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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 133 104
Rank change year-on-year -6 -29 +44
Permanent jobs citing JSON 2 15 117
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.052% 0.60% 2.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.77% 3.64% 9.00%
Number of salaries quoted 0 5 6
10th Percentile - - £43,000
25th Percentile - £39,250 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £44,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -28.80% -11.44%
75th Percentile - £50,000 £67,500
90th Percentile - £67,250 -
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.88% -6.54% -

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 260 412 1,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.75% 16.43% 28.57%
Number of salaries quoted 179 108 472
10th Percentile £44,350 £38,350 £36,352
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +5.83% -2.44%
75th Percentile £73,750 £81,563 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,500 £86,090 £80,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%

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
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 10 September 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
Glasgow 0 1 - - 10
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Avro
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Community of Practice
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft