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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 366 258
Rank change year-on-year -99 -108 -11
Permanent jobs citing JSON 362 376 893
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.75% 1.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.40% 4.43% 5.53%
Number of salaries quoted 253 277 541
10th Percentile £35,500 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -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 10,659 8,491 16,140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.03% 17.00% 19.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7,789 5,522 11,476
10th Percentile £41,200 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,302
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 13 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 13 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 -94 330 £62,500 +4.17% 193
UK excluding London -97 209 £55,000 - 107
Work from Home -27 141 £60,900 -2.56% 72
London -48 121 £75,000 +13.21% 106
South East -26 83 £55,000 -15.38% 44
North of England -27 53 £55,000 - 20
North West +2 32 £62,500 +13.64% 11
East of England -44 28 £90,000 +89.47% 10
Midlands -33 21 £53,250 -5.75% 15
South West -53 19 £52,500 - 9
Yorkshire -14 16 £40,750 +0.62% 9
West Midlands -25 12 £46,250 -13.95% 9
East Midlands -25 9 £54,000 -4.42% 6
Wales - 6 £55,000 - 3
North East - 5 £45,000 -
Scotland +5 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 30 (8.29%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.70%) Confluence
3 15 (4.14%) Apache
4 11 (3.04%) IIS
5 9 (2.49%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (2.21%) CMS
7 7 (1.93%) WordPress
8 5 (1.38%) Apache Spark
8 5 (1.38%) Drupal
9 4 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.83%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.55%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.55%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.55%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.28%) JBoss
12 1 (0.28%) SAS
12 1 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 18 (4.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.10%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.83%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.55%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.28%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 155 (42.82%) Azure
2 94 (25.97%) AWS
3 60 (16.57%) Power Platform
4 50 (13.81%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (13.26%) Azure Logic Apps
6 36 (9.94%) Microsoft 365
7 30 (8.29%) Serverless
8 29 (8.01%) PowerApps
9 28 (7.73%) GitHub
9 28 (7.73%) Power Automate
10 23 (6.35%) Azure Data Factory
11 22 (6.08%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (6.08%) SaaS
12 20 (5.52%) Dynamics 365
12 20 (5.52%) OneDrive
13 19 (5.25%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 15 (4.14%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (4.14%) Boomi
14 15 (4.14%) GCP
15 13 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.25%) Firewall
2 10 (2.76%) TCP/IP
3 9 (2.49%) DNS
4 7 (1.93%) HTTP
5 6 (1.66%) Wireshark
6 5 (1.38%) Intranet
7 4 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (0.83%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.83%) SSL
8 3 (0.83%) Wireless
9 2 (0.55%) MQTT
9 2 (0.55%) VPN
10 1 (0.28%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.28%) Diameter Protocol
10 1 (0.28%) Network Security
10 1 (0.28%) RTSP
10 1 (0.28%) SCTP
10 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.28%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (13.54%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (12.71%) Power BI
3 29 (8.01%) Relational Database
4 27 (7.46%) SQL Server
5 25 (6.91%) MySQL
6 24 (6.63%) Redis
7 20 (5.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (4.97%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (4.70%) Metadata
10 14 (3.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 12 (3.31%) RDBMS
12 7 (1.93%) Electronic Patient Records
13 6 (1.66%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.66%) GIS
13 6 (1.66%) MongoDB
14 5 (1.38%) Delta Lake
14 5 (1.38%) NoSQL
15 4 (1.10%) Apache Iceberg
15 4 (1.10%) DynamoDB
15 4 (1.10%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 67 (18.51%) Git
2 46 (12.71%) JIRA
3 29 (8.01%) Jenkins
4 24 (6.63%) GitLab
5 15 (4.14%) Selenium
6 11 (3.04%) Cucumber
7 10 (2.76%) JMeter
7 10 (2.76%) Postman
8 8 (2.21%) JUnit
9 7 (1.93%) ERwin
9 7 (1.93%) Maven
9 7 (1.93%) Mockito
10 5 (1.38%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.38%) Gradle
10 5 (1.38%) Jasmine
10 5 (1.38%) Mocha
10 5 (1.38%) NUnit
10 5 (1.38%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.38%) Visual Studio
10 5 (1.38%) WebDriver
General
1 151 (41.71%) Social Skills
2 88 (24.31%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (18.51%) Finance
4 30 (8.29%) Organisational Skills
5 16 (4.42%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.87%) Health Technology
6 14 (3.87%) Marketing
7 13 (3.59%) Advertising
7 13 (3.59%) Retail
8 10 (2.76%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.21%) Law
10 8 (2.21%) Legal
11 6 (1.66%) Banking
11 6 (1.66%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.66%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.38%) Back Office
12 5 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.38%) Local Government
13 4 (1.10%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 131 (36.19%) Developer
2 79 (21.82%) Senior
3 42 (11.60%) Senior Developer
4 25 (6.91%) Architect
5 23 (6.35%) Analyst
5 23 (6.35%) Consultant
6 22 (6.08%) Software Engineer
7 20 (5.52%) .NET Developer
8 19 (5.25%) Lead
8 19 (5.25%) Software Developer
8 19 (5.25%) Web Developer
9 18 (4.97%) Support Engineer
10 17 (4.70%) Data Engineer
10 17 (4.70%) Integration Engineer
10 17 (4.70%) Ruby Developer
11 16 (4.42%) DevOps Engineer
12 15 (4.14%) Full-Stack Developer
13 14 (3.87%) Automation Engineer
14 13 (3.59%) Technical Support
15 12 (3.31%) Senior Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (40.61%) XML
2 108 (29.83%) REST
3 91 (25.14%) HTML
4 84 (23.20%) .NET
5 79 (21.82%) CSS
6 50 (13.81%) RESTful
7 44 (12.15%) .NET Core
8 42 (11.60%) SOAP
9 39 (10.77%) ASP.NET
10 32 (8.84%) Middleware
10 32 (8.84%) YAML
11 30 (8.29%) JWT
12 28 (7.73%) React
13 21 (5.80%) .NET Framework
13 21 (5.80%) HTML5 Canvas
14 20 (5.52%) Microsoft Graph
15 19 (5.25%) AngularJS
15 19 (5.25%) SPFx
16 18 (4.97%) Node.js
16 18 (4.97%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.63%) Onboarding
2 22 (6.08%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (5.80%) Cloud Native
4 20 (5.52%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (5.52%) Data Structures
4 20 (5.52%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (4.97%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (3.31%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (3.04%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.76%) Driving Licence
9 9 (2.49%) Enterprise Cloud
9 9 (2.49%) NHS
9 9 (2.49%) Robotics
10 8 (2.21%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (2.21%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.66%) e-Learning
12 4 (1.10%) PKI
12 4 (1.10%) SCADA
12 4 (1.10%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 61 (16.85%) Linux
2 46 (12.71%) Windows
3 17 (4.70%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.10%) Unix
5 4 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.55%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.28%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (36.19%) Agile
2 104 (28.73%) DevOps
3 102 (28.18%) CI/CD
4 101 (27.90%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (15.75%) Microservices
6 53 (14.64%) Test Automation
7 51 (14.09%) User Experience
8 49 (13.54%) Containerisation
9 48 (13.26%) Data Modelling
10 47 (12.98%) Business Intelligence
11 43 (11.88%) Scrum
12 41 (11.33%) Mentoring
12 41 (11.33%) Software Engineering
13 38 (10.50%) Analytics
14 37 (10.22%) AI
14 37 (10.22%) Infrastructure as Code
14 37 (10.22%) Roadmaps
15 36 (9.94%) API Integration
16 35 (9.67%) Clean Code
17 33 (9.12%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 153 (42.27%) SQL
2 125 (34.53%) JavaScript
3 104 (28.73%) Python
4 87 (24.03%) C#
5 47 (12.98%) Java
6 32 (8.84%) PowerShell
7 27 (7.46%) TypeScript
8 18 (4.97%) C++
8 18 (4.97%) PHP
8 18 (4.97%) Ruby
9 14 (3.87%) Shell Script
10 10 (2.76%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.93%) Perl
12 5 (1.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.38%) Groovy
12 5 (1.38%) VB
13 4 (1.10%) Bash
13 4 (1.10%) VBA
14 2 (0.55%) Lua
14 2 (0.55%) R
Qualifications
1 47 (12.98%) Degree
2 38 (10.50%) Security Cleared
3 25 (6.91%) SC Cleared
4 18 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.31%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.66%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.38%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.83%) CCNP
9 3 (0.83%) CISSP
9 3 (0.83%) ISEB
9 3 (0.83%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.55%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.55%) CASP
10 2 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.55%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (0.55%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (11.60%) QA
2 28 (7.73%) Accessibility
3 16 (4.42%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.31%) TickIT
5 10 (2.76%) SLA
6 8 (2.21%) WCAG
7 7 (1.93%) HL7
8 4 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.10%) GDPR
9 3 (0.83%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.83%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.55%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.28%) Dublin Core
11 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.28%) PERC
System Software
1 57 (15.75%) Docker
2 7 (1.93%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.93%) vSphere
3 4 (1.10%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (8.56%) Terraform
2 29 (8.01%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.87%) Ansible
4 6 (1.66%) Kibana
5 4 (1.10%) Packer
6 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.28%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.28%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.28%) Grafana
7 1 (0.28%) QRadar
Vendors
1 102 (28.18%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.63%) Adobe
3 15 (4.14%) Google
4 14 (3.87%) Splunk
5 13 (3.59%) Cisco
5 13 (3.59%) Oracle
6 12 (3.31%) Databricks
7 11 (3.04%) Red Hat
8 8 (2.21%) Dynatrace
8 8 (2.21%) F5
8 8 (2.21%) SAP
8 8 (2.21%) VMware
9 7 (1.93%) IBM
10 6 (1.66%) Sparx
11 5 (1.38%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.38%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.38%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.10%) AppDynamics
12 4 (1.10%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.10%) Juniper