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 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 302 214
Rank change year-on-year -46 -88 +22
Permanent jobs citing JSON 335 520 779
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.93% 1.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.77% 4.29% 6.16%
Number of salaries quoted 214 345 650
10th Percentile £41,975 £36,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £52,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £65,175
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.94% -6.15%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £85,938
90th Percentile £83,525 £83,750 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +0.40%

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 7,016 12,122 12,650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.88% 21.61% 26.19%
Number of salaries quoted 5,249 7,278 10,363
10th Percentile £35,854 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,607 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year - -0.10% -1.42%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £110,000 £107,500
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 22 December 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 22 December 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 -62 269 £55,000 -10.57% 170
UK excluding London -31 221 £55,000 +4.76% 119
Work from Home +3 135 £55,000 -15.38% 104
London -16 95 £75,000 +9.09% 74
East of England +57 63 £55,000 -13.73% 15
South East -55 60 £56,250 -19.64% 40
Scotland +38 42 £46,500 +4.49% 8
North of England -1 30 £53,750 -6.52% 33
Midlands -1 23 £47,500 -9.52% 14
North West +37 22 £55,000 +4.76% 24
West Midlands +17 17 £47,500 -17.39% 8
East Midlands -12 6 £60,000 +18.81% 6
Yorkshire -37 4 £56,750 -9.20% 5
North East - 4 £45,000 - 4
Northern Ireland -3 2 - - 2
South West -8 1 £60,000 +20.00% 10

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 10 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.69%) Confluence
3 5 (1.49%) Anypoint
3 5 (1.49%) CMS
4 3 (0.90%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.60%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.30%) Appian
6 1 (0.30%) CICS
6 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.30%) IIS
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.09%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.79%) Trello
4 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (5.97%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.79%) Shopify
3 4 (1.19%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.90%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 126 (37.61%) Azure
2 69 (20.60%) GitHub
3 64 (19.10%) Azure DevOps
4 63 (18.81%) AWS
5 33 (9.85%) Power Platform
6 31 (9.25%) Serverless
7 26 (7.76%) Azure Logic Apps
8 25 (7.46%) Power Automate
9 24 (7.16%) Azure Data Factory
10 23 (6.87%) Entra ID
11 22 (6.57%) Azure Service Bus
11 22 (6.57%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (5.97%) OCI
13 19 (5.67%) Amazon EC2
13 19 (5.67%) Amazon ECS
13 19 (5.67%) Amazon EKS
14 17 (5.07%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (5.07%) PaaS
15 15 (4.48%) Azure Event Grid
15 15 (4.48%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.58%) FTP
2 9 (2.69%) VPN
3 6 (1.79%) HTTP
4 4 (1.19%) Cisco ISE
4 4 (1.19%) Ethernet
4 4 (1.19%) Firewall
4 4 (1.19%) LAN
4 4 (1.19%) SD-WAN
4 4 (1.19%) WAN
5 3 (0.90%) DNS
5 3 (0.90%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.60%) AMQP
7 1 (0.30%) DHCP
7 1 (0.30%) Modbus
7 1 (0.30%) SSL
7 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.30%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (16.12%) Relational Database
2 40 (11.94%) SQL Server
3 29 (8.66%) MySQL
4 26 (7.76%) Power BI
5 23 (6.87%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (5.37%) RDBMS
7 15 (4.48%) Electronic Patient Records
8 14 (4.18%) OLTP
9 12 (3.58%) NoSQL
9 12 (3.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (2.39%) GIS
12 6 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.79%) Metadata
12 6 (1.79%) Power Query
13 3 (0.90%) Big Data
13 3 (0.90%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (0.90%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.90%) Redis
13 3 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 48 (14.33%) Jenkins
2 25 (7.46%) Git
3 20 (5.97%) Oracle Forms
4 19 (5.67%) JMeter
4 19 (5.67%) JUnit
5 17 (5.07%) Mockito
6 15 (4.48%) JIRA
7 10 (2.99%) Visual Studio
8 7 (2.09%) Postman
8 7 (2.09%) Storybook
9 6 (1.79%) Axure RP
10 3 (0.90%) Selenium
11 2 (0.60%) Crashlytics
11 2 (0.60%) MSBuild
11 2 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.60%) WebDriver
11 2 (0.60%) Xcode
12 1 (0.30%) ESLint
12 1 (0.30%) Testinfra
General
1 100 (29.85%) Social Skills
2 80 (23.88%) Finance
3 47 (14.03%) Law
4 40 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (9.25%) Public Sector
6 28 (8.36%) Retail
7 22 (6.57%) Marketing
8 15 (4.48%) German Language
8 15 (4.48%) Health Technology
9 6 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.79%) Legal
10 4 (1.19%) Automotive
11 3 (0.90%) Banking
11 3 (0.90%) Electronics
11 3 (0.90%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.90%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.60%) Publishing
13 1 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 119 (35.52%) Developer
2 63 (18.81%) Senior
3 35 (10.45%) Senior Developer
4 29 (8.66%) Analyst
5 22 (6.57%) Cloud Engineer
5 22 (6.57%) Consultant
6 21 (6.27%) Applications Engineer
7 20 (5.97%) Full-Stack Developer
7 20 (5.97%) Integration Engineer
7 20 (5.97%) Java Developer
7 20 (5.97%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 17 (5.07%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 15 (4.48%) Technical Consultant
10 14 (4.18%) Lead
10 14 (4.18%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 14 (4.18%) Oracle Developer
10 14 (4.18%) Senior Oracle Developer
11 13 (3.88%) Data Engineer
12 12 (3.58%) ServiceNow Developer
13 11 (3.28%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (60.00%) XML
2 121 (36.12%) HTML
3 118 (35.22%) REST
4 50 (14.93%) RESTful
5 49 (14.63%) SOAP
6 48 (14.33%) CSS
7 44 (13.13%) Web Services
8 35 (10.45%) React
9 31 (9.25%) Regular Expression
10 24 (7.16%) OAuth
11 21 (6.27%) Spring
12 20 (5.97%) .NET
12 20 (5.97%) Spring Boot
13 19 (5.67%) Hibernate
14 18 (5.37%) FHIR
14 18 (5.37%) jQuery
15 17 (5.07%) ActiveMQ
15 17 (5.07%) Apache Camel
15 17 (5.07%) WireMock
16 16 (4.78%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 48 (14.33%) Onboarding
2 39 (11.64%) Linux Command Line
3 38 (11.34%) Cloud Native
4 22 (6.57%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (6.57%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (4.78%) Low-Code
6 15 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (3.58%) Data Structures
8 11 (3.28%) Operational Technology
9 8 (2.39%) NHS
9 8 (2.39%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.79%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.79%) Social Media
11 5 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.19%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.19%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.19%) Semantic Web
13 3 (0.90%) Reference Data
14 2 (0.60%) Blog
14 2 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 38 (11.34%) Unix
2 20 (5.97%) Linux
3 4 (1.19%) Windows
4 3 (0.90%) Android
4 3 (0.90%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (32.84%) Agile
2 101 (30.15%) CI/CD
3 83 (24.78%) DevOps
4 72 (21.49%) Problem-Solving
5 71 (21.19%) Test Automation
6 52 (15.52%) ETL
7 51 (15.22%) AI
8 49 (14.63%) Root Cause Analysis
9 47 (14.03%) Analytics
10 45 (13.43%) API Integration
10 45 (13.43%) Coaching
11 41 (12.24%) Asset Management
11 41 (12.24%) LLM
12 40 (11.94%) Business Intelligence
12 40 (11.94%) Mentoring
13 38 (11.34%) Observability
14 35 (10.45%) Data Analysis
14 35 (10.45%) Microservices
15 32 (9.55%) Translating Business Requirements
16 30 (8.96%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 158 (47.16%) SQL
2 121 (36.12%) JavaScript
3 119 (35.52%) Python
4 65 (19.40%) Java
5 44 (13.13%) Shell Script
6 38 (11.34%) C#
7 35 (10.45%) PL/SQL
8 33 (9.85%) PowerShell
9 18 (5.37%) Bicep
10 13 (3.88%) TypeScript
11 11 (3.28%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.79%) PHP
13 4 (1.19%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.90%) C++
15 2 (0.60%) Bash
15 2 (0.60%) Go
15 2 (0.60%) Perl
15 2 (0.60%) Ruby
15 2 (0.60%) Swift
15 2 (0.60%) VB
Qualifications
1 44 (13.13%) Degree
2 26 (7.76%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.28%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.30%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.30%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.30%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.46%) GDPR
2 19 (5.67%) Accessibility
3 18 (5.37%) HL7
4 17 (5.07%) Data Quality
5 15 (4.48%) QA
6 11 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (2.99%) NCSC
7 10 (2.99%) NIST
8 6 (1.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (11.94%) Docker
2 22 (6.57%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.19%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.30%) iptables
Systems Management
1 46 (13.73%) Terraform
2 32 (9.55%) Kubernetes
3 25 (7.46%) Single Sign-On
4 17 (5.07%) Kibana
5 10 (2.99%) Ansible
6 4 (1.19%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.60%) Grafana
8 1 (0.30%) Packer
8 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 43 (12.84%) Oracle
2 40 (11.94%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.87%) ServiceNow
4 20 (5.97%) Okta
5 18 (5.37%) Splunk
6 17 (5.07%) Dynatrace
7 14 (4.18%) Ab Initio
8 13 (3.88%) Google
8 13 (3.88%) SAP
9 11 (3.28%) Cisco
10 9 (2.69%) MuleSoft
11 7 (2.09%) Dell
11 7 (2.09%) Informatica
11 7 (2.09%) OpenAI
11 7 (2.09%) Salesforce
11 7 (2.09%) SnapLogic
11 7 (2.09%) Talend
12 6 (1.79%) IBM
12 6 (1.79%) Intapp
12 6 (1.79%) Workday