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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 305 204
Rank change year-on-year -48 -101 +41
Permanent jobs citing JSON 274 509 752
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 0.91% 1.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.46% 4.27% 6.33%
Number of salaries quoted 201 332 634
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,125 £87,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £106,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -14.81% -2.80%

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 6,149 11,929 11,885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.49% 21.43% 26.38%
Number of salaries quoted 4,703 7,260 9,869
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 £87,500 £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 8 December 2025.

Salary histogram for JSON in England

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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 8 December 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 -2 98 £75,000 +7.14% 65
South East -35 69 £56,500 -19.29% 77
East of England +55 62 £55,000 -13.73% 38
North of England -17 26 £52,500 -4.55% 66
Midlands +1 24 £47,500 -9.52% 48
North West +26 19 £55,000 - 30
West Midlands +11 18 £47,500 -17.39% 30
East Midlands +3 6 £60,000 +18.81% 16
North East - 4 £45,000 - 8
Yorkshire -40 3 £43,500 -30.40% 28
South West +10 2 £60,000 +20.00% 27
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 10 (3.65%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.19%) Anypoint
2 6 (2.19%) Confluence
3 5 (1.82%) CMS
4 3 (1.09%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.36%) Appian
6 1 (0.36%) CICS
6 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.36%) IIS
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.55%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.09%) Trello
4 1 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.19%) Shopify
2 4 (1.46%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.09%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 82 (29.93%) Azure
2 41 (14.96%) AWS
3 33 (12.04%) GitHub
4 31 (11.31%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (9.85%) Power Platform
5 27 (9.85%) Serverless
6 26 (9.49%) Power Automate
7 23 (8.39%) Amazon EC2
8 21 (7.66%) Amazon ECS
8 21 (7.66%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (5.11%) Boomi
9 14 (5.11%) PaaS
9 14 (5.11%) PowerApps
10 13 (4.74%) SaaS
11 12 (4.38%) GCP
12 11 (4.01%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (3.65%) iPaaS
13 10 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (3.28%) Azure Service Bus
15 7 (2.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.28%) FTP
2 5 (1.82%) Cisco ISE
2 5 (1.82%) Ethernet
2 5 (1.82%) Firewall
2 5 (1.82%) LAN
2 5 (1.82%) SD-WAN
2 5 (1.82%) WAN
3 4 (1.46%) HTTP
4 3 (1.09%) DNS
4 3 (1.09%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.09%) VPN
5 1 (0.36%) AMQP
5 1 (0.36%) DHCP
5 1 (0.36%) SSL
5 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.36%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (20.07%) Relational Database
2 41 (14.96%) SQL Server
3 22 (8.03%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (7.66%) RDBMS
5 20 (7.30%) MySQL
5 20 (7.30%) Power BI
6 14 (5.11%) OLTP
7 11 (4.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (3.28%) NoSQL
10 7 (2.55%) GIS
11 5 (1.82%) Metadata
12 4 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.46%) Power Query
12 4 (1.46%) Redis
13 3 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.09%) Big Data
13 3 (1.09%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (1.09%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (10.58%) Jenkins
2 27 (9.85%) Git
3 23 (8.39%) JMeter
3 23 (8.39%) JUnit
4 21 (7.66%) Mockito
5 12 (4.38%) JIRA
6 9 (3.28%) Visual Studio
7 6 (2.19%) Axure RP
7 6 (2.19%) Postman
8 4 (1.46%) MSBuild
8 4 (1.46%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (1.46%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (1.09%) Selenium
10 2 (0.73%) Crashlytics
10 2 (0.73%) WebDriver
10 2 (0.73%) Xcode
11 1 (0.36%) ESLint
11 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.36%) Storybook
11 1 (0.36%) Testinfra
General
1 100 (36.50%) Social Skills
2 48 (17.52%) Law
3 42 (15.33%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (12.77%) Finance
5 29 (10.58%) Public Sector
5 29 (10.58%) Retail
6 15 (5.47%) Marketing
7 11 (4.01%) German Language
8 7 (2.55%) Legal
9 4 (1.46%) Automotive
9 4 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.09%) Banking
10 3 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.73%) Electronics
11 2 (0.73%) Front Office
11 2 (0.73%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.73%) Publishing
11 2 (0.73%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 124 (45.26%) Developer
2 42 (15.33%) Senior
3 37 (13.50%) Senior Developer
4 22 (8.03%) Analyst
4 22 (8.03%) Full-Stack Developer
5 21 (7.66%) Java Developer
6 18 (6.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 15 (5.47%) Consultant
7 15 (5.47%) Mid-Level Java Developer
8 14 (5.11%) Oracle Developer
8 14 (5.11%) Senior Oracle Developer
9 13 (4.74%) Lead
9 13 (4.74%) ServiceNow Consultant
10 12 (4.38%) Data Engineer
10 12 (4.38%) ServiceNow Developer
10 12 (4.38%) Support Consultant
11 11 (4.01%) Integration Engineer
12 10 (3.65%) Architect
12 10 (3.65%) Support Engineer
13 9 (3.28%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (62.77%) XML
2 127 (46.35%) HTML
3 114 (41.61%) REST
4 55 (20.07%) CSS
5 43 (15.69%) Web Services
6 28 (10.22%) Regular Expression
7 26 (9.49%) React
7 26 (9.49%) SOAP
8 22 (8.03%) Hibernate
8 22 (8.03%) Spring
8 22 (8.03%) Spring Boot
9 21 (7.66%) .NET
9 21 (7.66%) ActiveMQ
9 21 (7.66%) Apache Camel
9 21 (7.66%) jQuery
9 21 (7.66%) WireMock
10 19 (6.93%) RESTful
11 13 (4.74%) AngularJS
11 13 (4.74%) YAML
12 11 (4.01%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 45 (16.42%) Onboarding
2 30 (10.95%) Linux Command Line
3 24 (8.76%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (6.57%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (5.47%) Low-Code
6 11 (4.01%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.65%) Cloud Native
7 10 (3.65%) Operational Technology
8 8 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.55%) Data Centre
9 7 (2.55%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.82%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.46%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.09%) Reference Data
12 3 (1.09%) Semantic Web
12 3 (1.09%) Social Media
13 2 (0.73%) Blog
13 2 (0.73%) BYOD
13 2 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 2 (0.73%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 35 (12.77%) Unix
2 14 (5.11%) Linux
3 4 (1.46%) Windows
4 3 (1.09%) Android
4 3 (1.09%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.36%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (31.75%) Agile
2 76 (27.74%) Problem-Solving
3 61 (22.26%) CI/CD
4 50 (18.25%) DevOps
5 46 (16.79%) AI
6 43 (15.69%) Microservices
7 36 (13.14%) LLM
8 33 (12.04%) Workflow
9 32 (11.68%) Full-Stack Development
10 31 (11.31%) Data Analysis
10 31 (11.31%) ETL
10 31 (11.31%) SDLC
11 30 (10.95%) Problem Management
12 29 (10.58%) Test Automation
13 28 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (9.85%) API Integration
14 27 (9.85%) Business Intelligence
14 27 (9.85%) User Experience
15 26 (9.49%) Analytics
15 26 (9.49%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 123 (44.89%) JavaScript
2 116 (42.34%) SQL
3 95 (34.67%) Python
4 46 (16.79%) Java
5 40 (14.60%) C#
6 29 (10.58%) PowerShell
7 27 (9.85%) Shell Script
8 15 (5.47%) PL/SQL
9 10 (3.65%) T-SQL
10 8 (2.92%) TypeScript
11 6 (2.19%) PHP
12 5 (1.82%) Go
13 4 (1.46%) Bicep
14 3 (1.09%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.73%) Bash
15 2 (0.73%) C++
15 2 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.73%) Ruby
15 2 (0.73%) Swift
16 1 (0.36%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 42 (15.33%) Degree
2 25 (9.12%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.65%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.09%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.73%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.36%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.36%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.93%) QA
2 16 (5.84%) Data Quality
3 14 (5.11%) Accessibility
4 13 (4.74%) GDPR
5 11 (4.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (3.65%) NCSC
6 10 (3.65%) NIST
7 5 (1.82%) HL7
8 1 (0.36%) DICOM
System Software
1 43 (15.69%) Docker
2 5 (1.82%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.73%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.36%) iptables
Systems Management
1 35 (12.77%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.66%) Kibana
3 12 (4.38%) Terraform
4 9 (3.28%) Ansible
5 5 (1.82%) FortiGate
5 5 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.73%) Grafana
7 1 (0.36%) Packer
7 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (13.14%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.49%) ServiceNow
3 23 (8.39%) Oracle
4 22 (8.03%) Splunk
5 21 (7.66%) Dynatrace
6 12 (4.38%) Cisco
7 10 (3.65%) Google
7 10 (3.65%) MuleSoft
7 10 (3.65%) SAP
8 8 (2.92%) Informatica
9 7 (2.55%) Dell
9 7 (2.55%) SnapLogic
9 7 (2.55%) Talend
10 6 (2.19%) IBM
10 6 (2.19%) Intapp
10 6 (2.19%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.82%) CheckPoint
11 5 (1.82%) IFS
11 5 (1.82%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.82%) Workday