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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 298 230
Rank change year-on-year -112 -68 +42
Permanent jobs citing JSON 333 412 1,206
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 1.00% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.88% 4.74% 6.00%
Number of salaries quoted 205 318 801
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £35,419
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,264 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,438 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £88,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% 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 8,582 8,684 20,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.12% 21.08% 21.60%
Number of salaries quoted 6,277 6,572 15,623
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,750 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -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 14 April 2026.

Salary histogram for JSON in the UK

JSON
Top 15 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 14 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 -115 276 £62,500 - 139
UK excluding London -102 197 £55,000 - 94
Work from Home -23 145 £57,500 -8.73% 65
London -51 94 £66,000 -8.97% 58
South East -79 63 £62,500 -1.96% 39
East of England +11 57 £55,000 +15.79% 8
North of England -53 35 £55,000 +4.76% 30
Scotland -3 26 £72,500 +52.45% 2
North West -25 24 £55,000 +4.76% 16
Midlands -59 13 £47,500 -9.95% 12
Yorkshire -65 9 £73,499 +40.00% 13
West Midlands -30 8 £47,500 -11.53% 4
South West -61 6 £31,500 -49.60% 5
East Midlands -60 5 £50,750 -2.87% 8
North East -32 2 £46,250 -40.32% 1

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 22 (6.61%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (3.30%) Confluence
4 5 (1.50%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.90%) IIS
6 2 (0.60%) CMS
6 2 (0.60%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.60%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.30%) Apache
7 1 (0.30%) CICS
7 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.30%) JBoss
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.30%) SAS
7 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.80%) Trello
3 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.60%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.30%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.30%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (2.40%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.50%) Shopify
3 3 (0.90%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.60%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.30%) Magento
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.30%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 140 (42.04%) Azure
2 67 (20.12%) AWS
3 58 (17.42%) Power Platform
4 43 (12.91%) GitHub
5 42 (12.61%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (8.71%) Azure Logic Apps
6 29 (8.71%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (8.71%) Serverless
7 28 (8.41%) Power Automate
8 27 (8.11%) Azure Data Factory
9 24 (7.21%) SaaS
10 20 (6.01%) PowerApps
11 19 (5.71%) Boomi
11 19 (5.71%) GCP
12 16 (4.80%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (4.80%) Entra ID
13 14 (4.20%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (3.60%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.80%) Firewall
2 9 (2.70%) VPN
3 7 (2.10%) FTP
4 6 (1.80%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (1.20%) AMQP
5 4 (1.20%) DNS
5 4 (1.20%) SSL
6 3 (0.90%) BGP
6 3 (0.90%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.60%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.60%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.60%) HTTP
7 2 (0.60%) LAN
7 2 (0.60%) PuTTY
7 2 (0.60%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.60%) WAN
8 1 (0.30%) CTI
8 1 (0.30%) DHCP
8 1 (0.30%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (15.92%) Power BI
2 34 (10.21%) MySQL
3 31 (9.31%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (9.01%) SQL Server
5 29 (8.71%) Relational Database
6 18 (5.41%) Metadata
6 18 (5.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 16 (4.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (4.20%) RDBMS
9 12 (3.60%) Electronic Patient Records
10 10 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (2.10%) Oracle Database
11 7 (2.10%) Power Query
12 6 (1.80%) GIS
12 6 (1.80%) OLTP
12 6 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (1.50%) Redis
14 4 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (1.20%) MongoDB
15 3 (0.90%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 37 (11.11%) JIRA
2 35 (10.51%) Git
3 27 (8.11%) Jenkins
4 20 (6.01%) GitLab
5 11 (3.30%) Postman
6 9 (2.70%) JUnit
7 8 (2.40%) Oracle Forms
7 8 (2.40%) Visual Studio
8 7 (2.10%) ERwin
9 6 (1.80%) Maven
9 6 (1.80%) Mockito
9 6 (1.80%) Selenium
9 6 (1.80%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.80%) Storybook
10 5 (1.50%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.50%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.50%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.20%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.20%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.20%) JMeter
General
1 128 (38.44%) Social Skills
2 74 (22.22%) Finance
3 72 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (7.21%) Marketing
5 23 (6.91%) Law
6 18 (5.41%) Telecoms
7 17 (5.11%) Health Technology
7 17 (5.11%) Public Sector
7 17 (5.11%) Retail
8 15 (4.50%) German Language
9 12 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.10%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.10%) Legal
11 5 (1.50%) Advertising
12 4 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.90%) Billing
13 3 (0.90%) Local Government
13 3 (0.90%) Publishing
14 2 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 104 (31.23%) Developer
2 65 (19.52%) Senior
3 40 (12.01%) Senior Developer
4 37 (11.11%) Analyst
5 29 (8.71%) Consultant
6 20 (6.01%) Data Analyst
7 19 (5.71%) Architect
7 19 (5.71%) Java Developer
8 18 (5.41%) Integration Engineer
9 16 (4.80%) Support Engineer
10 14 (4.20%) Applications Engineer
11 13 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (3.60%) Automation Engineer
12 12 (3.60%) EPR Consultant
13 11 (3.30%) Data Engineer
13 11 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.30%) Network Engineer
13 11 (3.30%) Telecoms Engineer
14 10 (3.00%) Applications Support
15 9 (2.70%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (53.75%) XML
2 112 (33.63%) REST
3 90 (27.03%) HTML
4 54 (16.22%) SOAP
5 48 (14.41%) RESTful
6 42 (12.61%) CSS
7 35 (10.51%) .NET
8 32 (9.61%) Regular Expression
9 28 (8.41%) Web Services
10 24 (7.21%) OAuth
10 24 (7.21%) YAML
11 22 (6.61%) React
12 20 (6.01%) Middleware
12 20 (6.01%) Spring
13 17 (5.11%) OAuth2
13 17 (5.11%) Spring Boot
14 15 (4.50%) .NET Core
15 14 (4.20%) FHIR
15 14 (4.20%) Node.js
16 13 (3.90%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 48 (14.41%) Onboarding
2 44 (13.21%) Linux Command Line
3 37 (11.11%) Data Structures
4 23 (6.91%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (6.61%) Cloud Native
6 17 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (4.50%) Low-Code
8 12 (3.60%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (3.60%) NHS
9 9 (2.70%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.40%) Social Media
11 7 (2.10%) e-Learning
12 6 (1.80%) Operational Technology
12 6 (1.80%) SCADA
13 5 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (1.50%) Management Information System
14 4 (1.20%) Data Centre
14 4 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (1.20%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (12.91%) Unix
2 42 (12.61%) Linux
3 10 (3.00%) Windows
4 5 (1.50%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.30%) Android
7 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (26.43%) CI/CD
2 86 (25.83%) Agile
3 77 (23.12%) DevOps
4 74 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (19.22%) Business Intelligence
6 56 (16.82%) Test Automation
7 53 (15.92%) AI
7 53 (15.92%) Data Modelling
8 48 (14.41%) Analytics
9 44 (13.21%) Data Analysis
10 43 (12.91%) API Integration
11 39 (11.71%) ETL
12 36 (10.81%) ERP
13 34 (10.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (10.21%) Validation
14 33 (9.91%) Microservices
14 33 (9.91%) User Experience
15 32 (9.61%) Containerisation
15 32 (9.61%) Decision-Making
15 32 (9.61%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 173 (51.95%) SQL
2 124 (37.24%) Python
3 97 (29.13%) JavaScript
4 72 (21.62%) Java
5 36 (10.81%) C#
6 28 (8.41%) PowerShell
7 22 (6.61%) Shell Script
7 22 (6.61%) TypeScript
8 20 (6.01%) PL/SQL
9 13 (3.90%) Bicep
10 12 (3.60%) T-SQL
11 10 (3.00%) Perl
12 8 (2.40%) PHP
12 8 (2.40%) VB
13 6 (1.80%) Groovy
14 4 (1.20%) Ruby
15 3 (0.90%) ActionScript
15 3 (0.90%) ActionScript 2.0
15 3 (0.90%) C++
15 3 (0.90%) VBA
Qualifications
1 55 (16.52%) Degree
2 33 (9.91%) Security Cleared
3 17 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (5.11%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.20%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.90%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.90%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (0.90%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.41%) QA
2 21 (6.31%) GDPR
3 16 (4.80%) Data Quality
4 15 (4.50%) Accessibility
5 14 (4.20%) HL7
6 13 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (3.00%) SLA
8 7 (2.10%) TickIT
8 7 (2.10%) WCAG
9 3 (0.90%) NCSC
9 3 (0.90%) NIST
10 2 (0.60%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 35 (10.51%) Docker
2 19 (5.71%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.90%) vSphere
4 2 (0.60%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.30%) iptables
Systems Management
1 33 (9.91%) Kubernetes
2 32 (9.61%) Terraform
3 15 (4.50%) Ansible
4 9 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.50%) Kibana
6 4 (1.20%) Packer
7 2 (0.60%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.30%) Grafana
8 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 52 (15.62%) Microsoft
2 39 (11.71%) Oracle
3 16 (4.80%) Cisco
4 14 (4.20%) Adobe
5 13 (3.90%) Google
5 13 (3.90%) SAP
6 11 (3.30%) IBM
6 11 (3.30%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.00%) Ab Initio
8 9 (2.70%) Databricks
8 9 (2.70%) Palo Alto
9 8 (2.40%) F5
9 8 (2.40%) MuleSoft
9 8 (2.40%) Okta
9 8 (2.40%) Splunk
10 7 (2.10%) Dell
10 7 (2.10%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.10%) Sparx
10 7 (2.10%) Talend
11 6 (1.80%) TIBCO