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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 336 276
Rank change year-on-year -82 -60 +1
Permanent jobs citing JSON 286 364 844
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.93% 1.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.55% 4.66% 4.97%
Number of salaries quoted 209 288 667
10th Percentile £40,400 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,526 £46,782 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £85,000
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 8,064 7,816 16,994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.02% 19.92% 20.19%
Number of salaries quoted 6,120 5,709 14,144
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,016
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,268 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% +10.45% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -39 101 £65,500 -6.43% 49
South East -43 68 £62,500 -3.85% 35
East of England +11 50 £90,000 +89.47% 5
North of England -44 45 £57,500 +6.98% 29
North West -6 31 £61,250 +13.95% 17
Yorkshire -47 12 £57,000 +8.57% 9
Midlands -54 11 £47,500 -12.59% 10
West Midlands -38 7 £43,000 -20.87% 3
South West -64 6 £31,500 -47.50% 5
East Midlands -32 4 £47,500 -15.93% 7
North East -42 2 £46,250 -40.32% 3
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 28 (9.79%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.80%) CMS
4 7 (2.45%) IIS
4 7 (2.45%) WordPress
5 5 (1.75%) Drupal
6 3 (1.05%) Apache
6 3 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.05%) Confluence
7 2 (0.70%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.70%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.70%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.35%) CICS
8 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.35%) JBoss
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.05%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.35%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.35%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.35%) Magento
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 120 (41.96%) Azure
2 65 (22.73%) AWS
3 59 (20.63%) Power Platform
4 36 (12.59%) Microsoft 365
5 34 (11.89%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (10.84%) Azure Logic Apps
7 30 (10.49%) Serverless
8 26 (9.09%) PowerApps
9 25 (8.74%) Azure Data Factory
9 25 (8.74%) Power Automate
10 24 (8.39%) SaaS
11 20 (6.99%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (6.64%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (6.64%) OneDrive
13 17 (5.94%) Boomi
13 17 (5.94%) Dynamics 365
13 17 (5.94%) GitHub
14 14 (4.90%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (4.55%) GCP
16 12 (4.20%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.94%) Firewall
2 6 (2.10%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (2.10%) VPN
3 5 (1.75%) DNS
4 4 (1.40%) SSL
5 3 (1.05%) AMQP
5 3 (1.05%) BGP
5 3 (1.05%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.70%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.70%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.70%) FTP
6 2 (0.70%) LAN
6 2 (0.70%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.70%) WAN
7 1 (0.35%) Broadband
7 1 (0.35%) CTI
7 1 (0.35%) DHCP
7 1 (0.35%) Network Security
7 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (18.18%) Power BI
2 31 (10.84%) MySQL
3 28 (9.79%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (8.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 21 (7.34%) Relational Database
5 21 (7.34%) SQL Server
6 19 (6.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 18 (6.29%) Metadata
8 12 (4.20%) RDBMS
9 7 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.45%) Redis
10 6 (2.10%) Electronic Patient Records
11 5 (1.75%) OLTP
11 5 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.40%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.05%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.05%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
14 2 (0.70%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 41 (14.34%) Git
2 33 (11.54%) JIRA
3 22 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 21 (7.34%) GitLab
5 12 (4.20%) Postman
6 9 (3.15%) JUnit
7 8 (2.80%) Maven
8 7 (2.45%) ERwin
8 7 (2.45%) Selenium
9 6 (2.10%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.10%) Mockito
9 6 (2.10%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.75%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.75%) Gradle
10 5 (1.75%) JMeter
10 5 (1.75%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.75%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.40%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.40%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 127 (44.41%) Social Skills
2 81 (28.32%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (16.08%) Finance
4 21 (7.34%) Retail
5 17 (5.94%) Organisational Skills
6 16 (5.59%) Marketing
6 16 (5.59%) Telecoms
7 12 (4.20%) Health Technology
7 12 (4.20%) Law
8 10 (3.50%) Advertising
8 10 (3.50%) German Language
9 7 (2.45%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.45%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.05%) Back Office
11 3 (1.05%) Banking
11 3 (1.05%) Local Government
12 2 (0.70%) Front Office
12 2 (0.70%) Legal
12 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 96 (33.57%) Developer
2 64 (22.38%) Senior
3 52 (18.18%) Senior Developer
4 26 (9.09%) Analyst
5 25 (8.74%) Architect
6 21 (7.34%) Consultant
7 20 (6.99%) Data Analyst
8 16 (5.59%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (5.59%) Support Engineer
9 15 (5.24%) Java Developer
10 11 (3.85%) Applications Architect
10 11 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (3.85%) Integration Architect
10 11 (3.85%) Network Engineer
10 11 (3.85%) Telecoms Engineer
11 10 (3.50%) Lead
11 10 (3.50%) Software Engineer
12 8 (2.80%) Oracle Developer
12 8 (2.80%) Software Developer
12 8 (2.80%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (46.50%) XML
2 107 (37.41%) REST
3 91 (31.82%) HTML
4 59 (20.63%) CSS
5 46 (16.08%) .NET
5 46 (16.08%) SOAP
6 32 (11.19%) Middleware
7 30 (10.49%) .NET Core
8 29 (10.14%) YAML
9 27 (9.44%) RESTful
10 22 (7.69%) HTML5 Canvas
10 22 (7.69%) Regular Expression
11 20 (6.99%) JWT
11 20 (6.99%) OAuth
12 19 (6.64%) Microsoft Graph
12 19 (6.64%) SPFx
12 19 (6.64%) Spring
13 17 (5.94%) Spring Boot
14 16 (5.59%) EDI
15 15 (5.24%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.29%) Onboarding
2 25 (8.74%) Linux Command Line
3 24 (8.39%) Data Structures
3 24 (8.39%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (3.50%) Cloud Native
7 9 (3.15%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (2.45%) e-Learning
8 7 (2.45%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.10%) NHS
9 6 (2.10%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.40%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.40%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.40%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.40%) Taxonomies
11 3 (1.05%) PMI
11 3 (1.05%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 35 (12.24%) Linux
2 24 (8.39%) Unix
3 15 (5.24%) Windows
4 9 (3.15%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.35%) Android
6 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (27.27%) DevOps
2 75 (26.22%) CI/CD
3 73 (25.52%) Agile
4 70 (24.48%) Problem-Solving
5 52 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
6 48 (16.78%) Data Modelling
7 46 (16.08%) Microservices
8 43 (15.03%) AI
9 40 (13.99%) User Experience
10 37 (12.94%) Data Analysis
11 35 (12.24%) API Integration
12 33 (11.54%) Containerisation
12 33 (11.54%) ERP
13 30 (10.49%) Test Automation
14 28 (9.79%) Validation
15 27 (9.44%) CRM
15 27 (9.44%) Infrastructure as Code
15 27 (9.44%) Technical Leadership
16 26 (9.09%) Analytics
16 26 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 145 (50.70%) SQL
2 100 (34.97%) JavaScript
2 100 (34.97%) Python
3 62 (21.68%) Java
4 45 (15.73%) C#
5 36 (12.59%) PowerShell
6 23 (8.04%) TypeScript
7 15 (5.24%) PHP
8 11 (3.85%) PL/SQL
9 10 (3.50%) T-SQL
10 9 (3.15%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.10%) Groovy
12 4 (1.40%) Ruby
12 4 (1.40%) VBA
13 3 (1.05%) ActionScript
13 3 (1.05%) ActionScript 2.0
13 3 (1.05%) Bicep
13 3 (1.05%) Perl
14 2 (0.70%) Bash
14 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 48 (16.78%) Degree
2 30 (10.49%) Security Cleared
3 23 (8.04%) SC Cleared
4 17 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.10%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.05%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.35%) CISSP
8 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.35%) GIAC
8 1 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.35%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.14%) QA
2 16 (5.59%) Accessibility
3 14 (4.90%) Data Quality
4 12 (4.20%) TickIT
5 11 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (3.85%) SLA
6 7 (2.45%) HL7
7 6 (2.10%) GDPR
7 6 (2.10%) WCAG
8 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.35%) NCSC
8 1 (0.35%) NIST
8 1 (0.35%) PERC
System Software
1 35 (12.24%) Docker
2 12 (4.20%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.40%) vSphere
4 2 (0.70%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.35%) iptables
Systems Management
1 29 (10.14%) Kubernetes
2 18 (6.29%) Terraform
3 16 (5.59%) Ansible
4 5 (1.75%) Kibana
5 4 (1.40%) Packer
6 2 (0.70%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.35%) Grafana
7 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.35%) QRadar
Vendors
1 69 (24.13%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.39%) Adobe
3 18 (6.29%) Oracle
4 16 (5.59%) Cisco
5 11 (3.85%) Red Hat
5 11 (3.85%) Splunk
6 9 (3.15%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.80%) F5
8 7 (2.45%) Sparx
9 6 (2.10%) Google
9 6 (2.10%) IBM
9 6 (2.10%) Juniper
9 6 (2.10%) SAP
9 6 (2.10%) VMware
10 5 (1.75%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.40%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.40%) Databricks
11 4 (1.40%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.40%) MuleSoft
11 4 (1.40%) ServiceNow