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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 331 258
Rank change year-on-year -103 -73 +16
Permanent jobs citing JSON 327 387 1,112
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.89% 1.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.52% 4.49% 5.32%
Number of salaries quoted 227 296 703
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,960 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £89,250 £86,250 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.11% +0.91% -3.08%

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 9,284 8,615 20,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.02% 19.72% 20.33%
Number of salaries quoted 6,874 5,718 15,994
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,206 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +10.34% -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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -79 295 £65,000 +4.00% 163
UK excluding London -83 182 £60,000 +8.11% 106
Work from Home -21 134 £62,500 -1.57% 98
London -27 112 £75,000 +11.11% 74
South East -33 75 £60,000 -7.69% 42
North of England -28 50 £55,000 - 25
East of England -18 34 £90,000 +89.47% 7
North West +7 33 £61,250 +11.36% 16
Yorkshire -35 15 £44,000 +8.64% 8
Midlands -54 10 £47,500 -16.67% 13
Scotland +3 8 £72,500 +18.85% 8
South West -66 8 £37,500 -37.50% 9
West Midlands -45 6 £41,500 -24.55% 7
East Midlands -28 4 £47,500 -20.83% 6
North East -35 2 £46,250 -40.32% 1

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 27 (8.26%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.75%) IIS
4 8 (2.45%) Apache
4 8 (2.45%) CMS
5 7 (2.14%) WordPress
6 6 (1.83%) Confluence
7 5 (1.53%) Drupal
8 3 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.61%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.61%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.61%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.61%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.31%) JBoss
10 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.31%) SAS
10 1 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 12 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.92%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.61%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.31%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.31%) EngageOne
4 1 (0.31%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.31%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.61%) NetSuite
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%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.31%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 146 (44.65%) Azure
2 87 (26.61%) AWS
3 59 (18.04%) Power Platform
4 42 (12.84%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (12.84%) Azure Logic Apps
5 41 (12.54%) Microsoft 365
6 35 (10.70%) Serverless
7 28 (8.56%) SaaS
8 26 (7.95%) Azure Data Factory
8 26 (7.95%) GitHub
9 24 (7.34%) AWS Lambda
9 24 (7.34%) PowerApps
10 23 (7.03%) Power Automate
11 20 (6.12%) OneDrive
12 19 (5.81%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 17 (5.20%) Boomi
13 17 (5.20%) Dynamics 365
14 16 (4.89%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
16 14 (4.28%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.20%) Firewall
2 6 (1.83%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (1.53%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.22%) DNS
4 4 (1.22%) HTTP
4 4 (1.22%) VPN
4 4 (1.22%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.92%) AMQP
5 3 (0.92%) BGP
5 3 (0.92%) FTP
5 3 (0.92%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.92%) SSL
6 2 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.61%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.61%) LAN
6 2 (0.61%) PuTTY
6 2 (0.61%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.61%) WAN
7 1 (0.31%) MQTT
7 1 (0.31%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (15.29%) Power BI
2 46 (14.07%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (10.09%) MySQL
4 24 (7.34%) Relational Database
4 24 (7.34%) SQL Server
5 22 (6.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 19 (5.81%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (4.89%) Metadata
8 15 (4.59%) Redis
9 14 (4.28%) RDBMS
10 10 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (2.45%) Oracle Database
12 7 (2.14%) Electronic Patient Records
12 7 (2.14%) GIS
13 5 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (1.22%) MongoDB
14 4 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
15 3 (0.92%) Apache Iceberg
15 3 (0.92%) NoSQL
15 3 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 48 (14.68%) Git
2 36 (11.01%) JIRA
3 30 (9.17%) Jenkins
4 23 (7.03%) GitLab
5 12 (3.67%) Postman
6 10 (3.06%) JUnit
7 8 (2.45%) Maven
8 7 (2.14%) ERwin
8 7 (2.14%) Mockito
8 7 (2.14%) Selenium
9 6 (1.83%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.83%) JMeter
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%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.53%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.22%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.92%) Visual Studio
General
1 139 (42.51%) Social Skills
2 85 (25.99%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (20.49%) Finance
4 21 (6.42%) Organisational Skills
5 19 (5.81%) Retail
6 18 (5.50%) Telecoms
7 15 (4.59%) Marketing
8 13 (3.98%) Advertising
8 13 (3.98%) Health Technology
9 11 (3.36%) Law
10 7 (2.14%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.14%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.53%) Back Office
11 5 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.22%) Billing
12 4 (1.22%) German Language
12 4 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.92%) Banking
13 3 (0.92%) Local Government
13 3 (0.92%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 102 (31.19%) Developer
2 77 (23.55%) Senior
3 47 (14.37%) Senior Developer
4 30 (9.17%) Consultant
5 27 (8.26%) Architect
6 26 (7.95%) Analyst
7 21 (6.42%) DevOps Engineer
7 21 (6.42%) Support Engineer
8 19 (5.81%) Data Analyst
9 16 (4.89%) Software Engineer
10 15 (4.59%) Java Developer
10 15 (4.59%) Software Developer
11 14 (4.28%) Automation Engineer
11 14 (4.28%) Lead
12 12 (3.67%) Applications Engineer
12 12 (3.67%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (3.67%) Integration Architect
13 11 (3.36%) Applications Architect
13 11 (3.36%) Network Engineer
13 11 (3.36%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (44.04%) XML
2 120 (36.70%) REST
3 85 (25.99%) HTML
4 65 (19.88%) CSS
5 57 (17.43%) .NET
6 50 (15.29%) SOAP
7 40 (12.23%) RESTful
8 39 (11.93%) .NET Core
9 36 (11.01%) Middleware
10 34 (10.40%) YAML
11 26 (7.95%) React
12 25 (7.65%) JWT
13 24 (7.34%) OAuth
14 21 (6.42%) HTML5 Canvas
15 20 (6.12%) ASP.NET
15 20 (6.12%) Microsoft Graph
15 20 (6.12%) Spring
16 19 (5.81%) SPFx
17 18 (5.50%) Node.js
17 18 (5.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.09%) Data Structures
2 31 (9.48%) Onboarding
3 23 (7.03%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (6.73%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (5.50%) Cloud Native
6 14 (4.28%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (4.28%) Linux Command Line
7 12 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.75%) Enterprise Cloud
8 9 (2.75%) Management Information System
9 7 (2.14%) Driving Licence
9 7 (2.14%) e-Learning
9 7 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.14%) NHS
9 7 (2.14%) Operational Technology
9 7 (2.14%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.14%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.14%) SCADA
10 4 (1.22%) Robotics
10 4 (1.22%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 51 (15.60%) Linux
2 27 (8.26%) Windows
3 12 (3.67%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.36%) Unix
5 4 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (29.66%) CI/CD
2 93 (28.44%) DevOps
3 86 (26.30%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (25.99%) Agile
5 59 (18.04%) Data Modelling
6 54 (16.51%) Microservices
7 51 (15.60%) Business Intelligence
8 43 (13.15%) API Integration
8 43 (13.15%) Infrastructure as Code
8 43 (13.15%) Test Automation
8 43 (13.15%) User Experience
9 42 (12.84%) Containerisation
10 38 (11.62%) ERP
11 37 (11.31%) AI
12 33 (10.09%) Analytics
12 33 (10.09%) Mentoring
12 33 (10.09%) Roadmaps
13 31 (9.48%) Validation
14 29 (8.87%) Integration Patterns
15 28 (8.56%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 161 (49.24%) SQL
2 114 (34.86%) Python
3 110 (33.64%) JavaScript
4 68 (20.80%) Java
5 57 (17.43%) C#
6 40 (12.23%) PowerShell
7 27 (8.26%) TypeScript
8 15 (4.59%) PHP
9 13 (3.98%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.36%) PL/SQL
10 11 (3.36%) T-SQL
11 10 (3.06%) Perl
12 9 (2.75%) VB
13 8 (2.45%) C++
13 8 (2.45%) Ruby
14 6 (1.83%) Bicep
14 6 (1.83%) Groovy
15 4 (1.22%) VBA
16 3 (0.92%) ActionScript
16 3 (0.92%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 41 (12.54%) Degree
1 41 (12.54%) Security Cleared
2 26 (7.95%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.53%) DV Cleared
5 3 (0.92%) Azure Certification
5 3 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (0.92%) CISSP
5 3 (0.92%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.92%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (0.92%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (0.61%) CASP
6 2 (0.61%) CCSP
6 2 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.61%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.31%) GIAC
7 1 (0.31%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.40%) QA
2 19 (5.81%) Accessibility
3 14 (4.28%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.67%) TickIT
5 11 (3.36%) SLA
6 10 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (2.75%) GDPR
8 8 (2.45%) HL7
9 6 (1.83%) WCAG
10 4 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.61%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.31%) PERC
System Software
1 48 (14.68%) Docker
2 15 (4.59%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.22%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.22%) vSphere
4 2 (0.61%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 38 (11.62%) Terraform
2 36 (11.01%) Kubernetes
3 15 (4.59%) Ansible
4 6 (1.83%) Kibana
5 4 (1.22%) Packer
6 3 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.61%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.31%) QRadar
Vendors
1 81 (24.77%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.65%) Oracle
3 24 (7.34%) Adobe
4 16 (4.89%) Cisco
5 15 (4.59%) Splunk
6 11 (3.36%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.75%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.45%) Databricks
8 8 (2.45%) Dynatrace
8 8 (2.45%) F5
9 7 (2.14%) Sparx
10 6 (1.83%) Google
10 6 (1.83%) Juniper
10 6 (1.83%) VMware
11 5 (1.53%) IBM
11 5 (1.53%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.53%) SAP
12 4 (1.22%) AppDynamics
12 4 (1.22%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.92%) Okta