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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 147 135
Rank change year-on-year -30 -12 +14
Permanent jobs citing JSON 29 54 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.39% 1.41% 1.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.00% 13.67% 7.60%
Number of salaries quoted 13 33 45
10th Percentile £48,250 - -
25th Percentile £55,000 £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 £82,500
90th Percentile £70,500 - £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 725 395 908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.66% 10.28% 19.21%
Number of salaries quoted 553 246 563
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,854 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,375 £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 5 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 5 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 -20 16 £65,000 -7.14% 10
Buckinghamshire +2 8 £60,000 -7.69% 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 (6.90%) ArcGIS
2 1 (3.45%) Apache
2 1 (3.45%) CMS
2 1 (3.45%) IIS
2 1 (3.45%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 16 (55.17%) AWS
2 14 (48.28%) Azure
3 7 (24.14%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (24.14%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (24.14%) Serverless
4 6 (20.69%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (10.34%) SaaS
6 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (6.90%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) DNS
1 4 (13.79%) Firewall
2 3 (10.34%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (6.90%) HTTP
3 2 (6.90%) MQTT
3 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (34.48%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (31.03%) Relational Database
3 6 (20.69%) RDBMS
4 3 (10.34%) MySQL
4 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.90%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (6.90%) GIS
5 2 (6.90%) QGIS
5 2 (6.90%) Spotfire
5 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
5 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Jenkins
2 6 (20.69%) JMeter
2 6 (20.69%) JUnit
2 6 (20.69%) Mockito
3 2 (6.90%) Git
3 2 (6.90%) GitLab
4 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
General
1 9 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
2 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Developer
2 8 (27.59%) Senior
3 7 (24.14%) Architect
4 5 (17.24%) Integration Architect
5 4 (13.79%) Applications Architect
5 4 (13.79%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Java Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Security Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Support Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Java Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Security Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Azure Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Data Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Integration Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Optical Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Systems Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (82.76%) XML
2 18 (62.07%) REST
3 11 (37.93%) RESTful
4 9 (31.03%) SOAP
5 8 (27.59%) HTML
6 7 (24.14%) Hibernate
6 7 (24.14%) jQuery
6 7 (24.14%) Kafka
6 7 (24.14%) Middleware
6 7 (24.14%) Spring
6 7 (24.14%) Spring Boot
6 7 (24.14%) Web Services
7 6 (20.69%) ActiveMQ
7 6 (20.69%) Apache Camel
7 6 (20.69%) JWT
7 6 (20.69%) WireMock
8 5 (17.24%) OAuth
8 5 (17.24%) OAuth2
8 5 (17.24%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (13.79%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 14 (48.28%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (31.03%) Cloud Native
3 5 (17.24%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (17.24%) Product Ownership
4 4 (13.79%) Onboarding
5 3 (10.34%) PKI
6 2 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (6.90%) AS400
6 2 (6.90%) Life Science
6 2 (6.90%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Windows
2 5 (17.24%) Linux
2 5 (17.24%) Windows Server
3 4 (13.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (72.41%) Agile
2 16 (55.17%) CI/CD
3 14 (48.28%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (37.93%) Microservices
5 10 (34.48%) DevOps
6 9 (31.03%) Data Modelling
6 9 (31.03%) TDD
7 8 (27.59%) Integration Patterns
8 7 (24.14%) API Design
8 7 (24.14%) BDD
8 7 (24.14%) CRM
8 7 (24.14%) Data Integration
8 7 (24.14%) ERP
8 7 (24.14%) Event-Driven
8 7 (24.14%) Integration Testing
8 7 (24.14%) Process Management
8 7 (24.14%) Software Engineering
8 7 (24.14%) Workflow
9 6 (20.69%) Computer Science
9 6 (20.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (58.62%) Java
2 14 (48.28%) Python
2 14 (48.28%) SQL
3 10 (34.48%) Shell Script
4 8 (27.59%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.90%) C#
5 2 (6.90%) C++
5 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Degree
2 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
3 4 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (13.79%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.90%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (48.28%) Docker
2 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (48.28%) Kubernetes
2 6 (20.69%) Kibana
3 1 (3.45%) Ansible
3 1 (3.45%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Dynatrace
2 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.69%) Splunk
3 4 (13.79%) VMware
4 3 (10.34%) McAfee
4 3 (10.34%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow