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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 307 220
Rank change year-on-year -64 -87 +35
Permanent jobs citing JSON 255 442 702
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.91% 1.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.10% 4.22% 6.05%
Number of salaries quoted 187 289 579
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £49,875 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -6.40%

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 6,218 10,481 11,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.81% 21.50% 24.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4,788 6,172 9,719
10th Percentile £35,854 £40,061 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 8 January 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 8 January 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 -1 93 £75,000 +7.14% 49
South East -58 57 £56,250 -13.46% 49
East of England +52 55 £55,000 -13.73% 19
North of England -9 27 £55,000 +4.76% 31
Midlands -12 23 £47,500 -9.52% 13
North West +21 19 £57,500 +4.55% 19
West Midlands +1 17 £47,500 -14.56% 7
East Midlands -3 6 £60,000 +17.07% 6
Yorkshire -34 4 £56,750 +8.10% 8
North East - 4 £45,000 - 4
South West -7 1 £60,000 +20.00% 12
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 (3.53%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.35%) Confluence
3 5 (1.96%) Anypoint
3 5 (1.96%) CMS
4 3 (1.18%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.78%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.78%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.39%) Apache
6 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.39%) Appian
6 1 (0.39%) CICS
6 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.39%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) JBoss
6 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.75%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.18%) Trello
4 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.35%) NetSuite
1 6 (2.35%) Shopify
2 3 (1.18%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 77 (30.20%) Azure
2 36 (14.12%) AWS
3 27 (10.59%) GitHub
4 25 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (9.80%) Power Platform
5 23 (9.02%) Power Automate
5 23 (9.02%) Serverless
6 17 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
7 16 (6.27%) Amazon ECS
7 16 (6.27%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (5.88%) Boomi
9 13 (5.10%) GCP
9 13 (5.10%) PaaS
9 13 (5.10%) PowerApps
10 12 (4.71%) Azure Logic Apps
10 12 (4.71%) SaaS
11 11 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (3.92%) iPaaS
13 7 (2.75%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (2.35%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.53%) FTP
2 7 (2.75%) VPN
3 4 (1.57%) Cisco ISE
3 4 (1.57%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.57%) Firewall
3 4 (1.57%) LAN
3 4 (1.57%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.57%) WAN
4 3 (1.18%) DNS
4 3 (1.18%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.78%) AMQP
6 1 (0.39%) DHCP
6 1 (0.39%) HTTP
6 1 (0.39%) SSL
6 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.39%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (18.43%) Relational Database
2 34 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 20 (7.84%) MySQL
4 18 (7.06%) Power BI
5 17 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (5.88%) RDBMS
7 12 (4.71%) OLTP
8 11 (4.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (3.92%) NoSQL
10 6 (2.35%) Electronic Patient Records
10 6 (2.35%) Metadata
11 5 (1.96%) GIS
12 3 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.18%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (1.18%) Power Query
12 3 (1.18%) Redis
12 3 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.78%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 21 (8.24%) Jenkins
2 15 (5.88%) Git
2 15 (5.88%) JMeter
2 15 (5.88%) JUnit
3 14 (5.49%) Mockito
4 13 (5.10%) JIRA
5 8 (3.14%) Postman
6 6 (2.35%) Axure RP
7 5 (1.96%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.78%) Crashlytics
8 2 (0.78%) Selenium
9 1 (0.39%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.39%) ESLint
9 1 (0.39%) GitLab
9 1 (0.39%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.39%) Storybook
9 1 (0.39%) Testinfra
9 1 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 91 (35.69%) Social Skills
2 42 (16.47%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (15.69%) Law
4 36 (14.12%) Finance
5 30 (11.76%) Retail
6 22 (8.63%) Public Sector
7 15 (5.88%) German Language
8 11 (4.31%) Marketing
9 6 (2.35%) Health Technology
9 6 (2.35%) Legal
10 5 (1.96%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.57%) Automotive
11 4 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.18%) Electronics
12 3 (1.18%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.78%) Banking
13 2 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.78%) Publishing
14 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 112 (43.92%) Developer
2 39 (15.29%) Senior
3 35 (13.73%) Senior Developer
4 22 (8.63%) Analyst
5 18 (7.06%) Java Developer
6 16 (6.27%) Consultant
6 16 (6.27%) Full-Stack Developer
7 14 (5.49%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 14 (5.49%) Oracle Developer
7 14 (5.49%) Senior Oracle Developer
8 12 (4.71%) Mid-Level Java Developer
8 12 (4.71%) ServiceNow Developer
9 11 (4.31%) Data Engineer
9 11 (4.31%) Technical Consultant
10 10 (3.92%) Integration Engineer
10 10 (3.92%) Support Engineer
11 9 (3.53%) Architect
11 9 (3.53%) Lead
12 8 (3.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 7 (2.75%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (61.18%) XML
2 107 (41.96%) REST
3 102 (40.00%) HTML
4 37 (14.51%) Web Services
5 35 (13.73%) CSS
6 30 (11.76%) Regular Expression
7 28 (10.98%) SOAP
8 26 (10.20%) React
9 21 (8.24%) Spring
9 21 (8.24%) Spring Boot
10 17 (6.67%) Hibernate
11 16 (6.27%) jQuery
12 14 (5.49%) .NET
12 14 (5.49%) ActiveMQ
12 14 (5.49%) Apache Camel
12 14 (5.49%) WireMock
13 12 (4.71%) AngularJS
13 12 (4.71%) OAuth
13 12 (4.71%) RESTful
14 11 (4.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (18.43%) Onboarding
2 36 (14.12%) Linux Command Line
3 18 (7.06%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (6.27%) Low-Code
6 11 (4.31%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.92%) Operational Technology
8 8 (3.14%) Cloud Native
9 6 (2.35%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.35%) NHS
10 5 (1.96%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.57%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.57%) Semantic Web
12 3 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.18%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.18%) Reference Data
12 3 (1.18%) Social Media
13 2 (0.78%) Blog
13 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.78%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 37 (14.51%) Unix
2 15 (5.88%) Linux
3 3 (1.18%) Android
3 3 (1.18%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.18%) Windows
4 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (30.20%) Agile
2 71 (27.84%) Problem-Solving
3 55 (21.57%) CI/CD
4 46 (18.04%) AI
5 45 (17.65%) DevOps
6 37 (14.51%) LLM
7 33 (12.94%) Data Analysis
8 31 (12.16%) ETL
9 30 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
10 28 (10.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (10.98%) Test Automation
11 27 (10.59%) Microservices
12 26 (10.20%) SDLC
12 26 (10.20%) User Experience
13 25 (9.80%) Analytics
13 25 (9.80%) API Integration
14 24 (9.41%) Problem Management
14 24 (9.41%) Workflow
15 23 (9.02%) Validation
16 22 (8.63%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 113 (44.31%) SQL
2 104 (40.78%) JavaScript
3 87 (34.12%) Python
4 45 (17.65%) Java
5 32 (12.55%) C#
6 29 (11.37%) PowerShell
7 19 (7.45%) Shell Script
8 14 (5.49%) PL/SQL
9 10 (3.92%) T-SQL
10 7 (2.75%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.57%) Bicep
11 4 (1.57%) PHP
12 3 (1.18%) ActionScript
12 3 (1.18%) ActionScript 2.0
12 3 (1.18%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.78%) Bash
13 2 (0.78%) C++
13 2 (0.78%) Ruby
14 1 (0.39%) COBOL
14 1 (0.39%) Korn
Qualifications
1 45 (17.65%) Degree
2 22 (8.63%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.92%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (0.78%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.39%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.39%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.27%) QA
3 10 (3.92%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.53%) GDPR
4 9 (3.53%) HL7
4 9 (3.53%) NCSC
4 9 (3.53%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (13.73%) Docker
2 4 (1.57%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.39%) iptables
Systems Management
1 30 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.49%) Kibana
3 10 (3.92%) Ansible
3 10 (3.92%) Terraform
4 5 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.57%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.78%) Grafana
7 1 (0.39%) Packer
7 1 (0.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (12.55%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.02%) Oracle
3 19 (7.45%) ServiceNow
4 15 (5.88%) Splunk
5 14 (5.49%) Dynatrace
6 13 (5.10%) SAP
7 11 (4.31%) Google
8 10 (3.92%) MuleSoft
9 9 (3.53%) Cisco
9 9 (3.53%) Dell
10 7 (2.75%) Informatica
10 7 (2.75%) Salesforce
10 7 (2.75%) SnapLogic
10 7 (2.75%) Talend
11 6 (2.35%) IBM
11 6 (2.35%) Intapp
11 6 (2.35%) Workday
12 5 (1.96%) IFS
12 5 (1.96%) Software AG
12 5 (1.96%) TIBCO