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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 303 237
Rank change year-on-year -110 -66 +43
Permanent jobs citing JSON 328 414 1,182
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.99% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.76% 4.90% 5.81%
Number of salaries quoted 205 313 778
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £47,092 £46,250 £44,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,250 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £89,500 £87,500
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 8,714 8,443 20,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.80% 20.09% 21.30%
Number of salaries quoted 6,363 6,441 15,734
10th Percentile £39,240 £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 £80,000
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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -113 276 £64,585 +3.34% 101
UK excluding London -98 199 £60,000 +9.09% 80
Work from Home -22 145 £57,500 -8.37% 73
London -50 92 £65,500 -6.43% 38
South East -70 63 £62,500 -3.85% 35
East of England +3 59 £82,500 +73.68% 7
North of England -58 39 £57,500 +9.52% 18
North West -24 26 £60,000 +14.29% 9
Scotland -12 24 £72,500 +52.45% 3
Yorkshire -57 11 £70,000 +33.33% 8
Midlands -63 11 £47,500 -11.53% 15
West Midlands -43 7 £43,000 -20.87% 6
South West -57 6 £31,500 -48.57% 4
East Midlands -65 4 £47,500 -8.65% 9
North East -43 2 £46,250 -40.32% 1

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 (8.54%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.83%) Confluence
4 4 (1.22%) IIS
5 3 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.91%) CMS
6 2 (0.61%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.61%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.61%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.61%) WordPress
7 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.30%) Apache
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.30%) Drupal
7 1 (0.30%) JBoss
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.91%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.61%) Trello
4 1 (0.30%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.30%) EngageOne
4 1 (0.30%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (2.44%) 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 SCM
3 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.30%) Shopify
3 1 (0.30%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 144 (43.90%) Azure
2 68 (20.73%) AWS
3 60 (18.29%) Power Platform
4 44 (13.41%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (11.28%) GitHub
6 34 (10.37%) Azure Logic Apps
7 32 (9.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 31 (9.45%) Microsoft 365
8 31 (9.45%) Serverless
9 26 (7.93%) Power Automate
9 26 (7.93%) SaaS
10 24 (7.32%) PowerApps
11 18 (5.49%) Boomi
12 17 (5.18%) OneDrive
13 16 (4.88%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 16 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
13 16 (4.88%) Entra ID
14 15 (4.57%) Azure Service Bus
14 15 (4.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.18%) Firewall
2 7 (2.13%) VPN
3 6 (1.83%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (1.52%) DNS
4 5 (1.52%) FTP
5 4 (1.22%) AMQP
5 4 (1.22%) SSL
6 3 (0.91%) BGP
7 2 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.61%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.61%) HTTP
7 2 (0.61%) LAN
7 2 (0.61%) PuTTY
7 2 (0.61%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.61%) WAN
8 1 (0.30%) Broadband
8 1 (0.30%) CTI
8 1 (0.30%) DHCP
8 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.30%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (16.46%) Power BI
2 33 (10.06%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (9.45%) MySQL
4 25 (7.62%) SQL Server
5 23 (7.01%) Relational Database
6 22 (6.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 19 (5.79%) Metadata
8 18 (5.49%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (3.96%) RDBMS
10 10 (3.05%) Electronic Patient Records
11 9 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (2.44%) Oracle Database
13 7 (2.13%) GIS
14 6 (1.83%) OLTP
14 6 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (1.52%) Redis
16 4 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
16 4 (1.22%) MongoDB
16 4 (1.22%) Power Query
16 4 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (11.28%) Git
1 37 (11.28%) JIRA
2 29 (8.84%) Jenkins
3 20 (6.10%) GitLab
4 11 (3.35%) Postman
5 9 (2.74%) JUnit
6 8 (2.44%) Maven
6 8 (2.44%) Oracle Forms
7 7 (2.13%) ERwin
8 6 (1.83%) Mockito
8 6 (1.83%) Selenium
8 6 (1.83%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.52%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (1.52%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.52%) Gradle
9 5 (1.52%) SpecFlow
9 5 (1.52%) Storybook
9 5 (1.52%) WebDriver
10 4 (1.22%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.22%) JMeter
General
1 126 (38.41%) Social Skills
2 79 (24.09%) Analytical Skills
3 75 (22.87%) Finance
4 23 (7.01%) Marketing
5 20 (6.10%) Retail
6 19 (5.79%) Law
7 18 (5.49%) Telecoms
8 16 (4.88%) Health Technology
9 13 (3.96%) German Language
9 13 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (3.35%) Public Sector
11 8 (2.44%) Advertising
12 7 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (2.13%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.91%) Billing
14 3 (0.91%) Legal
14 3 (0.91%) Local Government
15 2 (0.61%) Front Office
15 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 101 (30.79%) Developer
2 72 (21.95%) Senior
3 45 (13.72%) Senior Developer
4 30 (9.15%) Analyst
4 30 (9.15%) Consultant
5 26 (7.93%) Architect
6 20 (6.10%) Data Analyst
7 17 (5.18%) Java Developer
8 16 (4.88%) Support Engineer
9 15 (4.57%) Applications Engineer
9 15 (4.57%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (3.96%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (3.66%) Automation Engineer
11 12 (3.66%) Integration Engineer
12 11 (3.35%) Applications Architect
12 11 (3.35%) Lead
12 11 (3.35%) Network Engineer
12 11 (3.35%) Telecoms Engineer
13 10 (3.05%) Data Engineer
13 10 (3.05%) EPR Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (52.13%) XML
2 110 (33.54%) REST
3 91 (27.74%) HTML
4 57 (17.38%) SOAP
5 49 (14.94%) CSS
6 44 (13.41%) RESTful
7 40 (12.20%) .NET
8 29 (8.84%) Regular Expression
9 27 (8.23%) Middleware
9 27 (8.23%) YAML
10 26 (7.93%) OAuth
11 22 (6.71%) Web Services
12 21 (6.40%) .NET Core
13 20 (6.10%) HTML5 Canvas
13 20 (6.10%) Spring
14 19 (5.79%) OAuth2
15 18 (5.49%) React
16 17 (5.18%) Spring Boot
17 16 (4.88%) Microsoft Graph
17 16 (4.88%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 45 (13.72%) Onboarding
2 38 (11.59%) Linux Command Line
3 36 (10.98%) Data Structures
4 23 (7.01%) Cloud Native
4 23 (7.01%) Self-Motivation
5 20 (6.10%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (4.27%) Analytical Mindset
7 12 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (3.05%) Low-Code
8 10 (3.05%) NHS
9 8 (2.44%) Enterprise Cloud
10 7 (2.13%) e-Learning
10 7 (2.13%) Operational Technology
10 7 (2.13%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.13%) SCADA
11 6 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.83%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.52%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.52%) Social Media
13 4 (1.22%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 37 (11.28%) Linux
2 33 (10.06%) Unix
3 11 (3.35%) Windows
4 7 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.30%) Android
6 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (26.83%) CI/CD
2 84 (25.61%) DevOps
3 80 (24.39%) Agile
4 73 (22.26%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (17.99%) Business Intelligence
6 57 (17.38%) Data Modelling
7 51 (15.55%) Test Automation
8 47 (14.33%) AI
9 46 (14.02%) API Integration
10 43 (13.11%) Data Analysis
11 41 (12.50%) Analytics
12 39 (11.89%) ERP
13 37 (11.28%) Microservices
14 36 (10.98%) Validation
15 34 (10.37%) User Experience
16 33 (10.06%) Infrastructure as Code
17 32 (9.76%) ETL
18 30 (9.15%) Asset Management
18 30 (9.15%) Containerisation
18 30 (9.15%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 170 (51.83%) SQL
2 120 (36.59%) Python
3 95 (28.96%) JavaScript
4 73 (22.26%) Java
5 38 (11.59%) C#
6 33 (10.06%) PowerShell
7 25 (7.62%) TypeScript
8 20 (6.10%) PL/SQL
9 19 (5.79%) Shell Script
10 12 (3.66%) Bicep
11 11 (3.35%) Perl
12 10 (3.05%) PHP
12 10 (3.05%) T-SQL
13 9 (2.74%) VB
14 6 (1.83%) Groovy
15 4 (1.22%) VBA
16 3 (0.91%) ActionScript
16 3 (0.91%) ActionScript 2.0
16 3 (0.91%) R
17 2 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 51 (15.55%) Degree
2 35 (10.67%) Security Cleared
3 19 (5.79%) SC Cleared
4 17 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.52%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.91%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.91%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (0.91%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.15%) QA
2 16 (4.88%) GDPR
3 15 (4.57%) Data Quality
4 14 (4.27%) Accessibility
5 13 (3.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (3.35%) HL7
6 11 (3.35%) SLA
6 11 (3.35%) TickIT
7 7 (2.13%) WCAG
8 3 (0.91%) NCSC
8 3 (0.91%) NIST
9 2 (0.61%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.30%) PERC
System Software
1 34 (10.37%) Docker
2 20 (6.10%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.22%) vSphere
4 2 (0.61%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.30%) iptables
Systems Management
1 33 (10.06%) Terraform
2 32 (9.76%) Kubernetes
3 17 (5.18%) Ansible
4 8 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.52%) Kibana
6 4 (1.22%) Packer
7 2 (0.61%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.30%) Grafana
8 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 64 (19.51%) Microsoft
2 36 (10.98%) Oracle
3 21 (6.40%) Adobe
4 16 (4.88%) Cisco
5 11 (3.35%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.74%) Ab Initio
6 9 (2.74%) Databricks
6 9 (2.74%) Google
6 9 (2.74%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.44%) F5
7 8 (2.44%) Okta
7 8 (2.44%) Splunk
8 7 (2.13%) IBM
8 7 (2.13%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.13%) Sparx
9 6 (1.83%) Juniper
9 6 (1.83%) SAP
9 6 (1.83%) VMware
10 5 (1.52%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.52%) Salesforce