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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 351 299
Rank change year-on-year -97 -52 -61
Permanent jobs citing JSON 335 322 617
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.34% 0.74% 0.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.12% 4.03% 4.15%
Number of salaries quoted 238 240 439
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £83,750
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 10,724 7,997 14,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.04% 18.27% 20.82%
Number of salaries quoted 7,963 5,346 10,433
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,442 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +6.83% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,438 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -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 1 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 1 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 -31 126 £75,000 +15.38% 170
South East -49 79 £55,000 -15.38% 50
North of England -25 55 £55,000 - 39
North West -17 31 £62,500 +13.64% 26
East of England -46 27 £90,000 +71.43% 36
Midlands -38 25 £54,000 +7.46% 25
Yorkshire -23 19 £44,000 -31.25% 10
South West -67 19 £52,500 -6.67% 30
West Midlands -20 16 £53,750 +13.16% 18
East Midlands -18 9 £54,000 -10.00% 7
North East - 5 £45,000 - 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 30 (8.96%) SharePoint
2 19 (5.67%) Confluence
3 12 (3.58%) IIS
4 11 (3.28%) Apache
5 9 (2.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (2.39%) CMS
7 6 (1.79%) WordPress
8 5 (1.49%) Drupal
9 3 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.90%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.90%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.60%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.60%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.30%) JBoss
11 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 21 (6.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.19%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.90%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.60%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.30%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.30%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.60%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.30%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.30%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 150 (44.78%) Azure
2 87 (25.97%) AWS
3 61 (18.21%) Power Platform
4 55 (16.42%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (14.63%) Azure Logic Apps
6 35 (10.45%) Microsoft 365
7 32 (9.55%) Power Automate
8 31 (9.25%) PowerApps
8 31 (9.25%) Serverless
9 25 (7.46%) Azure Data Factory
10 23 (6.87%) GitHub
11 21 (6.27%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (6.27%) Dynamics 365
12 19 (5.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.67%) OneDrive
12 19 (5.67%) SaaS
13 18 (5.37%) GCP
14 16 (4.78%) Boomi
15 13 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.18%) Firewall
2 10 (2.99%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.09%) DNS
4 6 (1.79%) HTTP
4 6 (1.79%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.90%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (0.90%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.90%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (0.90%) SSL
5 3 (0.90%) Wireless
6 2 (0.60%) MQTT
6 2 (0.60%) VPN
7 1 (0.30%) BGP
7 1 (0.30%) Broadband
7 1 (0.30%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.30%) FTP
7 1 (0.30%) SCTP
7 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.30%) VoIP
7 1 (0.30%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (14.03%) Power BI
2 42 (12.54%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (8.66%) SQL Server
4 22 (6.57%) Azure SQL Database
5 21 (6.27%) Redis
6 20 (5.97%) Relational Database
7 19 (5.67%) Data Warehouse
8 18 (5.37%) MySQL
9 16 (4.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 13 (3.88%) Metadata
11 8 (2.39%) RDBMS
12 6 (1.79%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.49%) MongoDB
14 4 (1.19%) Delta Lake
14 4 (1.19%) DynamoDB
14 4 (1.19%) NoSQL
14 4 (1.19%) Power Query
15 3 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
15 3 (0.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.90%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 63 (18.81%) Git
2 45 (13.43%) JIRA
3 28 (8.36%) Jenkins
4 22 (6.57%) GitLab
5 16 (4.78%) Selenium
6 13 (3.88%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.88%) Postman
7 12 (3.58%) JMeter
8 8 (2.39%) JUnit
9 7 (2.09%) Maven
9 7 (2.09%) Mockito
10 6 (1.79%) SoapUI
11 5 (1.49%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.49%) Gatling
11 5 (1.49%) Gradle
11 5 (1.49%) Jasmine
11 5 (1.49%) Mocha
11 5 (1.49%) NUnit
11 5 (1.49%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 157 (46.87%) Social Skills
2 88 (26.27%) Analytical Skills
3 60 (17.91%) Finance
4 33 (9.85%) Organisational Skills
5 19 (5.67%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.48%) Retail
7 14 (4.18%) Marketing
8 12 (3.58%) Advertising
9 10 (2.99%) Legal
10 9 (2.69%) Banking
10 9 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.69%) Law
11 8 (2.39%) Health Technology
11 8 (2.39%) Telecoms
12 7 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.79%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.49%) Back Office
14 5 (1.49%) Local Government
15 4 (1.19%) Aviation
16 3 (0.90%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 123 (36.72%) Developer
2 80 (23.88%) Senior
3 43 (12.84%) Senior Developer
4 25 (7.46%) Analyst
5 23 (6.87%) Architect
6 22 (6.57%) .NET Developer
6 22 (6.57%) Software Engineer
7 21 (6.27%) Lead
8 18 (5.37%) Integration Engineer
8 18 (5.37%) Support Engineer
9 17 (5.07%) Ruby Developer
10 16 (4.78%) DevOps Engineer
10 16 (4.78%) Software Developer
11 14 (4.18%) Data Engineer
11 14 (4.18%) Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (4.18%) Technical Support
11 14 (4.18%) Web Developer
12 13 (3.88%) Senior Integration Engineer
13 12 (3.58%) Automation Engineer
13 12 (3.58%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (36.42%) XML
2 110 (32.84%) REST
3 88 (26.27%) HTML
4 83 (24.78%) .NET
5 76 (22.69%) CSS
6 49 (14.63%) .NET Core
6 49 (14.63%) RESTful
7 43 (12.84%) SOAP
8 40 (11.94%) ASP.NET
9 32 (9.55%) Middleware
10 30 (8.96%) JWT
11 27 (8.06%) Terraform
11 27 (8.06%) YAML
12 24 (7.16%) React
13 23 (6.87%) .NET Framework
13 23 (6.87%) HTML5 Canvas
14 20 (5.97%) Microsoft Graph
15 19 (5.67%) Blazor
15 19 (5.67%) Razor View Engine
15 19 (5.67%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.57%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (6.27%) Onboarding
3 20 (5.97%) Cloud Native
4 19 (5.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 19 (5.67%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (5.67%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (3.58%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.28%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.99%) Data Structures
7 10 (2.99%) Driving Licence
7 10 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (2.69%) Enterprise Cloud
8 9 (2.69%) Robotics
9 7 (2.09%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.79%) Taxonomies
11 5 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.49%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.19%) PKI
12 4 (1.19%) Social Media
13 3 (0.90%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 47 (14.03%) Linux
2 44 (13.13%) Windows
3 16 (4.78%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.90%) Unix
7 2 (0.60%) Android
7 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.30%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (37.31%) Agile
2 110 (32.84%) DevOps
3 108 (32.24%) CI/CD
4 104 (31.04%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (16.72%) Test Automation
5 56 (16.72%) User Experience
6 54 (16.12%) Microservices
7 47 (14.03%) Scrum
8 43 (12.84%) Containerisation
8 43 (12.84%) Mentoring
8 43 (12.84%) Software Engineering
9 40 (11.94%) Business Intelligence
9 40 (11.94%) Data Modelling
10 38 (11.34%) AI
10 38 (11.34%) Roadmaps
11 35 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 34 (10.15%) Clean Code
13 33 (9.85%) API Integration
13 33 (9.85%) Infrastructure as Code
14 31 (9.25%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 137 (40.90%) SQL
2 113 (33.73%) JavaScript
3 89 (26.57%) C#
4 87 (25.97%) Python
5 42 (12.54%) Java
6 32 (9.55%) PowerShell
7 23 (6.87%) TypeScript
8 18 (5.37%) C++
8 18 (5.37%) Ruby
9 12 (3.58%) PHP
9 12 (3.58%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.28%) T-SQL
11 8 (2.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.49%) Groovy
12 5 (1.49%) VBA
13 3 (0.90%) Bash
13 3 (0.90%) Perl
14 2 (0.60%) Lua
14 2 (0.60%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.60%) XPath
Qualifications
1 44 (13.13%) Degree
2 31 (9.25%) Security Cleared
3 24 (7.16%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.99%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.09%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.79%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.49%) ISEB
9 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.90%) CCNP
10 3 (0.90%) CISSP
10 3 (0.90%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.60%) A+ Certification
11 2 (0.60%) CCSP
11 2 (0.60%) CompTIA CySA+
11 2 (0.60%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.60%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (13.13%) QA
2 36 (10.75%) Accessibility
3 17 (5.07%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.58%) TickIT
4 12 (3.58%) WCAG
5 11 (3.28%) SLA
6 7 (2.09%) GDPR
7 4 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.90%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.90%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.30%) Basel III
10 1 (0.30%) Dublin Core
10 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.30%) PERC
System Software
1 52 (15.52%) Docker
2 5 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.49%) vSphere
3 4 (1.19%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (7.76%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.88%) Ansible
3 5 (1.49%) Grafana
3 5 (1.49%) Kibana
4 4 (1.19%) Packer
5 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.30%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 106 (31.64%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.46%) Adobe
3 17 (5.07%) Google
4 14 (4.18%) Splunk
5 10 (2.99%) Cisco
5 10 (2.99%) SAP
6 9 (2.69%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.39%) IBM
7 8 (2.39%) Oracle
8 7 (2.09%) Databricks
8 7 (2.09%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.79%) F5
9 6 (1.79%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.49%) Pega
10 5 (1.49%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.49%) VMware
11 4 (1.19%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.19%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.90%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.90%) Sparx