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 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 337 258
Rank change year-on-year -103 -79 +3
Permanent jobs citing JSON 335 391 1,125
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.83% 1.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.37% 4.42% 5.30%
Number of salaries quoted 240 289 693
10th Percentile £36,000 £36,250 £34,466
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,000 £58,350
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +7.97% -10.23%
75th Percentile £77,813 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,875 £86,250 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% -3.51%

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 9,930 8,844 21,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.28% 18.85% 20.08%
Number of salaries quoted 7,432 5,839 16,163
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -10.49%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £79,800
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -88 302 £65,000 +3.17% 160
UK excluding London -83 190 £55,000 -1.79% 110
Work from Home -38 136 £62,500 -3.10% 77
London -37 108 £75,000 +11.11% 68
South East -31 85 £60,000 -7.69% 33
North of England -32 49 £55,000 - 28
North West +2 30 £62,500 +13.64% 18
East of England -21 29 £90,000 +89.47% 5
Yorkshire -30 14 £42,750 +5.56% 8
South West -70 14 £52,500 -12.50% 12
Midlands -42 9 £47,500 -20.17% 21
West Midlands -37 5 £43,000 -27.12% 11
North East -47 5 £45,000 -41.94% 2
Wales - 5 - - 3
East Midlands -23 4 £47,500 -20.83% 10
Scotland +1 2 £72,500 +62.92% 5

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 (8.36%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (3.28%) Confluence
4 10 (2.99%) Apache
5 9 (2.69%) IIS
6 8 (2.39%) CMS
7 7 (2.09%) WordPress
8 5 (1.49%) Drupal
9 4 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.90%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.60%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.60%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.30%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.30%) SAS
12 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.90%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.90%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.60%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.30%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.30%) EngageOne
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.30%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.30%) Magento
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.30%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 154 (45.97%) Azure
2 87 (25.97%) AWS
3 63 (18.81%) Power Platform
4 44 (13.13%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (13.13%) Azure Logic Apps
4 44 (13.13%) Microsoft 365
5 32 (9.55%) Serverless
6 28 (8.36%) SaaS
7 25 (7.46%) PowerApps
8 24 (7.16%) Azure Data Factory
8 24 (7.16%) Power Automate
9 23 (6.87%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (6.87%) GitHub
10 20 (5.97%) Dynamics 365
10 20 (5.97%) OneDrive
11 19 (5.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 16 (4.78%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (4.48%) Boomi
14 14 (4.18%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (4.18%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.67%) Firewall
2 6 (1.79%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (1.79%) DNS
2 6 (1.79%) HTTP
2 6 (1.79%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.49%) Intranet
4 4 (1.19%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.90%) BGP
5 3 (0.90%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.90%) SSL
6 2 (0.60%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.60%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.60%) LAN
6 2 (0.60%) MQTT
6 2 (0.60%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.60%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.60%) WAN
7 1 (0.30%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.30%) PuTTY
7 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (14.93%) Power BI
2 48 (14.33%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (10.15%) MySQL
4 29 (8.66%) Relational Database
5 25 (7.46%) SQL Server
6 22 (6.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 20 (5.97%) Azure SQL Database
8 19 (5.67%) Redis
9 18 (5.37%) Metadata
10 13 (3.88%) RDBMS
11 12 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (2.39%) Electronic Patient Records
13 7 (2.09%) GIS
13 7 (2.09%) Oracle Database
14 6 (1.79%) MongoDB
15 5 (1.49%) Delta Lake
16 4 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
16 4 (1.19%) Apache Iceberg
16 4 (1.19%) Power Query
16 4 (1.19%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 58 (17.31%) Git
2 41 (12.24%) JIRA
3 27 (8.06%) Jenkins
4 24 (7.16%) GitLab
5 11 (3.28%) Postman
6 10 (2.99%) JUnit
7 8 (2.39%) ERwin
7 8 (2.39%) Maven
8 7 (2.09%) Mockito
8 7 (2.09%) Selenium
9 6 (1.79%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.79%) JMeter
9 6 (1.79%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.49%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.49%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.49%) Gradle
10 5 (1.49%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.49%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.19%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 149 (44.48%) Social Skills
2 87 (25.97%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (18.51%) Finance
4 23 (6.87%) Organisational Skills
5 16 (4.78%) Telecoms
6 15 (4.48%) Retail
7 14 (4.18%) Advertising
7 14 (4.18%) Health Technology
7 14 (4.18%) Marketing
8 10 (2.99%) Law
9 7 (2.09%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.79%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.49%) Back Office
12 4 (1.19%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.90%) Banking
13 3 (0.90%) Billing
13 3 (0.90%) Local Government
13 3 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 109 (32.54%) Developer
2 71 (21.19%) Senior
3 44 (13.13%) Senior Developer
4 29 (8.66%) Architect
5 28 (8.36%) Analyst
6 27 (8.06%) Consultant
7 21 (6.27%) DevOps Engineer
7 21 (6.27%) Support Engineer
8 19 (5.67%) Data Analyst
9 18 (5.37%) Software Developer
10 16 (4.78%) Software Engineer
11 14 (4.18%) Automation Engineer
11 14 (4.18%) Data Engineer
11 14 (4.18%) Integration Architect
11 14 (4.18%) Lead
12 13 (3.88%) Technical Support
13 12 (3.58%) Applications Engineer
13 12 (3.58%) Integration Engineer
13 12 (3.58%) Ruby Developer
13 12 (3.58%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (42.99%) XML
2 117 (34.93%) REST
3 87 (25.97%) HTML
4 75 (22.39%) CSS
5 63 (18.81%) .NET
6 46 (13.73%) SOAP
7 42 (12.54%) .NET Core
7 42 (12.54%) RESTful
8 37 (11.04%) Middleware
9 34 (10.15%) YAML
10 26 (7.76%) JWT
10 26 (7.76%) React
11 23 (6.87%) ASP.NET
12 21 (6.27%) HTML5 Canvas
13 20 (5.97%) Microsoft Graph
14 19 (5.67%) OAuth
14 19 (5.67%) SPFx
15 18 (5.37%) HTML5
15 18 (5.37%) Node.js
16 16 (4.78%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.85%) Onboarding
2 32 (9.55%) Data Structures
3 21 (6.27%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (6.27%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (5.97%) Analytical Mindset
5 19 (5.67%) Cloud Native
6 10 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (2.69%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (2.69%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.39%) NHS
8 8 (2.39%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.39%) Robotics
9 7 (2.09%) Driving Licence
9 7 (2.09%) e-Learning
9 7 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.09%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.79%) Operational Technology
10 6 (1.79%) SCADA
11 4 (1.19%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 59 (17.61%) Linux
2 36 (10.75%) Windows
3 14 (4.18%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.09%) Unix
5 6 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (28.06%) Agile
2 91 (27.16%) CI/CD
2 91 (27.16%) DevOps
2 91 (27.16%) Problem-Solving
3 61 (18.21%) Data Modelling
4 54 (16.12%) Microservices
5 52 (15.52%) Business Intelligence
6 47 (14.03%) User Experience
7 45 (13.43%) Containerisation
8 42 (12.54%) Infrastructure as Code
9 39 (11.64%) API Integration
9 39 (11.64%) Test Automation
10 36 (10.75%) Roadmaps
11 35 (10.45%) AI
11 35 (10.45%) Analytics
11 35 (10.45%) Validation
12 31 (9.25%) API Design
12 31 (9.25%) ERP
13 30 (8.96%) Mentoring
13 30 (8.96%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 163 (48.66%) SQL
2 116 (34.63%) JavaScript
3 111 (33.13%) Python
4 67 (20.00%) C#
5 53 (15.82%) Java
6 42 (12.54%) PowerShell
7 27 (8.06%) TypeScript
8 21 (6.27%) PHP
9 17 (5.07%) T-SQL
10 12 (3.58%) C++
10 12 (3.58%) Ruby
10 12 (3.58%) Shell Script
11 9 (2.69%) Perl
12 7 (2.09%) VB
13 6 (1.79%) Groovy
14 5 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (1.19%) PL/SQL
15 4 (1.19%) VBA
16 3 (0.90%) Bash
16 3 (0.90%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 41 (12.24%) Security Cleared
2 40 (11.94%) Degree
3 25 (7.46%) SC Cleared
4 20 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.09%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.79%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.79%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.90%) CISSP
8 2 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.60%) CASP
8 2 (0.60%) CCSP
8 2 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.60%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (11.04%) QA
2 22 (6.57%) Accessibility
3 19 (5.67%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.58%) TickIT
5 11 (3.28%) SLA
6 10 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (2.39%) HL7
8 6 (1.79%) GDPR
8 6 (1.79%) WCAG
9 4 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.90%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.90%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.30%) PERC
11 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 50 (14.93%) Docker
2 14 (4.18%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.79%) vSphere
4 4 (1.19%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.60%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 34 (10.15%) Terraform
2 32 (9.55%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.88%) Ansible
4 6 (1.79%) Kibana
5 4 (1.19%) Packer
6 2 (0.60%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.30%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 92 (27.46%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.16%) Adobe
3 16 (4.78%) Cisco
4 15 (4.48%) Oracle
4 15 (4.48%) Splunk
5 13 (3.88%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.69%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.39%) Databricks
7 8 (2.39%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.39%) F5
7 8 (2.39%) VMware
8 7 (2.09%) Sparx
9 6 (1.79%) Juniper
9 6 (1.79%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.49%) Google
10 5 (1.49%) IBM
10 5 (1.49%) SAP
11 4 (1.19%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.19%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.90%) OpenAI