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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 309 212
Rank change year-on-year -32 -97 +22
Permanent jobs citing JSON 338 548 858
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.82% 1.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.63% 4.04% 6.08%
Number of salaries quoted 239 343 717
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% -5.11%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,750 £98,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -0.86%

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 7,301 13,553 14,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.87% 20.24% 26.83%
Number of salaries quoted 5,204 8,120 11,562
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,956 £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 £106,289
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 18 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 18 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 -43 284 £57,500 -5.35% 233
UK excluding London -16 216 £55,000 +2.33% 154
Work from Home +22 140 £57,500 -11.54% 178
London -27 103 £71,250 +1.79% 114
South East -15 77 £62,500 +8.70% 59
East of England +40 51 £55,000 -13.73% 20
Scotland +22 30 £50,000 +12.36% 18
North of England +6 29 £55,000 - 23
Midlands +15 26 £47,500 -9.52% 21
North West +30 22 £55,000 - 18
West Midlands +28 18 £47,500 -17.39% 11
East Midlands +17 8 £60,000 +18.81% 10
North East +9 4 £45,000 -
South West +18 3 £61,250 +22.50% 9
Yorkshire -20 3 £43,500 -33.08% 5
Northern Ireland +3 2 - - 6

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 (2.96%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.66%) Confluence
3 6 (1.78%) Anypoint
4 5 (1.48%) CMS
5 3 (0.89%) IIS
5 3 (0.89%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.59%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.30%) Appian
7 1 (0.30%) CICS
7 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (2.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.37%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.78%) Trello
4 4 (1.18%) 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 14 (4.14%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (2.07%) Shopify
3 5 (1.48%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.89%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.59%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 133 (39.35%) Azure
2 66 (19.53%) GitHub
3 60 (17.75%) AWS
4 58 (17.16%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (10.36%) Serverless
6 34 (10.06%) Power Platform
7 27 (7.99%) Power Automate
8 23 (6.80%) Amazon EC2
9 22 (6.51%) Amazon EKS
10 21 (6.21%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (5.92%) Azure Logic Apps
11 20 (5.92%) Azure Service Bus
12 19 (5.62%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (5.33%) Azure Data Factory
13 18 (5.33%) Entra ID
13 18 (5.33%) GCP
14 17 (5.03%) PaaS
15 15 (4.44%) Boomi
16 14 (4.14%) OCI
16 14 (4.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.96%) FTP
2 8 (2.37%) Cisco ISE
2 8 (2.37%) Ethernet
2 8 (2.37%) Firewall
2 8 (2.37%) LAN
2 8 (2.37%) SD-WAN
2 8 (2.37%) WAN
3 6 (1.78%) HTTP
4 5 (1.48%) VPN
5 3 (0.89%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.59%) DNS
6 2 (0.59%) SSL
7 1 (0.30%) AMQP
7 1 (0.30%) DMARC
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 (16.86%) Relational Database
2 50 (14.79%) SQL Server
3 26 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (7.40%) Power BI
5 24 (7.10%) MySQL
6 22 (6.51%) RDBMS
7 15 (4.44%) OLTP
8 11 (3.25%) Electronic Patient Records
9 10 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (2.96%) NoSQL
10 9 (2.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (2.07%) GIS
11 7 (2.07%) Power Query
12 6 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (1.78%) Redis
13 4 (1.18%) Metadata
13 4 (1.18%) MongoDB
14 3 (0.89%) Big Data
14 3 (0.89%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 46 (13.61%) Jenkins
2 41 (12.13%) Git
3 24 (7.10%) JUnit
4 23 (6.80%) JMeter
5 21 (6.21%) Mockito
6 18 (5.33%) JIRA
7 14 (4.14%) Oracle Forms
7 14 (4.14%) Visual Studio
8 8 (2.37%) Selenium
9 7 (2.07%) Postman
10 6 (1.78%) Axure RP
10 6 (1.78%) MSBuild
10 6 (1.78%) Octopus Deploy
10 6 (1.78%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (1.48%) Storybook
12 4 (1.18%) webpack
13 3 (0.89%) Maven
13 3 (0.89%) WebDriver
14 2 (0.59%) Babel
14 2 (0.59%) Xcode
General
1 110 (32.54%) Social Skills
2 66 (19.53%) Finance
3 49 (14.50%) Law
4 48 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (10.06%) Public Sector
6 33 (9.76%) Retail
7 24 (7.10%) Marketing
8 11 (3.25%) Health Technology
9 9 (2.66%) Legal
10 7 (2.07%) German Language
10 7 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.78%) Front Office
12 4 (1.18%) Automotive
12 4 (1.18%) Banking
13 3 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.89%) Publishing
14 2 (0.59%) Games
14 2 (0.59%) iGaming
14 2 (0.59%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 140 (41.42%) Developer
2 61 (18.05%) Senior
3 41 (12.13%) Senior Developer
4 28 (8.28%) Analyst
5 25 (7.40%) Full-Stack Developer
6 23 (6.80%) Java Developer
7 18 (5.33%) Consultant
7 18 (5.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 16 (4.73%) Architect
8 16 (4.73%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (4.73%) Integration Engineer
9 15 (4.44%) Applications Engineer
9 15 (4.44%) Mid-Level Java Developer
9 15 (4.44%) Oracle Developer
9 15 (4.44%) Senior Oracle Developer
10 14 (4.14%) Lead
10 14 (4.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 13 (3.85%) Data Engineer
11 13 (3.85%) ServiceNow Consultant
12 12 (3.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (59.17%) XML
2 134 (39.64%) REST
3 132 (39.05%) HTML
4 67 (19.82%) CSS
5 51 (15.09%) Web Services
6 46 (13.61%) RESTful
6 46 (13.61%) SOAP
7 36 (10.65%) React
8 31 (9.17%) .NET
9 24 (7.10%) Spring
10 23 (6.80%) Hibernate
10 23 (6.80%) jQuery
11 22 (6.51%) Spring Boot
12 21 (6.21%) ActiveMQ
12 21 (6.21%) Apache Camel
12 21 (6.21%) WireMock
13 19 (5.62%) OAuth
14 18 (5.33%) Regular Expression
15 16 (4.73%) AngularJS
16 15 (4.44%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.65%) Onboarding
2 31 (9.17%) Cloud Native
3 25 (7.40%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (7.10%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (6.51%) Linux Command Line
6 16 (4.73%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (4.73%) Low-Code
7 13 (3.85%) Product Ownership
8 11 (3.25%) Data Structures
9 10 (2.96%) Operational Technology
10 9 (2.66%) Data Centre
11 8 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (2.37%) Public Cloud
12 7 (2.07%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.78%) BYOD
13 6 (1.78%) Social Media
14 4 (1.18%) NHS
15 2 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
15 2 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
15 2 (0.59%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.69%) Unix
2 18 (5.33%) Linux
3 6 (1.78%) Windows
4 5 (1.48%) Android
5 3 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.89%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (35.80%) Agile
2 96 (28.40%) CI/CD
3 84 (24.85%) Problem-Solving
4 82 (24.26%) DevOps
5 63 (18.64%) Test Automation
6 53 (15.68%) Microservices
7 46 (13.61%) ETL
8 44 (13.02%) API Integration
9 41 (12.13%) AI
9 41 (12.13%) Mentoring
10 40 (11.83%) Analytics
11 37 (10.95%) Full-Stack Development
11 37 (10.95%) Root Cause Analysis
12 34 (10.06%) SDLC
13 33 (9.76%) Business Intelligence
13 33 (9.76%) Workflow
14 32 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
15 31 (9.17%) Coaching
16 30 (8.88%) User Experience
17 29 (8.58%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 164 (48.52%) SQL
2 143 (42.31%) JavaScript
3 106 (31.36%) Python
4 70 (20.71%) Java
5 52 (15.38%) C#
6 42 (12.43%) Shell Script
7 35 (10.36%) PowerShell
8 30 (8.88%) PL/SQL
9 17 (5.03%) TypeScript
10 12 (3.55%) Bicep
11 11 (3.25%) T-SQL
12 7 (2.07%) PHP
13 5 (1.48%) Go
14 4 (1.18%) C++
14 4 (1.18%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.59%) C
15 2 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.59%) Ruby
15 2 (0.59%) Swift
16 1 (0.30%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 35 (10.36%) Degree
2 26 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.25%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.18%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.59%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.59%) 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 (7.40%) GDPR
1 25 (7.40%) QA
2 18 (5.33%) Accessibility
3 15 (4.44%) Data Quality
4 14 (4.14%) HL7
5 13 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.96%) NCSC
6 10 (2.96%) NIST
7 4 (1.18%) WCAG
8 1 (0.30%) DICOM
System Software
1 50 (14.79%) Docker
2 17 (5.03%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 39 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 37 (10.95%) Terraform
3 21 (6.21%) Kibana
4 20 (5.92%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (3.25%) Ansible
6 8 (2.37%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.30%) Grafana
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.30%) Packer
Vendors
1 45 (13.31%) Microsoft
2 42 (12.43%) Oracle
3 25 (7.40%) ServiceNow
4 22 (6.51%) Splunk
5 21 (6.21%) Dynatrace
6 17 (5.03%) Google
7 15 (4.44%) Cisco
8 14 (4.14%) Okta
9 11 (3.25%) MuleSoft
9 11 (3.25%) SAP
10 8 (2.37%) Ab Initio
10 8 (2.37%) Blue Coat
10 8 (2.37%) CheckPoint
10 8 (2.37%) F5
10 8 (2.37%) IBM
10 8 (2.37%) Informatica
10 8 (2.37%) VMware
11 7 (2.07%) OpenAI
11 7 (2.07%) Salesforce
11 7 (2.07%) SnapLogic