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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 317 228
Rank change year-on-year -35 -89 +14
Permanent jobs citing JSON 320 477 792
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.89% 1.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.56% 4.14% 5.85%
Number of salaries quoted 203 315 650
10th Percentile £41,900 £36,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £87,188
90th Percentile £81,750 £84,500 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 7,022 11,524 13,547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.76% 21.45% 24.85%
Number of salaries quoted 5,238 6,766 11,053
10th Percentile £35,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £105,000
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 9 January 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 9 January 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 -61 253 £55,000 -8.33% 145
UK excluding London -28 204 £55,000 +4.76% 138
Work from Home +13 130 £55,000 -15.38% 129
London -3 93 £75,000 +7.14% 35
East of England +48 55 £55,000 -13.73% 23
South East -55 55 £55,000 -15.38% 52
Scotland +39 42 £46,500 +4.49% 7
North of England -12 26 £55,000 +4.76% 27
Midlands +2 23 £47,500 -9.52% 10
North West +17 18 £55,000 - 16
West Midlands +6 17 £47,500 -11.53% 4
East Midlands -11 6 £60,000 +17.07% 6
Yorkshire -29 4 £56,750 +8.10% 7
North East - 4 £45,000 - 4
Northern Ireland -7 2 - - 4
South West -11 1 £60,000 +20.00% 12

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 9 (2.81%) Confluence
1 9 (2.81%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.56%) Anypoint
2 5 (1.56%) CMS
3 3 (0.94%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.63%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.63%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.31%) Apache
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.31%) Appian
5 1 (0.31%) CICS
5 1 (0.31%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.31%) IIS
5 1 (0.31%) JBoss
5 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.19%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.88%) Trello
4 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (6.25%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.88%) NetSuite
2 6 (1.88%) Shopify
3 3 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.94%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.31%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 124 (38.75%) Azure
2 64 (20.00%) GitHub
3 59 (18.44%) Azure DevOps
4 58 (18.13%) AWS
5 32 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 28 (8.75%) Serverless
7 27 (8.44%) Azure Logic Apps
8 24 (7.50%) Azure Data Factory
8 24 (7.50%) Power Automate
9 22 (6.88%) Entra ID
10 21 (6.56%) OCI
11 20 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
12 19 (5.94%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (5.63%) GCP
14 17 (5.31%) Azure Monitor
15 16 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (5.00%) Boomi
15 16 (5.00%) PaaS
16 15 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
16 15 (4.69%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.44%) VPN
2 10 (3.13%) FTP
3 4 (1.25%) Cisco ISE
3 4 (1.25%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.25%) Firewall
3 4 (1.25%) LAN
3 4 (1.25%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.25%) WAN
4 3 (0.94%) AMQP
4 3 (0.94%) DNS
4 3 (0.94%) HTTP
4 3 (0.94%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.63%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.31%) DHCP
6 1 (0.31%) Modbus
6 1 (0.31%) SSL
6 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.31%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (15.00%) Relational Database
2 36 (11.25%) SQL Server
3 25 (7.81%) MySQL
3 25 (7.81%) Power BI
4 19 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (5.31%) Electronic Patient Records
6 14 (4.38%) RDBMS
7 12 (3.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (3.44%) OLTP
9 10 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (3.13%) NoSQL
10 6 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.88%) GIS
10 6 (1.88%) Metadata
10 6 (1.88%) Power Query
11 3 (0.94%) Crystal Reports
11 3 (0.94%) Redis
11 3 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.63%) Big Data
12 2 (0.63%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 41 (12.81%) Jenkins
2 20 (6.25%) Oracle Forms
3 18 (5.63%) JIRA
4 17 (5.31%) Git
5 14 (4.38%) JMeter
5 14 (4.38%) JUnit
6 13 (4.06%) Mockito
7 10 (3.13%) Postman
8 8 (2.50%) Visual Studio
9 7 (2.19%) Storybook
10 6 (1.88%) Axure RP
11 2 (0.63%) Crashlytics
11 2 (0.63%) Selenium
12 1 (0.31%) ESLint
12 1 (0.31%) Maven
12 1 (0.31%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.31%) Subversion
12 1 (0.31%) Testinfra
12 1 (0.31%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.31%) Xcode
General
1 95 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 79 (24.69%) Finance
3 41 (12.81%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (12.50%) Law
5 30 (9.38%) Retail
6 27 (8.44%) Public Sector
7 21 (6.56%) Marketing
8 17 (5.31%) Health Technology
9 15 (4.69%) German Language
10 8 (2.50%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.88%) Legal
12 4 (1.25%) Automotive
13 3 (0.94%) Electronics
13 3 (0.94%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.63%) Banking
14 2 (0.63%) Billing
14 2 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.63%) Publishing
15 1 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 113 (35.31%) Developer
2 61 (19.06%) Senior
3 33 (10.31%) Senior Developer
4 27 (8.44%) Analyst
5 21 (6.56%) Applications Engineer
5 21 (6.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 21 (6.56%) Consultant
6 20 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
6 20 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 18 (5.63%) Java Developer
8 15 (4.69%) Full-Stack Developer
8 15 (4.69%) Technical Consultant
9 13 (4.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 13 (4.06%) Oracle Developer
9 13 (4.06%) Senior Oracle Developer
10 12 (3.75%) Data Engineer
10 12 (3.75%) ServiceNow Developer
11 11 (3.44%) Lead
11 11 (3.44%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 10 (3.13%) EPR Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (59.69%) XML
2 113 (35.31%) REST
3 102 (31.88%) HTML
4 51 (15.94%) SOAP
5 47 (14.69%) RESTful
6 41 (12.81%) Web Services
7 36 (11.25%) CSS
8 33 (10.31%) React
9 30 (9.38%) Regular Expression
10 27 (8.44%) OAuth
11 22 (6.88%) Spring
12 21 (6.56%) Spring Boot
13 20 (6.25%) FHIR
14 17 (5.31%) Hibernate
15 16 (5.00%) OAuth2
16 15 (4.69%) .NET
16 15 (4.69%) jQuery
17 13 (4.06%) ActiveMQ
17 13 (4.06%) Apache Camel
17 13 (4.06%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 47 (14.69%) Onboarding
2 42 (13.13%) Linux Command Line
3 35 (10.94%) Cloud Native
4 23 (7.19%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (5.00%) Low-Code
6 16 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (3.75%) Data Structures
8 11 (3.44%) Operational Technology
9 10 (3.13%) NHS
10 8 (2.50%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.88%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.88%) Social Media
12 4 (1.25%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.25%) Semantic Web
13 3 (0.94%) Mobile App
13 3 (0.94%) Reference Data
14 2 (0.63%) Blog
14 2 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (11.56%) Unix
2 22 (6.88%) Linux
3 4 (1.25%) Windows
4 3 (0.94%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.63%) Android
6 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (31.56%) Agile
2 97 (30.31%) CI/CD
3 80 (25.00%) DevOps
4 71 (22.19%) Problem-Solving
4 71 (22.19%) Test Automation
5 52 (16.25%) ETL
6 49 (15.31%) Root Cause Analysis
7 47 (14.69%) AI
8 46 (14.38%) Analytics
9 45 (14.06%) API Integration
9 45 (14.06%) Coaching
10 42 (13.13%) Mentoring
11 41 (12.81%) Asset Management
11 41 (12.81%) Business Intelligence
12 38 (11.88%) LLM
12 38 (11.88%) Observability
13 34 (10.63%) Data Analysis
13 34 (10.63%) ERP
13 34 (10.63%) Translating Business Requirements
14 30 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 155 (48.44%) SQL
2 112 (35.00%) Python
3 108 (33.75%) JavaScript
4 68 (21.25%) Java
5 39 (12.19%) Shell Script
6 33 (10.31%) C#
6 33 (10.31%) PL/SQL
7 32 (10.00%) PowerShell
8 18 (5.63%) Bicep
9 13 (4.06%) TypeScript
10 11 (3.44%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.56%) PHP
12 3 (0.94%) ActionScript
12 3 (0.94%) ActionScript 2.0
12 3 (0.94%) C++
12 3 (0.94%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.63%) Bash
13 2 (0.63%) Perl
13 2 (0.63%) Ruby
13 2 (0.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 45 (14.06%) Degree
2 23 (7.19%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.44%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (0.63%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.31%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.31%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.31%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.31%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.19%) GDPR
2 20 (6.25%) HL7
3 18 (5.63%) Accessibility
3 18 (5.63%) QA
4 17 (5.31%) Data Quality
5 10 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (2.81%) NCSC
6 9 (2.81%) NIST
7 6 (1.88%) WCAG
8 2 (0.63%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 36 (11.25%) Docker
2 21 (6.56%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.25%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.31%) iptables
Systems Management
1 44 (13.75%) Terraform
2 32 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 25 (7.81%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (4.06%) Kibana
5 10 (3.13%) Ansible
6 4 (1.25%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.63%) Grafana
8 1 (0.31%) Packer
8 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 44 (13.75%) Oracle
2 35 (10.94%) Microsoft
3 20 (6.25%) Okta
4 19 (5.94%) ServiceNow
5 16 (5.00%) Google
6 15 (4.69%) SAP
7 14 (4.38%) Ab Initio
7 14 (4.38%) Splunk
8 13 (4.06%) Dynatrace
9 11 (3.44%) MuleSoft
10 9 (2.81%) Cisco
10 9 (2.81%) Dell
11 7 (2.19%) Informatica
11 7 (2.19%) Salesforce
11 7 (2.19%) SnapLogic
11 7 (2.19%) Talend
12 6 (1.88%) IBM
12 6 (1.88%) Intapp
12 6 (1.88%) Workday
13 5 (1.56%) Epicor