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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 290 231
Rank change year-on-year -116 -59 +35
Permanent jobs citing JSON 311 451 1,104
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 1.03% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.83% 4.65% 5.85%
Number of salaries quoted 190 332 800
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,563 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.11%
75th Percentile £73,438 £82,813 £76,250
90th Percentile £81,750 £90,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.39% -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 8,117 9,692 18,868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.91% 22.10% 22.35%
Number of salaries quoted 5,947 6,717 15,107
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,280
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
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 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £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 15 March 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 15 March 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 -112 249 £60,000 -4.00% 161
UK excluding London -77 189 £55,000 +2.44% 124
Work from Home -15 131 £57,500 -8.73% 93
London -40 90 £70,000 -3.45% 60
South East -53 63 £55,000 - 43
East of England +34 47 £55,000 -11.18% 19
Scotland +2 35 £72,500 +62.92% 8
North of England -58 25 £55,000 +4.76% 28
North West -12 16 £55,000 -4.35% 16
Midlands -46 15 £47,500 -10.96% 18
West Midlands -14 10 £47,500 -13.64% 11
East Midlands -49 5 £54,000 +3.85% 7
Yorkshire -52 5 £41,500 -2.35% 10
North East -10 4 £45,000 -41.94% 2
Northern Ireland -32 2 - - 1
South West -45 2 £72,500 +20.83% 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 16 (5.14%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.89%) Confluence
3 8 (2.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.61%) Anypoint
5 4 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.64%) CMS
6 2 (0.64%) IIS
6 2 (0.64%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.64%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.64%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.32%) Apache
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.32%) CICS
7 1 (0.32%) JBoss
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.32%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.32%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.93%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.93%) Trello
3 1 (0.32%) EngageOne
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (4.50%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.61%) Shopify
3 3 (0.96%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.96%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.32%) Magento
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.32%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 135 (43.41%) Azure
2 64 (20.58%) AWS
3 55 (17.68%) GitHub
4 47 (15.11%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (14.79%) Power Platform
6 25 (8.04%) Azure Logic Apps
7 24 (7.72%) Power Automate
8 23 (7.40%) Azure Data Factory
9 22 (7.07%) Entra ID
9 22 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (7.07%) Serverless
10 19 (6.11%) GCP
11 18 (5.79%) Azure Service Bus
12 17 (5.47%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (5.47%) SaaS
13 15 (4.82%) OCI
14 14 (4.50%) Azure Event Grid
14 14 (4.50%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (4.50%) Boomi
14 14 (4.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.47%) Firewall
2 11 (3.54%) VPN
3 7 (2.25%) FTP
4 6 (1.93%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (1.61%) DNS
6 4 (1.29%) AMQP
7 3 (0.96%) BGP
7 3 (0.96%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (0.96%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.96%) HTTP
7 3 (0.96%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.96%) LAN
7 3 (0.96%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.96%) WAN
8 2 (0.64%) PuTTY
8 2 (0.64%) SSL
9 1 (0.32%) CTI
9 1 (0.32%) DHCP
9 1 (0.32%) Modbus
9 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (12.86%) Power BI
2 35 (11.25%) SQL Server
3 30 (9.65%) MySQL
3 30 (9.65%) Relational Database
4 29 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (4.82%) Metadata
6 13 (4.18%) RDBMS
7 11 (3.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (3.22%) Electronic Patient Records
9 9 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.93%) OLTP
11 6 (1.93%) Power Query
12 5 (1.61%) Oracle Database
13 4 (1.29%) GIS
13 4 (1.29%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.29%) Redis
13 4 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.96%) Crystal Reports
14 3 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 31 (9.97%) Git
2 30 (9.65%) Jenkins
3 17 (5.47%) JIRA
4 14 (4.50%) GitLab
4 14 (4.50%) Oracle Forms
5 12 (3.86%) Postman
6 11 (3.54%) JUnit
7 8 (2.57%) Mockito
7 8 (2.57%) Visual Studio
8 7 (2.25%) Selenium
9 6 (1.93%) Axure RP
9 6 (1.93%) JMeter
9 6 (1.93%) Storybook
10 5 (1.61%) ERwin
10 5 (1.61%) Maven
10 5 (1.61%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.61%) WebDriver
11 3 (0.96%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.64%) Crashlytics
12 2 (0.64%) Gradle
General
1 100 (32.15%) Social Skills
2 78 (25.08%) Finance
3 53 (17.04%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (8.68%) Law
5 19 (6.11%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.79%) Retail
6 18 (5.79%) Telecoms
7 17 (5.47%) Marketing
8 15 (4.82%) German Language
9 10 (3.22%) Health Technology
10 7 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.25%) Legal
11 5 (1.61%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.96%) Publishing
13 2 (0.64%) Advertising
13 2 (0.64%) Billing
13 2 (0.64%) Electronics
13 2 (0.64%) Front Office
13 2 (0.64%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 100 (32.15%) Developer
2 55 (17.68%) Senior
3 33 (10.61%) Analyst
4 27 (8.68%) Senior Developer
5 22 (7.07%) Consultant
6 20 (6.43%) Integration Engineer
7 19 (6.11%) Cloud Engineer
7 19 (6.11%) Java Developer
8 18 (5.79%) Applications Engineer
9 17 (5.47%) Data Analyst
10 14 (4.50%) Architect
10 14 (4.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 13 (4.18%) Automation Engineer
11 13 (4.18%) Data Engineer
12 11 (3.54%) Network Engineer
12 11 (3.54%) Support Engineer
12 11 (3.54%) Telecoms Engineer
13 10 (3.22%) EPR Consultant
13 10 (3.22%) Full-Stack Developer
13 10 (3.22%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (56.91%) XML
2 108 (34.73%) REST
3 80 (25.72%) HTML
4 50 (16.08%) RESTful
5 46 (14.79%) SOAP
6 32 (10.29%) Regular Expression
7 30 (9.65%) CSS
7 30 (9.65%) Web Services
8 27 (8.68%) React
9 26 (8.36%) .NET
10 23 (7.40%) OAuth
11 22 (7.07%) Spring
12 21 (6.75%) YAML
13 19 (6.11%) Spring Boot
14 18 (5.79%) OAuth2
15 14 (4.50%) Node.js
16 13 (4.18%) Hibernate
17 12 (3.86%) FHIR
18 11 (3.54%) Jinja
18 11 (3.54%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 49 (15.76%) Onboarding
2 42 (13.50%) Linux Command Line
3 34 (10.93%) Data Structures
4 26 (8.36%) Cloud Native
5 23 (7.40%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (5.79%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (5.79%) Low-Code
7 13 (4.18%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (3.22%) NHS
9 7 (2.25%) Operational Technology
9 7 (2.25%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.93%) Social Media
11 5 (1.61%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.61%) e-Learning
12 4 (1.29%) SCADA
13 3 (0.96%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.96%) PMI
13 3 (0.96%) Reference Data
13 3 (0.96%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 43 (13.83%) Unix
2 34 (10.93%) Linux
3 10 (3.22%) Windows
4 4 (1.29%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.96%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.32%) Android
6 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (29.90%) CI/CD
2 87 (27.97%) Agile
3 75 (24.12%) DevOps
4 62 (19.94%) Test Automation
5 60 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (17.36%) Business Intelligence
7 53 (17.04%) AI
8 46 (14.79%) Data Modelling
9 44 (14.15%) Analytics
9 44 (14.15%) ETL
10 43 (13.83%) API Integration
11 38 (12.22%) Asset Management
12 37 (11.90%) Data Analysis
13 35 (11.25%) Coaching
14 34 (10.93%) Root Cause Analysis
15 33 (10.61%) Observability
15 33 (10.61%) Validation
16 32 (10.29%) Mentoring
17 31 (9.97%) ERP
17 31 (9.97%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 155 (49.84%) SQL
2 123 (39.55%) Python
3 86 (27.65%) JavaScript
4 72 (23.15%) Java
5 33 (10.61%) C#
6 29 (9.32%) PowerShell
6 29 (9.32%) Shell Script
7 26 (8.36%) PL/SQL
8 17 (5.47%) Bicep
8 17 (5.47%) TypeScript
9 15 (4.82%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.93%) PHP
11 5 (1.61%) Perl
11 5 (1.61%) VB
12 3 (0.96%) ActionScript
12 3 (0.96%) ActionScript 2.0
12 3 (0.96%) C++
12 3 (0.96%) Ruby
13 2 (0.64%) Bash
13 2 (0.64%) R
Qualifications
1 49 (15.76%) Degree
2 31 (9.97%) Security Cleared
3 15 (4.82%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.29%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.96%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.96%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (0.96%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.32%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.32%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.32%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.72%) GDPR
2 21 (6.75%) QA
3 19 (6.11%) Accessibility
3 19 (6.11%) Data Quality
4 15 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (3.86%) HL7
6 7 (2.25%) WCAG
7 5 (1.61%) NCSC
7 5 (1.61%) NIST
8 3 (0.96%) SLA
9 2 (0.64%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 33 (10.61%) Docker
2 25 (8.04%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.96%) VMware NSX
3 3 (0.96%) vSphere
4 1 (0.32%) iptables
Systems Management
1 37 (11.90%) Terraform
2 27 (8.68%) Kubernetes
3 15 (4.82%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (3.22%) Ansible
5 7 (2.25%) Kibana
6 3 (0.96%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.32%) Grafana
7 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 43 (13.83%) Oracle
2 40 (12.86%) Microsoft
3 17 (5.47%) Cisco
4 14 (4.50%) Okta
5 13 (4.18%) Ab Initio
5 13 (4.18%) Google
5 13 (4.18%) SAP
6 11 (3.54%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.89%) F5
7 9 (2.89%) Palo Alto
7 9 (2.89%) Splunk
8 8 (2.57%) Databricks
8 8 (2.57%) Dell
8 8 (2.57%) MuleSoft
9 7 (2.25%) Dynatrace
9 7 (2.25%) Intapp
9 7 (2.25%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.25%) Talend
10 6 (1.93%) IFS
10 6 (1.93%) SnapLogic