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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 317 285
Rank change year-on-year -106 -32 -10
Permanent jobs citing JSON 285 358 827
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 0.91% 0.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.49% 4.54% 4.86%
Number of salaries quoted 206 283 651
10th Percentile £37,375 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,526 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,335 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.34% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £94,375 £86,250 £84,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £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 8,164 7,891 17,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.96% 20.05% 20.08%
Number of salaries quoted 6,185 5,554 14,133
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,750 £51,250 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £66,253 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -39 103 £65,500 -2.96% 64
South East -46 69 £60,000 -7.69% 39
North of England -16 47 £57,500 +9.52% 25
East of England -1 44 £90,000 +89.47% 2
North West +9 32 £62,500 +16.28% 14
Yorkshire -44 13 £44,000 -16.19% 7
Midlands -46 10 £47,500 -12.59% 10
West Midlands -29 7 £43,000 -20.87% 3
South West -70 6 £31,500 -47.50% 10
East Midlands -32 3 £47,500 -15.93% 7
North East -37 2 £46,250 -40.32% 4
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 27 (9.47%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.81%) CMS
3 8 (2.81%) IIS
4 7 (2.46%) WordPress
5 5 (1.75%) Drupal
6 3 (1.05%) Apache
6 3 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.05%) Confluence
7 2 (0.70%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.70%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.70%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.35%) JBoss
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 10 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.05%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.35%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.35%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.35%) Magento
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 120 (42.11%) Azure
2 71 (24.91%) AWS
3 58 (20.35%) Power Platform
4 37 (12.98%) Microsoft 365
5 33 (11.58%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (11.58%) Serverless
6 32 (11.23%) Azure Logic Apps
7 25 (8.77%) PowerApps
8 24 (8.42%) Azure Data Factory
8 24 (8.42%) Power Automate
8 24 (8.42%) SaaS
9 22 (7.72%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (6.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 19 (6.67%) OneDrive
11 17 (5.96%) Boomi
11 17 (5.96%) Dynamics 365
12 16 (5.61%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (5.61%) GitHub
13 14 (4.91%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (4.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.96%) Firewall
2 6 (2.11%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (2.11%) VPN
3 5 (1.75%) DNS
4 3 (1.05%) AMQP
4 3 (1.05%) BGP
4 3 (1.05%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.05%) SSL
5 2 (0.70%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.70%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.70%) FTP
5 2 (0.70%) LAN
5 2 (0.70%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.70%) WAN
6 1 (0.35%) Broadband
6 1 (0.35%) CTI
6 1 (0.35%) DHCP
6 1 (0.35%) HTTP
6 1 (0.35%) Network Security
6 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (17.89%) Power BI
2 32 (11.23%) MySQL
2 32 (11.23%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (8.07%) Relational Database
3 23 (8.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 20 (7.02%) SQL Server
5 19 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 17 (5.96%) Metadata
7 13 (4.56%) RDBMS
8 8 (2.81%) Redis
9 7 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.11%) Electronic Patient Records
11 5 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.40%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.05%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.05%) OLTP
13 3 (1.05%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
14 2 (0.70%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 45 (15.79%) Git
2 31 (10.88%) JIRA
3 24 (8.42%) Jenkins
4 22 (7.72%) GitLab
5 12 (4.21%) Postman
6 10 (3.51%) JUnit
7 8 (2.81%) Maven
8 7 (2.46%) ERwin
8 7 (2.46%) Mockito
8 7 (2.46%) Selenium
9 6 (2.11%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.11%) JMeter
9 6 (2.11%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.75%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.75%) Gradle
10 5 (1.75%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.75%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.40%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.40%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 125 (43.86%) Social Skills
2 81 (28.42%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (16.14%) Finance
4 19 (6.67%) Retail
5 18 (6.32%) Organisational Skills
6 16 (5.61%) Marketing
6 16 (5.61%) Telecoms
7 12 (4.21%) Health Technology
8 11 (3.86%) Advertising
8 11 (3.86%) Law
9 8 (2.81%) German Language
10 7 (2.46%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.46%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.40%) Back Office
13 3 (1.05%) Banking
13 3 (1.05%) Local Government
14 2 (0.70%) Electronics
14 2 (0.70%) Front Office
14 2 (0.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 92 (32.28%) Developer
2 60 (21.05%) Senior
3 48 (16.84%) Senior Developer
4 26 (9.12%) Analyst
5 25 (8.77%) Architect
6 21 (7.37%) Consultant
7 20 (7.02%) Data Analyst
8 18 (6.32%) DevOps Engineer
8 18 (6.32%) Support Engineer
9 15 (5.26%) Java Developer
10 11 (3.86%) Applications Architect
10 11 (3.86%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (3.86%) Integration Architect
10 11 (3.86%) Network Engineer
10 11 (3.86%) Software Engineer
10 11 (3.86%) Telecoms Engineer
11 10 (3.51%) Lead
12 9 (3.16%) Java Engineer
12 9 (3.16%) Software Developer
12 9 (3.16%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (44.56%) XML
2 111 (38.95%) REST
3 89 (31.23%) HTML
4 61 (21.40%) CSS
5 49 (17.19%) .NET
6 45 (15.79%) SOAP
7 34 (11.93%) .NET Core
8 33 (11.58%) Middleware
9 30 (10.53%) YAML
10 27 (9.47%) RESTful
11 22 (7.72%) HTML5 Canvas
11 22 (7.72%) JWT
12 20 (7.02%) OAuth
12 20 (7.02%) Spring
13 19 (6.67%) Microsoft Graph
13 19 (6.67%) SPFx
14 18 (6.32%) Regular Expression
14 18 (6.32%) Spring Boot
15 17 (5.96%) React
16 16 (5.61%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 35 (12.28%) Onboarding
2 24 (8.42%) Data Structures
3 23 (8.07%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (7.37%) Linux Command Line
5 20 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (4.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (3.51%) Cloud Native
8 9 (3.16%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (2.46%) e-Learning
9 7 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.46%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.46%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.11%) NHS
11 5 (1.75%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.40%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.40%) Taxonomies
13 3 (1.05%) PMI
13 3 (1.05%) Reference Data
13 3 (1.05%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 39 (13.68%) Linux
2 20 (7.02%) Unix
3 18 (6.32%) Windows
4 10 (3.51%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (28.07%) CI/CD
2 78 (27.37%) DevOps
3 73 (25.61%) Problem-Solving
4 71 (24.91%) Agile
5 51 (17.89%) Business Intelligence
6 50 (17.54%) Microservices
7 49 (17.19%) Data Modelling
8 40 (14.04%) User Experience
9 39 (13.68%) AI
10 37 (12.98%) API Integration
11 34 (11.93%) Containerisation
11 34 (11.93%) Data Analysis
12 33 (11.58%) ERP
13 30 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
13 30 (10.53%) Test Automation
14 27 (9.47%) CRM
14 27 (9.47%) Validation
15 26 (9.12%) Collaborative Working
15 26 (9.12%) Technical Leadership
16 25 (8.77%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 144 (50.53%) SQL
2 103 (36.14%) JavaScript
3 99 (34.74%) Python
4 62 (21.75%) Java
5 49 (17.19%) C#
6 36 (12.63%) PowerShell
7 25 (8.77%) TypeScript
8 15 (5.26%) PHP
9 11 (3.86%) T-SQL
10 10 (3.51%) Shell Script
11 9 (3.16%) PL/SQL
12 6 (2.11%) Groovy
13 5 (1.75%) Ruby
14 4 (1.40%) VBA
15 3 (1.05%) ActionScript
15 3 (1.05%) ActionScript 2.0
15 3 (1.05%) Bicep
15 3 (1.05%) Perl
16 2 (0.70%) Bash
16 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 43 (15.09%) Degree
2 32 (11.23%) Security Cleared
3 25 (8.77%) SC Cleared
4 17 (5.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.11%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.05%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.35%) CISSP
8 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.35%) GIAC
8 1 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.35%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.53%) QA
2 16 (5.61%) Accessibility
3 14 (4.91%) Data Quality
4 12 (4.21%) TickIT
5 11 (3.86%) SLA
6 10 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (2.46%) HL7
8 6 (2.11%) WCAG
9 5 (1.75%) GDPR
10 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.35%) PERC
System Software
1 38 (13.33%) Docker
2 12 (4.21%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.40%) vSphere
4 2 (0.70%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.70%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.35%) iptables
Systems Management
1 31 (10.88%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.37%) Terraform
3 15 (5.26%) Ansible
4 6 (2.11%) Kibana
5 4 (1.40%) Packer
6 2 (0.70%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.35%) Grafana
7 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.35%) QRadar
Vendors
1 70 (24.56%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.42%) Adobe
3 16 (5.61%) Cisco
4 15 (5.26%) Oracle
5 13 (4.56%) Splunk
6 11 (3.86%) Red Hat
7 9 (3.16%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.81%) F5
9 7 (2.46%) Sparx
10 6 (2.11%) Dynatrace
10 6 (2.11%) Google
10 6 (2.11%) Juniper
10 6 (2.11%) SAP
10 6 (2.11%) VMware
11 5 (1.75%) IBM
11 5 (1.75%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.40%) AppDynamics
12 4 (1.40%) Databricks
12 4 (1.40%) MuleSoft
13 3 (1.05%) ServiceNow