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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 341 305
Rank change year-on-year -85 -36 -35
Permanent jobs citing JSON 304 335 820
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.84% 0.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.42% 4.29% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 227 261 613
10th Percentile £35,250 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £79,336 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £83,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.40% +4.58% -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 8,888 7,806 18,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.51% 19.47% 19.37%
Number of salaries quoted 6,789 5,269 14,726
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,978 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,340 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.02% +10.57% -11.11%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -24 111 £75,000 +11.11% 43
South East -29 84 £60,000 -7.69% 31
North of England -21 49 £55,000 - 16
North West +1 30 £62,500 +13.64% 11
East of England -20 29 £90,000 +89.47% 4
Yorkshire -35 14 £42,750 +5.56% 4
South West -72 14 £52,500 -12.50% 8
Midlands -36 9 £47,500 -19.49% 10
West Midlands -23 5 £43,000 -24.56% 4
North East -38 5 £45,000 -41.94% 1
East Midlands -30 4 £47,500 -20.83% 6
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 (8.88%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (3.29%) Confluence
4 9 (2.96%) IIS
5 8 (2.63%) CMS
6 7 (2.30%) Apache
6 7 (2.30%) WordPress
7 5 (1.64%) Drupal
8 4 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.66%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.66%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.33%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.33%) JBoss
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 13 (4.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.99%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.99%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.33%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.33%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.33%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.33%) Magento
2 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 141 (46.38%) Azure
2 78 (25.66%) AWS
3 60 (19.74%) Power Platform
4 43 (14.14%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (14.14%) Azure Logic Apps
5 42 (13.82%) Microsoft 365
6 33 (10.86%) Serverless
7 26 (8.55%) SaaS
8 25 (8.22%) PowerApps
9 24 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
9 24 (7.89%) Power Automate
10 23 (7.57%) Azure Data Factory
11 19 (6.25%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (6.25%) GitHub
11 19 (6.25%) OneDrive
12 16 (5.26%) Boomi
13 15 (4.93%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (4.61%) GCP
15 13 (4.28%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.25%) Firewall
2 6 (1.97%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (1.97%) DNS
3 5 (1.64%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.32%) HTTP
4 4 (1.32%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.99%) BGP
5 3 (0.99%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.99%) SSL
6 2 (0.66%) AMQP
6 2 (0.66%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.66%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.66%) LAN
6 2 (0.66%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.66%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.66%) VPN
6 2 (0.66%) WAN
7 1 (0.33%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.33%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.33%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (16.12%) Power BI
2 38 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (9.21%) MySQL
4 23 (7.57%) SQL Server
5 22 (7.24%) Relational Database
5 22 (7.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 20 (6.58%) Azure SQL Database
7 18 (5.92%) Metadata
8 15 (4.93%) Redis
9 12 (3.95%) RDBMS
10 9 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.97%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.64%) Delta Lake
13 4 (1.32%) Power Query
14 3 (0.99%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.99%) Parquet
14 3 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
14 3 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 2 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 51 (16.78%) Git
2 38 (12.50%) JIRA
3 24 (7.89%) Jenkins
4 23 (7.57%) GitLab
5 12 (3.95%) Postman
6 10 (3.29%) JUnit
7 8 (2.63%) ERwin
7 8 (2.63%) Maven
8 7 (2.30%) Mockito
8 7 (2.30%) Selenium
9 6 (1.97%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.97%) JMeter
9 6 (1.97%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.64%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.64%) Gradle
10 5 (1.64%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.64%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.32%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.32%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 142 (46.71%) Social Skills
2 89 (29.28%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (16.78%) Finance
4 22 (7.24%) Organisational Skills
5 17 (5.59%) Retail
6 16 (5.26%) Telecoms
7 14 (4.61%) Advertising
7 14 (4.61%) Marketing
8 10 (3.29%) Law
9 8 (2.63%) Health Technology
10 7 (2.30%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.64%) Back Office
12 5 (1.64%) Public Sector
13 4 (1.32%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.99%) Banking
14 3 (0.99%) Local Government
14 3 (0.99%) Publishing
15 2 (0.66%) Billing
15 2 (0.66%) Legal
Job Titles
1 99 (32.57%) Developer
2 64 (21.05%) Senior
3 45 (14.80%) Senior Developer
4 29 (9.54%) Architect
5 28 (9.21%) Analyst
6 20 (6.58%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (6.58%) Support Engineer
7 19 (6.25%) Data Analyst
8 17 (5.59%) Software Engineer
9 16 (5.26%) Consultant
10 15 (4.93%) Software Developer
11 14 (4.61%) Integration Architect
12 13 (4.28%) Automation Engineer
12 13 (4.28%) Data Engineer
12 13 (4.28%) Java Developer
12 13 (4.28%) Lead
13 12 (3.95%) Technical Support
13 12 (3.95%) Telecoms Engineer
14 11 (3.62%) Applications Architect
14 11 (3.62%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (39.80%) XML
2 116 (38.16%) REST
3 83 (27.30%) HTML
4 70 (23.03%) CSS
5 61 (20.07%) .NET
6 45 (14.80%) SOAP
7 41 (13.49%) .NET Core
8 38 (12.50%) Middleware
9 37 (12.17%) RESTful
10 31 (10.20%) YAML
11 27 (8.88%) JWT
12 23 (7.57%) React
13 22 (7.24%) ASP.NET
14 21 (6.91%) HTML5 Canvas
14 21 (6.91%) OAuth
15 20 (6.58%) Microsoft Graph
16 19 (6.25%) SPFx
17 18 (5.92%) HTML5
18 17 (5.59%) EDI
18 17 (5.59%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.21%) Onboarding
2 24 (7.89%) Data Structures
3 23 (7.57%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (6.58%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (6.58%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (5.92%) Cloud Native
6 10 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.96%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (2.63%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.30%) Driving Licence
9 7 (2.30%) e-Learning
9 7 (2.30%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.30%) Robotics
10 6 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.97%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.32%) Taxonomies
12 3 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.99%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.99%) Security Posture
12 3 (0.99%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 48 (15.79%) Linux
2 33 (10.86%) Windows
3 14 (4.61%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.97%) Unix
5 4 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (29.61%) CI/CD
1 90 (29.61%) DevOps
2 89 (29.28%) Problem-Solving
3 85 (27.96%) Agile
4 54 (17.76%) Data Modelling
4 54 (17.76%) Microservices
5 47 (15.46%) User Experience
6 45 (14.80%) Business Intelligence
7 42 (13.82%) Containerisation
8 38 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 37 (12.17%) API Integration
10 35 (11.51%) Test Automation
11 33 (10.86%) ERP
12 32 (10.53%) Validation
13 31 (10.20%) AI
13 31 (10.20%) Analytics
14 30 (9.87%) API Design
14 30 (9.87%) Integration Patterns
15 29 (9.54%) Roadmaps
16 28 (9.21%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 149 (49.01%) SQL
2 103 (33.88%) JavaScript
3 99 (32.57%) Python
4 65 (21.38%) C#
5 55 (18.09%) Java
6 42 (13.82%) PowerShell
7 25 (8.22%) TypeScript
8 17 (5.59%) PHP
8 17 (5.59%) T-SQL
9 12 (3.95%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.62%) C++
10 11 (3.62%) Ruby
11 6 (1.97%) Groovy
12 5 (1.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.64%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.32%) VBA
14 3 (0.99%) Bash
14 3 (0.99%) Bicep
14 3 (0.99%) Perl
15 2 (0.66%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 38 (12.50%) Degree
2 34 (11.18%) Security Cleared
3 25 (8.22%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.30%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.64%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.99%) CISSP
7 3 (0.99%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.66%) CASP
8 2 (0.66%) CCSP
8 2 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.66%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.66%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.51%) QA
2 21 (6.91%) Accessibility
3 19 (6.25%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.95%) TickIT
5 11 (3.62%) SLA
6 10 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.97%) GDPR
7 6 (1.97%) WCAG
8 4 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.99%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.99%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.66%) HL7
11 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.33%) PERC
11 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (14.47%) Docker
2 14 (4.61%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.97%) vSphere
4 4 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.66%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (9.54%) Kubernetes
1 29 (9.54%) Terraform
2 12 (3.95%) Ansible
3 6 (1.97%) Kibana
4 4 (1.32%) Packer
5 2 (0.66%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.33%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 88 (28.95%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.89%) Adobe
3 16 (5.26%) Cisco
4 15 (4.93%) Splunk
5 13 (4.28%) Red Hat
6 11 (3.62%) Oracle
7 9 (2.96%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.63%) F5
8 8 (2.63%) VMware
9 7 (2.30%) Dynatrace
9 7 (2.30%) Sparx
10 6 (1.97%) Google
10 6 (1.97%) Juniper
10 6 (1.97%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.97%) SAP
11 5 (1.64%) IBM
11 5 (1.64%) MuleSoft
12 4 (1.32%) AppDynamics
12 4 (1.32%) Databricks
13 3 (0.99%) OpenAI