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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 306 249
Rank change year-on-year -106 -57 +37
Permanent jobs citing JSON 249 355 904
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.97% 1.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.42% 4.43% 5.47%
Number of salaries quoted 177 290 727
10th Percentile £41,050 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,960 £46,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -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 7,279 8,007 16,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.47% 21.77% 21.20%
Number of salaries quoted 5,544 6,015 13,870
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,296 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -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 29 March 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 29 March 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 -45 90 £72,500 - 65
South East -72 59 £56,250 -1.32% 44
East of England +16 54 £55,000 +15.79% 25
North of England -58 21 £55,000 +4.76% 33
North West -26 15 £55,000 +2.33% 15
Midlands -48 13 £48,750 -8.02% 15
West Midlands -28 8 £47,500 -11.53% 6
East Midlands -47 5 £54,000 +3.35% 9
South West -56 5 £34,500 -42.50% 3
Yorkshire -59 4 £55,750 +17.37% 15
North East -22 2 £46,250 -40.32% 3
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 19 (7.63%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.41%) Confluence
4 5 (2.01%) Anypoint
5 4 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.80%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.40%) Apache
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.40%) CICS
7 1 (0.40%) CMS
7 1 (0.40%) IIS
7 1 (0.40%) JBoss
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.20%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.20%) Trello
3 1 (0.40%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.40%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (2.01%) Shopify
2 3 (1.20%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.80%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.40%) Magento
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 92 (36.95%) Azure
2 43 (17.27%) AWS
2 43 (17.27%) Power Platform
3 26 (10.44%) Power Automate
4 25 (10.04%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (8.03%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (8.03%) GitHub
6 17 (6.83%) SaaS
7 16 (6.43%) PowerApps
8 15 (6.02%) GCP
8 15 (6.02%) Serverless
9 14 (5.62%) Azure Logic Apps
10 13 (5.22%) Boomi
11 12 (4.82%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (4.42%) OpenShift
13 10 (4.02%) Apigee
13 10 (4.02%) PaaS
14 9 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (3.61%) iPaaS
15 8 (3.21%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.43%) Firewall
2 7 (2.81%) FTP
3 6 (2.41%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (2.41%) VPN
4 4 (1.61%) DNS
4 4 (1.61%) SSL
5 3 (1.20%) AMQP
5 3 (1.20%) BGP
5 3 (1.20%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.80%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.80%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.80%) LAN
6 2 (0.80%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.80%) WAN
7 1 (0.40%) CTI
7 1 (0.40%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (15.66%) Power BI
2 32 (12.85%) SQL Server
3 27 (10.84%) Relational Database
4 26 (10.44%) MySQL
5 21 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (6.83%) Metadata
7 14 (5.62%) RDBMS
8 11 (4.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (4.02%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.41%) Electronic Patient Records
10 6 (2.41%) OLTP
11 4 (1.61%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.20%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (1.20%) Data Mining
12 3 (1.20%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.20%) Power Query
12 3 (1.20%) Redis
12 3 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (10.04%) Git
2 16 (6.43%) JIRA
3 13 (5.22%) GitLab
4 12 (4.82%) Jenkins
5 10 (4.02%) JUnit
6 9 (3.61%) Postman
7 7 (2.81%) ERwin
7 7 (2.81%) Mockito
8 6 (2.41%) Selenium
9 5 (2.01%) JMeter
9 5 (2.01%) SpecFlow
9 5 (2.01%) Visual Studio
9 5 (2.01%) WebDriver
10 4 (1.61%) Maven
11 3 (1.20%) Axure RP
12 2 (0.80%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.80%) Browser DevTools
12 2 (0.80%) Crashlytics
13 1 (0.40%) Gradle
13 1 (0.40%) utPLSQL
General
1 96 (38.55%) Social Skills
2 54 (21.69%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (14.86%) Finance
4 27 (10.84%) Law
5 16 (6.43%) Telecoms
6 15 (6.02%) German Language
7 14 (5.62%) Retail
8 13 (5.22%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.81%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.81%) Health Technology
9 7 (2.81%) Legal
10 6 (2.41%) Marketing
10 6 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.20%) Advertising
11 3 (1.20%) Publishing
12 2 (0.80%) Electronics
12 2 (0.80%) Front Office
12 2 (0.80%) Local Government
12 2 (0.80%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 90 (36.14%) Developer
2 37 (14.86%) Senior
3 30 (12.05%) Senior Developer
4 27 (10.84%) Analyst
5 17 (6.83%) Data Analyst
5 17 (6.83%) Java Developer
6 16 (6.43%) Consultant
7 13 (5.22%) Architect
8 11 (4.42%) Automation Engineer
8 11 (4.42%) Data Engineer
8 11 (4.42%) Network Engineer
8 11 (4.42%) Support Engineer
8 11 (4.42%) Telecoms Engineer
9 10 (4.02%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (4.02%) Integration Engineer
10 9 (3.61%) Applications Support
10 9 (3.61%) Oracle Developer
10 9 (3.61%) Senior Oracle Developer
11 8 (3.21%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 8 (3.21%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (58.23%) XML
2 96 (38.55%) REST
3 81 (32.53%) HTML
4 33 (13.25%) SOAP
5 32 (12.85%) CSS
5 32 (12.85%) Regular Expression
6 29 (11.65%) .NET
7 26 (10.44%) Web Services
8 23 (9.24%) RESTful
9 20 (8.03%) Spring
9 20 (8.03%) YAML
10 18 (7.23%) React
10 18 (7.23%) Spring Boot
11 12 (4.82%) .NET Core
11 12 (4.82%) Node.js
11 12 (4.82%) OAuth
12 11 (4.42%) Hibernate
12 11 (4.42%) Jinja
12 11 (4.42%) Swagger
13 9 (3.61%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 47 (18.88%) Onboarding
2 36 (14.46%) Linux Command Line
3 30 (12.05%) Data Structures
4 23 (9.24%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (6.43%) Low-Code
6 12 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (2.81%) e-Learning
9 6 (2.41%) NHS
10 5 (2.01%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.61%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.61%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.20%) PMI
12 3 (1.20%) Reference Data
12 3 (1.20%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.20%) Semantic Web
12 3 (1.20%) Social Media
13 2 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 42 (16.87%) Unix
2 26 (10.44%) Linux
3 7 (2.81%) Windows
4 3 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.80%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.40%) Android
6 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.40%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (26.10%) Agile
2 56 (22.49%) CI/CD
3 55 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (20.88%) AI
5 50 (20.08%) Business Intelligence
6 47 (18.88%) DevOps
7 40 (16.06%) Data Modelling
8 37 (14.86%) Data Analysis
9 29 (11.65%) LLM
9 29 (11.65%) Validation
10 27 (10.84%) Analytics
10 27 (10.84%) Containerisation
10 27 (10.84%) Microservices
10 27 (10.84%) User Experience
11 26 (10.44%) API Integration
12 25 (10.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (9.64%) Test Automation
14 22 (8.84%) Task Automation
15 21 (8.43%) Collaborative Culture
15 21 (8.43%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 127 (51.00%) SQL
2 99 (39.76%) Python
3 84 (33.73%) JavaScript
4 51 (20.48%) Java
5 33 (13.25%) C#
6 29 (11.65%) PowerShell
7 15 (6.02%) TypeScript
8 14 (5.62%) T-SQL
9 13 (5.22%) Shell Script
10 12 (4.82%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.41%) PHP
12 4 (1.61%) Bicep
13 3 (1.20%) ActionScript
13 3 (1.20%) ActionScript 2.0
13 3 (1.20%) Ruby
14 2 (0.80%) Bash
14 2 (0.80%) C++
14 2 (0.80%) R
15 1 (0.40%) COBOL
15 1 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 53 (21.29%) Degree
2 23 (9.24%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (5.22%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.61%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.20%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.20%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (1.20%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.63%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.43%) QA
3 15 (6.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.42%) GDPR
5 8 (3.21%) Accessibility
5 8 (3.21%) HL7
6 6 (2.41%) SLA
7 5 (2.01%) NCSC
7 5 (2.01%) NIST
8 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (11.24%) Docker
2 11 (4.42%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.20%) vSphere
4 2 (0.80%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.40%) iptables
Systems Management
1 22 (8.84%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.21%) Ansible
3 7 (2.81%) Terraform
4 6 (2.41%) Kibana
5 2 (0.80%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.40%) Grafana
6 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (16.47%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.24%) Oracle
3 16 (6.43%) Cisco
4 13 (5.22%) SAP
5 11 (4.42%) Red Hat
6 10 (4.02%) Splunk
7 9 (3.61%) Palo Alto
8 8 (3.21%) Adobe
8 8 (3.21%) F5
8 8 (3.21%) Google
9 7 (2.81%) Dell
9 7 (2.81%) Intapp
9 7 (2.81%) MuleSoft
9 7 (2.81%) Sparx
9 7 (2.81%) Talend
10 6 (2.41%) IBM
10 6 (2.41%) IFS
10 6 (2.41%) Juniper
10 6 (2.41%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.41%) Workday