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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 309 208
Rank change year-on-year -54 -101 +20
Permanent jobs citing JSON 278 504 781
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.61% 0.83% 1.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.36% 4.09% 6.10%
Number of salaries quoted 218 311 661
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £75,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £106,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% -5.32%

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 6,377 12,324 12,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.94% 20.29% 26.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4,719 7,387 10,483
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,750 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +2.27%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,799
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.21% +1.23%

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025. 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 -14 100 £70,000 - 103
South East -27 78 £62,500 +8.70% 54
East of England +41 48 £55,000 -13.73% 24
North of England -2 29 £55,000 - 25
Midlands +24 25 £47,500 -9.52% 21
North West +31 22 £55,000 - 20
West Midlands +30 18 £47,500 -17.39% 9
East Midlands +17 7 £60,000 +18.81% 10
North East +15 4 £45,000 -
South West +16 3 £61,250 +22.50% 9
Yorkshire -20 3 £43,500 -33.08% 5
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 10 (3.60%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.16%) Anypoint
2 6 (2.16%) Confluence
3 5 (1.80%) CMS
4 3 (1.08%) IIS
4 3 (1.08%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.72%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.36%) Appian
6 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.88%) MS Visio
2 7 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.08%) Trello
5 1 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.52%) Shopify
2 5 (1.80%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.08%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.72%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 97 (34.89%) Azure
2 43 (15.47%) AWS
3 40 (14.39%) GitHub
4 35 (12.59%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (11.15%) Serverless
6 28 (10.07%) Power Platform
7 27 (9.71%) Power Automate
8 22 (7.91%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (7.55%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (7.55%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (5.04%) Boomi
10 14 (5.04%) PowerApps
11 13 (4.68%) Azure Logic Apps
11 13 (4.68%) SaaS
12 12 (4.32%) Azure Service Bus
12 12 (4.32%) GCP
12 12 (4.32%) iPaaS
12 12 (4.32%) PaaS
13 11 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.24%) FTP
2 6 (2.16%) Cisco ISE
2 6 (2.16%) Ethernet
2 6 (2.16%) Firewall
2 6 (2.16%) LAN
2 6 (2.16%) SD-WAN
2 6 (2.16%) WAN
3 4 (1.44%) HTTP
4 3 (1.08%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.72%) DNS
5 2 (0.72%) SSL
6 1 (0.36%) DMARC
6 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.36%) VPN
6 1 (0.36%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (19.42%) Relational Database
2 48 (17.27%) SQL Server
3 24 (8.63%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (7.55%) RDBMS
5 19 (6.83%) MySQL
5 19 (6.83%) Power BI
6 15 (5.40%) OLTP
7 10 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (3.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (3.24%) NoSQL
9 7 (2.52%) GIS
10 6 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (2.16%) Redis
11 4 (1.44%) Metadata
11 4 (1.44%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.44%) Power Query
12 3 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.08%) Big Data
12 3 (1.08%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (1.08%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 40 (14.39%) Git
2 29 (10.43%) Jenkins
3 23 (8.27%) JMeter
3 23 (8.27%) JUnit
4 21 (7.55%) Mockito
5 15 (5.40%) JIRA
6 11 (3.96%) Visual Studio
7 7 (2.52%) Selenium
8 6 (2.16%) Axure RP
8 6 (2.16%) MSBuild
8 6 (2.16%) Octopus Deploy
8 6 (2.16%) Postman
8 6 (2.16%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (1.08%) webpack
10 2 (0.72%) Babel
10 2 (0.72%) Crashlytics
10 2 (0.72%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (0.72%) WebDriver
10 2 (0.72%) Xcode
11 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 104 (37.41%) Social Skills
2 49 (17.63%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (16.55%) Law
4 36 (12.95%) Finance
5 33 (11.87%) Retail
6 29 (10.43%) Public Sector
7 16 (5.76%) Marketing
8 9 (3.24%) Legal
9 6 (2.16%) Front Office
10 5 (1.80%) German Language
11 4 (1.44%) Automotive
11 4 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.08%) Publishing
13 2 (0.72%) Banking
13 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.36%) Games
14 1 (0.36%) iGaming
14 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 134 (48.20%) Developer
2 45 (16.19%) Senior
3 40 (14.39%) Senior Developer
4 25 (8.99%) Full-Stack Developer
5 23 (8.27%) Analyst
6 21 (7.55%) Java Developer
7 18 (6.47%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 15 (5.40%) Mid-Level Java Developer
8 15 (5.40%) Oracle Developer
8 15 (5.40%) Senior Oracle Developer
9 14 (5.04%) Architect
9 14 (5.04%) Consultant
10 13 (4.68%) Integration Engineer
10 13 (4.68%) ServiceNow Consultant
11 12 (4.32%) Data Engineer
11 12 (4.32%) Lead
11 12 (4.32%) SQL Developer
11 12 (4.32%) Support Consultant
12 11 (3.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 10 (3.60%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (60.43%) XML
2 127 (45.68%) REST
3 123 (44.24%) HTML
4 64 (23.02%) CSS
5 48 (17.27%) Web Services
6 29 (10.43%) .NET
6 29 (10.43%) React
6 29 (10.43%) SOAP
7 24 (8.63%) RESTful
8 22 (7.91%) jQuery
9 21 (7.55%) ActiveMQ
9 21 (7.55%) Apache Camel
9 21 (7.55%) Hibernate
9 21 (7.55%) Spring
9 21 (7.55%) Spring Boot
9 21 (7.55%) WireMock
10 15 (5.40%) AngularJS
11 14 (5.04%) ASP.NET
11 14 (5.04%) Regular Expression
12 11 (3.96%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.51%) Onboarding
2 25 (8.99%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (8.63%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (5.76%) Low-Code
5 14 (5.04%) Linux Command Line
6 11 (3.96%) Cloud Native
7 10 (3.60%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.60%) Operational Technology
7 10 (3.60%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.52%) Data Centre
9 7 (2.52%) Mobile App
10 6 (2.16%) BYOD
10 6 (2.16%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.08%) Social Media
12 2 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.72%) Blog
12 2 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.72%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.91%) Unix
2 13 (4.68%) Linux
3 5 (1.80%) Android
3 5 (1.80%) Windows
4 3 (1.08%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.08%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (34.89%) Agile
2 85 (30.58%) Problem-Solving
3 64 (23.02%) CI/CD
4 58 (20.86%) DevOps
5 50 (17.99%) Microservices
6 36 (12.95%) Full-Stack Development
7 35 (12.59%) Test Automation
8 34 (12.23%) AI
9 33 (11.87%) SDLC
9 33 (11.87%) Workflow
10 32 (11.51%) ETL
11 30 (10.79%) API Integration
12 29 (10.43%) User Experience
13 28 (10.07%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (9.71%) BDD
14 27 (9.71%) Problem Management
15 26 (9.35%) Analytics
15 26 (9.35%) TDD
16 25 (8.99%) Data Modelling
17 24 (8.63%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 134 (48.20%) JavaScript
2 126 (45.32%) SQL
3 82 (29.50%) Python
4 52 (18.71%) Java
5 50 (17.99%) C#
6 31 (11.15%) PowerShell
7 27 (9.71%) Shell Script
8 16 (5.76%) PL/SQL
9 12 (4.32%) TypeScript
10 10 (3.60%) T-SQL
11 7 (2.52%) PHP
12 5 (1.80%) Go
13 4 (1.44%) Bicep
14 3 (1.08%) C++
14 3 (1.08%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.72%) Ruby
15 2 (0.72%) Swift
16 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.36%) Bash
Qualifications
1 30 (10.79%) Degree
2 24 (8.63%) Security Cleared
3 9 (3.24%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.44%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.72%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.72%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.36%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.36%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.99%) QA
2 17 (6.12%) GDPR
3 15 (5.40%) Data Quality
4 14 (5.04%) Accessibility
5 12 (4.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (3.24%) NCSC
6 9 (3.24%) NIST
7 3 (1.08%) HL7
8 1 (0.36%) DICOM
System Software
1 48 (17.27%) Docker
2 6 (2.16%) VMware NSX
3 3 (1.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (13.67%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.55%) Kibana
3 11 (3.96%) Terraform
4 9 (3.24%) Ansible
5 6 (2.16%) FortiGate
5 6 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.36%) Grafana
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.36%) Packer
Vendors
1 41 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.35%) Oracle
2 26 (9.35%) ServiceNow
3 22 (7.91%) Splunk
4 21 (7.55%) Dynatrace
5 13 (4.68%) Cisco
6 11 (3.96%) Google
7 10 (3.60%) MuleSoft
8 9 (3.24%) SAP
9 8 (2.88%) Informatica
10 7 (2.52%) Dell
10 7 (2.52%) Salesforce
10 7 (2.52%) SnapLogic
11 6 (2.16%) Blue Coat
11 6 (2.16%) CheckPoint
11 6 (2.16%) F5
11 6 (2.16%) Intapp
11 6 (2.16%) Trayport
11 6 (2.16%) VMware
11 6 (2.16%) Workday