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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 346 301
Rank change year-on-year -76 -45 -28
Permanent jobs citing JSON 297 334 823
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.85% 0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.45% 4.28% 4.58%
Number of salaries quoted 219 263 619
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £79,043 £81,250 £72,927
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 8,611 7,804 17,973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.45% 19.85% 19.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6,553 5,236 14,550
10th Percentile £40,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,434 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% +10.72% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,075
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -29 111 £75,000 +11.11% 50
South East -35 79 £60,000 -7.69% 29
North of England -16 49 £55,000 - 16
North West +21 32 £62,500 +13.64% 6
East of England -14 30 £90,000 +89.47% 3
Yorkshire -30 14 £42,750 +5.56% 8
Midlands -35 10 £47,500 -16.67% 15
South West -74 10 £47,500 -20.83% 8
West Midlands -35 6 £41,500 -24.55% 8
East Midlands -35 4 £47,500 -20.83% 7
North East -37 3 £45,000 -41.94% 2
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 26 (8.75%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (3.03%) IIS
4 8 (2.69%) CMS
5 7 (2.36%) Confluence
5 7 (2.36%) WordPress
6 6 (2.02%) Apache
7 5 (1.68%) Drupal
8 3 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.67%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.67%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.34%) JBoss
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 12 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.01%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.67%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.34%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.34%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.34%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.34%) Magento
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 136 (45.79%) Azure
2 75 (25.25%) AWS
3 58 (19.53%) Power Platform
4 42 (14.14%) Azure Logic Apps
5 41 (13.80%) Microsoft 365
6 38 (12.79%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (10.77%) Serverless
8 24 (8.08%) PowerApps
8 24 (8.08%) SaaS
9 23 (7.74%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (7.74%) Power Automate
10 22 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
11 19 (6.40%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (6.40%) OneDrive
12 18 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
13 17 (5.72%) Boomi
13 17 (5.72%) GitHub
14 15 (5.05%) Amazon EC2
15 14 (4.71%) GCP
16 13 (4.38%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.06%) Firewall
2 6 (2.02%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (1.68%) DNS
3 5 (1.68%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.35%) Wireshark
5 3 (1.01%) BGP
5 3 (1.01%) HTTP
5 3 (1.01%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.01%) SSL
5 3 (1.01%) VPN
6 2 (0.67%) AMQP
6 2 (0.67%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.67%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.67%) FTP
6 2 (0.67%) LAN
6 2 (0.67%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.67%) WAN
7 1 (0.34%) MQTT
7 1 (0.34%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.34%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (16.50%) Power BI
2 35 (11.78%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (9.76%) MySQL
4 22 (7.41%) Relational Database
4 22 (7.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 20 (6.73%) SQL Server
6 19 (6.40%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (5.39%) Metadata
8 13 (4.38%) RDBMS
8 13 (4.38%) Redis
9 8 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.68%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.01%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.01%) Electronic Patient Records
12 3 (1.01%) Power Query
12 3 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (0.67%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.67%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 45 (15.15%) Git
2 35 (11.78%) JIRA
3 24 (8.08%) Jenkins
4 22 (7.41%) GitLab
5 12 (4.04%) Postman
6 10 (3.37%) JUnit
7 8 (2.69%) ERwin
7 8 (2.69%) Maven
8 7 (2.36%) Mockito
8 7 (2.36%) Selenium
9 6 (2.02%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.02%) JMeter
9 6 (2.02%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.68%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.68%) Gradle
10 5 (1.68%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.68%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.35%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.35%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.01%) Visual Studio
General
1 137 (46.13%) Social Skills
2 87 (29.29%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (16.84%) Finance
4 21 (7.07%) Organisational Skills
5 18 (6.06%) Retail
6 15 (5.05%) Telecoms
7 14 (4.71%) Advertising
7 14 (4.71%) Marketing
8 10 (3.37%) Law
9 9 (3.03%) Health Technology
10 7 (2.36%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.68%) Back Office
11 5 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.68%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.01%) Banking
12 3 (1.01%) Local Government
13 2 (0.67%) Billing
13 2 (0.67%) German Language
13 2 (0.67%) Legal
13 2 (0.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 94 (31.65%) Developer
2 65 (21.89%) Senior
3 46 (15.49%) Senior Developer
4 28 (9.43%) Architect
5 27 (9.09%) Analyst
6 20 (6.73%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (6.73%) Support Engineer
7 19 (6.40%) Consultant
7 19 (6.40%) Data Analyst
8 16 (5.39%) Software Engineer
9 13 (4.38%) Automation Engineer
9 13 (4.38%) Integration Architect
9 13 (4.38%) Java Developer
9 13 (4.38%) Lead
9 13 (4.38%) Software Developer
10 11 (3.70%) Applications Architect
10 11 (3.70%) Network Engineer
10 11 (3.70%) Technical Support
10 11 (3.70%) Telecoms Engineer
11 10 (3.37%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (40.07%) XML
2 116 (39.06%) REST
3 83 (27.95%) HTML
4 66 (22.22%) CSS
5 57 (19.19%) .NET
6 45 (15.15%) SOAP
7 40 (13.47%) .NET Core
8 36 (12.12%) Middleware
9 34 (11.45%) RESTful
10 31 (10.44%) YAML
11 26 (8.75%) JWT
12 22 (7.41%) OAuth
12 22 (7.41%) React
13 21 (7.07%) HTML5 Canvas
14 20 (6.73%) ASP.NET
14 20 (6.73%) Microsoft Graph
15 19 (6.40%) SPFx
16 18 (6.06%) EDI
17 17 (5.72%) HTML5
17 17 (5.72%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.43%) Onboarding
2 24 (8.08%) Data Structures
3 23 (7.74%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (6.73%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (5.72%) Analytical Mindset
6 15 (5.05%) Cloud Native
7 10 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (3.03%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (2.36%) Driving Licence
9 7 (2.36%) e-Learning
9 7 (2.36%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.36%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (2.02%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.68%) Robotics
12 4 (1.35%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.35%) Taxonomies
13 3 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (1.01%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 46 (15.49%) Linux
2 29 (9.76%) Windows
3 13 (4.38%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.69%) Unix
5 5 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (29.63%) CI/CD
2 85 (28.62%) DevOps
2 85 (28.62%) Problem-Solving
3 80 (26.94%) Agile
4 53 (17.85%) Data Modelling
4 53 (17.85%) Microservices
5 45 (15.15%) Business Intelligence
5 45 (15.15%) User Experience
6 40 (13.47%) Containerisation
7 38 (12.79%) API Integration
8 37 (12.46%) Infrastructure as Code
9 35 (11.78%) ERP
10 34 (11.45%) Test Automation
11 33 (11.11%) AI
12 30 (10.10%) Analytics
13 29 (9.76%) API Design
13 29 (9.76%) CRM
14 28 (9.43%) Collaborative Working
14 28 (9.43%) Mentoring
14 28 (9.43%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 146 (49.16%) SQL
2 104 (35.02%) JavaScript
3 98 (33.00%) Python
4 60 (20.20%) C#
5 57 (19.19%) Java
6 41 (13.80%) PowerShell
7 25 (8.42%) TypeScript
8 16 (5.39%) PHP
9 13 (4.38%) T-SQL
10 11 (3.70%) Shell Script
11 9 (3.03%) C++
11 9 (3.03%) Ruby
12 7 (2.36%) PL/SQL
13 6 (2.02%) Groovy
14 4 (1.35%) VBA
15 3 (1.01%) ActionScript
15 3 (1.01%) ActionScript 2.0
15 3 (1.01%) Bash
15 3 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (1.01%) Perl
Qualifications
1 40 (13.47%) Degree
2 33 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 25 (8.42%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.02%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.35%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.01%) CISSP
7 3 (1.01%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (1.01%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.67%) CASP
8 2 (0.67%) CCSP
8 2 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.67%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (11.11%) QA
2 20 (6.73%) Accessibility
3 16 (5.39%) Data Quality
4 12 (4.04%) TickIT
5 11 (3.70%) SLA
6 10 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (2.02%) GDPR
7 6 (2.02%) WCAG
8 4 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.35%) HL7
9 2 (0.67%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.67%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.34%) PERC
System Software
1 41 (13.80%) Docker
2 13 (4.38%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.68%) vSphere
4 4 (1.35%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (9.43%) Kubernetes
1 28 (9.43%) Terraform
2 12 (4.04%) Ansible
3 6 (2.02%) Kibana
4 4 (1.35%) Packer
5 2 (0.67%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.34%) QRadar
Vendors
1 81 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.08%) Adobe
3 16 (5.39%) Cisco
4 15 (5.05%) Splunk
5 14 (4.71%) Oracle
6 12 (4.04%) Red Hat
7 9 (3.03%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.69%) F5
9 7 (2.36%) Dynatrace
9 7 (2.36%) Sparx
9 7 (2.36%) VMware
10 6 (2.02%) Google
10 6 (2.02%) Juniper
10 6 (2.02%) Salesforce
10 6 (2.02%) SAP
11 5 (1.68%) IBM
11 5 (1.68%) MuleSoft
12 4 (1.35%) AppDynamics
12 4 (1.35%) Databricks
13 3 (1.01%) Fortinet