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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 312 245
Rank change year-on-year -107 -67 +33
Permanent jobs citing JSON 330 417 1,155
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.95% 1.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.67% 4.79% 5.66%
Number of salaries quoted 219 317 755
10th Percentile £40,700 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,526 £46,250 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% +1.25% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £94,000 £88,500 £84,900
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -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 8,997 8,711 20,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.95% 19.84% 21.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,619 6,304 15,761
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -82 286 £65,000 +4.00% 125
UK excluding London -80 196 £60,000 +9.09% 84
Work from Home -14 141 £62,500 -0.40% 64
London -39 101 £65,500 -6.43% 49
South East -43 68 £62,500 -3.85% 35
East of England +11 50 £90,000 +89.47% 5
North of England -44 45 £57,500 +6.98% 29
North West -6 31 £61,250 +13.95% 17
Scotland 0 19 £72,500 +52.45% 1
Yorkshire -47 12 £57,000 +8.57% 9
Midlands -54 11 £47,500 -12.59% 10
West Midlands -38 7 £43,000 -20.87% 3
South West -64 6 £31,500 -47.50% 5
East Midlands -32 4 £47,500 -15.93% 7
North East -42 2 £46,250 -40.32% 3

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 29 (8.79%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.42%) CMS
4 7 (2.12%) IIS
4 7 (2.12%) WordPress
5 5 (1.52%) Drupal
6 4 (1.21%) Confluence
7 3 (0.91%) Apache
7 3 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.61%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.61%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.61%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.61%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.30%) CICS
9 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.30%) JBoss
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.30%) SAS
9 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.91%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.30%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.30%) EngageOne
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.30%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (2.12%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.61%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.30%) Magento
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.30%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 147 (44.55%) Azure
2 79 (23.94%) AWS
3 62 (18.79%) Power Platform
4 48 (14.55%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (11.82%) Azure Logic Apps
6 37 (11.21%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 33 (10.00%) GitHub
7 33 (10.00%) Serverless
8 27 (8.18%) PowerApps
8 27 (8.18%) SaaS
9 26 (7.88%) Power Automate
10 20 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (6.06%) OneDrive
11 19 (5.76%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 18 (5.45%) Dynamics 365
13 17 (5.15%) Boomi
14 15 (4.55%) Entra ID
15 14 (4.24%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (3.94%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.15%) Firewall
2 6 (1.82%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (1.82%) VPN
3 5 (1.52%) DNS
4 4 (1.21%) SSL
5 3 (0.91%) AMQP
5 3 (0.91%) BGP
5 3 (0.91%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.61%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.61%) FTP
6 2 (0.61%) HTTP
6 2 (0.61%) LAN
6 2 (0.61%) PuTTY
6 2 (0.61%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.61%) WAN
7 1 (0.30%) Broadband
7 1 (0.30%) CTI
7 1 (0.30%) DHCP
7 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (16.36%) Power BI
2 36 (10.91%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (10.30%) MySQL
4 24 (7.27%) Relational Database
5 23 (6.97%) SQL Server
5 23 (6.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 19 (5.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 18 (5.45%) Metadata
8 13 (3.94%) RDBMS
9 9 (2.73%) Electronic Patient Records
10 8 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (2.42%) Oracle Database
10 8 (2.42%) Redis
11 7 (2.12%) GIS
12 6 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (1.52%) OLTP
14 4 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (1.21%) MongoDB
14 4 (1.21%) Snowflake Schema
15 3 (0.91%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (13.33%) Git
2 36 (10.91%) JIRA
3 30 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 22 (6.67%) GitLab
5 12 (3.64%) Postman
6 9 (2.73%) JUnit
7 8 (2.42%) Maven
8 7 (2.12%) ERwin
8 7 (2.12%) Oracle Forms
8 7 (2.12%) Selenium
9 6 (1.82%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.82%) Mockito
9 6 (1.82%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.52%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.52%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.52%) Gradle
10 5 (1.52%) JMeter
10 5 (1.52%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.52%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.21%) Artifactory
General
1 133 (40.30%) Social Skills
2 81 (24.55%) Analytical Skills
3 74 (22.42%) Finance
4 21 (6.36%) Retail
5 20 (6.06%) Marketing
6 18 (5.45%) Telecoms
7 17 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (4.55%) Health Technology
9 12 (3.64%) Law
10 10 (3.03%) Advertising
10 10 (3.03%) German Language
11 9 (2.73%) Public Sector
12 7 (2.12%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.91%) Back Office
15 3 (0.91%) Banking
15 3 (0.91%) Billing
15 3 (0.91%) Local Government
16 2 (0.61%) Legal
Job Titles
1 103 (31.21%) Developer
2 80 (24.24%) Senior
3 52 (15.76%) Senior Developer
4 31 (9.39%) Consultant
5 26 (7.88%) Analyst
5 26 (7.88%) Architect
6 20 (6.06%) Data Analyst
7 17 (5.15%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (5.15%) Support Engineer
8 15 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (4.55%) Java Developer
9 14 (4.24%) Applications Engineer
10 12 (3.64%) Automation Engineer
10 12 (3.64%) Integration Engineer
11 11 (3.33%) Applications Architect
11 11 (3.33%) Integration Architect
11 11 (3.33%) Lead
11 11 (3.33%) Network Engineer
11 11 (3.33%) Telecoms Engineer
12 10 (3.03%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (48.48%) XML
2 113 (34.24%) REST
3 91 (27.58%) HTML
4 59 (17.88%) CSS
5 54 (16.36%) SOAP
6 48 (14.55%) .NET
7 43 (13.03%) RESTful
8 32 (9.70%) Middleware
9 30 (9.09%) .NET Core
9 30 (9.09%) YAML
10 27 (8.18%) OAuth
11 23 (6.97%) HTML5 Canvas
12 22 (6.67%) Regular Expression
13 20 (6.06%) JWT
13 20 (6.06%) OAuth2
14 19 (5.76%) Microsoft Graph
14 19 (5.76%) SPFx
14 19 (5.76%) Spring
15 18 (5.45%) React
15 18 (5.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 41 (12.42%) Onboarding
2 33 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 30 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
4 24 (7.27%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (6.36%) Cloud Native
6 20 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (3.94%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (3.94%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.73%) Enterprise Cloud
8 9 (2.73%) NHS
9 7 (2.12%) e-Learning
9 7 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.12%) Operational Technology
9 7 (2.12%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.12%) SCADA
10 6 (1.82%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.52%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.21%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.21%) Reference Data
12 4 (1.21%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 42 (12.73%) Linux
2 25 (7.58%) Unix
3 17 (5.15%) Windows
4 9 (2.73%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.30%) Android
6 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (28.48%) CI/CD
2 93 (28.18%) DevOps
3 83 (25.15%) Agile
4 73 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (17.58%) Data Modelling
6 57 (17.27%) Business Intelligence
7 51 (15.45%) Test Automation
8 46 (13.94%) Microservices
9 45 (13.64%) API Integration
10 44 (13.33%) AI
11 41 (12.42%) User Experience
12 40 (12.12%) ERP
13 38 (11.52%) Data Analysis
14 36 (10.91%) Analytics
15 35 (10.61%) Infrastructure as Code
15 35 (10.61%) Mentoring
16 33 (10.00%) Containerisation
16 33 (10.00%) Validation
17 32 (9.70%) Integration Patterns
18 29 (8.79%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 166 (50.30%) SQL
2 117 (35.45%) Python
3 103 (31.21%) JavaScript
4 73 (22.12%) Java
5 46 (13.94%) C#
6 36 (10.91%) PowerShell
7 26 (7.88%) TypeScript
8 18 (5.45%) PL/SQL
9 17 (5.15%) Shell Script
10 15 (4.55%) PHP
11 11 (3.33%) Perl
12 10 (3.03%) Bicep
12 10 (3.03%) T-SQL
13 9 (2.73%) VB
14 6 (1.82%) Groovy
15 4 (1.21%) Ruby
15 4 (1.21%) VBA
16 3 (0.91%) ActionScript
16 3 (0.91%) ActionScript 2.0
17 2 (0.61%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 48 (14.55%) Degree
2 39 (11.82%) Security Cleared
3 24 (7.27%) SC Cleared
4 17 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.82%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.91%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (0.91%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.30%) CISSP
8 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.30%) GIAC
8 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.30%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (10.00%) QA
2 21 (6.36%) Accessibility
3 14 (4.24%) Data Quality
4 13 (3.94%) GDPR
5 12 (3.64%) TickIT
6 11 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (3.33%) SLA
7 10 (3.03%) HL7
8 9 (2.73%) WCAG
9 2 (0.61%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.30%) NCSC
10 1 (0.30%) NIST
10 1 (0.30%) PERC
System Software
1 37 (11.21%) Docker
2 19 (5.76%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.21%) vSphere
4 2 (0.61%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.30%) iptables
Systems Management
1 34 (10.30%) Terraform
2 32 (9.70%) Kubernetes
3 17 (5.15%) Ansible
4 7 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.52%) Kibana
6 4 (1.21%) Packer
7 2 (0.61%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.30%) Grafana
8 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 72 (21.82%) Microsoft
2 34 (10.30%) Oracle
3 24 (7.27%) Adobe
4 16 (4.85%) Cisco
5 11 (3.33%) Red Hat
5 11 (3.33%) Splunk
6 9 (2.73%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.42%) Databricks
7 8 (2.42%) F5
8 7 (2.12%) Ab Initio
8 7 (2.12%) Okta
8 7 (2.12%) Sparx
9 6 (1.82%) Google
9 6 (1.82%) IBM
9 6 (1.82%) Juniper
9 6 (1.82%) SAP
9 6 (1.82%) VMware
10 5 (1.52%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.52%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.52%) ServiceNow