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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 336 258
Rank change year-on-year -98 -78 +11
Permanent jobs citing JSON 328 386 1,133
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.87% 1.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.46% 4.42% 5.28%
Number of salaries quoted 232 291 700
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,960 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £89,875 £86,250 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £56,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.73% +3.18% -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 9,470 8,730 21,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.21% 19.65% 19.99%
Number of salaries quoted 7,052 5,715 16,289
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,450 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,700 £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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -81 298 £65,000 +3.17% 122
UK excluding London -90 182 £60,000 +5.73% 85
Work from Home -28 131 £62,500 -3.85% 71
London -13 111 £75,000 +11.11% 52
South East -22 80 £60,000 -7.69% 29
North of England -24 49 £55,000 - 19
North West +12 32 £62,500 +13.64% 7
East of England -12 30 £90,000 +89.47% 4
Yorkshire -31 14 £42,750 +5.56% 9
Midlands -32 10 £47,500 -16.67% 14
South West -68 10 £47,500 -20.83% 9
West Midlands -33 6 £41,500 -24.55% 8
Scotland +5 4 £72,500 +62.92% 7
East Midlands -24 4 £47,500 -20.83% 6
North East -37 3 £45,000 -41.94% 3
Wales - 2 - - 3

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 (8.23%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.74%) Apache
3 9 (2.74%) IIS
4 8 (2.44%) CMS
4 8 (2.44%) Confluence
5 7 (2.13%) WordPress
6 5 (1.52%) Drupal
7 3 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.61%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.61%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.61%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.30%) JBoss
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.30%) SAS
9 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 13 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.91%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.61%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.30%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.30%) EngageOne
4 1 (0.30%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.30%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.30%) Magento
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.30%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.30%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 148 (45.12%) Azure
2 84 (25.61%) AWS
3 60 (18.29%) Power Platform
4 43 (13.11%) Azure Logic Apps
5 42 (12.80%) Microsoft 365
6 40 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (9.76%) Serverless
8 27 (8.23%) SaaS
9 24 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
9 24 (7.32%) PowerApps
10 23 (7.01%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (7.01%) GitHub
10 23 (7.01%) Power Automate
11 20 (6.10%) OneDrive
12 19 (5.79%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 18 (5.49%) Dynamics 365
14 17 (5.18%) Boomi
15 15 (4.57%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (4.57%) AWS CloudFormation
16 14 (4.27%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.79%) Firewall
2 6 (1.83%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (1.83%) DNS
3 5 (1.52%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.22%) HTTP
4 4 (1.22%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.91%) BGP
5 3 (0.91%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.91%) SSL
5 3 (0.91%) VPN
6 2 (0.61%) AMQP
6 2 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.61%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.61%) FTP
6 2 (0.61%) Intranet
6 2 (0.61%) LAN
6 2 (0.61%) PuTTY
6 2 (0.61%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.61%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (15.24%) Power BI
2 44 (13.41%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (10.06%) MySQL
4 26 (7.93%) Relational Database
5 23 (7.01%) SQL Server
6 22 (6.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 19 (5.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 16 (4.88%) Metadata
8 16 (4.88%) Redis
9 14 (4.27%) RDBMS
10 11 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (2.13%) Electronic Patient Records
11 7 (2.13%) Oracle Database
12 6 (1.83%) GIS
13 5 (1.52%) MongoDB
14 4 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
15 3 (0.91%) Apache Iceberg
15 3 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
15 3 (0.91%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 49 (14.94%) Git
2 39 (11.89%) JIRA
3 27 (8.23%) Jenkins
4 23 (7.01%) GitLab
5 12 (3.66%) Postman
6 10 (3.05%) JUnit
7 8 (2.44%) ERwin
7 8 (2.44%) Maven
8 7 (2.13%) Mockito
8 7 (2.13%) Selenium
9 6 (1.83%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.83%) JMeter
9 6 (1.83%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.52%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.52%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.52%) Gradle
10 5 (1.52%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.52%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.22%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.91%) Visual Studio
General
1 143 (43.60%) Social Skills
2 87 (26.52%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (18.90%) Finance
4 21 (6.40%) Organisational Skills
5 18 (5.49%) Retail
6 17 (5.18%) Telecoms
7 14 (4.27%) Advertising
7 14 (4.27%) Marketing
8 13 (3.96%) Health Technology
9 10 (3.05%) Law
10 7 (2.13%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.83%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.52%) Back Office
12 5 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.22%) Billing
13 4 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.91%) Banking
14 3 (0.91%) Local Government
15 2 (0.61%) Legal
15 2 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 103 (31.40%) Developer
2 75 (22.87%) Senior
3 46 (14.02%) Senior Developer
4 29 (8.84%) Architect
4 29 (8.84%) Consultant
5 27 (8.23%) Analyst
6 21 (6.40%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (6.40%) Support Engineer
7 19 (5.79%) Data Analyst
8 16 (4.88%) Software Developer
8 16 (4.88%) Software Engineer
9 14 (4.27%) Automation Engineer
9 14 (4.27%) Lead
10 13 (3.96%) Integration Architect
10 13 (3.96%) Java Developer
11 11 (3.35%) Applications Architect
11 11 (3.35%) Applications Engineer
11 11 (3.35%) Network Engineer
11 11 (3.35%) Technical Support
11 11 (3.35%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (43.29%) XML
2 121 (36.89%) REST
3 85 (25.91%) HTML
4 68 (20.73%) CSS
5 58 (17.68%) .NET
6 48 (14.63%) SOAP
7 40 (12.20%) .NET Core
8 38 (11.59%) RESTful
9 36 (10.98%) Middleware
10 34 (10.37%) YAML
11 26 (7.93%) JWT
12 25 (7.62%) React
13 23 (7.01%) OAuth
14 21 (6.40%) HTML5 Canvas
15 20 (6.10%) ASP.NET
15 20 (6.10%) Microsoft Graph
16 19 (5.79%) SPFx
17 18 (5.49%) EDI
18 17 (5.18%) Node.js
18 17 (5.18%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.76%) Data Structures
2 31 (9.45%) Onboarding
3 23 (7.01%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (6.10%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (5.18%) Analytical Mindset
5 17 (5.18%) Cloud Native
6 12 (3.66%) Linux Command Line
7 11 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.74%) Enterprise Cloud
8 9 (2.74%) Management Information System
9 7 (2.13%) Driving Licence
9 7 (2.13%) e-Learning
9 7 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.13%) NHS
9 7 (2.13%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.13%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.83%) Operational Technology
10 6 (1.83%) SCADA
11 5 (1.52%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.52%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 55 (16.77%) Linux
2 31 (9.45%) Windows
3 14 (4.27%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.74%) Unix
5 6 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (27.74%) CI/CD
2 88 (26.83%) DevOps
2 88 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
3 87 (26.52%) Agile
4 60 (18.29%) Data Modelling
5 53 (16.16%) Microservices
6 50 (15.24%) Business Intelligence
7 45 (13.72%) User Experience
8 42 (12.80%) API Integration
8 42 (12.80%) Containerisation
9 41 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 39 (11.89%) Test Automation
11 36 (10.98%) AI
11 36 (10.98%) ERP
12 35 (10.67%) Analytics
13 34 (10.37%) Roadmaps
14 33 (10.06%) Validation
15 32 (9.76%) Mentoring
16 29 (8.84%) API Design
16 29 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 161 (49.09%) SQL
2 112 (34.15%) JavaScript
3 110 (33.54%) Python
4 62 (18.90%) Java
5 60 (18.29%) C#
6 41 (12.50%) PowerShell
7 27 (8.23%) TypeScript
8 18 (5.49%) PHP
9 13 (3.96%) Shell Script
9 13 (3.96%) T-SQL
10 9 (2.74%) C++
10 9 (2.74%) Perl
10 9 (2.74%) Ruby
11 8 (2.44%) PL/SQL
12 7 (2.13%) VB
13 6 (1.83%) Groovy
14 4 (1.22%) Bicep
14 4 (1.22%) VBA
15 3 (0.91%) ActionScript 2.0
15 3 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 41 (12.50%) Degree
1 41 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.62%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.13%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.22%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.22%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.91%) CISSP
6 3 (0.91%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (0.91%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (0.61%) CASP
7 2 (0.61%) CCSP
7 2 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.61%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.30%) GIAC
8 1 (0.30%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (11.28%) QA
2 20 (6.10%) Accessibility
3 16 (4.88%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.66%) TickIT
5 11 (3.35%) SLA
6 10 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (2.44%) HL7
8 7 (2.13%) GDPR
9 6 (1.83%) WCAG
10 4 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.61%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.61%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.61%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.30%) PERC
System Software
1 46 (14.02%) Docker
2 15 (4.57%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.83%) vSphere
4 4 (1.22%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.61%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 34 (10.37%) Terraform
2 33 (10.06%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.96%) Ansible
4 6 (1.83%) Kibana
5 4 (1.22%) Packer
6 2 (0.61%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.30%) QRadar
7 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 83 (25.30%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.32%) Adobe
3 22 (6.71%) Oracle
4 16 (4.88%) Cisco
5 15 (4.57%) Splunk
6 13 (3.96%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.74%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.44%) Databricks
8 8 (2.44%) Dynatrace
8 8 (2.44%) F5
8 8 (2.44%) VMware
9 7 (2.13%) Sparx
10 6 (1.83%) Google
10 6 (1.83%) Juniper
10 6 (1.83%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.83%) SAP
11 5 (1.52%) IBM
11 5 (1.52%) MuleSoft
12 4 (1.22%) AppDynamics
13 3 (0.91%) Fortinet