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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 376 331
Rank change year-on-year -73 -45 -108
Permanent jobs citing JSON 339 279 553
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.33% 0.65% 0.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.15% 3.73% 3.79%
Number of salaries quoted 230 211 349
10th Percentile £35,325 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,526 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £80,938 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,625 £83,750 £85,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,375 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.52% -7.12% -

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 10,753 7,475 14,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.40% 17.37% 21.60%
Number of salaries quoted 7,821 4,934 9,202
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,135 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.47%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £113,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -9 135 £75,000 +7.14% 194
South East -54 77 £55,000 -15.38% 52
North of England -42 55 £61,250 +11.36% 38
North West -32 31 £62,500 +13.64% 20
Midlands -38 30 £55,000 +15.79% 29
East of England -51 22 £90,000 +63.64% 18
West Midlands -31 21 £62,500 +31.58% 19
Yorkshire -12 20 £44,000 -11.56% 15
South West -74 17 £52,500 -6.67% 26
East Midlands -31 9 £54,000 -10.00% 10
North East -64 4 £38,000 -15.56% 4
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 31 (9.14%) SharePoint
2 19 (5.60%) Confluence
3 16 (4.72%) IIS
4 12 (3.54%) Apache
5 10 (2.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (2.36%) CMS
7 7 (2.06%) WordPress
8 6 (1.77%) Drupal
9 3 (0.88%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.88%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.59%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.29%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.29%) JBoss
11 1 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.29%) Umbraco
Applications
1 21 (6.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.18%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.88%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.59%) Lightworks
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.59%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.29%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.29%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.29%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 147 (43.36%) Azure
2 85 (25.07%) AWS
3 63 (18.58%) Power Platform
4 59 (17.40%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (14.16%) Azure Logic Apps
6 44 (12.98%) Serverless
7 33 (9.73%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (9.73%) Power Automate
8 28 (8.26%) Dynamics 365
9 26 (7.67%) PowerApps
10 25 (7.37%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (7.08%) GitHub
12 23 (6.78%) Azure Data Factory
13 17 (5.01%) Azure Functions
14 16 (4.72%) Boomi
14 16 (4.72%) SaaS
15 14 (4.13%) Amazon S3
16 13 (3.83%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
16 13 (3.83%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.24%) TCP/IP
2 8 (2.36%) HTTP
3 7 (2.06%) Firewall
3 7 (2.06%) Wireshark
4 6 (1.77%) DNS
5 3 (0.88%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.88%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (0.88%) Wireless
6 2 (0.59%) MQTT
6 2 (0.59%) VPN
7 1 (0.29%) Broadband
7 1 (0.29%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.29%) FTP
7 1 (0.29%) Network Security
7 1 (0.29%) RTP
7 1 (0.29%) RTSP
7 1 (0.29%) SCTP
7 1 (0.29%) SS7
7 1 (0.29%) VoIP
7 1 (0.29%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (12.39%) Power BI
2 41 (12.09%) SQL Server
3 40 (11.80%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (5.90%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (5.90%) Redis
4 20 (5.90%) Relational Database
5 19 (5.60%) MySQL
6 17 (5.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 16 (4.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (2.95%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.36%) Metadata
10 7 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (2.06%) Parquet
10 7 (2.06%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.77%) NoSQL
12 5 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.18%) DynamoDB
13 4 (1.18%) Power Query
14 3 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 68 (20.06%) Git
2 40 (11.80%) JIRA
3 29 (8.55%) Jenkins
4 17 (5.01%) Selenium
5 16 (4.72%) GitLab
5 16 (4.72%) Postman
6 13 (3.83%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.83%) JMeter
7 8 (2.36%) JUnit
8 7 (2.06%) Maven
9 6 (1.77%) Mockito
9 6 (1.77%) SoapUI
9 6 (1.77%) Visual Studio
10 5 (1.47%) Gatling
10 5 (1.47%) Gradle
10 5 (1.47%) Jasmine
10 5 (1.47%) Mocha
10 5 (1.47%) NUnit
10 5 (1.47%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.47%) Zephyr
General
1 151 (44.54%) Social Skills
2 86 (25.37%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (18.88%) Finance
4 31 (9.14%) Organisational Skills
5 27 (7.96%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.72%) Retail
7 15 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (3.83%) Banking
8 13 (3.83%) Legal
8 13 (3.83%) Marketing
9 12 (3.54%) Law
10 11 (3.24%) Advertising
11 7 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.06%) Health Technology
12 6 (1.77%) Aviation
12 6 (1.77%) Back Office
12 6 (1.77%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.47%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.88%) Local Government
14 3 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 135 (39.82%) Developer
2 83 (24.48%) Senior
3 44 (12.98%) Senior Developer
4 28 (8.26%) .NET Developer
4 28 (8.26%) Analyst
5 23 (6.78%) Architect
5 23 (6.78%) Lead
6 22 (6.49%) Software Engineer
7 17 (5.01%) Integration Engineer
8 16 (4.72%) Data Engineer
8 16 (4.72%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (4.72%) Ruby Developer
8 16 (4.72%) Software Developer
8 16 (4.72%) Web Developer
9 15 (4.42%) Support Engineer
10 14 (4.13%) Full-Stack Developer
11 13 (3.83%) .NET Web Developer
11 13 (3.83%) Integration Architect
11 13 (3.83%) Senior Integration Engineer
12 11 (3.24%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (39.23%) XML
2 116 (34.22%) REST
3 85 (25.07%) HTML
4 80 (23.60%) .NET
5 73 (21.53%) CSS
6 50 (14.75%) RESTful
7 45 (13.27%) .NET Core
7 45 (13.27%) SOAP
8 40 (11.80%) ASP.NET
9 31 (9.14%) Middleware
10 29 (8.55%) JWT
11 28 (8.26%) Terraform
12 26 (7.67%) .NET Framework
13 25 (7.37%) React
14 22 (6.49%) YAML
15 21 (6.19%) AngularJS
15 21 (6.19%) Blazor
16 20 (5.90%) HTML5
17 18 (5.31%) Razor View Engine
18 17 (5.01%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.08%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.90%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (5.90%) Onboarding
4 17 (5.01%) Management Information System
5 16 (4.72%) Analytical Mindset
6 15 (4.42%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (4.13%) Product Ownership
8 13 (3.83%) Taxonomies
9 11 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (3.24%) Robotics
10 9 (2.65%) Enterprise Cloud
11 8 (2.36%) Driving Licence
12 7 (2.06%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.77%) AI Agents
13 6 (1.77%) Low-Code
13 6 (1.77%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.77%) Virtual Team
14 5 (1.47%) Data Structures
14 5 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 52 (15.34%) Windows
2 47 (13.86%) Linux
3 19 (5.60%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.59%) Android
6 2 (0.59%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.29%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (39.82%) Agile
2 118 (34.81%) DevOps
3 112 (33.04%) CI/CD
4 105 (30.97%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (17.99%) Test Automation
6 56 (16.52%) AI
7 53 (15.63%) Microservices
8 50 (14.75%) Mentoring
9 48 (14.16%) User Experience
10 47 (13.86%) Software Engineering
11 46 (13.57%) Scrum
12 43 (12.68%) Data Modelling
12 43 (12.68%) Roadmaps
13 35 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (10.32%) Validation
14 34 (10.03%) CRM
14 34 (10.03%) Translating Business Requirements
15 33 (9.73%) Analytics
15 33 (9.73%) Business Intelligence
15 33 (9.73%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 144 (42.48%) SQL
2 116 (34.22%) JavaScript
3 91 (26.84%) C#
4 89 (26.25%) Python
5 45 (13.27%) Java
6 27 (7.96%) PowerShell
7 21 (6.19%) C++
8 17 (5.01%) Ruby
8 17 (5.01%) TypeScript
9 12 (3.54%) PHP
9 12 (3.54%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.24%) T-SQL
11 10 (2.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.77%) VBA
13 5 (1.47%) Groovy
14 4 (1.18%) XPath
15 3 (0.88%) Bash
15 3 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.88%) Perl
16 2 (0.59%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 42 (12.39%) Degree
2 37 (10.91%) Security Cleared
3 29 (8.55%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.24%) Azure Certification
4 11 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (2.95%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (1.77%) ISTQB
7 5 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.47%) ISEB
8 4 (1.18%) CISSP
9 3 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (0.88%) CCNP
9 3 (0.88%) CCSP
10 2 (0.59%) CASP
10 2 (0.59%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.59%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.59%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (13.57%) Accessibility
2 44 (12.98%) QA
3 23 (6.78%) Data Quality
4 19 (5.60%) WCAG
5 13 (3.83%) GDPR
6 12 (3.54%) TickIT
7 7 (2.06%) SLA
8 4 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.88%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.88%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.59%) Basel III
10 2 (0.59%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.29%) Dublin Core
11 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.29%) PERC
System Software
1 49 (14.45%) Docker
2 6 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.47%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.18%) vSphere
5 2 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.29%) NFS
6 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (7.08%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.83%) Ansible
3 7 (2.06%) Kibana
4 6 (1.77%) Grafana
5 4 (1.18%) Packer
6 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.29%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.29%) logstash
7 1 (0.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 115 (33.92%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.01%) Adobe
2 17 (5.01%) Google
3 12 (3.54%) Splunk
4 10 (2.95%) IBM
4 10 (2.95%) SAP
5 9 (2.65%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.06%) Oracle
7 6 (1.77%) MuleSoft
7 6 (1.77%) VMware
8 5 (1.47%) Databricks
8 5 (1.47%) Pega
9 4 (1.18%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.18%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.88%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.88%) Cisco
10 3 (0.88%) McAfee
10 3 (0.88%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.88%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.88%) ServiceNow