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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 302 230
Rank change year-on-year -92 -72 +33
Permanent jobs citing JSON 240 442 791
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 0.94% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.74% 4.29% 5.55%
Number of salaries quoted 171 293 647
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,875 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £81,750 £86,250 £106,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -5.55%

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 6,415 10,299 14,261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.56% 21.81% 23.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,898 6,038 12,104
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £38,691
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 -18 86 £75,000 +7.14% 50
South East -62 53 £55,000 -13.73% 45
East of England +46 50 £55,000 -12.00% 6
North of England -13 26 £55,000 +4.76% 20
Midlands -16 24 £47,500 -9.52% 12
North West +12 18 £55,000 - 10
West Midlands +10 18 £47,500 -11.53% 4
East Midlands -16 6 £60,000 +15.38% 8
North East 0 4 £45,000 -41.94%
Yorkshire -42 4 £56,750 +8.10% 10
South West -13 1 £60,000 - 7
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 8 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.50%) Confluence
3 5 (2.08%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.67%) CMS
5 3 (1.25%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.83%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.83%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.42%) Apache
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.42%) Appian
7 1 (0.42%) CICS
7 1 (0.42%) IIS
7 1 (0.42%) JBoss
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (2.92%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.25%) Trello
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.50%) NetSuite
1 6 (2.50%) Shopify
2 3 (1.25%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.42%) Magento
4 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 71 (29.58%) Azure
2 36 (15.00%) AWS
3 27 (11.25%) Power Platform
4 26 (10.83%) GitHub
5 22 (9.17%) Power Automate
5 22 (9.17%) Serverless
6 16 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (6.25%) Boomi
8 14 (5.83%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (5.83%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (5.42%) GCP
10 12 (5.00%) iPaaS
10 12 (5.00%) PowerApps
11 11 (4.58%) SaaS
12 10 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (3.75%) PaaS
14 6 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (2.50%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.75%) FTP
2 7 (2.92%) VPN
3 3 (1.25%) AMQP
3 3 (1.25%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (1.25%) Ethernet
3 3 (1.25%) Firewall
3 3 (1.25%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.25%) LAN
3 3 (1.25%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.25%) WAN
4 2 (0.83%) DNS
5 1 (0.42%) DHCP
5 1 (0.42%) HTTP
5 1 (0.42%) SSL
5 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.42%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (17.08%) Relational Database
2 35 (14.58%) SQL Server
3 22 (9.17%) MySQL
4 21 (8.75%) Power BI
5 18 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (5.42%) RDBMS
7 9 (3.75%) NoSQL
8 8 (3.33%) OLTP
8 8 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.92%) Metadata
10 6 (2.50%) Electronic Patient Records
10 6 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.25%) Crystal Reports
11 3 (1.25%) Power Query
12 2 (0.83%) Big Data
12 2 (0.83%) Redis
12 2 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (9.17%) Jenkins
2 17 (7.08%) Git
3 16 (6.67%) JUnit
4 13 (5.42%) JMeter
5 12 (5.00%) Mockito
6 11 (4.58%) Postman
7 10 (4.17%) JIRA
8 6 (2.50%) Axure RP
9 5 (2.08%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.67%) Maven
11 3 (1.25%) Selenium
12 2 (0.83%) Crashlytics
12 2 (0.83%) GitLab
13 1 (0.42%) Android Studio
13 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.42%) Gradle
13 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
13 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 1 (0.42%) Testinfra
General
1 86 (35.83%) Social Skills
2 41 (17.08%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (15.83%) Finance
4 33 (13.75%) Law
5 30 (12.50%) Retail
6 20 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 15 (6.25%) German Language
8 10 (4.17%) Marketing
9 6 (2.50%) Health Technology
9 6 (2.50%) Legal
9 6 (2.50%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.25%) Electronics
10 3 (1.25%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.83%) Automotive
11 2 (0.83%) Banking
11 2 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.83%) Publishing
12 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 105 (43.75%) Developer
2 33 (13.75%) Senior
3 29 (12.08%) Senior Developer
4 27 (11.25%) Analyst
5 20 (8.33%) Java Developer
6 13 (5.42%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (5.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 12 (5.00%) ServiceNow Developer
8 11 (4.58%) Architect
8 11 (4.58%) Consultant
8 11 (4.58%) Oracle Developer
8 11 (4.58%) Senior Oracle Developer
8 11 (4.58%) Support Engineer
9 10 (4.17%) Integration Engineer
9 10 (4.17%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 8 (3.33%) Applications Support
10 8 (3.33%) Data Engineer
10 8 (3.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 8 (3.33%) Technical Consultant
11 7 (2.92%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (62.08%) XML
2 107 (44.58%) REST
3 88 (36.67%) HTML
4 35 (14.58%) Web Services
5 32 (13.33%) SOAP
6 29 (12.08%) Regular Expression
7 27 (11.25%) CSS
8 25 (10.42%) React
9 23 (9.58%) Spring
10 21 (8.75%) Spring Boot
11 16 (6.67%) Hibernate
12 14 (5.83%) jQuery
12 14 (5.83%) RESTful
13 13 (5.42%) Middleware
14 12 (5.00%) .NET
14 12 (5.00%) ActiveMQ
14 12 (5.00%) Apache Camel
14 12 (5.00%) WireMock
15 11 (4.58%) AngularJS
16 10 (4.17%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 47 (19.58%) Onboarding
2 35 (14.58%) Linux Command Line
3 17 (7.08%) Low-Code
3 17 (7.08%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 16 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (4.17%) Operational Technology
6 7 (2.92%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.50%) NHS
8 5 (2.08%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.67%) Semantic Web
10 3 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.25%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.25%) PMI
10 3 (1.25%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.25%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.25%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.25%) Social Media
11 2 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (15.00%) Unix
2 16 (6.67%) Linux
3 3 (1.25%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.25%) Windows
4 1 (0.42%) Android
4 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.42%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (29.58%) Agile
2 69 (28.75%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (21.67%) CI/CD
4 47 (19.58%) AI
5 39 (16.25%) DevOps
6 35 (14.58%) LLM
7 34 (14.17%) Data Analysis
8 32 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
9 28 (11.67%) ETL
10 27 (11.25%) API Integration
10 27 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (10.83%) Data Modelling
11 26 (10.83%) Validation
12 24 (10.00%) User Experience
12 24 (10.00%) Workflow
13 23 (9.58%) Microservices
14 22 (9.17%) Analytics
14 22 (9.17%) Test Automation
15 21 (8.75%) SDLC
16 20 (8.33%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 112 (46.67%) SQL
2 90 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 86 (35.83%) Python
4 48 (20.00%) Java
5 30 (12.50%) C#
6 27 (11.25%) PowerShell
7 17 (7.08%) Shell Script
8 12 (5.00%) PL/SQL
9 11 (4.58%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.08%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.67%) Bicep
11 4 (1.67%) PHP
12 3 (1.25%) ActionScript
12 3 (1.25%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.83%) Bash
13 2 (0.83%) C++
13 2 (0.83%) Ruby
14 1 (0.42%) COBOL
14 1 (0.42%) Korn
14 1 (0.42%) VB
Qualifications
1 46 (19.17%) Degree
2 24 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 13 (5.42%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (1.25%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.42%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.42%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 15 (6.25%) QA
3 9 (3.75%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.75%) GDPR
3 9 (3.75%) HL7
3 9 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.08%) NCSC
4 5 (2.08%) NIST
5 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (13.75%) Docker
2 3 (1.25%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.25%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.42%) iptables
Systems Management
1 29 (12.08%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.00%) Kibana
3 10 (4.17%) Ansible
3 10 (4.17%) Terraform
4 3 (1.25%) FortiGate
4 3 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.42%) Grafana
5 1 (0.42%) Packer
5 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.75%) Oracle
3 14 (5.83%) SAP
3 14 (5.83%) ServiceNow
4 13 (5.42%) Splunk
5 12 (5.00%) Dynatrace
6 10 (4.17%) Google
6 10 (4.17%) MuleSoft
7 9 (3.75%) Dell
8 8 (3.33%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.92%) Informatica
9 7 (2.92%) SnapLogic
9 7 (2.92%) Talend
10 6 (2.50%) IBM
10 6 (2.50%) Intapp
10 6 (2.50%) Workday
11 5 (2.08%) Cisco
11 5 (2.08%) Epicor
11 5 (2.08%) IFS
11 5 (2.08%) Software AG