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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 309 222
Rank change year-on-year -60 -87 +29
Permanent jobs citing JSON 246 436 717
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 0.90% 1.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.97% 4.20% 5.94%
Number of salaries quoted 181 284 590
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £49,750 £42,500 £51,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £81,750 £86,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% -6.40%

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 6,192 10,388 12,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.85% 21.51% 24.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,759 6,104 10,139
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,087 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 11 January 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 January 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 -13 89 £75,000 +7.14% 36
East of England +45 54 £55,000 -13.73% 23
South East -55 54 £56,250 -13.46% 56
North of England -4 25 £55,000 +4.76% 31
Midlands -3 23 £47,500 -9.52% 16
North West +19 17 £55,000 - 17
West Midlands +16 17 £47,500 -11.53% 6
East Midlands -13 6 £60,000 +17.07% 10
Yorkshire -37 4 £56,750 +8.10% 10
North East - 4 £45,000 - 4
South West -11 1 £60,000 +20.00% 21
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 9 (3.66%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.44%) Confluence
3 5 (2.03%) Anypoint
3 5 (2.03%) CMS
4 3 (1.22%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.81%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.81%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.41%) Apache
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.41%) Appian
6 1 (0.41%) CICS
6 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.41%) IIS
6 1 (0.41%) JBoss
6 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.85%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.22%) Trello
4 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.44%) NetSuite
1 6 (2.44%) Shopify
2 3 (1.22%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 73 (29.67%) Azure
2 35 (14.23%) AWS
3 26 (10.57%) GitHub
4 25 (10.16%) Power Platform
5 23 (9.35%) Power Automate
6 22 (8.94%) Serverless
7 21 (8.54%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (6.50%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (6.10%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (6.10%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (6.10%) Boomi
10 14 (5.69%) GCP
11 13 (5.28%) PowerApps
12 12 (4.88%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (4.88%) PaaS
12 12 (4.88%) SaaS
13 11 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (4.07%) iPaaS
15 7 (2.85%) Azure Data Factory
16 6 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.66%) FTP
2 7 (2.85%) VPN
3 4 (1.63%) Cisco ISE
3 4 (1.63%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.63%) Firewall
3 4 (1.63%) LAN
3 4 (1.63%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.63%) WAN
4 3 (1.22%) DNS
4 3 (1.22%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.81%) AMQP
6 1 (0.41%) DHCP
6 1 (0.41%) HTTP
6 1 (0.41%) SSL
6 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.41%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (18.29%) Relational Database
2 33 (13.41%) SQL Server
3 20 (8.13%) MySQL
4 18 (7.32%) Power BI
5 16 (6.50%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (5.69%) RDBMS
7 11 (4.47%) OLTP
8 10 (4.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (3.66%) NoSQL
10 6 (2.44%) Electronic Patient Records
10 6 (2.44%) Metadata
11 5 (2.03%) GIS
12 3 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.22%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (1.22%) Power Query
12 3 (1.22%) Redis
12 3 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.81%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 20 (8.13%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.69%) JMeter
2 14 (5.69%) JUnit
3 13 (5.28%) Git
3 13 (5.28%) Mockito
4 12 (4.88%) JIRA
5 9 (3.66%) Postman
6 6 (2.44%) Axure RP
7 5 (2.03%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.81%) Crashlytics
8 2 (0.81%) Selenium
9 1 (0.41%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.41%) GitLab
9 1 (0.41%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.41%) Subversion
9 1 (0.41%) Testinfra
9 1 (0.41%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.41%) Xcode
General
1 89 (36.18%) Social Skills
2 40 (16.26%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (15.45%) Law
4 36 (14.63%) Finance
5 29 (11.79%) Retail
6 21 (8.54%) Public Sector
7 15 (6.10%) German Language
8 10 (4.07%) Marketing
9 6 (2.44%) Health Technology
9 6 (2.44%) Legal
9 6 (2.44%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.63%) Automotive
11 3 (1.22%) Electronics
11 3 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.22%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.81%) Banking
12 2 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.81%) Publishing
13 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 107 (43.50%) Developer
2 36 (14.63%) Senior
3 32 (13.01%) Senior Developer
4 22 (8.94%) Analyst
5 17 (6.91%) Java Developer
6 16 (6.50%) Consultant
7 15 (6.10%) Full-Stack Developer
8 13 (5.28%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 13 (5.28%) Oracle Developer
8 13 (5.28%) Senior Oracle Developer
9 12 (4.88%) ServiceNow Developer
10 11 (4.47%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 11 (4.47%) Technical Consultant
11 10 (4.07%) Architect
11 10 (4.07%) Data Engineer
11 10 (4.07%) Integration Engineer
11 10 (4.07%) Support Engineer
12 8 (3.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 8 (3.25%) Lead
13 7 (2.85%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (61.79%) XML
2 104 (42.28%) REST
3 98 (39.84%) HTML
4 36 (14.63%) Web Services
5 34 (13.82%) CSS
6 29 (11.79%) Regular Expression
7 28 (11.38%) SOAP
8 24 (9.76%) React
9 21 (8.54%) Spring
9 21 (8.54%) Spring Boot
10 16 (6.50%) Hibernate
11 15 (6.10%) jQuery
12 13 (5.28%) ActiveMQ
12 13 (5.28%) Apache Camel
12 13 (5.28%) WireMock
13 12 (4.88%) .NET
13 12 (4.88%) AngularJS
13 12 (4.88%) OAuth
14 11 (4.47%) RESTful
15 10 (4.07%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (18.70%) Onboarding
2 35 (14.23%) Linux Command Line
3 17 (6.91%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (6.50%) Low-Code
4 16 (6.50%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (4.47%) Data Structures
6 10 (4.07%) Operational Technology
7 7 (2.85%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.44%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.44%) NHS
9 4 (1.63%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.63%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.63%) Semantic Web
10 3 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.22%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.22%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.22%) Social Media
11 2 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.81%) PMI
11 2 (0.81%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (14.63%) Unix
2 15 (6.10%) Linux
3 3 (1.22%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.22%) Windows
4 1 (0.41%) Android
4 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (30.08%) Agile
2 70 (28.46%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (21.14%) CI/CD
4 45 (18.29%) AI
5 42 (17.07%) DevOps
6 35 (14.23%) LLM
7 32 (13.01%) Data Analysis
8 31 (12.60%) ETL
9 30 (12.20%) Business Intelligence
10 29 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (10.57%) Test Automation
12 25 (10.16%) Analytics
12 25 (10.16%) API Integration
12 25 (10.16%) User Experience
13 24 (9.76%) Microservices
13 24 (9.76%) Problem Management
13 24 (9.76%) SDLC
13 24 (9.76%) Workflow
14 23 (9.35%) Validation
15 21 (8.54%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 109 (44.31%) SQL
2 100 (40.65%) JavaScript
3 83 (33.74%) Python
4 45 (18.29%) Java
5 30 (12.20%) C#
6 28 (11.38%) PowerShell
7 18 (7.32%) Shell Script
8 13 (5.28%) PL/SQL
9 10 (4.07%) T-SQL
10 6 (2.44%) TypeScript
11 5 (2.03%) PHP
12 4 (1.63%) Bicep
13 3 (1.22%) ActionScript
13 3 (1.22%) ActionScript 2.0
14 2 (0.81%) Bash
14 2 (0.81%) C++
14 2 (0.81%) Ruby
15 1 (0.41%) COBOL
15 1 (0.41%) Korn
15 1 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 43 (17.48%) Degree
2 21 (8.54%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.07%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.81%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.81%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (0.81%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.41%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.41%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.50%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.69%) QA
3 10 (4.07%) Accessibility
4 9 (3.66%) GDPR
4 9 (3.66%) HL7
4 9 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (3.25%) NCSC
5 8 (3.25%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (13.41%) Docker
2 4 (1.63%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.41%) iptables
Systems Management
1 29 (11.79%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.28%) Kibana
3 10 (4.07%) Ansible
4 9 (3.66%) Terraform
5 5 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.63%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.41%) Grafana
7 1 (0.41%) Packer
7 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (12.60%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.94%) Oracle
3 19 (7.72%) ServiceNow
4 14 (5.69%) Splunk
5 13 (5.28%) Dynatrace
5 13 (5.28%) SAP
6 11 (4.47%) Google
7 10 (4.07%) MuleSoft
8 9 (3.66%) Cisco
8 9 (3.66%) Dell
9 8 (3.25%) Salesforce
10 7 (2.85%) Informatica
10 7 (2.85%) SnapLogic
10 7 (2.85%) Talend
11 6 (2.44%) IBM
11 6 (2.44%) Intapp
11 6 (2.44%) Workday
12 5 (2.03%) IFS
12 5 (2.03%) Software AG
12 5 (2.03%) TIBCO