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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 294 236
Rank change year-on-year -139 -58 +45
Permanent jobs citing JSON 326 419 1,166
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.99% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.72% 5.01% 5.73%
Number of salaries quoted 211 315 766
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £47,724 £46,250 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £89,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +11.36% -4.35% -

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 8,758 8,368 20,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.69% 19.68% 21.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6,404 6,350 15,735
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,500 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £79,600
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 3 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 3 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 -98 278 £65,000 +4.00% 126
UK excluding London -102 197 £61,250 +11.36% 85
Work from Home -23 145 £60,000 -4.00% 60
London -37 94 £65,500 -6.43% 48
South East -54 65 £62,500 -3.85% 33
East of England +12 56 £90,000 +89.47% 6
North of England -58 40 £60,000 +14.29% 30
North West -18 27 £65,000 +23.81% 16
Scotland -14 22 £72,500 +52.45% 2
Midlands -55 11 £47,500 -11.53% 12
Yorkshire -58 11 £70,000 +33.33% 12
West Midlands -34 7 £43,000 -20.87% 4
South West -69 6 £31,500 -47.50% 5
East Midlands -45 4 £47,500 -9.52% 8
North East -32 2 £46,250 -40.32% 2

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 (9.20%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.53%) CMS
3 5 (1.53%) IIS
4 4 (1.23%) Confluence
4 4 (1.23%) WordPress
5 3 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.61%) Apache
6 2 (0.61%) Drupal
6 2 (0.61%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.61%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.61%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.61%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.31%) CICS
7 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.31%) SAS
7 1 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.92%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.31%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.31%) EngageOne
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.31%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (2.45%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.61%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.31%) Magento
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.31%) Shopify
3 1 (0.31%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 145 (44.48%) Azure
2 70 (21.47%) AWS
3 62 (19.02%) Power Platform
4 46 (14.11%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (11.66%) Azure Logic Apps
6 35 (10.74%) GitHub
6 35 (10.74%) Microsoft 365
7 34 (10.43%) Azure Data Factory
8 30 (9.20%) Serverless
9 28 (8.59%) Power Automate
10 26 (7.98%) PowerApps
10 26 (7.98%) SaaS
11 20 (6.13%) OneDrive
12 19 (5.83%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 18 (5.52%) Boomi
14 17 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (5.21%) Dynamics 365
15 16 (4.91%) Entra ID
16 14 (4.29%) Azure Service Bus
17 13 (3.99%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.21%) Firewall
2 6 (1.84%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (1.84%) VPN
3 5 (1.53%) DNS
4 4 (1.23%) AMQP
4 4 (1.23%) SSL
5 3 (0.92%) BGP
5 3 (0.92%) FTP
6 2 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.61%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.61%) HTTP
6 2 (0.61%) LAN
6 2 (0.61%) PuTTY
6 2 (0.61%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.61%) WAN
7 1 (0.31%) Broadband
7 1 (0.31%) CTI
7 1 (0.31%) DHCP
7 1 (0.31%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.31%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (17.18%) Power BI
2 34 (10.43%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (9.20%) MySQL
4 23 (7.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 22 (6.75%) Relational Database
5 22 (6.75%) SQL Server
6 19 (5.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (5.83%) Metadata
7 12 (3.68%) RDBMS
8 9 (2.76%) Electronic Patient Records
9 8 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (2.45%) Oracle Database
10 7 (2.15%) GIS
11 6 (1.84%) OLTP
11 6 (1.84%) Redis
11 6 (1.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.23%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (0.92%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 39 (11.96%) Git
2 36 (11.04%) JIRA
3 28 (8.59%) Jenkins
4 20 (6.13%) GitLab
5 12 (3.68%) Postman
6 8 (2.45%) JUnit
6 8 (2.45%) Maven
6 8 (2.45%) Oracle Forms
7 7 (2.15%) ERwin
8 6 (1.84%) Selenium
8 6 (1.84%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.53%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.53%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (1.53%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.53%) Gradle
9 5 (1.53%) Mockito
9 5 (1.53%) SpecFlow
9 5 (1.53%) WebDriver
10 4 (1.23%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.23%) Storybook
General
1 129 (39.57%) Social Skills
2 81 (24.85%) Analytical Skills
3 75 (23.01%) Finance
4 21 (6.44%) Marketing
4 21 (6.44%) Retail
5 18 (5.52%) Telecoms
6 17 (5.21%) Law
7 15 (4.60%) Health Technology
7 15 (4.60%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (3.68%) German Language
9 9 (2.76%) Advertising
10 8 (2.45%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.15%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.92%) Billing
14 3 (0.92%) Local Government
15 2 (0.61%) Legal
15 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.61%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 103 (31.60%) Developer
2 76 (23.31%) Senior
3 48 (14.72%) Senior Developer
4 31 (9.51%) Consultant
5 27 (8.28%) Analyst
6 26 (7.98%) Architect
7 20 (6.13%) Data Analyst
8 16 (4.91%) Java Developer
8 16 (4.91%) Support Engineer
9 15 (4.60%) Applications Engineer
9 15 (4.60%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (3.68%) Automation Engineer
11 12 (3.68%) Integration Engineer
12 11 (3.37%) Applications Architect
12 11 (3.37%) Integration Architect
12 11 (3.37%) Network Engineer
12 11 (3.37%) Telecoms Engineer
13 10 (3.07%) Data Engineer
13 10 (3.07%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (51.23%) XML
2 110 (33.74%) REST
3 90 (27.61%) HTML
4 57 (17.48%) SOAP
5 54 (16.56%) CSS
6 45 (13.80%) RESTful
7 44 (13.50%) .NET
8 29 (8.90%) Middleware
9 27 (8.28%) YAML
10 26 (7.98%) .NET Core
10 26 (7.98%) OAuth
10 26 (7.98%) Regular Expression
11 23 (7.06%) HTML5 Canvas
12 19 (5.83%) Microsoft Graph
12 19 (5.83%) OAuth2
12 19 (5.83%) SPFx
12 19 (5.83%) Spring
12 19 (5.83%) Web Services
13 18 (5.52%) React
14 17 (5.21%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 44 (13.50%) Onboarding
2 35 (10.74%) Data Structures
3 34 (10.43%) Linux Command Line
4 24 (7.36%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (7.06%) Cloud Native
6 19 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (3.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (3.99%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.76%) Enterprise Cloud
8 9 (2.76%) NHS
9 7 (2.15%) e-Learning
9 7 (2.15%) Low-Code
9 7 (2.15%) Operational Technology
9 7 (2.15%) SCADA
10 6 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.84%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.84%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.53%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.23%) Reference Data
12 4 (1.23%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 37 (11.35%) Linux
2 30 (9.20%) Unix
3 13 (3.99%) Windows
4 8 (2.45%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.31%) Android
6 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (26.99%) CI/CD
2 87 (26.69%) DevOps
3 80 (24.54%) Agile
4 74 (22.70%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (18.10%) Business Intelligence
6 58 (17.79%) Data Modelling
7 52 (15.95%) Test Automation
8 46 (14.11%) AI
8 46 (14.11%) API Integration
9 41 (12.58%) ERP
10 40 (12.27%) Data Analysis
11 39 (11.96%) Microservices
12 38 (11.66%) Analytics
12 38 (11.66%) User Experience
13 35 (10.74%) Validation
14 33 (10.12%) Infrastructure as Code
15 32 (9.82%) Containerisation
15 32 (9.82%) Mentoring
16 31 (9.51%) Integration Patterns
17 30 (9.20%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 168 (51.53%) SQL
2 118 (36.20%) Python
3 98 (30.06%) JavaScript
4 73 (22.39%) Java
5 43 (13.19%) C#
6 35 (10.74%) PowerShell
7 27 (8.28%) TypeScript
8 20 (6.13%) PL/SQL
9 18 (5.52%) Shell Script
10 12 (3.68%) PHP
11 11 (3.37%) Bicep
11 11 (3.37%) Perl
12 10 (3.07%) T-SQL
13 9 (2.76%) VB
14 6 (1.84%) Groovy
15 4 (1.23%) VBA
16 3 (0.92%) ActionScript
16 3 (0.92%) ActionScript 2.0
16 3 (0.92%) R
16 3 (0.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 49 (15.03%) Degree
2 35 (10.74%) Security Cleared
3 20 (6.13%) SC Cleared
4 18 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.53%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.92%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.92%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (0.92%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.51%) QA
2 16 (4.91%) Accessibility
3 15 (4.60%) Data Quality
3 15 (4.60%) GDPR
4 12 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.68%) TickIT
5 11 (3.37%) SLA
6 10 (3.07%) HL7
7 7 (2.15%) WCAG
8 2 (0.61%) NCSC
8 2 (0.61%) NIST
8 2 (0.61%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.31%) PERC
System Software
1 34 (10.43%) Docker
2 20 (6.13%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.23%) vSphere
4 2 (0.61%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.31%) iptables
Systems Management
1 33 (10.12%) Terraform
2 32 (9.82%) Kubernetes
3 16 (4.91%) Ansible
4 8 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.23%) Kibana
5 4 (1.23%) Packer
6 2 (0.61%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.31%) Grafana
7 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 68 (20.86%) Microsoft
2 36 (11.04%) Oracle
3 24 (7.36%) Adobe
4 16 (4.91%) Cisco
5 11 (3.37%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.76%) Databricks
6 9 (2.76%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.45%) Ab Initio
7 8 (2.45%) F5
7 8 (2.45%) Okta
8 7 (2.15%) Google
8 7 (2.15%) IBM
8 7 (2.15%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.15%) Sparx
8 7 (2.15%) Splunk
9 6 (1.84%) Juniper
9 6 (1.84%) SAP
9 6 (1.84%) VMware
10 5 (1.53%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.23%) AppDynamics