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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 337 306
Rank change year-on-year -77 -31 -29
Permanent jobs citing JSON 293 336 810
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 0.86% 0.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.48% 4.35% 4.62%
Number of salaries quoted 214 267 621
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,526 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,438 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,750 £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 8,431 7,732 17,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.19% 19.80% 19.50%
Number of salaries quoted 6,391 5,234 14,365
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,296 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -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 5 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 5 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 -22 111 £75,000 +11.11% 68
South East -45 75 £60,000 -7.69% 37
North of England -36 50 £55,000 - 23
North West +1 33 £61,250 +11.36% 14
East of England -14 33 £90,000 +89.47% 6
Yorkshire -33 15 £44,000 +8.64% 8
Midlands -47 10 £47,500 -16.67% 12
South West -64 8 £37,500 -37.50% 9
West Midlands -46 6 £41,500 -24.55% 7
East Midlands -29 4 £47,500 -20.83% 5
North East -46 2 £46,250 -40.32% 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 26 (8.87%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (3.07%) IIS
4 8 (2.73%) CMS
5 7 (2.39%) WordPress
6 6 (2.05%) Apache
7 5 (1.71%) Confluence
7 5 (1.71%) Drupal
8 3 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.68%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.68%) 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 11 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.02%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.68%) 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 (0.68%) 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 S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 131 (44.71%) Azure
2 75 (25.60%) AWS
3 57 (19.45%) Power Platform
4 40 (13.65%) Microsoft 365
5 39 (13.31%) Azure Logic Apps
6 36 (12.29%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (11.60%) Serverless
8 24 (8.19%) PowerApps
8 24 (8.19%) SaaS
9 23 (7.85%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (7.85%) Power Automate
10 22 (7.51%) Azure Data Factory
11 19 (6.48%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (6.48%) OneDrive
12 17 (5.80%) Boomi
12 17 (5.80%) Dynamics 365
13 16 (5.46%) GitHub
14 15 (5.12%) Amazon EC2
15 14 (4.78%) Amazon EKS
16 13 (4.44%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.80%) Firewall
2 6 (2.05%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (1.71%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.37%) DNS
4 4 (1.37%) VPN
4 4 (1.37%) Wireshark
5 3 (1.02%) BGP
5 3 (1.02%) FTP
5 3 (1.02%) HTTP
5 3 (1.02%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.02%) SSL
6 2 (0.68%) AMQP
6 2 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.68%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.68%) LAN
6 2 (0.68%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.68%) WAN
7 1 (0.34%) MQTT
7 1 (0.34%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.34%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (16.72%) Power BI
2 36 (12.29%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (10.24%) MySQL
4 22 (7.51%) Relational Database
4 22 (7.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 20 (6.83%) SQL Server
6 19 (6.48%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (5.46%) Metadata
8 13 (4.44%) RDBMS
9 12 (4.10%) Redis
10 7 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.37%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (1.37%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.02%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.02%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (0.68%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.68%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.68%) OLTP
13 2 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 46 (15.70%) Git
2 33 (11.26%) JIRA
3 26 (8.87%) Jenkins
4 22 (7.51%) GitLab
5 12 (4.10%) Postman
6 10 (3.41%) JUnit
7 8 (2.73%) Maven
8 7 (2.39%) ERwin
8 7 (2.39%) Mockito
8 7 (2.39%) Selenium
9 6 (2.05%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.05%) JMeter
9 6 (2.05%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.71%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.71%) Gradle
10 5 (1.71%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.71%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.37%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.37%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.02%) Visual Studio
General
1 132 (45.05%) Social Skills
2 85 (29.01%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (16.72%) Finance
4 21 (7.17%) Organisational Skills
5 19 (6.48%) Retail
6 16 (5.46%) Telecoms
7 15 (5.12%) Marketing
8 13 (4.44%) Advertising
9 10 (3.41%) Health Technology
9 10 (3.41%) Law
10 7 (2.39%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.05%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.71%) Back Office
12 5 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.37%) German Language
14 3 (1.02%) Banking
14 3 (1.02%) Local Government
14 3 (1.02%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.68%) Billing
15 2 (0.68%) Legal
Job Titles
1 94 (32.08%) Developer
2 65 (22.18%) Senior
3 47 (16.04%) Senior Developer
4 26 (8.87%) Analyst
4 26 (8.87%) Architect
5 20 (6.83%) Consultant
5 20 (6.83%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (6.83%) Support Engineer
6 19 (6.48%) Data Analyst
7 15 (5.12%) Java Developer
7 15 (5.12%) Software Engineer
8 13 (4.44%) Automation Engineer
8 13 (4.44%) Lead
9 12 (4.10%) Integration Architect
9 12 (4.10%) Software Developer
10 11 (3.75%) Applications Architect
10 11 (3.75%) Network Engineer
10 11 (3.75%) Telecoms Engineer
11 10 (3.41%) IT Support
11 10 (3.41%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (40.96%) XML
2 114 (38.91%) REST
3 84 (28.67%) HTML
4 64 (21.84%) CSS
5 56 (19.11%) .NET
6 45 (15.36%) SOAP
7 39 (13.31%) .NET Core
8 36 (12.29%) Middleware
9 33 (11.26%) RESTful
10 31 (10.58%) YAML
11 25 (8.53%) JWT
12 23 (7.85%) React
13 21 (7.17%) HTML5 Canvas
13 21 (7.17%) OAuth
14 20 (6.83%) ASP.NET
14 20 (6.83%) Microsoft Graph
15 19 (6.48%) SPFx
15 19 (6.48%) Spring
16 18 (6.14%) EDI
17 17 (5.80%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.56%) Onboarding
2 24 (8.19%) Data Structures
3 23 (7.85%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (7.51%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (4.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 14 (4.78%) Cloud Native
6 9 (3.07%) Enterprise Cloud
6 9 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (3.07%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (2.39%) Driving Licence
7 7 (2.39%) e-Learning
7 7 (2.39%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.39%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.05%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.37%) NHS
9 4 (1.37%) Robotics
9 4 (1.37%) Taxonomies
10 3 (1.02%) PMI
10 3 (1.02%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 45 (15.36%) Linux
2 26 (8.87%) Windows
3 12 (4.10%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.41%) Unix
5 4 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (30.38%) CI/CD
2 85 (29.01%) DevOps
3 83 (28.33%) Problem-Solving
4 78 (26.62%) Agile
5 54 (18.43%) Microservices
6 51 (17.41%) Data Modelling
7 47 (16.04%) Business Intelligence
8 43 (14.68%) User Experience
9 39 (13.31%) Containerisation
10 37 (12.63%) API Integration
10 37 (12.63%) Infrastructure as Code
11 35 (11.95%) ERP
12 34 (11.60%) AI
12 34 (11.60%) Test Automation
13 28 (9.56%) API Design
13 28 (9.56%) Collaborative Working
13 28 (9.56%) CRM
14 27 (9.22%) Mentoring
14 27 (9.22%) Validation
15 26 (8.87%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 145 (49.49%) SQL
2 104 (35.49%) JavaScript
3 99 (33.79%) Python
4 60 (20.48%) Java
5 57 (19.45%) C#
6 40 (13.65%) PowerShell
7 25 (8.53%) TypeScript
8 15 (5.12%) PHP
9 11 (3.75%) T-SQL
10 10 (3.41%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.73%) C++
11 8 (2.73%) PL/SQL
11 8 (2.73%) Ruby
12 6 (2.05%) Groovy
13 4 (1.37%) VBA
14 3 (1.02%) ActionScript
14 3 (1.02%) ActionScript 2.0
14 3 (1.02%) Bash
14 3 (1.02%) Bicep
14 3 (1.02%) Perl
Qualifications
1 41 (13.99%) Degree
2 33 (11.26%) Security Cleared
3 26 (8.87%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.71%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.02%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.02%) CISSP
6 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.02%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (0.68%) CASP
7 2 (0.68%) CCSP
7 2 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.68%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.34%) GIAC
8 1 (0.34%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.24%) QA
2 19 (6.48%) Accessibility
3 14 (4.78%) Data Quality
4 12 (4.10%) TickIT
5 11 (3.75%) SLA
6 10 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (2.05%) GDPR
7 6 (2.05%) WCAG
8 5 (1.71%) HL7
9 4 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.34%) PERC
System Software
1 43 (14.68%) Docker
2 12 (4.10%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.37%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.37%) vSphere
4 2 (0.68%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (10.24%) Kubernetes
2 28 (9.56%) Terraform
3 14 (4.78%) Ansible
4 6 (2.05%) Kibana
5 4 (1.37%) Packer
6 2 (0.68%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.34%) QRadar
Vendors
1 79 (26.96%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.19%) Adobe
3 16 (5.46%) Cisco
4 15 (5.12%) Splunk
5 14 (4.78%) Oracle
6 11 (3.75%) Red Hat
7 9 (3.07%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.73%) F5
9 7 (2.39%) Dynatrace
9 7 (2.39%) Sparx
10 6 (2.05%) Google
10 6 (2.05%) Juniper
10 6 (2.05%) VMware
11 5 (1.71%) IBM
11 5 (1.71%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.71%) SAP
12 4 (1.37%) AppDynamics
12 4 (1.37%) Databricks
12 4 (1.37%) MuleSoft
13 3 (1.02%) Fortinet