JSON Job Trends

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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 299 251
Rank change year-on-year -88 -48 +5
Permanent jobs citing JSON 304 488 926
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.98% 1.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.03% 4.42% 5.36%
Number of salaries quoted 186 328 742
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £39,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £49,787
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -7.59%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £81,255 £86,250 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £56,318
% change year-on-year - -2.34% -2.06%

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 7,545 11,030 17,280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.34% 22.13% 23.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,546 6,658 14,215
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +7.48% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £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 12 February 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 12 February 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 -90 237 £58,750 -9.62% 139
UK excluding London -45 192 £55,000 - 108
Work from Home -38 125 £55,000 -15.38% 93
London -41 85 £75,000 +5.26% 57
South East -61 52 £55,000 -12.00% 40
East of England +34 45 £55,000 -11.18% 9
Scotland +18 41 £43,000 -6.58% 7
North of England -28 27 £55,000 -4.35% 26
Midlands -30 24 £47,500 -9.52% 16
North West +9 18 £55,000 -4.35% 17
West Midlands -2 18 £47,500 -12.59% 11
East Midlands -22 6 £60,000 +15.38% 5
Yorkshire -53 5 £43,500 -17.14% 7
North East -1 4 £45,000 -41.94% 2
Northern Ireland -18 2 - - 1
South West -31 1 £60,000 -11.11% 10

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 9 (2.96%) Confluence
1 9 (2.96%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.64%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.32%) CMS
5 2 (0.66%) IIS
5 2 (0.66%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.66%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.66%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.33%) Apache
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.33%) Appian
6 1 (0.33%) CICS
6 1 (0.33%) JBoss
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.30%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.97%) Trello
4 1 (0.33%) EngageOne
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (6.58%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.97%) NetSuite
3 5 (1.64%) Shopify
4 3 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.99%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.33%) Magento
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.33%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 128 (42.11%) Azure
2 64 (21.05%) GitHub
3 61 (20.07%) AWS
4 52 (17.11%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (13.16%) Power Platform
6 28 (9.21%) Entra ID
7 25 (8.22%) Serverless
8 24 (7.89%) Azure Logic Apps
8 24 (7.89%) Power Automate
9 22 (7.24%) Azure Data Factory
10 21 (6.91%) OCI
11 19 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
11 19 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (5.92%) Microsoft 365
13 17 (5.59%) Azure Monitor
13 17 (5.59%) GCP
14 16 (5.26%) Boomi
15 15 (4.93%) Azure Event Grid
16 14 (4.61%) PowerApps
17 13 (4.28%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.62%) VPN
2 7 (2.30%) FTP
3 4 (1.32%) AMQP
3 4 (1.32%) Firewall
4 3 (0.99%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (0.99%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.99%) HTTP
4 3 (0.99%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.99%) LAN
4 3 (0.99%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.99%) WAN
5 2 (0.66%) BGP
5 2 (0.66%) DNS
5 2 (0.66%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.33%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.33%) CTI
6 1 (0.33%) Modbus
6 1 (0.33%) SSL
6 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.33%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (12.83%) Relational Database
2 36 (11.84%) SQL Server
3 33 (10.86%) Power BI
4 29 (9.54%) MySQL
5 25 (8.22%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (4.93%) Electronic Patient Records
7 13 (4.28%) RDBMS
8 10 (3.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (2.63%) Metadata
9 8 (2.63%) NoSQL
10 6 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.97%) OLTP
10 6 (1.97%) Power Query
11 5 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.32%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.99%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (0.99%) GIS
14 2 (0.66%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 40 (13.16%) Jenkins
2 20 (6.58%) Git
2 20 (6.58%) Oracle Forms
3 15 (4.93%) JIRA
3 15 (4.93%) Postman
4 13 (4.28%) JUnit
5 10 (3.29%) JMeter
6 9 (2.96%) Mockito
7 8 (2.63%) Visual Studio
8 6 (1.97%) Axure RP
8 6 (1.97%) Storybook
9 5 (1.64%) Maven
9 5 (1.64%) Selenium
10 3 (0.99%) GitLab
10 3 (0.99%) WebDriver
11 2 (0.66%) Crashlytics
11 2 (0.66%) Gradle
11 2 (0.66%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.33%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.33%) Testinfra
General
1 90 (29.61%) Social Skills
2 84 (27.63%) Finance
3 45 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (9.87%) Law
5 27 (8.88%) Retail
6 25 (8.22%) Public Sector
7 20 (6.58%) Marketing
8 15 (4.93%) German Language
8 15 (4.93%) Health Technology
9 9 (2.96%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.97%) Legal
11 3 (0.99%) Electronics
11 3 (0.99%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.66%) Billing
12 2 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.66%) Publishing
13 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.33%) Local Government
13 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 104 (34.21%) Developer
2 57 (18.75%) Senior
3 34 (11.18%) Analyst
4 27 (8.88%) Senior Developer
5 23 (7.57%) Applications Engineer
6 22 (7.24%) Cloud Engineer
7 20 (6.58%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 19 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
9 18 (5.92%) Java Developer
10 17 (5.59%) Consultant
11 13 (4.28%) Data Analyst
11 13 (4.28%) Full-Stack Developer
11 13 (4.28%) Support Engineer
12 12 (3.95%) Architect
13 11 (3.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 11 (3.62%) Lead
14 10 (3.29%) EPR Consultant
14 10 (3.29%) Technical Consultant
15 9 (2.96%) Oracle Developer
15 9 (2.96%) Senior Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (57.57%) XML
2 114 (37.50%) REST
3 80 (26.32%) HTML
4 52 (17.11%) SOAP
5 51 (16.78%) RESTful
6 35 (11.51%) Web Services
7 33 (10.86%) React
8 29 (9.54%) Regular Expression
9 27 (8.88%) CSS
10 23 (7.57%) OAuth
11 21 (6.91%) Spring
12 18 (5.92%) FHIR
12 18 (5.92%) Spring Boot
13 17 (5.59%) .NET
13 17 (5.59%) OAuth2
14 16 (5.26%) Middleware
15 14 (4.61%) Hibernate
16 12 (3.95%) Node.js
17 11 (3.62%) AngularJS
17 11 (3.62%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 52 (17.11%) Onboarding
2 41 (13.49%) Linux Command Line
3 34 (11.18%) Cloud Native
4 26 (8.55%) Data Structures
5 25 (8.22%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (5.92%) Low-Code
7 16 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (4.28%) Operational Technology
9 10 (3.29%) NHS
10 6 (1.97%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.97%) Social Media
11 5 (1.64%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.32%) Reference Data
12 4 (1.32%) Semantic Web
13 3 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.99%) Mobile App
13 3 (0.99%) PMI
13 3 (0.99%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.99%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 38 (12.50%) Unix
2 25 (8.22%) Linux
3 4 (1.32%) Windows
4 3 (0.99%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.33%) Android
5 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (30.92%) CI/CD
2 92 (30.26%) Agile
3 76 (25.00%) DevOps
4 67 (22.04%) Test Automation
5 64 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (16.78%) AI
7 49 (16.12%) API Integration
7 49 (16.12%) Root Cause Analysis
8 46 (15.13%) Business Intelligence
9 45 (14.80%) Coaching
9 45 (14.80%) ETL
10 43 (14.14%) Analytics
10 43 (14.14%) Asset Management
10 43 (14.14%) Data Modelling
11 40 (13.16%) Observability
12 38 (12.50%) Mentoring
13 37 (12.17%) Data Analysis
13 37 (12.17%) ERP
14 35 (11.51%) Translating Business Requirements
15 34 (11.18%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 157 (51.64%) SQL
2 118 (38.82%) Python
3 90 (29.61%) JavaScript
4 73 (24.01%) Java
5 37 (12.17%) C#
5 37 (12.17%) PowerShell
6 35 (11.51%) Shell Script
7 31 (10.20%) PL/SQL
8 19 (6.25%) Bicep
9 14 (4.61%) T-SQL
10 11 (3.62%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.64%) PHP
12 4 (1.32%) Perl
12 4 (1.32%) VB
13 3 (0.99%) ActionScript
13 3 (0.99%) ActionScript 2.0
13 3 (0.99%) C++
14 2 (0.66%) Bash
14 2 (0.66%) Groovy
14 2 (0.66%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 47 (15.46%) Degree
2 31 (10.20%) Security Cleared
3 16 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.99%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.99%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (0.99%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.33%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.33%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.22%) GDPR
2 19 (6.25%) QA
3 18 (5.92%) Accessibility
3 18 (5.92%) HL7
4 17 (5.59%) Data Quality
5 14 (4.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (2.30%) WCAG
7 5 (1.64%) NCSC
7 5 (1.64%) NIST
8 2 (0.66%) SLA
8 2 (0.66%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 32 (10.53%) Docker
2 27 (8.88%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.99%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.33%) iptables
Systems Management
1 45 (14.80%) Terraform
2 28 (9.21%) Kubernetes
3 21 (6.91%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (3.62%) Ansible
5 9 (2.96%) Kibana
6 3 (0.99%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.33%) Grafana
7 1 (0.33%) Packer
7 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 45 (14.80%) Oracle
2 38 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 20 (6.58%) Okta
4 16 (5.26%) SAP
5 14 (4.61%) Ab Initio
6 13 (4.28%) Google
7 11 (3.62%) Splunk
8 10 (3.29%) MuleSoft
8 10 (3.29%) ServiceNow
9 9 (2.96%) Dell
9 9 (2.96%) Dynatrace
9 9 (2.96%) Salesforce
10 7 (2.30%) Informatica
10 7 (2.30%) SnapLogic
10 7 (2.30%) Talend
11 6 (1.97%) Cisco
11 6 (1.97%) IBM
11 6 (1.97%) IFS
11 6 (1.97%) TIBCO
11 6 (1.97%) Workday