JSON Job Trends in the South East

JSON
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring JSON skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 179 254
Rank change year-on-year -37 +75 -35
Permanent jobs citing JSON 66 94 135
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.46% 1.22% 0.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.88% 7.78% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 53 82 98
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,063 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £79,500 - £83,750
England median annual salary £64,169 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.67% +4.17% -7.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,352 1,208 3,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.42% 15.65% 18.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,162 864 2,474
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £94,875 £83,750 £84,625
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JSON relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

JSON job vacancy trend in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing JSON.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing JSON

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing JSON in the South East over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for JSON in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JSON within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Thames Valley -5 44 £66,250 +1.92% 6
Berkshire -9 31 £67,500 -18.18% 2
Buckinghamshire +4 13 £65,000 +30.00% 1
Hampshire -20 12 £52,500 -4.55% 18
Surrey -25 9 £42,500 -34.62% 1
West Sussex - 1 - -
JSON
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (12.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.03%) Apache
2 2 (3.03%) Confluence
3 1 (1.52%) CMS
3 1 (1.52%) IIS
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.52%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 32 (48.48%) Azure
2 23 (34.85%) AWS
3 11 (16.67%) Serverless
4 10 (15.15%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (15.15%) OpenShift
4 10 (15.15%) SaaS
5 9 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (13.64%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (12.12%) Entra ID
6 8 (12.12%) Power Platform
7 7 (10.61%) Amazon S3
7 7 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (7.58%) Apigee
8 5 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (7.58%) iPaaS
8 5 (7.58%) Kong
9 4 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (3.03%) dbt
11 2 (3.03%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 14 (21.21%) Firewall
2 5 (7.58%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (6.06%) DNS
4 3 (4.55%) BGP
5 1 (1.52%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (25.76%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (15.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (13.64%) MySQL
4 8 (12.12%) Power BI
4 8 (12.12%) SQL Server
5 5 (7.58%) Relational Database
6 4 (6.06%) OLTP
6 4 (6.06%) RDBMS
7 2 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (3.03%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 17 (25.76%) Git
2 16 (24.24%) GitLab
3 10 (15.15%) Jenkins
4 7 (10.61%) JIRA
5 6 (9.09%) Cucumber
6 5 (7.58%) JMeter
6 5 (7.58%) JUnit
6 5 (7.58%) SonarQube
7 4 (6.06%) Artifactory
7 4 (6.06%) Mockito
8 3 (4.55%) Bitbucket
9 2 (3.03%) Selenium
10 1 (1.52%) Postman
10 1 (1.52%) REST Assured
10 1 (1.52%) Snyk
10 1 (1.52%) Toad
10 1 (1.52%) utPLSQL
General
1 40 (60.61%) Social Skills
2 35 (53.03%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (15.15%) Telecoms
4 6 (9.09%) Finance
5 5 (7.58%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.55%) Retail
8 1 (1.52%) Marketing
8 1 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (21.21%) Architect
1 14 (21.21%) Developer
2 11 (16.67%) Applications Architect
3 10 (15.15%) Automation Engineer
3 10 (15.15%) Integration Architect
3 10 (15.15%) Network Engineer
3 10 (15.15%) Telecoms Engineer
4 9 (13.64%) Analyst
4 9 (13.64%) Senior
5 8 (12.12%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 8 (12.12%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
5 8 (12.12%) Data Analyst
5 8 (12.12%) SQL Analyst
5 8 (12.12%) SQL Data Analyst
5 8 (12.12%) SSRS Analyst
6 7 (10.61%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (10.61%) Oracle Developer
6 7 (10.61%) Senior Developer
6 7 (10.61%) Senior Oracle Developer
7 6 (9.09%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (56.06%) XML
2 33 (50.00%) REST
3 17 (25.76%) SOAP
3 17 (25.76%) YAML
4 15 (22.73%) HTML
5 12 (18.18%) Middleware
6 10 (15.15%) Jinja
7 9 (13.64%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (9.09%) OAuth
8 6 (9.09%) OAuth2
9 5 (7.58%) jQuery
9 5 (7.58%) JWT
9 5 (7.58%) Kafka
9 5 (7.58%) RESTful
9 5 (7.58%) Web Services
9 5 (7.58%) YANG
10 4 (6.06%) CSS
10 4 (6.06%) Hibernate
10 4 (6.06%) LDAP
10 4 (6.06%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 19 (28.79%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (21.21%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (21.21%) Onboarding
3 9 (13.64%) Data Structures
4 4 (6.06%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.06%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.55%) PMI
6 2 (3.03%) AS400
6 2 (3.03%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.52%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 15 (22.73%) Linux
2 8 (12.12%) Windows
3 5 (7.58%) Unix
3 5 (7.58%) Windows Server
4 4 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (43.94%) CI/CD
2 28 (42.42%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (39.39%) Agile
4 21 (31.82%) Microservices
5 20 (30.30%) Data Modelling
5 20 (30.30%) DevOps
6 18 (27.27%) Task Automation
7 17 (25.76%) Containerisation
8 14 (21.21%) ERP
9 13 (19.70%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (18.18%) CRM
10 12 (18.18%) Integration Patterns
10 12 (18.18%) Test Automation
11 11 (16.67%) Application Security
11 11 (16.67%) Issue Tracking
11 11 (16.67%) TDD
12 10 (15.15%) API Management
13 9 (13.64%) Collaborative Working
13 9 (13.64%) Secrets Management
14 8 (12.12%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 36 (54.55%) SQL
2 33 (50.00%) Python
3 32 (48.48%) Java
4 22 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 11 (16.67%) PowerShell
6 9 (13.64%) PL/SQL
6 9 (13.64%) Shell Script
7 8 (12.12%) T-SQL
8 5 (7.58%) Groovy
9 3 (4.55%) Bicep
9 3 (4.55%) Perl
10 2 (3.03%) C#
11 1 (1.52%) C++
11 1 (1.52%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (18.18%) Degree
1 12 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (10.61%) SC Cleared
4 5 (7.58%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.55%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (4.55%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.52%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (24.24%) QA
2 8 (12.12%) Data Quality
2 8 (12.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 11 (16.67%) Docker
3 4 (6.06%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (21.21%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.58%) Ansible
2 5 (7.58%) Terraform
3 4 (6.06%) Kibana
3 4 (6.06%) Packer
Vendors
1 13 (19.70%) Cisco
2 12 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 10 (15.15%) Oracle
3 10 (15.15%) Red Hat
4 8 (12.12%) Palo Alto
5 5 (7.58%) F5
5 5 (7.58%) IBM
5 5 (7.58%) Juniper
6 4 (6.06%) AppDynamics
6 4 (6.06%) Dynatrace
6 4 (6.06%) Splunk
6 4 (6.06%) VMware
7 3 (4.55%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.52%) Adobe
8 1 (1.52%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.52%) Google
8 1 (1.52%) IFS
8 1 (1.52%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.52%) webMethods