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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 306 207
Rank change year-on-year -46 -99 +29
Permanent jobs citing JSON 290 530 751
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.62% 0.88% 1.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.52% 4.22% 6.25%
Number of salaries quoted 215 330 637
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 £81,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,875 £106,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year +4.35% -12.01% -5.05%

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 6,418 12,566 12,020
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.69% 20.89% 26.49%
Number of salaries quoted 4,824 7,588 9,944
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 £66,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.52% +1.54%

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 27 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 27 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 -15 102 £75,000 +7.14% 53
South East -24 75 £62,500 +4.17% 51
East of England +62 60 £55,000 -13.73% 18
North of England +10 29 £55,000 - 15
Midlands +9 27 £47,500 -9.52% 15
North West +41 22 £55,000 - 7
West Midlands +37 19 £47,500 -17.39% 9
East Midlands +14 8 £60,000 +18.81% 6
North East +21 4 £45,000 - 4
South West +9 3 £61,250 +22.50% 3
Yorkshire -30 3 £43,500 -33.08% 4
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 (3.79%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.07%) Anypoint
2 6 (2.07%) Confluence
3 5 (1.72%) CMS
4 3 (1.03%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.69%) IIS
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.34%) Appian
6 1 (0.34%) CICS
6 1 (0.34%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (2.41%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.03%) Trello
3 1 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.41%) Shopify
2 5 (1.72%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.03%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.34%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 92 (31.72%) Azure
2 42 (14.48%) AWS
3 38 (13.10%) GitHub
4 33 (11.38%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 29 (10.00%) Serverless
6 27 (9.31%) Power Automate
7 22 (7.59%) Amazon EC2
8 21 (7.24%) Amazon ECS
8 21 (7.24%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (5.17%) PaaS
9 15 (5.17%) PowerApps
10 14 (4.83%) Boomi
11 13 (4.48%) SaaS
12 12 (4.14%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (4.14%) iPaaS
13 11 (3.79%) Azure Service Bus
13 11 (3.79%) GCP
13 11 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.10%) FTP
2 5 (1.72%) Cisco ISE
2 5 (1.72%) Ethernet
2 5 (1.72%) Firewall
2 5 (1.72%) LAN
2 5 (1.72%) SD-WAN
2 5 (1.72%) WAN
3 4 (1.38%) HTTP
4 3 (1.03%) DNS
4 3 (1.03%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.34%) DHCP
5 1 (0.34%) SSL
5 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.34%) VPN
5 1 (0.34%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (18.97%) Relational Database
2 44 (15.17%) SQL Server
3 23 (7.93%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (7.24%) RDBMS
5 20 (6.90%) Power BI
6 19 (6.55%) MySQL
7 16 (5.52%) OLTP
8 10 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (3.10%) NoSQL
10 7 (2.41%) GIS
11 5 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.72%) Metadata
11 5 (1.72%) Redis
12 4 (1.38%) Power Query
13 3 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.03%) Big Data
13 3 (1.03%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.03%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 37 (12.76%) Git
2 29 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 23 (7.93%) JMeter
3 23 (7.93%) JUnit
4 21 (7.24%) Mockito
5 13 (4.48%) JIRA
6 10 (3.45%) Visual Studio
7 6 (2.07%) Axure RP
7 6 (2.07%) Postman
8 5 (1.72%) MSBuild
8 5 (1.72%) Octopus Deploy
8 5 (1.72%) Selenium
8 5 (1.72%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (1.03%) webpack
10 2 (0.69%) Babel
10 2 (0.69%) Crashlytics
10 2 (0.69%) WebDriver
10 2 (0.69%) Xcode
11 1 (0.34%) Katalon Studio
11 1 (0.34%) Testinfra
General
1 103 (35.52%) Social Skills
2 47 (16.21%) Analytical Skills
2 47 (16.21%) Law
3 38 (13.10%) Finance
4 32 (11.03%) Retail
5 29 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 17 (5.86%) Marketing
7 11 (3.79%) German Language
8 8 (2.76%) Legal
9 4 (1.38%) Automotive
9 4 (1.38%) Front Office
9 4 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.03%) Banking
10 3 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.69%) Electronics
11 2 (0.69%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.69%) Publishing
11 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.34%) Back Office
12 1 (0.34%) Games
Job Titles
1 137 (47.24%) Developer
2 47 (16.21%) Senior
3 42 (14.48%) Senior Developer
4 24 (8.28%) Full-Stack Developer
5 23 (7.93%) Analyst
6 21 (7.24%) Java Developer
7 18 (6.21%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 16 (5.52%) Oracle Developer
8 16 (5.52%) Senior Oracle Developer
9 15 (5.17%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 14 (4.83%) Consultant
11 13 (4.48%) Lead
11 13 (4.48%) ServiceNow Consultant
12 12 (4.14%) Data Engineer
12 12 (4.14%) Integration Engineer
12 12 (4.14%) Support Consultant
13 11 (3.79%) Architect
13 11 (3.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 10 (3.45%) ServiceNow Developer
14 10 (3.45%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (61.38%) XML
2 135 (46.55%) HTML
3 123 (42.41%) REST
4 61 (21.03%) CSS
5 46 (15.86%) Web Services
6 29 (10.00%) React
7 28 (9.66%) .NET
7 28 (9.66%) Regular Expression
7 28 (9.66%) SOAP
8 24 (8.28%) RESTful
9 22 (7.59%) jQuery
10 21 (7.24%) ActiveMQ
10 21 (7.24%) Apache Camel
10 21 (7.24%) Hibernate
10 21 (7.24%) Spring
10 21 (7.24%) Spring Boot
10 21 (7.24%) WireMock
11 14 (4.83%) AngularJS
12 13 (4.48%) ASP.NET
12 13 (4.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (15.86%) Onboarding
2 28 (9.66%) Linux Command Line
3 25 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (7.59%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (5.52%) Low-Code
6 11 (3.79%) Cloud Native
6 11 (3.79%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.45%) Operational Technology
8 9 (3.10%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (2.41%) Data Centre
10 7 (2.41%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.72%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.38%) BYOD
13 3 (1.03%) Reference Data
13 3 (1.03%) Semantic Web
13 3 (1.03%) Social Media
14 2 (0.69%) Blog
14 2 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 2 (0.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 35 (12.07%) Unix
2 13 (4.48%) Linux
3 5 (1.72%) Android
4 4 (1.38%) Windows
5 3 (1.03%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.03%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.69%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (32.76%) Agile
2 82 (28.28%) Problem-Solving
3 64 (22.07%) CI/CD
4 54 (18.62%) DevOps
5 47 (16.21%) AI
5 47 (16.21%) Microservices
6 37 (12.76%) LLM
7 35 (12.07%) Full-Stack Development
8 34 (11.72%) Test Automation
8 34 (11.72%) Workflow
9 33 (11.38%) SDLC
10 32 (11.03%) Data Analysis
11 31 (10.69%) ETL
12 29 (10.00%) User Experience
13 28 (9.66%) API Integration
13 28 (9.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (9.66%) Problem Management
14 27 (9.31%) Analytics
14 27 (9.31%) Data Modelling
15 26 (8.97%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 133 (45.86%) JavaScript
2 123 (42.41%) SQL
3 96 (33.10%) Python
4 49 (16.90%) Java
5 47 (16.21%) C#
6 31 (10.69%) PowerShell
7 27 (9.31%) Shell Script
8 17 (5.86%) PL/SQL
9 11 (3.79%) TypeScript
10 10 (3.45%) T-SQL
11 7 (2.41%) PHP
12 5 (1.72%) Go
13 4 (1.38%) Bicep
14 3 (1.03%) C++
14 3 (1.03%) 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 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 44 (15.17%) Degree
2 25 (8.62%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.45%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.38%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.69%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.34%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.34%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.34%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.34%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.34%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.93%) QA
2 16 (5.52%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.52%) GDPR
3 14 (4.83%) Accessibility
4 12 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (3.45%) NCSC
5 10 (3.45%) NIST
6 3 (1.03%) HL7
7 1 (0.34%) DICOM
System Software
1 45 (15.52%) Docker
2 5 (1.72%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.69%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.34%) iptables
Systems Management
1 36 (12.41%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.24%) Kibana
3 12 (4.14%) Terraform
4 9 (3.10%) Ansible
5 5 (1.72%) FortiGate
5 5 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.69%) Grafana
7 1 (0.34%) Packer
7 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 40 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.97%) Oracle
3 25 (8.62%) ServiceNow
4 22 (7.59%) Splunk
5 21 (7.24%) Dynatrace
6 12 (4.14%) Cisco
7 10 (3.45%) Google
7 10 (3.45%) MuleSoft
7 10 (3.45%) SAP
8 8 (2.76%) Informatica
9 7 (2.41%) Dell
9 7 (2.41%) IBM
9 7 (2.41%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.41%) SnapLogic
10 6 (2.07%) HubSpot
10 6 (2.07%) Intapp
10 6 (2.07%) Talend
10 6 (2.07%) Workday
11 5 (1.72%) IFS
11 5 (1.72%) OpenAI