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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 367 295
Rank change year-on-year -112 -72 -60
Permanent jobs citing JSON 353 338 707
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.69% 0.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.00% 3.98% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 237 249 427
10th Percentile £34,800 £39,100 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,748 £50,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% -4.62% -
75th Percentile £79,336 £77,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year - -5.17% +0.87%

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 11,772 8,494 16,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.34% 17.29% 21.42%
Number of salaries quoted 8,468 5,422 10,741
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +7.31% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £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% -4.17%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -93 327 £62,500 +4.17% 553
UK excluding London -101 205 £55,000 - 284
Work from Home -46 130 £55,000 -12.00% 236
London -24 126 £75,000 +11.11% 299
South East -51 71 £55,000 -15.38% 83
North of England -34 55 £61,250 +11.36% 53
North West -17 31 £62,500 +13.64% 32
Midlands -41 27 £55,000 +15.79% 35
East of England -51 26 £90,000 +71.43% 39
Yorkshire -28 20 £44,000 -31.25% 18
South West -69 20 £52,500 -6.67% 34
West Midlands -35 19 £60,900 +28.21% 22
East Midlands -24 8 £54,000 -10.00% 13
Wales - 6 £55,000 - 7
North East -58 4 £38,000 -15.56% 4
Scotland -9 2 - - 31
Northern Ireland -79 1 - - 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 31 (8.78%) SharePoint
2 18 (5.10%) Confluence
3 15 (4.25%) Apache
3 15 (4.25%) IIS
4 9 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.98%) CMS
6 6 (1.70%) WordPress
7 5 (1.42%) Apache Spark
7 5 (1.42%) Drupal
8 3 (0.85%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.57%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.28%) JBoss
10 1 (0.28%) SAS
10 1 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.28%) Umbraco
Applications
1 23 (6.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.13%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.85%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.57%) Lightworks
7 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.28%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.57%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.28%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.28%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.28%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 156 (44.19%) Azure
2 92 (26.06%) AWS
3 63 (17.85%) Power Platform
4 56 (15.86%) Azure DevOps
5 50 (14.16%) Azure Logic Apps
6 42 (11.90%) Serverless
7 34 (9.63%) Power Automate
8 33 (9.35%) Microsoft 365
9 29 (8.22%) PowerApps
10 28 (7.93%) Azure Data Factory
11 27 (7.65%) AWS Lambda
12 25 (7.08%) Dynamics 365
13 24 (6.80%) GitHub
14 18 (5.10%) SaaS
15 17 (4.82%) GCP
16 16 (4.53%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 16 (4.53%) Amazon S3
16 16 (4.53%) Boomi
16 16 (4.53%) OneDrive
17 15 (4.25%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.12%) TCP/IP
2 7 (1.98%) DNS
2 7 (1.98%) Firewall
2 7 (1.98%) Wireshark
3 6 (1.70%) HTTP
4 5 (1.42%) Intranet
5 3 (0.85%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (0.85%) VPN
5 3 (0.85%) Wireless
6 2 (0.57%) MQTT
6 2 (0.57%) SSL
7 1 (0.28%) Broadband
7 1 (0.28%) FTP
7 1 (0.28%) Network Security
7 1 (0.28%) RTP
7 1 (0.28%) RTSP
7 1 (0.28%) SS7
7 1 (0.28%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.28%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (12.75%) Power BI
2 44 (12.46%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (11.33%) SQL Server
4 27 (7.65%) Relational Database
5 23 (6.52%) MySQL
6 22 (6.23%) Redis
7 21 (5.95%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (5.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 17 (4.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 12 (3.40%) Data Lake
11 9 (2.55%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (2.55%) Metadata
11 9 (2.55%) Parquet
11 9 (2.55%) RDBMS
12 7 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (1.98%) Electronic Patient Records
13 6 (1.70%) NoSQL
14 5 (1.42%) GIS
15 4 (1.13%) DynamoDB
15 4 (1.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 74 (20.96%) Git
2 45 (12.75%) JIRA
3 31 (8.78%) Jenkins
4 16 (4.53%) GitLab
4 16 (4.53%) Selenium
5 14 (3.97%) Postman
6 13 (3.68%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.68%) JMeter
7 7 (1.98%) JUnit
7 7 (1.98%) Maven
8 6 (1.70%) Mockito
8 6 (1.70%) SoapUI
9 5 (1.42%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.42%) Gradle
9 5 (1.42%) Jasmine
9 5 (1.42%) Mocha
9 5 (1.42%) NUnit
9 5 (1.42%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.42%) Visual Studio
9 5 (1.42%) Zephyr
General
1 154 (43.63%) Social Skills
2 91 (25.78%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (18.70%) Finance
4 33 (9.35%) Organisational Skills
5 24 (6.80%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.25%) Health Technology
6 15 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (4.25%) Retail
7 13 (3.68%) Marketing
8 12 (3.40%) Advertising
8 12 (3.40%) Legal
9 11 (3.12%) Law
10 10 (2.83%) Banking
11 7 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.70%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.42%) Back Office
13 5 (1.42%) Local Government
14 4 (1.13%) Aviation
14 4 (1.13%) Investment Banking
14 4 (1.13%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 137 (38.81%) Developer
2 86 (24.36%) Senior
3 42 (11.90%) Senior Developer
4 27 (7.65%) .NET Developer
5 26 (7.37%) Analyst
6 24 (6.80%) Architect
7 23 (6.52%) Web Developer
8 21 (5.95%) Lead
9 20 (5.67%) Software Engineer
10 18 (5.10%) Consultant
10 18 (5.10%) Data Engineer
10 18 (5.10%) Support Engineer
11 17 (4.82%) Integration Engineer
11 17 (4.82%) Software Developer
12 16 (4.53%) DevOps Engineer
12 16 (4.53%) Full-Stack Developer
12 16 (4.53%) Ruby Developer
13 14 (3.97%) .NET Web Developer
13 14 (3.97%) Technical Support
14 13 (3.68%) Senior Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (41.08%) XML
2 109 (30.88%) REST
3 92 (26.06%) HTML
4 82 (23.23%) .NET
5 80 (22.66%) CSS
6 51 (14.45%) RESTful
7 49 (13.88%) .NET Core
8 47 (13.31%) SOAP
9 41 (11.61%) ASP.NET
10 31 (8.78%) Middleware
11 29 (8.22%) Terraform
12 27 (7.65%) .NET Framework
12 27 (7.65%) JWT
12 27 (7.65%) React
13 23 (6.52%) YAML
14 22 (6.23%) Blazor
15 20 (5.67%) HTML5 Canvas
16 19 (5.38%) AngularJS
16 19 (5.38%) HTML5
17 18 (5.10%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.37%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.95%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (5.95%) Onboarding
3 19 (5.38%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (5.10%) Analytical Mindset
5 16 (4.53%) Management Information System
6 15 (4.25%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (3.68%) Product Ownership
8 12 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.83%) Data Structures
9 10 (2.83%) Driving Licence
9 10 (2.83%) Taxonomies
10 9 (2.55%) Enterprise Cloud
10 9 (2.55%) NHS
10 9 (2.55%) Robotics
11 7 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.98%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.42%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (15.01%) Linux
2 47 (13.31%) Windows
3 19 (5.38%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.57%) Android
6 2 (0.57%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.28%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (39.94%) Agile
2 114 (32.29%) DevOps
3 108 (30.59%) Problem-Solving
4 107 (30.31%) CI/CD
5 60 (17.00%) Test Automation
6 55 (15.58%) Microservices
7 53 (15.01%) User Experience
8 50 (14.16%) Mentoring
9 47 (13.31%) Software Engineering
10 46 (13.03%) AI
11 45 (12.75%) Data Modelling
11 45 (12.75%) Scrum
12 44 (12.46%) Business Intelligence
12 44 (12.46%) Roadmaps
13 36 (10.20%) Analytics
14 35 (9.92%) Clean Code
14 35 (9.92%) Validation
15 34 (9.63%) Containerisation
15 34 (9.63%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (9.63%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 154 (43.63%) SQL
2 128 (36.26%) JavaScript
3 92 (26.06%) C#
4 89 (25.21%) Python
5 46 (13.03%) Java
6 28 (7.93%) PowerShell
7 21 (5.95%) TypeScript
8 18 (5.10%) C++
9 17 (4.82%) Ruby
10 16 (4.53%) PHP
11 12 (3.40%) Shell Script
12 11 (3.12%) T-SQL
13 9 (2.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (1.70%) Perl
14 6 (1.70%) VBA
15 5 (1.42%) Groovy
16 4 (1.13%) Bash
16 4 (1.13%) VB
16 4 (1.13%) XPath
17 3 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 46 (13.03%) Degree
2 39 (11.05%) Security Cleared
3 30 (8.50%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.55%) Azure Certification
5 9 (2.55%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.70%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.42%) ISEB
9 4 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.13%) CISSP
9 4 (1.13%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.85%) CCNP
10 3 (0.85%) CCSP
11 2 (0.57%) A+ Certification
11 2 (0.57%) GIAC
11 2 (0.57%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.57%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (12.75%) Accessibility
2 44 (12.46%) QA
3 24 (6.80%) Data Quality
4 16 (4.53%) WCAG
5 12 (3.40%) GDPR
5 12 (3.40%) TickIT
6 10 (2.83%) SLA
7 7 (1.98%) HL7
8 4 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.85%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.85%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.57%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.28%) Basel III
11 1 (0.28%) Dublin Core
11 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.28%) PERC
11 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 52 (14.73%) Docker
2 5 (1.42%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.13%) vSphere
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (7.37%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.68%) Ansible
3 7 (1.98%) Kibana
4 5 (1.42%) Grafana
5 4 (1.13%) Packer
6 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.28%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.28%) QRadar
Vendors
1 114 (32.29%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.23%) Adobe
3 19 (5.38%) Google
4 15 (4.25%) Splunk
5 11 (3.12%) Oracle
6 10 (2.83%) SAP
7 9 (2.55%) IBM
8 8 (2.27%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.70%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.42%) Databricks
10 5 (1.42%) Pega
10 5 (1.42%) VMware
11 4 (1.13%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.13%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.85%) CheckPoint
12 3 (0.85%) Cisco
12 3 (0.85%) McAfee
12 3 (0.85%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.85%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.85%) ServiceNow