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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 136 136
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 +20
Permanent jobs citing JSON 22 12 26
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.82% 0.37% 1.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.58% 1.76% 4.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 23
10th Percentile £43,400 - £45,000
25th Percentile £45,875 £39,250 £49,093
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £44,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% -25.83% -
75th Percentile £64,375 £49,750 £77,542
90th Percentile £73,000 £56,850 £96,539
UK median annual salary £61,250 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.52% -11.54% -3.70%

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 394 682 627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 14.64% 20.96% 25.83%
Number of salaries quoted 92 375 516
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £80,313 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,870 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%

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 28 October 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 28 October 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 +26 18 - - 5
Glasgow -11 4 £50,000 +12.36% 1
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:

Business Applications
1 12 (54.55%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 18 (81.82%) Azure
2 17 (77.27%) Azure DevOps
2 17 (77.27%) GitHub
3 13 (59.09%) AWS
4 12 (54.55%) Entra ID
4 12 (54.55%) OCI
5 5 (22.73%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (22.73%) Azure Event Grid
5 5 (22.73%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (22.73%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (22.73%) Azure Service Bus
5 5 (22.73%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (9.09%) Serverless
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.55%) Boomi
7 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) HTTP
2 1 (4.55%) FTP
2 1 (4.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
1 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.55%) MySQL
2 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (63.64%) Jenkins
2 12 (54.55%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (9.09%) Maven
4 1 (4.55%) Ant
4 1 (4.55%) IntelliJ
4 1 (4.55%) Jasmine
4 1 (4.55%) JUnit
4 1 (4.55%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (4.55%) Protractor
4 1 (4.55%) Selenium
4 1 (4.55%) Storybook
4 1 (4.55%) WebDriver
4 1 (4.55%) webpack
General
1 19 (86.36%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Marketing
3 1 (4.55%) Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Law
3 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Applications Engineer
1 12 (54.55%) Cloud Engineer
1 12 (54.55%) Senior
1 12 (54.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (4.55%) Analyst
3 1 (4.55%) Applications Support
3 1 (4.55%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (4.55%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (4.55%) Integration Developer
3 1 (4.55%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
3 1 (4.55%) Java Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (77.27%) RESTful
2 14 (63.64%) SOAP
2 14 (63.64%) XML
3 5 (22.73%) OAuth
3 5 (22.73%) OAuth2
4 4 (18.18%) REST
5 3 (13.64%) HTML
5 3 (13.64%) Web Services
6 2 (9.09%) CSS
6 2 (9.09%) J2EE
6 2 (9.09%) JMS
6 2 (9.09%) Spring
7 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
7 1 (4.55%) Bootstrap
7 1 (4.55%) Hibernate
7 1 (4.55%) HTML5
7 1 (4.55%) jQuery
7 1 (4.55%) Kafka
7 1 (4.55%) Middleware
7 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (59.09%) Cloud Native
2 12 (54.55%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.55%) Freedom of Information
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 19 (86.36%) Test Automation
3 18 (81.82%) Asset Management
3 18 (81.82%) Coaching
3 18 (81.82%) DevOps
4 17 (77.27%) Observability
4 17 (77.27%) Root Cause Analysis
5 15 (68.18%) Agile
6 12 (54.55%) API Integration
6 12 (54.55%) Business Strategy
6 12 (54.55%) Data Governance
6 12 (54.55%) ERP
6 12 (54.55%) Identity Access Management
6 12 (54.55%) Mentoring
6 12 (54.55%) Migration
6 12 (54.55%) Translating Business Requirements
7 7 (31.82%) Deployment Automation
8 6 (27.27%) Data Integration
9 5 (22.73%) ETL
9 5 (22.73%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) Java
1 15 (68.18%) SQL
2 12 (54.55%) PL/SQL
2 12 (54.55%) Python
2 12 (54.55%) Shell Script
3 5 (22.73%) Bicep
4 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.55%) Groovy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (54.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (77.27%) Terraform
2 12 (54.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (59.09%) Oracle
2 12 (54.55%) Okta
3 5 (22.73%) Ab Initio
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.55%) IBM
5 1 (4.55%) MuleSoft