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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 294 245
Rank change year-on-year -106 -49 +24
Permanent jobs citing JSON 244 438 805
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 1.01% 1.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.64% 4.50% 5.29%
Number of salaries quoted 174 301 666
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £38,066
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.80% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £81,750 £90,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -7.41%

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 6,697 9,726 15,221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.01% 22.33% 22.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5,139 6,006 12,937
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
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 £107,500 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,209 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.83% +7.66% -8.89%

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 -15 92 £75,000 +3.45% 56
South East -70 57 £55,000 -1.79% 37
East of England +40 45 £55,000 -6.54% 10
North of England -37 25 £55,000 - 32
Midlands -26 21 £47,500 -10.54% 13
North West -6 17 £55,000 -4.35% 25
West Midlands -4 16 £47,500 -13.64% 12
East Midlands -30 5 £60,000 +15.38% 1
North East -10 4 £45,000 -41.94% 3
Yorkshire -48 4 £55,750 +6.19% 4
South West -37 2 £66,250 -1.85% 11
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 (4.10%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.05%) Anypoint
3 5 (2.05%) Confluence
4 4 (1.64%) CMS
5 2 (0.82%) IIS
5 2 (0.82%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.82%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.41%) Apache
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.41%) CICS
6 1 (0.41%) JBoss
6 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.87%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.23%) Trello
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.46%) NetSuite
2 5 (2.05%) Shopify
3 3 (1.23%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.41%) Magento
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 80 (32.79%) Azure
2 40 (16.39%) AWS
3 36 (14.75%) Power Platform
4 25 (10.25%) GitHub
5 21 (8.61%) Power Automate
6 19 (7.79%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (7.79%) Serverless
7 17 (6.97%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (5.74%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (5.74%) Boomi
9 13 (5.33%) SaaS
10 12 (4.92%) GCP
10 12 (4.92%) PowerApps
11 11 (4.51%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (4.51%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (4.10%) iPaaS
13 9 (3.69%) Entra ID
13 9 (3.69%) PaaS
14 8 (3.28%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (2.87%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.28%) Firewall
2 7 (2.87%) FTP
2 7 (2.87%) VPN
3 3 (1.23%) AMQP
3 3 (1.23%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (1.23%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (1.23%) Ethernet
3 3 (1.23%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.23%) LAN
3 3 (1.23%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.23%) WAN
4 2 (0.82%) BGP
4 2 (0.82%) DNS
5 1 (0.41%) CTI
5 1 (0.41%) DHCP
5 1 (0.41%) HTTP
5 1 (0.41%) SSL
5 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.34%) Relational Database
2 33 (13.52%) SQL Server
3 30 (12.30%) Power BI
4 24 (9.84%) MySQL
5 20 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (6.15%) RDBMS
7 11 (4.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (3.69%) Metadata
9 6 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.46%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (2.46%) NoSQL
9 6 (2.46%) OLTP
10 4 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.23%) Crystal Reports
11 3 (1.23%) Power Query
11 3 (1.23%) Tableau
12 2 (0.82%) Big Data
12 2 (0.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (8.61%) Git
2 19 (7.79%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.15%) Postman
4 13 (5.33%) JUnit
5 10 (4.10%) JIRA
5 10 (4.10%) JMeter
6 9 (3.69%) Mockito
7 8 (3.28%) GitLab
8 7 (2.87%) Selenium
9 6 (2.46%) Axure RP
10 5 (2.05%) Visual Studio
10 5 (2.05%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.64%) Maven
11 4 (1.64%) SpecFlow
12 3 (1.23%) ERwin
13 2 (0.82%) Crashlytics
14 1 (0.41%) Browser DevTools
14 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
14 1 (0.41%) REST Assured
14 1 (0.41%) Testinfra
General
1 87 (35.66%) Social Skills
2 50 (20.49%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (16.80%) Finance
4 30 (12.30%) Law
5 26 (10.66%) Retail
6 17 (6.97%) Public Sector
7 15 (6.15%) German Language
8 10 (4.10%) Telecoms
9 9 (3.69%) Marketing
10 6 (2.46%) Health Technology
10 6 (2.46%) Legal
11 4 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.23%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.23%) Publishing
13 2 (0.82%) Advertising
13 2 (0.82%) Electronics
13 2 (0.82%) Front Office
13 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.41%) Banking
14 1 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 98 (40.16%) Developer
2 32 (13.11%) Senior
3 30 (12.30%) Analyst
4 27 (11.07%) Senior Developer
5 19 (7.79%) Java Developer
6 15 (6.15%) Data Analyst
7 13 (5.33%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (4.92%) Architect
8 12 (4.92%) Consultant
9 11 (4.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 11 (4.51%) Support Engineer
10 9 (3.69%) Integration Engineer
10 9 (3.69%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 9 (3.69%) Oracle Developer
10 9 (3.69%) Senior Oracle Developer
11 8 (3.28%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 8 (3.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 8 (3.28%) Lead
11 8 (3.28%) ServiceNow Developer
11 8 (3.28%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (60.66%) XML
2 109 (44.67%) REST
3 77 (31.56%) HTML
4 31 (12.70%) SOAP
4 31 (12.70%) Web Services
5 29 (11.89%) Regular Expression
6 26 (10.66%) React
7 25 (10.25%) CSS
8 22 (9.02%) Spring
9 20 (8.20%) Spring Boot
10 18 (7.38%) .NET
11 16 (6.56%) RESTful
12 14 (5.74%) Middleware
12 14 (5.74%) YAML
13 13 (5.33%) Hibernate
14 11 (4.51%) AngularJS
14 11 (4.51%) jQuery
15 10 (4.10%) Node.js
15 10 (4.10%) Razor View Engine
16 9 (3.69%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 52 (21.31%) Onboarding
2 36 (14.75%) Linux Command Line
3 27 (11.07%) Data Structures
4 18 (7.38%) Low-Code
4 18 (7.38%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (3.69%) Operational Technology
7 6 (2.46%) NHS
8 5 (2.05%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.05%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.64%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.23%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.23%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.23%) PMI
10 3 (1.23%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.23%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.23%) Semantic Web
10 3 (1.23%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 39 (15.98%) Unix
2 21 (8.61%) Linux
3 5 (2.05%) Windows
4 3 (1.23%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.41%) Android
5 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (27.87%) Agile
2 62 (25.41%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (21.72%) AI
3 53 (21.72%) CI/CD
4 41 (16.80%) DevOps
5 39 (15.98%) Business Intelligence
6 37 (15.16%) Data Modelling
7 36 (14.75%) Data Analysis
8 32 (13.11%) LLM
9 30 (12.30%) API Integration
10 29 (11.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (11.48%) Validation
12 27 (11.07%) Microservices
13 24 (9.84%) Test Automation
13 24 (9.84%) User Experience
14 23 (9.43%) Analytics
14 23 (9.43%) ETL
15 22 (9.02%) Workflow
16 20 (8.20%) Decision-Making
16 20 (8.20%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 122 (50.00%) SQL
2 99 (40.57%) Python
3 84 (34.43%) JavaScript
4 53 (21.72%) Java
5 35 (14.34%) C#
6 33 (13.52%) PowerShell
7 14 (5.74%) Shell Script
7 14 (5.74%) T-SQL
8 11 (4.51%) PL/SQL
9 6 (2.46%) TypeScript
10 5 (2.05%) PHP
11 4 (1.64%) Bicep
12 3 (1.23%) ActionScript
12 3 (1.23%) ActionScript 2.0
12 3 (1.23%) Bash
13 2 (0.82%) C++
13 2 (0.82%) Ruby
14 1 (0.41%) COBOL
14 1 (0.41%) VB
14 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 48 (19.67%) Degree
2 25 (10.25%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.74%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.23%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (1.23%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.82%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.41%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.41%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.97%) Data Quality
1 17 (6.97%) QA
2 14 (5.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.10%) Accessibility
3 10 (4.10%) GDPR
4 9 (3.69%) HL7
5 5 (2.05%) NCSC
5 5 (2.05%) NIST
6 2 (0.82%) SLA
7 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (12.30%) Docker
2 8 (3.28%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.23%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.41%) iptables
Systems Management
1 26 (10.66%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.10%) Ansible
2 10 (4.10%) Kibana
2 10 (4.10%) Terraform
3 3 (1.23%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.41%) Grafana
4 1 (0.41%) Packer
4 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (13.93%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.02%) Oracle
3 13 (5.33%) SAP
4 11 (4.51%) Splunk
5 10 (4.10%) Cisco
6 9 (3.69%) Dynatrace
6 9 (3.69%) Google
7 8 (3.28%) Dell
7 8 (3.28%) MuleSoft
7 8 (3.28%) Salesforce
7 8 (3.28%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.87%) Talend
9 6 (2.46%) F5
9 6 (2.46%) IBM
9 6 (2.46%) IFS
9 6 (2.46%) Informatica
9 6 (2.46%) Intapp
9 6 (2.46%) SnapLogic
9 6 (2.46%) Workday
10 5 (2.05%) Jitterbit