JSON Job Trends in the Thames Valley

JSON
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring JSON skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 94 116
Rank change year-on-year -40 +22 +99
Permanent jobs citing JSON 36 92 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.91% 2.61% 1.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.37% 11.39% 7.51%
Number of salaries quoted 22 67 45
10th Percentile £37,500 - £37,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £36,250 £46,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +52.38% -25.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile - - £83,750
South East median annual salary £56,250 £70,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -19.64% +33.33% -16.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 347 808 759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.74% 22.89% 23.67%
Number of salaries quoted 252 487 564
10th Percentile £35,085 £38,750 £42,798
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £95,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £58,175
% change year-on-year - +3.14% -3.04%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

JSON job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing JSON.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing JSON

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing JSON in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Salary histogram for JSON in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JSON within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 24 December 2025. 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
Berkshire -27 30 £70,000 -15.15% 26
Buckinghamshire +10 6 £40,000 - 9
JSON
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (2.78%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (44.44%) AWS
2 15 (41.67%) Amazon EC2
3 14 (38.89%) Amazon ECS
3 14 (38.89%) Amazon EKS
3 14 (38.89%) Serverless
4 2 (5.56%) Azure
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.78%) Boomi
5 1 (2.78%) iPaaS
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.78%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.78%) SonarCloud
5 1 (2.78%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (41.67%) Relational Database
2 14 (38.89%) OLTP
2 14 (38.89%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (38.89%) RDBMS
3 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 15 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 14 (38.89%) JMeter
2 14 (38.89%) JUnit
2 14 (38.89%) Mockito
3 1 (2.78%) Git
3 1 (2.78%) GitLab
3 1 (2.78%) MSBuild
3 1 (2.78%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (2.78%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.78%) Testinfra
3 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 15 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (38.89%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.56%) Retail
5 1 (2.78%) Finance
5 1 (2.78%) Law
5 1 (2.78%) Legal
Job Titles
1 33 (91.67%) Developer
2 15 (41.67%) Oracle Developer
2 15 (41.67%) Senior
2 15 (41.67%) Senior Developer
2 15 (41.67%) Senior Oracle Developer
3 14 (38.89%) Full-Stack Developer
3 14 (38.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 14 (38.89%) Java Developer
3 14 (38.89%) Mid-Level Java Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Integration Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Data Integration Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Data Integration Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Integration Developer
5 4 (11.11%) SQL Developer
6 1 (2.78%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Platform Integration Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (83.33%) HTML
2 20 (55.56%) REST
2 20 (55.56%) XML
3 15 (41.67%) Web Services
4 14 (38.89%) ActiveMQ
4 14 (38.89%) Apache Camel
4 14 (38.89%) Hibernate
4 14 (38.89%) jQuery
4 14 (38.89%) Spring
4 14 (38.89%) Spring Boot
4 14 (38.89%) WireMock
5 1 (2.78%) .NET
5 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.78%) Bootstrap
5 1 (2.78%) CSS
5 1 (2.78%) gRPC
5 1 (2.78%) RESTful
5 1 (2.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (41.67%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (38.89%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.78%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.78%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Linux
2 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) Agile
1 15 (41.67%) CI/CD
1 15 (41.67%) Configuration Management
1 15 (41.67%) Issue Tracking
1 15 (41.67%) Microservices
1 15 (41.67%) SDLC
2 14 (38.89%) BDD
2 14 (38.89%) Clean Code
2 14 (38.89%) Full-Stack Development
2 14 (38.89%) Process Management
2 14 (38.89%) TDD
2 14 (38.89%) Workflow
3 4 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
3 4 (11.11%) Data Integration
3 4 (11.11%) Data Protection
4 3 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (2.78%) Collaborative Engineering
6 1 (2.78%) Proactive Monitoring
6 1 (2.78%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 31 (86.11%) JavaScript
2 30 (83.33%) Java
3 21 (58.33%) SQL
4 15 (41.67%) PL/SQL
4 15 (41.67%) Python
4 15 (41.67%) Shell Script
5 4 (11.11%) T-SQL
6 2 (5.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) Degree
2 1 (2.78%) Numerate Degree
2 1 (2.78%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 14 (38.89%) Kibana
3 1 (2.78%) Ansible
3 1 (2.78%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (44.44%) Oracle
2 14 (38.89%) Dynatrace
2 14 (38.89%) Splunk
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.78%) Dell
4 1 (2.78%) Epicor
4 1 (2.78%) IBM
4 1 (2.78%) IFS
4 1 (2.78%) Infor
4 1 (2.78%) Informatica
4 1 (2.78%) Jitterbit
4 1 (2.78%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.78%) SAP
4 1 (2.78%) SnapLogic
4 1 (2.78%) Software AG
4 1 (2.78%) Talend
4 1 (2.78%) TIBCO
4 1 (2.78%) Workday