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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 305 245
Rank change year-on-year -108 -60 +32
Permanent jobs citing JSON 248 383 896
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 1.01% 1.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.46% 4.57% 5.50%
Number of salaries quoted 178 297 717
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £35,768
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,225 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -11.11%

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 7,162 8,384 16,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.58% 22.09% 21.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5,455 6,012 13,733
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -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 22 March 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 22 March 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 -55 89 £72,500 - 64
South East -70 62 £55,000 - 45
East of England +22 50 £55,000 +10.00% 24
North of England -65 22 £55,000 +4.76% 31
North West -26 15 £55,000 -4.35% 14
Midlands -58 14 £47,500 -10.96% 13
West Midlands -17 9 £47,500 -12.59% 6
East Midlands -49 5 £54,000 +3.35% 7
South West -48 4 £37,500 -37.50% 7
Yorkshire -49 4 £55,750 +17.37% 15
North East -26 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 17 (6.85%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.42%) Confluence
4 5 (2.02%) Anypoint
5 4 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.81%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.40%) Apache
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.40%) CICS
7 1 (0.40%) CMS
7 1 (0.40%) IIS
7 1 (0.40%) JBoss
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.02%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.21%) Trello
4 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.40%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.40%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (2.02%) Shopify
2 3 (1.21%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.81%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.40%) Magento
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 92 (37.10%) Azure
2 43 (17.34%) AWS
3 41 (16.53%) Power Platform
4 24 (9.68%) Power Automate
5 23 (9.27%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (8.87%) GitHub
7 20 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (6.45%) SaaS
8 16 (6.45%) Serverless
9 15 (6.05%) GCP
10 14 (5.65%) PowerApps
11 13 (5.24%) Boomi
12 12 (4.84%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (4.44%) OpenShift
14 10 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (4.03%) Apigee
14 10 (4.03%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (4.03%) PaaS
15 9 (3.63%) iPaaS
16 8 (3.23%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.85%) Firewall
2 7 (2.82%) FTP
3 6 (2.42%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (2.42%) VPN
4 4 (1.61%) DNS
5 3 (1.21%) AMQP
5 3 (1.21%) BGP
5 3 (1.21%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (1.21%) Ethernet
5 3 (1.21%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.21%) LAN
5 3 (1.21%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.21%) SSL
5 3 (1.21%) WAN
6 1 (0.40%) CTI
6 1 (0.40%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (14.92%) Power BI
2 32 (12.90%) SQL Server
3 28 (11.29%) Relational Database
4 26 (10.48%) MySQL
5 22 (8.87%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (6.45%) Metadata
7 14 (5.65%) RDBMS
8 11 (4.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.42%) Electronic Patient Records
10 6 (2.42%) OLTP
11 4 (1.61%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.21%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (1.21%) Data Mining
12 3 (1.21%) Power Query
12 3 (1.21%) Redis
12 3 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (10.89%) Git
2 14 (5.65%) JIRA
3 13 (5.24%) GitLab
3 13 (5.24%) Jenkins
4 11 (4.44%) JUnit
5 9 (3.63%) Postman
6 8 (3.23%) Mockito
7 6 (2.42%) ERwin
7 6 (2.42%) JMeter
7 6 (2.42%) Selenium
8 5 (2.02%) Axure RP
8 5 (2.02%) SpecFlow
8 5 (2.02%) Visual Studio
8 5 (2.02%) WebDriver
9 4 (1.61%) Maven
10 2 (0.81%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.81%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.81%) Crashlytics
11 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.40%) utPLSQL
General
1 93 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 53 (21.37%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (14.52%) Finance
4 27 (10.89%) Law
5 16 (6.45%) Retail
5 16 (6.45%) Telecoms
6 15 (6.05%) German Language
7 14 (5.65%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.82%) Legal
9 6 (2.42%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.42%) Health Technology
9 6 (2.42%) Marketing
10 4 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.21%) Advertising
11 3 (1.21%) Publishing
12 2 (0.81%) Electronics
12 2 (0.81%) Front Office
12 2 (0.81%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.40%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 91 (36.69%) Developer
2 35 (14.11%) Senior
3 28 (11.29%) Senior Developer
4 27 (10.89%) Analyst
5 18 (7.26%) Java Developer
6 17 (6.85%) Data Analyst
7 15 (6.05%) Consultant
8 14 (5.65%) Architect
9 11 (4.44%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (4.44%) Data Engineer
9 11 (4.44%) Network Engineer
9 11 (4.44%) Support Engineer
9 11 (4.44%) Telecoms Engineer
10 10 (4.03%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (4.03%) Integration Engineer
11 9 (3.63%) Oracle Developer
11 9 (3.63%) Senior Oracle Developer
12 8 (3.23%) Applications Support
12 8 (3.23%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 8 (3.23%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (58.87%) XML
2 98 (39.52%) REST
3 80 (32.26%) HTML
4 32 (12.90%) Regular Expression
4 32 (12.90%) SOAP
5 30 (12.10%) CSS
6 27 (10.89%) Web Services
7 26 (10.48%) .NET
8 23 (9.27%) RESTful
9 21 (8.47%) Spring
10 20 (8.06%) YAML
11 19 (7.66%) React
11 19 (7.66%) Spring Boot
12 12 (4.84%) Hibernate
12 12 (4.84%) Node.js
13 11 (4.44%) Jinja
13 11 (4.44%) OAuth
13 11 (4.44%) Swagger
14 10 (4.03%) .NET Core
15 9 (3.63%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 47 (18.95%) Onboarding
2 36 (14.52%) Linux Command Line
3 29 (11.69%) Data Structures
4 23 (9.27%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (6.45%) Low-Code
6 13 (5.24%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.42%) e-Learning
8 6 (2.42%) NHS
9 5 (2.02%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.02%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.61%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.21%) PMI
11 3 (1.21%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.21%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.21%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.21%) Semantic Web
11 3 (1.21%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 42 (16.94%) Unix
2 26 (10.48%) Linux
3 7 (2.82%) Windows
4 3 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.81%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.40%) Android
6 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.40%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (27.02%) Agile
2 57 (22.98%) CI/CD
3 55 (22.18%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (20.97%) AI
5 47 (18.95%) Business Intelligence
5 47 (18.95%) DevOps
6 39 (15.73%) Data Modelling
7 37 (14.92%) Data Analysis
8 29 (11.69%) LLM
8 29 (11.69%) Validation
9 28 (11.29%) Microservices
10 27 (10.89%) Containerisation
11 26 (10.48%) Analytics
11 26 (10.48%) API Integration
11 26 (10.48%) User Experience
12 25 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (9.68%) Test Automation
14 22 (8.87%) Task Automation
15 21 (8.47%) ETL
16 20 (8.06%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 124 (50.00%) SQL
2 100 (40.32%) Python
3 83 (33.47%) JavaScript
4 52 (20.97%) Java
5 31 (12.50%) C#
6 28 (11.29%) PowerShell
7 14 (5.65%) Shell Script
7 14 (5.65%) T-SQL
8 13 (5.24%) TypeScript
9 12 (4.84%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.42%) PHP
11 4 (1.61%) Bicep
12 3 (1.21%) ActionScript
12 3 (1.21%) ActionScript 2.0
12 3 (1.21%) Ruby
13 2 (0.81%) Bash
13 2 (0.81%) C++
13 2 (0.81%) R
14 1 (0.40%) COBOL
14 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 50 (20.16%) Degree
2 25 (10.08%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (5.65%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.61%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.21%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.21%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.21%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.66%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.45%) QA
3 15 (6.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.44%) GDPR
5 10 (4.03%) Accessibility
6 8 (3.23%) HL7
7 5 (2.02%) NCSC
7 5 (2.02%) NIST
8 4 (1.61%) SLA
9 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (11.69%) Docker
2 11 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.21%) VMware NSX
3 3 (1.21%) vSphere
4 1 (0.40%) iptables
Systems Management
1 23 (9.27%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.63%) Ansible
3 8 (3.23%) Terraform
4 7 (2.82%) Kibana
5 3 (1.21%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.40%) Grafana
6 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (15.32%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.27%) Oracle
3 17 (6.85%) Cisco
4 13 (5.24%) SAP
5 11 (4.44%) Red Hat
6 10 (4.03%) Splunk
7 9 (3.63%) F5
7 9 (3.63%) Google
7 9 (3.63%) Palo Alto
8 7 (2.82%) Dell
8 7 (2.82%) Intapp
8 7 (2.82%) MuleSoft
8 7 (2.82%) Talend
9 6 (2.42%) Adobe
9 6 (2.42%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.42%) IBM
9 6 (2.42%) Juniper
9 6 (2.42%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.42%) Sparx
9 6 (2.42%) VMware