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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 121 155
Rank change year-on-year -27 +34 +10
Permanent jobs citing JSON 43 71 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.66% 1.99% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.92% 16.25% 5.85%
Number of salaries quoted 29 52 32
10th Percentile £46,250 £36,250 £34,900
25th Percentile £51,250 £62,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +47.37% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £73,750 - -
South East median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +5.73%

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 621 437 837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.54% 12.24% 15.96%
Number of salaries quoted 481 273 652
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +10.43% -11.54%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £87,375
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%

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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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -14 28 £62,500 -21.88% 8
Buckinghamshire -4 10 £60,000 +20.00% 2
Oxfordshire -23 5 £50,000 +33.33% 1
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 (4.65%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.33%) Apache
2 1 (2.33%) CMS
2 1 (2.33%) IIS
2 1 (2.33%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 24 (55.81%) AWS
2 18 (41.86%) Azure
3 10 (23.26%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (23.26%) Amazon EKS
3 10 (23.26%) OpenShift
3 10 (23.26%) Serverless
4 5 (11.63%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (11.63%) Amazon S3
4 5 (11.63%) Apigee
4 5 (11.63%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (11.63%) Kong
5 3 (6.98%) SaaS
6 2 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.65%) GCP
7 1 (2.33%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (39.53%) Firewall
2 7 (16.28%) DNS
3 5 (11.63%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (6.98%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (4.65%) HTTP
5 2 (4.65%) MQTT
5 2 (4.65%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) Relational Database
2 6 (13.95%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (11.63%) RDBMS
4 2 (4.65%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (4.65%) GIS
4 2 (4.65%) QGIS
4 2 (4.65%) Spotfire
4 2 (4.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (39.53%) GitLab
2 11 (25.58%) Git
3 10 (23.26%) Jenkins
4 5 (11.63%) Cucumber
4 5 (11.63%) JIRA
4 5 (11.63%) JMeter
4 5 (11.63%) JUnit
4 5 (11.63%) Mockito
4 5 (11.63%) SonarQube
5 4 (9.30%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 18 (41.86%) Social Skills
2 14 (32.56%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (23.26%) Telecoms
4 5 (11.63%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (11.63%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (23.26%) Architect
1 10 (23.26%) Automation Engineer
1 10 (23.26%) Network Engineer
1 10 (23.26%) Telecoms Engineer
2 7 (16.28%) Applications Architect
3 6 (13.95%) Automation Specialist
3 6 (13.95%) Integration Architect
3 6 (13.95%) Java Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Network Specialist
3 6 (13.95%) Senior
3 6 (13.95%) Telecoms Specialist
4 5 (11.63%) Developer
4 5 (11.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Security Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Support Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Java Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Security Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Design Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Integration Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (67.44%) XML
2 26 (60.47%) REST
3 14 (32.56%) YAML
4 10 (23.26%) Jinja
5 9 (20.93%) RabbitMQ
5 9 (20.93%) RESTful
6 8 (18.60%) Middleware
6 8 (18.60%) SOAP
7 7 (16.28%) HTML
7 7 (16.28%) JSON Schema
7 7 (16.28%) Kafka
7 7 (16.28%) LDAP
7 7 (16.28%) Regular Expression
8 6 (13.95%) jQuery
8 6 (13.95%) OAuth
8 6 (13.95%) OAuth2
9 5 (11.63%) ActiveMQ
9 5 (11.63%) Hibernate
9 5 (11.63%) Spring
9 5 (11.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (41.86%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (18.60%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (13.95%) Cloud Native
4 5 (11.63%) Product Ownership
5 4 (9.30%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (9.30%) Onboarding
6 3 (6.98%) PKI
7 2 (4.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (4.65%) AS400
7 2 (4.65%) Life Science
7 2 (4.65%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (4.65%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (39.53%) Linux
2 8 (18.60%) Windows
2 8 (18.60%) Windows Server
3 7 (16.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (11.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (65.12%) CI/CD
2 24 (55.81%) Agile
3 20 (46.51%) Microservices
4 18 (41.86%) Containerisation
4 18 (41.86%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (39.53%) DevOps
6 12 (27.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (27.91%) Test Automation
7 10 (23.26%) API Management
7 10 (23.26%) Data Modelling
7 10 (23.26%) Task Automation
8 9 (20.93%) Integration Patterns
8 9 (20.93%) Secrets Management
9 8 (18.60%) CRM
9 8 (18.60%) ERP
9 8 (18.60%) TDD
10 7 (16.28%) API Design
10 7 (16.28%) Integration Testing
10 7 (16.28%) Project Delivery
10 7 (16.28%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (58.14%) Python
2 21 (48.84%) Java
3 13 (30.23%) Shell Script
4 12 (27.91%) JavaScript
4 12 (27.91%) SQL
5 5 (11.63%) Groovy
6 3 (6.98%) Perl
7 2 (4.65%) C#
7 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.33%) C++
8 1 (2.33%) PHP
8 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 7 (16.28%) DV Cleared
3 6 (13.95%) Degree
4 4 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
6 2 (4.65%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (30.23%) QA
2 2 (4.65%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.65%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (30.23%) Docker
2 7 (16.28%) Active Directory
2 7 (16.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (39.53%) Kubernetes
2 7 (16.28%) Terraform
3 5 (11.63%) Ansible
3 5 (11.63%) Kibana
4 4 (9.30%) Packer
Vendors
1 13 (30.23%) Red Hat
2 10 (23.26%) Cisco
3 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
3 7 (16.28%) VMware
4 5 (11.63%) Dynatrace
4 5 (11.63%) F5
4 5 (11.63%) IBM
4 5 (11.63%) Juniper
4 5 (11.63%) Palo Alto
4 5 (11.63%) Splunk
5 4 (9.30%) AppDynamics
6 3 (6.98%) McAfee
7 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.33%) MuleSoft
7 1 (2.33%) webMethods