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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 458 353 264
Rank change year-on-year -105 -89 -27
Permanent jobs citing JSON 356 379 869
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.76% 1.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.34% 4.51% 5.41%
Number of salaries quoted 247 279 533
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,250 £33,600
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,900 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £79,043 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,000 £83,750 £82,500
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 10,661 8,409 16,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.93% 16.85% 19.31%
Number of salaries quoted 7,780 5,443 11,343
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -81 329 £62,500 +4.17% 245
UK excluding London -89 208 £55,000 - 148
Work from Home -37 135 £58,750 -5.24% 94
London -37 120 £75,000 +15.38% 132
South East -35 83 £55,000 -15.38% 44
North of England -21 54 £55,000 - 32
North West -10 32 £62,500 +13.64% 17
East of England -49 27 £90,000 +84.62% 18
Midlands -35 21 £53,250 -5.75% 21
South West -57 19 £52,500 - 14
Yorkshire -14 17 £40,750 -6.32% 13
West Midlands -27 12 £46,250 -13.95% 13
East Midlands -16 9 £54,000 -4.42% 8
Wales - 6 £55,000 - 3
North East - 5 £45,000 - 2
Scotland -15 1 - - 12

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 (7.87%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.78%) Confluence
3 15 (4.21%) Apache
4 11 (3.09%) IIS
5 9 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (2.25%) CMS
7 6 (1.69%) WordPress
8 5 (1.40%) Apache Spark
8 5 (1.40%) Drupal
9 4 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.84%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.56%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.56%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.28%) JBoss
12 1 (0.28%) SAS
12 1 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 18 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.12%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.84%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.56%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.28%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 155 (43.54%) Azure
2 91 (25.56%) AWS
3 57 (16.01%) Power Platform
4 52 (14.61%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (13.76%) Azure Logic Apps
6 35 (9.83%) Microsoft 365
7 29 (8.15%) PowerApps
7 29 (8.15%) Serverless
8 28 (7.87%) Power Automate
9 26 (7.30%) GitHub
10 23 (6.46%) Azure Data Factory
11 22 (6.18%) SaaS
12 21 (5.90%) AWS Lambda
13 19 (5.34%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 19 (5.34%) Dynamics 365
13 19 (5.34%) GCP
13 19 (5.34%) OneDrive
14 15 (4.21%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (4.21%) Boomi
15 12 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.34%) Firewall
2 10 (2.81%) TCP/IP
3 9 (2.53%) DNS
4 6 (1.69%) HTTP
4 6 (1.69%) Wireshark
5 5 (1.40%) Intranet
6 4 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (0.84%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.84%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (0.84%) SSL
7 3 (0.84%) Wireless
8 2 (0.56%) MQTT
8 2 (0.56%) VPN
9 1 (0.28%) BGP
9 1 (0.28%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.28%) Network Security
9 1 (0.28%) RTP
9 1 (0.28%) RTSP
9 1 (0.28%) SCTP
9 1 (0.28%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (13.48%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (12.36%) Power BI
3 27 (7.58%) Relational Database
4 26 (7.30%) SQL Server
5 25 (7.02%) MySQL
6 23 (6.46%) Redis
7 20 (5.62%) Azure SQL Database
8 16 (4.49%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (4.49%) Metadata
9 14 (3.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (3.09%) RDBMS
11 7 (1.97%) Electronic Patient Records
12 6 (1.69%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.69%) GIS
12 6 (1.69%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.40%) Delta Lake
13 5 (1.40%) NoSQL
14 4 (1.12%) Apache Iceberg
14 4 (1.12%) DynamoDB
14 4 (1.12%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 66 (18.54%) Git
2 45 (12.64%) JIRA
3 28 (7.87%) Jenkins
4 23 (6.46%) GitLab
5 16 (4.49%) Selenium
6 11 (3.09%) Cucumber
6 11 (3.09%) Postman
7 10 (2.81%) JMeter
8 8 (2.25%) JUnit
9 7 (1.97%) Maven
9 7 (1.97%) Mockito
10 6 (1.69%) ERwin
11 5 (1.40%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.40%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.40%) Gatling
11 5 (1.40%) Gradle
11 5 (1.40%) Jasmine
11 5 (1.40%) Mocha
11 5 (1.40%) NUnit
11 5 (1.40%) SonarQube
General
1 153 (42.98%) Social Skills
2 89 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (17.70%) Finance
4 32 (8.99%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (4.21%) Health Technology
5 15 (4.21%) Public Sector
5 15 (4.21%) Retail
6 14 (3.93%) Marketing
7 12 (3.37%) Advertising
8 10 (2.81%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.25%) Legal
11 7 (1.97%) Law
12 6 (1.69%) Banking
12 6 (1.69%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.40%) Back Office
13 5 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.40%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.40%) Local Government
14 4 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 125 (35.11%) Developer
2 80 (22.47%) Senior
3 41 (11.52%) Senior Developer
4 25 (7.02%) Architect
5 23 (6.46%) Analyst
6 22 (6.18%) Consultant
6 22 (6.18%) Software Engineer
7 21 (5.90%) .NET Developer
8 19 (5.34%) Lead
8 19 (5.34%) Software Developer
8 19 (5.34%) Web Developer
9 18 (5.06%) Integration Engineer
9 18 (5.06%) Support Engineer
10 17 (4.78%) Ruby Developer
11 16 (4.49%) DevOps Engineer
12 15 (4.21%) Data Engineer
12 15 (4.21%) Full-Stack Developer
13 14 (3.93%) Automation Engineer
14 13 (3.65%) Senior Integration Engineer
14 13 (3.65%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (37.92%) XML
2 109 (30.62%) REST
3 91 (25.56%) HTML
4 83 (23.31%) .NET
5 79 (22.19%) CSS
6 49 (13.76%) RESTful
7 45 (12.64%) .NET Core
8 42 (11.80%) SOAP
9 40 (11.24%) ASP.NET
10 32 (8.99%) Middleware
10 32 (8.99%) YAML
11 30 (8.43%) JWT
12 29 (8.15%) React
13 21 (5.90%) .NET Framework
13 21 (5.90%) HTML5 Canvas
14 20 (5.62%) Microsoft Graph
15 19 (5.34%) AngularJS
15 19 (5.34%) Razor View Engine
15 19 (5.34%) SPFx
16 18 (5.06%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.74%) Onboarding
2 22 (6.18%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (5.90%) Cloud Native
3 21 (5.90%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (5.62%) Analytical Mindset
5 19 (5.34%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (5.06%) Data Structures
7 11 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (3.09%) Management Information System
7 11 (3.09%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.81%) Driving Licence
9 9 (2.53%) Enterprise Cloud
9 9 (2.53%) NHS
9 9 (2.53%) Robotics
10 8 (2.25%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.40%) e-Learning
12 5 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.40%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.12%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 59 (16.57%) Linux
2 45 (12.64%) Windows
3 17 (4.78%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.12%) Unix
5 4 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.56%) Android
6 2 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.28%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (36.80%) Agile
2 105 (29.49%) Problem-Solving
3 104 (29.21%) DevOps
4 103 (28.93%) CI/CD
5 57 (16.01%) Test Automation
6 56 (15.73%) User Experience
7 55 (15.45%) Microservices
8 47 (13.20%) Containerisation
9 45 (12.64%) Software Engineering
10 44 (12.36%) Data Modelling
11 43 (12.08%) Business Intelligence
11 43 (12.08%) Scrum
12 40 (11.24%) Mentoring
13 38 (10.67%) AI
13 38 (10.67%) Roadmaps
14 37 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
15 36 (10.11%) API Integration
15 36 (10.11%) Clean Code
15 36 (10.11%) Infrastructure as Code
16 35 (9.83%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 145 (40.73%) SQL
2 125 (35.11%) JavaScript
3 99 (27.81%) Python
4 87 (24.44%) C#
5 42 (11.80%) Java
6 32 (8.99%) PowerShell
7 26 (7.30%) TypeScript
8 18 (5.06%) C++
8 18 (5.06%) Ruby
9 17 (4.78%) PHP
10 14 (3.93%) Shell Script
11 11 (3.09%) T-SQL
12 7 (1.97%) Perl
13 5 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (1.40%) Groovy
13 5 (1.40%) VB
14 3 (0.84%) Bash
14 3 (0.84%) VBA
15 2 (0.56%) R
15 2 (0.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 45 (12.64%) Degree
2 38 (10.67%) Security Cleared
3 25 (7.02%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.37%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.69%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.40%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.84%) CCNP
9 3 (0.84%) CISSP
9 3 (0.84%) ISEB
9 3 (0.84%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.56%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.56%) CASP
10 2 (0.56%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.56%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (12.36%) QA
2 33 (9.27%) Accessibility
3 16 (4.49%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.37%) TickIT
5 11 (3.09%) SLA
6 10 (2.81%) WCAG
7 7 (1.97%) HL7
8 4 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.12%) GDPR
9 3 (0.84%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.84%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.28%) Dublin Core
11 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.28%) PERC
System Software
1 56 (15.73%) Docker
2 7 (1.97%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.97%) vSphere
3 4 (1.12%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (8.43%) Terraform
2 28 (7.87%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.93%) Ansible
4 5 (1.40%) Grafana
4 5 (1.40%) Kibana
5 4 (1.12%) Packer
6 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.28%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.28%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.28%) QRadar
Vendors
1 100 (28.09%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.74%) Adobe
3 19 (5.34%) Google
4 14 (3.93%) Splunk
5 13 (3.65%) Cisco
6 11 (3.09%) Oracle
6 11 (3.09%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.25%) Databricks
7 8 (2.25%) F5
7 8 (2.25%) SAP
7 8 (2.25%) VMware
8 7 (1.97%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.97%) IBM
9 5 (1.40%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.40%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.40%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.40%) Sparx
10 4 (1.12%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.12%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.12%) Juniper