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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 368 278
Rank change year-on-year -94 -90 -41
Permanent jobs citing JSON 358 369 814
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.74% 1.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.01% 4.09% 4.75%
Number of salaries quoted 248 271 493
10th Percentile £33,375 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,938 £76,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,000
% 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 11,885 9,018 17,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.81% 18.00% 21.08%
Number of salaries quoted 8,635 5,877 11,651
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,932 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -80 332 £62,500 +4.17% 196
UK excluding London -126 209 £55,000 - 126
Work from Home -59 133 £60,450 -2.50% 84
London -32 123 £75,000 +15.38% 93
South East -39 79 £55,000 -15.38% 37
North of England -48 55 £55,000 - 19
North West -8 31 £62,500 +13.64% 15
East of England -39 27 £90,000 +71.43% 27
Midlands -29 25 £54,000 +7.46% 19
Yorkshire -23 19 £44,000 -31.25% 5
South West -64 19 £52,500 -12.50% 22
West Midlands -24 16 £53,750 +13.16% 14
East Midlands -23 9 £54,000 -10.00% 5
Wales - 6 £55,000 - 3
North East - 5 £45,000 - 1
Scotland -14 1 - - 7

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 (7.82%) SharePoint
2 20 (5.59%) Confluence
3 15 (4.19%) Apache
4 12 (3.35%) IIS
5 9 (2.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (2.23%) CMS
7 6 (1.68%) WordPress
8 5 (1.40%) Apache Spark
8 5 (1.40%) Drupal
9 3 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.84%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.56%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.56%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.28%) JBoss
11 1 (0.28%) SAS
11 1 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 21 (5.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.12%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.84%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.56%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.28%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.56%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.28%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.28%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 160 (44.69%) Azure
2 93 (25.98%) AWS
3 61 (17.04%) Power Platform
4 55 (15.36%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (13.69%) Azure Logic Apps
6 35 (9.78%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (8.66%) Power Automate
7 31 (8.66%) Serverless
8 30 (8.38%) PowerApps
9 26 (7.26%) Azure Data Factory
9 26 (7.26%) GitHub
10 21 (5.87%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (5.87%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (5.87%) SaaS
11 19 (5.31%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (5.31%) GCP
11 19 (5.31%) OneDrive
12 16 (4.47%) Boomi
13 15 (4.19%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (3.35%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.91%) Firewall
2 10 (2.79%) TCP/IP
3 7 (1.96%) DNS
4 6 (1.68%) HTTP
4 6 (1.68%) Wireshark
5 5 (1.40%) Intranet
6 3 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (0.84%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.84%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (0.84%) SSL
6 3 (0.84%) Wireless
7 2 (0.56%) MQTT
7 2 (0.56%) VPN
8 1 (0.28%) BGP
8 1 (0.28%) Diameter Protocol
8 1 (0.28%) RTP
8 1 (0.28%) SCTP
8 1 (0.28%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.28%) SS7
8 1 (0.28%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (13.41%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (12.85%) Power BI
3 30 (8.38%) SQL Server
4 26 (7.26%) Relational Database
5 25 (6.98%) MySQL
6 23 (6.42%) Redis
7 21 (5.87%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (5.59%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (3.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 13 (3.63%) Metadata
11 9 (2.51%) RDBMS
12 7 (1.96%) Electronic Patient Records
13 6 (1.68%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.68%) GIS
13 6 (1.68%) NoSQL
14 5 (1.40%) MongoDB
15 4 (1.12%) Apache Iceberg
15 4 (1.12%) Delta Lake
15 4 (1.12%) Oracle Database
15 4 (1.12%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 69 (19.27%) Git
2 48 (13.41%) JIRA
3 30 (8.38%) Jenkins
4 23 (6.42%) GitLab
5 16 (4.47%) Selenium
6 13 (3.63%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.63%) Postman
7 12 (3.35%) JMeter
8 8 (2.23%) JUnit
9 7 (1.96%) Maven
9 7 (1.96%) Mockito
10 6 (1.68%) SoapUI
11 5 (1.40%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.40%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.40%) Gradle
11 5 (1.40%) Jasmine
11 5 (1.40%) Mocha
11 5 (1.40%) NUnit
11 5 (1.40%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.40%) Zephyr
General
1 159 (44.41%) Social Skills
2 88 (24.58%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (18.44%) Finance
4 33 (9.22%) Organisational Skills
5 19 (5.31%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.19%) Health Technology
6 15 (4.19%) Retail
7 14 (3.91%) Marketing
8 12 (3.35%) Advertising
9 11 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.79%) Legal
11 9 (2.51%) Banking
11 9 (2.51%) Law
12 8 (2.23%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.68%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.40%) Back Office
15 5 (1.40%) Local Government
16 4 (1.12%) Aviation
16 4 (1.12%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 131 (36.59%) Developer
2 85 (23.74%) Senior
3 43 (12.01%) Senior Developer
4 25 (6.98%) Analyst
4 25 (6.98%) Architect
5 23 (6.42%) .NET Developer
6 22 (6.15%) Software Engineer
7 20 (5.59%) Consultant
7 20 (5.59%) Lead
7 20 (5.59%) Web Developer
8 18 (5.03%) Integration Engineer
8 18 (5.03%) Software Developer
8 18 (5.03%) Support Engineer
9 17 (4.75%) Ruby Developer
10 16 (4.47%) DevOps Engineer
11 15 (4.19%) Full-Stack Developer
12 14 (3.91%) Data Engineer
13 13 (3.63%) Senior Integration Engineer
13 13 (3.63%) Technical Support
14 12 (3.35%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (38.55%) XML
2 111 (31.01%) REST
3 91 (25.42%) HTML
4 82 (22.91%) .NET
5 79 (22.07%) CSS
6 50 (13.97%) RESTful
7 47 (13.13%) .NET Core
8 45 (12.57%) SOAP
9 39 (10.89%) ASP.NET
10 32 (8.94%) Middleware
11 30 (8.38%) JWT
11 30 (8.38%) YAML
12 29 (8.10%) Terraform
13 28 (7.82%) React
14 22 (6.15%) .NET Framework
15 21 (5.87%) HTML5 Canvas
16 20 (5.59%) Microsoft Graph
17 19 (5.31%) AngularJS
17 19 (5.31%) Blazor
17 19 (5.31%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.42%) Onboarding
2 22 (6.15%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (5.31%) Analytical Mindset
3 19 (5.31%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (5.31%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (4.47%) Data Structures
5 13 (3.63%) Management Information System
5 13 (3.63%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.79%) Driving Licence
8 9 (2.51%) Enterprise Cloud
8 9 (2.51%) NHS
8 9 (2.51%) Robotics
9 7 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.96%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.68%) Taxonomies
11 5 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.40%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.12%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 56 (15.64%) Linux
2 44 (12.29%) Windows
3 16 (4.47%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.84%) Unix
7 2 (0.56%) Android
7 2 (0.56%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.28%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (37.71%) Agile
2 111 (31.01%) DevOps
3 108 (30.17%) CI/CD
4 106 (29.61%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (15.92%) Test Automation
6 56 (15.64%) User Experience
7 55 (15.36%) Microservices
8 48 (13.41%) Scrum
9 45 (12.57%) Business Intelligence
9 45 (12.57%) Containerisation
9 45 (12.57%) Data Modelling
9 45 (12.57%) Software Engineering
10 44 (12.29%) Mentoring
11 43 (12.01%) Roadmaps
12 40 (11.17%) AI
13 37 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
14 36 (10.06%) Clean Code
15 35 (9.78%) API Integration
15 35 (9.78%) Infrastructure as Code
16 33 (9.22%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 147 (41.06%) SQL
2 126 (35.20%) JavaScript
3 94 (26.26%) Python
4 88 (24.58%) C#
5 42 (11.73%) Java
6 32 (8.94%) PowerShell
7 25 (6.98%) TypeScript
8 18 (5.03%) C++
8 18 (5.03%) Ruby
9 17 (4.75%) PHP
10 12 (3.35%) Shell Script
11 11 (3.07%) T-SQL
12 8 (2.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (1.96%) Perl
14 5 (1.40%) Groovy
14 5 (1.40%) VB
15 3 (0.84%) Bash
15 3 (0.84%) VBA
16 2 (0.56%) R
16 2 (0.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 46 (12.85%) Degree
2 35 (9.78%) Security Cleared
3 24 (6.70%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.79%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.96%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.68%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.40%) ISEB
8 5 (1.40%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.84%) CCNP
10 3 (0.84%) CISSP
11 2 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.56%) A+ Certification
11 2 (0.56%) CASP
11 2 (0.56%) CCSP
11 2 (0.56%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (12.57%) QA
2 36 (10.06%) Accessibility
3 17 (4.75%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.35%) TickIT
4 12 (3.35%) WCAG
5 11 (3.07%) SLA
6 7 (1.96%) GDPR
6 7 (1.96%) HL7
7 4 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.84%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.84%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.28%) Basel III
10 1 (0.28%) Dublin Core
10 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.28%) PERC
System Software
1 56 (15.64%) Docker
2 5 (1.40%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.40%) vSphere
3 4 (1.12%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 28 (7.82%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.63%) Ansible
3 5 (1.40%) Grafana
3 5 (1.40%) Kibana
4 4 (1.12%) Packer
5 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.28%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.28%) QRadar
Vendors
1 109 (30.45%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.98%) Adobe
3 19 (5.31%) Google
4 14 (3.91%) Splunk
5 11 (3.07%) Oracle
6 10 (2.79%) Cisco
6 10 (2.79%) SAP
7 9 (2.51%) Red Hat
8 8 (2.23%) IBM
9 7 (1.96%) Databricks
9 7 (1.96%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.68%) F5
10 6 (1.68%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.40%) Pega
11 5 (1.40%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.40%) VMware
12 4 (1.12%) AppDynamics
12 4 (1.12%) Palo Alto
13 3 (0.84%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.84%) Sparx