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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 292 228
Rank change year-on-year -121 -64 +46
Permanent jobs citing JSON 321 413 1,202
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 1.01% 1.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.80% 4.73% 6.03%
Number of salaries quoted 199 320 807
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,292 £46,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -1.71%

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 8,446 8,734 19,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.34% 21.31% 21.94%
Number of salaries quoted 6,187 6,602 15,515
10th Percentile £37,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -108 265 £62,500 - 169
UK excluding London -84 192 £55,000 - 125
Work from Home -34 137 £57,500 -8.73% 90
London -33 90 £70,000 -3.45% 65
South East -76 63 £62,500 - 44
East of England +11 55 £55,000 +15.79% 25
North of England -63 31 £55,000 +4.76% 33
Scotland -13 26 £72,500 +52.45% 3
North West -26 21 £55,000 +4.76% 15
Midlands -55 13 £47,500 -10.38% 15
Yorkshire -55 8 £76,997 +62.10% 15
West Midlands -27 7 £47,500 -11.53% 6
East Midlands -53 6 £47,500 -9.09% 9
South West -61 6 £31,500 -47.50% 3
North East -26 2 £46,250 -40.32% 3
Northern Ireland -39 1 - - 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 21 (6.54%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (3.43%) Confluence
4 5 (1.56%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.62%) CMS
6 2 (0.62%) IIS
6 2 (0.62%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.62%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.62%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.31%) Apache
7 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.31%) CICS
7 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.31%) JBoss
7 1 (0.31%) SAS
7 1 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.87%) Trello
3 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.31%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.31%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.31%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.31%) Sketch
5 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.49%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.56%) Shopify
3 3 (0.93%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.62%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.31%) Magento
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.31%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 135 (42.06%) Azure
2 64 (19.94%) AWS
3 55 (17.13%) Power Platform
4 43 (13.40%) GitHub
5 41 (12.77%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (8.72%) Power Automate
7 27 (8.41%) Azure Logic Apps
7 27 (8.41%) Microsoft 365
8 26 (8.10%) Azure Data Factory
8 26 (8.10%) Serverless
9 23 (7.17%) SaaS
10 19 (5.92%) GCP
11 18 (5.61%) Boomi
11 18 (5.61%) PowerApps
12 16 (4.98%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (4.98%) Entra ID
13 14 (4.36%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (4.36%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (3.74%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (3.74%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.98%) Firewall
2 9 (2.80%) VPN
3 7 (2.18%) FTP
4 6 (1.87%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (1.25%) AMQP
5 4 (1.25%) DNS
5 4 (1.25%) SSL
6 3 (0.93%) BGP
6 3 (0.93%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.62%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.62%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.62%) HTTP
7 2 (0.62%) LAN
7 2 (0.62%) PuTTY
7 2 (0.62%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.62%) WAN
8 1 (0.31%) CTI
8 1 (0.31%) DHCP
8 1 (0.31%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (15.58%) Power BI
2 32 (9.97%) MySQL
2 32 (9.97%) SQL Server
3 29 (9.03%) Relational Database
4 27 (8.41%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (5.61%) Metadata
6 15 (4.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 14 (4.36%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (4.36%) RDBMS
8 11 (3.43%) Electronic Patient Records
9 8 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.87%) OLTP
10 6 (1.87%) Oracle Database
10 6 (1.87%) Power Query
10 6 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.56%) GIS
12 4 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.25%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.25%) Redis
13 3 (0.93%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 34 (10.59%) Git
2 33 (10.28%) JIRA
3 26 (8.10%) Jenkins
4 19 (5.92%) GitLab
5 9 (2.80%) JUnit
5 9 (2.80%) Postman
6 8 (2.49%) Oracle Forms
6 8 (2.49%) Visual Studio
7 7 (2.18%) ERwin
8 6 (1.87%) Mockito
8 6 (1.87%) Selenium
8 6 (1.87%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.87%) Storybook
9 5 (1.56%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.56%) Maven
9 5 (1.56%) SpecFlow
9 5 (1.56%) WebDriver
10 4 (1.25%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.25%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.25%) JMeter
General
1 118 (36.76%) Social Skills
2 72 (22.43%) Finance
3 65 (20.25%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (7.79%) Law
5 21 (6.54%) Marketing
6 18 (5.61%) Telecoms
7 17 (5.30%) Public Sector
8 15 (4.67%) German Language
8 15 (4.67%) Retail
9 14 (4.36%) Health Technology
10 10 (3.12%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.18%) Financial Institution
11 7 (2.18%) Legal
12 4 (1.25%) Advertising
12 4 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.93%) Local Government
13 3 (0.93%) Publishing
14 2 (0.62%) Billing
14 2 (0.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 102 (31.78%) Developer
2 58 (18.07%) Senior
3 35 (10.90%) Analyst
4 34 (10.59%) Senior Developer
5 27 (8.41%) Consultant
6 19 (5.92%) Data Analyst
6 19 (5.92%) Integration Engineer
6 19 (5.92%) Java Developer
7 16 (4.98%) Architect
8 14 (4.36%) Applications Engineer
8 14 (4.36%) Support Engineer
9 13 (4.05%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (3.74%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (3.43%) Data Engineer
11 11 (3.43%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (3.43%) EPR Consultant
11 11 (3.43%) Network Engineer
11 11 (3.43%) Telecoms Engineer
12 10 (3.12%) Applications Support
13 9 (2.80%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (55.45%) XML
2 109 (33.96%) REST
3 86 (26.79%) HTML
4 49 (15.26%) SOAP
5 45 (14.02%) RESTful
6 38 (11.84%) CSS
7 34 (10.59%) .NET
8 32 (9.97%) Regular Expression
9 28 (8.72%) Web Services
10 23 (7.17%) OAuth
10 23 (7.17%) React
10 23 (7.17%) YAML
11 20 (6.23%) Spring
12 17 (5.30%) Spring Boot
13 16 (4.98%) OAuth2
14 15 (4.67%) Middleware
15 14 (4.36%) Node.js
16 13 (4.05%) .NET Core
16 13 (4.05%) FHIR
17 11 (3.43%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 49 (15.26%) Onboarding
2 43 (13.40%) Linux Command Line
3 37 (11.53%) Data Structures
4 23 (7.17%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (6.85%) Cloud Native
6 17 (5.30%) Low-Code
7 16 (4.98%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (3.43%) NHS
10 10 (3.12%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (2.49%) Product Ownership
12 7 (2.18%) e-Learning
12 7 (2.18%) Social Media
13 5 (1.56%) Operational Technology
13 5 (1.56%) SCADA
14 4 (1.25%) Data Centre
14 4 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
14 4 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (1.25%) Management Information System
15 3 (0.93%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 43 (13.40%) Unix
2 40 (12.46%) Linux
3 10 (3.12%) Windows
4 4 (1.25%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.62%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.31%) Android
7 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (26.79%) CI/CD
2 85 (26.48%) Agile
3 74 (23.05%) DevOps
4 68 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (19.63%) Business Intelligence
6 55 (17.13%) Test Automation
7 54 (16.82%) AI
8 50 (15.58%) Data Modelling
9 48 (14.95%) Analytics
10 41 (12.77%) API Integration
11 40 (12.46%) Data Analysis
12 39 (12.15%) ETL
13 34 (10.59%) Validation
14 33 (10.28%) Infrastructure as Code
15 32 (9.97%) Microservices
16 31 (9.66%) Continuous Improvement
16 31 (9.66%) ERP
17 30 (9.35%) Asset Management
17 30 (9.35%) Decision-Making
17 30 (9.35%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 166 (51.71%) SQL
2 122 (38.01%) Python
3 92 (28.66%) JavaScript
4 70 (21.81%) Java
5 34 (10.59%) C#
6 27 (8.41%) PowerShell
7 22 (6.85%) Shell Script
8 21 (6.54%) TypeScript
9 20 (6.23%) PL/SQL
10 14 (4.36%) Bicep
11 13 (4.05%) T-SQL
12 9 (2.80%) Perl
13 7 (2.18%) PHP
13 7 (2.18%) VB
14 6 (1.87%) Groovy
15 3 (0.93%) ActionScript
15 3 (0.93%) ActionScript 2.0
15 3 (0.93%) C++
15 3 (0.93%) R
15 3 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 55 (17.13%) Degree
2 33 (10.28%) Security Cleared
3 17 (5.30%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.25%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.93%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (0.93%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.31%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.79%) QA
2 21 (6.54%) GDPR
3 17 (5.30%) Data Quality
4 16 (4.98%) Accessibility
5 13 (4.05%) HL7
5 13 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (2.49%) SLA
7 7 (2.18%) WCAG
8 4 (1.25%) TickIT
9 3 (0.93%) NCSC
9 3 (0.93%) NIST
10 2 (0.62%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 31 (9.66%) Docker
2 19 (5.92%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.93%) vSphere
4 2 (0.62%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.31%) iptables
Systems Management
1 32 (9.97%) Terraform
2 30 (9.35%) Kubernetes
3 14 (4.36%) Ansible
4 9 (2.80%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.56%) Kibana
6 4 (1.25%) Packer
7 2 (0.62%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.31%) Grafana
8 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 48 (14.95%) Microsoft
2 38 (11.84%) Oracle
3 16 (4.98%) Cisco
4 13 (4.05%) Google
4 13 (4.05%) SAP
5 11 (3.43%) Adobe
5 11 (3.43%) IBM
5 11 (3.43%) Red Hat
6 10 (3.12%) Ab Initio
7 9 (2.80%) Databricks
7 9 (2.80%) Palo Alto
7 9 (2.80%) Splunk
8 8 (2.49%) F5
8 8 (2.49%) MuleSoft
8 8 (2.49%) Okta
9 7 (2.18%) Dell
9 7 (2.18%) Intapp
9 7 (2.18%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.18%) Sparx
9 7 (2.18%) Talend