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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 347 250
Rank change year-on-year -103 -97 +7
Permanent jobs citing JSON 355 396 1,002
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.81% 1.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.46% 4.48% 5.52%
Number of salaries quoted 258 292 616
10th Percentile £35,500 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,744 £47,500 £42,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £89,125 £86,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year - -2.22% -2.17%

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 10,271 8,848 18,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.24% 18.02% 19.62%
Number of salaries quoted 7,657 5,833 13,542
10th Percentile £40,625 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £102,500
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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -92 324 £62,500 - 130
UK excluding London -82 207 £55,000 - 71
Work from Home -32 146 £57,500 -8.73% 58
London -40 114 £75,000 +11.11% 60
South East -19 93 £55,000 -15.38% 29
North of England -19 48 £55,000 - 13
East of England -21 30 £90,000 +89.47% 6
North West -2 29 £62,500 +13.64% 7
South West -63 16 £50,000 -16.67% 7
Midlands -34 15 £47,500 -20.83% 14
Yorkshire -22 14 £42,750 +5.56% 6
West Midlands -34 9 £45,000 -25.00% 10
East Midlands -27 6 £52,500 -7.08% 4
Wales - 6 £55,000 - 1
North East - 5 £45,000 -
Scotland +9 2 £72,500 +62.92% 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 28 (7.89%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.94%) Confluence
4 11 (3.10%) Apache
5 10 (2.82%) IIS
6 8 (2.25%) CMS
7 7 (1.97%) WordPress
8 5 (1.41%) Drupal
9 4 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.85%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.56%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.56%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.56%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.28%) SAS
12 1 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.85%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.85%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.56%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.28%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 159 (44.79%) Azure
2 92 (25.92%) AWS
3 64 (18.03%) Power Platform
4 47 (13.24%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (13.24%) Azure Logic Apps
5 43 (12.11%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (8.73%) Serverless
7 28 (7.89%) SaaS
8 26 (7.32%) PowerApps
9 25 (7.04%) GitHub
9 25 (7.04%) Power Automate
10 24 (6.76%) Azure Data Factory
11 22 (6.20%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (5.63%) Dynamics 365
12 20 (5.63%) OneDrive
13 19 (5.35%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 16 (4.51%) Boomi
15 15 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
16 13 (3.66%) Amazon EC2
17 12 (3.38%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.20%) Firewall
2 7 (1.97%) DNS
2 7 (1.97%) HTTP
2 7 (1.97%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.69%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (1.41%) Intranet
4 5 (1.41%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.85%) BGP
5 3 (0.85%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (0.85%) SSL
6 2 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.56%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.56%) LAN
6 2 (0.56%) MQTT
6 2 (0.56%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.56%) WAN
6 2 (0.56%) Wireless
7 1 (0.28%) FTP
7 1 (0.28%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (14.93%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (14.08%) Power BI
3 34 (9.58%) SQL Server
4 32 (9.01%) MySQL
5 31 (8.73%) Relational Database
6 22 (6.20%) Redis
7 21 (5.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 20 (5.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 17 (4.79%) Metadata
10 16 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (3.66%) RDBMS
12 7 (1.97%) Electronic Patient Records
12 7 (1.97%) GIS
13 6 (1.69%) MongoDB
14 5 (1.41%) Delta Lake
14 5 (1.41%) Oracle Database
15 4 (1.13%) Apache Iceberg
15 4 (1.13%) DynamoDB
15 4 (1.13%) NoSQL
15 4 (1.13%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 61 (17.18%) Git
2 43 (12.11%) JIRA
3 27 (7.61%) GitLab
3 27 (7.61%) Jenkins
4 11 (3.10%) Postman
4 11 (3.10%) Selenium
5 9 (2.54%) Cucumber
5 9 (2.54%) JMeter
6 8 (2.25%) ERwin
7 7 (1.97%) JUnit
7 7 (1.97%) Mockito
8 5 (1.41%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.41%) Browser DevTools
8 5 (1.41%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.41%) SpecFlow
8 5 (1.41%) Visual Studio
8 5 (1.41%) WebDriver
9 4 (1.13%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.13%) Gradle
9 4 (1.13%) Maven
General
1 152 (42.82%) Social Skills
2 91 (25.63%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (18.59%) Finance
4 26 (7.32%) Organisational Skills
5 14 (3.94%) Advertising
5 14 (3.94%) Marketing
5 14 (3.94%) Retail
6 13 (3.66%) Health Technology
6 13 (3.66%) Telecoms
7 12 (3.38%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.54%) Law
9 7 (1.97%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.41%) Back Office
11 5 (1.41%) Banking
11 5 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.41%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.13%) Aviation
12 4 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.85%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 126 (35.49%) Developer
2 76 (21.41%) Senior
3 44 (12.39%) Senior Developer
4 28 (7.89%) Analyst
5 25 (7.04%) Architect
5 25 (7.04%) Consultant
6 20 (5.63%) .NET Developer
6 20 (5.63%) Support Engineer
7 19 (5.35%) Web Developer
8 18 (5.07%) DevOps Engineer
8 18 (5.07%) Software Developer
8 18 (5.07%) Software Engineer
9 17 (4.79%) Data Analyst
10 16 (4.51%) Full-Stack Developer
10 16 (4.51%) Lead
11 15 (4.23%) Automation Engineer
11 15 (4.23%) Data Engineer
11 15 (4.23%) Integration Engineer
11 15 (4.23%) Ruby Developer
12 13 (3.66%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (43.38%) XML
2 112 (31.55%) REST
3 91 (25.63%) HTML
4 81 (22.82%) .NET
5 79 (22.25%) CSS
6 49 (13.80%) RESTful
7 44 (12.39%) .NET Core
8 43 (12.11%) SOAP
9 38 (10.70%) ASP.NET
10 34 (9.58%) YAML
11 33 (9.30%) Middleware
12 28 (7.89%) JWT
13 27 (7.61%) React
14 21 (5.92%) .NET Framework
14 21 (5.92%) HTML5 Canvas
15 20 (5.63%) Microsoft Graph
15 20 (5.63%) Node.js
16 19 (5.35%) SPFx
17 18 (5.07%) HTML5
17 18 (5.07%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.01%) Onboarding
2 29 (8.17%) Data Structures
3 22 (6.20%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (5.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (5.63%) Cloud Native
5 17 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (3.94%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (2.82%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.54%) Enterprise Cloud
8 9 (2.54%) Robotics
9 8 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (2.25%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.97%) Driving Licence
10 7 (1.97%) e-Learning
10 7 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.97%) NHS
10 7 (1.97%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.41%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.41%) SCADA
12 4 (1.13%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 60 (16.90%) Linux
2 41 (11.55%) Windows
3 15 (4.23%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.69%) Unix
6 4 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (32.11%) Agile
2 97 (27.32%) CI/CD
2 97 (27.32%) DevOps
3 95 (26.76%) Problem-Solving
4 59 (16.62%) Data Modelling
5 57 (16.06%) Microservices
6 51 (14.37%) Business Intelligence
7 50 (14.08%) Containerisation
8 47 (13.24%) User Experience
9 46 (12.96%) Test Automation
10 41 (11.55%) Infrastructure as Code
11 40 (11.27%) API Integration
12 37 (10.42%) AI
12 37 (10.42%) Software Engineering
13 36 (10.14%) Analytics
13 36 (10.14%) Roadmaps
14 35 (9.86%) Mentoring
14 35 (9.86%) Scrum
15 33 (9.30%) API Design
16 32 (9.01%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 163 (45.92%) SQL
2 130 (36.62%) JavaScript
3 117 (32.96%) Python
4 85 (23.94%) C#
5 48 (13.52%) Java
6 42 (11.83%) PowerShell
7 28 (7.89%) TypeScript
8 19 (5.35%) PHP
9 16 (4.51%) C++
9 16 (4.51%) Ruby
9 16 (4.51%) T-SQL
10 13 (3.66%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.25%) Perl
12 6 (1.69%) VB
13 5 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (1.41%) Groovy
14 4 (1.13%) Bash
14 4 (1.13%) VBA
15 3 (0.85%) Bicep
15 3 (0.85%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (12.39%) Degree
2 38 (10.70%) Security Cleared
3 23 (6.48%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.54%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.69%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.69%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.85%) CISSP
8 3 (0.85%) ISEB
8 3 (0.85%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.56%) CASP
9 2 (0.56%) CCNP
9 2 (0.56%) CCSP
9 2 (0.56%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (10.42%) QA
2 25 (7.04%) Accessibility
3 20 (5.63%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.38%) TickIT
5 11 (3.10%) SLA
6 9 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.97%) HL7
7 7 (1.97%) WCAG
8 6 (1.69%) GDPR
9 4 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.85%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.85%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.28%) PERC
System Software
1 50 (14.08%) Docker
2 14 (3.94%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.97%) vSphere
4 4 (1.13%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.56%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 31 (8.73%) Terraform
2 28 (7.89%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.66%) Ansible
4 6 (1.69%) Kibana
5 4 (1.13%) Packer
6 2 (0.56%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.28%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.28%) QRadar
Vendors
1 104 (29.30%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.76%) Adobe
3 18 (5.07%) Cisco
4 16 (4.51%) Oracle
5 15 (4.23%) Splunk
6 14 (3.94%) Google
6 14 (3.94%) Red Hat
7 10 (2.82%) F5
8 9 (2.54%) Databricks
8 9 (2.54%) Palo Alto
8 9 (2.54%) VMware
9 8 (2.25%) Dynatrace
9 8 (2.25%) SAP
10 7 (1.97%) IBM
10 7 (1.97%) Sparx
11 6 (1.69%) Juniper
11 6 (1.69%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.41%) MuleSoft
13 4 (1.13%) AppDynamics
13 4 (1.13%) CheckPoint