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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 298 242
Rank change year-on-year -125 -56 +38
Permanent jobs citing JSON 241 396 879
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 1.01% 1.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.43% 4.52% 5.46%
Number of salaries quoted 172 297 708
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £36,175
25th Percentile £47,188 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £72,813 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £81,750 £92,500 £92,479
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 7,026 8,761 16,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.80% 22.33% 21.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5,360 6,035 13,602
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,275
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% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 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 12 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 -31 89 £70,000 -3.45% 69
South East -66 60 £55,000 - 42
East of England +31 45 £55,000 -11.18% 16
North of England -50 24 £55,000 +4.76% 27
North West -17 16 £55,000 -4.35% 15
Midlands -49 15 £47,500 -9.95% 21
West Midlands -15 10 £47,500 -12.59% 14
East Midlands -47 5 £54,000 +3.85% 7
Yorkshire -56 5 £41,500 -2.35% 10
North East -16 3 £45,000 -41.94% 2
South West -47 2 £72,500 +18.37% 10
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 13 (5.39%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.07%) Anypoint
3 5 (2.07%) Confluence
4 4 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.83%) IIS
5 2 (0.83%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.83%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.41%) Apache
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.41%) CICS
6 1 (0.41%) CMS
6 1 (0.41%) JBoss
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.49%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.24%) Trello
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.07%) Shopify
2 3 (1.24%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.24%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.41%) Magento
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 87 (36.10%) Azure
2 39 (16.18%) AWS
3 38 (15.77%) Power Platform
4 22 (9.13%) GitHub
5 21 (8.71%) Power Automate
6 20 (8.30%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (7.47%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (6.22%) Serverless
9 14 (5.81%) Boomi
9 14 (5.81%) GCP
10 13 (5.39%) SaaS
11 11 (4.56%) PowerApps
12 10 (4.15%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (4.15%) iPaaS
13 9 (3.73%) Apigee
13 9 (3.73%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (3.73%) OpenShift
13 9 (3.73%) PaaS
14 8 (3.32%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.22%) Firewall
2 7 (2.90%) FTP
2 7 (2.90%) VPN
3 5 (2.07%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (2.07%) DNS
4 3 (1.24%) AMQP
4 3 (1.24%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (1.24%) Ethernet
4 3 (1.24%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.24%) LAN
4 3 (1.24%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.24%) WAN
5 2 (0.83%) BGP
6 1 (0.41%) CTI
6 1 (0.41%) DHCP
6 1 (0.41%) HTTP
6 1 (0.41%) SSL
6 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (14.11%) Power BI
2 32 (13.28%) SQL Server
3 29 (12.03%) Relational Database
4 25 (10.37%) MySQL
5 20 (8.30%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (6.22%) Metadata
7 13 (5.39%) RDBMS
8 11 (4.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.49%) Electronic Patient Records
10 6 (2.49%) OLTP
11 5 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.66%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (1.24%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (1.24%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.24%) NoSQL
13 3 (1.24%) Power Query
13 3 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (10.37%) Git
2 14 (5.81%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.56%) GitLab
3 11 (4.56%) JUnit
3 11 (4.56%) Postman
4 10 (4.15%) JIRA
5 8 (3.32%) Mockito
6 7 (2.90%) Selenium
7 6 (2.49%) Axure RP
7 6 (2.49%) JMeter
8 5 (2.07%) ERwin
8 5 (2.07%) SpecFlow
8 5 (2.07%) Visual Studio
8 5 (2.07%) WebDriver
9 4 (1.66%) Maven
10 2 (0.83%) Crashlytics
11 1 (0.41%) Android Studio
11 1 (0.41%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 88 (36.51%) Social Skills
2 51 (21.16%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (14.94%) Finance
4 27 (11.20%) Law
5 19 (7.88%) Retail
6 15 (6.22%) German Language
7 14 (5.81%) Public Sector
7 14 (5.81%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.90%) Legal
8 7 (2.90%) Marketing
9 6 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.49%) Health Technology
10 5 (2.07%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.24%) Publishing
12 2 (0.83%) Advertising
12 2 (0.83%) Electronics
12 2 (0.83%) Front Office
12 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (37.34%) Developer
2 32 (13.28%) Senior
3 29 (12.03%) Analyst
4 26 (10.79%) Senior Developer
5 18 (7.47%) Java Developer
6 17 (7.05%) Data Analyst
7 14 (5.81%) Architect
7 14 (5.81%) Consultant
8 11 (4.56%) Data Engineer
9 10 (4.15%) Automation Engineer
9 10 (4.15%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (4.15%) Integration Engineer
9 10 (4.15%) Support Engineer
10 9 (3.73%) Network Engineer
10 9 (3.73%) Oracle Developer
10 9 (3.73%) Senior Oracle Developer
10 9 (3.73%) Telecoms Engineer
11 8 (3.32%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 8 (3.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 8 (3.32%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (60.58%) XML
2 98 (40.66%) REST
3 76 (31.54%) HTML
4 32 (13.28%) Regular Expression
5 30 (12.45%) SOAP
6 27 (11.20%) Web Services
7 26 (10.79%) CSS
8 21 (8.71%) .NET
8 21 (8.71%) Spring
9 20 (8.30%) React
10 19 (7.88%) RESTful
10 19 (7.88%) Spring Boot
11 18 (7.47%) YAML
12 12 (4.98%) Hibernate
13 11 (4.56%) Node.js
13 11 (4.56%) Swagger
14 9 (3.73%) Jinja
14 9 (3.73%) Middleware
14 9 (3.73%) OAuth
15 8 (3.32%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 47 (19.50%) Onboarding
2 36 (14.94%) Linux Command Line
3 28 (11.62%) Data Structures
4 22 (9.13%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (7.05%) Low-Code
6 12 (4.98%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.49%) NHS
8 5 (2.07%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.07%) e-Learning
9 4 (1.66%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.66%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.66%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.24%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.24%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.24%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.24%) Semantic Web
10 3 (1.24%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 41 (17.01%) Unix
2 25 (10.37%) Linux
3 8 (3.32%) Windows
4 4 (1.66%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.24%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.41%) Android
6 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (26.97%) Agile
2 57 (23.65%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (21.58%) CI/CD
4 51 (21.16%) AI
5 44 (18.26%) DevOps
6 43 (17.84%) Business Intelligence
7 38 (15.77%) Data Modelling
8 36 (14.94%) Data Analysis
9 29 (12.03%) LLM
10 28 (11.62%) Validation
11 27 (11.20%) Microservices
12 26 (10.79%) API Integration
13 25 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (9.96%) Analytics
14 24 (9.96%) User Experience
15 23 (9.54%) Containerisation
15 23 (9.54%) Test Automation
16 22 (9.13%) ETL
17 20 (8.30%) Task Automation
18 19 (7.88%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 121 (50.21%) SQL
2 99 (41.08%) Python
3 77 (31.95%) JavaScript
4 52 (21.58%) Java
5 30 (12.45%) C#
6 26 (10.79%) PowerShell
7 14 (5.81%) Shell Script
7 14 (5.81%) T-SQL
8 12 (4.98%) PL/SQL
9 9 (3.73%) TypeScript
10 5 (2.07%) PHP
11 3 (1.24%) ActionScript
11 3 (1.24%) ActionScript 2.0
11 3 (1.24%) Bicep
12 2 (0.83%) Bash
12 2 (0.83%) C++
12 2 (0.83%) R
12 2 (0.83%) Ruby
13 1 (0.41%) COBOL
13 1 (0.41%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 46 (19.09%) Degree
2 25 (10.37%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.81%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.66%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.24%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (1.24%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.41%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.41%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.88%) Data Quality
2 17 (7.05%) QA
3 14 (5.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.15%) Accessibility
4 10 (4.15%) GDPR
5 8 (3.32%) HL7
6 5 (2.07%) NCSC
6 5 (2.07%) NIST
7 2 (0.83%) SLA
8 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (11.62%) Docker
2 11 (4.56%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.24%) VMware NSX
3 3 (1.24%) vSphere
4 1 (0.41%) iptables
Systems Management
1 23 (9.54%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.73%) Ansible
3 8 (3.32%) Terraform
4 7 (2.90%) Kibana
5 3 (1.24%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.41%) Grafana
6 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (13.69%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.54%) Oracle
3 14 (5.81%) Cisco
4 13 (5.39%) SAP
5 9 (3.73%) Google
5 9 (3.73%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.32%) Dell
6 8 (3.32%) F5
6 8 (3.32%) MuleSoft
6 8 (3.32%) Splunk
7 7 (2.90%) Intapp
7 7 (2.90%) Palo Alto
7 7 (2.90%) Talend
8 6 (2.49%) IBM
8 6 (2.49%) IFS
8 6 (2.49%) Informatica
8 6 (2.49%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.49%) SnapLogic
8 6 (2.49%) VMware
8 6 (2.49%) Workday