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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 294 250
Rank change year-on-year -126 -44 +24
Permanent jobs citing JSON 243 409 814
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.99% 1.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.50% 4.47% 5.25%
Number of salaries quoted 175 296 667
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -8.97%
75th Percentile £74,375 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £81,554 £90,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year - -1.64% -9.63%

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 6,947 9,143 15,513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.90% 22.19% 22.20%
Number of salaries quoted 5,318 5,924 13,152
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,606 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +9.00% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,219 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.84% +10.37% -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 6 March 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 March 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 -33 91 £70,000 -3.45% 65
South East -78 57 £55,000 - 59
East of England +31 44 £55,000 -11.18% 30
North of England -49 25 £55,000 +4.76% 43
Midlands -36 20 £47,500 -10.54% 21
North West -11 17 £55,000 -4.35% 23
West Midlands -17 14 £47,500 -13.64% 14
East Midlands -36 6 £57,000 +9.62% 6
North East -8 4 £45,000 -41.94% 5
Yorkshire -56 4 £55,750 +31.18% 15
South West -38 1 £72,500 +13.73% 16
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 12 (4.94%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.06%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.65%) Confluence
5 3 (1.23%) CMS
6 2 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.82%) IIS
6 2 (0.82%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.82%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.41%) Apache
7 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.41%) CICS
7 1 (0.41%) JBoss
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.47%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.23%) Trello
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.06%) NetSuite
1 5 (2.06%) Shopify
2 3 (1.23%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.41%) Magento
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 84 (34.57%) Azure
2 40 (16.46%) Power Platform
3 38 (15.64%) AWS
4 24 (9.88%) GitHub
5 22 (9.05%) Power Automate
6 20 (8.23%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (7.00%) Serverless
8 14 (5.76%) Boomi
9 13 (5.35%) GCP
9 13 (5.35%) PowerApps
9 13 (5.35%) SaaS
10 11 (4.53%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (4.12%) iPaaS
12 9 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (3.70%) Entra ID
12 9 (3.70%) PaaS
13 8 (3.29%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.35%) Firewall
2 7 (2.88%) FTP
2 7 (2.88%) VPN
3 4 (1.65%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (1.65%) Cisco ISE
3 4 (1.65%) DNS
3 4 (1.65%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.65%) LAN
3 4 (1.65%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.65%) WAN
4 3 (1.23%) AMQP
4 3 (1.23%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.82%) BGP
6 1 (0.41%) CTI
6 1 (0.41%) DHCP
6 1 (0.41%) HTTP
6 1 (0.41%) SSL
6 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.58%) Power BI
2 32 (13.17%) SQL Server
3 31 (12.76%) Relational Database
4 24 (9.88%) MySQL
5 18 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (5.76%) RDBMS
7 11 (4.53%) Metadata
7 11 (4.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.47%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (2.47%) OLTP
10 4 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.65%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.23%) Crystal Reports
11 3 (1.23%) Power Query
11 3 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.23%) Tableau
12 2 (0.82%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (9.05%) Git
2 15 (6.17%) Jenkins
3 14 (5.76%) Postman
4 10 (4.12%) JUnit
5 9 (3.70%) GitLab
5 9 (3.70%) JIRA
6 7 (2.88%) JMeter
6 7 (2.88%) Mockito
6 7 (2.88%) Selenium
7 6 (2.47%) Axure RP
8 5 (2.06%) SpecFlow
8 5 (2.06%) Visual Studio
8 5 (2.06%) WebDriver
9 4 (1.65%) ERwin
9 4 (1.65%) Maven
10 2 (0.82%) Crashlytics
11 1 (0.41%) Android Studio
11 1 (0.41%) Browser DevTools
11 1 (0.41%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 89 (36.63%) Social Skills
2 51 (20.99%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (16.87%) Finance
4 28 (11.52%) Law
5 23 (9.47%) Retail
6 15 (6.17%) German Language
6 15 (6.17%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.94%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.29%) Marketing
9 7 (2.88%) Legal
10 6 (2.47%) Health Technology
11 5 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.65%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.23%) Publishing
14 2 (0.82%) Advertising
14 2 (0.82%) Electronics
14 2 (0.82%) Front Office
14 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.41%) Banking
15 1 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 93 (38.27%) Developer
2 33 (13.58%) Senior
3 30 (12.35%) Analyst
4 27 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 17 (7.00%) Data Analyst
5 17 (7.00%) Java Developer
6 14 (5.76%) Architect
7 13 (5.35%) Consultant
8 11 (4.53%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (4.53%) Support Engineer
9 9 (3.70%) Data Engineer
9 9 (3.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 9 (3.70%) Integration Engineer
9 9 (3.70%) Oracle Developer
9 9 (3.70%) Senior Oracle Developer
10 8 (3.29%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (3.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 8 (3.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 8 (3.29%) SQL Analyst
10 8 (3.29%) SSRS Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (60.08%) XML
2 105 (43.21%) REST
3 75 (30.86%) HTML
4 31 (12.76%) Regular Expression
4 31 (12.76%) SOAP
5 28 (11.52%) Web Services
6 25 (10.29%) CSS
7 24 (9.88%) React
8 20 (8.23%) .NET
8 20 (8.23%) Spring
9 18 (7.41%) Spring Boot
10 17 (7.00%) RESTful
11 16 (6.58%) YAML
12 12 (4.94%) Middleware
13 11 (4.53%) Hibernate
13 11 (4.53%) Node.js
14 9 (3.70%) AngularJS
14 9 (3.70%) FHIR
14 9 (3.70%) jQuery
14 9 (3.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 50 (20.58%) Onboarding
2 36 (14.81%) Linux Command Line
3 28 (11.52%) Data Structures
4 20 (8.23%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (7.41%) Low-Code
6 13 (5.35%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.88%) Operational Technology
8 6 (2.47%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.47%) NHS
9 5 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.65%) e-Learning
10 4 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.65%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.65%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.23%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.23%) PMI
11 3 (1.23%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.23%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.23%) Semantic Web
11 3 (1.23%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 40 (16.46%) Unix
2 23 (9.47%) Linux
3 7 (2.88%) Windows
4 3 (1.23%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.23%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.41%) Android
6 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (27.16%) Agile
2 61 (25.10%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (21.40%) AI
4 51 (20.99%) CI/CD
5 42 (17.28%) Business Intelligence
6 41 (16.87%) DevOps
7 39 (16.05%) Data Modelling
8 36 (14.81%) Data Analysis
9 30 (12.35%) LLM
10 28 (11.52%) API Integration
11 27 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (10.70%) Validation
13 25 (10.29%) Analytics
13 25 (10.29%) Microservices
13 25 (10.29%) User Experience
14 23 (9.47%) ETL
14 23 (9.47%) Test Automation
15 20 (8.23%) Workflow
16 19 (7.82%) Containerisation
16 19 (7.82%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 123 (50.62%) SQL
2 100 (41.15%) Python
3 81 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 51 (20.99%) Java
5 35 (14.40%) C#
6 32 (13.17%) PowerShell
7 14 (5.76%) Shell Script
7 14 (5.76%) T-SQL
8 11 (4.53%) PL/SQL
9 8 (3.29%) TypeScript
10 5 (2.06%) PHP
11 3 (1.23%) ActionScript
11 3 (1.23%) ActionScript 2.0
11 3 (1.23%) Bash
11 3 (1.23%) Bicep
12 2 (0.82%) C++
12 2 (0.82%) R
12 2 (0.82%) Ruby
13 1 (0.41%) COBOL
13 1 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 47 (19.34%) Degree
2 26 (10.70%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.17%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.23%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.23%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.23%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.82%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.41%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.41%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 17 (7.00%) QA
3 14 (5.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.12%) Accessibility
4 10 (4.12%) GDPR
5 9 (3.70%) HL7
6 5 (2.06%) NCSC
6 5 (2.06%) NIST
7 2 (0.82%) SLA
8 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (11.11%) Docker
2 10 (4.12%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.65%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.82%) vSphere
5 1 (0.41%) iptables
Systems Management
1 23 (9.47%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.12%) Ansible
2 10 (4.12%) Terraform
3 8 (3.29%) Kibana
4 4 (1.65%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.41%) Grafana
5 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.05%) Oracle
3 13 (5.35%) Cisco
3 13 (5.35%) SAP
4 10 (4.12%) Google
5 9 (3.70%) Splunk
6 8 (3.29%) Dell
6 8 (3.29%) F5
6 8 (3.29%) MuleSoft
7 7 (2.88%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.88%) Intapp
7 7 (2.88%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.88%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.88%) Talend
8 6 (2.47%) IBM
8 6 (2.47%) IFS
8 6 (2.47%) Informatica
8 6 (2.47%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.47%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.47%) VMware