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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 293 230
Rank change year-on-year -113 -63 +46
Permanent jobs citing JSON 338 408 1,204
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 1.00% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.94% 4.70% 5.98%
Number of salaries quoted 210 316 806
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,292 £46,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,375 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.52% +0.63% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,813 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -0.86%

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 8,578 8,678 20,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.29% 21.21% 21.85%
Number of salaries quoted 6,268 6,581 15,654
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
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 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for JSON in the UK

JSON
Top 16 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 10 April 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 -111 280 £62,500 - 169
UK excluding London -104 200 £55,000 - 125
Work from Home -20 147 £57,500 -8.73% 90
London -41 96 £70,000 -3.45% 65
South East -66 65 £61,250 -2.00% 44
East of England +3 57 £55,000 +15.79% 25
North of England -67 36 £55,000 +4.76% 33
Scotland 0 26 £72,500 +52.45% 3
North West -27 25 £55,000 +4.76% 15
Midlands -73 12 £47,500 -9.95% 15
Yorkshire -58 9 £73,499 +40.00% 15
West Midlands -31 7 £47,500 -11.53% 6
South West -61 6 £31,500 -49.60% 3
East Midlands -61 5 £50,750 -2.87% 9
North East -29 2 £46,250 -40.32% 3
Northern Ireland -41 1 - - 2

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 23 (6.80%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (3.25%) Confluence
4 5 (1.48%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.59%) CMS
6 2 (0.59%) IIS
6 2 (0.59%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.59%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.59%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.30%) Apache
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.30%) CICS
7 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.30%) JBoss
7 1 (0.30%) SAS
7 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (3.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.78%) Trello
3 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.59%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.30%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.30%) Sketch
5 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.37%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.48%) Shopify
3 3 (0.89%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.59%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.30%) Magento
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.30%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 143 (42.31%) Azure
2 69 (20.41%) AWS
3 60 (17.75%) Power Platform
4 46 (13.61%) GitHub
5 44 (13.02%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (8.88%) Power Automate
7 29 (8.58%) Azure Logic Apps
7 29 (8.58%) Microsoft 365
7 29 (8.58%) Serverless
8 28 (8.28%) Azure Data Factory
9 24 (7.10%) SaaS
10 21 (6.21%) Boomi
11 20 (5.92%) PowerApps
12 19 (5.62%) GCP
13 16 (4.73%) Azure Service Bus
13 16 (4.73%) Entra ID
14 14 (4.14%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (3.55%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.73%) Firewall
2 9 (2.66%) VPN
3 7 (2.07%) FTP
4 6 (1.78%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (1.18%) AMQP
5 4 (1.18%) DNS
5 4 (1.18%) SSL
6 3 (0.89%) BGP
6 3 (0.89%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.59%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.59%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.59%) HTTP
7 2 (0.59%) LAN
7 2 (0.59%) PuTTY
7 2 (0.59%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.59%) WAN
8 1 (0.30%) CTI
8 1 (0.30%) DHCP
8 1 (0.30%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (16.27%) Power BI
2 33 (9.76%) MySQL
3 32 (9.47%) SQL Server
4 31 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (8.58%) Relational Database
6 18 (5.33%) Metadata
6 18 (5.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 16 (4.73%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (4.14%) RDBMS
9 12 (3.55%) Electronic Patient Records
10 10 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (2.07%) Oracle Database
11 7 (2.07%) Power Query
12 6 (1.78%) GIS
12 6 (1.78%) OLTP
12 6 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (1.48%) Redis
14 4 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (1.18%) MongoDB
15 3 (0.89%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 37 (10.95%) JIRA
2 36 (10.65%) Git
3 27 (7.99%) Jenkins
4 20 (5.92%) GitLab
5 11 (3.25%) Postman
6 9 (2.66%) JUnit
6 9 (2.66%) Visual Studio
7 8 (2.37%) Oracle Forms
8 7 (2.07%) ERwin
9 6 (1.78%) Maven
9 6 (1.78%) Mockito
9 6 (1.78%) Selenium
9 6 (1.78%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.78%) Storybook
10 5 (1.48%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.48%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.48%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.18%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.18%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.18%) JMeter
General
1 128 (37.87%) Social Skills
2 75 (22.19%) Finance
3 71 (21.01%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (7.40%) Law
5 24 (7.10%) Marketing
6 18 (5.33%) Retail
6 18 (5.33%) Telecoms
7 17 (5.03%) Health Technology
7 17 (5.03%) Public Sector
8 15 (4.44%) German Language
9 12 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.07%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.07%) Legal
11 5 (1.48%) Advertising
12 4 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.89%) Billing
13 3 (0.89%) Local Government
13 3 (0.89%) Publishing
14 2 (0.59%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 109 (32.25%) Developer
2 65 (19.23%) Senior
3 40 (11.83%) Senior Developer
4 36 (10.65%) Analyst
5 29 (8.58%) Consultant
6 19 (5.62%) Data Analyst
6 19 (5.62%) Integration Engineer
6 19 (5.62%) Java Developer
7 18 (5.33%) Architect
8 15 (4.44%) Support Engineer
9 14 (4.14%) Applications Engineer
9 14 (4.14%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (3.85%) Data Engineer
11 12 (3.55%) Automation Engineer
11 12 (3.55%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (3.55%) EPR Consultant
12 11 (3.25%) Network Engineer
12 11 (3.25%) Telecoms Engineer
13 10 (2.96%) Applications Support
14 9 (2.66%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (54.14%) XML
2 116 (34.32%) REST
3 91 (26.92%) HTML
4 54 (15.98%) SOAP
5 48 (14.20%) RESTful
6 43 (12.72%) CSS
7 36 (10.65%) .NET
8 32 (9.47%) Regular Expression
9 28 (8.28%) Web Services
10 25 (7.40%) YAML
11 24 (7.10%) OAuth
12 23 (6.80%) React
13 20 (5.92%) Spring
14 19 (5.62%) Middleware
15 17 (5.03%) OAuth2
15 17 (5.03%) Spring Boot
16 15 (4.44%) .NET Core
17 14 (4.14%) FHIR
17 14 (4.14%) Node.js
18 13 (3.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 50 (14.79%) Onboarding
2 44 (13.02%) Linux Command Line
3 38 (11.24%) Data Structures
4 23 (6.80%) Cloud Native
4 23 (6.80%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (4.73%) Low-Code
7 12 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (3.55%) NHS
8 10 (2.96%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (2.66%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.07%) e-Learning
10 7 (2.07%) Social Media
11 6 (1.78%) Operational Technology
11 6 (1.78%) SCADA
12 5 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (1.48%) Management Information System
13 4 (1.18%) Data Centre
13 4 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.18%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (12.72%) Unix
2 42 (12.43%) Linux
3 10 (2.96%) Windows
4 4 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.59%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.30%) Android
7 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (26.33%) CI/CD
2 87 (25.74%) Agile
3 79 (23.37%) DevOps
4 76 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
5 66 (19.53%) Business Intelligence
6 56 (16.57%) Test Automation
7 54 (15.98%) AI
8 53 (15.68%) Data Modelling
9 49 (14.50%) Analytics
10 44 (13.02%) API Integration
11 43 (12.72%) Data Analysis
12 40 (11.83%) ETL
13 36 (10.65%) Validation
14 35 (10.36%) Continuous Improvement
14 35 (10.36%) ERP
15 34 (10.06%) Infrastructure as Code
15 34 (10.06%) User Experience
16 33 (9.76%) Microservices
17 32 (9.47%) Containerisation
17 32 (9.47%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 176 (52.07%) SQL
2 126 (37.28%) Python
3 100 (29.59%) JavaScript
4 71 (21.01%) Java
5 37 (10.95%) C#
6 29 (8.58%) PowerShell
7 23 (6.80%) TypeScript
8 22 (6.51%) Shell Script
9 20 (5.92%) PL/SQL
10 14 (4.14%) Bicep
10 14 (4.14%) T-SQL
11 10 (2.96%) Perl
12 8 (2.37%) VB
13 7 (2.07%) PHP
14 6 (1.78%) Groovy
15 4 (1.18%) Ruby
16 3 (0.89%) ActionScript
16 3 (0.89%) ActionScript 2.0
16 3 (0.89%) C++
16 3 (0.89%) R
Qualifications
1 56 (16.57%) Degree
2 34 (10.06%) Security Cleared
3 18 (5.33%) SC Cleared
4 17 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.18%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.89%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.89%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (0.89%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.99%) QA
2 21 (6.21%) GDPR
3 17 (5.03%) Data Quality
4 16 (4.73%) Accessibility
5 14 (4.14%) HL7
6 13 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (2.96%) SLA
8 7 (2.07%) TickIT
8 7 (2.07%) WCAG
9 3 (0.89%) NCSC
9 3 (0.89%) NIST
10 2 (0.59%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 35 (10.36%) Docker
2 19 (5.62%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.89%) vSphere
4 2 (0.59%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.30%) iptables
Systems Management
1 33 (9.76%) Kubernetes
1 33 (9.76%) Terraform
2 15 (4.44%) Ansible
3 9 (2.66%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.48%) Kibana
5 4 (1.18%) Packer
6 2 (0.59%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.30%) Grafana
7 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 54 (15.98%) Microsoft
2 39 (11.54%) Oracle
3 16 (4.73%) Cisco
4 13 (3.85%) Adobe
4 13 (3.85%) Google
4 13 (3.85%) SAP
5 11 (3.25%) IBM
5 11 (3.25%) Red Hat
6 10 (2.96%) Ab Initio
7 9 (2.66%) Databricks
7 9 (2.66%) Palo Alto
7 9 (2.66%) Splunk
8 8 (2.37%) F5
8 8 (2.37%) MuleSoft
8 8 (2.37%) Okta
9 7 (2.07%) Dell
9 7 (2.07%) Intapp
9 7 (2.07%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.07%) Sparx
9 7 (2.07%) Talend