JSON Job Trends

JSON
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring JSON skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 293 232
Rank change year-on-year -77 -61 -12
Permanent jobs citing JSON 339 703 919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.69% 0.90% 1.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.31% 4.60% 5.48%
Number of salaries quoted 250 420 766
10th Percentile £39,300 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,375 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% - -
75th Percentile £76,500 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% -

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 7,869 15,291 16,760
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.97% 19.66% 27.24%
Number of salaries quoted 4,988 9,742 13,680
10th Percentile £39,500 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,104
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £64,244 £66,056
Median % change year-on-year +5.07% -2.74% +1.62%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

JSON
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JSON as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JSON 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 2025. 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 -39 299 £60,000 -7.69% 163
UK excluding London -96 209 £55,000 -5.17% 120
Work from Home -11 138 £62,500 -3.85% 116
London -9 103 £67,500 -3.57% 75
South East +5 82 £65,000 -7.14% 37
East of England +16 49 £52,500 -8.70% 2
North of England -25 34 £55,000 -8.33% 42
North West -32 29 £55,000 - 26
Midlands +9 19 £47,500 -13.64% 16
West Midlands +12 15 £47,500 -19.15% 11
Scotland -24 15 £50,000 -8.68% 5
South West +54 9 £56,250 -3.02% 11
East Midlands +8 4 £60,000 +50.00% 5
Yorkshire -23 4 £64,000 -5.19% 12
Northern Ireland +19 3 - - 2
North East +17 1 £45,000 - 4

JSON
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (4.42%) IIS
2 10 (2.95%) Tomcat
3 8 (2.36%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.06%) Confluence
5 6 (1.77%) CMS
6 5 (1.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.88%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.88%) WordPress
8 2 (0.59%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.59%) Appian
8 2 (0.59%) CICS
8 2 (0.59%) Drupal
8 2 (0.59%) Mule
8 2 (0.59%) Oracle Service Bus
8 2 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.29%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (3.24%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.18%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (2.36%) NetSuite
2 6 (1.77%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (1.18%) JDE OneWorld
4 2 (0.59%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.59%) Shopify
5 1 (0.29%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 127 (37.46%) Azure
2 66 (19.47%) AWS
3 51 (15.04%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (10.62%) Serverless
5 32 (9.44%) GitHub
6 26 (7.67%) Azure Service Bus
7 24 (7.08%) Power Automate
8 23 (6.78%) Power Platform
9 22 (6.49%) Amazon EC2
9 22 (6.49%) GCP
9 22 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
10 21 (6.19%) Amazon ECS
10 21 (6.19%) Amazon EKS
10 21 (6.19%) Entra ID
11 16 (4.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 16 (4.72%) Azure Logic Apps
11 16 (4.72%) SaaS
11 16 (4.72%) SonarCloud
12 15 (4.42%) PowerApps
13 13 (3.83%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.72%) Ethernet
1 16 (4.72%) Firewall
1 16 (4.72%) LAN
1 16 (4.72%) WAN
2 15 (4.42%) Cisco ISE
2 15 (4.42%) SD-WAN
3 14 (4.13%) FTP
4 11 (3.24%) SSL
5 9 (2.65%) DMARC
6 8 (2.36%) HTTP
7 2 (0.59%) DNS
7 2 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.59%) X.21
8 1 (0.29%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.29%) DHCP
8 1 (0.29%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (0.29%) Internet
8 1 (0.29%) Network Security
8 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (21.24%) SQL Server
2 53 (15.63%) Relational Database
3 34 (10.03%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (9.44%) MySQL
5 26 (7.67%) RDBMS
6 19 (5.60%) OLTP
7 17 (5.01%) NoSQL
8 16 (4.72%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (3.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (3.54%) Power BI
11 8 (2.36%) GIS
11 8 (2.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (2.06%) Electronic Patient Records
12 7 (2.06%) Tableau
13 5 (1.47%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.47%) Redis
14 3 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (0.88%) Big Data
14 3 (0.88%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 63 (18.58%) Git
2 42 (12.39%) Jenkins
3 25 (7.37%) JMeter
4 23 (6.78%) JUnit
5 20 (5.90%) Mockito
6 19 (5.60%) JIRA
6 19 (5.60%) Visual Studio
7 17 (5.01%) Team Foundation Server
8 16 (4.72%) MSBuild
8 16 (4.72%) Octopus Deploy
9 11 (3.24%) Selenium
10 6 (1.77%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (1.47%) GitLab
11 5 (1.47%) webpack
12 4 (1.18%) Postman
13 3 (0.88%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.88%) IntelliJ
13 3 (0.88%) WebDriver
14 2 (0.59%) Maven
14 2 (0.59%) Subversion
General
1 117 (34.51%) Social Skills
2 54 (15.93%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (14.16%) Finance
4 36 (10.62%) Law
5 33 (9.73%) Retail
6 28 (8.26%) Public Sector
7 19 (5.60%) Marketing
8 10 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.65%) Czech Language
9 9 (2.65%) Games
9 9 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.36%) Banking
10 8 (2.36%) Health Technology
10 8 (2.36%) iGaming
11 6 (1.77%) Front Office
11 6 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.47%) Digital Healthcare
12 5 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.18%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 138 (40.71%) Developer
2 52 (15.34%) Senior
3 40 (11.80%) Senior Developer
4 37 (10.91%) Analyst
4 37 (10.91%) Architect
5 28 (8.26%) Full-Stack Developer
6 22 (6.49%) Java Developer
7 19 (5.60%) Oracle Developer
7 19 (5.60%) Senior Oracle Developer
8 16 (4.72%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 16 (4.72%) Technical Architect
9 15 (4.42%) .NET Developer
9 15 (4.42%) Consultant
9 15 (4.42%) Lead
9 15 (4.42%) Support Analyst
10 14 (4.13%) Network Architect
11 13 (3.83%) ServiceNow Consultant
12 12 (3.54%) Applications Support
12 12 (3.54%) Applications Support Analyst
12 12 (3.54%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (57.52%) XML
2 155 (45.72%) HTML
3 134 (39.53%) REST
4 87 (25.66%) CSS
5 67 (19.76%) Web Services
6 61 (17.99%) SOAP
7 51 (15.04%) .NET
8 32 (9.44%) React
8 32 (9.44%) RESTful
9 30 (8.85%) ASP.NET
10 28 (8.26%) jQuery
11 26 (7.67%) Hibernate
12 23 (6.78%) Spring
13 21 (6.19%) Spring Boot
14 20 (5.90%) ActiveMQ
14 20 (5.90%) Apache Camel
14 20 (5.90%) WireMock
15 19 (5.60%) Bootstrap
15 19 (5.60%) OAuth
16 18 (5.31%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.62%) Self-Motivation
2 23 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (5.60%) Cloud Native
4 16 (4.72%) Data Centre
4 16 (4.72%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (4.72%) Public Cloud
5 14 (4.13%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.83%) Mobile App
6 13 (3.83%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.06%) Mobile Games
8 7 (2.06%) Operational Technology
9 6 (1.77%) BYOD
10 5 (1.47%) LIMS
11 4 (1.18%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.88%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.88%) PKI
13 2 (0.59%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.31%) Linux
2 14 (4.13%) Windows
3 13 (3.83%) Unix
4 6 (1.77%) Android
5 4 (1.18%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.59%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.59%) zOS
7 1 (0.29%) CentOS
7 1 (0.29%) Debian
7 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (36.87%) Agile
2 88 (25.96%) Problem-Solving
3 84 (24.78%) DevOps
4 72 (21.24%) Microservices
5 71 (20.94%) CI/CD
6 43 (12.68%) Mentoring
6 43 (12.68%) Test Automation
7 39 (11.50%) CRM
7 39 (11.50%) Full-Stack Development
8 38 (11.21%) API Integration
9 34 (10.03%) ETL
10 32 (9.44%) Code Quality
11 30 (8.85%) Clean Code
12 29 (8.55%) BDD
12 29 (8.55%) SDLC
12 29 (8.55%) Technical Leadership
13 28 (8.26%) Data Modelling
13 28 (8.26%) Roadmaps
13 28 (8.26%) TDD
14 27 (7.96%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 186 (54.87%) SQL
2 175 (51.62%) JavaScript
3 88 (25.96%) Python
4 81 (23.89%) Java
5 65 (19.17%) C#
6 42 (12.39%) PowerShell
7 31 (9.14%) Shell Script
8 27 (7.96%) PL/SQL
9 14 (4.13%) TypeScript
10 10 (2.95%) PHP
11 9 (2.65%) VBA
12 8 (2.36%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.47%) Bicep
13 5 (1.47%) Go
14 3 (0.88%) Bash
14 3 (0.88%) COBOL
14 3 (0.88%) SPARQL
15 2 (0.59%) Dart
15 2 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 29 (8.55%) Security Cleared
2 21 (6.19%) Degree
3 20 (5.90%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.18%) DBS Check
6 3 (0.88%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.59%) A+ Certification
7 2 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (0.59%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.29%) CCNA
8 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.26%) QA
2 22 (6.49%) GDPR
3 19 (5.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (5.01%) Data Quality
5 14 (4.13%) HL7
6 13 (3.83%) Accessibility
7 9 (2.65%) NIST
8 7 (2.06%) NCSC
9 2 (0.59%) SLA
9 2 (0.59%) WCAG
10 1 (0.29%) DICOM
10 1 (0.29%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.29%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 58 (17.11%) Docker
2 19 (5.60%) Active Directory
3 15 (4.42%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.29%) HDFS
4 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (10.62%) Kubernetes
2 28 (8.26%) Terraform
3 21 (6.19%) Single Sign-On
4 20 (5.90%) Kibana
5 17 (5.01%) Ansible
6 16 (4.72%) FortiGate
7 9 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.18%) Graylog
9 3 (0.88%) Grafana
10 2 (0.59%) Argo
10 2 (0.59%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.29%) Packer
11 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 63 (18.58%) Microsoft
2 50 (14.75%) Oracle
3 25 (7.37%) ServiceNow
4 24 (7.08%) Cisco
4 24 (7.08%) Splunk
5 21 (6.19%) Google
6 20 (5.90%) Dynatrace
7 16 (4.72%) CheckPoint
7 16 (4.72%) F5
7 16 (4.72%) VMware
8 15 (4.42%) Blue Coat
9 10 (2.95%) Salesforce
10 8 (2.36%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.77%) Dell
11 6 (1.77%) Okta
11 6 (1.77%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.77%) Trayport
12 5 (1.47%) IBM
12 5 (1.47%) Talend
13 4 (1.18%) HubSpot