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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 354 308
Rank change year-on-year -80 -46 -69
Permanent jobs citing JSON 332 324 619
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.34% 0.74% 0.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.10% 4.03% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 236 241 439
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £83,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £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 10,723 8,049 14,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.03% 18.35% 20.79%
Number of salaries quoted 7,974 5,390 10,428
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £39,380
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,525 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +5.42% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -32 123 £75,000 +15.38% 93
South East -39 79 £55,000 -15.38% 38
North of England -48 55 £55,000 - 20
North West -8 31 £62,500 +13.64% 15
East of England -39 27 £90,000 +71.43% 28
Midlands -29 25 £54,000 +7.46% 20
Yorkshire -23 19 £44,000 -31.25% 6
South West -64 19 £52,500 -12.50% 22
West Midlands -24 16 £53,750 +13.16% 15
East Midlands -23 9 £54,000 -10.00% 5
North East - 5 £45,000 - 1
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 (8.43%) SharePoint
2 19 (5.72%) Confluence
3 12 (3.61%) IIS
4 11 (3.31%) Apache
5 9 (2.71%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (2.41%) CMS
7 6 (1.81%) WordPress
8 5 (1.51%) Drupal
9 3 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.90%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.90%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.60%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.60%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.30%) JBoss
11 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 21 (6.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.20%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.90%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.60%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.30%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.30%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.60%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.30%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.30%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 148 (44.58%) Azure
2 87 (26.20%) AWS
3 59 (17.77%) Power Platform
4 55 (16.57%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (14.76%) Azure Logic Apps
6 35 (10.54%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (9.34%) Serverless
8 30 (9.04%) Power Automate
9 29 (8.73%) PowerApps
10 25 (7.53%) Azure Data Factory
11 23 (6.93%) GitHub
12 21 (6.33%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (6.33%) Dynamics 365
13 19 (5.72%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 19 (5.72%) OneDrive
13 19 (5.72%) SaaS
14 18 (5.42%) GCP
15 16 (4.82%) Boomi
16 13 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
17 12 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.22%) Firewall
2 10 (3.01%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.11%) DNS
4 6 (1.81%) HTTP
4 6 (1.81%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.90%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (0.90%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.90%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (0.90%) SSL
5 3 (0.90%) Wireless
6 2 (0.60%) MQTT
6 2 (0.60%) VPN
7 1 (0.30%) BGP
7 1 (0.30%) Broadband
7 1 (0.30%) FTP
7 1 (0.30%) RTP
7 1 (0.30%) RTSP
7 1 (0.30%) SCTP
7 1 (0.30%) SS7
7 1 (0.30%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (13.55%) Power BI
2 42 (12.65%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (8.13%) SQL Server
4 21 (6.33%) Redis
5 20 (6.02%) Azure SQL Database
5 20 (6.02%) Relational Database
6 19 (5.72%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (5.42%) MySQL
8 14 (4.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 13 (3.92%) Metadata
10 8 (2.41%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.81%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.51%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.20%) Delta Lake
13 4 (1.20%) DynamoDB
13 4 (1.20%) NoSQL
13 4 (1.20%) Power Query
14 3 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 63 (18.98%) Git
2 45 (13.55%) JIRA
3 28 (8.43%) Jenkins
4 22 (6.63%) GitLab
5 16 (4.82%) Selenium
6 13 (3.92%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.92%) Postman
7 12 (3.61%) JMeter
8 8 (2.41%) JUnit
9 7 (2.11%) Maven
9 7 (2.11%) Mockito
10 6 (1.81%) SoapUI
11 5 (1.51%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.51%) Gradle
11 5 (1.51%) Jasmine
11 5 (1.51%) Mocha
11 5 (1.51%) NUnit
11 5 (1.51%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.51%) Visual Studio
11 5 (1.51%) Zephyr
General
1 156 (46.99%) Social Skills
2 88 (26.51%) Analytical Skills
3 60 (18.07%) Finance
4 33 (9.94%) Organisational Skills
5 19 (5.72%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.52%) Retail
7 14 (4.22%) Marketing
8 12 (3.61%) Advertising
9 10 (3.01%) Legal
10 9 (2.71%) Banking
10 9 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.71%) Law
11 8 (2.41%) Health Technology
11 8 (2.41%) Telecoms
12 7 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.81%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.51%) Back Office
14 5 (1.51%) Local Government
15 4 (1.20%) Aviation
16 3 (0.90%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 121 (36.45%) Developer
2 80 (24.10%) Senior
3 43 (12.95%) Senior Developer
4 25 (7.53%) Analyst
5 23 (6.93%) Architect
6 22 (6.63%) .NET Developer
6 22 (6.63%) Software Engineer
7 20 (6.02%) Lead
8 18 (5.42%) Integration Engineer
8 18 (5.42%) Support Engineer
9 17 (5.12%) Ruby Developer
10 16 (4.82%) DevOps Engineer
10 16 (4.82%) Software Developer
11 14 (4.22%) Data Engineer
11 14 (4.22%) Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (4.22%) Web Developer
12 13 (3.92%) Senior Integration Engineer
12 13 (3.92%) Technical Support
13 12 (3.61%) Automation Engineer
13 12 (3.61%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (35.84%) XML
2 109 (32.83%) REST
3 86 (25.90%) HTML
4 81 (24.40%) .NET
5 74 (22.29%) CSS
6 47 (14.16%) .NET Core
6 47 (14.16%) RESTful
7 42 (12.65%) SOAP
8 38 (11.45%) ASP.NET
9 32 (9.64%) Middleware
10 30 (9.04%) JWT
11 27 (8.13%) Terraform
11 27 (8.13%) YAML
12 24 (7.23%) React
13 21 (6.33%) .NET Framework
13 21 (6.33%) HTML5 Canvas
14 20 (6.02%) Microsoft Graph
15 19 (5.72%) AngularJS
15 19 (5.72%) Blazor
15 19 (5.72%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.63%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (6.33%) Onboarding
3 20 (6.02%) Cloud Native
4 19 (5.72%) Analytical Mindset
4 19 (5.72%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (5.72%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (3.61%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.31%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.01%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.01%) Driving Licence
7 10 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (2.71%) Enterprise Cloud
8 9 (2.71%) Robotics
9 7 (2.11%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.81%) Taxonomies
11 5 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.51%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.20%) PKI
12 4 (1.20%) Social Media
13 3 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 47 (14.16%) Linux
2 44 (13.25%) Windows
3 16 (4.82%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.90%) Unix
7 2 (0.60%) Android
7 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.30%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (37.65%) Agile
2 110 (33.13%) DevOps
3 108 (32.53%) CI/CD
4 104 (31.33%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (16.87%) Test Automation
5 56 (16.87%) User Experience
6 54 (16.27%) Microservices
7 47 (14.16%) Scrum
8 43 (12.95%) Containerisation
8 43 (12.95%) Mentoring
8 43 (12.95%) Software Engineering
9 40 (12.05%) Data Modelling
10 38 (11.45%) Business Intelligence
10 38 (11.45%) Roadmaps
11 36 (10.84%) AI
12 35 (10.54%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (10.24%) Clean Code
14 33 (9.94%) API Integration
14 33 (9.94%) Infrastructure as Code
15 31 (9.34%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 134 (40.36%) SQL
2 111 (33.43%) JavaScript
3 87 (26.20%) C#
3 87 (26.20%) Python
4 42 (12.65%) Java
5 32 (9.64%) PowerShell
6 23 (6.93%) TypeScript
7 18 (5.42%) C++
7 18 (5.42%) Ruby
8 12 (3.61%) PHP
8 12 (3.61%) Shell Script
9 11 (3.31%) T-SQL
10 8 (2.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (1.51%) Groovy
12 3 (0.90%) Bash
12 3 (0.90%) Perl
12 3 (0.90%) VBA
13 2 (0.60%) Lua
13 2 (0.60%) VBScript
13 2 (0.60%) XPath
Qualifications
1 44 (13.25%) Degree
2 31 (9.34%) Security Cleared
3 24 (7.23%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.01%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.11%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.81%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.51%) ISEB
9 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.90%) CCNP
10 3 (0.90%) CISSP
10 3 (0.90%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.60%) A+ Certification
11 2 (0.60%) CASP
11 2 (0.60%) CCSP
11 2 (0.60%) CompTIA CySA+
11 2 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (13.25%) QA
2 36 (10.84%) Accessibility
3 17 (5.12%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.61%) TickIT
4 12 (3.61%) WCAG
5 11 (3.31%) SLA
6 7 (2.11%) GDPR
7 4 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.90%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.90%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.30%) Basel III
10 1 (0.30%) Dublin Core
10 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.30%) PERC
System Software
1 52 (15.66%) Docker
2 5 (1.51%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.51%) vSphere
3 4 (1.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (7.83%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.92%) Ansible
3 5 (1.51%) Grafana
3 5 (1.51%) Kibana
4 4 (1.20%) Packer
5 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.30%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 106 (31.93%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.53%) Adobe
3 17 (5.12%) Google
4 14 (4.22%) Splunk
5 10 (3.01%) Cisco
5 10 (3.01%) SAP
6 9 (2.71%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.41%) IBM
8 7 (2.11%) Databricks
8 7 (2.11%) Dynatrace
8 7 (2.11%) Oracle
9 6 (1.81%) F5
9 6 (1.81%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.51%) Pega
10 5 (1.51%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.51%) VMware
11 4 (1.20%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.20%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.90%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.90%) Sparx