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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 378 329
Rank change year-on-year -87 -49 -111
Permanent jobs citing JSON 324 279 533
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.31% 0.64% 0.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.04% 3.74% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 215 214 332
10th Percentile £35,800 £41,625 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,526 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £80,625 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,250 £83,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year - +1.63% -5.38%

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 10,674 7,457 14,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.26% 17.19% 21.73%
Number of salaries quoted 7,733 4,922 9,018
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -5.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.37% +4.23% -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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -25 137 £75,000 +7.14% 257
South East -56 70 £55,000 -15.38% 81
North of England -52 46 £50,000 -9.09% 59
Midlands -36 29 £55,000 +15.79% 43
North West -22 26 £62,500 +13.64% 34
West Midlands -33 22 £61,700 +29.89% 28
East of England -56 22 £90,000 +63.64% 31
Yorkshire -31 16 £37,500 -24.62% 18
South West -62 16 £52,500 -6.67% 41
East Midlands -43 7 £54,000 -11.84% 15
North East -60 4 £38,000 -15.56% 8
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 30 (9.26%) SharePoint
2 18 (5.56%) Confluence
3 16 (4.94%) IIS
4 13 (4.01%) Apache
5 9 (2.78%) CMS
6 8 (2.47%) WordPress
7 7 (2.16%) Drupal
7 7 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.93%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.93%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.62%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.31%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.31%) JBoss
10 1 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.31%) Umbraco
Applications
1 20 (6.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.23%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.62%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.62%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.62%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.31%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.31%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.31%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 143 (44.14%) Azure
2 82 (25.31%) AWS
3 60 (18.52%) Power Platform
4 56 (17.28%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (14.20%) Azure Logic Apps
6 39 (12.04%) Serverless
7 33 (10.19%) Microsoft 365
8 32 (9.88%) Power Automate
9 25 (7.72%) Dynamics 365
9 25 (7.72%) PowerApps
10 23 (7.10%) GitHub
11 21 (6.48%) Azure Data Factory
12 20 (6.17%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (4.94%) Azure Functions
14 14 (4.32%) GCP
15 13 (4.01%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (4.01%) SaaS
16 12 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
16 12 (3.70%) Boomi
17 11 (3.40%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.40%) TCP/IP
2 9 (2.78%) HTTP
3 7 (2.16%) Firewall
3 7 (2.16%) Wireshark
4 6 (1.85%) DNS
5 3 (0.93%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.93%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (0.93%) Wireless
6 2 (0.62%) MQTT
6 2 (0.62%) VPN
7 1 (0.31%) Broadband
7 1 (0.31%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.31%) FTP
7 1 (0.31%) Network Security
7 1 (0.31%) RTP
7 1 (0.31%) RTSP
7 1 (0.31%) SCTP
7 1 (0.31%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.31%) SS7
7 1 (0.31%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (12.96%) SQL Server
2 41 (12.65%) PostgreSQL
3 39 (12.04%) Power BI
4 20 (6.17%) Redis
4 20 (6.17%) Relational Database
5 19 (5.86%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (5.86%) MySQL
6 15 (4.63%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (4.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (3.09%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.47%) Metadata
10 7 (2.16%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (2.16%) NoSQL
10 7 (2.16%) Parquet
10 7 (2.16%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.54%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.23%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.23%) Power Query
13 3 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 65 (20.06%) Git
2 30 (9.26%) JIRA
3 25 (7.72%) Jenkins
4 17 (5.25%) Selenium
5 16 (4.94%) Postman
6 13 (4.01%) JMeter
7 11 (3.40%) GitLab
8 8 (2.47%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.47%) JUnit
9 7 (2.16%) Maven
10 6 (1.85%) Mockito
10 6 (1.85%) SoapUI
10 6 (1.85%) Visual Studio
11 5 (1.54%) Gatling
11 5 (1.54%) Gradle
11 5 (1.54%) Jasmine
11 5 (1.54%) Mocha
11 5 (1.54%) NUnit
11 5 (1.54%) Zephyr
12 4 (1.23%) REST Assured
General
1 139 (42.90%) Social Skills
2 78 (24.07%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (19.75%) Finance
4 28 (8.64%) Organisational Skills
5 27 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (4.32%) Retail
8 13 (4.01%) Banking
8 13 (4.01%) Legal
9 12 (3.70%) Law
10 10 (3.09%) Advertising
11 9 (2.78%) Marketing
12 8 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (2.16%) Back Office
14 6 (1.85%) Aviation
14 6 (1.85%) Health Technology
14 6 (1.85%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.54%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.93%) Prime Brokerage
16 3 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 130 (40.12%) Developer
2 78 (24.07%) Senior
3 41 (12.65%) Senior Developer
4 27 (8.33%) .NET Developer
4 27 (8.33%) Analyst
5 22 (6.79%) Architect
6 21 (6.48%) Lead
6 21 (6.48%) Software Engineer
7 17 (5.25%) Integration Engineer
8 16 (4.94%) Data Engineer
8 16 (4.94%) Ruby Developer
8 16 (4.94%) Software Developer
8 16 (4.94%) Web Developer
9 15 (4.63%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (4.01%) .NET Web Developer
10 13 (4.01%) Senior Integration Engineer
11 12 (3.70%) Integration Architect
11 12 (3.70%) Support Engineer
12 11 (3.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 11 (3.40%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (38.58%) XML
2 110 (33.95%) REST
3 82 (25.31%) HTML
4 78 (24.07%) .NET
5 70 (21.60%) CSS
6 51 (15.74%) RESTful
7 44 (13.58%) .NET Core
8 41 (12.65%) SOAP
9 39 (12.04%) ASP.NET
10 29 (8.95%) JWT
11 26 (8.02%) .NET Framework
11 26 (8.02%) Middleware
12 25 (7.72%) React
13 23 (7.10%) Terraform
14 21 (6.48%) AngularJS
14 21 (6.48%) Blazor
14 21 (6.48%) HTML5
15 18 (5.56%) Razor View Engine
15 18 (5.56%) Web Services
15 18 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.17%) Enterprise Software
2 20 (6.17%) Onboarding
3 16 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (4.94%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.32%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (4.32%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (3.70%) Taxonomies
6 11 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (3.40%) Robotics
7 8 (2.47%) AI Agents
8 7 (2.16%) Driving Licence
8 7 (2.16%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.85%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.85%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.85%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.54%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 52 (16.05%) Windows
2 42 (12.96%) Linux
3 18 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.62%) Android
6 2 (0.62%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.31%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (40.12%) Agile
2 111 (34.26%) DevOps
3 108 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 98 (30.25%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (18.21%) AI
6 56 (17.28%) Test Automation
7 50 (15.43%) Mentoring
8 49 (15.12%) Microservices
9 48 (14.81%) Scrum
10 47 (14.51%) Software Engineering
11 45 (13.89%) User Experience
12 42 (12.96%) Data Modelling
13 41 (12.65%) Roadmaps
14 36 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 36 (11.11%) Validation
15 34 (10.49%) Clean Code
16 32 (9.88%) Analytics
16 32 (9.88%) Data Integration
16 32 (9.88%) Performance Tuning
16 32 (9.88%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 134 (41.36%) SQL
2 114 (35.19%) JavaScript
3 90 (27.78%) C#
4 87 (26.85%) Python
5 40 (12.35%) Java
6 28 (8.64%) PowerShell
7 21 (6.48%) C++
8 17 (5.25%) Ruby
9 16 (4.94%) TypeScript
10 12 (3.70%) PHP
11 11 (3.40%) Shell Script
11 11 (3.40%) T-SQL
12 10 (3.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (1.54%) VBA
14 4 (1.23%) XPath
15 3 (0.93%) Bash
15 3 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.62%) Lua
16 2 (0.62%) RPG IV
16 2 (0.62%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 41 (12.65%) Degree
2 34 (10.49%) Security Cleared
3 27 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.40%) Azure Certification
4 11 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (3.40%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (3.09%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (1.85%) ISTQB
7 5 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.54%) ISEB
8 4 (1.23%) CISSP
9 3 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (0.93%) CCNP
9 3 (0.93%) CCSP
10 2 (0.62%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.62%) CASP
10 2 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.62%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.62%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (14.81%) Accessibility
2 38 (11.73%) QA
3 23 (7.10%) Data Quality
4 20 (6.17%) WCAG
5 13 (4.01%) GDPR
6 9 (2.78%) TickIT
7 6 (1.85%) SLA
8 4 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.93%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.93%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.62%) Basel III
10 2 (0.62%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.31%) Dublin Core
11 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.31%) PERC
System Software
1 51 (15.74%) Docker
2 7 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.85%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.23%) vSphere
5 3 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.62%) NFS
6 2 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (6.17%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.78%) Ansible
3 7 (2.16%) Grafana
3 7 (2.16%) Kibana
4 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.31%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.31%) logstash
5 1 (0.31%) QRadar
Vendors
1 112 (34.57%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.94%) Google
3 14 (4.32%) Adobe
4 12 (3.70%) Splunk
5 10 (3.09%) Dynatrace
5 10 (3.09%) SAP
6 7 (2.16%) Oracle
6 7 (2.16%) VMware
7 5 (1.54%) IBM
7 5 (1.54%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.54%) Pega
7 5 (1.54%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.23%) Databricks
8 4 (1.23%) Foundry
8 4 (1.23%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.23%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.93%) CheckPoint
9 3 (0.93%) F5
9 3 (0.93%) McAfee
9 3 (0.93%) Red Hat