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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 307 237
Rank change year-on-year -112 -70 +43
Permanent jobs citing JSON 324 418 1,162
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.97% 1.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.71% 4.97% 5.72%
Number of salaries quoted 208 314 762
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £47,398 £46,250 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £89,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +11.36% -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 8,731 8,418 20,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.67% 19.60% 21.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,377 6,348 15,703
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,750 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £79,500
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 4 May 2026.

Salary histogram for JSON in the UK

JSON
Top 15 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 4 May 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 -96 276 £65,000 +5.48% 125
UK excluding London -79 197 £61,250 +11.36% 85
Work from Home -32 143 £60,000 -4.00% 60
London -30 92 £65,000 -5.45% 46
South East -62 65 £62,500 -3.85% 32
East of England +14 56 £90,000 +89.47% 6
North of England -57 40 £60,000 +14.29% 30
North West -27 27 £65,000 +23.81% 16
Scotland -15 22 £72,500 +52.45% 2
Yorkshire -56 11 £70,000 +33.33% 12
Midlands -56 11 £47,500 -11.53% 13
West Midlands -27 7 £43,000 -20.87% 4
South West -63 6 £31,500 -47.50% 5
East Midlands -51 4 £47,500 -9.52% 9
North East -35 2 £46,250 -40.32% 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 29 (8.95%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.54%) CMS
3 5 (1.54%) IIS
4 4 (1.23%) Confluence
4 4 (1.23%) WordPress
5 3 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.62%) Apache
6 2 (0.62%) Drupal
6 2 (0.62%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.62%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.62%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.62%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.31%) CICS
7 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.31%) JBoss
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.31%) SAS
7 1 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.93%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.31%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.31%) EngageOne
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.31%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (2.47%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.62%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.31%) Magento
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.31%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 143 (44.14%) Azure
2 70 (21.60%) AWS
3 62 (19.14%) Power Platform
4 45 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (11.73%) Azure Logic Apps
6 35 (10.80%) GitHub
7 34 (10.49%) Azure Data Factory
7 34 (10.49%) Microsoft 365
8 31 (9.57%) Serverless
9 26 (8.02%) Power Automate
9 26 (8.02%) PowerApps
9 26 (8.02%) SaaS
10 20 (6.17%) OneDrive
11 19 (5.86%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 18 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (5.25%) Dynamics 365
14 16 (4.94%) Boomi
14 16 (4.94%) Entra ID
15 14 (4.32%) Azure Service Bus
16 13 (4.01%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.25%) Firewall
2 6 (1.85%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (1.85%) VPN
3 5 (1.54%) DNS
4 4 (1.23%) AMQP
4 4 (1.23%) SSL
5 3 (0.93%) BGP
5 3 (0.93%) FTP
6 2 (0.62%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.62%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.62%) HTTP
6 2 (0.62%) LAN
6 2 (0.62%) PuTTY
6 2 (0.62%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.62%) WAN
7 1 (0.31%) Broadband
7 1 (0.31%) CTI
7 1 (0.31%) DHCP
7 1 (0.31%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.31%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (17.28%) Power BI
2 34 (10.49%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (9.26%) MySQL
4 23 (7.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 22 (6.79%) SQL Server
6 21 (6.48%) Relational Database
7 19 (5.86%) Azure SQL Database
7 19 (5.86%) Metadata
8 12 (3.70%) RDBMS
9 9 (2.78%) Electronic Patient Records
10 8 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (2.47%) Oracle Database
11 7 (2.16%) GIS
12 6 (1.85%) OLTP
12 6 (1.85%) Redis
12 6 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (1.23%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
14 3 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 40 (12.35%) Git
2 36 (11.11%) JIRA
3 29 (8.95%) Jenkins
4 20 (6.17%) GitLab
5 12 (3.70%) Postman
6 9 (2.78%) Maven
7 8 (2.47%) JUnit
7 8 (2.47%) Oracle Forms
8 7 (2.16%) ERwin
9 6 (1.85%) Gradle
9 6 (1.85%) Selenium
9 6 (1.85%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.54%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.54%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.54%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.54%) Mockito
10 5 (1.54%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.54%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.23%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.23%) Storybook
General
1 129 (39.81%) Social Skills
2 80 (24.69%) Analytical Skills
3 75 (23.15%) Finance
4 21 (6.48%) Marketing
4 21 (6.48%) Retail
5 18 (5.56%) Telecoms
6 15 (4.63%) Health Technology
6 15 (4.63%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (4.32%) Law
8 12 (3.70%) German Language
9 9 (2.78%) Advertising
10 8 (2.47%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.16%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.93%) Billing
14 3 (0.93%) Local Government
15 2 (0.62%) Front Office
15 2 (0.62%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.62%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 102 (31.48%) Developer
2 76 (23.46%) Senior
3 48 (14.81%) Senior Developer
4 31 (9.57%) Consultant
5 27 (8.33%) Analyst
6 26 (8.02%) Architect
7 20 (6.17%) Data Analyst
8 16 (4.94%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (4.94%) Java Developer
9 15 (4.63%) Applications Engineer
9 15 (4.63%) DevOps Engineer
9 15 (4.63%) Support Engineer
10 12 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (3.40%) Applications Architect
11 11 (3.40%) Integration Architect
11 11 (3.40%) Integration Engineer
11 11 (3.40%) Network Engineer
11 11 (3.40%) Telecoms Engineer
12 10 (3.09%) Data Engineer
12 10 (3.09%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (50.93%) XML
2 108 (33.33%) REST
3 90 (27.78%) HTML
4 56 (17.28%) SOAP
5 54 (16.67%) CSS
6 44 (13.58%) .NET
6 44 (13.58%) RESTful
7 29 (8.95%) Middleware
8 27 (8.33%) YAML
9 26 (8.02%) .NET Core
9 26 (8.02%) OAuth
9 26 (8.02%) Regular Expression
10 23 (7.10%) HTML5 Canvas
11 19 (5.86%) Microsoft Graph
11 19 (5.86%) OAuth2
11 19 (5.86%) SPFx
11 19 (5.86%) Spring
12 18 (5.56%) React
12 18 (5.56%) Web Services
13 17 (5.25%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 43 (13.27%) Onboarding
2 34 (10.49%) Data Structures
2 34 (10.49%) Linux Command Line
3 24 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (7.10%) Cloud Native
5 19 (5.86%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (4.01%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (4.01%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.78%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (2.78%) NHS
8 7 (2.16%) e-Learning
8 7 (2.16%) Operational Technology
8 7 (2.16%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.16%) SCADA
9 6 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.85%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.54%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.54%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.23%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.23%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 37 (11.42%) Linux
2 29 (8.95%) Unix
3 13 (4.01%) Windows
4 8 (2.47%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.31%) Android
6 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (27.16%) CI/CD
2 87 (26.85%) DevOps
3 78 (24.07%) Agile
4 72 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (18.21%) Business Intelligence
6 58 (17.90%) Data Modelling
7 51 (15.74%) Test Automation
8 46 (14.20%) AI
9 45 (13.89%) API Integration
10 40 (12.35%) Data Analysis
10 40 (12.35%) ERP
11 39 (12.04%) Microservices
12 38 (11.73%) Analytics
12 38 (11.73%) User Experience
13 34 (10.49%) Infrastructure as Code
13 34 (10.49%) Validation
14 31 (9.57%) Containerisation
14 31 (9.57%) Integration Patterns
14 31 (9.57%) Mentoring
15 29 (8.95%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 166 (51.23%) SQL
2 118 (36.42%) Python
3 96 (29.63%) JavaScript
4 72 (22.22%) Java
5 42 (12.96%) C#
6 34 (10.49%) PowerShell
7 27 (8.33%) TypeScript
8 20 (6.17%) PL/SQL
9 17 (5.25%) Shell Script
10 12 (3.70%) PHP
11 11 (3.40%) Bicep
11 11 (3.40%) Perl
12 10 (3.09%) T-SQL
13 9 (2.78%) VB
14 6 (1.85%) Groovy
15 4 (1.23%) VBA
16 3 (0.93%) ActionScript
16 3 (0.93%) ActionScript 2.0
16 3 (0.93%) R
16 3 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 49 (15.12%) Degree
2 36 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 21 (6.48%) SC Cleared
4 18 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.54%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.93%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (0.93%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.57%) QA
2 16 (4.94%) Accessibility
3 15 (4.63%) Data Quality
4 14 (4.32%) GDPR
5 12 (3.70%) TickIT
6 11 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (3.40%) SLA
7 10 (3.09%) HL7
8 7 (2.16%) WCAG
9 2 (0.62%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.31%) NCSC
10 1 (0.31%) NIST
10 1 (0.31%) PERC
System Software
1 33 (10.19%) Docker
2 20 (6.17%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.23%) vSphere
4 2 (0.62%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.31%) iptables
Systems Management
1 34 (10.49%) Terraform
2 31 (9.57%) Kubernetes
3 17 (5.25%) Ansible
4 8 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.23%) Kibana
5 4 (1.23%) Packer
6 2 (0.62%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.31%) Grafana
7 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 68 (20.99%) Microsoft
2 35 (10.80%) Oracle
3 24 (7.41%) Adobe
4 16 (4.94%) Cisco
5 11 (3.40%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.78%) Databricks
6 9 (2.78%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.47%) Ab Initio
7 8 (2.47%) F5
7 8 (2.47%) Okta
8 7 (2.16%) Google
8 7 (2.16%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.16%) Sparx
8 7 (2.16%) Splunk
9 6 (1.85%) IBM
9 6 (1.85%) Juniper
9 6 (1.85%) VMware
10 5 (1.54%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.54%) SAP
11 4 (1.23%) AppDynamics