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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 325 243
Rank change year-on-year -108 -82 +33
Permanent jobs citing JSON 329 387 1,132
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.90% 1.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.61% 4.63% 5.55%
Number of salaries quoted 224 295 733
10th Percentile £40,150 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,457 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,318
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.34% -2.06%

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 9,125 8,363 20,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.87% 19.48% 20.98%
Number of salaries quoted 6,716 5,683 15,727
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,219 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.84% +10.37% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -92 290 £64,585 +3.34% 96
UK excluding London -63 186 £60,000 +9.09% 65
Work from Home -9 136 £62,500 -0.40% 45
London -38 108 £70,000 +3.70% 42
South East -47 72 £60,000 -7.69% 31
North of England -23 47 £57,500 +4.55% 15
East of England -3 39 £90,000 +89.47% 3
North West +1 32 £62,500 +13.64% 8
Scotland -6 13 £72,500 +62.92% 1
Yorkshire -37 13 £44,000 +8.64% 4
Midlands -53 10 £47,500 -13.64% 6
South West -71 8 £37,500 -37.50% 8
West Midlands -37 7 £43,000 -20.87% 2
East Midlands -41 3 £47,500 -20.83% 4
North East -34 2 £46,250 -40.32% 3

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 (8.51%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.43%) CMS
3 8 (2.43%) IIS
4 7 (2.13%) WordPress
5 6 (1.82%) Apache
5 6 (1.82%) Confluence
6 5 (1.52%) Drupal
7 3 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.61%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.61%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.61%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.61%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.30%) JBoss
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.30%) SAS
9 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (3.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.91%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.61%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.30%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.30%) EngageOne
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.30%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.52%) 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 Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.30%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 145 (44.07%) Azure
2 87 (26.44%) AWS
3 61 (18.54%) Power Platform
4 45 (13.68%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (12.16%) Azure Logic Apps
6 38 (11.55%) Microsoft 365
7 35 (10.64%) Serverless
8 30 (9.12%) Azure Data Factory
8 30 (9.12%) GitHub
9 27 (8.21%) SaaS
10 26 (7.90%) PowerApps
11 25 (7.60%) Power Automate
12 23 (6.99%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (6.08%) OneDrive
14 19 (5.78%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 18 (5.47%) Dynamics 365
16 17 (5.17%) Boomi
17 16 (4.86%) Amazon EC2
18 14 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
18 14 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.17%) Firewall
2 6 (1.82%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (1.82%) VPN
3 5 (1.52%) DNS
4 3 (0.91%) AMQP
4 3 (0.91%) BGP
4 3 (0.91%) HTTP
4 3 (0.91%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.91%) SSL
5 2 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.61%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.61%) FTP
5 2 (0.61%) LAN
5 2 (0.61%) PuTTY
5 2 (0.61%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.61%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.61%) WAN
5 2 (0.61%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.30%) CTI
6 1 (0.30%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (16.11%) Power BI
2 44 (13.37%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (10.64%) MySQL
4 24 (7.29%) Relational Database
5 23 (6.99%) SQL Server
5 23 (6.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 19 (5.78%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (4.86%) Metadata
8 14 (4.26%) RDBMS
9 13 (3.95%) Redis
10 10 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (2.74%) Electronic Patient Records
12 8 (2.43%) Oracle Database
13 7 (2.13%) GIS
14 5 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 4 (1.22%) MongoDB
15 4 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
16 3 (0.91%) Apache Iceberg
16 3 (0.91%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 49 (14.89%) Git
2 36 (10.94%) JIRA
3 31 (9.42%) Jenkins
4 23 (6.99%) GitLab
5 12 (3.65%) Postman
6 10 (3.04%) JUnit
7 8 (2.43%) Maven
8 7 (2.13%) ERwin
8 7 (2.13%) Mockito
8 7 (2.13%) Selenium
9 6 (1.82%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.82%) JMeter
9 6 (1.82%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.52%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.52%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.52%) Gradle
10 5 (1.52%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (1.52%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.52%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.22%) Artifactory
General
1 134 (40.73%) Social Skills
2 85 (25.84%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (20.97%) Finance
4 19 (5.78%) Organisational Skills
4 19 (5.78%) Retail
5 17 (5.17%) Marketing
5 17 (5.17%) Telecoms
6 15 (4.56%) Health Technology
7 12 (3.65%) Law
8 11 (3.34%) Advertising
9 8 (2.43%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.13%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.82%) German Language
12 5 (1.52%) Back Office
12 5 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.91%) Banking
14 3 (0.91%) Billing
14 3 (0.91%) Local Government
14 3 (0.91%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 102 (31.00%) Developer
2 74 (22.49%) Senior
3 47 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 32 (9.73%) Consultant
5 27 (8.21%) Analyst
6 26 (7.90%) Architect
7 20 (6.08%) Data Analyst
7 20 (6.08%) DevOps Engineer
8 19 (5.78%) Support Engineer
9 15 (4.56%) Java Developer
10 14 (4.26%) Applications Engineer
10 14 (4.26%) Software Engineer
11 13 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (3.95%) Software Developer
12 12 (3.65%) Automation Engineer
12 12 (3.65%) Integration Engineer
12 12 (3.65%) Lead
13 11 (3.34%) Applications Architect
13 11 (3.34%) Integration Architect
13 11 (3.34%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (45.59%) XML
2 119 (36.17%) REST
3 87 (26.44%) HTML
4 64 (19.45%) CSS
5 54 (16.41%) .NET
6 51 (15.50%) SOAP
7 40 (12.16%) RESTful
8 37 (11.25%) .NET Core
9 35 (10.64%) Middleware
10 34 (10.33%) YAML
11 25 (7.60%) OAuth
12 23 (6.99%) HTML5 Canvas
12 23 (6.99%) JWT
12 23 (6.99%) React
13 20 (6.08%) Spring
14 19 (5.78%) Microsoft Graph
14 19 (5.78%) OAuth2
14 19 (5.78%) SPFx
14 19 (5.78%) Web Services
15 18 (5.47%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.33%) Data Structures
2 33 (10.03%) Onboarding
3 24 (7.29%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (6.38%) Linux Command Line
5 20 (6.08%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (5.78%) Cloud Native
7 13 (3.95%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.74%) Enterprise Cloud
8 9 (2.74%) NHS
9 7 (2.13%) e-Learning
9 7 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.13%) Management Information System
9 7 (2.13%) Operational Technology
9 7 (2.13%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.13%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.13%) SCADA
10 5 (1.52%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.22%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.22%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 49 (14.89%) Linux
2 22 (6.69%) Windows
3 16 (4.86%) Unix
4 10 (3.04%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (29.79%) CI/CD
2 92 (27.96%) DevOps
3 83 (25.23%) Agile
4 79 (24.01%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (17.93%) Data Modelling
6 55 (16.72%) Business Intelligence
7 53 (16.11%) Microservices
8 47 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 45 (13.68%) API Integration
10 43 (13.07%) User Experience
11 41 (12.46%) Infrastructure as Code
12 40 (12.16%) ERP
13 38 (11.55%) AI
13 38 (11.55%) Containerisation
14 36 (10.94%) Analytics
15 33 (10.03%) Mentoring
16 32 (9.73%) Data Analysis
16 32 (9.73%) Validation
17 30 (9.12%) Integration Patterns
17 30 (9.12%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 165 (50.15%) SQL
2 115 (34.95%) Python
3 111 (33.74%) JavaScript
4 71 (21.58%) Java
5 53 (16.11%) C#
6 36 (10.94%) PowerShell
7 28 (8.51%) TypeScript
8 15 (4.56%) PHP
8 15 (4.56%) Shell Script
9 14 (4.26%) PL/SQL
10 11 (3.34%) T-SQL
11 10 (3.04%) Perl
12 9 (2.74%) VB
13 8 (2.43%) Bicep
14 6 (1.82%) Groovy
14 6 (1.82%) Ruby
15 5 (1.52%) C++
16 4 (1.22%) VBA
17 3 (0.91%) ActionScript
17 3 (0.91%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 42 (12.77%) Security Cleared
2 40 (12.16%) Degree
3 27 (8.21%) SC Cleared
4 17 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.52%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.91%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (0.91%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.30%) CISSP
8 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.30%) GIAC
8 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.30%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (10.03%) QA
2 21 (6.38%) Accessibility
3 13 (3.95%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.65%) TickIT
5 11 (3.34%) GDPR
5 11 (3.34%) SLA
6 10 (3.04%) HL7
6 10 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (2.13%) WCAG
8 2 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.61%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.30%) PERC
System Software
1 44 (13.37%) Docker
2 17 (5.17%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.22%) vSphere
4 2 (0.61%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.61%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.30%) iptables
Systems Management
1 38 (11.55%) Terraform
2 36 (10.94%) Kubernetes
3 16 (4.86%) Ansible
4 6 (1.82%) Kibana
5 5 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.22%) Packer
7 2 (0.61%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.30%) Grafana
8 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 76 (23.10%) Microsoft
2 28 (8.51%) Oracle
3 24 (7.29%) Adobe
4 16 (4.86%) Cisco
5 13 (3.95%) Splunk
6 11 (3.34%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.74%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.43%) Databricks
8 8 (2.43%) Dynatrace
8 8 (2.43%) F5
9 7 (2.13%) Sparx
10 6 (1.82%) Google
10 6 (1.82%) Juniper
10 6 (1.82%) VMware
11 5 (1.52%) Ab Initio
11 5 (1.52%) IBM
11 5 (1.52%) Okta
11 5 (1.52%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.52%) SAP
12 4 (1.22%) ServiceNow