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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 306 216
Rank change year-on-year -25 -90 +23
Permanent jobs citing JSON 346 582 844
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.87% 1.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.73% 4.18% 6.24%
Number of salaries quoted 234 368 712
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -14.81% -1.92%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,125 £85,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +0.84%

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 7,310 13,922 13,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.54% 20.83% 26.55%
Number of salaries quoted 5,310 8,421 11,170
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,056
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -1.60% +1.62%
75th Percentile £85,700 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £108,750 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 -31 289 £55,500 -7.50% 114
UK excluding London -8 226 £55,000 - 110
Work from Home +19 134 £55,000 -15.38% 64
London -21 102 £75,000 +7.14% 46
South East -25 75 £62,500 -1.96% 43
East of England +61 60 £55,000 -13.73% 17
Scotland +35 33 £50,000 +12.36% 8
North of England -20 29 £55,000 - 17
Midlands +24 26 £47,500 -9.52% 16
North West +34 22 £55,000 - 5
West Midlands +32 19 £47,500 -17.39% 10
East Midlands +9 7 £60,000 +18.81% 5
North East +16 4 £45,000 - 7
South West +3 3 £61,250 +22.50% 3
Yorkshire -20 3 £43,500 -33.08% 5
Northern Ireland +1 2 - - 8

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 (3.18%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.60%) Confluence
3 6 (1.73%) Anypoint
4 5 (1.45%) CMS
5 3 (0.87%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.58%) IIS
6 2 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.29%) Appian
7 1 (0.29%) CICS
7 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.02%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.73%) Trello
4 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (4.34%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (2.02%) Shopify
3 5 (1.45%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.87%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.29%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 130 (37.57%) Azure
2 65 (18.79%) GitHub
3 61 (17.63%) AWS
4 58 (16.76%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (10.12%) Power Platform
5 35 (10.12%) Serverless
6 27 (7.80%) Power Automate
7 23 (6.65%) Amazon EC2
8 22 (6.36%) Amazon EKS
9 21 (6.07%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (6.07%) Azure Data Factory
9 21 (6.07%) Azure Logic Apps
10 20 (5.78%) Azure Service Bus
10 20 (5.78%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (5.20%) Entra ID
11 18 (5.20%) GCP
11 18 (5.20%) PaaS
12 15 (4.34%) Boomi
12 15 (4.34%) OCI
12 15 (4.34%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.89%) FTP
2 7 (2.02%) Cisco ISE
2 7 (2.02%) Ethernet
2 7 (2.02%) Firewall
2 7 (2.02%) LAN
2 7 (2.02%) SD-WAN
2 7 (2.02%) WAN
3 6 (1.73%) HTTP
3 6 (1.73%) VPN
4 3 (0.87%) DNS
4 3 (0.87%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.29%) AMQP
5 1 (0.29%) DHCP
5 1 (0.29%) Internet
5 1 (0.29%) Modbus
5 1 (0.29%) SSL
5 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.29%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (16.76%) Relational Database
2 46 (13.29%) SQL Server
3 26 (7.51%) Power BI
4 25 (7.23%) MySQL
4 25 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (6.36%) RDBMS
6 16 (4.62%) OLTP
7 12 (3.47%) Electronic Patient Records
8 11 (3.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (2.89%) NoSQL
10 7 (2.02%) GIS
10 7 (2.02%) Power Query
11 6 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.45%) Metadata
12 5 (1.45%) Redis
13 3 (0.87%) Big Data
13 3 (0.87%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.87%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 47 (13.58%) Jenkins
2 38 (10.98%) Git
3 24 (6.94%) JUnit
4 23 (6.65%) JMeter
5 21 (6.07%) Mockito
6 15 (4.34%) JIRA
6 15 (4.34%) Oracle Forms
7 13 (3.76%) Visual Studio
8 7 (2.02%) Postman
9 6 (1.73%) Axure RP
9 6 (1.73%) Storybook
10 5 (1.45%) MSBuild
10 5 (1.45%) Octopus Deploy
10 5 (1.45%) Selenium
10 5 (1.45%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (1.16%) webpack
12 3 (0.87%) Maven
12 3 (0.87%) WebDriver
13 2 (0.58%) Babel
13 2 (0.58%) Xcode
General
1 109 (31.50%) Social Skills
2 70 (20.23%) Finance
3 48 (13.87%) Law
4 46 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (9.83%) Public Sector
6 32 (9.25%) Retail
7 26 (7.51%) Marketing
8 12 (3.47%) Health Technology
9 11 (3.18%) German Language
10 7 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.02%) Legal
11 4 (1.16%) Automotive
11 4 (1.16%) Banking
12 3 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.87%) Front Office
13 2 (0.58%) Games
13 2 (0.58%) iGaming
13 2 (0.58%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.58%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 140 (40.46%) Developer
2 63 (18.21%) Senior
3 42 (12.14%) Senior Developer
4 28 (8.09%) Analyst
5 24 (6.94%) Full-Stack Developer
6 23 (6.65%) Java Developer
7 19 (5.49%) Consultant
8 18 (5.20%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 17 (4.91%) Cloud Engineer
9 17 (4.91%) Integration Engineer
10 16 (4.62%) Applications Engineer
10 16 (4.62%) Oracle Developer
10 16 (4.62%) Senior Oracle Developer
11 15 (4.34%) Lead
11 15 (4.34%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 15 (4.34%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 13 (3.76%) Architect
12 13 (3.76%) Data Engineer
12 13 (3.76%) ServiceNow Consultant
12 13 (3.76%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (59.25%) XML
2 139 (40.17%) HTML
3 130 (37.57%) REST
4 63 (18.21%) CSS
5 48 (13.87%) RESTful
5 48 (13.87%) Web Services
6 46 (13.29%) SOAP
7 36 (10.40%) React
8 28 (8.09%) .NET
8 28 (8.09%) Regular Expression
9 24 (6.94%) Spring
10 23 (6.65%) Hibernate
10 23 (6.65%) jQuery
11 22 (6.36%) Spring Boot
12 21 (6.07%) ActiveMQ
12 21 (6.07%) Apache Camel
12 21 (6.07%) WireMock
13 20 (5.78%) OAuth
14 15 (4.34%) AngularJS
14 15 (4.34%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 45 (13.01%) Onboarding
2 33 (9.54%) Cloud Native
2 33 (9.54%) Linux Command Line
3 25 (7.23%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (6.07%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (4.62%) Low-Code
6 12 (3.47%) Data Structures
6 12 (3.47%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.89%) Operational Technology
8 9 (2.60%) Data Centre
9 8 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (2.02%) Mobile App
10 7 (2.02%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.73%) Social Media
12 5 (1.45%) NHS
13 3 (0.87%) BYOD
13 3 (0.87%) Reference Data
13 3 (0.87%) Semantic Web
14 2 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 35 (10.12%) Unix
2 19 (5.49%) Linux
3 5 (1.45%) Android
3 5 (1.45%) Windows
4 3 (0.87%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.87%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.58%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (33.82%) Agile
2 96 (27.75%) CI/CD
3 82 (23.70%) Problem-Solving
4 79 (22.83%) DevOps
5 63 (18.21%) Test Automation
6 51 (14.74%) AI
7 49 (14.16%) Microservices
8 48 (13.87%) ETL
9 43 (12.43%) Analytics
9 43 (12.43%) API Integration
10 41 (11.85%) Mentoring
11 39 (11.27%) LLM
11 39 (11.27%) Root Cause Analysis
12 36 (10.40%) Business Intelligence
12 36 (10.40%) Full-Stack Development
13 34 (9.83%) Coaching
13 34 (9.83%) SDLC
13 34 (9.83%) Workflow
14 33 (9.54%) Continuous Improvement
15 32 (9.25%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 161 (46.53%) SQL
2 143 (41.33%) JavaScript
3 118 (34.10%) Python
4 67 (19.36%) Java
5 46 (13.29%) C#
6 43 (12.43%) Shell Script
7 34 (9.83%) PowerShell
8 32 (9.25%) PL/SQL
9 17 (4.91%) TypeScript
10 13 (3.76%) Bicep
11 11 (3.18%) T-SQL
12 7 (2.02%) PHP
13 5 (1.45%) Go
14 4 (1.16%) C++
14 4 (1.16%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.58%) Bash
15 2 (0.58%) C
15 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.58%) Ruby
15 2 (0.58%) Swift
Qualifications
1 45 (13.01%) Degree
2 27 (7.80%) Security Cleared
3 12 (3.47%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.16%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.58%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.29%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.29%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.29%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.29%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.23%) GDPR
2 22 (6.36%) QA
3 19 (5.49%) Accessibility
4 16 (4.62%) Data Quality
5 15 (4.34%) HL7
6 12 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (2.89%) NCSC
7 10 (2.89%) NIST
8 5 (1.45%) WCAG
9 1 (0.29%) DICOM
System Software
1 46 (13.29%) Docker
2 17 (4.91%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.02%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.29%) iptables
Systems Management
1 39 (11.27%) Terraform
2 36 (10.40%) Kubernetes
3 21 (6.07%) Kibana
4 20 (5.78%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (3.18%) Ansible
6 7 (2.02%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.58%) Grafana
8 1 (0.29%) Packer
8 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 44 (12.72%) Microsoft
2 43 (12.43%) Oracle
3 25 (7.23%) ServiceNow
4 22 (6.36%) Splunk
5 21 (6.07%) Dynatrace
6 16 (4.62%) Google
7 15 (4.34%) Okta
8 14 (4.05%) Cisco
9 12 (3.47%) SAP
10 11 (3.18%) MuleSoft
11 9 (2.60%) Ab Initio
12 8 (2.31%) Informatica
13 7 (2.02%) Blue Coat
13 7 (2.02%) CheckPoint
13 7 (2.02%) Dell
13 7 (2.02%) F5
13 7 (2.02%) IBM
13 7 (2.02%) Salesforce
13 7 (2.02%) Talend
13 7 (2.02%) VMware