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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 380 324
Rank change year-on-year -94 -56 -111
Permanent jobs citing JSON 312 263 504
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.62% 0.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.91% 3.59% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 204 204 316
10th Percentile £35,725 £40,375 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,526 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -2.44% -5.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,375 £83,750 £87,500
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 10,719 7,319 14,031
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.29% 17.12% 21.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,703 4,834 8,671
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% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -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 13 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 13 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 -13 134 £75,000 +7.14% 226
South East -51 68 £55,000 -15.38% 54
North of England -53 41 £44,000 -18.14% 45
Midlands -47 29 £57,500 +21.05% 27
North West -34 23 £61,250 +6.52% 28
West Midlands -36 22 £62,500 +31.58% 19
East of England -57 20 £90,000 +63.64% 16
South West -63 16 £52,500 -12.50% 19
Yorkshire -21 15 £37,500 -1.32% 14
East Midlands -31 7 £54,000 -10.00% 8
North East -70 3 £31,000 -31.11% 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 27 (8.65%) SharePoint
2 18 (5.77%) Confluence
3 15 (4.81%) IIS
4 13 (4.17%) Apache
5 9 (2.88%) CMS
5 9 (2.88%) WordPress
6 8 (2.56%) Drupal
7 6 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.96%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.96%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.64%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.32%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.32%) JBoss
Applications
1 20 (6.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.28%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.96%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.32%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.32%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.64%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.32%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.32%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.32%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 139 (44.55%) Azure
2 81 (25.96%) AWS
3 54 (17.31%) Power Platform
4 52 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (14.74%) Azure Logic Apps
6 36 (11.54%) Serverless
7 31 (9.94%) Microsoft 365
8 29 (9.29%) Power Automate
9 22 (7.05%) PowerApps
10 21 (6.73%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (6.73%) GitHub
11 19 (6.09%) Azure Data Factory
12 18 (5.77%) GCP
13 17 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (5.45%) Azure Functions
14 14 (4.49%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (4.17%) SaaS
16 12 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
17 11 (3.53%) Azure Service Bus
18 9 (2.88%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.85%) TCP/IP
2 10 (3.21%) HTTP
3 7 (2.24%) Firewall
3 7 (2.24%) Wireshark
4 6 (1.92%) DNS
5 3 (0.96%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.96%) MQTT
5 3 (0.96%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (0.96%) Wireless
6 2 (0.64%) VPN
7 1 (0.32%) Broadband
7 1 (0.32%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.32%) FTP
7 1 (0.32%) Network Security
7 1 (0.32%) RTP
7 1 (0.32%) RTSP
7 1 (0.32%) SCTP
7 1 (0.32%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.32%) SS7
7 1 (0.32%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (13.78%) SQL Server
2 38 (12.18%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (10.58%) Power BI
4 20 (6.41%) MySQL
4 20 (6.41%) Relational Database
5 19 (6.09%) Redis
6 18 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (3.21%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.88%) Metadata
9 9 (2.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (2.56%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (1.92%) Parquet
11 6 (1.92%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.60%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.28%) Power Query
14 3 (0.96%) DynamoDB
15 2 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 62 (19.87%) Git
2 26 (8.33%) JIRA
3 23 (7.37%) Jenkins
4 17 (5.45%) Selenium
5 14 (4.49%) Postman
6 12 (3.85%) JMeter
7 10 (3.21%) GitLab
8 8 (2.56%) Cucumber
9 7 (2.24%) JUnit
10 6 (1.92%) Maven
10 6 (1.92%) SoapUI
11 5 (1.60%) Gatling
11 5 (1.60%) Jasmine
11 5 (1.60%) Mocha
11 5 (1.60%) Mockito
11 5 (1.60%) NUnit
11 5 (1.60%) Visual Studio
11 5 (1.60%) Zephyr
12 4 (1.28%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.28%) REST Assured
General
1 130 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 67 (21.47%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (20.51%) Finance
4 27 (8.65%) Public Sector
5 25 (8.01%) Organisational Skills
6 15 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (4.17%) Banking
7 13 (4.17%) Legal
8 12 (3.85%) Law
9 10 (3.21%) Retail
10 9 (2.88%) Advertising
11 8 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (2.24%) Marketing
13 6 (1.92%) Aviation
13 6 (1.92%) Back Office
13 6 (1.92%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.60%) Investment Banking
15 4 (1.28%) Publishing
16 3 (0.96%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.96%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 121 (38.78%) Developer
2 76 (24.36%) Senior
3 37 (11.86%) Senior Developer
4 27 (8.65%) .NET Developer
5 25 (8.01%) Analyst
6 22 (7.05%) Architect
7 21 (6.73%) Lead
7 21 (6.73%) Software Engineer
8 17 (5.45%) Integration Engineer
9 16 (5.13%) Web Developer
10 15 (4.81%) Full-Stack Developer
10 15 (4.81%) Ruby Developer
10 15 (4.81%) Software Developer
11 14 (4.49%) Data Engineer
12 13 (4.17%) .NET Web Developer
12 13 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 13 (4.17%) Senior Integration Engineer
13 12 (3.85%) Integration Architect
14 10 (3.21%) C# Developer
14 10 (3.21%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (38.46%) XML
2 104 (33.33%) REST
3 75 (24.04%) .NET
3 75 (24.04%) HTML
4 64 (20.51%) CSS
5 47 (15.06%) RESTful
6 42 (13.46%) .NET Core
7 38 (12.18%) ASP.NET
8 35 (11.22%) SOAP
9 26 (8.33%) JWT
9 26 (8.33%) React
10 25 (8.01%) .NET Framework
11 23 (7.37%) Terraform
12 21 (6.73%) Blazor
12 21 (6.73%) HTML5
13 20 (6.41%) AngularJS
13 20 (6.41%) Middleware
14 17 (5.45%) Razor View Engine
14 17 (5.45%) Web Services
14 17 (5.45%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.37%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.73%) Onboarding
3 20 (6.41%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (5.13%) Management Information System
5 15 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 12 (3.85%) Product Ownership
7 12 (3.85%) Taxonomies
8 11 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (3.53%) Robotics
9 9 (2.88%) AI Agents
10 7 (2.24%) Driving Licence
11 6 (1.92%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.92%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.92%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.92%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.60%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.60%) PKI
13 4 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (16.35%) Windows
2 41 (13.14%) Linux
3 17 (5.45%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.64%) Android
6 2 (0.64%) macOS
7 1 (0.32%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (41.03%) Agile
2 106 (33.97%) CI/CD
3 105 (33.65%) DevOps
4 88 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (20.19%) AI
6 57 (18.27%) Test Automation
7 49 (15.71%) Mentoring
8 48 (15.38%) Microservices
8 48 (15.38%) Software Engineering
9 45 (14.42%) Scrum
10 41 (13.14%) Data Modelling
10 41 (13.14%) User Experience
11 37 (11.86%) Validation
12 35 (11.22%) Analytics
13 34 (10.90%) Roadmaps
14 33 (10.58%) Clean Code
14 33 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (10.58%) Data Integration
14 33 (10.58%) Stakeholder Management
15 32 (10.26%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 124 (39.74%) SQL
2 104 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 87 (27.88%) C#
3 87 (27.88%) Python
4 38 (12.18%) Java
5 26 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 21 (6.73%) C++
7 16 (5.13%) Ruby
8 15 (4.81%) TypeScript
9 12 (3.85%) PHP
10 11 (3.53%) T-SQL
11 10 (3.21%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (1.28%) VBA
13 4 (1.28%) XPath
14 3 (0.96%) Bash
14 3 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.64%) Bicep
15 2 (0.64%) RPG IV
15 2 (0.64%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 41 (13.14%) Degree
2 34 (10.90%) Security Cleared
3 27 (8.65%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.85%) Azure Certification
5 11 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.21%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.92%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.60%) CISSP
8 5 (1.60%) ISEB
9 3 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (0.96%) CCNP
9 3 (0.96%) CCSP
9 3 (0.96%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.64%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.64%) CISM
10 2 (0.64%) GIAC
10 2 (0.64%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (15.38%) Accessibility
2 35 (11.22%) QA
3 24 (7.69%) Data Quality
4 21 (6.73%) WCAG
5 15 (4.81%) GDPR
6 5 (1.60%) TickIT
7 4 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.96%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.96%) ISO 8583
8 3 (0.96%) SLA
9 2 (0.64%) Basel III
9 2 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.64%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.32%) COBIT
10 1 (0.32%) ECSS
10 1 (0.32%) GRC
10 1 (0.32%) NIST
10 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.32%) PERC
System Software
1 46 (14.74%) Docker
2 7 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.92%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.28%) vSphere
5 3 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.64%) NFS
6 2 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (4.81%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.56%) Ansible
2 8 (2.56%) Grafana
3 6 (1.92%) Kibana
4 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.32%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.32%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.32%) logstash
5 1 (0.32%) QRadar
Vendors
1 106 (33.97%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.45%) Google
3 13 (4.17%) Adobe
4 11 (3.53%) Splunk
5 10 (3.21%) Dynatrace
5 10 (3.21%) SAP
6 7 (2.24%) Oracle
6 7 (2.24%) VMware
7 6 (1.92%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.60%) Foundry
8 5 (1.60%) IBM
8 5 (1.60%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.60%) Pega
8 5 (1.60%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.28%) Databricks
9 4 (1.28%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.96%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.96%) F5
10 3 (0.96%) McAfee
10 3 (0.96%) Red Hat