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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 430 326 303
Rank change year-on-year -104 -23 -37
Permanent jobs citing JSON 297 336 836
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 0.84% 0.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.38% 4.31% 4.54%
Number of salaries quoted 221 261 627
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,526 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £79,336 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.79% +5.00% -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 8,782 7,804 18,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.49% 19.61% 19.28%
Number of salaries quoted 6,697 5,253 14,834
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,838 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -31 109 £75,000 +11.11% 43
South East -28 82 £60,000 -7.69% 33
North of England -11 48 £55,000 - 15
North West +7 30 £62,500 +13.64% 10
East of England -11 29 £90,000 +89.47% 4
Yorkshire -31 14 £42,750 +5.56% 4
South West -72 12 £52,500 -12.50% 8
Midlands -41 9 £47,500 -16.67% 13
West Midlands -30 5 £43,000 -21.82% 7
East Midlands -35 4 £47,500 -20.83% 6
North East -46 4 £46,250 -40.32% 1
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 26 (8.75%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (3.37%) Confluence
4 9 (3.03%) IIS
5 8 (2.69%) CMS
6 7 (2.36%) WordPress
7 6 (2.02%) Apache
8 5 (1.68%) Drupal
9 3 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.67%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.67%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.34%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.34%) JBoss
11 1 (0.34%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 12 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.01%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.01%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.34%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.34%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.34%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.34%) Magento
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 137 (46.13%) Azure
2 76 (25.59%) AWS
3 59 (19.87%) Power Platform
4 42 (14.14%) Azure Logic Apps
5 40 (13.47%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (13.13%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (10.44%) Serverless
8 25 (8.42%) PowerApps
8 25 (8.42%) SaaS
9 24 (8.08%) Power Automate
10 23 (7.74%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
12 19 (6.40%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (6.40%) Dynamics 365
12 19 (6.40%) OneDrive
13 17 (5.72%) Boomi
13 17 (5.72%) GitHub
14 15 (5.05%) Amazon EC2
15 14 (4.71%) GCP
16 13 (4.38%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.40%) Firewall
2 6 (2.02%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (2.02%) DNS
3 5 (1.68%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.35%) HTTP
4 4 (1.35%) Wireshark
5 3 (1.01%) BGP
5 3 (1.01%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.01%) SSL
6 2 (0.67%) AMQP
6 2 (0.67%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.67%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.67%) LAN
6 2 (0.67%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.67%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.67%) VPN
6 2 (0.67%) WAN
7 1 (0.34%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.34%) MQTT
7 1 (0.34%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (16.16%) Power BI
2 36 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (9.09%) MySQL
4 22 (7.41%) Relational Database
4 22 (7.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 21 (7.07%) SQL Server
6 19 (6.40%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (5.39%) Metadata
8 14 (4.71%) Redis
9 12 (4.04%) RDBMS
10 8 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.68%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (1.01%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.01%) Power Query
13 3 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.67%) DynamoDB
14 2 (0.67%) Electronic Patient Records
14 2 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 47 (15.82%) Git
2 38 (12.79%) JIRA
3 24 (8.08%) Jenkins
4 23 (7.74%) GitLab
5 12 (4.04%) Postman
6 10 (3.37%) JUnit
7 8 (2.69%) ERwin
7 8 (2.69%) Maven
8 7 (2.36%) Mockito
8 7 (2.36%) Selenium
9 6 (2.02%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.02%) JMeter
9 6 (2.02%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.68%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.68%) Gradle
10 5 (1.68%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.68%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.35%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.35%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.01%) Visual Studio
General
1 141 (47.47%) Social Skills
2 89 (29.97%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (16.84%) Finance
4 21 (7.07%) Organisational Skills
5 19 (6.40%) Retail
6 15 (5.05%) Telecoms
7 14 (4.71%) Advertising
7 14 (4.71%) Marketing
8 10 (3.37%) Law
9 8 (2.69%) Health Technology
10 7 (2.36%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.68%) Back Office
11 5 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.68%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.35%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.01%) Banking
13 3 (1.01%) Local Government
13 3 (1.01%) Publishing
14 2 (0.67%) Billing
14 2 (0.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 97 (32.66%) Developer
2 64 (21.55%) Senior
3 45 (15.15%) Senior Developer
4 29 (9.76%) Architect
5 28 (9.43%) Analyst
6 20 (6.73%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (6.73%) Support Engineer
7 19 (6.40%) Data Analyst
8 16 (5.39%) Consultant
8 16 (5.39%) Software Engineer
9 14 (4.71%) Integration Architect
9 14 (4.71%) Software Developer
10 13 (4.38%) Automation Engineer
10 13 (4.38%) Java Developer
10 13 (4.38%) Lead
11 11 (3.70%) Applications Architect
11 11 (3.70%) Applications Engineer
11 11 (3.70%) Network Engineer
11 11 (3.70%) Technical Support
11 11 (3.70%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (40.07%) XML
2 115 (38.72%) REST
3 81 (27.27%) HTML
4 67 (22.56%) CSS
5 58 (19.53%) .NET
6 46 (15.49%) SOAP
7 40 (13.47%) .NET Core
8 38 (12.79%) Middleware
9 36 (12.12%) RESTful
10 31 (10.44%) YAML
11 27 (9.09%) JWT
12 22 (7.41%) OAuth
12 22 (7.41%) React
13 21 (7.07%) HTML5 Canvas
14 20 (6.73%) ASP.NET
14 20 (6.73%) Microsoft Graph
15 19 (6.40%) SPFx
16 18 (6.06%) EDI
17 17 (5.72%) HTML5
17 17 (5.72%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 24 (8.08%) Data Structures
3 23 (7.74%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (6.73%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (6.40%) Analytical Mindset
6 17 (5.72%) Cloud Native
7 9 (3.03%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.36%) Driving Licence
8 7 (2.36%) e-Learning
8 7 (2.36%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.36%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.02%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.02%) Robotics
10 4 (1.35%) Taxonomies
11 3 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.01%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.01%) PMI
11 3 (1.01%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 47 (15.82%) Linux
2 31 (10.44%) Windows
3 14 (4.71%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.02%) Unix
5 4 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (29.29%) CI/CD
1 87 (29.29%) Problem-Solving
2 85 (28.62%) DevOps
3 83 (27.95%) Agile
4 53 (17.85%) Data Modelling
4 53 (17.85%) Microservices
5 45 (15.15%) User Experience
6 44 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
7 41 (13.80%) Containerisation
8 39 (13.13%) API Integration
9 37 (12.46%) Infrastructure as Code
10 34 (11.45%) ERP
10 34 (11.45%) Test Automation
11 30 (10.10%) AI
11 30 (10.10%) API Design
12 29 (9.76%) Integration Patterns
12 29 (9.76%) Roadmaps
12 29 (9.76%) Validation
13 28 (9.43%) Analytics
13 28 (9.43%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 145 (48.82%) SQL
2 101 (34.01%) JavaScript
3 95 (31.99%) Python
4 62 (20.88%) C#
5 56 (18.86%) Java
6 41 (13.80%) PowerShell
7 25 (8.42%) TypeScript
8 16 (5.39%) PHP
9 14 (4.71%) T-SQL
10 12 (4.04%) Shell Script
11 10 (3.37%) C++
11 10 (3.37%) Ruby
12 6 (2.02%) Groovy
12 6 (2.02%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.35%) VBA
14 3 (1.01%) Bash
14 3 (1.01%) Bicep
14 3 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (1.01%) Perl
15 2 (0.67%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 39 (13.13%) Degree
2 34 (11.45%) Security Cleared
3 25 (8.42%) SC Cleared
4 21 (7.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.36%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.68%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.01%) CISSP
7 3 (1.01%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (1.01%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.67%) CASP
8 2 (0.67%) CCSP
8 2 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.67%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (11.45%) QA
2 20 (6.73%) Accessibility
3 16 (5.39%) Data Quality
4 12 (4.04%) TickIT
5 11 (3.70%) SLA
6 10 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (2.02%) GDPR
7 6 (2.02%) WCAG
8 4 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (1.01%) ISO 20022
9 3 (1.01%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.67%) HL7
11 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.34%) PERC
11 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 42 (14.14%) Docker
2 14 (4.71%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.02%) vSphere
4 4 (1.35%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (9.43%) Kubernetes
1 28 (9.43%) Terraform
2 12 (4.04%) Ansible
3 6 (2.02%) Kibana
4 4 (1.35%) Packer
5 2 (0.67%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.34%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.34%) QRadar
Vendors
1 85 (28.62%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.08%) Adobe
3 16 (5.39%) Cisco
4 15 (5.05%) Splunk
5 13 (4.38%) Oracle
5 13 (4.38%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.03%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.69%) F5
7 8 (2.69%) VMware
8 7 (2.36%) Dynatrace
8 7 (2.36%) Sparx
9 6 (2.02%) Google
9 6 (2.02%) Juniper
9 6 (2.02%) MuleSoft
9 6 (2.02%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.02%) SAP
10 5 (1.68%) IBM
11 4 (1.35%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.35%) Databricks
12 3 (1.01%) Fortinet