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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 443 344 259
Rank change year-on-year -99 -85 -2
Permanent jobs citing JSON 368 389 926
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.79% 1.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.48% 4.46% 5.64%
Number of salaries quoted 262 286 574
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,502
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,700 £60,375 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% +0.63% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -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 10,576 8,719 16,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.25% 17.61% 19.09%
Number of salaries quoted 7,812 5,725 12,012
10th Percentile £40,775 £38,175 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,979 £106,250
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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -65 337 £62,500 - 176
UK excluding London -90 217 £55,000 - 99
Work from Home -28 145 £57,500 -8.00% 72
London -35 119 £75,000 +11.11% 85
South East -35 92 £55,000 -15.38% 37
North of England -24 52 £55,000 - 26
North West 0 32 £62,500 +13.64% 12
East of England -34 29 £90,000 +89.47% 8
Midlands -30 20 £52,500 -12.50% 14
South West -68 19 £52,500 - 10
Yorkshire -21 15 £42,750 +5.56% 13
West Midlands -30 12 £46,250 -22.92% 10
East Midlands -26 8 £54,000 -4.42% 4
Wales - 6 £55,000 - 3
North East - 5 £45,000 - 1
Scotland +3 2 £72,500 +62.92% 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 29 (7.88%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.62%) Confluence
3 14 (3.80%) Apache
4 13 (3.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (2.72%) IIS
6 8 (2.17%) CMS
7 7 (1.90%) WordPress
8 5 (1.36%) Drupal
9 4 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (1.09%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.54%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.54%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.54%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.27%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.27%) JBoss
11 1 (0.27%) SAS
11 1 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.09%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.82%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.54%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.27%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.54%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.27%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 162 (44.02%) Azure
2 96 (26.09%) AWS
3 63 (17.12%) Power Platform
4 51 (13.86%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (12.77%) Azure Logic Apps
6 40 (10.87%) Microsoft 365
7 30 (8.15%) Serverless
8 27 (7.34%) PowerApps
9 26 (7.07%) GitHub
9 26 (7.07%) Power Automate
10 24 (6.52%) SaaS
11 23 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
12 22 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (5.43%) Dynamics 365
13 20 (5.43%) OneDrive
14 19 (5.16%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 15 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (4.08%) Boomi
16 13 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (3.53%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.98%) Firewall
2 8 (2.17%) TCP/IP
3 7 (1.90%) DNS
3 7 (1.90%) HTTP
4 6 (1.63%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (1.63%) Wireshark
5 5 (1.36%) Intranet
6 3 (0.82%) BGP
6 3 (0.82%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.82%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (0.82%) SSL
6 3 (0.82%) Wireless
7 2 (0.54%) MQTT
8 1 (0.27%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.27%) Diameter Protocol
8 1 (0.27%) RTP
8 1 (0.27%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.27%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.27%) SS7
8 1 (0.27%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (14.13%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (13.59%) Power BI
3 31 (8.42%) Relational Database
4 30 (8.15%) SQL Server
5 29 (7.88%) MySQL
6 23 (6.25%) Redis
7 20 (5.43%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (4.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 17 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (4.62%) Metadata
10 13 (3.53%) RDBMS
11 7 (1.90%) Electronic Patient Records
11 7 (1.90%) GIS
12 6 (1.63%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.36%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.36%) Delta Lake
13 5 (1.36%) Oracle Database
14 4 (1.09%) Apache Iceberg
14 4 (1.09%) DynamoDB
14 4 (1.09%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 67 (18.21%) Git
2 47 (12.77%) JIRA
3 29 (7.88%) Jenkins
4 27 (7.34%) GitLab
5 16 (4.35%) Selenium
6 12 (3.26%) Postman
7 11 (2.99%) Cucumber
8 10 (2.72%) JMeter
9 8 (2.17%) ERwin
9 8 (2.17%) JUnit
10 7 (1.90%) Maven
10 7 (1.90%) Mockito
11 6 (1.63%) WebDriver
12 5 (1.36%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.36%) Browser DevTools
12 5 (1.36%) Gradle
12 5 (1.36%) Mocha
12 5 (1.36%) NUnit
12 5 (1.36%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 152 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 93 (25.27%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (18.48%) Finance
4 29 (7.88%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (4.08%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.80%) Advertising
6 14 (3.80%) Marketing
7 13 (3.53%) Health Technology
7 13 (3.53%) Retail
7 13 (3.53%) Telecoms
8 10 (2.72%) Law
9 8 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.90%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.90%) Legal
11 6 (1.63%) Banking
11 6 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.63%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.36%) Back Office
13 4 (1.09%) Local Government
13 4 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 131 (35.60%) Developer
2 79 (21.47%) Senior
3 43 (11.68%) Senior Developer
4 25 (6.79%) Analyst
4 25 (6.79%) Architect
4 25 (6.79%) Consultant
5 22 (5.98%) Software Engineer
6 21 (5.71%) .NET Developer
7 20 (5.43%) Software Developer
8 19 (5.16%) Lead
8 19 (5.16%) Support Engineer
8 19 (5.16%) Web Developer
9 18 (4.89%) DevOps Engineer
10 17 (4.62%) Automation Engineer
11 16 (4.35%) Data Engineer
11 16 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (4.35%) Integration Engineer
11 16 (4.35%) Ruby Developer
12 14 (3.80%) Network Engineer
13 13 (3.53%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (41.85%) XML
2 115 (31.25%) REST
3 91 (24.73%) HTML
4 85 (23.10%) .NET
5 80 (21.74%) CSS
6 52 (14.13%) RESTful
7 44 (11.96%) .NET Core
7 44 (11.96%) SOAP
8 39 (10.60%) ASP.NET
9 35 (9.51%) YAML
10 33 (8.97%) Middleware
11 29 (7.88%) JWT
11 29 (7.88%) React
12 21 (5.71%) .NET Framework
12 21 (5.71%) HTML5 Canvas
13 20 (5.43%) Microsoft Graph
13 20 (5.43%) Node.js
14 19 (5.16%) AngularJS
14 19 (5.16%) SPFx
15 18 (4.89%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.88%) Onboarding
2 27 (7.34%) Data Structures
3 22 (5.98%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (5.71%) Analytical Mindset
5 20 (5.43%) Cloud Native
6 19 (5.16%) Enterprise Software
6 19 (5.16%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.99%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.99%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.45%) Driving Licence
8 9 (2.45%) Enterprise Cloud
8 9 (2.45%) Robotics
9 8 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (2.17%) NHS
10 7 (1.90%) e-Learning
10 7 (1.90%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.36%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.36%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.36%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 63 (17.12%) Linux
2 44 (11.96%) Windows
3 15 (4.08%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.63%) Unix
6 4 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.27%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (35.05%) Agile
2 107 (29.08%) DevOps
3 104 (28.26%) CI/CD
4 99 (26.90%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (15.76%) Microservices
6 57 (15.49%) Data Modelling
7 53 (14.40%) Test Automation
8 51 (13.86%) Business Intelligence
8 51 (13.86%) Containerisation
9 50 (13.59%) User Experience
10 42 (11.41%) Scrum
11 41 (11.14%) Infrastructure as Code
11 41 (11.14%) Software Engineering
12 39 (10.60%) API Integration
13 38 (10.33%) AI
13 38 (10.33%) Mentoring
14 37 (10.05%) Analytics
15 36 (9.78%) Roadmaps
16 34 (9.24%) Clean Code
16 34 (9.24%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 162 (44.02%) SQL
2 129 (35.05%) JavaScript
3 117 (31.79%) Python
4 89 (24.18%) C#
5 48 (13.04%) Java
6 38 (10.33%) PowerShell
7 28 (7.61%) TypeScript
8 18 (4.89%) C++
8 18 (4.89%) PHP
9 17 (4.62%) Ruby
10 14 (3.80%) Shell Script
10 14 (3.80%) T-SQL
11 8 (2.17%) Perl
12 6 (1.63%) VB
13 5 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (1.36%) Groovy
14 4 (1.09%) Bash
14 4 (1.09%) VBA
15 3 (0.82%) Bicep
16 2 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 43 (11.68%) Degree
2 39 (10.60%) Security Cleared
3 24 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 18 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.99%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.63%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.36%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.82%) CCNP
8 3 (0.82%) CISSP
8 3 (0.82%) ISEB
8 3 (0.82%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.54%) CASP
9 2 (0.54%) CCSP
9 2 (0.54%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.54%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (11.14%) QA
2 28 (7.61%) Accessibility
3 19 (5.16%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.26%) TickIT
5 10 (2.72%) SLA
6 9 (2.45%) WCAG
7 7 (1.90%) HL7
8 5 (1.36%) GDPR
8 5 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.82%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.82%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.54%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.27%) PERC
System Software
1 55 (14.95%) Docker
2 11 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.90%) vSphere
4 4 (1.09%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (8.42%) Terraform
2 29 (7.88%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.80%) Ansible
4 6 (1.63%) Kibana
5 4 (1.09%) Packer
6 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.27%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.27%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.27%) Grafana
7 1 (0.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 105 (28.53%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.52%) Adobe
3 18 (4.89%) Cisco
4 15 (4.08%) Oracle
4 15 (4.08%) Splunk
5 14 (3.80%) Google
5 14 (3.80%) Red Hat
6 11 (2.99%) Databricks
7 10 (2.72%) F5
8 9 (2.45%) Palo Alto
9 8 (2.17%) Dynatrace
9 8 (2.17%) SAP
9 8 (2.17%) VMware
10 7 (1.90%) IBM
10 7 (1.90%) Sparx
11 6 (1.63%) Juniper
12 5 (1.36%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.36%) Salesforce
13 4 (1.09%) AppDynamics
13 4 (1.09%) CheckPoint