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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 339 264
Rank change year-on-year -101 -75 0
Permanent jobs citing JSON 328 386 1,136
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.86% 1.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.40% 4.42% 5.21%
Number of salaries quoted 234 288 703
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,365 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £89,625 £86,625 £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 9,649 8,733 21,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.25% 19.46% 19.96%
Number of salaries quoted 7,206 5,728 16,566
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -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 20 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 20 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 -104 297 £65,000 - 113
UK excluding London -75 183 £60,000 +5.73% 90
Work from Home -23 132 £62,500 -3.85% 61
London -31 109 £75,000 +11.11% 44
South East -28 82 £60,000 -7.69% 34
North of England -11 48 £55,000 - 17
North West +7 30 £62,500 +13.64% 11
East of England -11 29 £90,000 +89.47% 4
Yorkshire -31 14 £42,750 +5.56% 5
South West -72 12 £52,500 -12.50% 10
Midlands -41 9 £47,500 -16.67% 15
West Midlands -30 5 £43,000 -21.82% 9
East Midlands -35 4 £47,500 -20.83% 6
North East -46 4 £46,250 -40.32% 1
Wales - 4 - - 4
Scotland -2 2 £72,500 +62.92% 6

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 11 (3.35%) Confluence
4 10 (3.05%) Apache
5 9 (2.74%) IIS
6 8 (2.44%) CMS
7 7 (2.13%) WordPress
8 5 (1.52%) Drupal
9 3 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.61%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.61%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.61%) 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 13 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.91%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.91%) 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 (0.61%) NetSuite
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 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 61 (18.60%) Power Platform
4 42 (12.80%) Azure Logic Apps
5 41 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (11.89%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (9.45%) Serverless
8 28 (8.54%) SaaS
9 25 (7.62%) PowerApps
10 24 (7.32%) Power Automate
11 23 (7.01%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (7.01%) Azure Data Factory
12 21 (6.40%) GitHub
13 20 (6.10%) OneDrive
14 19 (5.79%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 19 (5.79%) Dynamics 365
15 17 (5.18%) Boomi
16 15 (4.57%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (4.57%) AWS CloudFormation
17 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%) HTTP
3 5 (1.52%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.22%) Intranet
4 4 (1.22%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.91%) BGP
5 3 (0.91%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.91%) SSL
6 2 (0.61%) AMQP
6 2 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.61%) Ethernet
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%) VPN
6 2 (0.61%) WAN
7 1 (0.30%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (14.94%) Power BI
2 45 (13.72%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (9.76%) MySQL
4 28 (8.54%) Relational Database
5 24 (7.32%) SQL Server
6 22 (6.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 19 (5.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 17 (5.18%) Redis
9 16 (4.88%) Metadata
10 13 (3.96%) RDBMS
11 11 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (2.13%) Electronic Patient Records
12 7 (2.13%) GIS
12 7 (2.13%) Oracle Database
13 5 (1.52%) MongoDB
14 4 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
15 3 (0.91%) Delta Lake
15 3 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
15 3 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 53 (16.16%) Git
2 43 (13.11%) JIRA
3 27 (8.23%) Jenkins
4 24 (7.32%) 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
1 147 (44.82%) Social Skills
2 89 (27.13%) Analytical Skills
3 60 (18.29%) Finance
4 21 (6.40%) Organisational Skills
5 19 (5.79%) 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%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.91%) Banking
14 3 (0.91%) Local Government
14 3 (0.91%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 108 (32.93%) Developer
2 72 (21.95%) Senior
3 45 (13.72%) Senior Developer
4 30 (9.15%) Architect
5 28 (8.54%) Analyst
6 27 (8.23%) Consultant
7 21 (6.40%) DevOps Engineer
7 21 (6.40%) Support Engineer
8 19 (5.79%) Data Analyst
9 17 (5.18%) Software Developer
10 16 (4.88%) Software Engineer
11 14 (4.27%) Automation Engineer
11 14 (4.27%) Integration Architect
11 14 (4.27%) Lead
12 13 (3.96%) Java Developer
13 11 (3.35%) Applications Architect
13 11 (3.35%) Data Engineer
13 11 (3.35%) Network Engineer
13 11 (3.35%) Technical Support
13 11 (3.35%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (43.60%) XML
2 120 (36.59%) REST
3 85 (25.91%) HTML
4 71 (21.65%) CSS
5 59 (17.99%) .NET
6 49 (14.94%) SOAP
7 40 (12.20%) .NET Core
8 39 (11.89%) RESTful
9 38 (11.59%) Middleware
10 34 (10.37%) YAML
11 27 (8.23%) JWT
12 26 (7.93%) React
13 22 (6.71%) 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%) HTML5
18 17 (5.18%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.76%) Data Structures
2 30 (9.15%) Onboarding
3 23 (7.01%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (6.10%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (5.79%) Analytical Mindset
6 18 (5.49%) Cloud Native
7 10 (3.05%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (2.74%) Enterprise Cloud
8 9 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
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%) Robotics
10 6 (1.83%) SCADA
11 4 (1.22%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 57 (17.38%) Linux
2 32 (9.76%) Windows
3 14 (4.27%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.13%) Unix
5 6 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (27.74%) Agile
2 90 (27.44%) Problem-Solving
3 88 (26.83%) CI/CD
4 86 (26.22%) DevOps
5 60 (18.29%) Data Modelling
6 53 (16.16%) Microservices
7 50 (15.24%) Business Intelligence
8 45 (13.72%) User Experience
9 43 (13.11%) Containerisation
10 42 (12.80%) API Integration
11 40 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
12 37 (11.28%) Test Automation
13 35 (10.67%) Roadmaps
14 34 (10.37%) ERP
15 33 (10.06%) AI
15 33 (10.06%) Validation
16 32 (9.76%) Analytics
17 31 (9.45%) Mentoring
18 30 (9.15%) API Design
18 30 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 161 (49.09%) SQL
2 112 (34.15%) JavaScript
3 106 (32.32%) Python
4 62 (18.90%) C#
5 60 (18.29%) Java
6 41 (12.50%) PowerShell
7 27 (8.23%) TypeScript
8 20 (6.10%) PHP
9 14 (4.27%) T-SQL
10 12 (3.66%) Shell Script
11 10 (3.05%) C++
11 10 (3.05%) Ruby
12 9 (2.74%) Perl
13 7 (2.13%) VB
14 6 (1.83%) Groovy
14 6 (1.83%) PL/SQL
15 4 (1.22%) VBA
16 3 (0.91%) Bash
16 3 (0.91%) Bicep
16 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 21 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.13%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.52%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.52%) 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%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (11.59%) 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 7 (2.13%) HL7
8 6 (1.83%) GDPR
8 6 (1.83%) WCAG
9 4 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.91%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.91%) 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
12 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 48 (14.63%) Docker
2 14 (4.27%) 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 33 (10.06%) Kubernetes
2 32 (9.76%) Terraform
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%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 87 (26.52%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.32%) Adobe
3 20 (6.10%) 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%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.83%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.83%) SAP
11 5 (1.52%) IBM
12 4 (1.22%) AppDynamics
13 3 (0.91%) Fortinet