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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 381 321
Rank change year-on-year -84 -60 -112
Permanent jobs citing JSON 320 271 523
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.31% 0.63% 0.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.00% 3.67% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 213 210 321
10th Percentile £35,650 £41,250 £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 £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,500 £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 10,656 7,380 14,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.24% 17.08% 21.79%
Number of salaries quoted 7,727 4,861 8,875
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% -3.74%
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £87,500
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 6 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 6 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 -27 135 £75,000 +7.14% 250
South East -48 70 £55,000 -15.38% 80
North of England -54 44 £49,500 -10.00% 58
Midlands -47 29 £55,000 +15.79% 39
North West -30 25 £62,500 +8.70% 34
West Midlands -28 22 £61,700 +29.89% 26
East of England -51 22 £90,000 +63.64% 32
Yorkshire -21 16 £37,500 -24.62% 19
South West -66 16 £52,500 -6.67% 41
East Midlands -28 7 £54,000 -11.84% 13
North East -66 3 £31,000 -31.11% 6
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 (9.38%) SharePoint
2 18 (5.63%) Confluence
3 16 (5.00%) IIS
4 13 (4.06%) Apache
5 8 (2.50%) CMS
5 8 (2.50%) WordPress
6 7 (2.19%) Drupal
6 7 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.94%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.94%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.63%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.31%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.31%) JBoss
Applications
1 20 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.25%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.63%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.63%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.63%) 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
1 141 (44.06%) Azure
2 81 (25.31%) AWS
3 59 (18.44%) Power Platform
4 56 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (14.69%) Azure Logic Apps
6 40 (12.50%) Serverless
7 33 (10.31%) Microsoft 365
8 32 (10.00%) Power Automate
9 25 (7.81%) PowerApps
10 24 (7.50%) Dynamics 365
11 23 (7.19%) GitHub
12 21 (6.56%) Azure Data Factory
13 20 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (5.31%) Azure Functions
15 14 (4.38%) GCP
15 14 (4.38%) SaaS
16 13 (4.06%) AWS CloudFormation
16 13 (4.06%) Azure Monitor
17 11 (3.44%) Azure Service Bus
17 11 (3.44%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.44%) TCP/IP
2 9 (2.81%) HTTP
3 7 (2.19%) Firewall
3 7 (2.19%) Wireshark
4 6 (1.88%) DNS
5 3 (0.94%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.94%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (0.94%) Wireless
6 2 (0.63%) MQTT
6 2 (0.63%) VPN
7 1 (0.31%) Broadband
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
7 1 (0.31%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (13.13%) SQL Server
2 41 (12.81%) PostgreSQL
3 38 (11.88%) Power BI
4 20 (6.25%) Redis
4 20 (6.25%) Relational Database
5 19 (5.94%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (5.94%) MySQL
6 15 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (4.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (3.13%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.50%) Metadata
10 7 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (2.19%) NoSQL
10 7 (2.19%) Parquet
10 7 (2.19%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.25%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.25%) Power Query
13 2 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 64 (20.00%) Git
2 29 (9.06%) JIRA
3 25 (7.81%) Jenkins
4 17 (5.31%) Selenium
5 16 (5.00%) Postman
6 13 (4.06%) JMeter
7 11 (3.44%) GitLab
8 8 (2.50%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.50%) JUnit
9 7 (2.19%) Maven
10 6 (1.88%) Mockito
10 6 (1.88%) SoapUI
10 6 (1.88%) Visual Studio
11 5 (1.56%) Gatling
11 5 (1.56%) Gradle
11 5 (1.56%) Jasmine
11 5 (1.56%) Mocha
11 5 (1.56%) NUnit
11 5 (1.56%) Zephyr
12 4 (1.25%) REST Assured
General
1 137 (42.81%) Social Skills
2 75 (23.44%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (20.00%) Finance
4 28 (8.75%) Public Sector
5 27 (8.44%) Organisational Skills
6 15 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (4.06%) Banking
7 13 (4.06%) Legal
7 13 (4.06%) Retail
8 12 (3.75%) Law
9 10 (3.13%) Advertising
10 8 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.50%) Marketing
11 6 (1.88%) Aviation
11 6 (1.88%) Back Office
11 6 (1.88%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.56%) Health Technology
12 5 (1.56%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.25%) Publishing
14 3 (0.94%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 127 (39.69%) Developer
2 78 (24.38%) Senior
3 40 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 27 (8.44%) .NET Developer
5 26 (8.13%) Analyst
6 23 (7.19%) Architect
7 21 (6.56%) Lead
7 21 (6.56%) Software Engineer
8 17 (5.31%) Integration Engineer
9 16 (5.00%) Data Engineer
9 16 (5.00%) Ruby Developer
9 16 (5.00%) Web Developer
10 15 (4.69%) Full-Stack Developer
10 15 (4.69%) Software Developer
11 13 (4.06%) .NET Web Developer
11 13 (4.06%) Integration Architect
11 13 (4.06%) Senior Integration Engineer
12 12 (3.75%) Support Engineer
13 11 (3.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 11 (3.44%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (38.75%) XML
2 109 (34.06%) REST
3 80 (25.00%) HTML
4 77 (24.06%) .NET
5 68 (21.25%) CSS
6 49 (15.31%) RESTful
7 44 (13.75%) .NET Core
8 40 (12.50%) SOAP
9 38 (11.88%) ASP.NET
10 30 (9.38%) JWT
11 25 (7.81%) .NET Framework
11 25 (7.81%) Middleware
11 25 (7.81%) React
12 24 (7.50%) Terraform
13 21 (6.56%) Blazor
14 20 (6.25%) AngularJS
14 20 (6.25%) HTML5
15 18 (5.63%) Web Services
15 18 (5.63%) YAML
16 17 (5.31%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.19%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.56%) Onboarding
3 20 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (5.31%) Management Information System
5 16 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (4.38%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (4.06%) Product Ownership
8 12 (3.75%) Taxonomies
9 11 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (3.44%) Robotics
10 8 (2.50%) AI Agents
11 7 (2.19%) Driving Licence
11 7 (2.19%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.88%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.88%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.88%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.56%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (1.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 52 (16.25%) Windows
2 42 (13.13%) Linux
3 18 (5.63%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.63%) Android
6 2 (0.63%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.31%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (40.31%) Agile
2 110 (34.38%) DevOps
3 107 (33.44%) CI/CD
4 95 (29.69%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (18.44%) AI
6 57 (17.81%) Test Automation
7 49 (15.31%) Mentoring
8 48 (15.00%) Microservices
8 48 (15.00%) Software Engineering
9 46 (14.38%) Scrum
10 44 (13.75%) User Experience
11 42 (13.13%) Data Modelling
12 40 (12.50%) Roadmaps
13 37 (11.56%) Validation
14 35 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
15 33 (10.31%) Analytics
15 33 (10.31%) Clean Code
16 32 (10.00%) Data Integration
16 32 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
16 32 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 132 (41.25%) SQL
2 111 (34.69%) JavaScript
3 89 (27.81%) C#
4 86 (26.88%) Python
5 39 (12.19%) Java
6 28 (8.75%) PowerShell
7 21 (6.56%) C++
8 17 (5.31%) Ruby
9 16 (5.00%) TypeScript
10 12 (3.75%) PHP
11 11 (3.44%) Shell Script
11 11 (3.44%) T-SQL
12 10 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (1.56%) VBA
14 4 (1.25%) XPath
15 3 (0.94%) Bash
15 3 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.63%) Bicep
16 2 (0.63%) RPG IV
16 2 (0.63%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 41 (12.81%) Degree
2 35 (10.94%) Security Cleared
3 28 (8.75%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.75%) Azure Certification
5 11 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.88%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.56%) ISEB
9 4 (1.25%) CISSP
10 3 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.94%) CCNP
10 3 (0.94%) CCSP
11 2 (0.63%) CASP
11 2 (0.63%) CompTIA CySA+
11 2 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (14.69%) Accessibility
2 38 (11.88%) QA
3 23 (7.19%) Data Quality
4 20 (6.25%) WCAG
5 13 (4.06%) GDPR
6 8 (2.50%) TickIT
7 5 (1.56%) SLA
8 4 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.94%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.94%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.63%) Basel III
10 2 (0.63%) 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 50 (15.63%) Docker
2 7 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.88%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.25%) vSphere
5 3 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.63%) NFS
6 2 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (5.94%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.81%) Ansible
3 8 (2.50%) Grafana
4 7 (2.19%) Kibana
5 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.31%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.31%) logstash
6 1 (0.31%) QRadar
Vendors
1 112 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.00%) Google
3 14 (4.38%) Adobe
4 12 (3.75%) Splunk
5 11 (3.44%) Dynatrace
6 10 (3.13%) SAP
7 7 (2.19%) Oracle
7 7 (2.19%) VMware
8 5 (1.56%) IBM
8 5 (1.56%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.56%) Pega
8 5 (1.56%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.25%) Databricks
9 4 (1.25%) Foundry
9 4 (1.25%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.25%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.94%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.94%) Cisco
10 3 (0.94%) McAfee
10 3 (0.94%) Red Hat