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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 308 211
Rank change year-on-year -45 -97 +26
Permanent jobs citing JSON 334 569 833
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.90% 1.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.75% 4.23% 6.29%
Number of salaries quoted 217 371 700
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -14.81% -2.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +0.84%

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 7,032 13,467 13,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.65% 21.29% 26.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,214 8,170 10,912
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,056
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -1.60% +1.62%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £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 5 December 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 5 December 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 -52 274 £55,500 -8.64% 186
UK excluding London -27 220 £55,000 - 178
Work from Home +8 133 £55,000 -15.38% 91
London -8 98 £75,000 +7.14% 46
South East -35 70 £57,500 -17.86% 51
East of England +58 61 £55,000 -13.73% 28
Scotland +44 37 £46,500 +4.49% 10
North of England -7 26 £52,500 -4.55% 44
Midlands +8 24 £47,500 -9.52% 30
North West +26 19 £55,000 +2.33% 23
West Midlands +7 18 £47,500 -17.39% 18
East Midlands -4 6 £60,000 +18.81% 11
North East - 4 £45,000 - 6
Yorkshire -38 3 £43,500 -33.08% 15
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 7
South West +2 2 £60,000 +20.00% 13

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 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.69%) Confluence
3 6 (1.80%) Anypoint
4 5 (1.50%) CMS
5 3 (0.90%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
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%) IIS
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.10%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.80%) Trello
4 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (5.09%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.80%) Shopify
3 4 (1.20%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.90%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 125 (37.43%) Azure
2 65 (19.46%) GitHub
3 61 (18.26%) AWS
4 60 (17.96%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (10.18%) Power Platform
5 34 (10.18%) Serverless
6 27 (8.08%) Power Automate
7 23 (6.89%) Amazon EC2
7 23 (6.89%) Azure Logic Apps
8 22 (6.59%) Amazon EKS
8 22 (6.59%) Azure Service Bus
9 21 (6.29%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (6.29%) Azure Data Factory
10 20 (5.99%) Entra ID
11 19 (5.69%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (5.09%) OCI
12 17 (5.09%) PaaS
13 16 (4.79%) GCP
14 15 (4.49%) Boomi
14 15 (4.49%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.99%) FTP
2 7 (2.10%) VPN
3 6 (1.80%) HTTP
4 5 (1.50%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (1.50%) Ethernet
4 5 (1.50%) Firewall
4 5 (1.50%) LAN
4 5 (1.50%) SD-WAN
4 5 (1.50%) WAN
5 3 (0.90%) DNS
5 3 (0.90%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.30%) AMQP
6 1 (0.30%) DHCP
6 1 (0.30%) Internet
6 1 (0.30%) Modbus
6 1 (0.30%) SSL
6 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.30%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (17.07%) Relational Database
2 42 (12.57%) SQL Server
3 27 (8.08%) Power BI
4 25 (7.49%) MySQL
5 24 (7.19%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (6.29%) RDBMS
7 15 (4.49%) OLTP
8 13 (3.89%) Electronic Patient Records
9 12 (3.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (2.99%) NoSQL
11 7 (2.10%) GIS
11 7 (2.10%) Power Query
12 6 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (1.50%) Metadata
13 5 (1.50%) Redis
14 4 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (0.90%) Big Data
15 3 (0.90%) Crystal Reports
15 3 (0.90%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 48 (14.37%) Jenkins
2 29 (8.68%) Git
3 23 (6.89%) JMeter
3 23 (6.89%) JUnit
4 21 (6.29%) Mockito
5 17 (5.09%) Oracle Forms
6 15 (4.49%) JIRA
7 12 (3.59%) Visual Studio
8 7 (2.10%) Postman
8 7 (2.10%) Storybook
9 6 (1.80%) Axure RP
10 4 (1.20%) MSBuild
10 4 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (1.20%) Selenium
10 4 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.90%) WebDriver
12 2 (0.60%) Crashlytics
12 2 (0.60%) Maven
12 2 (0.60%) webpack
12 2 (0.60%) Xcode
General
1 106 (31.74%) Social Skills
2 71 (21.26%) Finance
3 49 (14.67%) Law
4 43 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (10.48%) Public Sector
6 29 (8.68%) Retail
7 26 (7.78%) Marketing
8 13 (3.89%) Health Technology
9 11 (3.29%) German Language
10 7 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.10%) Legal
11 4 (1.20%) Automotive
12 3 (0.90%) Banking
12 3 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.60%) Electronics
13 2 (0.60%) Front Office
13 2 (0.60%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.60%) Publishing
13 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.30%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 129 (38.62%) Developer
2 62 (18.56%) Senior
3 39 (11.68%) Senior Developer
4 27 (8.08%) Analyst
5 23 (6.89%) Full-Stack Developer
6 22 (6.59%) Java Developer
7 19 (5.69%) Cloud Engineer
7 19 (5.69%) Consultant
8 18 (5.39%) Applications Engineer
8 18 (5.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 18 (5.39%) Integration Engineer
9 17 (5.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 15 (4.49%) Lead
10 15 (4.49%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 15 (4.49%) Oracle Developer
10 15 (4.49%) Senior Oracle Developer
11 13 (3.89%) Data Engineer
11 13 (3.89%) ServiceNow Consultant
11 13 (3.89%) Technical Consultant
12 12 (3.59%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (60.18%) XML
2 131 (39.22%) HTML
3 121 (36.23%) REST
4 57 (17.07%) CSS
5 48 (14.37%) RESTful
6 46 (13.77%) Web Services
7 45 (13.47%) SOAP
8 34 (10.18%) React
9 28 (8.38%) Regular Expression
10 23 (6.89%) .NET
10 23 (6.89%) Hibernate
10 23 (6.89%) Spring
11 22 (6.59%) jQuery
11 22 (6.59%) OAuth
12 21 (6.29%) ActiveMQ
12 21 (6.29%) Apache Camel
12 21 (6.29%) Spring Boot
12 21 (6.29%) WireMock
13 16 (4.79%) FHIR
14 15 (4.49%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 45 (13.47%) Onboarding
2 35 (10.48%) Cloud Native
3 34 (10.18%) Linux Command Line
4 24 (7.19%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (5.69%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (5.39%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (4.49%) Low-Code
8 12 (3.59%) Data Structures
9 11 (3.29%) Product Ownership
10 10 (2.99%) Operational Technology
11 8 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (2.10%) Data Centre
13 6 (1.80%) NHS
13 6 (1.80%) Social Media
14 5 (1.50%) Public Cloud
15 4 (1.20%) Mobile App
16 3 (0.90%) Reference Data
16 3 (0.90%) Semantic Web
17 2 (0.60%) Blog
17 2 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 35 (10.48%) Unix
2 19 (5.69%) Linux
3 5 (1.50%) Windows
4 3 (0.90%) Android
4 3 (0.90%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.60%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (33.53%) Agile
2 98 (29.34%) CI/CD
3 78 (23.35%) DevOps
4 76 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (19.16%) Test Automation
6 49 (14.67%) AI
6 49 (14.67%) ETL
7 45 (13.47%) Microservices
8 44 (13.17%) Analytics
8 44 (13.17%) API Integration
9 43 (12.87%) Root Cause Analysis
10 41 (12.28%) Mentoring
11 39 (11.68%) Coaching
12 38 (11.38%) Business Intelligence
12 38 (11.38%) LLM
13 34 (10.18%) Asset Management
14 33 (9.88%) Full-Stack Development
14 33 (9.88%) SDLC
14 33 (9.88%) Workflow
15 32 (9.58%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 158 (47.31%) SQL
2 131 (39.22%) JavaScript
3 116 (34.73%) Python
4 66 (19.76%) Java
5 45 (13.47%) Shell Script
6 42 (12.57%) C#
7 33 (9.88%) PL/SQL
8 32 (9.58%) PowerShell
9 16 (4.79%) TypeScript
10 15 (4.49%) Bicep
11 11 (3.29%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.80%) PHP
13 5 (1.50%) Go
14 4 (1.20%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.90%) C++
16 2 (0.60%) Bash
16 2 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.60%) Ruby
16 2 (0.60%) Swift
17 1 (0.30%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 43 (12.87%) Degree
2 26 (7.78%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.29%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.90%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.60%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.30%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.30%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.30%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.30%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.19%) GDPR
2 22 (6.59%) Accessibility
3 20 (5.99%) QA
4 16 (4.79%) Data Quality
4 16 (4.79%) HL7
5 11 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.99%) NCSC
6 10 (2.99%) NIST
7 6 (1.80%) WCAG
8 1 (0.30%) DICOM
System Software
1 44 (13.17%) Docker
2 19 (5.69%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.50%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.30%) iptables
Systems Management
1 41 (12.28%) Terraform
2 35 (10.48%) Kubernetes
3 22 (6.59%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (6.29%) Kibana
5 9 (2.69%) Ansible
6 5 (1.50%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.60%) Grafana
8 1 (0.30%) Packer
8 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 42 (12.57%) Oracle
2 40 (11.98%) Microsoft
3 25 (7.49%) ServiceNow
4 22 (6.59%) Splunk
5 21 (6.29%) Dynatrace
6 17 (5.09%) Okta
7 14 (4.19%) Google
8 12 (3.59%) Cisco
8 12 (3.59%) SAP
9 11 (3.29%) Ab Initio
9 11 (3.29%) MuleSoft
10 8 (2.40%) Informatica
11 7 (2.10%) Dell
11 7 (2.10%) OpenAI
11 7 (2.10%) SnapLogic
11 7 (2.10%) Talend
12 6 (1.80%) IBM
12 6 (1.80%) Intapp
12 6 (1.80%) Salesforce
13 5 (1.50%) Software AG