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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 296 246
Rank change year-on-year -87 -50 +16
Permanent jobs citing JSON 307 479 943
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 1.01% 1.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.97% 4.52% 5.39%
Number of salaries quoted 186 329 725
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £38,073
25th Percentile £46,563 £45,651 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £81,750 £90,000 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 7,740 10,586 17,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.11% 22.24% 23.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,684 6,605 14,195
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,225 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% +8.57% -9.63%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £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 26 February 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 26 February 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 -109 239 £60,000 -4.76% 117
UK excluding London -79 187 £55,000 - 88
Work from Home -22 130 £57,500 -11.54% 88
London -22 91 £75,000 +3.45% 41
South East -81 56 £55,000 -1.79% 21
East of England +31 43 £55,000 -11.18% 5
Scotland +15 40 £57,750 +25.47% 6
North of England -40 25 £55,000 - 31
Midlands -22 19 £47,500 -10.54% 10
North West -11 17 £55,000 -4.35% 22
West Midlands -4 14 £47,500 -13.64% 8
East Midlands -29 5 £60,000 +15.38% 2
North East 0 4 £45,000 -41.94% 2
Yorkshire -64 4 £55,750 +6.19% 7
Northern Ireland -27 2 - -
South West -32 2 £66,250 +3.92% 9

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 12 (3.91%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.61%) Confluence
2 8 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.63%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.30%) CMS
5 2 (0.65%) IIS
5 2 (0.65%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle Application Server
5 2 (0.65%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.33%) Apache
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.33%) CICS
6 1 (0.33%) JBoss
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.33%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.28%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.95%) Trello
4 1 (0.33%) EngageOne
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (5.86%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.95%) NetSuite
3 5 (1.63%) Shopify
4 3 (0.98%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.33%) Magento
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.33%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 125 (40.72%) Azure
2 62 (20.20%) AWS
3 61 (19.87%) GitHub
4 50 (16.29%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (14.33%) Power Platform
6 27 (8.79%) Entra ID
7 24 (7.82%) Serverless
8 23 (7.49%) Azure Logic Apps
9 22 (7.17%) Power Automate
10 20 (6.51%) Azure Data Factory
10 20 (6.51%) Microsoft 365
11 19 (6.19%) Azure Service Bus
11 19 (6.19%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (6.19%) OCI
12 17 (5.54%) Azure Monitor
13 16 (5.21%) GCP
14 15 (4.89%) Azure Event Grid
14 15 (4.89%) Boomi
15 13 (4.23%) PowerApps
15 13 (4.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.58%) VPN
2 8 (2.61%) Firewall
3 7 (2.28%) FTP
4 4 (1.30%) AMQP
4 4 (1.30%) HTTP
5 3 (0.98%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (0.98%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (0.98%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.98%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.98%) LAN
5 3 (0.98%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.98%) WAN
6 2 (0.65%) BGP
6 2 (0.65%) DNS
6 2 (0.65%) PuTTY
7 1 (0.33%) CTI
7 1 (0.33%) DHCP
7 1 (0.33%) Modbus
7 1 (0.33%) SSL
7 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (11.73%) Power BI
2 35 (11.40%) Relational Database
2 35 (11.40%) SQL Server
3 28 (9.12%) MySQL
4 25 (8.14%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (4.56%) RDBMS
6 13 (4.23%) Electronic Patient Records
7 11 (3.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (2.93%) Metadata
9 7 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.95%) OLTP
10 6 (1.95%) Power Query
11 5 (1.63%) NoSQL
11 5 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.30%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.98%) GIS
13 3 (0.98%) Redis
13 3 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (12.38%) Jenkins
2 24 (7.82%) Git
3 18 (5.86%) Oracle Forms
4 16 (5.21%) Postman
5 15 (4.89%) JIRA
6 12 (3.91%) JUnit
7 9 (2.93%) JMeter
8 8 (2.61%) GitLab
8 8 (2.61%) Mockito
8 8 (2.61%) Visual Studio
9 7 (2.28%) Selenium
10 6 (1.95%) Axure RP
10 6 (1.95%) Storybook
11 5 (1.63%) Maven
11 5 (1.63%) WebDriver
12 4 (1.30%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.98%) ERwin
14 2 (0.65%) Crashlytics
14 2 (0.65%) Gradle
14 2 (0.65%) Oracle APEX
General
1 91 (29.64%) Social Skills
2 82 (26.71%) Finance
3 50 (16.29%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (9.45%) Law
5 24 (7.82%) Retail
6 22 (7.17%) Public Sector
7 19 (6.19%) Marketing
8 15 (4.89%) German Language
9 13 (4.23%) Health Technology
10 12 (3.91%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.28%) Legal
12 4 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.98%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.98%) Publishing
14 2 (0.65%) Advertising
14 2 (0.65%) Billing
14 2 (0.65%) Electronics
14 2 (0.65%) Front Office
14 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 102 (33.22%) Developer
2 55 (17.92%) Senior
3 34 (11.07%) Analyst
4 26 (8.47%) Senior Developer
5 21 (6.84%) Applications Engineer
6 20 (6.51%) Cloud Engineer
7 19 (6.19%) Consultant
7 19 (6.19%) Integration Engineer
7 19 (6.19%) Java Developer
8 18 (5.86%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 15 (4.89%) Data Analyst
10 12 (3.91%) Architect
10 12 (3.91%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (3.91%) Support Engineer
11 10 (3.26%) Data Engineer
11 10 (3.26%) EPR Consultant
11 10 (3.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 10 (3.26%) Lead
11 10 (3.26%) Technical Consultant
12 9 (2.93%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (58.96%) XML
2 111 (36.16%) REST
3 76 (24.76%) HTML
4 51 (16.61%) SOAP
5 50 (16.29%) RESTful
6 34 (11.07%) Web Services
7 32 (10.42%) React
8 29 (9.45%) Regular Expression
9 25 (8.14%) CSS
10 22 (7.17%) OAuth
10 22 (7.17%) Spring
11 21 (6.84%) .NET
12 19 (6.19%) Spring Boot
13 17 (5.54%) OAuth2
14 16 (5.21%) FHIR
15 15 (4.89%) Middleware
16 14 (4.56%) YAML
17 13 (4.23%) Hibernate
17 13 (4.23%) Node.js
18 10 (3.26%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 50 (16.29%) Onboarding
2 42 (13.68%) Linux Command Line
3 30 (9.77%) Data Structures
4 29 (9.45%) Cloud Native
5 22 (7.17%) Enterprise Software
6 19 (6.19%) Low-Code
7 18 (5.86%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (4.56%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (3.26%) NHS
9 10 (3.26%) Operational Technology
10 7 (2.28%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.95%) Social Media
12 5 (1.63%) Data Centre
13 4 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (0.98%) Mobile App
14 3 (0.98%) PMI
14 3 (0.98%) Public Cloud
14 3 (0.98%) Reference Data
14 3 (0.98%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 40 (13.03%) Unix
2 29 (9.45%) Linux
3 7 (2.28%) Windows
4 3 (0.98%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.33%) Android
5 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (30.29%) CI/CD
2 90 (29.32%) Agile
3 74 (24.10%) DevOps
4 65 (21.17%) Test Automation
5 59 (19.22%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (17.26%) AI
7 50 (16.29%) Business Intelligence
8 46 (14.98%) API Integration
9 44 (14.33%) Analytics
9 44 (14.33%) Data Modelling
9 44 (14.33%) Root Cause Analysis
10 43 (14.01%) ETL
11 41 (13.36%) Asset Management
11 41 (13.36%) Coaching
12 37 (12.05%) Data Analysis
12 37 (12.05%) Observability
13 35 (11.40%) ERP
14 33 (10.75%) Mentoring
15 32 (10.42%) LLM
16 31 (10.10%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 159 (51.79%) SQL
2 122 (39.74%) Python
3 87 (28.34%) JavaScript
4 76 (24.76%) Java
5 35 (11.40%) C#
6 33 (10.75%) PowerShell
7 32 (10.42%) Shell Script
8 29 (9.45%) PL/SQL
9 17 (5.54%) Bicep
10 15 (4.89%) T-SQL
11 13 (4.23%) TypeScript
12 5 (1.63%) PHP
13 4 (1.30%) Perl
13 4 (1.30%) VB
14 3 (0.98%) ActionScript
14 3 (0.98%) ActionScript 2.0
14 3 (0.98%) Bash
14 3 (0.98%) C++
15 2 (0.65%) Groovy
15 2 (0.65%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 48 (15.64%) Degree
2 29 (9.45%) Security Cleared
3 15 (4.89%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.98%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (0.98%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.65%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.33%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.33%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.82%) GDPR
2 20 (6.51%) QA
3 18 (5.86%) Accessibility
4 17 (5.54%) Data Quality
5 16 (5.21%) HL7
6 14 (4.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (2.28%) WCAG
8 5 (1.63%) NCSC
8 5 (1.63%) NIST
9 2 (0.65%) SLA
9 2 (0.65%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 32 (10.42%) Docker
2 26 (8.47%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.98%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.33%) iptables
Systems Management
1 44 (14.33%) Terraform
2 28 (9.12%) Kubernetes
3 19 (6.19%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (3.58%) Ansible
5 9 (2.93%) Kibana
6 3 (0.98%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.33%) Grafana
7 1 (0.33%) Packer
7 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 45 (14.66%) Oracle
2 37 (12.05%) Microsoft
3 18 (5.86%) Okta
4 14 (4.56%) Ab Initio
4 14 (4.56%) SAP
5 13 (4.23%) Google
6 10 (3.26%) Cisco
6 10 (3.26%) Splunk
7 9 (2.93%) Dynatrace
7 9 (2.93%) MuleSoft
8 8 (2.61%) Dell
8 8 (2.61%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.28%) Intapp
9 7 (2.28%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.28%) Talend
10 6 (1.95%) F5
10 6 (1.95%) IFS
10 6 (1.95%) SnapLogic
10 6 (1.95%) TIBCO
10 6 (1.95%) Workday