JSON
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring JSON skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 308 241
Rank change year-on-year -114 -67 +37
Permanent jobs citing JSON 327 412 1,155
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.94% 1.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.64% 4.77% 5.66%
Number of salaries quoted 215 312 755
10th Percentile £40,600 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,526 £46,250 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,375 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.52% +0.63% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £94,500 £86,250 £84,900
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,976 8,636 20,408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.93% 19.75% 21.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6,606 6,233 15,765
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

JSON
Job Vacancy Trend

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

JSON job vacancy trend in the UK

JSON
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JSON.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JSON

JSON
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JSON over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for JSON in the UK

JSON
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JSON within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England -98 283 £64,169 +2.67% 123
UK excluding London -72 194 £60,000 +9.09% 84
Work from Home -12 140 £62,500 -0.40% 61
London -32 100 £65,000 -5.45% 46
South East -37 66 £62,500 -3.85% 36
East of England +8 50 £90,000 +89.47% 5
North of England -28 45 £57,500 +9.52% 27
North West -3 31 £61,250 +13.95% 15
Scotland +4 19 £72,500 +43.82% 1
Yorkshire -50 12 £57,000 +8.57% 9
Midlands -50 11 £47,500 -12.59% 10
West Midlands -39 7 £43,000 -20.87% 3
South West -61 6 £31,500 -47.50% 6
East Midlands -36 4 £47,500 -15.93% 7
North East -35 2 £46,250 -40.32% 3

JSON
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 29 (8.87%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.45%) CMS
4 7 (2.14%) IIS
4 7 (2.14%) WordPress
5 5 (1.53%) Drupal
6 4 (1.22%) Confluence
7 3 (0.92%) Apache
7 3 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.61%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.61%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.61%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.61%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.31%) CICS
9 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.31%) JBoss
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.31%) SAS
9 1 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.92%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.31%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.31%) EngageOne
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.31%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (2.14%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.61%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.31%) Magento
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.31%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 144 (44.04%) Azure
2 80 (24.46%) AWS
3 62 (18.96%) Power Platform
4 45 (13.76%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (11.62%) Azure Logic Apps
6 37 (11.31%) Microsoft 365
7 34 (10.40%) Serverless
8 32 (9.79%) Azure Data Factory
9 31 (9.48%) GitHub
10 27 (8.26%) PowerApps
10 27 (8.26%) SaaS
11 26 (7.95%) Power Automate
12 21 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (6.12%) OneDrive
14 19 (5.81%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 18 (5.50%) Dynamics 365
16 17 (5.20%) Boomi
17 15 (4.59%) Entra ID
18 14 (4.28%) Amazon EC2
19 13 (3.98%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.20%) Firewall
2 6 (1.83%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (1.83%) VPN
3 5 (1.53%) DNS
4 3 (0.92%) AMQP
4 3 (0.92%) BGP
4 3 (0.92%) SSL
5 2 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.61%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.61%) FTP
5 2 (0.61%) HTTP
5 2 (0.61%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.61%) LAN
5 2 (0.61%) PuTTY
5 2 (0.61%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.61%) WAN
6 1 (0.31%) CTI
6 1 (0.31%) DHCP
6 1 (0.31%) Modbus
6 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (16.51%) Power BI
2 36 (11.01%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (10.40%) MySQL
4 24 (7.34%) Relational Database
5 23 (7.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 22 (6.73%) SQL Server
7 19 (5.81%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (5.50%) Metadata
9 13 (3.98%) RDBMS
10 9 (2.75%) Electronic Patient Records
11 8 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (2.45%) Oracle Database
11 8 (2.45%) Redis
12 7 (2.14%) GIS
13 5 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (1.22%) MongoDB
14 4 (1.22%) OLTP
14 4 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
15 3 (0.92%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 45 (13.76%) Git
2 34 (10.40%) JIRA
3 31 (9.48%) Jenkins
4 22 (6.73%) GitLab
5 12 (3.67%) Postman
6 9 (2.75%) JUnit
7 8 (2.45%) Maven
8 7 (2.14%) ERwin
8 7 (2.14%) Oracle Forms
8 7 (2.14%) Selenium
9 6 (1.83%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.83%) Mockito
9 6 (1.83%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.53%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.53%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.53%) Gradle
10 5 (1.53%) JMeter
10 5 (1.53%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.53%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.22%) Artifactory
General
1 131 (40.06%) Social Skills
2 80 (24.46%) Analytical Skills
3 73 (22.32%) Finance
4 20 (6.12%) Marketing
5 19 (5.81%) Retail
6 18 (5.50%) Telecoms
7 17 (5.20%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (4.59%) Health Technology
9 12 (3.67%) Law
10 10 (3.06%) Advertising
10 10 (3.06%) German Language
11 8 (2.45%) Public Sector
12 7 (2.14%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.92%) Back Office
15 3 (0.92%) Banking
15 3 (0.92%) Billing
15 3 (0.92%) Local Government
16 2 (0.61%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 99 (30.28%) Developer
2 77 (23.55%) Senior
3 49 (14.98%) Senior Developer
4 31 (9.48%) Consultant
5 26 (7.95%) Analyst
5 26 (7.95%) Architect
6 20 (6.12%) Data Analyst
7 18 (5.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (5.20%) Support Engineer
9 15 (4.59%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (4.59%) Java Developer
10 14 (4.28%) Applications Engineer
11 12 (3.67%) Automation Engineer
11 12 (3.67%) Integration Engineer
12 11 (3.36%) Applications Architect
12 11 (3.36%) Integration Architect
12 11 (3.36%) Lead
12 11 (3.36%) Network Engineer
12 11 (3.36%) Telecoms Engineer
13 10 (3.06%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (48.62%) XML
2 112 (34.25%) REST
3 90 (27.52%) HTML
4 59 (18.04%) CSS
5 53 (16.21%) SOAP
6 48 (14.68%) .NET
7 41 (12.54%) RESTful
8 32 (9.79%) Middleware
9 31 (9.48%) YAML
10 30 (9.17%) .NET Core
11 26 (7.95%) OAuth
12 23 (7.03%) HTML5 Canvas
13 22 (6.73%) Regular Expression
14 20 (6.12%) JWT
14 20 (6.12%) OAuth2
15 19 (5.81%) Microsoft Graph
15 19 (5.81%) SPFx
15 19 (5.81%) Spring
16 18 (5.50%) React
16 18 (5.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 41 (12.54%) Onboarding
2 33 (10.09%) Data Structures
3 30 (9.17%) Linux Command Line
4 23 (7.03%) Self-Motivation
5 20 (6.12%) Cloud Native
5 20 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (3.98%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (3.98%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.75%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (2.75%) NHS
8 7 (2.14%) e-Learning
8 7 (2.14%) Operational Technology
8 7 (2.14%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.14%) SCADA
9 6 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.83%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.53%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.22%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.22%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.22%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 43 (13.15%) Linux
2 25 (7.65%) Unix
3 17 (5.20%) Windows
4 9 (2.75%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (28.13%) CI/CD
2 91 (27.83%) DevOps
3 80 (24.46%) Agile
4 73 (22.32%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (17.74%) Data Modelling
6 57 (17.43%) Business Intelligence
7 49 (14.98%) Test Automation
8 46 (14.07%) Microservices
9 45 (13.76%) API Integration
10 44 (13.46%) AI
11 40 (12.23%) ERP
12 39 (11.93%) User Experience
13 38 (11.62%) Data Analysis
14 36 (11.01%) Infrastructure as Code
15 35 (10.70%) Mentoring
16 34 (10.40%) Analytics
17 33 (10.09%) Containerisation
17 33 (10.09%) Validation
18 32 (9.79%) Integration Patterns
19 29 (8.87%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 164 (50.15%) SQL
2 118 (36.09%) Python
3 102 (31.19%) JavaScript
4 72 (22.02%) Java
5 46 (14.07%) C#
6 36 (11.01%) PowerShell
7 26 (7.95%) TypeScript
8 17 (5.20%) PL/SQL
8 17 (5.20%) Shell Script
9 15 (4.59%) PHP
10 11 (3.36%) Perl
11 10 (3.06%) Bicep
11 10 (3.06%) T-SQL
12 9 (2.75%) VB
13 6 (1.83%) Groovy
14 4 (1.22%) Ruby
14 4 (1.22%) VBA
15 3 (0.92%) ActionScript
15 3 (0.92%) ActionScript 2.0
16 2 (0.61%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 47 (14.37%) Degree
2 40 (12.23%) Security Cleared
3 25 (7.65%) SC Cleared
4 17 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.83%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.92%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (0.92%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.31%) CISSP
8 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.31%) GIAC
8 1 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.31%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (10.09%) QA
2 19 (5.81%) Accessibility
3 14 (4.28%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.67%) TickIT
5 11 (3.36%) GDPR
5 11 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (3.36%) SLA
6 10 (3.06%) HL7
7 9 (2.75%) WCAG
8 2 (0.61%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.31%) NCSC
9 1 (0.31%) NIST
9 1 (0.31%) PERC
System Software
1 37 (11.31%) Docker
2 19 (5.81%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.22%) vSphere
4 2 (0.61%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.31%) iptables
Systems Management
1 35 (10.70%) Terraform
2 32 (9.79%) Kubernetes
3 17 (5.20%) Ansible
4 7 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.53%) Kibana
6 4 (1.22%) Packer
7 2 (0.61%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.31%) Grafana
8 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.31%) QRadar
Vendors
1 71 (21.71%) Microsoft
2 32 (9.79%) Oracle
3 24 (7.34%) Adobe
4 16 (4.89%) Cisco
5 11 (3.36%) Red Hat
5 11 (3.36%) Splunk
6 9 (2.75%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.45%) Databricks
7 8 (2.45%) F5
8 7 (2.14%) Ab Initio
8 7 (2.14%) Okta
8 7 (2.14%) Sparx
9 6 (1.83%) Google
9 6 (1.83%) IBM
9 6 (1.83%) Juniper
9 6 (1.83%) SAP
9 6 (1.83%) VMware
10 5 (1.53%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.53%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.53%) ServiceNow