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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 117 139
Rank change year-on-year -17 +22 +71
Permanent jobs citing JSON 53 81 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.46% 1.86% 1.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.54% 9.51% 5.36%
Number of salaries quoted 31 53 35
10th Percentile £37,500 - £37,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £36,250 £46,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +60.00% -18.37%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £53,750
90th Percentile - - £60,250
South East median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +15.00% -20.00%

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 341 852 914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.37% 19.57% 27.38%
Number of salaries quoted 212 497 635
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,000 £44,400
25th Percentile £43,438 £46,250 £50,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £63,856
Median % change year-on-year - -6.04% +6.43%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £94,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £59,563 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.46% -0.73% -

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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 4 November 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 4 November 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 -5 43 £70,000 -13.85% 20
Buckinghamshire +9 6 £40,000 - 2
Oxfordshire +10 4 £80,000 +113.33% 3
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 (1.89%) Anypoint
1 1 (1.89%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (1.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (1.89%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.89%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.89%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (1.89%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 23 (43.40%) AWS
2 20 (37.74%) Amazon EC2
2 20 (37.74%) Serverless
3 19 (35.85%) Amazon ECS
3 19 (35.85%) Amazon EKS
4 12 (22.64%) Azure
5 8 (15.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 8 (15.09%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (15.09%) Azure Service Bus
5 8 (15.09%) SonarCloud
6 3 (5.66%) iPaaS
7 2 (3.77%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.77%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.89%) Boomi
8 1 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.89%) OCI
8 1 (1.89%) SaaS
8 1 (1.89%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (37.74%) Relational Database
2 19 (35.85%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (35.85%) RDBMS
3 14 (26.42%) OLTP
4 8 (15.09%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (7.55%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.89%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.89%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (1.89%) Power BI
6 1 (1.89%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 20 (37.74%) Jenkins
2 19 (35.85%) JMeter
2 19 (35.85%) JUnit
2 19 (35.85%) Mockito
3 8 (15.09%) Git
3 8 (15.09%) MSBuild
3 8 (15.09%) Octopus Deploy
3 8 (15.09%) Team Foundation Server
3 8 (15.09%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.89%) GitLab
4 1 (1.89%) Testinfra
General
1 19 (35.85%) Public Sector
2 17 (32.08%) Social Skills
3 16 (30.19%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (15.09%) Retail
5 2 (3.77%) Legal
6 1 (1.89%) Billing
6 1 (1.89%) Finance
6 1 (1.89%) Law
6 1 (1.89%) Marketing
6 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (69.81%) Developer
2 18 (33.96%) Java Developer
3 17 (32.08%) Full-Stack Developer
3 17 (32.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 15 (28.30%) Mid-Level Java Developer
4 15 (28.30%) Senior
4 15 (28.30%) Senior Developer
5 14 (26.42%) Oracle Developer
5 14 (26.42%) Senior Oracle Developer
6 9 (16.98%) Architect
7 8 (15.09%) Technical Architect
8 5 (9.43%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (7.55%) Data Engineer
9 4 (7.55%) Data Integration Developer
9 4 (7.55%) Data Integration Engineer
9 4 (7.55%) Integration Developer
9 4 (7.55%) SQL Developer
10 2 (3.77%) Analyst
11 1 (1.89%) Consultant
11 1 (1.89%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (77.36%) HTML
2 37 (69.81%) XML
3 35 (66.04%) REST
4 21 (39.62%) Web Services
5 19 (35.85%) ActiveMQ
5 19 (35.85%) Apache Camel
5 19 (35.85%) Hibernate
5 19 (35.85%) jQuery
5 19 (35.85%) Spring
5 19 (35.85%) Spring Boot
5 19 (35.85%) WireMock
6 8 (15.09%) .NET
6 8 (15.09%) ASP.NET
6 8 (15.09%) Bootstrap
6 8 (15.09%) CSS
6 8 (15.09%) gRPC
7 4 (7.55%) SOAP
8 1 (1.89%) Node.js
8 1 (1.89%) RESTful
8 1 (1.89%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 19 (35.85%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (28.30%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.77%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.89%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.89%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.77%) Linux
2 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (50.94%) Microservices
2 23 (43.40%) Agile
3 21 (39.62%) CI/CD
3 21 (39.62%) Workflow
4 19 (35.85%) BDD
4 19 (35.85%) Process Management
4 19 (35.85%) TDD
5 18 (33.96%) Full-Stack Development
5 18 (33.96%) SDLC
6 14 (26.42%) Clean Code
6 14 (26.42%) Configuration Management
6 14 (26.42%) Issue Tracking
7 10 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (16.98%) API Integration
8 9 (16.98%) DevOps
8 9 (16.98%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (15.09%) Data Encryption
9 8 (15.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 8 (15.09%) Performance Optimisation
9 8 (15.09%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 44 (83.02%) JavaScript
2 35 (66.04%) Java
3 31 (58.49%) SQL
4 22 (41.51%) Python
5 20 (37.74%) Shell Script
6 15 (28.30%) PL/SQL
7 9 (16.98%) C#
8 4 (7.55%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (28.30%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.89%) DBS Check
2 1 (1.89%) Degree
2 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.89%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.87%) GDPR
2 4 (7.55%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 29 (54.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (39.62%) Kubernetes
2 19 (35.85%) Kibana
3 1 (1.89%) Ansible
3 1 (1.89%) Packer
Vendors
1 19 (35.85%) Dynatrace
1 19 (35.85%) Splunk
2 17 (32.08%) Oracle
3 6 (11.32%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.89%) Dell
4 1 (1.89%) Epicor
4 1 (1.89%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.89%) IBM
4 1 (1.89%) IFS
4 1 (1.89%) Infor
4 1 (1.89%) Informatica
4 1 (1.89%) Jitterbit
4 1 (1.89%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.89%) SAP
4 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.89%) SnapLogic
4 1 (1.89%) Software AG
4 1 (1.89%) Talend
4 1 (1.89%) TIBCO
4 1 (1.89%) Workday