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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 384 325
Rank change year-on-year -89 -59 -108
Permanent jobs citing JSON 310 263 516
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.61% 0.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.91% 3.58% 3.64%
Number of salaries quoted 202 204 328
10th Percentile £35,575 £40,375 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,526 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -5.88% -1.92%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £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 10,667 7,342 14,164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.28% 17.14% 21.95%
Number of salaries quoted 7,669 4,839 8,783
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,192 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.45% +6.45% -3.70%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -24 132 £75,000 +7.14% 216
South East -57 68 £55,000 -15.38% 53
North of England -45 41 £44,000 -18.14% 45
Midlands -38 29 £55,000 +15.79% 30
North West -29 23 £61,250 +6.52% 27
West Midlands -35 22 £61,700 +29.89% 21
East of England -59 20 £90,000 +63.64% 15
South West -62 16 £52,500 -12.50% 17
Yorkshire -28 15 £37,500 -1.32% 15
East Midlands -29 7 £54,000 -10.00% 9
North East -68 3 £31,000 -31.11% 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 (8.71%) SharePoint
2 18 (5.81%) Confluence
3 16 (5.16%) IIS
4 13 (4.19%) Apache
5 9 (2.90%) CMS
5 9 (2.90%) WordPress
6 8 (2.58%) Drupal
7 6 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.97%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.97%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.65%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.32%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.32%) JBoss
Applications
1 21 (6.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.29%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.97%) Lightworks
6 2 (0.65%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.32%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (2.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.65%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.32%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.32%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.32%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 136 (43.87%) Azure
2 79 (25.48%) AWS
3 54 (17.42%) Power Platform
4 52 (16.77%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (14.84%) Azure Logic Apps
6 36 (11.61%) Serverless
7 31 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
8 29 (9.35%) Power Automate
9 22 (7.10%) PowerApps
10 21 (6.77%) GitHub
11 20 (6.45%) Dynamics 365
12 19 (6.13%) Azure Data Factory
13 17 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (5.48%) Azure Functions
14 16 (5.16%) GCP
15 14 (4.52%) Azure Monitor
16 13 (4.19%) SaaS
17 12 (3.87%) AWS CloudFormation
18 11 (3.55%) Azure Service Bus
19 9 (2.90%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.87%) TCP/IP
2 10 (3.23%) HTTP
3 7 (2.26%) Firewall
3 7 (2.26%) Wireshark
4 6 (1.94%) DNS
5 3 (0.97%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.97%) MQTT
5 3 (0.97%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (0.97%) Wireless
6 2 (0.65%) VPN
7 1 (0.32%) Broadband
7 1 (0.32%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.32%) FTP
7 1 (0.32%) Network Security
7 1 (0.32%) RTP
7 1 (0.32%) RTSP
7 1 (0.32%) SCTP
7 1 (0.32%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.32%) SS7
7 1 (0.32%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (13.55%) SQL Server
2 38 (12.26%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (10.65%) Power BI
4 21 (6.77%) MySQL
5 20 (6.45%) Relational Database
6 19 (6.13%) Redis
7 17 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (4.19%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (3.23%) Data Lake
10 9 (2.90%) Metadata
10 9 (2.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (2.58%) NoSQL
12 6 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (1.94%) Parquet
12 6 (1.94%) RDBMS
13 5 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (1.61%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 4 (1.29%) Power Query
15 3 (0.97%) DynamoDB
16 2 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 62 (20.00%) Git
2 26 (8.39%) JIRA
3 23 (7.42%) Jenkins
4 17 (5.48%) Selenium
5 14 (4.52%) Postman
6 12 (3.87%) JMeter
7 10 (3.23%) GitLab
8 8 (2.58%) Cucumber
9 7 (2.26%) JUnit
10 6 (1.94%) Maven
10 6 (1.94%) SoapUI
11 5 (1.61%) Gatling
11 5 (1.61%) Jasmine
11 5 (1.61%) Mocha
11 5 (1.61%) Mockito
11 5 (1.61%) NUnit
11 5 (1.61%) Visual Studio
11 5 (1.61%) Zephyr
12 4 (1.29%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.29%) REST Assured
General
1 130 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 68 (21.94%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (20.32%) Finance
4 27 (8.71%) Public Sector
5 25 (8.06%) Organisational Skills
6 15 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (4.19%) Banking
7 13 (4.19%) Legal
8 12 (3.87%) Law
9 10 (3.23%) Retail
10 9 (2.90%) Advertising
11 8 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.94%) Aviation
12 6 (1.94%) Back Office
12 6 (1.94%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.61%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.61%) Marketing
14 4 (1.29%) Publishing
15 3 (0.97%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.97%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 120 (38.71%) Developer
2 75 (24.19%) Senior
3 36 (11.61%) Senior Developer
4 27 (8.71%) .NET Developer
5 26 (8.39%) Analyst
6 21 (6.77%) Lead
6 21 (6.77%) Software Engineer
7 20 (6.45%) Architect
8 17 (5.48%) Integration Engineer
9 16 (5.16%) Web Developer
10 15 (4.84%) Full-Stack Developer
10 15 (4.84%) Ruby Developer
10 15 (4.84%) Software Developer
11 14 (4.52%) Data Engineer
12 13 (4.19%) .NET Web Developer
12 13 (4.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 13 (4.19%) Senior Integration Engineer
13 12 (3.87%) Integration Architect
14 11 (3.55%) Support Engineer
15 10 (3.23%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (38.71%) XML
2 103 (33.23%) REST
3 75 (24.19%) HTML
4 74 (23.87%) .NET
5 64 (20.65%) CSS
6 47 (15.16%) RESTful
7 42 (13.55%) .NET Core
8 38 (12.26%) ASP.NET
9 35 (11.29%) SOAP
10 26 (8.39%) JWT
10 26 (8.39%) React
11 25 (8.06%) .NET Framework
12 23 (7.42%) Terraform
13 21 (6.77%) Blazor
13 21 (6.77%) HTML5
14 20 (6.45%) AngularJS
14 20 (6.45%) Middleware
15 17 (5.48%) Razor View Engine
15 17 (5.48%) Web Services
15 17 (5.48%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.42%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.77%) Onboarding
3 20 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (5.16%) Management Information System
5 15 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (4.19%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (3.87%) Product Ownership
8 12 (3.87%) Taxonomies
9 11 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (3.55%) Robotics
10 9 (2.90%) AI Agents
11 7 (2.26%) Driving Licence
12 6 (1.94%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.94%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.94%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.94%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.61%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.61%) PKI
14 4 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 52 (16.77%) Windows
2 41 (13.23%) Linux
3 18 (5.81%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.65%) Android
6 2 (0.65%) macOS
7 1 (0.32%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (41.29%) Agile
2 106 (34.19%) CI/CD
3 105 (33.87%) DevOps
4 88 (28.39%) Problem-Solving
5 62 (20.00%) AI
6 57 (18.39%) Test Automation
7 48 (15.48%) Mentoring
7 48 (15.48%) Microservices
7 48 (15.48%) Software Engineering
8 45 (14.52%) Scrum
9 41 (13.23%) User Experience
10 39 (12.58%) Data Modelling
11 37 (11.94%) Validation
12 34 (10.97%) Roadmaps
13 33 (10.65%) Analytics
13 33 (10.65%) Clean Code
13 33 (10.65%) Continuous Improvement
13 33 (10.65%) Data Integration
13 33 (10.65%) Stakeholder Management
14 31 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 124 (40.00%) SQL
2 105 (33.87%) JavaScript
3 86 (27.74%) C#
3 86 (27.74%) Python
4 37 (11.94%) Java
5 26 (8.39%) PowerShell
6 21 (6.77%) C++
7 16 (5.16%) Ruby
8 15 (4.84%) TypeScript
9 13 (4.19%) PHP
10 10 (3.23%) Shell Script
10 10 (3.23%) T-SQL
11 9 (2.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.61%) VBA
13 4 (1.29%) XPath
14 3 (0.97%) Bash
14 3 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.65%) Bicep
15 2 (0.65%) RPG IV
15 2 (0.65%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 41 (13.23%) Degree
2 34 (10.97%) Security Cleared
3 27 (8.71%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.87%) Azure Certification
5 11 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.23%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.94%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.61%) CISSP
8 5 (1.61%) ISEB
9 3 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (0.97%) CCNP
9 3 (0.97%) CCSP
9 3 (0.97%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.65%) CASP
10 2 (0.65%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (15.48%) Accessibility
2 35 (11.29%) QA
3 24 (7.74%) Data Quality
4 21 (6.77%) WCAG
5 13 (4.19%) GDPR
6 5 (1.61%) TickIT
7 4 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.97%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.97%) ISO 8583
8 3 (0.97%) SLA
9 2 (0.65%) Basel III
9 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.65%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.32%) COBIT
10 1 (0.32%) ECSS
10 1 (0.32%) GRC
10 1 (0.32%) NIST
10 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.32%) PERC
System Software
1 46 (14.84%) Docker
2 7 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.94%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.29%) vSphere
5 3 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.65%) NFS
6 2 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (4.84%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.58%) Ansible
2 8 (2.58%) Grafana
3 6 (1.94%) Kibana
4 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.32%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.32%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.32%) logstash
5 1 (0.32%) QRadar
Vendors
1 106 (34.19%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.48%) Google
3 12 (3.87%) Adobe
4 11 (3.55%) Splunk
5 10 (3.23%) Dynatrace
5 10 (3.23%) SAP
6 7 (2.26%) Oracle
6 7 (2.26%) VMware
7 6 (1.94%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.61%) Foundry
8 5 (1.61%) IBM
8 5 (1.61%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.61%) Pega
8 5 (1.61%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.29%) Databricks
9 4 (1.29%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.97%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.97%) F5
10 3 (0.97%) McAfee
10 3 (0.97%) Red Hat