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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 395 312
Rank change year-on-year -105 -83 -95
Permanent jobs citing JSON 328 304 578
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.62% 0.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.77% 3.65% 3.67%
Number of salaries quoted 210 222 373
10th Percentile £36,175 £41,300 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,526 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,938 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% 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 11,858 8,333 15,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.03% 16.88% 21.78%
Number of salaries quoted 8,350 5,306 9,754
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,192 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.45% +6.45% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,438 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -3.40%

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 11 October 2026.

Salary histogram for JSON in the UK

JSON
Top 17 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 11 October 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 -86 308 £62,500 +4.17% 512
UK excluding London -132 183 £55,000 - 257
London -15 131 £75,000 +7.14% 276
Work from Home -58 111 £56,250 -10.00% 231
South East -56 68 £55,000 -15.38% 63
North of England -57 40 £44,000 -18.14% 60
Midlands -43 29 £55,000 +15.79% 37
North West -25 22 £61,250 +6.52% 37
West Midlands -44 22 £61,700 +29.89% 24
East of England -63 20 £90,000 +63.64% 29
South West -62 16 £52,500 -12.50% 27
Yorkshire -30 15 £37,500 -1.32% 17
East Midlands -28 7 £54,000 -10.00% 13
Wales - 6 £55,000 - 8
North East -68 3 £31,000 -31.11% 7
Scotland -9 2 - - 27
Northern Ireland -71 2 - - 10

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 27 (8.23%) SharePoint
2 18 (5.49%) Confluence
3 17 (5.18%) Apache
4 16 (4.88%) IIS
5 9 (2.74%) CMS
5 9 (2.74%) WordPress
6 8 (2.44%) Drupal
7 6 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (1.52%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.91%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.61%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.30%) JBoss
Applications
1 20 (6.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.22%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.91%) Lightworks
6 2 (0.61%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.30%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.61%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.30%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.30%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.30%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 144 (43.90%) Azure
2 85 (25.91%) AWS
3 54 (16.46%) Power Platform
4 52 (15.85%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (14.63%) Azure Logic Apps
6 38 (11.59%) Serverless
7 31 (9.45%) Microsoft 365
8 30 (9.15%) Power Automate
9 23 (7.01%) GitHub
9 23 (7.01%) PowerApps
10 21 (6.40%) Azure Data Factory
11 20 (6.10%) Dynamics 365
12 19 (5.79%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (5.79%) Azure Functions
13 18 (5.49%) GCP
14 14 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (4.27%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (3.96%) SaaS
16 11 (3.35%) Azure Service Bus
17 9 (2.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.27%) TCP/IP
2 10 (3.05%) HTTP
3 9 (2.74%) Wireshark
4 8 (2.44%) DNS
5 7 (2.13%) Firewall
6 5 (1.52%) Intranet
7 4 (1.22%) VPN
8 3 (0.91%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.91%) MQTT
8 3 (0.91%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.91%) Wireless
9 2 (0.61%) tcpdump
10 1 (0.30%) Diameter Protocol
10 1 (0.30%) Network Security
10 1 (0.30%) RTP
10 1 (0.30%) RTSP
10 1 (0.30%) SCTP
10 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Radio
10 1 (0.30%) SS7
10 1 (0.30%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (14.33%) SQL Server
2 43 (13.11%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (9.76%) Power BI
4 27 (8.23%) MySQL
5 25 (7.62%) Relational Database
6 21 (6.40%) Redis
7 19 (5.79%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (3.96%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (3.66%) Data Lake
10 9 (2.74%) Metadata
10 9 (2.74%) NoSQL
10 9 (2.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (2.44%) Parquet
12 7 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (1.83%) RDBMS
14 5 (1.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 4 (1.22%) Db2
15 4 (1.22%) Electronic Patient Records
16 3 (0.91%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 71 (21.65%) Git
2 27 (8.23%) JIRA
3 25 (7.62%) Jenkins
4 17 (5.18%) Selenium
5 16 (4.88%) Postman
6 12 (3.66%) JMeter
7 10 (3.05%) GitLab
8 8 (2.44%) Cucumber
9 7 (2.13%) JUnit
10 6 (1.83%) Maven
10 6 (1.83%) SoapUI
11 5 (1.52%) Gatling
11 5 (1.52%) Jasmine
11 5 (1.52%) Mocha
11 5 (1.52%) Mockito
11 5 (1.52%) NUnit
11 5 (1.52%) Visual Studio
11 5 (1.52%) Zephyr
12 4 (1.22%) Gradle
12 4 (1.22%) REST Assured
General
1 130 (39.63%) Social Skills
2 72 (21.95%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (19.21%) Finance
4 27 (8.23%) Public Sector
5 25 (7.62%) Organisational Skills
6 17 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.96%) Banking
7 13 (3.96%) Legal
8 12 (3.66%) Law
9 10 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (3.05%) Retail
10 9 (2.74%) Advertising
11 7 (2.13%) Health Technology
12 6 (1.83%) Aviation
12 6 (1.83%) Back Office
12 6 (1.83%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.83%) Publishing
13 5 (1.52%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.52%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 130 (39.63%) Developer
2 80 (24.39%) Senior
3 36 (10.98%) Senior Developer
4 28 (8.54%) .NET Developer
5 25 (7.62%) Analyst
6 22 (6.71%) Web Developer
7 21 (6.40%) Architect
7 21 (6.40%) Lead
7 21 (6.40%) Software Engineer
8 17 (5.18%) Integration Engineer
8 17 (5.18%) Software Developer
9 16 (4.88%) Data Engineer
9 16 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
10 15 (4.57%) Ruby Developer
11 14 (4.27%) .NET Web Developer
12 13 (3.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 13 (3.96%) Senior Integration Engineer
13 12 (3.66%) Integration Architect
14 11 (3.35%) Support Engineer
15 10 (3.05%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (40.55%) XML
2 105 (32.01%) REST
3 80 (24.39%) HTML
4 75 (22.87%) .NET
5 69 (21.04%) CSS
6 49 (14.94%) RESTful
7 42 (12.80%) .NET Core
8 39 (11.89%) ASP.NET
9 37 (11.28%) SOAP
10 30 (9.15%) React
11 26 (7.93%) .NET Framework
11 26 (7.93%) JWT
12 25 (7.62%) Terraform
13 21 (6.40%) Blazor
13 21 (6.40%) HTML5
14 20 (6.10%) AngularJS
14 20 (6.10%) Middleware
15 19 (5.79%) Web Services
16 18 (5.49%) Node.js
16 18 (5.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.93%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.10%) Enterprise Software
2 20 (6.10%) Onboarding
3 18 (5.49%) Management Information System
4 15 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (4.27%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (3.96%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (3.96%) Product Ownership
7 12 (3.66%) Taxonomies
8 11 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (3.35%) Robotics
9 9 (2.74%) AI Agents
10 7 (2.13%) Driving Licence
11 6 (1.83%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.83%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.83%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.83%) NHS
11 6 (1.83%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.83%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.52%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 54 (16.46%) Windows
2 49 (14.94%) Linux
3 20 (6.10%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.61%) Android
6 2 (0.61%) macOS
7 1 (0.30%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (42.38%) Agile
2 108 (32.93%) CI/CD
2 108 (32.93%) DevOps
3 90 (27.44%) Problem-Solving
4 65 (19.82%) AI
5 59 (17.99%) Test Automation
6 52 (15.85%) Mentoring
6 52 (15.85%) Software Engineering
7 51 (15.55%) Microservices
8 46 (14.02%) Scrum
9 41 (12.50%) User Experience
10 40 (12.20%) Data Modelling
11 39 (11.89%) Validation
12 37 (11.28%) Analytics
13 36 (10.98%) Roadmaps
14 35 (10.67%) Clean Code
14 35 (10.67%) Data Integration
15 34 (10.37%) Stakeholder Management
15 34 (10.37%) Web Development
16 33 (10.06%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 134 (40.85%) SQL
2 117 (35.67%) JavaScript
3 93 (28.35%) Python
4 87 (26.52%) C#
5 39 (11.89%) Java
6 28 (8.54%) PowerShell
7 21 (6.40%) C++
8 18 (5.49%) PHP
9 17 (5.18%) TypeScript
10 16 (4.88%) Ruby
11 10 (3.05%) Shell Script
11 10 (3.05%) T-SQL
12 9 (2.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (1.52%) Bash
13 5 (1.52%) VBA
14 4 (1.22%) XPath
15 3 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.61%) Bicep
16 2 (0.61%) RPG IV
16 2 (0.61%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 45 (13.72%) Degree
2 37 (11.28%) Security Cleared
3 29 (8.84%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.66%) Azure Certification
4 12 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (3.05%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.83%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.52%) ISEB
8 5 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.22%) CISSP
10 3 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.91%) CCNP
10 3 (0.91%) CCSP
11 2 (0.61%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.61%) CASP
11 2 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.61%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (15.24%) Accessibility
2 37 (11.28%) QA
3 25 (7.62%) Data Quality
4 21 (6.40%) WCAG
5 15 (4.57%) GDPR
6 5 (1.52%) TickIT
7 4 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.22%) HL7
8 3 (0.91%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.91%) ISO 8583
8 3 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.91%) SLA
9 2 (0.61%) Basel III
9 2 (0.61%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.61%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.30%) Dublin Core
10 1 (0.30%) ECSS
10 1 (0.30%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.30%) PERC
System Software
1 50 (15.24%) Docker
2 8 (2.44%) Hyper-V
3 7 (2.13%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.22%) vSphere
6 2 (0.61%) NFS
6 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (5.18%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.44%) Ansible
2 8 (2.44%) Grafana
2 8 (2.44%) Kibana
3 2 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.30%) CloudHub
4 1 (0.30%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.30%) logstash
4 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 108 (32.93%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.79%) Google
3 13 (3.96%) Splunk
4 12 (3.66%) Adobe
5 10 (3.05%) Dynatrace
5 10 (3.05%) Oracle
5 10 (3.05%) SAP
6 9 (2.74%) VMware
7 6 (1.83%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.52%) Foundry
8 5 (1.52%) IBM
8 5 (1.52%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.52%) Pega
8 5 (1.52%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.22%) Databricks
9 4 (1.22%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.91%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.91%) Cisco
10 3 (0.91%) F5
10 3 (0.91%) Red Hat