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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 343 300
Rank change year-on-year -92 -43 -46
Permanent jobs citing JSON 324 350 727
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.81% 0.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.51% 4.42% 4.74%
Number of salaries quoted 245 266 544
10th Percentile £33,450 £36,250 £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 £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £83,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £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 9,243 7,919 15,339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.39% 18.30% 18.98%
Number of salaries quoted 7,075 5,348 12,046
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
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 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £107,500
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 23 July 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 23 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 -40 114 £75,000 +11.11% 59
South East -19 93 £55,000 -15.38% 30
North of England -19 48 £55,000 - 13
East of England -21 30 £90,000 +89.47% 6
North West -2 29 £62,500 +13.64% 7
South West -63 16 £50,000 -16.67% 7
Midlands -34 15 £47,500 -20.83% 14
Yorkshire -22 14 £42,750 +5.56% 6
West Midlands -34 9 £45,000 -25.00% 10
East Midlands -27 6 £52,500 -7.08% 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 27 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (4.01%) Confluence
4 10 (3.09%) IIS
5 8 (2.47%) CMS
6 7 (2.16%) Apache
6 7 (2.16%) WordPress
7 5 (1.54%) Drupal
8 4 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.62%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.62%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.31%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.93%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.93%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.62%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.31%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.31%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 146 (45.06%) Azure
2 85 (26.23%) AWS
3 62 (19.14%) Power Platform
4 47 (14.51%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (14.51%) Azure Logic Apps
5 42 (12.96%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (9.57%) Serverless
7 26 (8.02%) PowerApps
8 25 (7.72%) Power Automate
8 25 (7.72%) SaaS
9 23 (7.10%) Azure Data Factory
10 22 (6.79%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (6.48%) GitHub
12 20 (6.17%) Dynamics 365
13 19 (5.86%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 19 (5.86%) OneDrive
14 16 (4.94%) Boomi
15 13 (4.01%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (4.01%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (3.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.79%) Firewall
2 7 (2.16%) DNS
2 7 (2.16%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.85%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (1.85%) HTTP
4 5 (1.54%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.93%) BGP
5 3 (0.93%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.93%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (0.93%) SSL
6 2 (0.62%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.62%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.62%) LAN
6 2 (0.62%) MQTT
6 2 (0.62%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.62%) WAN
6 2 (0.62%) Wireless
7 1 (0.31%) Broadband
7 1 (0.31%) FTP
7 1 (0.31%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (15.12%) Power BI
2 45 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (9.26%) SQL Server
4 25 (7.72%) MySQL
5 24 (7.41%) Relational Database
6 21 (6.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 20 (6.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 19 (5.86%) Redis
9 17 (5.25%) Metadata
10 13 (4.01%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (3.70%) RDBMS
12 6 (1.85%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.54%) Delta Lake
14 4 (1.23%) DynamoDB
14 4 (1.23%) Power Query
15 3 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (0.93%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.93%) MariaDB
15 3 (0.93%) NoSQL
15 3 (0.93%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 55 (16.98%) Git
2 40 (12.35%) JIRA
3 26 (8.02%) GitLab
4 24 (7.41%) Jenkins
5 11 (3.40%) Postman
5 11 (3.40%) Selenium
6 9 (2.78%) Cucumber
6 9 (2.78%) JMeter
7 8 (2.47%) ERwin
8 7 (2.16%) JUnit
8 7 (2.16%) Mockito
9 5 (1.54%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (1.54%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.54%) SpecFlow
9 5 (1.54%) Visual Studio
9 5 (1.54%) WebDriver
10 4 (1.23%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.23%) Gradle
10 4 (1.23%) Maven
10 4 (1.23%) SoapUI
General
1 147 (45.37%) Social Skills
2 91 (28.09%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (17.59%) Finance
4 26 (8.02%) Organisational Skills
5 14 (4.32%) Advertising
5 14 (4.32%) Marketing
5 14 (4.32%) Retail
6 13 (4.01%) Telecoms
7 11 (3.40%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.78%) Law
9 7 (2.16%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.85%) Health Technology
11 5 (1.54%) Back Office
11 5 (1.54%) Banking
11 5 (1.54%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.23%) Aviation
13 3 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.93%) Local Government
13 3 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 113 (34.88%) Developer
2 71 (21.91%) Senior
3 44 (13.58%) Senior Developer
4 28 (8.64%) Analyst
5 24 (7.41%) Architect
6 20 (6.17%) Support Engineer
7 19 (5.86%) .NET Developer
8 18 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
8 18 (5.56%) Software Engineer
9 17 (5.25%) Data Analyst
10 16 (4.94%) Lead
11 15 (4.63%) Automation Engineer
11 15 (4.63%) Full-Stack Developer
11 15 (4.63%) Integration Engineer
11 15 (4.63%) Ruby Developer
11 15 (4.63%) Software Developer
12 14 (4.32%) Data Engineer
13 13 (4.01%) Applications Engineer
13 13 (4.01%) Consultant
13 13 (4.01%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (39.81%) XML
2 109 (33.64%) REST
3 86 (26.54%) HTML
4 79 (24.38%) .NET
5 74 (22.84%) CSS
6 46 (14.20%) RESTful
7 44 (13.58%) .NET Core
8 40 (12.35%) SOAP
9 37 (11.42%) ASP.NET
10 33 (10.19%) Middleware
11 31 (9.57%) YAML
12 28 (8.64%) JWT
13 23 (7.10%) React
14 21 (6.48%) HTML5 Canvas
15 20 (6.17%) .NET Framework
15 20 (6.17%) Microsoft Graph
16 19 (5.86%) SPFx
17 18 (5.56%) HTML5
17 18 (5.56%) OAuth
18 17 (5.25%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.95%) Onboarding
2 22 (6.79%) Data Structures
2 22 (6.79%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 19 (5.86%) Cloud Native
5 17 (5.25%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (4.32%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.78%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (2.78%) Robotics
8 8 (2.47%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.47%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.16%) Driving Licence
9 7 (2.16%) e-Learning
9 7 (2.16%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.23%) Taxonomies
12 3 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.93%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.93%) PKI
12 3 (0.93%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 51 (15.74%) Linux
2 40 (12.35%) Windows
3 15 (4.63%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.85%) Unix
6 4 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (32.41%) Agile
2 97 (29.94%) DevOps
3 96 (29.63%) CI/CD
4 92 (28.40%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (17.59%) Microservices
6 53 (16.36%) Data Modelling
7 48 (14.81%) Containerisation
8 47 (14.51%) User Experience
9 45 (13.89%) Test Automation
10 43 (13.27%) Business Intelligence
11 38 (11.73%) Infrastructure as Code
12 37 (11.42%) API Integration
13 35 (10.80%) Scrum
13 35 (10.80%) Software Engineering
14 34 (10.49%) AI
15 33 (10.19%) API Design
15 33 (10.19%) Mentoring
16 32 (9.88%) Analytics
17 31 (9.57%) Roadmaps
18 30 (9.26%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 146 (45.06%) SQL
2 115 (35.49%) JavaScript
3 109 (33.64%) Python
4 84 (25.93%) C#
5 47 (14.51%) Java
6 42 (12.96%) PowerShell
7 26 (8.02%) TypeScript
8 16 (4.94%) C++
8 16 (4.94%) Ruby
8 16 (4.94%) T-SQL
9 14 (4.32%) PHP
10 13 (4.01%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (1.54%) Groovy
12 4 (1.23%) Bash
12 4 (1.23%) VBA
13 3 (0.93%) Bicep
13 3 (0.93%) Perl
13 3 (0.93%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.62%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (12.96%) Degree
2 33 (10.19%) Security Cleared
3 23 (7.10%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.85%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.23%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.93%) CISSP
8 3 (0.93%) ISEB
8 3 (0.93%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.62%) CASP
9 2 (0.62%) CCNP
9 2 (0.62%) CCSP
9 2 (0.62%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.62%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (10.80%) QA
2 25 (7.72%) Accessibility
3 20 (6.17%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.70%) TickIT
5 11 (3.40%) SLA
6 9 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (2.16%) WCAG
8 6 (1.85%) GDPR
9 4 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.93%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.93%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.62%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.31%) PERC
System Software
1 45 (13.89%) Docker
2 14 (4.32%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.16%) vSphere
4 4 (1.23%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.62%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (8.64%) Terraform
2 25 (7.72%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.01%) Ansible
4 6 (1.85%) Kibana
5 4 (1.23%) Packer
6 2 (0.62%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.31%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.31%) QRadar
Vendors
1 101 (31.17%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.41%) Adobe
3 18 (5.56%) Cisco
4 15 (4.63%) Splunk
5 14 (4.32%) Red Hat
6 13 (4.01%) Google
7 10 (3.09%) F5
7 10 (3.09%) Oracle
8 9 (2.78%) Palo Alto
8 9 (2.78%) VMware
9 8 (2.47%) SAP
10 7 (2.16%) Dynatrace
10 7 (2.16%) IBM
10 7 (2.16%) Sparx
11 6 (1.85%) Juniper
11 6 (1.85%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.54%) Databricks
12 5 (1.54%) MuleSoft
13 4 (1.23%) AppDynamics
13 4 (1.23%) CheckPoint