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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 362 298
Rank change year-on-year -65 -64 -49
Permanent jobs citing JSON 337 345 668
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.79% 0.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.54% 4.42% 4.82%
Number of salaries quoted 249 259 510
10th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £79,336 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £94,000 £86,250 £82,625
UK median annual salary £61,700 £60,375 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.19% +0.63% -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 9,527 7,802 13,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.41% 17.92% 18.50%
Number of salaries quoted 7,219 5,251 10,684
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -35 119 £75,000 +11.11% 86
South East -35 92 £55,000 -15.38% 37
North of England -24 52 £55,000 - 25
North West 0 32 £62,500 +13.64% 12
East of England -34 29 £90,000 +89.47% 8
Midlands -30 20 £52,500 -12.50% 14
South West -68 19 £52,500 - 10
Yorkshire -21 15 £42,750 +5.56% 13
West Midlands -30 12 £46,250 -22.92% 10
East Midlands -26 8 £54,000 -4.42% 4
North East - 5 £45,000 -
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 28 (8.31%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.75%) Confluence
3 13 (3.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (2.97%) Apache
4 10 (2.97%) IIS
5 8 (2.37%) CMS
6 7 (2.08%) WordPress
7 5 (1.48%) Drupal
8 4 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.59%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.59%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.30%) JBoss
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (4.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.19%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.89%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.59%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.30%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.59%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 149 (44.21%) Azure
2 89 (26.41%) AWS
3 61 (18.10%) Power Platform
4 51 (15.13%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (13.95%) Azure Logic Apps
6 39 (11.57%) Microsoft 365
7 30 (8.90%) Serverless
8 27 (8.01%) PowerApps
9 26 (7.72%) Power Automate
10 22 (6.53%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (6.53%) Azure Data Factory
10 22 (6.53%) GitHub
11 21 (6.23%) SaaS
12 20 (5.93%) Dynamics 365
13 19 (5.64%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 19 (5.64%) OneDrive
14 15 (4.45%) Boomi
15 13 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (3.86%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (3.86%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.53%) Firewall
2 8 (2.37%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.08%) DNS
4 6 (1.78%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (1.78%) HTTP
4 6 (1.78%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.89%) BGP
5 3 (0.89%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.89%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (0.89%) SSL
5 3 (0.89%) Wireless
6 2 (0.59%) MQTT
7 1 (0.30%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.30%) CTI
7 1 (0.30%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.30%) RTP
7 1 (0.30%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.30%) SS7
7 1 (0.30%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (14.54%) Power BI
2 44 (13.06%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (7.72%) SQL Server
4 24 (7.12%) Relational Database
5 22 (6.53%) MySQL
6 20 (5.93%) Azure SQL Database
6 20 (5.93%) Redis
7 18 (5.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (5.04%) Metadata
9 14 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (3.56%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.78%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.48%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.48%) Delta Lake
13 4 (1.19%) DynamoDB
13 4 (1.19%) Power Query
14 3 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.89%) NoSQL
14 3 (0.89%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 61 (18.10%) Git
2 44 (13.06%) JIRA
3 26 (7.72%) GitLab
3 26 (7.72%) Jenkins
4 16 (4.75%) Selenium
5 12 (3.56%) Postman
6 11 (3.26%) Cucumber
7 10 (2.97%) JMeter
8 8 (2.37%) ERwin
8 8 (2.37%) JUnit
9 7 (2.08%) Maven
9 7 (2.08%) Mockito
10 6 (1.78%) WebDriver
11 5 (1.48%) Browser DevTools
11 5 (1.48%) Gradle
11 5 (1.48%) Jasmine
11 5 (1.48%) Mocha
11 5 (1.48%) NUnit
11 5 (1.48%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.48%) Visual Studio
General
1 147 (43.62%) Social Skills
2 93 (27.60%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (17.51%) Finance
4 29 (8.61%) Organisational Skills
5 14 (4.15%) Advertising
5 14 (4.15%) Marketing
5 14 (4.15%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.86%) Retail
6 13 (3.86%) Telecoms
7 10 (2.97%) Law
8 7 (2.08%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.08%) Legal
9 6 (1.78%) Banking
9 6 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.78%) Health Technology
9 6 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.78%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.48%) Back Office
11 4 (1.19%) Aviation
11 4 (1.19%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 118 (35.01%) Developer
2 74 (21.96%) Senior
3 43 (12.76%) Senior Developer
4 25 (7.42%) Analyst
5 24 (7.12%) Architect
6 22 (6.53%) Software Engineer
7 20 (5.93%) .NET Developer
8 19 (5.64%) Lead
8 19 (5.64%) Support Engineer
9 18 (5.34%) DevOps Engineer
10 17 (5.04%) Automation Engineer
10 17 (5.04%) Software Developer
11 16 (4.75%) Integration Engineer
11 16 (4.75%) Ruby Developer
12 15 (4.45%) Data Engineer
12 15 (4.45%) Full-Stack Developer
13 14 (4.15%) Network Engineer
14 13 (3.86%) Data Analyst
14 13 (3.86%) Technical Support
14 13 (3.86%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (38.28%) XML
2 112 (33.23%) REST
3 86 (25.52%) HTML
4 83 (24.63%) .NET
5 75 (22.26%) CSS
6 49 (14.54%) RESTful
7 44 (13.06%) .NET Core
8 41 (12.17%) SOAP
9 38 (11.28%) ASP.NET
10 33 (9.79%) Middleware
11 32 (9.50%) YAML
12 29 (8.61%) JWT
13 25 (7.42%) React
14 21 (6.23%) HTML5 Canvas
15 20 (5.93%) .NET Framework
15 20 (5.93%) Microsoft Graph
16 19 (5.64%) AngularJS
16 19 (5.64%) SPFx
17 18 (5.34%) HTML5
17 18 (5.34%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.72%) Onboarding
2 22 (6.53%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (6.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (5.93%) Data Structures
5 19 (5.64%) Cloud Native
5 19 (5.64%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (5.64%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (3.26%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (2.67%) Driving Licence
8 9 (2.67%) Enterprise Cloud
8 9 (2.67%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.67%) Robotics
9 7 (2.08%) e-Learning
9 7 (2.08%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.19%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.19%) PKI
10 4 (1.19%) Social Media
10 4 (1.19%) Taxonomies
11 3 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 54 (16.02%) Linux
2 43 (12.76%) Windows
3 15 (4.45%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.78%) Unix
6 4 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.30%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (35.61%) Agile
2 107 (31.75%) DevOps
3 103 (30.56%) CI/CD
4 96 (28.49%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (17.21%) Microservices
6 52 (15.43%) Test Automation
7 51 (15.13%) Data Modelling
8 50 (14.84%) User Experience
9 49 (14.54%) Containerisation
10 43 (12.76%) Business Intelligence
11 42 (12.46%) Scrum
12 39 (11.57%) Software Engineering
13 38 (11.28%) Infrastructure as Code
14 36 (10.68%) API Integration
14 36 (10.68%) Mentoring
15 35 (10.39%) AI
16 33 (9.79%) Analytics
17 32 (9.50%) API Design
17 32 (9.50%) Clean Code
18 31 (9.20%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 145 (43.03%) SQL
2 114 (33.83%) JavaScript
3 109 (32.34%) Python
4 88 (26.11%) C#
5 47 (13.95%) Java
6 38 (11.28%) PowerShell
7 26 (7.72%) TypeScript
8 18 (5.34%) C++
9 17 (5.04%) Ruby
10 14 (4.15%) Shell Script
10 14 (4.15%) T-SQL
11 13 (3.86%) PHP
12 5 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.48%) Groovy
13 4 (1.19%) Bash
13 4 (1.19%) VBA
14 3 (0.89%) Bicep
14 3 (0.89%) Perl
15 2 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.59%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 41 (12.17%) Degree
2 34 (10.09%) Security Cleared
3 24 (7.12%) SC Cleared
4 18 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.26%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.78%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.89%) CCNP
8 3 (0.89%) CISSP
8 3 (0.89%) ISEB
8 3 (0.89%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.89%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.59%) CASP
9 2 (0.59%) CCSP
9 2 (0.59%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.59%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (11.57%) QA
2 28 (8.31%) Accessibility
3 19 (5.64%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.56%) TickIT
5 10 (2.97%) SLA
6 9 (2.67%) WCAG
7 5 (1.48%) GDPR
7 5 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.89%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.89%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.59%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.30%) PERC
System Software
1 50 (14.84%) Docker
2 11 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.08%) vSphere
4 4 (1.19%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (8.31%) Terraform
2 26 (7.72%) Kubernetes
3 14 (4.15%) Ansible
4 6 (1.78%) Kibana
5 4 (1.19%) Packer
6 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.30%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.30%) Grafana
7 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 102 (30.27%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.12%) Adobe
3 18 (5.34%) Cisco
4 15 (4.45%) Splunk
5 14 (4.15%) Red Hat
6 13 (3.86%) Google
7 10 (2.97%) F5
8 9 (2.67%) Oracle
8 9 (2.67%) Palo Alto
9 8 (2.37%) SAP
9 8 (2.37%) VMware
10 7 (2.08%) Databricks
10 7 (2.08%) Dynatrace
10 7 (2.08%) IBM
10 7 (2.08%) Sparx
11 6 (1.78%) Juniper
12 5 (1.48%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.48%) Salesforce
13 4 (1.19%) AppDynamics
13 4 (1.19%) CheckPoint