (7.27%) Java Developer
7 18 (6.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 16 (5.54%) Oracle Developer
8 16 (5.54%) Senior Oracle Developer
9 15 (5.19%) Consultant
9 15 (5.19%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 13 (4.50%) Lead
10 13 (4.50%) ServiceNow Consultant
11 12 (4.15%) Data Engineer
11 12 (4.15%) Integration Engineer
11 12 (4.15%) Support Consultant
12 11 (3.81%) Architect
12 11 (3.81%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 10 (3.46%) ServiceNow Developer
13 10 (3.46%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (60.90%) XML
2 134 (46.37%) HTML
3 123 (42.56%) REST
4 60 (20.76%) CSS
5 45 (15.57%) Web Services
6 29 (10.03%) React
7 28 (9.69%) Regular Expression
7 28 (9.69%) SOAP
8 27 (9.34%) .NET
9 24 (8.30%) RESTful
10 22 (7.61%) jQuery
11 21 (7.27%) ActiveMQ
11 21 (7.27%) Apache Camel
11 21 (7.27%) Hibernate
11 21 (7.27%) Spring
11 21 (7.27%) Spring Boot
11 21 (7.27%) WireMock
12 14 (4.84%) AngularJS
13 13 (4.50%) ASP.NET
13 13 (4.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (15.57%) Onboarding
2 29 (10.03%) Linux Command Line
3 25 (8.65%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (7.27%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (5.54%) Low-Code
6 11 (3.81%) Cloud Native
6 11 (3.81%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.46%) Operational Technology
8 9 (3.11%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (2.42%) Data Centre
10 7 (2.42%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.73%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.04%) BYOD
12 3 (1.04%) Reference Data
12 3 (1.04%) Semantic Web
12 3 (1.04%) Social Media
13 2 (0.69%) Blog
13 2 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 2 (0.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 35 (12.11%) Unix
2 14 (4.84%) Linux
3 5 (1.73%) Android
4 4 (1.38%) Windows
5 3 (1.04%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.04%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.69%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (32.53%) Agile
2 82 (28.37%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (21.80%) CI/CD
4 53 (18.34%) DevOps
5 48 (16.61%) AI
6 46 (15.92%) Microservices
7 37 (12.80%) LLM
8 35 (12.11%) Full-Stack Development
9 34 (11.76%) Workflow
10 33 (11.42%) SDLC
10 33 (11.42%) Test Automation
11 32 (11.07%) ETL
12 31 (10.73%) Data Analysis
13 29 (10.03%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (10.03%) User Experience
14 28 (9.69%) Analytics
14 28 (9.69%) API Integration
14 28 (9.69%) Problem Management
15 27 (9.34%) Data Modelling
16 26 (9.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 134 (46.37%) JavaScript
2 122 (42.21%) SQL
3 97 (33.56%) Python
4 48 (16.61%) Java
5 45 (15.57%) C#
6 31 (10.73%) PowerShell
7 27 (9.34%) Shell Script
8 17 (5.88%) PL/SQL
9 11 (3.81%) TypeScript
10 10 (3.46%) T-SQL
11 7 (2.42%) PHP
12 5 (1.73%) Go
13 4 (1.38%) Bicep
14 3 (1.04%) C++
14 3 (1.04%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.69%) Bash
15 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.69%) Ruby
15 2 (0.69%) Swift
16 1 (0.35%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 44 (15.22%) Degree
2 25 (8.65%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.46%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.38%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.69%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.35%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.35%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.35%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.61%) QA
2 16 (5.54%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.54%) GDPR
3 14 (4.84%) Accessibility
4 12 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (3.46%) NCSC
5 10 (3.46%) NIST
6 4 (1.38%) HL7
7 1 (0.35%) DICOM
System Software
1 44 (15.22%) Docker
2 5 (1.73%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.69%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.35%) iptables
Systems Management
1 35 (12.11%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.27%) Kibana
3 12 (4.15%) Terraform
4 9 (3.11%) Ansible
5 5 (1.73%) FortiGate
5 5 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.69%) Grafana
7 1 (0.35%) Packer
7 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 40 (13.84%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.00%) Oracle
3 25 (8.65%) ServiceNow
4 22 (7.61%) Splunk
5 21 (7.27%) Dynatrace
6 12 (4.15%) Cisco
7 10 (3.46%) Google
7 10 (3.46%) MuleSoft
7 10 (3.46%) SAP
8 8 (2.77%) Informatica
9 7 (2.42%) Dell
9 7 (2.42%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.42%) SnapLogic
9 7 (2.42%) Talend
10 6 (2.08%) HubSpot
10 6 (2.08%) IBM
10 6 (2.08%) Intapp
10 6 (2.08%) Workday
11 5 (1.73%) IFS
11 5 (1.73%) OpenAI