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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 384 311
Rank change year-on-year -106 -73 -93
Permanent jobs citing JSON 333 308 563
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.63% 0.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.77% 3.71% 3.63%
Number of salaries quoted 212 226 361
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,625 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,526 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
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 12,010 8,307 15,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.12% 16.89% 21.84%
Number of salaries quoted 8,428 5,298 9,585
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £49,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +7.31% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.83% +4.35% -4.17%

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 14 October 2026.

Salary histogram for JSON in the UK

JSON
Top 17 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 14 October 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 -80 313 £62,500 +4.17% 398
UK excluding London -144 184 £55,000 - 188
London -17 135 £75,000 +7.14% 226
Work from Home -63 113 £56,250 -10.00% 172
South East -49 68 £55,000 -15.38% 51
North of England -50 41 £44,000 -20.00% 45
Midlands -45 29 £57,500 +21.05% 27
North West -31 23 £61,250 +2.08% 28
West Midlands -31 22 £62,500 +31.58% 19
East of England -51 20 £90,000 +63.64% 16
South West -56 16 £52,500 -12.50% 18
Yorkshire -21 15 £37,500 -1.32% 14
East Midlands -37 7 £54,000 -10.00% 8
Wales - 6 £55,000 - 9
North East -72 3 £31,000 -31.11% 4
Scotland -10 2 - - 18
Northern Ireland -78 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 27 (8.11%) SharePoint
2 18 (5.41%) Confluence
3 17 (5.11%) Apache
4 15 (4.50%) IIS
5 9 (2.70%) CMS
5 9 (2.70%) WordPress
6 8 (2.40%) Drupal
7 6 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (1.50%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.90%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.60%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.30%) JBoss
Applications
1 20 (6.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.20%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.90%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.30%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.60%) Oracle SCM
2 2 (0.60%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.30%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.30%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.30%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 148 (44.44%) Azure
2 88 (26.43%) AWS
3 55 (16.52%) Power Platform
4 52 (15.62%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (14.41%) Azure Logic Apps
6 38 (11.41%) Serverless
7 31 (9.31%) Microsoft 365
8 30 (9.01%) Power Automate
9 23 (6.91%) GitHub
9 23 (6.91%) PowerApps
10 21 (6.31%) Azure Data Factory
10 21 (6.31%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (6.31%) GCP
11 19 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
11 19 (5.71%) Azure Functions
12 14 (4.20%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (4.20%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (3.90%) SaaS
14 11 (3.30%) Azure Service Bus
15 9 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.20%) TCP/IP
2 10 (3.00%) HTTP
3 9 (2.70%) Wireshark
4 8 (2.40%) DNS
5 7 (2.10%) Firewall
6 5 (1.50%) Intranet
7 4 (1.20%) VPN
8 3 (0.90%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.90%) MQTT
8 3 (0.90%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.90%) Wireless
9 2 (0.60%) tcpdump
10 1 (0.30%) Broadband
10 1 (0.30%) FTP
10 1 (0.30%) Network Security
10 1 (0.30%) RTP
10 1 (0.30%) RTSP
10 1 (0.30%) SCTP
10 1 (0.30%) SS7
10 1 (0.30%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (14.41%) SQL Server
2 43 (12.91%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (9.91%) Power BI
4 26 (7.81%) MySQL
5 25 (7.51%) Relational Database
6 21 (6.31%) Redis
7 20 (6.01%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (3.60%) Data Lake
10 9 (2.70%) Metadata
10 9 (2.70%) NoSQL
10 9 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (2.40%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (2.40%) Parquet
12 7 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (1.80%) RDBMS
14 5 (1.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 4 (1.20%) Db2
15 4 (1.20%) Electronic Patient Records
15 4 (1.20%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 71 (21.32%) Git
2 28 (8.41%) JIRA
3 25 (7.51%) Jenkins
4 17 (5.11%) Selenium
5 16 (4.80%) Postman
6 12 (3.60%) JMeter
7 10 (3.00%) GitLab
8 8 (2.40%) Cucumber
9 7 (2.10%) JUnit
10 6 (1.80%) Maven
10 6 (1.80%) SoapUI
11 5 (1.50%) Gatling
11 5 (1.50%) Jasmine
11 5 (1.50%) Mocha
11 5 (1.50%) Mockito
11 5 (1.50%) NUnit
11 5 (1.50%) Visual Studio
11 5 (1.50%) Zephyr
12 4 (1.20%) Gradle
12 4 (1.20%) REST Assured
General
1 132 (39.64%) Social Skills
2 71 (21.32%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (19.52%) Finance
4 27 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 25 (7.51%) Organisational Skills
6 17 (5.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.90%) Banking
7 13 (3.90%) Legal
8 12 (3.60%) Law
9 10 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (3.00%) Retail
10 9 (2.70%) Advertising
11 7 (2.10%) Health Technology
11 7 (2.10%) Marketing
12 6 (1.80%) Aviation
12 6 (1.80%) Back Office
12 6 (1.80%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.80%) Publishing
13 5 (1.50%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 131 (39.34%) Developer
2 81 (24.32%) Senior
3 37 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 28 (8.41%) .NET Developer
5 25 (7.51%) Analyst
6 23 (6.91%) Architect
7 22 (6.61%) Lead
7 22 (6.61%) Web Developer
8 21 (6.31%) Software Engineer
9 17 (5.11%) Integration Engineer
9 17 (5.11%) Software Developer
10 16 (4.80%) Data Engineer
10 16 (4.80%) Full-Stack Developer
11 15 (4.50%) Ruby Developer
12 14 (4.20%) .NET Web Developer
13 13 (3.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 13 (3.90%) Senior Integration Engineer
14 12 (3.60%) Integration Architect
15 10 (3.00%) C# Developer
15 10 (3.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (40.54%) XML
2 107 (32.13%) REST
3 80 (24.02%) HTML
4 76 (22.82%) .NET
5 69 (20.72%) CSS
6 49 (14.71%) RESTful
7 42 (12.61%) .NET Core
8 39 (11.71%) ASP.NET
9 38 (11.41%) SOAP
10 30 (9.01%) React
11 26 (7.81%) .NET Framework
11 26 (7.81%) JWT
12 25 (7.51%) Terraform
13 21 (6.31%) Blazor
13 21 (6.31%) HTML5
14 20 (6.01%) AngularJS
14 20 (6.01%) Middleware
15 19 (5.71%) Web Services
16 18 (5.41%) Node.js
16 18 (5.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.81%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.31%) Onboarding
3 20 (6.01%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (5.41%) Management Information System
5 15 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (3.90%) Product Ownership
8 12 (3.60%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (3.60%) Taxonomies
9 11 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (3.30%) Robotics
10 9 (2.70%) AI Agents
11 7 (2.10%) Driving Licence
12 6 (1.80%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.80%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.80%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.80%) NHS
12 6 (1.80%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.80%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.50%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 53 (15.92%) Windows
2 49 (14.71%) Linux
3 19 (5.71%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.60%) Android
6 2 (0.60%) macOS
7 1 (0.30%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (41.74%) Agile
2 108 (32.43%) CI/CD
2 108 (32.43%) DevOps
3 90 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
4 66 (19.82%) AI
5 59 (17.72%) Test Automation
6 53 (15.92%) Mentoring
7 52 (15.62%) Software Engineering
8 51 (15.32%) Microservices
9 46 (13.81%) Scrum
10 42 (12.61%) Data Modelling
11 41 (12.31%) User Experience
12 39 (11.71%) Analytics
12 39 (11.71%) Validation
13 36 (10.81%) Roadmaps
14 35 (10.51%) Clean Code
14 35 (10.51%) Data Integration
14 35 (10.51%) Stakeholder Management
15 34 (10.21%) Business Intelligence
15 34 (10.21%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 136 (40.84%) SQL
2 116 (34.83%) JavaScript
3 94 (28.23%) Python
4 88 (26.43%) C#
5 40 (12.01%) Java
6 28 (8.41%) PowerShell
7 21 (6.31%) C++
8 17 (5.11%) PHP
8 17 (5.11%) TypeScript
9 16 (4.80%) Ruby
10 11 (3.30%) T-SQL
11 10 (3.00%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (1.50%) Bash
14 4 (1.20%) VBA
14 4 (1.20%) XPath
15 3 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.60%) Bicep
16 2 (0.60%) RPG
16 2 (0.60%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 45 (13.51%) Degree
2 37 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 29 (8.71%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.60%) Azure Certification
4 12 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (3.00%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.80%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.50%) CISSP
8 5 (1.50%) ISEB
8 5 (1.50%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (0.90%) CCNP
9 3 (0.90%) CCSP
10 2 (0.60%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.60%) CISM
10 2 (0.60%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (0.60%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (15.02%) Accessibility
2 37 (11.11%) QA
3 26 (7.81%) Data Quality
4 21 (6.31%) WCAG
5 17 (5.11%) GDPR
6 5 (1.50%) TickIT
7 4 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.20%) HL7
8 3 (0.90%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.90%) ISO 8583
8 3 (0.90%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.90%) SLA
9 2 (0.60%) Basel III
9 2 (0.60%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.30%) GRC
10 1 (0.30%) NIST
10 1 (0.30%) PERC
System Software
1 50 (15.02%) Docker
2 8 (2.40%) Hyper-V
3 7 (2.10%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.20%) vSphere
6 2 (0.60%) NFS
6 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (5.11%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.40%) Ansible
2 8 (2.40%) Grafana
2 8 (2.40%) Kibana
3 2 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.30%) CloudHub
4 1 (0.30%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.30%) logstash
4 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 108 (32.43%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.71%) Google
3 13 (3.90%) Adobe
3 13 (3.90%) Splunk
4 11 (3.30%) Oracle
5 10 (3.00%) Dynatrace
5 10 (3.00%) SAP
6 9 (2.70%) VMware
7 6 (1.80%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.50%) Foundry
8 5 (1.50%) IBM
8 5 (1.50%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.50%) Pega
8 5 (1.50%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.20%) Databricks
9 4 (1.20%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.90%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.90%) Cisco
10 3 (0.90%) McAfee
10 3 (0.90%) Red Hat