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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 344 301
Rank change year-on-year -79 -43 -39
Permanent jobs citing JSON 315 352 817
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.82% 0.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.43% 4.39% 4.70%
Number of salaries quoted 239 271 610
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,744
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £79,336 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £83,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £58,350
% change year-on-year - +7.11% -10.23%

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 9,175 8,016 17,389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.58% 18.61% 19.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7,013 5,440 13,888
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £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 £102,875
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -9.09%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -32 109 £75,000 +11.11% 49
South East -38 91 £55,000 -15.38% 31
North of England -24 49 £55,000 - 19
North West -3 30 £62,500 +13.64% 15
East of England -24 30 £90,000 +89.47% 3
South West -67 15 £50,000 -16.67% 14
Yorkshire -26 14 £42,750 +5.56% 3
Midlands -38 13 £47,500 -20.17% 12
West Midlands -31 7 £43,000 -27.12% 5
East Midlands -29 6 £52,500 -12.50% 6
North East -40 5 £45,000 -41.94% 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 27 (8.57%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (3.49%) Confluence
4 10 (3.17%) IIS
5 8 (2.54%) CMS
6 7 (2.22%) Apache
6 7 (2.22%) WordPress
7 5 (1.59%) Drupal
8 4 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.63%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.32%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.32%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.95%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.95%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.63%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.32%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.32%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.32%) Magento
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 144 (45.71%) Azure
2 81 (25.71%) AWS
3 61 (19.37%) Power Platform
4 46 (14.60%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (14.60%) Azure Logic Apps
5 43 (13.65%) Microsoft 365
6 32 (10.16%) Serverless
7 26 (8.25%) SaaS
8 25 (7.94%) PowerApps
9 24 (7.62%) Power Automate
10 23 (7.30%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (7.30%) Azure Data Factory
11 20 (6.35%) Dynamics 365
11 20 (6.35%) GitHub
12 19 (6.03%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (6.03%) OneDrive
13 16 (5.08%) Boomi
14 14 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (3.81%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.35%) Firewall
2 7 (2.22%) DNS
2 7 (2.22%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.90%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (1.59%) HTTP
4 5 (1.59%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.95%) BGP
5 3 (0.95%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.95%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (0.95%) SSL
6 2 (0.63%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.63%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.63%) LAN
6 2 (0.63%) MQTT
6 2 (0.63%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.63%) WAN
7 1 (0.32%) Broadband
7 1 (0.32%) FTP
7 1 (0.32%) RTP
7 1 (0.32%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (15.56%) Power BI
2 41 (13.02%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (8.89%) SQL Server
4 26 (8.25%) MySQL
5 22 (6.98%) Relational Database
5 22 (6.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 20 (6.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 18 (5.71%) Metadata
8 17 (5.40%) Redis
9 12 (3.81%) RDBMS
10 10 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.90%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.59%) Delta Lake
13 4 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (1.27%) Power Query
14 3 (0.95%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.95%) Parquet
14 3 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
14 3 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 2 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 54 (17.14%) Git
2 38 (12.06%) JIRA
3 25 (7.94%) Jenkins
4 24 (7.62%) GitLab
5 10 (3.17%) JUnit
5 10 (3.17%) Postman
6 9 (2.86%) Selenium
7 8 (2.54%) ERwin
7 8 (2.54%) Maven
8 7 (2.22%) Cucumber
8 7 (2.22%) JMeter
8 7 (2.22%) Mockito
9 6 (1.90%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.59%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.59%) Gradle
10 5 (1.59%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.59%) Visual Studio
10 5 (1.59%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.27%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.27%) Bitbucket
General
1 144 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 88 (27.94%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (16.83%) Finance
4 24 (7.62%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (4.76%) Retail
6 14 (4.44%) Advertising
6 14 (4.44%) Marketing
7 13 (4.13%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.17%) Law
9 7 (2.22%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.22%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.90%) Health Technology
11 5 (1.59%) Back Office
12 4 (1.27%) Aviation
12 4 (1.27%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.95%) Banking
13 3 (0.95%) Local Government
13 3 (0.95%) Publishing
14 2 (0.63%) Billing
Job Titles
1 108 (34.29%) Developer
2 68 (21.59%) Senior
3 44 (13.97%) Senior Developer
4 29 (9.21%) Analyst
5 25 (7.94%) Architect
6 20 (6.35%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (6.35%) Support Engineer
7 19 (6.03%) Data Analyst
8 18 (5.71%) Software Engineer
9 16 (5.08%) .NET Developer
10 15 (4.76%) Software Developer
11 14 (4.44%) Lead
12 13 (4.13%) Applications Engineer
12 13 (4.13%) Automation Engineer
12 13 (4.13%) Consultant
12 13 (4.13%) Data Engineer
12 13 (4.13%) Integration Architect
12 13 (4.13%) Integration Engineer
12 13 (4.13%) Ruby Developer
12 13 (4.13%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (40.63%) XML
2 113 (35.87%) REST
3 86 (27.30%) HTML
4 74 (23.49%) CSS
5 72 (22.86%) .NET
6 44 (13.97%) SOAP
7 43 (13.65%) .NET Core
8 42 (13.33%) RESTful
9 36 (11.43%) Middleware
10 32 (10.16%) ASP.NET
11 31 (9.84%) YAML
12 26 (8.25%) JWT
13 24 (7.62%) React
14 21 (6.67%) HTML5 Canvas
15 20 (6.35%) Microsoft Graph
16 19 (6.03%) SPFx
17 18 (5.71%) HTML5
17 18 (5.71%) OAuth
18 17 (5.40%) .NET Framework
18 17 (5.40%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.52%) Onboarding
2 24 (7.62%) Data Structures
3 21 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (6.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (6.35%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (5.71%) Cloud Native
6 12 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.86%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (2.86%) Robotics
8 8 (2.54%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.22%) Driving Licence
9 7 (2.22%) e-Learning
9 7 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.22%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.90%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.27%) Taxonomies
12 3 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.95%) PKI
12 3 (0.95%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 50 (15.87%) Linux
2 38 (12.06%) Windows
3 15 (4.76%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.90%) Unix
6 4 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (29.84%) Agile
2 93 (29.52%) DevOps
3 92 (29.21%) CI/CD
4 90 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (17.14%) Microservices
6 53 (16.83%) Data Modelling
7 46 (14.60%) User Experience
8 45 (14.29%) Containerisation
9 43 (13.65%) Business Intelligence
10 40 (12.70%) Test Automation
11 39 (12.38%) Infrastructure as Code
12 37 (11.75%) API Integration
13 34 (10.79%) AI
14 32 (10.16%) API Design
14 32 (10.16%) Software Engineering
15 31 (9.84%) Analytics
15 31 (9.84%) Roadmaps
16 30 (9.52%) ERP
16 30 (9.52%) Validation
17 29 (9.21%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 147 (46.67%) SQL
2 110 (34.92%) JavaScript
3 105 (33.33%) Python
4 77 (24.44%) C#
5 48 (15.24%) Java
6 42 (13.33%) PowerShell
7 25 (7.94%) TypeScript
8 17 (5.40%) T-SQL
9 14 (4.44%) C++
9 14 (4.44%) PHP
9 14 (4.44%) Ruby
10 13 (4.13%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.90%) Groovy
12 5 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (1.27%) Bash
13 4 (1.27%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.27%) VBA
14 3 (0.95%) Bicep
14 3 (0.95%) Perl
15 2 (0.63%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 41 (13.02%) Degree
2 35 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 25 (7.94%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.54%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.90%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.95%) CISSP
9 2 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.63%) CASP
9 2 (0.63%) CCSP
9 2 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.63%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.32%) ISEB
10 1 (0.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.79%) QA
2 23 (7.30%) Accessibility
3 19 (6.03%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.81%) TickIT
5 11 (3.49%) SLA
6 10 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (2.22%) WCAG
8 6 (1.90%) GDPR
9 4 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.95%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.95%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.32%) PERC
11 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (13.97%) Docker
2 15 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.22%) vSphere
4 4 (1.27%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (9.52%) Terraform
2 26 (8.25%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.81%) Ansible
4 6 (1.90%) Kibana
5 4 (1.27%) Packer
6 2 (0.63%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.32%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.32%) QRadar
Vendors
1 97 (30.79%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.62%) Adobe
3 16 (5.08%) Cisco
4 15 (4.76%) Splunk
5 14 (4.44%) Red Hat
6 10 (3.17%) Google
7 9 (2.86%) Palo Alto
7 9 (2.86%) VMware
8 8 (2.54%) F5
8 8 (2.54%) Oracle
9 7 (2.22%) Dynatrace
9 7 (2.22%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.22%) SAP
9 7 (2.22%) Sparx
10 6 (1.90%) Juniper
11 5 (1.59%) IBM
11 5 (1.59%) MuleSoft
12 4 (1.27%) AppDynamics
12 4 (1.27%) Databricks
13 3 (0.95%) OpenAI