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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 350 304
Rank change year-on-year -68 -46 -57
Permanent jobs citing JSON 330 347 683
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.80% 0.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.51% 4.43% 4.73%
Number of salaries quoted 246 262 516
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,325 £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 £79,189 £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 9,396 7,829 14,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.42% 18.03% 18.79%
Number of salaries quoted 7,139 5,279 11,248
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +11.57% -10.37%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
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 28 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 28 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 -48 115 £75,000 +11.11% 44
South East -11 91 £55,000 -15.38% 28
North of England -20 51 £55,000 - 11
North West +5 31 £62,500 +13.64% 5
East of England -29 29 £90,000 +89.47% 7
South West -58 19 £52,500 - 6
Midlands -36 18 £47,500 -20.83% 13
Yorkshire -29 15 £42,750 +5.56% 6
West Midlands -17 11 £45,000 -25.00% 9
East Midlands -22 7 £53,250 -5.75% 4
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 (8.48%) SharePoint
2 14 (4.24%) Confluence
2 14 (4.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (3.03%) Apache
3 10 (3.03%) IIS
4 8 (2.42%) CMS
5 7 (2.12%) WordPress
6 5 (1.52%) Drupal
7 4 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.61%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.61%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.30%) JBoss
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.21%) 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 (45.15%) Azure
2 88 (26.67%) AWS
3 62 (18.79%) Power Platform
4 50 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (14.55%) Azure Logic Apps
6 40 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (9.39%) Serverless
8 27 (8.18%) PowerApps
9 26 (7.88%) Power Automate
10 23 (6.97%) Azure Data Factory
10 23 (6.97%) GitHub
10 23 (6.97%) SaaS
11 22 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
13 19 (5.76%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 19 (5.76%) OneDrive
14 16 (4.85%) Boomi
15 13 (3.94%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (3.94%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (3.64%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.36%) Firewall
2 8 (2.42%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.12%) DNS
4 6 (1.82%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (1.82%) HTTP
4 6 (1.82%) 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%) LAN
7 1 (0.30%) RTP
7 1 (0.30%) RTSP
7 1 (0.30%) SS7
7 1 (0.30%) VoIP
7 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (14.85%) Power BI
2 45 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (8.48%) SQL Server
4 24 (7.27%) MySQL
4 24 (7.27%) Relational Database
5 20 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (5.76%) Redis
6 19 (5.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 17 (5.15%) Metadata
8 14 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (3.64%) RDBMS
10 6 (1.82%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.52%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.52%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.21%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.21%) Power Query
13 3 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.91%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.91%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 59 (17.88%) Git
2 41 (12.42%) JIRA
3 26 (7.88%) GitLab
3 26 (7.88%) Jenkins
4 13 (3.94%) Selenium
5 11 (3.33%) Postman
6 10 (3.03%) Cucumber
6 10 (3.03%) JMeter
7 8 (2.42%) ERwin
7 8 (2.42%) JUnit
8 7 (2.12%) 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 (1.21%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.21%) Bitbucket
General
1 145 (43.94%) Social Skills
2 91 (27.58%) Analytical Skills
3 60 (18.18%) Finance
4 28 (8.48%) Organisational Skills
5 14 (4.24%) Advertising
5 14 (4.24%) Marketing
6 13 (3.94%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.94%) Retail
6 13 (3.94%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.42%) Law
8 7 (2.12%) 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
10 5 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.52%) Legal
11 4 (1.21%) Aviation
11 4 (1.21%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 115 (34.85%) Developer
2 72 (21.82%) Senior
3 43 (13.03%) Senior Developer
4 26 (7.88%) Analyst
5 24 (7.27%) Architect
6 20 (6.06%) .NET Developer
6 20 (6.06%) Software Engineer
7 19 (5.76%) Support Engineer
8 18 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 18 (5.45%) Lead
9 17 (5.15%) Software Developer
10 16 (4.85%) Automation Engineer
10 16 (4.85%) Integration Engineer
11 15 (4.55%) Data Engineer
11 15 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
11 15 (4.55%) Ruby Developer
12 14 (4.24%) Data Analyst
13 13 (3.94%) Consultant
13 13 (3.94%) Technical Support
13 13 (3.94%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (39.70%) XML
2 109 (33.03%) REST
3 86 (26.06%) HTML
4 83 (25.15%) .NET
5 75 (22.73%) CSS
6 47 (14.24%) RESTful
7 45 (13.64%) .NET Core
8 40 (12.12%) SOAP
9 38 (11.52%) ASP.NET
10 34 (10.30%) Middleware
11 31 (9.39%) YAML
12 28 (8.48%) JWT
13 24 (7.27%) React
14 21 (6.36%) HTML5 Canvas
15 20 (6.06%) .NET Framework
15 20 (6.06%) Microsoft Graph
16 19 (5.76%) AngularJS
16 19 (5.76%) SPFx
17 18 (5.45%) Node.js
17 18 (5.45%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.18%) Onboarding
2 22 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (6.36%) Analytical Mindset
3 21 (6.36%) Data Structures
4 19 (5.76%) Cloud Native
5 18 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (5.15%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.73%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (2.73%) Robotics
8 8 (2.42%) Driving Licence
8 8 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.42%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.42%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.12%) e-Learning
9 7 (2.12%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.21%) PKI
10 4 (1.21%) Social Media
10 4 (1.21%) Taxonomies
11 3 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.91%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 53 (16.06%) Linux
2 42 (12.73%) Windows
3 15 (4.55%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.82%) Unix
6 4 (1.21%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.30%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (33.64%) Agile
2 103 (31.21%) DevOps
3 100 (30.30%) CI/CD
4 94 (28.48%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (17.88%) Microservices
6 53 (16.06%) Data Modelling
7 49 (14.85%) Containerisation
7 49 (14.85%) Test Automation
7 49 (14.85%) User Experience
8 43 (13.03%) Business Intelligence
9 39 (11.82%) Infrastructure as Code
10 37 (11.21%) Scrum
10 37 (11.21%) Software Engineering
11 36 (10.91%) API Integration
12 35 (10.61%) AI
12 35 (10.61%) Mentoring
13 34 (10.30%) Analytics
14 32 (9.70%) API Design
14 32 (9.70%) Roadmaps
15 31 (9.39%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 147 (44.55%) SQL
2 114 (34.55%) JavaScript
3 108 (32.73%) Python
4 89 (26.97%) C#
5 48 (14.55%) Java
6 40 (12.12%) PowerShell
7 26 (7.88%) TypeScript
8 18 (5.45%) C++
9 16 (4.85%) Ruby
10 15 (4.55%) T-SQL
11 14 (4.24%) PHP
11 14 (4.24%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.52%) Groovy
13 4 (1.21%) Bash
13 4 (1.21%) VBA
14 3 (0.91%) Bicep
14 3 (0.91%) Perl
15 2 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.61%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 42 (12.73%) Degree
2 35 (10.61%) Security Cleared
3 25 (7.58%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.82%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.21%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.91%) CISSP
8 3 (0.91%) ISEB
8 3 (0.91%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.61%) CASP
9 2 (0.61%) CCNP
9 2 (0.61%) CCSP
9 2 (0.61%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.61%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (10.91%) QA
2 26 (7.88%) Accessibility
3 20 (6.06%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.64%) TickIT
5 10 (3.03%) SLA
6 7 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (2.12%) WCAG
7 6 (1.82%) GDPR
8 4 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.91%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.91%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.61%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.30%) PERC
System Software
1 49 (14.85%) Docker
2 12 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.12%) vSphere
4 4 (1.21%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (8.48%) Terraform
2 26 (7.88%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.94%) Ansible
4 6 (1.82%) Kibana
5 4 (1.21%) Packer
6 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.30%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 102 (30.91%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.27%) Adobe
3 17 (5.15%) Cisco
4 15 (4.55%) Splunk
5 14 (4.24%) Red Hat
6 12 (3.64%) Google
7 10 (3.03%) Oracle
8 9 (2.73%) F5
8 9 (2.73%) Palo Alto
9 8 (2.42%) SAP
9 8 (2.42%) VMware
10 7 (2.12%) Databricks
10 7 (2.12%) Dynatrace
10 7 (2.12%) IBM
10 7 (2.12%) Sparx
11 6 (1.82%) Juniper
11 6 (1.82%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.52%) MuleSoft
13 4 (1.21%) AppDynamics
13 4 (1.21%) Pega