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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 307 236
Rank change year-on-year -83 -71 +31
Permanent jobs citing JSON 237 445 784
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 0.94% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.69% 4.31% 5.52%
Number of salaries quoted 168 296 642
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,188 £45,488 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £81,408 £86,250 £106,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -5.55%

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 6,420 10,335 14,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.53% 21.88% 23.57%
Number of salaries quoted 4,893 6,069 12,060
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £38,500
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 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -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 29 January 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 29 January 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 -16 85 £75,000 +7.14% 52
South East -63 53 £55,000 -13.73% 46
East of England +44 48 £55,000 -12.00% 6
North of England -15 25 £55,000 +4.76% 23
Midlands -17 24 £47,500 -9.52% 13
West Midlands +13 18 £47,500 -11.53% 4
North West +16 17 £55,000 - 13
East Midlands -19 6 £60,000 +15.38% 9
North East +1 4 £45,000 -41.94%
Yorkshire -37 4 £56,750 +8.10% 10
South West -13 1 £60,000 - 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 (3.80%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.53%) Confluence
3 5 (2.11%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.69%) CMS
5 3 (1.27%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.84%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.84%) 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 (2.95%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.27%) Trello
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.53%) NetSuite
1 6 (2.53%) Shopify
2 3 (1.27%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.42%) Magento
4 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 72 (30.38%) Azure
2 35 (14.77%) AWS
3 28 (11.81%) Power Platform
4 27 (11.39%) GitHub
5 23 (9.70%) Power Automate
6 22 (9.28%) Serverless
7 17 (7.17%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (6.75%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (6.33%) Boomi
10 14 (5.91%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (5.91%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (5.49%) GCP
11 13 (5.49%) PowerApps
12 12 (5.06%) iPaaS
13 11 (4.64%) Azure Logic Apps
14 10 (4.22%) PaaS
14 10 (4.22%) SaaS
15 7 (2.95%) Azure Data Factory
16 6 (2.53%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.95%) FTP
1 7 (2.95%) VPN
2 3 (1.27%) AMQP
2 3 (1.27%) Cisco ISE
2 3 (1.27%) Ethernet
2 3 (1.27%) Firewall
2 3 (1.27%) HTTPS
2 3 (1.27%) LAN
2 3 (1.27%) SD-WAN
2 3 (1.27%) WAN
3 2 (0.84%) DNS
4 1 (0.42%) DHCP
4 1 (0.42%) HTTP
4 1 (0.42%) SSL
4 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.42%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (17.30%) Relational Database
2 34 (14.35%) SQL Server
3 21 (8.86%) MySQL
3 21 (8.86%) Power BI
4 19 (8.02%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (5.49%) RDBMS
6 9 (3.80%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.38%) OLTP
7 8 (3.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.95%) Metadata
9 6 (2.53%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.27%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (1.27%) Power Query
11 2 (0.84%) Big Data
11 2 (0.84%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (9.28%) Jenkins
2 17 (7.17%) Git
3 16 (6.75%) JUnit
4 13 (5.49%) JMeter
5 12 (5.06%) Mockito
6 11 (4.64%) Postman
7 10 (4.22%) JIRA
8 6 (2.53%) Axure RP
9 5 (2.11%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.69%) Maven
11 3 (1.27%) Selenium
12 2 (0.84%) Crashlytics
12 2 (0.84%) GitLab
13 1 (0.42%) Android Studio
13 1 (0.42%) Gradle
13 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
13 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 1 (0.42%) Testinfra
13 1 (0.42%) WebDriver
General
1 85 (35.86%) Social Skills
2 42 (17.72%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (15.61%) Finance
4 32 (13.50%) Law
5 30 (12.66%) Retail
6 20 (8.44%) Public Sector
7 15 (6.33%) German Language
8 10 (4.22%) Marketing
9 6 (2.53%) Health Technology
9 6 (2.53%) Legal
9 6 (2.53%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.27%) Electronics
10 3 (1.27%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.84%) Automotive
11 2 (0.84%) Banking
11 2 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.84%) Publishing
12 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 105 (44.30%) Developer
2 33 (13.92%) Senior
3 29 (12.24%) Senior Developer
4 25 (10.55%) Analyst
5 20 (8.44%) Java Developer
6 13 (5.49%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (5.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 12 (5.06%) ServiceNow Developer
8 11 (4.64%) Architect
8 11 (4.64%) Oracle Developer
8 11 (4.64%) Senior Oracle Developer
8 11 (4.64%) Support Engineer
9 10 (4.22%) Consultant
9 10 (4.22%) Integration Engineer
9 10 (4.22%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 8 (3.38%) Data Engineer
10 8 (3.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 7 (2.95%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
11 7 (2.95%) Integration Developer
11 7 (2.95%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (61.18%) XML
2 106 (44.73%) REST
3 86 (36.29%) HTML
4 33 (13.92%) Web Services
5 30 (12.66%) SOAP
6 29 (12.24%) Regular Expression
7 27 (11.39%) CSS
8 25 (10.55%) React
9 23 (9.70%) Spring
10 21 (8.86%) Spring Boot
11 16 (6.75%) Hibernate
12 15 (6.33%) RESTful
13 14 (5.91%) jQuery
13 14 (5.91%) Middleware
14 13 (5.49%) .NET
15 12 (5.06%) ActiveMQ
15 12 (5.06%) Apache Camel
15 12 (5.06%) WireMock
16 11 (4.64%) AngularJS
17 10 (4.22%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 47 (19.83%) Onboarding
2 35 (14.77%) Linux Command Line
3 17 (7.17%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (7.17%) Low-Code
3 17 (7.17%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (6.75%) Data Structures
5 10 (4.22%) Operational Technology
6 8 (3.38%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.53%) NHS
8 5 (2.11%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.69%) Semantic Web
10 3 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.27%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.27%) PMI
10 3 (1.27%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.27%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.27%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.27%) Social Media
11 2 (0.84%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (15.19%) Unix
2 16 (6.75%) 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 70 (29.54%) Agile
2 69 (29.11%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (22.36%) CI/CD
4 46 (19.41%) AI
5 40 (16.88%) DevOps
6 34 (14.35%) Data Analysis
6 34 (14.35%) LLM
7 32 (13.50%) Business Intelligence
8 29 (12.24%) ETL
9 27 (11.39%) API Integration
9 27 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (11.39%) Data Modelling
10 26 (10.97%) Validation
11 24 (10.13%) Microservices
11 24 (10.13%) User Experience
11 24 (10.13%) Workflow
12 23 (9.70%) Analytics
12 23 (9.70%) Test Automation
13 22 (9.28%) SDLC
14 19 (8.02%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 110 (46.41%) SQL
2 90 (37.97%) JavaScript
3 85 (35.86%) Python
4 48 (20.25%) Java
5 31 (13.08%) C#
6 28 (11.81%) PowerShell
7 17 (7.17%) Shell Script
8 12 (5.06%) PL/SQL
9 11 (4.64%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.11%) PHP
11 4 (1.69%) Bicep
11 4 (1.69%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.27%) ActionScript
12 3 (1.27%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.84%) Bash
13 2 (0.84%) C++
13 2 (0.84%) Ruby
14 1 (0.42%) Groovy
14 1 (0.42%) R
14 1 (0.42%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 47 (19.83%) Degree
2 24 (10.13%) Security Cleared
3 13 (5.49%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.80%) 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 16 (6.75%) Data Quality
2 15 (6.33%) QA
3 10 (4.22%) GDPR
3 10 (4.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.80%) Accessibility
4 9 (3.80%) HL7
5 5 (2.11%) NCSC
5 5 (2.11%) NIST
6 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (13.92%) Docker
2 3 (1.27%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.27%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.42%) iptables
Systems Management
1 29 (12.24%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.06%) Kibana
3 10 (4.22%) Ansible
3 10 (4.22%) Terraform
4 3 (1.27%) FortiGate
4 3 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.42%) Grafana
5 1 (0.42%) Packer
5 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (13.08%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.86%) Oracle
3 14 (5.91%) SAP
4 13 (5.49%) ServiceNow
4 13 (5.49%) Splunk
5 12 (5.06%) Dynatrace
6 10 (4.22%) MuleSoft
7 9 (3.80%) Dell
7 9 (3.80%) Google
7 9 (3.80%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.95%) Informatica
8 7 (2.95%) SnapLogic
8 7 (2.95%) Talend
9 6 (2.53%) IBM
9 6 (2.53%) Intapp
9 6 (2.53%) Workday
10 5 (2.11%) Epicor
10 5 (2.11%) IFS
10 5 (2.11%) Software AG
10 5 (2.11%) TIBCO