JSON Job Trends in the UK excluding London

JSON
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring JSON skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 273 254
Rank change year-on-year -63 -19 +38
Permanent jobs citing JSON 193 305 528
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.92% 1.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.71% 4.57% 4.82%
Number of salaries quoted 110 207 388
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £44,563 £39,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% -2.06%
75th Percentile £70,625 £78,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -7.41%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,098 6,676 10,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.78% 20.22% 22.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,124 3,744 8,796
10th Percentile £28,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £61,551
% change year-on-year -1.52% +7.23% -8.81%

JSON
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

JSON job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

JSON
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JSON.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JSON

JSON
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing JSON in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Salary histogram for JSON in the UK excluding London

JSON
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JSON within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
South East -62 54 £55,000 -12.00% 38
East of England +41 45 £55,000 -11.18% 6
Scotland +18 41 £43,000 -6.58% 7
North of England -28 26 £55,000 -4.35% 25
Midlands -14 24 £47,500 -9.52% 15
West Midlands 0 18 £47,500 -11.53% 10
North West +12 17 £55,000 -4.35% 18
East Midlands -19 6 £60,000 +15.38% 5
Yorkshire -54 5 £43,500 -17.14% 6
North East +1 4 £45,000 -41.94% 1
Northern Ireland -21 2 - -
South West -33 1 £60,000 -11.11% 10
JSON
UK

JSON
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (3.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.07%) CMS
3 3 (1.55%) Confluence
4 2 (1.04%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.52%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.52%) Appian
5 1 (0.52%) CICS
5 1 (0.52%) IIS
5 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (3.63%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (10.36%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (2.07%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.55%) SAP Business One
4 2 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.52%) Magento
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 80 (41.45%) Azure
2 48 (24.87%) GitHub
3 45 (23.32%) AWS
4 42 (21.76%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (13.99%) Entra ID
6 21 (10.88%) Power Platform
7 20 (10.36%) OCI
8 18 (9.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 16 (8.29%) Azure Logic Apps
9 16 (8.29%) Serverless
10 15 (7.77%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (7.25%) Azure Event Grid
11 14 (7.25%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (7.25%) Azure Service Bus
12 12 (6.22%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (5.18%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (5.18%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (5.18%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (5.18%) SaaS
14 8 (4.15%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.63%) FTP
2 2 (1.04%) BGP
3 1 (0.52%) DNS
3 1 (0.52%) HTTP
3 1 (0.52%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.52%) SSL
3 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.52%) VPN
3 1 (0.52%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (17.10%) Relational Database
2 30 (15.54%) SQL Server
3 20 (10.36%) Power BI
4 18 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (8.81%) MySQL
6 12 (6.22%) RDBMS
7 10 (5.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (3.11%) Metadata
8 6 (3.11%) OLTP
9 5 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.55%) Crystal Reports
11 3 (1.55%) NoSQL
12 2 (1.04%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (1.04%) Data Mining
12 2 (1.04%) Redis
12 2 (1.04%) Tableau
13 1 (0.52%) Adabas
13 1 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
13 1 (0.52%) DB2
Development Applications
1 35 (18.13%) Jenkins
2 20 (10.36%) Oracle Forms
3 11 (5.70%) Git
4 10 (5.18%) JUnit
5 9 (4.66%) JMeter
5 9 (4.66%) Mockito
6 6 (3.11%) Axure RP
6 6 (3.11%) Postman
6 6 (3.11%) Storybook
7 4 (2.07%) JIRA
8 2 (1.04%) GitLab
8 2 (1.04%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.52%) Maven
9 1 (0.52%) Selenium
9 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.52%) Testinfra
General
1 69 (35.75%) Finance
2 61 (31.61%) Social Skills
3 36 (18.65%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (11.92%) Retail
5 14 (7.25%) Public Sector
6 13 (6.74%) Marketing
7 10 (5.18%) Law
8 8 (4.15%) German Language
9 3 (1.55%) Electronics
9 3 (1.55%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.55%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.52%) Automotive
10 1 (0.52%) Banking
10 1 (0.52%) Legal
10 1 (0.52%) Local Government
10 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (36.27%) Developer
2 36 (18.65%) Senior
3 23 (11.92%) Analyst
4 22 (11.40%) Applications Engineer
5 21 (10.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 20 (10.36%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 15 (7.77%) Integration Engineer
8 13 (6.74%) Senior Developer
9 12 (6.22%) Full-Stack Developer
10 11 (5.70%) Java Developer
11 10 (5.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 9 (4.66%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 9 (4.66%) Oracle Developer
12 9 (4.66%) Senior Oracle Developer
12 9 (4.66%) ServiceNow Developer
13 8 (4.15%) Data Analyst
13 8 (4.15%) Support Engineer
14 7 (3.63%) Applications Support
14 7 (3.63%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 7 (3.63%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (63.21%) XML
2 65 (33.68%) HTML
3 64 (33.16%) REST
4 41 (21.24%) SOAP
5 37 (19.17%) RESTful
6 22 (11.40%) Regular Expression
6 22 (11.40%) Web Services
7 21 (10.88%) React
8 19 (9.84%) CSS
9 17 (8.81%) OAuth
10 14 (7.25%) Middleware
10 14 (7.25%) OAuth2
11 10 (5.18%) AngularJS
11 10 (5.18%) jQuery
11 10 (5.18%) Razor View Engine
11 10 (5.18%) Spring
11 10 (5.18%) Spring Boot
12 9 (4.66%) ActiveMQ
12 9 (4.66%) Apache Camel
12 9 (4.66%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 39 (20.21%) Onboarding
2 28 (14.51%) Cloud Native
3 23 (11.92%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (11.40%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (7.25%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (6.74%) Data Structures
7 12 (6.22%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (5.18%) Operational Technology
9 4 (2.07%) Low-Code
9 4 (2.07%) Semantic Web
10 3 (1.55%) PMI
10 3 (1.55%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.52%) Freedom of Information
11 1 (0.52%) IBM Mainframe
11 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.52%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.52%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.52%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.92%) Unix
2 3 (1.55%) Windows
3 2 (1.04%) Linux
4 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.52%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (31.61%) CI/CD
2 58 (30.05%) Agile
3 50 (25.91%) DevOps
4 48 (24.87%) Root Cause Analysis
5 47 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (23.32%) Test Automation
7 40 (20.73%) Asset Management
7 40 (20.73%) Coaching
8 36 (18.65%) Observability
9 35 (18.13%) API Integration
10 29 (15.03%) ERP
11 27 (13.99%) ETL
11 27 (13.99%) Translating Business Requirements
12 26 (13.47%) AI
12 26 (13.47%) Data Analysis
13 25 (12.95%) Migration
14 24 (12.44%) Business Intelligence
14 24 (12.44%) Data Governance
14 24 (12.44%) Data Integration
14 24 (12.44%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 101 (52.33%) SQL
2 80 (41.45%) Python
3 53 (27.46%) JavaScript
4 52 (26.94%) Java
5 31 (16.06%) PL/SQL
6 30 (15.54%) Shell Script
7 25 (12.95%) PowerShell
8 18 (9.33%) C#
9 17 (8.81%) Bicep
10 15 (7.77%) T-SQL
11 8 (4.15%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.04%) Groovy
13 1 (0.52%) ActionScript
13 1 (0.52%) ActionScript 2.0
13 1 (0.52%) C++
13 1 (0.52%) COBOL
13 1 (0.52%) JCL
13 1 (0.52%) Natural
13 1 (0.52%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 35 (18.13%) Degree
2 20 (10.36%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.66%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.55%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (1.55%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.52%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.52%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.29%) GDPR
2 15 (7.77%) Data Quality
3 12 (6.22%) Accessibility
3 12 (6.22%) QA
4 7 (3.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (3.11%) WCAG
6 3 (1.55%) HL7
7 2 (1.04%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (13.99%) Active Directory
2 15 (7.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (18.65%) Terraform
2 22 (11.40%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (5.70%) Kubernetes
4 9 (4.66%) Kibana
5 4 (2.07%) Ansible
6 1 (0.52%) Packer
Vendors
1 34 (17.62%) Oracle
2 22 (11.40%) Microsoft
3 20 (10.36%) Okta
4 14 (7.25%) Ab Initio
5 10 (5.18%) Splunk
6 9 (4.66%) Dynatrace
6 9 (4.66%) ServiceNow
7 8 (4.15%) SAP
8 6 (3.11%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.59%) HubSpot
10 4 (2.07%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.55%) Dell
11 3 (1.55%) Informatica
11 3 (1.55%) SnapLogic
12 2 (1.04%) Cisco
12 2 (1.04%) Fortinet
12 2 (1.04%) IBM
12 2 (1.04%) IFS
12 2 (1.04%) Palo Alto
12 2 (1.04%) Talend