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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 310 214
Rank change year-on-year -49 -96 +23
Permanent jobs citing JSON 331 557 859
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.82% 1.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.50% 4.05% 6.05%
Number of salaries quoted 239 352 719
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% -5.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,125 £85,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £99,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -1.71%

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 7,361 13,754 14,195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.90% 20.24% 26.95%
Number of salaries quoted 5,196 8,280 11,609
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,214 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 2025. 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 -48 280 £57,500 -4.17% 231
UK excluding London -23 211 £55,000 +4.76% 159
Work from Home +9 138 £57,500 -11.54% 156
London -15 101 £70,000 - 105
South East -25 79 £62,500 -5.66% 52
East of England +42 48 £55,000 -13.73% 26
North of England -11 29 £55,000 - 29
Scotland +16 27 £50,000 +12.36% 16
Midlands +21 25 £47,500 -9.52% 21
North West +31 22 £55,000 - 23
West Midlands +13 18 £47,500 -17.39% 9
East Midlands +12 7 £60,000 +18.81% 10
North East +11 4 £45,000 -
South West +19 3 £61,250 +22.50% 9
Yorkshire -28 3 £43,500 -33.08% 6
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 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 10 (3.02%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.72%) Confluence
3 6 (1.81%) Anypoint
4 5 (1.51%) CMS
5 4 (1.21%) IIS
6 3 (0.91%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.91%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.30%) Appian
8 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.42%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.81%) Trello
4 5 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (3.93%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (2.11%) Shopify
3 5 (1.51%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.91%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.60%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 132 (39.88%) Azure
2 64 (19.34%) GitHub
3 59 (17.82%) AWS
4 58 (17.52%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (10.57%) Serverless
6 34 (10.27%) Power Platform
7 28 (8.46%) Power Automate
8 23 (6.95%) Amazon EC2
9 22 (6.65%) Amazon EKS
10 21 (6.34%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (6.04%) Azure Logic Apps
11 20 (6.04%) Azure Service Bus
12 18 (5.44%) Azure Data Factory
12 18 (5.44%) Entra ID
12 18 (5.44%) GCP
12 18 (5.44%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (4.83%) PaaS
14 15 (4.53%) Boomi
15 14 (4.23%) PowerApps
15 14 (4.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.02%) FTP
2 8 (2.42%) Cisco ISE
2 8 (2.42%) Ethernet
2 8 (2.42%) Firewall
2 8 (2.42%) LAN
2 8 (2.42%) SD-WAN
2 8 (2.42%) WAN
3 6 (1.81%) HTTP
4 5 (1.51%) VPN
5 3 (0.91%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.91%) SSL
6 2 (0.60%) DMARC
6 2 (0.60%) DNS
7 1 (0.30%) AMQP
7 1 (0.30%) Internet
7 1 (0.30%) Modbus
7 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.30%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (17.22%) Relational Database
2 52 (15.71%) SQL Server
3 27 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (7.55%) Power BI
5 24 (7.25%) MySQL
6 22 (6.65%) RDBMS
7 15 (4.53%) OLTP
8 11 (3.32%) Electronic Patient Records
9 10 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (3.02%) NoSQL
9 10 (3.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (2.42%) GIS
11 7 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (2.11%) Power Query
12 6 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.81%) Redis
13 4 (1.21%) MongoDB
14 3 (0.91%) Big Data
14 3 (0.91%) Crystal Reports
14 3 (0.91%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 45 (13.60%) Jenkins
2 43 (12.99%) Git
3 24 (7.25%) JUnit
4 23 (6.95%) JMeter
5 21 (6.34%) Mockito
6 18 (5.44%) JIRA
7 15 (4.53%) Visual Studio
8 13 (3.93%) Oracle Forms
9 8 (2.42%) Selenium
10 7 (2.11%) MSBuild
10 7 (2.11%) Octopus Deploy
10 7 (2.11%) Postman
10 7 (2.11%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (1.81%) Axure RP
12 4 (1.21%) Storybook
12 4 (1.21%) webpack
13 3 (0.91%) Maven
13 3 (0.91%) WebDriver
14 2 (0.60%) Babel
14 2 (0.60%) Xcode
General
1 112 (33.84%) Social Skills
2 62 (18.73%) Finance
3 49 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (14.50%) Law
5 34 (10.27%) Public Sector
5 34 (10.27%) Retail
6 23 (6.95%) Marketing
7 11 (3.32%) Health Technology
8 9 (2.72%) Legal
9 7 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.81%) Front Office
11 5 (1.51%) German Language
12 4 (1.21%) Automotive
13 3 (0.91%) Banking
13 3 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.91%) Publishing
14 2 (0.60%) Czech Language
14 2 (0.60%) iGaming
14 2 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 137 (41.39%) Developer
2 58 (17.52%) Senior
3 39 (11.78%) Senior Developer
4 28 (8.46%) Analyst
5 25 (7.55%) Full-Stack Developer
6 23 (6.95%) Java Developer
7 18 (5.44%) Consultant
7 18 (5.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 17 (5.14%) Architect
9 16 (4.83%) Integration Engineer
10 15 (4.53%) Cloud Engineer
10 15 (4.53%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 15 (4.53%) Oracle Developer
10 15 (4.53%) Senior Oracle Developer
11 14 (4.23%) Applications Engineer
11 14 (4.23%) Lead
12 13 (3.93%) Data Engineer
12 13 (3.93%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 13 (3.93%) ServiceNow Consultant
13 12 (3.63%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (59.21%) XML
2 136 (41.09%) REST
3 129 (38.97%) HTML
4 68 (20.54%) CSS
5 51 (15.41%) Web Services
6 46 (13.90%) SOAP
7 44 (13.29%) RESTful
8 34 (10.27%) React
9 31 (9.37%) .NET
10 24 (7.25%) Spring
11 23 (6.95%) Hibernate
11 23 (6.95%) jQuery
12 22 (6.65%) Spring Boot
13 21 (6.34%) ActiveMQ
13 21 (6.34%) Apache Camel
13 21 (6.34%) WireMock
14 18 (5.44%) OAuth
15 16 (4.83%) AngularJS
15 16 (4.83%) ASP.NET
16 14 (4.23%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.67%) Onboarding
2 29 (8.76%) Cloud Native
3 25 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (7.55%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (5.44%) Linux Command Line
5 16 (4.83%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (4.83%) Low-Code
6 13 (3.93%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.32%) Data Structures
8 10 (3.02%) Operational Technology
9 9 (2.72%) Data Centre
10 8 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (2.42%) Public Cloud
11 7 (2.11%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.81%) BYOD
12 6 (1.81%) Social Media
13 4 (1.21%) NHS
14 2 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
14 2 (0.60%) Blog
14 2 (0.60%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.95%) Unix
2 19 (5.74%) Linux
3 7 (2.11%) Windows
4 5 (1.51%) Android
5 3 (0.91%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.91%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (36.25%) Agile
2 92 (27.79%) CI/CD
3 87 (26.28%) Problem-Solving
4 82 (24.77%) DevOps
5 60 (18.13%) Test Automation
6 54 (16.31%) Microservices
7 45 (13.60%) ETL
8 44 (13.29%) API Integration
9 40 (12.08%) Mentoring
10 39 (11.78%) Analytics
11 37 (11.18%) AI
11 37 (11.18%) Full-Stack Development
12 35 (10.57%) Root Cause Analysis
12 35 (10.57%) SDLC
13 33 (9.97%) Business Intelligence
13 33 (9.97%) Workflow
14 32 (9.67%) Continuous Improvement
15 30 (9.06%) User Experience
16 29 (8.76%) Data Modelling
16 29 (8.76%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 164 (49.55%) SQL
2 145 (43.81%) JavaScript
3 100 (30.21%) Python
4 70 (21.15%) Java
5 52 (15.71%) C#
6 41 (12.39%) Shell Script
7 36 (10.88%) PowerShell
8 29 (8.76%) PL/SQL
9 16 (4.83%) TypeScript
10 11 (3.32%) Bicep
10 11 (3.32%) T-SQL
11 7 (2.11%) PHP
12 5 (1.51%) Go
13 4 (1.21%) C++
13 4 (1.21%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.60%) C
14 2 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.60%) Ruby
14 2 (0.60%) Swift
14 2 (0.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (9.37%) Degree
2 25 (7.55%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.02%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.21%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.60%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.60%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.30%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.30%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.30%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.55%) GDPR
2 24 (7.25%) QA
3 17 (5.14%) Accessibility
4 15 (4.53%) Data Quality
5 14 (4.23%) HL7
5 14 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (3.02%) NCSC
6 10 (3.02%) NIST
7 3 (0.91%) WCAG
8 1 (0.30%) DICOM
System Software
1 51 (15.41%) Docker
2 17 (5.14%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.42%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 39 (11.78%) Kubernetes
2 34 (10.27%) Terraform
3 21 (6.34%) Kibana
4 20 (6.04%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (3.32%) Ansible
6 8 (2.42%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.30%) Grafana
8 1 (0.30%) Packer
Vendors
1 46 (13.90%) Microsoft
2 42 (12.69%) Oracle
3 26 (7.85%) ServiceNow
4 22 (6.65%) Splunk
5 21 (6.34%) Dynatrace
6 17 (5.14%) Google
7 16 (4.83%) Cisco
8 13 (3.93%) Okta
9 11 (3.32%) MuleSoft
9 11 (3.32%) SAP
10 8 (2.42%) Blue Coat
10 8 (2.42%) CheckPoint
10 8 (2.42%) F5
10 8 (2.42%) Informatica
10 8 (2.42%) VMware
11 7 (2.11%) Ab Initio
11 7 (2.11%) Dell
11 7 (2.11%) IBM
11 7 (2.11%) Salesforce
11 7 (2.11%) SnapLogic