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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 146 130
Rank change year-on-year -40 -16 +8
Permanent jobs citing JSON 28 52 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.37% 1.37% 1.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.89% 13.23% 7.98%
Number of salaries quoted 11 32 47
10th Percentile £47,500 - -
25th Percentile £53,125 £62,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -12.50% +52.38%
75th Percentile £67,500 £83,750 £83,125
90th Percentile - - £83,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% -7.14% +40.00%

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 720 393 890
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.57% 10.36% 19.47%
Number of salaries quoted 546 245 537
10th Percentile £45,000 £34,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +3.45% -3.33%

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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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -23 16 £65,000 -7.14% 8
Buckinghamshire -2 6 £60,000 +50.00% 1
Oxfordshire -36 6 £50,000 -37.50% 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 2 (7.14%) ArcGIS
2 1 (3.57%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) CMS
2 1 (3.57%) IIS
2 1 (3.57%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Lightworks
2 1 (3.57%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 14 (50.00%) AWS
2 13 (46.43%) Azure
3 6 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (21.43%) Serverless
4 5 (17.86%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (10.71%) SaaS
6 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) DNS
1 4 (14.29%) Firewall
2 3 (10.71%) HTTP
2 3 (10.71%) MQTT
2 3 (10.71%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (10.71%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (28.57%) Relational Database
3 5 (17.86%) RDBMS
4 4 (14.29%) MySQL
4 4 (14.29%) NoSQL
5 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
6 2 (7.14%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (7.14%) GIS
6 2 (7.14%) QGIS
6 2 (7.14%) Spotfire
7 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 5 (17.86%) JMeter
2 5 (17.86%) JUnit
2 5 (17.86%) Mockito
3 2 (7.14%) Git
3 2 (7.14%) GitLab
4 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
General
1 7 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Senior
2 9 (32.14%) Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Architect
4 4 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Integration Architect
4 4 (14.29%) Java Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Security Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Security Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Applications Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Java Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Optical Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (78.57%) XML
2 16 (57.14%) REST
3 10 (35.71%) RESTful
4 8 (28.57%) SOAP
5 7 (25.00%) HTML
6 6 (21.43%) Hibernate
6 6 (21.43%) jQuery
6 6 (21.43%) Kafka
6 6 (21.43%) Spring
6 6 (21.43%) Spring Boot
6 6 (21.43%) Web Services
7 5 (17.86%) ActiveMQ
7 5 (17.86%) Apache Camel
7 5 (17.86%) JWT
7 5 (17.86%) Middleware
7 5 (17.86%) WireMock
8 4 (14.29%) LDAP
8 4 (14.29%) OAuth
8 4 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (14.29%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 13 (46.43%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (32.14%) Cloud Native
3 5 (17.86%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (14.29%) Product Ownership
5 3 (10.71%) Onboarding
5 3 (10.71%) PKI
6 2 (7.14%) Life Science
6 2 (7.14%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
7 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (3.57%) AS400
7 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (21.43%) Windows
2 5 (17.86%) Linux
2 5 (17.86%) Windows Server
3 4 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) Agile
2 15 (53.57%) CI/CD
3 13 (46.43%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (35.71%) DevOps
5 9 (32.14%) Microservices
6 8 (28.57%) Data Integration
7 7 (25.00%) Data Modelling
7 7 (25.00%) Event-Driven
7 7 (25.00%) TDD
8 6 (21.43%) API Design
8 6 (21.43%) BDD
8 6 (21.43%) Integration Patterns
8 6 (21.43%) Integration Testing
8 6 (21.43%) Process Management
8 6 (21.43%) Software Engineering
8 6 (21.43%) Workflow
9 5 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (17.86%) Data Visualisation
9 5 (17.86%) Test Automation
9 5 (17.86%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Python
2 14 (50.00%) Java
3 13 (46.43%) SQL
4 9 (32.14%) Shell Script
5 7 (25.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (7.14%) C#
6 2 (7.14%) C++
6 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.57%) MATLAB
7 1 (3.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Degree
2 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
3 4 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 3 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (10.71%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) QA
2 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) SOC 2
3 1 (3.57%) ECSS
3 1 (3.57%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 12 (42.86%) Docker
2 4 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 4 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 5 (17.86%) Kibana
3 1 (3.57%) Ansible
3 1 (3.57%) Functional Safety
3 1 (3.57%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Dynatrace
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.86%) Splunk
3 4 (14.29%) VMware
4 3 (10.71%) McAfee
4 3 (10.71%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow