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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 125 92
Rank change year-on-year +4 -33 +83
Permanent jobs citing JSON 16 14 245
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.49% 0.68% 3.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.44% 3.62% 11.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 32
10th Percentile - - £43,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £39,250 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £44,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +62.92% -22.61% -14.98%
75th Percentile £73,750 £85,000 £67,500
90th Percentile - £88,000 £91,866
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.88% +1.25% -7.69%

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 294 387 2,173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.98% 18.82% 34.29%
Number of salaries quoted 145 249 634
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,000 £98,529 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +8.75% -11.11%

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 20 May 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 +10 15 £72,500 -17.14%
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 (6.25%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 15 (93.75%) Azure
2 13 (81.25%) GitHub
3 12 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (43.75%) AWS
4 7 (43.75%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (37.50%) Azure Event Grid
5 6 (37.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (37.50%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (37.50%) Azure Service Bus
5 6 (37.50%) Entra ID
5 6 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (37.50%) OCI
6 2 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle ODI
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (6.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (12.50%) Storybook
3 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle APEX
General
1 15 (93.75%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Marketing
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Applications Engineer
1 6 (37.50%) Cloud Engineer
1 6 (37.50%) Integration Engineer
1 6 (37.50%) Senior
1 6 (37.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) QA Tester
3 1 (6.25%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (75.00%) RESTful
2 7 (43.75%) XML
3 6 (37.50%) OAuth
3 6 (37.50%) OAuth2
3 6 (37.50%) SOAP
4 2 (12.50%) JSON-LD
4 2 (12.50%) Next.js
4 2 (12.50%) React
5 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Test Automation
2 14 (87.50%) Asset Management
2 14 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 14 (87.50%) Coaching
3 12 (75.00%) DevOps
3 12 (75.00%) Observability
3 12 (75.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 8 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
5 7 (43.75%) Analytics
5 7 (43.75%) ETL
6 6 (37.50%) Agile
6 6 (37.50%) Data Governance
6 6 (37.50%) Data Integration
6 6 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (37.50%) ERP
6 6 (37.50%) Event-Driven
6 6 (37.50%) Identity Management
6 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (37.50%) Mentoring
6 6 (37.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
1 7 (43.75%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) Bicep
2 6 (37.50%) Java
2 6 (37.50%) PL/SQL
2 6 (37.50%) Shell Script
3 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) GDPR
2 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 2 (12.50%) WCAG
3 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (75.00%) Terraform
2 6 (37.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Oracle
2 6 (37.50%) Ab Initio
2 6 (37.50%) Okta
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft