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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 307 241
Rank change year-on-year -91 -66 +24
Permanent jobs citing JSON 236 437 819
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 0.95% 1.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.61% 4.35% 5.43%
Number of salaries quoted 169 291 669
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £39,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,700 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% -3.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £81,359 £86,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -7.59%

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 6,537 10,045 15,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.42% 21.83% 23.15%
Number of salaries quoted 5,011 5,974 12,856
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.52% +5.60% -7.41%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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 -30 83 £75,000 +3.45% 59
South East -61 53 £55,000 -8.33% 42
East of England +40 46 £55,000 -11.18% 7
North of England -35 26 £55,000 -4.35% 33
Midlands -11 24 £47,500 -9.52% 19
West Midlands +8 18 £47,500 -11.53% 12
North West +5 17 £55,000 -4.35% 23
East Midlands -21 6 £60,000 +15.38% 7
Yorkshire -41 5 £43,500 -17.14% 9
North East -6 4 £45,000 -41.94% 1
South West -15 1 £60,000 -5.88% 7
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 9 (3.81%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.54%) Confluence
2 6 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.12%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.69%) CMS
5 3 (1.27%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.85%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.85%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.42%) Apache
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.42%) Appian
7 1 (0.42%) CICS
7 1 (0.42%) IIS
7 1 (0.42%) JBoss
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (2.97%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.27%) Trello
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.54%) NetSuite
1 6 (2.54%) Shopify
2 3 (1.27%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.42%) Magento
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (33.05%) Azure
2 34 (14.41%) AWS
3 32 (13.56%) Power Platform
4 27 (11.44%) GitHub
5 23 (9.75%) Power Automate
6 19 (8.05%) Serverless
7 18 (7.63%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (7.20%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (6.78%) Boomi
10 13 (5.51%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (5.51%) GCP
10 13 (5.51%) PowerApps
11 12 (5.08%) iPaaS
11 12 (5.08%) SaaS
12 11 (4.66%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (4.66%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (4.24%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (4.24%) PaaS
14 7 (2.97%) Entra ID
15 6 (2.54%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.97%) FTP
1 7 (2.97%) VPN
2 4 (1.69%) Firewall
3 3 (1.27%) AMQP
3 3 (1.27%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (1.27%) Ethernet
3 3 (1.27%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.27%) LAN
3 3 (1.27%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.27%) WAN
4 2 (0.85%) BGP
4 2 (0.85%) DNS
5 1 (0.42%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.42%) DHCP
5 1 (0.42%) HTTP
5 1 (0.42%) SSL
5 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.42%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.83%) Relational Database
2 34 (14.41%) SQL Server
3 25 (10.59%) Power BI
4 24 (10.17%) MySQL
5 19 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (5.08%) RDBMS
7 9 (3.81%) NoSQL
7 9 (3.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (2.97%) Metadata
8 7 (2.97%) OLTP
9 6 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.54%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.27%) Crystal Reports
11 3 (1.27%) Power Query
12 2 (0.85%) Big Data
12 2 (0.85%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (8.05%) Jenkins
2 17 (7.20%) Git
3 13 (5.51%) JUnit
3 13 (5.51%) Postman
4 10 (4.24%) JIRA
4 10 (4.24%) JMeter
5 9 (3.81%) Mockito
6 6 (2.54%) Axure RP
7 5 (2.12%) Visual Studio
8 4 (1.69%) Maven
8 4 (1.69%) Selenium
9 3 (1.27%) GitLab
10 2 (0.85%) Crashlytics
10 2 (0.85%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.42%) Gradle
11 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.42%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.42%) Testinfra
General
1 84 (35.59%) Social Skills
2 44 (18.64%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (16.10%) Finance
4 30 (12.71%) Law
5 28 (11.86%) Retail
6 19 (8.05%) Public Sector
7 15 (6.36%) German Language
8 10 (4.24%) Marketing
9 7 (2.97%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.54%) Health Technology
10 6 (2.54%) Legal
11 3 (1.27%) Electronics
11 3 (1.27%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.85%) Publishing
13 1 (0.42%) Automotive
13 1 (0.42%) Banking
13 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.42%) Local Government
13 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 101 (42.80%) Developer
2 32 (13.56%) Senior
3 28 (11.86%) Analyst
3 28 (11.86%) Senior Developer
4 17 (7.20%) Java Developer
5 13 (5.51%) Full-Stack Developer
6 12 (5.08%) Support Engineer
7 11 (4.66%) Architect
7 11 (4.66%) Data Analyst
7 11 (4.66%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 10 (4.24%) Integration Engineer
8 10 (4.24%) Oracle Developer
8 10 (4.24%) Senior Oracle Developer
8 10 (4.24%) ServiceNow Developer
9 9 (3.81%) Consultant
9 9 (3.81%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 8 (3.39%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 7 (2.97%) Applications Support
11 7 (2.97%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
11 7 (2.97%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (59.32%) XML
2 107 (45.34%) REST
3 80 (33.90%) HTML
4 30 (12.71%) SOAP
4 30 (12.71%) Web Services
5 29 (12.29%) Regular Expression
6 26 (11.02%) CSS
6 26 (11.02%) React
7 20 (8.47%) Spring
8 18 (7.63%) Spring Boot
9 15 (6.36%) Middleware
10 14 (5.93%) .NET
10 14 (5.93%) RESTful
11 13 (5.51%) Hibernate
12 11 (4.66%) AngularJS
12 11 (4.66%) jQuery
13 10 (4.24%) Node.js
13 10 (4.24%) Razor View Engine
13 10 (4.24%) YAML
14 9 (3.81%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 50 (21.19%) Onboarding
2 35 (14.83%) Linux Command Line
3 20 (8.47%) Data Structures
4 18 (7.63%) Low-Code
5 17 (7.20%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (4.24%) Operational Technology
8 8 (3.39%) Cloud Native
9 6 (2.54%) NHS
10 5 (2.12%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.69%) Semantic Web
12 3 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.27%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.27%) PMI
12 3 (1.27%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.27%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.27%) Reference Data
12 3 (1.27%) Social Media
13 2 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (15.68%) Unix
2 17 (7.20%) Linux
3 3 (1.27%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.27%) Windows
4 1 (0.42%) Android
4 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.42%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (27.97%) Agile
1 66 (27.97%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (22.03%) CI/CD
3 48 (20.34%) AI
4 40 (16.95%) DevOps
5 35 (14.83%) Business Intelligence
5 35 (14.83%) Data Analysis
6 34 (14.41%) LLM
7 31 (13.14%) Data Modelling
8 29 (12.29%) Validation
9 28 (11.86%) API Integration
9 28 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (11.44%) ETL
11 24 (10.17%) Test Automation
11 24 (10.17%) User Experience
12 22 (9.32%) Analytics
12 22 (9.32%) Microservices
12 22 (9.32%) Workflow
13 20 (8.47%) SDLC
14 18 (7.63%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 114 (48.31%) SQL
2 88 (37.29%) Python
3 87 (36.86%) JavaScript
4 47 (19.92%) Java
5 33 (13.98%) C#
5 33 (13.98%) PowerShell
6 14 (5.93%) Shell Script
7 13 (5.51%) T-SQL
8 12 (5.08%) PL/SQL
9 6 (2.54%) Bicep
10 5 (2.12%) PHP
10 5 (2.12%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.27%) ActionScript
11 3 (1.27%) ActionScript 2.0
12 2 (0.85%) Bash
12 2 (0.85%) C++
12 2 (0.85%) Ruby
13 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.42%) R
13 1 (0.42%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 47 (19.92%) Degree
2 25 (10.59%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.93%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.27%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (1.27%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.42%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.42%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.20%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.78%) QA
3 13 (5.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.24%) GDPR
5 9 (3.81%) Accessibility
5 9 (3.81%) HL7
6 5 (2.12%) NCSC
6 5 (2.12%) NIST
7 2 (0.85%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (12.71%) Docker
2 6 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.27%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.42%) iptables
Systems Management
1 26 (11.02%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.24%) Ansible
2 10 (4.24%) Terraform
3 9 (3.81%) Kibana
4 3 (1.27%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.42%) Grafana
6 1 (0.42%) Packer
6 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 34 (14.41%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.32%) Oracle
3 14 (5.93%) SAP
4 10 (4.24%) MuleSoft
4 10 (4.24%) ServiceNow
4 10 (4.24%) Splunk
5 9 (3.81%) Dell
5 9 (3.81%) Dynatrace
5 9 (3.81%) Google
5 9 (3.81%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.97%) Informatica
6 7 (2.97%) SnapLogic
6 7 (2.97%) Talend
7 6 (2.54%) Cisco
7 6 (2.54%) IBM
7 6 (2.54%) IFS
7 6 (2.54%) Intapp
7 6 (2.54%) Workday
8 5 (2.12%) Epicor
8 5 (2.12%) Software AG