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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 124 197
Rank change year-on-year -1 +73 -16
Permanent jobs citing JSON 46 67 52
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.78% 1.95% 0.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.21% 15.06% 4.40%
Number of salaries quoted 34 53 37
10th Percentile £46,250 £36,250 £32,850
25th Percentile £55,000 £45,000 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £65,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +36.84% -22.45%
75th Percentile £71,250 £83,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £72,500 - £70,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -

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 560 445 1,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.48% 12.97% 15.96%
Number of salaries quoted 454 284 964
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £87,500
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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -5 30 £62,500 -24.24% 2
Buckinghamshire +9 14 £65,000 +30.00%
Oxfordshire -23 2 - - 4
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 (2.17%) Apache
1 1 (2.17%) ArcGIS
1 1 (2.17%) CMS
1 1 (2.17%) IIS
1 1 (2.17%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 22 (47.83%) AWS
2 19 (41.30%) Azure
3 10 (21.74%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (21.74%) Amazon EKS
3 10 (21.74%) OpenShift
3 10 (21.74%) Serverless
4 5 (10.87%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (10.87%) Amazon S3
4 5 (10.87%) Apigee
4 5 (10.87%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (10.87%) iPaaS
4 5 (10.87%) Kong
5 2 (4.35%) SaaS
6 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (34.78%) Firewall
2 6 (13.04%) DNS
3 5 (10.87%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (4.35%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (2.17%) HTTP
5 1 (2.17%) MQTT
5 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (13.04%) Relational Database
2 5 (10.87%) RDBMS
3 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.17%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (2.17%) GIS
4 1 (2.17%) MySQL
4 1 (2.17%) QGIS
4 1 (2.17%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 16 (34.78%) GitLab
2 11 (23.91%) Git
3 10 (21.74%) Jenkins
4 5 (10.87%) Cucumber
4 5 (10.87%) JIRA
4 5 (10.87%) JMeter
4 5 (10.87%) JUnit
4 5 (10.87%) Mockito
4 5 (10.87%) SonarQube
5 4 (8.70%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
General
1 24 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 20 (43.48%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (21.74%) Telecoms
4 5 (10.87%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.52%) Finance
5 3 (6.52%) Retail
6 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (30.43%) Architect
2 11 (23.91%) Applications Architect
3 10 (21.74%) Automation Engineer
3 10 (21.74%) Integration Architect
3 10 (21.74%) Network Engineer
3 10 (21.74%) Telecoms Engineer
4 8 (17.39%) Developer
5 7 (15.22%) Senior
6 6 (13.04%) Automation Specialist
6 6 (13.04%) Java Engineer
6 6 (13.04%) Network Specialist
6 6 (13.04%) Telecoms Specialist
7 5 (10.87%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Security Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Support Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Java Developer
9 3 (6.52%) Oracle Developer
9 3 (6.52%) Senior Developer
9 3 (6.52%) Senior Oracle Developer
10 2 (4.35%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (65.22%) XML
2 29 (63.04%) REST
3 14 (30.43%) YAML
4 12 (26.09%) Middleware
4 12 (26.09%) SOAP
5 10 (21.74%) HTML
5 10 (21.74%) Jinja
6 9 (19.57%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (15.22%) RESTful
8 6 (13.04%) jQuery
8 6 (13.04%) JSON Schema
8 6 (13.04%) Kafka
8 6 (13.04%) LDAP
8 6 (13.04%) OAuth
8 6 (13.04%) OAuth2
8 6 (13.04%) Regular Expression
9 5 (10.87%) ActiveMQ
9 5 (10.87%) Hibernate
9 5 (10.87%) Spring
9 5 (10.87%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.78%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (32.61%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (10.87%) Cloud Native
3 5 (10.87%) Product Ownership
4 4 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (8.70%) Onboarding
5 3 (6.52%) PMI
6 2 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (4.35%) AS400
6 2 (4.35%) PKI
6 2 (4.35%) Security Posture
7 1 (2.17%) Life Science
7 1 (2.17%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 16 (34.78%) Linux
2 7 (15.22%) Windows
2 7 (15.22%) Windows Server
3 6 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (10.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (58.70%) CI/CD
2 26 (56.52%) Agile
3 23 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (43.48%) Microservices
5 17 (36.96%) Containerisation
6 16 (34.78%) DevOps
7 13 (28.26%) Data Modelling
8 12 (26.09%) CRM
8 12 (26.09%) ERP
8 12 (26.09%) Integration Patterns
8 12 (26.09%) TDD
9 11 (23.91%) Application Security
9 11 (23.91%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (23.91%) Test Automation
10 10 (21.74%) API Management
10 10 (21.74%) Task Automation
11 9 (19.57%) Computer Science
11 9 (19.57%) Secrets Management
12 8 (17.39%) SDLC
13 7 (15.22%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 26 (56.52%) Java
2 22 (47.83%) Python
3 17 (36.96%) SQL
4 15 (32.61%) JavaScript
5 12 (26.09%) Shell Script
6 5 (10.87%) Groovy
7 3 (6.52%) Perl
7 3 (6.52%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.17%) C#
8 1 (2.17%) PHP
8 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (26.09%) Degree
2 10 (21.74%) Security Cleared
3 8 (17.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (13.04%) DV Cleared
5 3 (6.52%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (6.52%) PMI Certification
5 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (36.96%) QA
2 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (26.09%) Docker
2 6 (13.04%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.04%) Terraform
3 5 (10.87%) Ansible
3 5 (10.87%) Kibana
4 4 (8.70%) Packer
Vendors
1 12 (26.09%) Red Hat
2 10 (21.74%) Cisco
3 6 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.04%) VMware
4 5 (10.87%) Dynatrace
4 5 (10.87%) F5
4 5 (10.87%) IBM
4 5 (10.87%) Juniper
4 5 (10.87%) Palo Alto
4 5 (10.87%) Splunk
5 4 (8.70%) AppDynamics
6 3 (6.52%) Oracle
7 2 (4.35%) McAfee
8 1 (2.17%) Atlassian
8 1 (2.17%) MuleSoft
8 1 (2.17%) webMethods