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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 127 137
Rank change year-on-year +17 +10 -10
Permanent jobs citing JSON 41 13 87
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.37% 0.54% 2.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.17% 2.33% 6.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 36
10th Percentile £44,700 - £45,625
25th Percentile £49,125 £39,250 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,750 £46,029 £59,250
Median % change year-on-year +25.47% -22.31% +3.04%
75th Percentile £66,375 £67,712 £77,715
90th Percentile £70,800 £86,500 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -7.41%

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 367 558 1,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 12.22% 23.22% 32.29%
Number of salaries quoted 143 335 597
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,000 £37,408
25th Percentile £33,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,318 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -6.14% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,206 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +7.65% -8.89%

JSON
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JSON relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

JSON job vacancy trend 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 19 February 2026.

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 19 February 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
Edinburgh +33 40 £72,500 +2.61% 4
Glasgow +3 1 £43,000 -3.37%
JSON
UK

JSON
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (2.44%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 19 (46.34%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 39 (95.12%) Azure
2 33 (80.49%) Azure DevOps
2 33 (80.49%) GitHub
3 20 (48.78%) AWS
4 19 (46.34%) Entra ID
4 19 (46.34%) OCI
5 14 (34.15%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (34.15%) Azure Event Grid
5 14 (34.15%) Azure Logic Apps
5 14 (34.15%) Azure Monitor
5 14 (34.15%) Azure Service Bus
5 14 (34.15%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (14.63%) Serverless
7 1 (2.44%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle ODI
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.44%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (2.44%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (46.34%) Jenkins
1 19 (46.34%) Oracle Forms
2 6 (14.63%) Storybook
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle APEX
General
1 40 (97.56%) Finance
2 6 (14.63%) Marketing
3 1 (2.44%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (46.34%) Applications Engineer
1 19 (46.34%) Cloud Engineer
1 19 (46.34%) Senior
1 19 (46.34%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 10 (24.39%) Integration Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (2.44%) Data Engineer
4 1 (2.44%) Developer
4 1 (2.44%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (80.49%) RESTful
2 21 (51.22%) XML
3 20 (48.78%) SOAP
4 14 (34.15%) OAuth
4 14 (34.15%) OAuth2
5 6 (14.63%) JSON-LD
5 6 (14.63%) Next.js
5 6 (14.63%) React
6 1 (2.44%) JMS
6 1 (2.44%) Middleware
6 1 (2.44%) REST
6 1 (2.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (60.98%) Cloud Native
2 19 (46.34%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.44%) Freedom of Information
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (95.12%) Asset Management
1 39 (95.12%) CI/CD
1 39 (95.12%) Coaching
1 39 (95.12%) Test Automation
2 33 (80.49%) DevOps
2 33 (80.49%) Observability
2 33 (80.49%) Root Cause Analysis
3 20 (48.78%) Agile
3 20 (48.78%) Deployment Automation
4 19 (46.34%) API Integration
4 19 (46.34%) Business Strategy
4 19 (46.34%) Data Governance
4 19 (46.34%) ERP
4 19 (46.34%) Identity Access Management
4 19 (46.34%) Mentoring
4 19 (46.34%) Migration
4 19 (46.34%) Translating Business Requirements
5 15 (36.59%) Analytics
5 15 (36.59%) Data Integration
5 15 (36.59%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 20 (48.78%) Java
1 20 (48.78%) SQL
2 19 (46.34%) PL/SQL
2 19 (46.34%) Python
2 19 (46.34%) Shell Script
3 14 (34.15%) Bicep
4 6 (14.63%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.44%) Groovy
5 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (34.15%) GDPR
2 6 (14.63%) Accessibility
2 6 (14.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (46.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (80.49%) Terraform
2 19 (46.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (48.78%) Oracle
2 19 (46.34%) Okta
3 14 (34.15%) Ab Initio
4 1 (2.44%) MuleSoft