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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 344 261
Rank change year-on-year -90 -83 +4
Permanent jobs citing JSON 335 387 1,126
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.86% 1.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.44% 4.43% 5.18%
Number of salaries quoted 240 291 692
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,000 £58,350
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +7.97% -10.23%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,875 £86,250 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.11% +0.91% -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 9,744 8,733 21,717
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.29% 19.33% 19.96%
Number of salaries quoted 7,284 5,739 16,527
10th Percentile £40,825 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,340 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.02% +10.57% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 23 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 23 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 -67 304 £65,000 +3.17% 112
UK excluding London -89 188 £60,000 +8.11% 90
Work from Home -23 135 £62,500 -3.85% 59
London -33 111 £75,000 +11.11% 45
South East -29 84 £60,000 -7.69% 36
North of England -15 49 £55,000 - 16
North West +12 30 £62,500 +13.64% 11
East of England -18 29 £90,000 +89.47% 4
Yorkshire -24 14 £42,750 +5.56% 4
South West -66 14 £52,500 -12.50% 9
Midlands -52 9 £47,500 -16.67% 13
West Midlands -34 5 £43,000 -21.82% 6
North East -47 5 £45,000 -41.94% 1
East Midlands -26 4 £47,500 -20.83% 7
Wales - 4 - - 4
Scotland +1 2 £72,500 +62.92% 7

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 (8.36%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (3.28%) Apache
3 11 (3.28%) Confluence
4 9 (2.69%) IIS
5 8 (2.39%) CMS
6 7 (2.09%) WordPress
7 5 (1.49%) Drupal
8 4 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.90%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.60%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.60%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.60%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.30%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.30%) JBoss
11 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.30%) SAS
11 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 14 (4.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.90%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.90%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.30%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.30%) EngageOne
3 1 (0.30%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.30%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) NetSuite
1 2 (0.60%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.30%) Magento
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 S/4HANA
2 1 (0.30%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 152 (45.37%) Azure
2 85 (25.37%) AWS
3 62 (18.51%) Power Platform
4 43 (12.84%) Azure Logic Apps
4 43 (12.84%) Microsoft 365
5 42 (12.54%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (9.85%) Serverless
7 29 (8.66%) SaaS
8 25 (7.46%) PowerApps
9 24 (7.16%) AWS Lambda
9 24 (7.16%) Azure Data Factory
9 24 (7.16%) Power Automate
10 23 (6.87%) GitHub
11 20 (5.97%) OneDrive
12 19 (5.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (5.67%) Dynamics 365
13 17 (5.07%) Boomi
14 15 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (4.48%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (4.18%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.67%) Firewall
2 6 (1.79%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (1.79%) DNS
3 5 (1.49%) HTTP
3 5 (1.49%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.19%) Intranet
4 4 (1.19%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.90%) BGP
5 3 (0.90%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.90%) SSL
6 2 (0.60%) AMQP
6 2 (0.60%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.60%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.60%) LAN
6 2 (0.60%) PuTTY
6 2 (0.60%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.60%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.60%) VPN
6 2 (0.60%) WAN
7 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (14.93%) Power BI
2 46 (13.73%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (9.85%) MySQL
4 28 (8.36%) Relational Database
5 26 (7.76%) SQL Server
6 22 (6.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 20 (5.97%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (5.37%) Metadata
9 17 (5.07%) Redis
10 13 (3.88%) RDBMS
11 12 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (2.09%) Electronic Patient Records
12 7 (2.09%) GIS
12 7 (2.09%) Oracle Database
13 6 (1.79%) MongoDB
14 5 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (1.49%) Delta Lake
15 4 (1.19%) Apache Iceberg
15 4 (1.19%) Power Query
15 4 (1.19%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 57 (17.01%) Git
2 43 (12.84%) JIRA
3 27 (8.06%) Jenkins
4 24 (7.16%) GitLab
5 12 (3.58%) Postman
6 10 (2.99%) JUnit
7 8 (2.39%) ERwin
7 8 (2.39%) Maven
8 7 (2.09%) Mockito
8 7 (2.09%) Selenium
9 6 (1.79%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.79%) JMeter
9 6 (1.79%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.49%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.49%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.49%) Gradle
10 5 (1.49%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.49%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.19%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 149 (44.48%) Social Skills
2 90 (26.87%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (18.21%) Finance
4 22 (6.57%) Organisational Skills
5 19 (5.67%) Retail
6 18 (5.37%) Telecoms
7 14 (4.18%) Advertising
7 14 (4.18%) Marketing
8 13 (3.88%) Health Technology
9 10 (2.99%) Law
10 7 (2.09%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.79%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.49%) Back Office
13 4 (1.19%) Billing
13 4 (1.19%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.90%) Banking
14 3 (0.90%) Local Government
14 3 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 111 (33.13%) Developer
2 72 (21.49%) Senior
3 45 (13.43%) Senior Developer
4 30 (8.96%) Architect
5 28 (8.36%) Analyst
6 27 (8.06%) Consultant
7 21 (6.27%) DevOps Engineer
7 21 (6.27%) Support Engineer
8 19 (5.67%) Data Analyst
9 18 (5.37%) Software Developer
10 16 (4.78%) Software Engineer
11 14 (4.18%) Automation Engineer
11 14 (4.18%) Data Engineer
11 14 (4.18%) Integration Architect
11 14 (4.18%) Lead
12 13 (3.88%) Java Developer
13 12 (3.58%) Technical Support
13 12 (3.58%) Telecoms Engineer
14 11 (3.28%) Applications Architect
14 11 (3.28%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (43.28%) XML
2 122 (36.42%) REST
3 87 (25.97%) HTML
4 73 (21.79%) CSS
5 61 (18.21%) .NET
6 49 (14.63%) SOAP
7 40 (11.94%) .NET Core
8 39 (11.64%) RESTful
9 38 (11.34%) Middleware
10 34 (10.15%) YAML
11 27 (8.06%) JWT
11 27 (8.06%) React
12 22 (6.57%) OAuth
13 21 (6.27%) ASP.NET
13 21 (6.27%) HTML5 Canvas
14 20 (5.97%) Microsoft Graph
15 19 (5.67%) Node.js
15 19 (5.67%) SPFx
16 18 (5.37%) EDI
16 18 (5.37%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.55%) Data Structures
2 31 (9.25%) Onboarding
3 24 (7.16%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (5.97%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (5.67%) Cloud Native
6 10 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (2.69%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.69%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.39%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.09%) Driving Licence
9 7 (2.09%) e-Learning
9 7 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.09%) NHS
9 7 (2.09%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.79%) Operational Technology
10 6 (1.79%) Robotics
10 6 (1.79%) SCADA
11 4 (1.19%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 57 (17.01%) Linux
2 33 (9.85%) Windows
3 14 (4.18%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.09%) Unix
5 6 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (27.76%) Problem-Solving
2 92 (27.46%) Agile
3 90 (26.87%) CI/CD
3 90 (26.87%) DevOps
4 61 (18.21%) Data Modelling
5 53 (15.82%) Microservices
6 51 (15.22%) Business Intelligence
7 46 (13.73%) User Experience
8 43 (12.84%) Containerisation
9 42 (12.54%) API Integration
10 41 (12.24%) Infrastructure as Code
11 37 (11.04%) Test Automation
12 36 (10.75%) Validation
13 35 (10.45%) Analytics
13 35 (10.45%) Roadmaps
14 34 (10.15%) AI
14 34 (10.15%) ERP
15 32 (9.55%) Mentoring
16 30 (8.96%) API Design
16 30 (8.96%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 167 (49.85%) SQL
2 115 (34.33%) JavaScript
3 109 (32.54%) Python
4 64 (19.10%) C#
5 60 (17.91%) Java
6 42 (12.54%) PowerShell
7 27 (8.06%) TypeScript
8 21 (6.27%) PHP
9 17 (5.07%) T-SQL
10 12 (3.58%) Shell Script
11 10 (2.99%) C++
11 10 (2.99%) Ruby
12 9 (2.69%) Perl
13 7 (2.09%) VB
14 6 (1.79%) Groovy
14 6 (1.79%) PL/SQL
15 5 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (1.19%) VBA
17 3 (0.90%) Bash
17 3 (0.90%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 41 (12.24%) Degree
1 41 (12.24%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.46%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.09%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.49%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.49%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.90%) CISSP
6 3 (0.90%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (0.90%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (0.60%) CASP
7 2 (0.60%) CCSP
7 2 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.60%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (11.64%) QA
2 20 (5.97%) Accessibility
3 19 (5.67%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.58%) TickIT
5 11 (3.28%) SLA
6 10 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (2.09%) HL7
8 6 (1.79%) GDPR
8 6 (1.79%) WCAG
9 4 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.90%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.90%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.60%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.30%) PERC
12 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (14.63%) Docker
2 14 (4.18%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.79%) vSphere
4 4 (1.19%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.60%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 34 (10.15%) Kubernetes
2 33 (9.85%) Terraform
3 13 (3.88%) Ansible
4 6 (1.79%) Kibana
5 4 (1.19%) Packer
6 2 (0.60%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.30%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 90 (26.87%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.16%) Adobe
3 20 (5.97%) Oracle
4 16 (4.78%) Cisco
5 15 (4.48%) Splunk
6 13 (3.88%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.69%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.39%) Databricks
8 8 (2.39%) Dynatrace
8 8 (2.39%) F5
8 8 (2.39%) VMware
9 7 (2.09%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.09%) SAP
9 7 (2.09%) Sparx
10 6 (1.79%) Google
10 6 (1.79%) Juniper
10 6 (1.79%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.49%) IBM
12 4 (1.19%) AppDynamics
13 3 (0.90%) OpenAI