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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 337 303
Rank change year-on-year -79 -34 -49
Permanent jobs citing JSON 327 348 708
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.80% 0.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.51% 4.42% 4.78%
Number of salaries quoted 246 263 535
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,400 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £79,189 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £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 9,312 7,882 14,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.43% 18.20% 18.88%
Number of salaries quoted 7,093 5,329 11,571
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
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 £88,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 25 July 2026.

Salary histogram for JSON in England

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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 25 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 -40 115 £75,000 +11.11% 50
South East -38 92 £55,000 -15.38% 31
North of England -16 50 £55,000 - 9
North West -9 30 £62,500 +13.64% 6
East of England -25 29 £90,000 +89.47% 7
Midlands -39 17 £47,500 -20.83% 13
South West -67 17 £50,000 -11.11% 8
Yorkshire -29 15 £42,750 +5.56% 3
West Midlands -26 10 £45,000 -25.00% 10
East Midlands -30 7 £53,250 -5.75% 3
North East - 5 £45,000 -
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 28 (8.56%) SharePoint
2 15 (4.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (3.98%) Confluence
4 10 (3.06%) IIS
5 9 (2.75%) Apache
6 8 (2.45%) CMS
7 7 (2.14%) WordPress
8 5 (1.53%) Drupal
9 4 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.61%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.61%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.31%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.31%) JBoss
11 1 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (4.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.92%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.92%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.61%) 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 (0.61%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 148 (45.26%) Azure
2 88 (26.91%) AWS
3 62 (18.96%) Power Platform
4 48 (14.68%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (14.37%) Azure Logic Apps
6 41 (12.54%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (9.48%) Serverless
8 27 (8.26%) PowerApps
9 26 (7.95%) Power Automate
10 24 (7.34%) SaaS
11 23 (7.03%) Azure Data Factory
11 23 (7.03%) GitHub
12 22 (6.73%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (6.12%) Dynamics 365
14 19 (5.81%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 19 (5.81%) OneDrive
15 16 (4.89%) Boomi
16 13 (3.98%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (3.98%) AWS CloudFormation
17 12 (3.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.42%) Firewall
2 7 (2.14%) DNS
2 7 (2.14%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.83%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (1.83%) HTTP
4 5 (1.53%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.92%) BGP
5 3 (0.92%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.92%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (0.92%) SSL
6 2 (0.61%) MQTT
6 2 (0.61%) Wireless
7 1 (0.31%) Broadband
7 1 (0.31%) CTI
7 1 (0.31%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.31%) LAN
7 1 (0.31%) RTP
7 1 (0.31%) SS7
7 1 (0.31%) VoIP
7 1 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (14.98%) Power BI
2 45 (13.76%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (8.87%) SQL Server
4 25 (7.65%) MySQL
5 24 (7.34%) Relational Database
6 20 (6.12%) Azure SQL Database
6 20 (6.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 19 (5.81%) Redis
8 17 (5.20%) Metadata
9 14 (4.28%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (3.67%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.83%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.53%) Delta Lake
13 4 (1.22%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.22%) DynamoDB
13 4 (1.22%) Power Query
14 3 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.92%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.92%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 58 (17.74%) Git
2 40 (12.23%) JIRA
3 26 (7.95%) GitLab
3 26 (7.95%) Jenkins
4 13 (3.98%) Selenium
5 12 (3.67%) Postman
6 10 (3.06%) Cucumber
6 10 (3.06%) JMeter
7 8 (2.45%) ERwin
7 8 (2.45%) JUnit
8 7 (2.14%) Mockito
9 6 (1.83%) Maven
9 6 (1.83%) WebDriver
10 5 (1.53%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.53%) Gradle
10 5 (1.53%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.53%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.53%) Visual Studio
11 4 (1.22%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.22%) Bitbucket
General
1 147 (44.95%) Social Skills
2 91 (27.83%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (18.04%) Finance
4 27 (8.26%) Organisational Skills
5 14 (4.28%) Advertising
5 14 (4.28%) Marketing
5 14 (4.28%) Retail
6 13 (3.98%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.98%) Telecoms
7 9 (2.75%) Law
8 7 (2.14%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.83%) Banking
9 6 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.83%) Health Technology
10 5 (1.53%) Back Office
10 5 (1.53%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.22%) Aviation
11 4 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.22%) Legal
11 4 (1.22%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 115 (35.17%) Developer
2 72 (22.02%) Senior
3 44 (13.46%) Senior Developer
4 27 (8.26%) Analyst
5 23 (7.03%) Architect
6 19 (5.81%) .NET Developer
6 19 (5.81%) Software Engineer
6 19 (5.81%) Support Engineer
7 18 (5.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (5.20%) Lead
9 16 (4.89%) Automation Engineer
9 16 (4.89%) Data Analyst
9 16 (4.89%) Software Developer
10 15 (4.59%) Data Engineer
10 15 (4.59%) Full-Stack Developer
10 15 (4.59%) Integration Engineer
10 15 (4.59%) Ruby Developer
11 13 (3.98%) Consultant
11 13 (3.98%) Technical Support
11 13 (3.98%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (39.45%) XML
2 109 (33.33%) REST
3 86 (26.30%) HTML
4 80 (24.46%) .NET
5 74 (22.63%) CSS
6 48 (14.68%) RESTful
7 44 (13.46%) .NET Core
8 40 (12.23%) SOAP
9 37 (11.31%) ASP.NET
10 33 (10.09%) Middleware
11 31 (9.48%) YAML
12 28 (8.56%) JWT
13 23 (7.03%) React
14 21 (6.42%) HTML5 Canvas
15 20 (6.12%) .NET Framework
15 20 (6.12%) Microsoft Graph
16 19 (5.81%) SPFx
17 18 (5.50%) HTML5
17 18 (5.50%) OAuth
18 17 (5.20%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.56%) Onboarding
2 22 (6.73%) Data Structures
2 22 (6.73%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.12%) Analytical Mindset
4 19 (5.81%) Cloud Native
5 18 (5.50%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (4.89%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.75%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (2.75%) Robotics
8 8 (2.45%) Driving Licence
8 8 (2.45%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.45%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.14%) e-Learning
9 7 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.14%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.22%) PKI
10 4 (1.22%) Social Media
10 4 (1.22%) Taxonomies
11 3 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 52 (15.90%) Linux
2 41 (12.54%) Windows
3 15 (4.59%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.83%) Unix
6 4 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.31%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (33.33%) Agile
2 101 (30.89%) DevOps
3 99 (30.28%) CI/CD
4 94 (28.75%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (17.74%) Microservices
6 53 (16.21%) Data Modelling
7 48 (14.68%) Containerisation
7 48 (14.68%) Test Automation
8 47 (14.37%) User Experience
9 43 (13.15%) Business Intelligence
10 39 (11.93%) Infrastructure as Code
11 37 (11.31%) API Integration
11 37 (11.31%) Scrum
12 36 (11.01%) Software Engineering
13 35 (10.70%) AI
13 35 (10.70%) Mentoring
14 33 (10.09%) Analytics
14 33 (10.09%) API Design
15 31 (9.48%) Roadmaps
16 30 (9.17%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 146 (44.65%) SQL
2 114 (34.86%) JavaScript
3 108 (33.03%) Python
4 86 (26.30%) C#
5 49 (14.98%) Java
6 41 (12.54%) PowerShell
7 26 (7.95%) TypeScript
8 17 (5.20%) C++
9 16 (4.89%) Ruby
10 15 (4.59%) T-SQL
11 14 (4.28%) PHP
11 14 (4.28%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.53%) Groovy
13 4 (1.22%) Bash
13 4 (1.22%) VBA
14 3 (0.92%) Bicep
14 3 (0.92%) Perl
14 3 (0.92%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.61%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 42 (12.84%) Degree
2 34 (10.40%) Security Cleared
3 24 (7.34%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.06%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.22%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.92%) CISSP
9 3 (0.92%) ISEB
9 3 (0.92%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.61%) CASP
10 2 (0.61%) CCNP
10 2 (0.61%) CCSP
10 2 (0.61%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.61%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (10.70%) QA
2 25 (7.65%) Accessibility
3 20 (6.12%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.67%) TickIT
5 10 (3.06%) SLA
6 8 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (2.14%) WCAG
8 6 (1.83%) GDPR
9 4 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.92%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.92%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.61%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.31%) PERC
System Software
1 48 (14.68%) Docker
2 13 (3.98%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.14%) vSphere
4 4 (1.22%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (8.56%) Terraform
2 26 (7.95%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.98%) Ansible
4 6 (1.83%) Kibana
5 4 (1.22%) Packer
6 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.31%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.31%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.31%) QRadar
Vendors
1 102 (31.19%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.34%) Adobe
3 17 (5.20%) Cisco
4 15 (4.59%) Splunk
5 14 (4.28%) Red Hat
6 12 (3.67%) Google
7 11 (3.36%) Oracle
8 9 (2.75%) F5
8 9 (2.75%) Palo Alto
9 8 (2.45%) SAP
9 8 (2.45%) VMware
10 7 (2.14%) Dynatrace
10 7 (2.14%) IBM
10 7 (2.14%) Sparx
11 6 (1.83%) Databricks
11 6 (1.83%) Juniper
11 6 (1.83%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.53%) MuleSoft
13 4 (1.22%) AppDynamics
13 4 (1.22%) Pega