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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 390 314
Rank change year-on-year -107 -76 -92
Permanent jobs citing JSON 341 317 602
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.64% 0.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.88% 3.79% 3.74%
Number of salaries quoted 222 232 380
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,300 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,250 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -0.41% -5.38%
75th Percentile £79,189 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.51%

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 11,841 8,373 16,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.03% 16.86% 21.69%
Number of salaries quoted 8,380 5,332 9,999
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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 5 October 2026.

Salary histogram for JSON in the UK

JSON
Top 17 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 5 October 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 -75 320 £62,500 +4.17% 533
UK excluding London -141 190 £55,000 - 356
London -31 135 £75,000 +7.14% 250
Work from Home -60 119 £55,000 -12.00% 334
South East -56 70 £55,000 -15.38% 88
North of England -44 44 £49,500 -10.00% 63
Midlands -43 29 £55,000 +15.79% 46
North West -35 25 £62,500 +13.64% 35
West Midlands -30 22 £61,700 +29.89% 28
East of England -56 22 £90,000 +63.64% 42
Yorkshire -30 16 £37,500 -24.62% 19
South West -65 16 £52,500 -6.67% 43
East Midlands -38 7 £54,000 -11.84% 18
Wales - 6 £55,000 - 27
North East -63 3 £31,000 -31.11% 10
Scotland -18 2 - - 49
Northern Ireland -82 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 30 (8.80%) SharePoint
2 18 (5.28%) Confluence
3 17 (4.99%) Apache
4 16 (4.69%) IIS
5 8 (2.35%) CMS
5 8 (2.35%) WordPress
6 7 (2.05%) Drupal
7 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (1.47%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.88%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.59%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.29%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.29%) JBoss
Applications
1 20 (5.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.17%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.59%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.59%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.59%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.29%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.29%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.29%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 149 (43.70%) Azure
2 87 (25.51%) AWS
3 60 (17.60%) Power Platform
4 55 (16.13%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (14.08%) Azure Logic Apps
6 41 (12.02%) Serverless
7 33 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (9.68%) Power Automate
8 26 (7.62%) PowerApps
9 24 (7.04%) Dynamics 365
9 24 (7.04%) GitHub
10 23 (6.74%) Azure Data Factory
11 22 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (5.28%) Azure Functions
13 16 (4.69%) GCP
14 15 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (3.81%) SaaS
16 12 (3.52%) Azure Monitor
17 11 (3.23%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 11 (3.23%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.52%) TCP/IP
2 9 (2.64%) HTTP
3 8 (2.35%) Wireshark
4 7 (2.05%) DNS
4 7 (2.05%) Firewall
5 5 (1.47%) Intranet
6 3 (0.88%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.88%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (0.88%) VPN
6 3 (0.88%) Wireless
7 2 (0.59%) MQTT
8 1 (0.29%) Diameter Protocol
8 1 (0.29%) Network Security
8 1 (0.29%) RTP
8 1 (0.29%) RTSP
8 1 (0.29%) SCTP
8 1 (0.29%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.29%) SS7
8 1 (0.29%) tcpdump
8 1 (0.29%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (13.49%) PostgreSQL
1 46 (13.49%) SQL Server
2 38 (11.14%) Power BI
3 25 (7.33%) MySQL
3 25 (7.33%) Relational Database
4 22 (6.45%) Redis
5 21 (6.16%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (4.40%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (3.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (3.52%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.64%) Amazon Athena
9 9 (2.64%) Parquet
10 8 (2.35%) Metadata
10 8 (2.35%) NoSQL
11 7 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (2.05%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.47%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (1.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.17%) Apache Iceberg
13 4 (1.17%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 72 (21.11%) Git
2 31 (9.09%) JIRA
3 27 (7.92%) Jenkins
4 17 (4.99%) Postman
4 17 (4.99%) Selenium
5 13 (3.81%) JMeter
6 11 (3.23%) GitLab
7 8 (2.35%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.35%) JUnit
8 7 (2.05%) Maven
9 6 (1.76%) Mockito
9 6 (1.76%) SoapUI
9 6 (1.76%) Visual Studio
10 5 (1.47%) Gatling
10 5 (1.47%) Gradle
10 5 (1.47%) Jasmine
10 5 (1.47%) Mocha
10 5 (1.47%) NUnit
10 5 (1.47%) Zephyr
11 4 (1.17%) Cypress.io
General
1 138 (40.47%) Social Skills
2 79 (23.17%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (19.35%) Finance
4 27 (7.92%) Organisational Skills
4 27 (7.92%) Public Sector
5 17 (4.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (3.81%) Banking
6 13 (3.81%) Legal
6 13 (3.81%) Retail
7 12 (3.52%) Law
8 10 (2.93%) Advertising
8 10 (2.93%) Health Technology
9 9 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.35%) Marketing
11 7 (2.05%) Back Office
12 6 (1.76%) Aviation
12 6 (1.76%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.47%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.47%) Publishing
14 3 (0.88%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 137 (40.18%) Developer
2 82 (24.05%) Senior
3 40 (11.73%) Senior Developer
4 28 (8.21%) .NET Developer
5 27 (7.92%) Analyst
6 23 (6.74%) Architect
7 22 (6.45%) Web Developer
8 21 (6.16%) Lead
8 21 (6.16%) Software Engineer
9 18 (5.28%) Data Engineer
10 17 (4.99%) Integration Engineer
10 17 (4.99%) Software Developer
11 16 (4.69%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (4.69%) Ruby Developer
12 14 (4.11%) .NET Web Developer
13 13 (3.81%) Senior Integration Engineer
14 12 (3.52%) Consultant
14 12 (3.52%) Integration Architect
14 12 (3.52%) Support Engineer
15 11 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (40.76%) XML
2 109 (31.96%) REST
3 85 (24.93%) HTML
4 78 (22.87%) .NET
5 73 (21.41%) CSS
6 51 (14.96%) RESTful
7 44 (12.90%) .NET Core
8 42 (12.32%) SOAP
9 39 (11.44%) ASP.NET
10 29 (8.50%) JWT
10 29 (8.50%) React
11 26 (7.62%) .NET Framework
12 25 (7.33%) Middleware
12 25 (7.33%) Terraform
13 21 (6.16%) Blazor
14 20 (5.87%) AngularJS
14 20 (5.87%) HTML5
14 20 (5.87%) Web Services
14 20 (5.87%) YAML
15 18 (5.28%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.62%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.87%) Enterprise Software
2 20 (5.87%) Onboarding
3 18 (5.28%) Management Information System
4 16 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (4.11%) Analytical Mindset
5 14 (4.11%) Product Ownership
5 14 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (3.52%) Taxonomies
7 11 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (3.23%) Robotics
8 8 (2.35%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.05%) Data Structures
9 7 (2.05%) Driving Licence
9 7 (2.05%) NHS
9 7 (2.05%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.76%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.76%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.76%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 53 (15.54%) Windows
2 50 (14.66%) Linux
3 19 (5.57%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.59%) Android
6 2 (0.59%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.29%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (40.76%) Agile
2 112 (32.84%) DevOps
3 108 (31.67%) CI/CD
4 98 (28.74%) Problem-Solving
5 62 (18.18%) AI
6 58 (17.01%) Test Automation
7 52 (15.25%) Mentoring
8 51 (14.96%) Microservices
8 51 (14.96%) Software Engineering
9 47 (13.78%) Scrum
10 44 (12.90%) Data Modelling
10 44 (12.90%) User Experience
11 42 (12.32%) Roadmaps
12 38 (11.14%) Validation
13 37 (10.85%) Business Intelligence
14 36 (10.56%) Analytics
15 35 (10.26%) Clean Code
16 34 (9.97%) Continuous Improvement
16 34 (9.97%) Data Integration
16 34 (9.97%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 143 (41.94%) SQL
2 124 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 93 (27.27%) Python
4 90 (26.39%) C#
5 41 (12.02%) Java
6 29 (8.50%) PowerShell
7 21 (6.16%) C++
8 18 (5.28%) TypeScript
9 17 (4.99%) PHP
9 17 (4.99%) Ruby
10 11 (3.23%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.23%) T-SQL
11 10 (2.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.47%) VBA
13 4 (1.17%) Bash
13 4 (1.17%) XPath
14 3 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.88%) VB
15 2 (0.59%) Lua
15 2 (0.59%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 44 (12.90%) Degree
2 38 (11.14%) Security Cleared
3 29 (8.50%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 11 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (2.93%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.76%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.47%) ISEB
9 4 (1.17%) CISSP
9 4 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.88%) CCNP
10 3 (0.88%) CCSP
11 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.59%) CASP
11 2 (0.59%) CompTIA CySA+
11 2 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (14.37%) Accessibility
2 39 (11.44%) QA
3 25 (7.33%) Data Quality
4 20 (5.87%) WCAG
5 14 (4.11%) GDPR
6 8 (2.35%) TickIT
7 5 (1.47%) HL7
7 5 (1.47%) SLA
8 4 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.88%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.88%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.59%) Basel III
10 2 (0.59%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.59%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.29%) Dublin Core
11 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.29%) PERC
11 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 54 (15.84%) Docker
2 7 (2.05%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.05%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.17%) vSphere
4 2 (0.59%) NFS
4 2 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (6.16%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.64%) Ansible
3 8 (2.35%) Kibana
4 7 (2.05%) Grafana
5 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.29%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.29%) logstash
6 1 (0.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 113 (33.14%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.28%) Google
3 14 (4.11%) Adobe
4 13 (3.81%) Splunk
5 10 (2.93%) Dynatrace
5 10 (2.93%) Oracle
5 10 (2.93%) SAP
6 8 (2.35%) VMware
7 5 (1.47%) IBM
7 5 (1.47%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.47%) Pega
7 5 (1.47%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.17%) Databricks
8 4 (1.17%) Foundry
8 4 (1.17%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.17%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.88%) CheckPoint
9 3 (0.88%) F5
9 3 (0.88%) McAfee
9 3 (0.88%) Red Hat