JSON Job Trends

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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 296 248
Rank change year-on-year -97 -48 +6
Permanent jobs citing JSON 313 482 935
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.99% 1.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.08% 4.44% 5.38%
Number of salaries quoted 191 324 739
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £38,417
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,488 £48,141
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £81,261 £88,875 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 7,671 10,850 17,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.23% 22.19% 23.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5,649 6,643 14,191
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,206 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +7.65% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £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 19 February 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 19 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
England -107 242 £60,000 -7.69% 162
UK excluding London -68 192 £55,000 - 114
Work from Home -16 133 £56,250 -13.46% 105
London -31 90 £75,000 +3.45% 67
South East -67 55 £55,000 -8.33% 40
East of England +36 45 £55,000 -6.54% 11
Scotland +17 41 £57,750 +25.47% 7
North of England -46 25 £55,000 -4.35% 32
Midlands -30 22 £47,500 -9.52% 13
North West -7 17 £55,000 -4.35% 25
West Midlands -6 16 £47,500 -12.59% 12
East Midlands -28 6 £60,000 +15.38% 1
North East -4 4 £45,000 -41.94% 2
Yorkshire -50 4 £55,750 +6.19% 5
Northern Ireland -25 2 - - 2
South West -25 2 £66,250 -1.85% 11

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 11 (3.51%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.56%) Confluence
2 8 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.60%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.28%) CMS
5 2 (0.64%) IIS
5 2 (0.64%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.64%) Oracle Application Server
5 2 (0.64%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.32%) Apache
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.32%) CICS
6 1 (0.32%) JBoss
6 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.32%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.24%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.92%) Trello
4 1 (0.32%) EngageOne
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (6.07%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.92%) NetSuite
3 5 (1.60%) Shopify
4 3 (0.96%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.32%) Magento
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.32%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 128 (40.89%) Azure
2 64 (20.45%) GitHub
3 63 (20.13%) AWS
4 51 (16.29%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (14.06%) Power Platform
6 28 (8.95%) Entra ID
7 26 (8.31%) Serverless
8 24 (7.67%) Azure Logic Apps
9 23 (7.35%) Power Automate
10 22 (7.03%) Azure Data Factory
11 20 (6.39%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (6.39%) Microsoft 365
11 20 (6.39%) OCI
12 19 (6.07%) Azure Service Bus
13 17 (5.43%) Azure Monitor
14 16 (5.11%) GCP
15 15 (4.79%) Azure Event Grid
15 15 (4.79%) Boomi
16 14 (4.47%) Amazon EC2
16 14 (4.47%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.51%) VPN
2 7 (2.24%) FTP
3 6 (1.92%) Firewall
4 4 (1.28%) AMQP
4 4 (1.28%) HTTP
5 3 (0.96%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (0.96%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.96%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.96%) LAN
5 3 (0.96%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.96%) WAN
6 2 (0.64%) BGP
6 2 (0.64%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.64%) DNS
6 2 (0.64%) PuTTY
7 1 (0.32%) CTI
7 1 (0.32%) DHCP
7 1 (0.32%) Modbus
7 1 (0.32%) SSL
7 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (12.14%) Relational Database
2 36 (11.50%) Power BI
2 36 (11.50%) SQL Server
3 29 (9.27%) MySQL
4 27 (8.63%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (4.47%) Electronic Patient Records
5 14 (4.47%) RDBMS
6 11 (3.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (2.88%) Metadata
8 7 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.92%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.92%) OLTP
9 6 (1.92%) Power Query
10 5 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.28%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.96%) GIS
12 3 (0.96%) Redis
12 3 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (12.78%) Jenkins
2 23 (7.35%) Git
3 19 (6.07%) Oracle Forms
4 16 (5.11%) Postman
5 15 (4.79%) JIRA
6 13 (4.15%) JUnit
7 10 (3.19%) JMeter
8 9 (2.88%) Mockito
9 8 (2.56%) Visual Studio
10 6 (1.92%) Axure RP
10 6 (1.92%) GitLab
10 6 (1.92%) Selenium
10 6 (1.92%) Storybook
11 5 (1.60%) Maven
12 4 (1.28%) WebDriver
13 3 (0.96%) SpecFlow
14 2 (0.64%) Crashlytics
14 2 (0.64%) ERwin
14 2 (0.64%) Gradle
14 2 (0.64%) Oracle APEX
General
1 93 (29.71%) Social Skills
2 86 (27.48%) Finance
3 49 (15.65%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (9.58%) Law
5 26 (8.31%) Retail
6 25 (7.99%) Public Sector
7 20 (6.39%) Marketing
8 15 (4.79%) German Language
9 14 (4.47%) Health Technology
10 11 (3.51%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.92%) Legal
12 3 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.96%) Electronics
12 3 (0.96%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.96%) Publishing
13 2 (0.64%) Advertising
13 2 (0.64%) Billing
13 2 (0.64%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.64%) Front Office
13 2 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 108 (34.50%) Developer
2 57 (18.21%) Senior
3 34 (10.86%) Analyst
4 27 (8.63%) Senior Developer
5 22 (7.03%) Applications Engineer
6 21 (6.71%) Cloud Engineer
7 20 (6.39%) Java Developer
8 19 (6.07%) Integration Engineer
8 19 (6.07%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 18 (5.75%) Consultant
10 15 (4.79%) Data Analyst
11 13 (4.15%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (3.83%) Architect
12 12 (3.83%) Support Engineer
13 11 (3.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 11 (3.51%) Lead
14 10 (3.19%) Data Engineer
14 10 (3.19%) EPR Consultant
14 10 (3.19%) Technical Consultant
15 9 (2.88%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (58.79%) XML
2 113 (36.10%) REST
3 79 (25.24%) HTML
4 51 (16.29%) RESTful
4 51 (16.29%) SOAP
5 35 (11.18%) Web Services
6 33 (10.54%) React
7 29 (9.27%) Regular Expression
8 27 (8.63%) CSS
9 23 (7.35%) Spring
10 22 (7.03%) OAuth
11 20 (6.39%) .NET
11 20 (6.39%) Spring Boot
12 17 (5.43%) FHIR
12 17 (5.43%) OAuth2
13 16 (5.11%) Middleware
14 14 (4.47%) Hibernate
15 13 (4.15%) Node.js
16 12 (3.83%) YAML
17 11 (3.51%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 52 (16.61%) Onboarding
2 42 (13.42%) Linux Command Line
3 32 (10.22%) Cloud Native
4 29 (9.27%) Data Structures
5 23 (7.35%) Enterprise Software
6 19 (6.07%) Low-Code
7 17 (5.43%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (3.83%) Operational Technology
10 10 (3.19%) NHS
11 7 (2.24%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.92%) Social Media
13 5 (1.60%) Data Centre
14 4 (1.28%) Reference Data
14 4 (1.28%) Semantic Web
15 3 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
15 3 (0.96%) Mobile App
15 3 (0.96%) PMI
15 3 (0.96%) Public Cloud
15 3 (0.96%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 39 (12.46%) Unix
2 28 (8.95%) Linux
3 7 (2.24%) Windows
4 3 (0.96%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.32%) Android
5 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (30.35%) CI/CD
2 91 (29.07%) Agile
3 76 (24.28%) DevOps
4 66 (21.09%) Test Automation
5 61 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (16.93%) AI
7 51 (16.29%) Business Intelligence
8 48 (15.34%) API Integration
9 47 (15.02%) Root Cause Analysis
10 46 (14.70%) Data Modelling
10 46 (14.70%) ETL
11 45 (14.38%) Analytics
12 44 (14.06%) Coaching
13 42 (13.42%) Asset Management
14 39 (12.46%) Observability
15 38 (12.14%) Data Analysis
16 37 (11.82%) Mentoring
17 36 (11.50%) ERP
18 33 (10.54%) LLM
18 33 (10.54%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 163 (52.08%) SQL
2 124 (39.62%) Python
3 90 (28.75%) JavaScript
4 77 (24.60%) Java
5 37 (11.82%) C#
5 37 (11.82%) PowerShell
6 34 (10.86%) Shell Script
7 30 (9.58%) PL/SQL
8 18 (5.75%) Bicep
9 15 (4.79%) T-SQL
10 12 (3.83%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.92%) PHP
12 4 (1.28%) Perl
12 4 (1.28%) VB
13 3 (0.96%) ActionScript
13 3 (0.96%) ActionScript 2.0
13 3 (0.96%) Bash
13 3 (0.96%) C++
14 2 (0.64%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 49 (15.65%) Degree
2 31 (9.90%) Security Cleared
3 16 (5.11%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.96%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.96%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (0.96%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.32%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.32%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.32%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.32%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.99%) GDPR
2 21 (6.71%) QA
3 18 (5.75%) Accessibility
3 18 (5.75%) Data Quality
4 17 (5.43%) HL7
5 15 (4.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (2.24%) WCAG
7 5 (1.60%) NCSC
7 5 (1.60%) NIST
8 2 (0.64%) SLA
8 2 (0.64%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 33 (10.54%) Docker
2 27 (8.63%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.96%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.32%) iptables
Systems Management
1 45 (14.38%) Terraform
2 29 (9.27%) Kubernetes
3 20 (6.39%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (3.51%) Ansible
5 10 (3.19%) Kibana
6 3 (0.96%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.32%) Grafana
7 1 (0.32%) Packer
7 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 46 (14.70%) Oracle
2 39 (12.46%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.07%) Okta
4 16 (5.11%) SAP
5 14 (4.47%) Ab Initio
6 13 (4.15%) Google
7 11 (3.51%) Splunk
8 10 (3.19%) Dynatrace
9 9 (2.88%) MuleSoft
9 9 (2.88%) Salesforce
9 9 (2.88%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.56%) Cisco
10 8 (2.56%) Dell
11 7 (2.24%) Talend
12 6 (1.92%) IBM
12 6 (1.92%) IFS
12 6 (1.92%) Informatica
12 6 (1.92%) SnapLogic
12 6 (1.92%) TIBCO
12 6 (1.92%) Workday