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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 337 300
Rank change year-on-year -85 -37 -39
Permanent jobs citing JSON 318 355 802
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.82% 0.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.46% 4.44% 4.68%
Number of salaries quoted 242 271 598
10th Percentile £33,300 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £79,189 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £89,875 £87,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £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 9,199 7,999 17,133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.54% 18.50% 19.30%
Number of salaries quoted 7,054 5,414 13,650
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £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 £103,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -9.77%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -36 111 £75,000 +7.14% 44
South East -26 93 £55,000 -15.38% 27
North of England -23 48 £55,000 - 16
East of England -23 30 £90,000 +89.47% 3
North West -8 29 £62,500 +13.64% 13
South West -69 15 £50,000 -16.67% 9
Yorkshire -18 14 £42,750 +5.56% 2
Midlands -41 13 £47,500 -20.17% 12
West Midlands -26 7 £43,000 -27.12% 5
East Midlands -30 6 £52,500 -12.50% 7
North East -45 5 £45,000 -41.94% 1
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 (8.49%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (3.46%) Confluence
4 10 (3.14%) IIS
5 8 (2.52%) CMS
6 7 (2.20%) Apache
6 7 (2.20%) WordPress
7 5 (1.57%) Drupal
8 4 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.63%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.31%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.31%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.94%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.94%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.63%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.31%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.31%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.31%) Magento
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 146 (45.91%) Azure
2 81 (25.47%) AWS
3 62 (19.50%) Power Platform
4 46 (14.47%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (14.47%) Azure Logic Apps
5 43 (13.52%) Microsoft 365
6 32 (10.06%) Serverless
7 26 (8.18%) PowerApps
7 26 (8.18%) SaaS
8 25 (7.86%) Power Automate
9 23 (7.23%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (7.23%) Azure Data Factory
10 20 (6.29%) Dynamics 365
10 20 (6.29%) GitHub
11 19 (5.97%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (5.97%) OneDrive
12 16 (5.03%) Boomi
13 14 (4.40%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (3.77%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.29%) Firewall
2 7 (2.20%) DNS
2 7 (2.20%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.89%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (1.89%) HTTP
4 5 (1.57%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.94%) BGP
5 3 (0.94%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.94%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (0.94%) SSL
6 2 (0.63%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.63%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.63%) LAN
6 2 (0.63%) MQTT
6 2 (0.63%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.63%) WAN
7 1 (0.31%) Broadband
7 1 (0.31%) FTP
7 1 (0.31%) RTP
7 1 (0.31%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (15.41%) Power BI
2 42 (13.21%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (9.12%) SQL Server
4 26 (8.18%) MySQL
5 22 (6.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 21 (6.60%) Relational Database
7 20 (6.29%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (5.66%) Metadata
9 17 (5.35%) Redis
10 12 (3.77%) RDBMS
11 10 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.89%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.57%) Delta Lake
14 4 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (1.26%) Power Query
15 3 (0.94%) DynamoDB
15 3 (0.94%) Parquet
15 3 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
15 3 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 2 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 54 (16.98%) Git
2 38 (11.95%) JIRA
3 25 (7.86%) Jenkins
4 24 (7.55%) GitLab
5 10 (3.14%) JUnit
5 10 (3.14%) Postman
6 9 (2.83%) Selenium
7 8 (2.52%) ERwin
7 8 (2.52%) Maven
8 7 (2.20%) Cucumber
8 7 (2.20%) JMeter
8 7 (2.20%) Mockito
9 6 (1.89%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.57%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.57%) Gradle
10 5 (1.57%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.57%) Visual Studio
10 5 (1.57%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.26%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.26%) Bitbucket
General
1 145 (45.60%) Social Skills
2 90 (28.30%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (16.67%) Finance
4 24 (7.55%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (4.72%) Retail
6 14 (4.40%) Advertising
6 14 (4.40%) Marketing
7 13 (4.09%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.14%) Law
9 8 (2.52%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.20%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.89%) Health Technology
12 5 (1.57%) Back Office
13 4 (1.26%) Aviation
13 4 (1.26%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.94%) Banking
14 3 (0.94%) Local Government
14 3 (0.94%) Publishing
15 2 (0.63%) Billing
Job Titles
1 111 (34.91%) Developer
2 68 (21.38%) Senior
3 44 (13.84%) Senior Developer
4 29 (9.12%) Analyst
5 25 (7.86%) Architect
6 20 (6.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (6.29%) Support Engineer
7 19 (5.97%) Data Analyst
8 17 (5.35%) .NET Developer
8 17 (5.35%) Software Engineer
9 15 (4.72%) Software Developer
10 14 (4.40%) Integration Engineer
10 14 (4.40%) Lead
11 13 (4.09%) Applications Engineer
11 13 (4.09%) Automation Engineer
11 13 (4.09%) Consultant
11 13 (4.09%) Data Engineer
11 13 (4.09%) Full-Stack Developer
11 13 (4.09%) Integration Architect
11 13 (4.09%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (40.57%) XML
2 114 (35.85%) REST
3 86 (27.04%) HTML
4 74 (23.27%) .NET
4 74 (23.27%) CSS
5 44 (13.84%) SOAP
6 43 (13.52%) .NET Core
7 42 (13.21%) RESTful
8 36 (11.32%) Middleware
9 33 (10.38%) ASP.NET
10 31 (9.75%) YAML
11 26 (8.18%) JWT
12 24 (7.55%) React
13 21 (6.60%) HTML5 Canvas
14 20 (6.29%) Microsoft Graph
15 19 (5.97%) SPFx
16 18 (5.66%) .NET Framework
16 18 (5.66%) HTML5
16 18 (5.66%) OAuth
17 17 (5.35%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.43%) Onboarding
2 24 (7.55%) Data Structures
3 22 (6.92%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (6.29%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (6.29%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (5.66%) Cloud Native
6 12 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.83%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (2.83%) Robotics
8 8 (2.52%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.20%) Driving Licence
9 7 (2.20%) e-Learning
9 7 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.20%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.89%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.26%) Taxonomies
12 3 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.94%) PKI
12 3 (0.94%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 50 (15.72%) Linux
2 38 (11.95%) Windows
3 15 (4.72%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.89%) Unix
6 4 (1.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (29.56%) Agile
2 93 (29.25%) DevOps
3 92 (28.93%) CI/CD
3 92 (28.93%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (16.98%) Microservices
5 53 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 46 (14.47%) User Experience
7 45 (14.15%) Containerisation
8 43 (13.52%) Business Intelligence
9 40 (12.58%) Test Automation
10 39 (12.26%) Infrastructure as Code
11 38 (11.95%) API Integration
12 33 (10.38%) AI
13 32 (10.06%) API Design
13 32 (10.06%) Software Engineering
14 31 (9.75%) Analytics
14 31 (9.75%) Roadmaps
15 30 (9.43%) ERP
15 30 (9.43%) Integration Patterns
15 30 (9.43%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 148 (46.54%) SQL
2 111 (34.91%) JavaScript
3 105 (33.02%) Python
4 79 (24.84%) C#
5 48 (15.09%) Java
6 42 (13.21%) PowerShell
7 25 (7.86%) TypeScript
8 17 (5.35%) T-SQL
9 15 (4.72%) C++
10 14 (4.40%) PHP
10 14 (4.40%) Ruby
11 13 (4.09%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.89%) Groovy
13 5 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (1.26%) Bash
14 4 (1.26%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.26%) VBA
15 3 (0.94%) Bicep
15 3 (0.94%) Perl
16 2 (0.63%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 41 (12.89%) Degree
2 35 (11.01%) Security Cleared
3 25 (7.86%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.52%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.89%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.94%) CISSP
9 2 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.63%) CASP
9 2 (0.63%) CCSP
9 2 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.63%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.31%) ISEB
10 1 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.69%) QA
2 23 (7.23%) Accessibility
3 19 (5.97%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.77%) TickIT
5 11 (3.46%) SLA
6 10 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (2.20%) WCAG
8 6 (1.89%) GDPR
9 4 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.94%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.94%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.31%) PERC
11 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (13.84%) Docker
2 15 (4.72%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.20%) vSphere
4 4 (1.26%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (9.43%) Terraform
2 26 (8.18%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.77%) Ansible
4 6 (1.89%) Kibana
5 4 (1.26%) Packer
6 2 (0.63%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.31%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.31%) QRadar
Vendors
1 100 (31.45%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.55%) Adobe
3 16 (5.03%) Cisco
4 15 (4.72%) Splunk
5 14 (4.40%) Red Hat
6 11 (3.46%) Google
7 9 (2.83%) Palo Alto
7 9 (2.83%) VMware
8 8 (2.52%) F5
8 8 (2.52%) Oracle
9 7 (2.20%) Dynatrace
9 7 (2.20%) SAP
9 7 (2.20%) Sparx
10 6 (1.89%) Juniper
10 6 (1.89%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.57%) IBM
11 5 (1.57%) MuleSoft
12 4 (1.26%) AppDynamics
12 4 (1.26%) Databricks
13 3 (0.94%) OpenAI