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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 129 147
Rank change year-on-year -19 +18 +76
Permanent jobs citing JSON 60 59 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.52% 1.22% 1.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.38% 7.02% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 39 40 30
10th Percentile - - £37,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £36,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +52.38% -10.26%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £55,250
90th Percentile - £83,750 £73,375
South East median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +33.33% -12.50%

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 390 841 1,077
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.88% 17.35% 28.10%
Number of salaries quoted 232 573 803
10th Percentile £37,600 £38,750 £42,560
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £56,763 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.70% -5.40% +4.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing JSON as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for JSON 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 14 September 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 14 September 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 0 54 £70,000 -12.50% 3
Oxfordshire +20 5 £65,000 +73.33% 1
Buckinghamshire -3 1 £90,000 +89.47% 1
JSON
South East

JSON
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.67%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 20 (33.33%) AWS
2 18 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
2 18 (30.00%) Azure
2 18 (30.00%) Serverless
3 17 (28.33%) Amazon ECS
3 17 (28.33%) Amazon EKS
4 15 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 15 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 15 (25.00%) SonarCloud
5 3 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.33%) iPaaS
6 2 (3.33%) OCI
7 1 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.67%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (31.67%) OLTP
2 17 (28.33%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (28.33%) RDBMS
2 17 (28.33%) Relational Database
3 15 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (3.33%) Power BI
5 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.67%) Power Query
5 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 17 (28.33%) JMeter
2 17 (28.33%) JUnit
2 17 (28.33%) Mockito
3 16 (26.67%) Visual Studio
4 15 (25.00%) Git
4 15 (25.00%) MSBuild
4 15 (25.00%) Octopus Deploy
4 15 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.67%) GitLab
5 1 (1.67%) Testinfra
General
1 21 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
1 21 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (28.33%) Public Sector
3 14 (23.33%) Retail
4 2 (3.33%) Finance
5 1 (1.67%) Billing
5 1 (1.67%) Legal
5 1 (1.67%) Marketing
5 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (61.67%) Developer
2 20 (33.33%) Senior
2 20 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 19 (31.67%) Oracle Developer
3 19 (31.67%) Senior Oracle Developer
4 16 (26.67%) Architect
4 16 (26.67%) Java Developer
5 15 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 15 (25.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 15 (25.00%) Technical Architect
6 9 (15.00%) Mid-Level Java Developer
7 3 (5.00%) Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) Oracle Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) Technical Analyst
9 1 (1.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 1 (1.67%) Linux Engineer
9 1 (1.67%) Linux Systems Engineer
9 1 (1.67%) Portal Developer
9 1 (1.67%) Product Owner
9 1 (1.67%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (85.00%) HTML
2 39 (65.00%) XML
3 36 (60.00%) REST
4 18 (30.00%) Web Services
5 17 (28.33%) ActiveMQ
5 17 (28.33%) Apache Camel
5 17 (28.33%) Hibernate
5 17 (28.33%) jQuery
5 17 (28.33%) Spring
5 17 (28.33%) Spring Boot
5 17 (28.33%) WireMock
6 16 (26.67%) .NET
6 16 (26.67%) ASP.NET
7 15 (25.00%) Bootstrap
7 15 (25.00%) CSS
7 15 (25.00%) gRPC
8 4 (6.67%) SOAP
9 2 (3.33%) Middleware
9 2 (3.33%) React
9 2 (3.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 20 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (28.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.67%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.67%) Educational Technology
3 1 (1.67%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (53.33%) Microservices
2 21 (35.00%) Agile
3 20 (33.33%) Workflow
4 19 (31.67%) CI/CD
4 19 (31.67%) Clean Code
4 19 (31.67%) Configuration Management
4 19 (31.67%) Issue Tracking
5 17 (28.33%) BDD
5 17 (28.33%) DevOps
5 17 (28.33%) Process Management
5 17 (28.33%) TDD
6 16 (26.67%) API Integration
6 16 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 15 (25.00%) Code Quality
7 15 (25.00%) Data Encryption
7 15 (25.00%) Design Patterns
7 15 (25.00%) Event-Driven
7 15 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 15 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 53 (88.33%) JavaScript
2 40 (66.67%) SQL
3 37 (61.67%) Java
4 20 (33.33%) PL/SQL
5 19 (31.67%) Python
6 17 (28.33%) Shell Script
7 15 (25.00%) C#
8 1 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.67%) DBS Check
2 1 (1.67%) Degree
2 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (26.67%) GDPR
2 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 33 (55.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 17 (28.33%) Kibana
3 1 (1.67%) Ansible
3 1 (1.67%) Packer
Vendors
1 22 (36.67%) Oracle
2 17 (28.33%) Dynatrace
2 17 (28.33%) Splunk
3 3 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.67%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow