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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 376 312
Rank change year-on-year -56 -64 -78
Permanent jobs citing JSON 336 295 588
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.34% 0.69% 0.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.15% 3.86% 4.04%
Number of salaries quoted 237 222 417
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,375 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £83,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.88% +1.25% -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 10,673 7,634 14,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.95% 17.78% 20.86%
Number of salaries quoted 7,933 5,045 10,133
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -26 127 £75,000 +15.38% 198
South East -52 77 £55,000 -15.38% 56
North of England -31 56 £55,000 - 39
North West -13 31 £62,500 +13.64% 28
East of England -46 27 £90,000 +71.43% 29
Midlands -26 26 £54,000 +13.68% 21
Yorkshire -25 20 £44,000 -31.25% 9
South West -62 20 £52,500 -6.67% 28
West Midlands -20 18 £60,450 +27.26% 14
East Midlands -30 8 £54,000 -10.00% 7
North East - 5 £45,000 - 4
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 32 (9.52%) SharePoint
2 19 (5.65%) Confluence
3 13 (3.87%) IIS
4 11 (3.27%) Apache
5 9 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (2.38%) CMS
7 6 (1.79%) WordPress
8 5 (1.49%) Drupal
9 3 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.89%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.89%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.60%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.60%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.30%) JBoss
11 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 22 (6.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.19%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.89%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.60%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.30%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.30%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.60%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.30%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.30%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.30%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 150 (44.64%) Azure
2 86 (25.60%) AWS
3 62 (18.45%) Power Platform
4 57 (16.96%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (13.99%) Azure Logic Apps
6 35 (10.42%) Microsoft 365
7 34 (10.12%) Power Automate
7 34 (10.12%) Serverless
8 31 (9.23%) PowerApps
9 25 (7.44%) Azure Data Factory
10 23 (6.85%) Dynamics 365
10 23 (6.85%) GitHub
11 21 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (5.65%) SaaS
13 18 (5.36%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 18 (5.36%) GCP
13 18 (5.36%) OneDrive
14 16 (4.76%) Boomi
15 13 (3.87%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.57%) Firewall
2 10 (2.98%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.08%) DNS
4 6 (1.79%) HTTP
4 6 (1.79%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.89%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.89%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (0.89%) SSL
5 3 (0.89%) Wireless
6 2 (0.60%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.60%) MQTT
6 2 (0.60%) VPN
7 1 (0.30%) BGP
7 1 (0.30%) Broadband
7 1 (0.30%) FTP
7 1 (0.30%) Network Security
7 1 (0.30%) RTP
7 1 (0.30%) SCTP
7 1 (0.30%) SS7
7 1 (0.30%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (13.69%) Power BI
2 42 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (9.82%) SQL Server
4 22 (6.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 21 (6.25%) Redis
5 21 (6.25%) Relational Database
6 19 (5.65%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (5.36%) MySQL
8 17 (5.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 13 (3.87%) Metadata
10 8 (2.38%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.79%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.49%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.19%) Delta Lake
13 4 (1.19%) DynamoDB
13 4 (1.19%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.19%) NoSQL
13 4 (1.19%) Power Query
14 3 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 64 (19.05%) Git
2 45 (13.39%) JIRA
3 28 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 20 (5.95%) GitLab
5 16 (4.76%) Selenium
6 13 (3.87%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.87%) Postman
7 12 (3.57%) JMeter
8 8 (2.38%) JUnit
9 7 (2.08%) Maven
9 7 (2.08%) Mockito
10 6 (1.79%) SoapUI
11 5 (1.49%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.49%) Gradle
11 5 (1.49%) Jasmine
11 5 (1.49%) Mocha
11 5 (1.49%) NUnit
11 5 (1.49%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.49%) Visual Studio
11 5 (1.49%) Zephyr
General
1 157 (46.73%) Social Skills
2 87 (25.89%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (18.45%) Finance
4 34 (10.12%) Organisational Skills
5 21 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.46%) Retail
7 14 (4.17%) Marketing
8 12 (3.57%) Advertising
8 12 (3.57%) Legal
9 11 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.27%) Law
10 10 (2.98%) Banking
11 8 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (2.38%) Health Technology
12 6 (1.79%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.79%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.49%) Back Office
13 5 (1.49%) Local Government
14 4 (1.19%) Aviation
14 4 (1.19%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 127 (37.80%) Developer
2 79 (23.51%) Senior
3 43 (12.80%) Senior Developer
4 25 (7.44%) Analyst
5 24 (7.14%) .NET Developer
6 23 (6.85%) Architect
7 22 (6.55%) Lead
7 22 (6.55%) Software Engineer
8 18 (5.36%) Support Engineer
9 17 (5.06%) Integration Engineer
9 17 (5.06%) Ruby Developer
10 16 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
10 16 (4.76%) Software Developer
11 15 (4.46%) Web Developer
12 14 (4.17%) Data Engineer
12 14 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
12 14 (4.17%) Technical Support
13 13 (3.87%) Senior Integration Engineer
14 12 (3.57%) Integration Architect
15 11 (3.27%) .NET Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (37.50%) XML
2 111 (33.04%) REST
3 89 (26.49%) HTML
4 83 (24.70%) .NET
5 77 (22.92%) CSS
6 51 (15.18%) RESTful
7 50 (14.88%) .NET Core
8 44 (13.10%) SOAP
9 41 (12.20%) ASP.NET
10 32 (9.52%) Middleware
11 30 (8.93%) JWT
12 27 (8.04%) Terraform
13 25 (7.44%) .NET Framework
13 25 (7.44%) YAML
14 24 (7.14%) React
15 22 (6.55%) HTML5 Canvas
16 20 (5.95%) Blazor
16 20 (5.95%) HTML5
17 19 (5.65%) Microsoft Graph
17 19 (5.65%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
1 21 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 20 (5.95%) Cloud Native
3 19 (5.65%) Analytical Mindset
3 19 (5.65%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (3.87%) Management Information System
6 12 (3.57%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.98%) Driving Licence
7 10 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (2.68%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.68%) Enterprise Cloud
8 9 (2.68%) Robotics
9 8 (2.38%) Taxonomies
10 7 (2.08%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.49%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.19%) Low-Code
13 4 (1.19%) PKI
13 4 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (13.69%) Linux
2 45 (13.39%) Windows
3 17 (5.06%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.60%) Android
6 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.60%) Unix
7 1 (0.30%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (37.80%) Agile
2 112 (33.33%) DevOps
3 108 (32.14%) CI/CD
4 103 (30.65%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 55 (16.37%) User Experience
7 52 (15.48%) Microservices
8 47 (13.99%) Scrum
9 44 (13.10%) Mentoring
10 43 (12.80%) Software Engineering
11 41 (12.20%) AI
11 41 (12.20%) Containerisation
11 41 (12.20%) Data Modelling
12 40 (11.90%) Roadmaps
13 39 (11.61%) Business Intelligence
14 35 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (10.12%) Clean Code
16 33 (9.82%) API Integration
17 32 (9.52%) Customer Service
17 32 (9.52%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 137 (40.77%) SQL
2 115 (34.23%) JavaScript
3 91 (27.08%) C#
4 83 (24.70%) Python
5 42 (12.50%) Java
6 31 (9.23%) PowerShell
7 22 (6.55%) TypeScript
8 18 (5.36%) C++
8 18 (5.36%) Ruby
9 12 (3.57%) PHP
9 12 (3.57%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.27%) T-SQL
11 9 (2.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.79%) VBA
13 5 (1.49%) Groovy
14 3 (0.89%) Bash
14 3 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.89%) Perl
14 3 (0.89%) XPath
15 2 (0.60%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 45 (13.39%) Degree
2 31 (9.23%) Security Cleared
3 24 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.98%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.38%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.79%) ISTQB
7 6 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.49%) ISEB
9 4 (1.19%) CISSP
10 3 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.89%) CCNP
10 3 (0.89%) CCSP
10 3 (0.89%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.60%) A+ Certification
11 2 (0.60%) CASP
11 2 (0.60%) CompTIA CySA+
11 2 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (13.10%) QA
2 38 (11.31%) Accessibility
3 17 (5.06%) Data Quality
4 14 (4.17%) WCAG
5 12 (3.57%) TickIT
6 11 (3.27%) SLA
7 10 (2.98%) GDPR
8 4 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.89%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.89%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.30%) Basel III
11 1 (0.30%) Dublin Core
11 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.30%) PERC
System Software
1 51 (15.18%) Docker
2 5 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.49%) vSphere
3 4 (1.19%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (7.74%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.87%) Ansible
3 5 (1.49%) Grafana
3 5 (1.49%) Kibana
4 4 (1.19%) Packer
5 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.30%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 111 (33.04%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.14%) Adobe
3 17 (5.06%) Google
4 14 (4.17%) Splunk
5 10 (2.98%) SAP
6 8 (2.38%) Cisco
6 8 (2.38%) IBM
6 8 (2.38%) Oracle
7 7 (2.08%) Databricks
7 7 (2.08%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.08%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.79%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.49%) F5
9 5 (1.49%) Pega
9 5 (1.49%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.49%) VMware
10 4 (1.19%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.89%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.89%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.89%) Sparx