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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 305 241
Rank change year-on-year -81 -64 +18
Permanent jobs citing JSON 232 441 823
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 0.95% 1.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.61% 4.33% 5.45%
Number of salaries quoted 165 291 670
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £39,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,651 £49,898
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% -3.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £81,554 £86,250 £97,625
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -7.59%

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 6,420 10,187 15,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.41% 21.88% 23.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,904 5,945 12,881
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 £110,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%

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 2 February 2026.

Salary histogram for JSON in England

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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 2 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 -12 83 £75,000 +7.14% 67
South East -54 51 £55,000 -12.00% 39
East of England +38 46 £55,000 -11.18% 6
North of England -37 25 £55,000 - 27
Midlands -9 24 £47,500 -9.52% 14
West Midlands +8 18 £47,500 -11.53% 5
North West +12 17 £55,000 -4.35% 16
East Midlands -12 6 £60,000 +15.38% 9
North East +1 4 £45,000 -41.94%
Yorkshire -42 4 £56,750 +8.10% 11
South West -24 1 £60,000 -5.88% 8
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 9 (3.88%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.59%) Confluence
3 5 (2.16%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.72%) CMS
4 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.29%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.86%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.86%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.43%) Apache
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.43%) Appian
7 1 (0.43%) CICS
7 1 (0.43%) IIS
7 1 (0.43%) JBoss
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.02%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.29%) Trello
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.59%) NetSuite
1 6 (2.59%) Shopify
2 3 (1.29%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.43%) Magento
4 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 72 (31.03%) Azure
2 34 (14.66%) AWS
3 29 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 27 (11.64%) GitHub
5 23 (9.91%) Power Automate
6 20 (8.62%) Serverless
7 16 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (6.90%) Boomi
8 15 (6.47%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (6.03%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (5.60%) GCP
10 13 (5.60%) PowerApps
11 12 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (5.17%) iPaaS
12 11 (4.74%) SaaS
13 10 (4.31%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (4.31%) PaaS
14 6 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (2.59%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.02%) FTP
1 7 (3.02%) VPN
2 3 (1.29%) AMQP
2 3 (1.29%) Cisco ISE
2 3 (1.29%) Ethernet
2 3 (1.29%) Firewall
2 3 (1.29%) HTTPS
2 3 (1.29%) LAN
2 3 (1.29%) SD-WAN
2 3 (1.29%) WAN
3 2 (0.86%) DNS
4 1 (0.43%) DHCP
4 1 (0.43%) HTTP
4 1 (0.43%) SSL
4 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.43%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (16.38%) Relational Database
2 34 (14.66%) SQL Server
3 22 (9.48%) MySQL
3 22 (9.48%) Power BI
4 18 (7.76%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (5.17%) RDBMS
6 9 (3.88%) NoSQL
7 7 (3.02%) Metadata
7 7 (3.02%) OLTP
7 7 (3.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (3.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.59%) Electronic Patient Records
9 3 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.29%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (1.29%) Power Query
10 2 (0.86%) Big Data
10 2 (0.86%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (8.62%) Jenkins
2 17 (7.33%) Git
3 14 (6.03%) JUnit
4 12 (5.17%) Postman
5 11 (4.74%) JMeter
6 10 (4.31%) Mockito
7 9 (3.88%) JIRA
8 6 (2.59%) Axure RP
9 5 (2.16%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.72%) Maven
10 4 (1.72%) Selenium
11 2 (0.86%) Crashlytics
11 2 (0.86%) GitLab
11 2 (0.86%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.43%) Android Studio
12 1 (0.43%) Gradle
12 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.43%) Testinfra
General
1 82 (35.34%) Social Skills
2 42 (18.10%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (16.38%) Finance
4 30 (12.93%) Law
4 30 (12.93%) Retail
5 19 (8.19%) Public Sector
6 15 (6.47%) German Language
7 10 (4.31%) Marketing
8 6 (2.59%) Health Technology
8 6 (2.59%) Legal
8 6 (2.59%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.29%) Electronics
9 3 (1.29%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.86%) Publishing
11 1 (0.43%) Automotive
11 1 (0.43%) Banking
11 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Local Government
11 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 101 (43.53%) Developer
2 32 (13.79%) Senior
3 28 (12.07%) Senior Developer
4 26 (11.21%) Analyst
5 18 (7.76%) Java Developer
6 12 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (4.74%) Architect
7 11 (4.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 11 (4.74%) Support Engineer
8 10 (4.31%) Consultant
8 10 (4.31%) Integration Engineer
8 10 (4.31%) Oracle Developer
8 10 (4.31%) Senior Oracle Developer
8 10 (4.31%) ServiceNow Developer
9 9 (3.88%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 8 (3.45%) Data Analyst
10 8 (3.45%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 7 (3.02%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
11 7 (3.02%) Lead
11 7 (3.02%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (60.78%) XML
2 105 (45.26%) REST
3 82 (35.34%) HTML
4 32 (13.79%) Web Services
5 30 (12.93%) SOAP
6 29 (12.50%) Regular Expression
7 26 (11.21%) CSS
8 25 (10.78%) React
9 21 (9.05%) Spring
10 19 (8.19%) Spring Boot
11 14 (6.03%) .NET
11 14 (6.03%) Hibernate
11 14 (6.03%) Middleware
11 14 (6.03%) RESTful
12 12 (5.17%) jQuery
13 11 (4.74%) AngularJS
14 10 (4.31%) ActiveMQ
14 10 (4.31%) Apache Camel
14 10 (4.31%) Razor View Engine
14 10 (4.31%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 48 (20.69%) Onboarding
2 35 (15.09%) Linux Command Line
3 17 (7.33%) Data Structures
3 17 (7.33%) Low-Code
4 16 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (4.31%) Operational Technology
6 8 (3.45%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.59%) NHS
8 5 (2.16%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.72%) Semantic Web
10 3 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.29%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.29%) PMI
10 3 (1.29%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.29%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.29%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.29%) Social Media
11 2 (0.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (15.52%) Unix
2 16 (6.90%) Linux
3 3 (1.29%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.29%) Windows
4 1 (0.43%) Android
4 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (28.88%) Agile
2 66 (28.45%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (21.98%) CI/CD
4 47 (20.26%) AI
5 38 (16.38%) DevOps
6 34 (14.66%) Data Analysis
6 34 (14.66%) LLM
7 32 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
8 27 (11.64%) API Integration
8 27 (11.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (11.64%) Data Modelling
9 26 (11.21%) ETL
9 26 (11.21%) Validation
10 24 (10.34%) User Experience
11 23 (9.91%) Test Automation
12 22 (9.48%) Analytics
12 22 (9.48%) Microservices
12 22 (9.48%) Workflow
13 20 (8.62%) SDLC
14 18 (7.76%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 109 (46.98%) SQL
2 86 (37.07%) JavaScript
3 84 (36.21%) Python
4 47 (20.26%) Java
5 33 (14.22%) C#
6 29 (12.50%) PowerShell
7 15 (6.47%) Shell Script
8 11 (4.74%) PL/SQL
8 11 (4.74%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.16%) PHP
10 4 (1.72%) Bicep
10 4 (1.72%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.29%) ActionScript
11 3 (1.29%) ActionScript 2.0
12 2 (0.86%) Bash
12 2 (0.86%) C++
12 2 (0.86%) Ruby
13 1 (0.43%) Groovy
13 1 (0.43%) R
13 1 (0.43%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 47 (20.26%) Degree
2 24 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.03%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.29%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.29%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (1.29%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.43%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.43%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.90%) QA
2 15 (6.47%) Data Quality
3 11 (4.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.31%) GDPR
5 9 (3.88%) Accessibility
5 9 (3.88%) HL7
6 5 (2.16%) NCSC
6 5 (2.16%) NIST
7 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (13.36%) Docker
2 4 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.29%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.43%) iptables
Systems Management
1 27 (11.64%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.31%) Ansible
2 10 (4.31%) Kibana
2 10 (4.31%) Terraform
3 3 (1.29%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.43%) Grafana
5 1 (0.43%) Packer
5 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (13.36%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.05%) Oracle
3 14 (6.03%) SAP
4 11 (4.74%) ServiceNow
4 11 (4.74%) Splunk
5 10 (4.31%) Dynatrace
5 10 (4.31%) MuleSoft
6 9 (3.88%) Dell
6 9 (3.88%) Google
6 9 (3.88%) Salesforce
7 7 (3.02%) Informatica
7 7 (3.02%) SnapLogic
7 7 (3.02%) Talend
8 6 (2.59%) IBM
8 6 (2.59%) IFS
8 6 (2.59%) Intapp
8 6 (2.59%) Workday
9 5 (2.16%) Epicor
9 5 (2.16%) Software AG
9 5 (2.16%) TIBCO