JSON Job Trends in Scotland

JSON
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring JSON skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 113 143
Rank change year-on-year -21 +30 +34
Permanent jobs citing JSON 18 85 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.70% 1.97% 0.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.72% 7.62% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 19
10th Percentile £43,400 £41,125 £44,500
25th Percentile £45,875 £43,000 £49,093
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,750 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% -22.42% +1.62%
75th Percentile £64,375 £67,500 £77,542
90th Percentile £73,000 - £96,539
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 381 1,115 692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.92% 25.85% 26.03%
Number of salaries quoted 99 441 561
10th Percentile £40,050 £35,000 £39,000
25th Percentile £49,375 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +3.90%
75th Percentile £80,625 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,700 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%

JSON
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing JSON as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for JSON in Scotland

JSON
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing JSON.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing JSON

JSON
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing JSON in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for JSON in Scotland

JSON
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JSON within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 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
Edinburgh +19 14 - - 5
Glasgow -6 4 £50,000 +12.36% 1
JSON
UK

JSON
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Business Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) AWS
2 10 (55.56%) Azure
2 10 (55.56%) Azure DevOps
2 10 (55.56%) GitHub
3 8 (44.44%) Entra ID
3 8 (44.44%) OCI
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (5.56%) Boomi
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) HTTP
2 1 (5.56%) FTP
2 1 (5.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
1 2 (11.11%) Tableau
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 8 (44.44%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (11.11%) Maven
4 1 (5.56%) Ant
4 1 (5.56%) IntelliJ
4 1 (5.56%) Jasmine
4 1 (5.56%) JUnit
4 1 (5.56%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (5.56%) Protractor
4 1 (5.56%) Selenium
4 1 (5.56%) WebDriver
4 1 (5.56%) webpack
General
1 12 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Law
5 1 (5.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Applications Engineer
1 8 (44.44%) Cloud Engineer
1 8 (44.44%) Senior
1 8 (44.44%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Applications Support
4 1 (5.56%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Integration Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (61.11%) XML
2 10 (55.56%) RESTful
2 10 (55.56%) SOAP
3 4 (22.22%) HTML
3 4 (22.22%) REST
4 3 (16.67%) Web Services
5 2 (11.11%) CSS
5 2 (11.11%) J2EE
5 2 (11.11%) JMS
5 2 (11.11%) OAuth
5 2 (11.11%) OAuth2
5 2 (11.11%) Spring
6 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
6 1 (5.56%) Bootstrap
6 1 (5.56%) Flask
6 1 (5.56%) HTML5
6 1 (5.56%) Kafka
6 1 (5.56%) React
6 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
6 1 (5.56%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Cloud Native
1 8 (44.44%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.56%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (5.56%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Agile
1 12 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 12 (66.67%) DevOps
2 11 (61.11%) Test Automation
3 10 (55.56%) Asset Management
3 10 (55.56%) Coaching
3 10 (55.56%) Migration
3 10 (55.56%) Observability
3 10 (55.56%) Root Cause Analysis
4 9 (50.00%) Mentoring
5 8 (44.44%) API Integration
5 8 (44.44%) Business Strategy
5 8 (44.44%) Data Governance
5 8 (44.44%) ERP
5 8 (44.44%) Identity Access Management
5 8 (44.44%) Translating Business Requirements
6 4 (22.22%) Analytics
7 3 (16.67%) Data Integration
7 3 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (16.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) SQL
2 12 (66.67%) Java
3 9 (50.00%) Python
4 8 (44.44%) PL/SQL
4 8 (44.44%) Shell Script
5 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
6 2 (11.11%) Bicep
7 1 (5.56%) Groovy
7 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Terraform
2 8 (44.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Oracle
2 8 (44.44%) Okta
3 2 (11.11%) Ab Initio
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) IBM
4 1 (5.56%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.56%) Workday