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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 370 325
Rank change year-on-year -84 -45 -91
Permanent jobs citing JSON 334 300 552
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.33% 0.70% 0.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.10% 3.93% 3.77%
Number of salaries quoted 228 227 374
10th Percentile £32,500 £42,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £76,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,500 £83,750 £84,625
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,375 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.52% -7.12% -

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 10,777 7,639 14,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.63% 17.70% 21.32%
Number of salaries quoted 7,880 5,045 9,616
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
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 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -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 17 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 17 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 -30 128 £75,000 +11.11% 306
South East -59 73 £55,000 -15.38% 85
North of England -33 56 £60,000 +9.09% 54
North West -21 32 £62,500 +13.64% 33
Midlands -34 28 £55,000 +15.79% 38
East of England -52 28 £90,000 +71.43% 38
Yorkshire -25 20 £44,000 -31.25% 18
West Midlands -32 19 £60,900 +28.21% 26
South West -64 19 £52,500 -6.67% 35
East Midlands -36 9 £54,000 -10.00% 12
North East -62 4 £38,000 -15.56% 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 31 (9.28%) SharePoint
2 18 (5.39%) Confluence
3 15 (4.49%) IIS
4 11 (3.29%) Apache
5 9 (2.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (2.10%) CMS
7 6 (1.80%) WordPress
8 5 (1.50%) Drupal
9 3 (0.90%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.90%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.60%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.30%) JBoss
11 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.30%) Umbraco
Applications
1 23 (6.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.20%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.90%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.60%) Lightworks
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.80%) 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
1 145 (43.41%) Azure
2 85 (25.45%) AWS
3 62 (18.56%) Power Platform
4 55 (16.47%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (14.37%) Azure Logic Apps
6 40 (11.98%) Serverless
7 35 (10.48%) Microsoft 365
8 33 (9.88%) Power Automate
9 28 (8.38%) PowerApps
10 26 (7.78%) Azure Data Factory
10 26 (7.78%) Dynamics 365
11 25 (7.49%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (6.89%) GitHub
13 18 (5.39%) SaaS
14 16 (4.79%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 16 (4.79%) Boomi
14 16 (4.79%) OneDrive
15 15 (4.49%) GCP
16 14 (4.19%) Amazon S3
17 13 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.99%) TCP/IP
2 7 (2.10%) Firewall
2 7 (2.10%) HTTP
3 6 (1.80%) DNS
3 6 (1.80%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.90%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.90%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (0.90%) Wireless
5 2 (0.60%) MQTT
5 2 (0.60%) SSL
5 2 (0.60%) VPN
6 1 (0.30%) Broadband
6 1 (0.30%) FTP
6 1 (0.30%) Network Security
6 1 (0.30%) RTP
6 1 (0.30%) RTSP
6 1 (0.30%) SCTP
6 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.30%) SS7
6 1 (0.30%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (13.17%) Power BI
2 38 (11.38%) PostgreSQL
3 37 (11.08%) SQL Server
4 20 (5.99%) Azure SQL Database
4 20 (5.99%) Redis
4 20 (5.99%) Relational Database
5 19 (5.69%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (5.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 16 (4.79%) MySQL
8 10 (2.99%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.40%) Metadata
10 7 (2.10%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (2.10%) Parquet
10 7 (2.10%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.20%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.20%) NoSQL
12 4 (1.20%) Power Query
13 3 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 66 (19.76%) Git
2 43 (12.87%) JIRA
3 29 (8.68%) Jenkins
4 17 (5.09%) Selenium
5 16 (4.79%) GitLab
6 15 (4.49%) Postman
7 13 (3.89%) Cucumber
7 13 (3.89%) JMeter
8 8 (2.40%) JUnit
9 7 (2.10%) Maven
10 6 (1.80%) Mockito
10 6 (1.80%) SoapUI
11 5 (1.50%) Gatling
11 5 (1.50%) Gradle
11 5 (1.50%) Jasmine
11 5 (1.50%) Mocha
11 5 (1.50%) NUnit
11 5 (1.50%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.50%) Visual Studio
11 5 (1.50%) Zephyr
General
1 154 (46.11%) Social Skills
2 88 (26.35%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (18.56%) Finance
4 34 (10.18%) Organisational Skills
5 24 (7.19%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.49%) Retail
7 13 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.89%) Marketing
8 12 (3.59%) Advertising
8 12 (3.59%) Legal
9 11 (3.29%) Banking
9 11 (3.29%) Law
10 8 (2.40%) Health Technology
11 6 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.80%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.50%) Back Office
12 5 (1.50%) Local Government
13 4 (1.20%) Aviation
13 4 (1.20%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.90%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 131 (39.22%) Developer
2 82 (24.55%) Senior
3 44 (13.17%) Senior Developer
4 28 (8.38%) .NET Developer
5 26 (7.78%) Analyst
6 22 (6.59%) Architect
7 21 (6.29%) Lead
7 21 (6.29%) Software Engineer
8 18 (5.39%) Support Engineer
9 17 (5.09%) Integration Engineer
9 17 (5.09%) Web Developer
10 16 (4.79%) Data Engineer
10 16 (4.79%) DevOps Engineer
10 16 (4.79%) Ruby Developer
10 16 (4.79%) Software Developer
11 15 (4.49%) Full-Stack Developer
12 14 (4.19%) Technical Support
13 13 (3.89%) .NET Web Developer
13 13 (3.89%) Senior Integration Engineer
14 12 (3.59%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (38.32%) XML
2 112 (33.53%) REST
3 87 (26.05%) HTML
4 84 (25.15%) .NET
5 75 (22.46%) CSS
6 50 (14.97%) RESTful
7 49 (14.67%) .NET Core
8 45 (13.47%) SOAP
9 41 (12.28%) ASP.NET
10 31 (9.28%) Middleware
11 28 (8.38%) JWT
12 27 (8.08%) Terraform
13 26 (7.78%) .NET Framework
14 24 (7.19%) React
15 22 (6.59%) YAML
16 21 (6.29%) Blazor
17 20 (5.99%) AngularJS
17 20 (5.99%) HTML5 Canvas
18 19 (5.69%) HTML5
19 18 (5.39%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.59%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.29%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.99%) Onboarding
4 19 (5.69%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (5.09%) Analytical Mindset
6 15 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (4.19%) Management Information System
8 13 (3.89%) Product Ownership
9 11 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (2.99%) Driving Licence
10 10 (2.99%) Taxonomies
11 9 (2.69%) Enterprise Cloud
11 9 (2.69%) Robotics
12 7 (2.10%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.50%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.50%) Low-Code
13 5 (1.50%) Mobile App
13 5 (1.50%) PKI
13 5 (1.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (14.37%) Windows
2 45 (13.47%) Linux
3 19 (5.69%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.60%) Android
6 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.30%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (38.92%) Agile
2 111 (33.23%) DevOps
3 107 (32.04%) Problem-Solving
4 105 (31.44%) CI/CD
5 59 (17.66%) Test Automation
6 53 (15.87%) User Experience
7 52 (15.57%) Microservices
8 48 (14.37%) Mentoring
9 46 (13.77%) AI
10 45 (13.47%) Scrum
11 44 (13.17%) Software Engineering
12 40 (11.98%) Data Modelling
12 40 (11.98%) Roadmaps
13 37 (11.08%) Business Intelligence
14 33 (9.88%) Clean Code
14 33 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (9.88%) Customer Service
15 32 (9.58%) Containerisation
15 32 (9.58%) Performance Tuning
15 32 (9.58%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 144 (43.11%) SQL
2 115 (34.43%) JavaScript
3 93 (27.84%) C#
4 82 (24.55%) Python
5 45 (13.47%) Java
6 29 (8.68%) PowerShell
7 20 (5.99%) TypeScript
8 19 (5.69%) C++
9 17 (5.09%) Ruby
10 12 (3.59%) Shell Script
11 11 (3.29%) PHP
11 11 (3.29%) T-SQL
12 9 (2.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (1.80%) VBA
14 5 (1.50%) Groovy
15 4 (1.20%) XPath
16 3 (0.90%) Bash
16 3 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.90%) Perl
17 2 (0.60%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 43 (12.87%) Degree
2 35 (10.48%) Security Cleared
3 28 (8.38%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.99%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.69%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.80%) ISTQB
9 5 (1.50%) ISEB
10 4 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.20%) CISSP
11 3 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.90%) CCNP
11 3 (0.90%) CCSP
12 2 (0.60%) A+ Certification
12 2 (0.60%) CASP
12 2 (0.60%) GIAC
12 2 (0.60%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (0.60%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (13.17%) QA
2 42 (12.57%) Accessibility
3 23 (6.89%) Data Quality
4 16 (4.79%) WCAG
5 12 (3.59%) TickIT
6 11 (3.29%) GDPR
7 10 (2.99%) SLA
8 4 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.90%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.90%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.60%) Basel III
10 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.30%) Dublin Core
11 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.30%) PERC
System Software
1 48 (14.37%) Docker
2 5 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.20%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.20%) vSphere
4 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (7.19%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.89%) Ansible
3 7 (2.10%) Kibana
4 5 (1.50%) Grafana
5 4 (1.20%) Packer
6 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.30%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.30%) logstash
7 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 114 (34.13%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.29%) Adobe
3 17 (5.09%) Google
4 14 (4.19%) Splunk
5 10 (2.99%) SAP
6 9 (2.69%) IBM
7 8 (2.40%) Dynatrace
8 7 (2.10%) Oracle
9 6 (1.80%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.50%) Databricks
10 5 (1.50%) Pega
10 5 (1.50%) VMware
11 4 (1.20%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.20%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.90%) CheckPoint
12 3 (0.90%) Cisco
12 3 (0.90%) McAfee
12 3 (0.90%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.90%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.90%) ServiceNow