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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 138 136
Rank change year-on-year -28 -2 +4
Permanent jobs citing JSON 35 54 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.47% 1.43% 1.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.78% 13.53% 7.58%
Number of salaries quoted 18 33 44
10th Percentile £50,125 - -
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -12.50% +52.38%
75th Percentile £70,313 £83,750 £82,813
90th Percentile £83,750 - £83,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% -7.14% +33.33%

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 732 399 910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.79% 10.59% 18.92%
Number of salaries quoted 559 246 567
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,052 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,938 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

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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 28 September 2026.

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 28 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
Berkshire -26 20 £65,000 -7.14% 11
Buckinghamshire +9 10 £60,000 -33.33% 3
Oxfordshire -29 5 £50,000 -37.50% 7
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 2 (5.71%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.86%) Apache
2 1 (2.86%) CMS
2 1 (2.86%) IIS
2 1 (2.86%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.86%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 20 (57.14%) AWS
2 15 (42.86%) Azure
3 11 (31.43%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (31.43%) Amazon EKS
3 11 (31.43%) Serverless
4 6 (17.14%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 5 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (11.43%) SaaS
7 2 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (5.71%) GCP
8 1 (2.86%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) DNS
1 4 (11.43%) Firewall
2 3 (8.57%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (5.71%) HTTP
3 2 (5.71%) MQTT
3 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.71%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (22.86%) Relational Database
3 6 (17.14%) RDBMS
4 3 (8.57%) MySQL
5 2 (5.71%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (5.71%) GIS
5 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.71%) QGIS
5 2 (5.71%) Spotfire
5 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (31.43%) Jenkins
2 7 (20.00%) GitLab
3 6 (17.14%) Git
3 6 (17.14%) JMeter
3 6 (17.14%) JUnit
3 6 (17.14%) Mockito
4 5 (14.29%) Cucumber
4 5 (14.29%) JIRA
4 5 (14.29%) SonarQube
5 4 (11.43%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
General
1 9 (25.71%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Developer
2 9 (25.71%) Senior
3 8 (22.86%) Architect
4 6 (17.14%) Integration Architect
4 6 (17.14%) Java Engineer
5 5 (14.29%) Applications Architect
5 5 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) Java Developer
6 4 (11.43%) Security Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) Support Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Senior Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Senior Security Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Azure Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Data Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) DevOps Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Integration Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Optical Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (71.43%) XML
2 24 (68.57%) REST
3 10 (28.57%) RESTful
3 10 (28.57%) SOAP
4 9 (25.71%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (22.86%) HTML
5 8 (22.86%) Middleware
6 7 (20.00%) jQuery
6 7 (20.00%) Kafka
6 7 (20.00%) Terraform
7 6 (17.14%) ActiveMQ
7 6 (17.14%) Apache Camel
7 6 (17.14%) Hibernate
7 6 (17.14%) JWT
7 6 (17.14%) OAuth
7 6 (17.14%) OAuth2
7 6 (17.14%) Spring
7 6 (17.14%) Spring Boot
7 6 (17.14%) Web Services
7 6 (17.14%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 19 (54.29%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (25.71%) Cloud Native
3 5 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (14.29%) Product Ownership
4 4 (11.43%) Onboarding
5 3 (8.57%) PKI
6 2 (5.71%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (5.71%) AS400
6 2 (5.71%) Life Science
6 2 (5.71%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
7 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (28.57%) Linux
2 6 (17.14%) Windows
3 5 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 4 (11.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (77.14%) Agile
2 21 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 16 (45.71%) Microservices
4 15 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (40.00%) DevOps
6 12 (34.29%) Test Automation
7 10 (28.57%) Data Modelling
8 9 (25.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (25.71%) Integration Patterns
8 9 (25.71%) TDD
9 8 (22.86%) Containerisation
9 8 (22.86%) CRM
9 8 (22.86%) ERP
10 7 (20.00%) API Design
10 7 (20.00%) Data Integration
10 7 (20.00%) Event-Driven
10 7 (20.00%) Integration Testing
10 7 (20.00%) Software Engineering
11 6 (17.14%) BDD
11 6 (17.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 22 (62.86%) Java
2 18 (51.43%) Python
3 15 (42.86%) SQL
4 11 (31.43%) Shell Script
5 8 (22.86%) JavaScript
6 5 (14.29%) Groovy
7 3 (8.57%) Perl
8 2 (5.71%) C#
8 2 (5.71%) C++
8 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
8 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.86%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 6 (17.14%) Degree
3 4 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (11.43%) DV Cleared
4 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.71%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (37.14%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.71%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (40.00%) Docker
2 4 (11.43%) Active Directory
2 4 (11.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (51.43%) Kubernetes
2 6 (17.14%) Kibana
3 5 (14.29%) Ansible
4 4 (11.43%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Dynatrace
1 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
1 6 (17.14%) Splunk
2 5 (14.29%) IBM
3 4 (11.43%) AppDynamics
3 4 (11.43%) VMware
4 3 (8.57%) McAfee
4 3 (8.57%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.86%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.86%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.86%) webMethods