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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 100 159
Rank change year-on-year -33 +59 +46
Permanent jobs citing JSON 36 63 77
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.74% 2.32% 1.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.91% 12.78% 6.48%
Number of salaries quoted 29 55 59
10th Percentile £37,500 - £34,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% +5.26% -27.34%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £68,125
90th Percentile - - £83,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -5.98%

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 404 493 1,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.33% 18.15% 19.03%
Number of salaries quoted 307 348 958
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,250 £47,500 £45,825
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £92,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -8 27 £67,500 -18.18% 10
Buckinghamshire -16 9 £57,500 +15.00% 5
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 11 (30.56%) AWS
2 10 (27.78%) Azure
2 10 (27.78%) OpenShift
3 5 (13.89%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (13.89%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (13.89%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (13.89%) Apigee
3 5 (13.89%) iPaaS
3 5 (13.89%) Kong
3 5 (13.89%) Serverless
4 1 (2.78%) Boomi
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.78%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.78%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 13 (36.11%) Firewall
2 5 (13.89%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (8.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) OLTP
1 6 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 5 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (13.89%) RDBMS
3 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (27.78%) GitLab
2 5 (13.89%) Git
2 5 (13.89%) Jenkins
2 5 (13.89%) JMeter
2 5 (13.89%) JUnit
2 5 (13.89%) Mockito
General
1 25 (69.44%) Social Skills
2 18 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (27.78%) Telecoms
4 5 (13.89%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.33%) Finance
5 3 (8.33%) Retail
6 1 (2.78%) Law
6 1 (2.78%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (50.00%) Developer
2 10 (27.78%) Automation Engineer
2 10 (27.78%) Network Engineer
2 10 (27.78%) Telecoms Engineer
3 9 (25.00%) Oracle Developer
3 9 (25.00%) Senior
3 9 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 9 (25.00%) Senior Oracle Developer
4 6 (16.67%) Applications Architect
4 6 (16.67%) Architect
4 6 (16.67%) Automation Specialist
4 6 (16.67%) Network Specialist
4 6 (16.67%) Telecoms Specialist
5 5 (13.89%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (13.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 5 (13.89%) Integration Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Java Developer
5 5 (13.89%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 4 (11.11%) Integration Architect
6 4 (11.11%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (61.11%) XML
2 19 (52.78%) REST
3 14 (38.89%) HTML
4 10 (27.78%) Jinja
4 10 (27.78%) YAML
5 6 (16.67%) Web Services
6 5 (13.89%) ActiveMQ
6 5 (13.89%) Apache Camel
6 5 (13.89%) Hibernate
6 5 (13.89%) jQuery
6 5 (13.89%) SOAP
6 5 (13.89%) Spring
6 5 (13.89%) Spring Boot
6 5 (13.89%) WireMock
6 5 (13.89%) YANG
7 4 (11.11%) Middleware
8 3 (8.33%) JSON Schema
8 3 (8.33%) LDAP
8 3 (8.33%) Regular Expression
9 1 (2.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (55.56%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (13.89%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (8.33%) PMI
4 1 (2.78%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.00%) Linux
2 6 (16.67%) Unix
3 3 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (8.33%) Windows
3 3 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 13 (36.11%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (30.56%) Containerisation
4 10 (27.78%) Agile
4 10 (27.78%) API Management
4 10 (27.78%) Microservices
4 10 (27.78%) Task Automation
5 9 (25.00%) Configuration Management
5 9 (25.00%) Issue Tracking
5 9 (25.00%) TDD
6 8 (22.22%) SDLC
7 7 (19.44%) Application Security
8 6 (16.67%) Clean Code
9 5 (13.89%) API Integration
9 5 (13.89%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (13.89%) Process Management
9 5 (13.89%) Project Delivery
9 5 (13.89%) Secrets Management
9 5 (13.89%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 20 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 19 (52.78%) Java
3 18 (50.00%) SQL
4 16 (44.44%) Python
5 9 (25.00%) PL/SQL
5 9 (25.00%) Shell Script
6 4 (11.11%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.78%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 7 (19.44%) Degree
3 4 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 3 (8.33%) Numerate Degree
4 3 (8.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 4 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) Docker
2 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (13.89%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (27.78%) Cisco
1 10 (27.78%) Oracle
1 10 (27.78%) Red Hat
2 5 (13.89%) Dynatrace
2 5 (13.89%) F5
2 5 (13.89%) Juniper
2 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.89%) Palo Alto
2 5 (13.89%) Splunk
3 3 (8.33%) VMware
4 1 (2.78%) Dell
4 1 (2.78%) Epicor
4 1 (2.78%) IBM
4 1 (2.78%) Informatica
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