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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 447 344 254
Rank change year-on-year -103 -90 +5
Permanent jobs citing JSON 335 394 1,124
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.82% 1.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.36% 4.42% 5.36%
Number of salaries quoted 241 290 698
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £34,644
25th Percentile £45,748 £47,813 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,000 £59,175
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +6.46% -8.96%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £86,375 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.08% +3.18% -2.65%

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 9,959 8,910 20,965
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.25% 18.61% 20.06%
Number of salaries quoted 7,454 5,888 15,964
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -10.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,979 £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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -85 303 £64,585 -0.64% 150
UK excluding London -82 192 £55,000 -3.08% 106
Work from Home -33 138 £61,250 -5.77% 76
London -38 107 £75,000 +7.14% 60
South East -36 86 £55,000 -15.38% 31
North of England -18 49 £55,000 - 27
North West -7 30 £62,500 +13.64% 18
East of England -21 29 £90,000 +89.47% 5
South West -72 15 £50,000 -16.67% 12
Yorkshire -20 14 £42,750 +5.56% 7
Midlands -35 9 £47,500 -20.17% 20
West Midlands -27 5 £43,000 -27.12% 10
North East -39 5 £45,000 -41.94% 2
Wales - 5 - - 3
East Midlands -27 4 £47,500 -20.83% 10
Scotland +1 2 £72,500 +62.92% 4

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 28 (8.36%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (3.28%) Confluence
4 10 (2.99%) Apache
5 9 (2.69%) IIS
6 8 (2.39%) CMS
7 7 (2.09%) WordPress
8 5 (1.49%) Drupal
9 4 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.90%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.60%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.60%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.30%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.30%) SAS
12 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.90%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.90%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.60%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.30%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.30%) EngageOne
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.30%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.30%) Magento
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.30%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 155 (46.27%) Azure
2 87 (25.97%) AWS
3 63 (18.81%) Power Platform
4 45 (13.43%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (13.13%) Azure Logic Apps
5 44 (13.13%) Microsoft 365
6 32 (9.55%) Serverless
7 28 (8.36%) SaaS
8 25 (7.46%) PowerApps
9 24 (7.16%) Azure Data Factory
9 24 (7.16%) GitHub
9 24 (7.16%) Power Automate
10 23 (6.87%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (5.97%) Dynamics 365
11 20 (5.97%) OneDrive
12 19 (5.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 16 (4.78%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (4.48%) Boomi
15 14 (4.18%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (3.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.67%) Firewall
2 6 (1.79%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (1.79%) DNS
2 6 (1.79%) HTTP
2 6 (1.79%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.49%) Intranet
4 4 (1.19%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.90%) BGP
5 3 (0.90%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.90%) SSL
6 2 (0.60%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.60%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.60%) LAN
6 2 (0.60%) MQTT
6 2 (0.60%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.60%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.60%) WAN
7 1 (0.30%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.30%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (14.93%) Power BI
2 49 (14.63%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (9.85%) MySQL
4 29 (8.66%) Relational Database
5 27 (8.06%) SQL Server
6 22 (6.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 20 (5.97%) Azure SQL Database
8 19 (5.67%) Redis
9 18 (5.37%) Metadata
10 13 (3.88%) RDBMS
11 12 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (2.09%) Electronic Patient Records
12 7 (2.09%) GIS
12 7 (2.09%) Oracle Database
13 6 (1.79%) MongoDB
14 5 (1.49%) Delta Lake
15 4 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
15 4 (1.19%) Apache Iceberg
15 4 (1.19%) Power Query
15 4 (1.19%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 59 (17.61%) Git
2 40 (11.94%) JIRA
3 27 (8.06%) Jenkins
4 24 (7.16%) GitLab
5 10 (2.99%) JUnit
5 10 (2.99%) Postman
6 8 (2.39%) ERwin
6 8 (2.39%) Maven
7 7 (2.09%) Mockito
7 7 (2.09%) Selenium
8 6 (1.79%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.79%) JMeter
8 6 (1.79%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.49%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.49%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (1.49%) Gradle
9 5 (1.49%) SpecFlow
9 5 (1.49%) Visual Studio
9 5 (1.49%) WebDriver
10 4 (1.19%) Artifactory
General
1 148 (44.18%) Social Skills
2 87 (25.97%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (18.51%) Finance
4 23 (6.87%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (4.48%) Retail
6 14 (4.18%) Advertising
6 14 (4.18%) Marketing
6 14 (4.18%) Telecoms
7 13 (3.88%) Health Technology
8 10 (2.99%) Law
9 7 (2.09%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.09%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.49%) Back Office
12 4 (1.19%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.90%) Aviation
13 3 (0.90%) Banking
13 3 (0.90%) Local Government
13 3 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 113 (33.73%) Developer
2 70 (20.90%) Senior
3 44 (13.13%) Senior Developer
4 28 (8.36%) Analyst
5 27 (8.06%) Architect
6 26 (7.76%) Consultant
7 21 (6.27%) DevOps Engineer
7 21 (6.27%) Support Engineer
8 19 (5.67%) Data Analyst
9 18 (5.37%) Software Developer
10 16 (4.78%) Software Engineer
11 14 (4.18%) Automation Engineer
11 14 (4.18%) Data Engineer
11 14 (4.18%) Lead
12 13 (3.88%) Integration Architect
12 13 (3.88%) Technical Support
13 12 (3.58%) .NET Developer
13 12 (3.58%) Integration Engineer
13 12 (3.58%) Ruby Developer
13 12 (3.58%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (42.99%) XML
2 114 (34.03%) REST
3 88 (26.27%) HTML
4 76 (22.69%) CSS
5 66 (19.70%) .NET
6 45 (13.43%) SOAP
7 43 (12.84%) RESTful
8 42 (12.54%) .NET Core
9 36 (10.75%) Middleware
10 34 (10.15%) YAML
11 26 (7.76%) ASP.NET
11 26 (7.76%) JWT
11 26 (7.76%) React
12 21 (6.27%) HTML5 Canvas
13 20 (5.97%) Microsoft Graph
14 19 (5.67%) Node.js
14 19 (5.67%) OAuth
14 19 (5.67%) SPFx
15 18 (5.37%) HTML5
16 16 (4.78%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.85%) Onboarding
2 32 (9.55%) Data Structures
3 21 (6.27%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (5.97%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (5.97%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (5.67%) Cloud Native
6 10 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.69%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (2.69%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.39%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (2.39%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.39%) Robotics
9 7 (2.09%) Driving Licence
9 7 (2.09%) e-Learning
9 7 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.09%) NHS
9 7 (2.09%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.79%) Operational Technology
10 6 (1.79%) SCADA
11 4 (1.19%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 57 (17.01%) Linux
2 36 (10.75%) Windows
3 14 (4.18%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.09%) Unix
5 6 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (28.66%) Agile
2 91 (27.16%) DevOps
3 90 (26.87%) CI/CD
3 90 (26.87%) Problem-Solving
4 60 (17.91%) Data Modelling
5 54 (16.12%) Microservices
6 51 (15.22%) Business Intelligence
7 46 (13.73%) User Experience
8 45 (13.43%) Containerisation
9 42 (12.54%) Infrastructure as Code
10 40 (11.94%) API Integration
11 38 (11.34%) Test Automation
12 36 (10.75%) AI
12 36 (10.75%) Roadmaps
13 35 (10.45%) Analytics
14 34 (10.15%) Validation
15 31 (9.25%) API Design
15 31 (9.25%) Software Engineering
16 30 (8.96%) ERP
17 29 (8.66%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 162 (48.36%) SQL
2 117 (34.93%) JavaScript
3 110 (32.84%) Python
4 70 (20.90%) C#
5 50 (14.93%) Java
6 42 (12.54%) PowerShell
7 27 (8.06%) TypeScript
8 20 (5.97%) PHP
9 17 (5.07%) T-SQL
10 12 (3.58%) C++
10 12 (3.58%) Ruby
10 12 (3.58%) Shell Script
11 9 (2.69%) Perl
12 7 (2.09%) VB
13 6 (1.79%) Groovy
14 5 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (1.19%) PL/SQL
15 4 (1.19%) VBA
16 3 (0.90%) Bash
16 3 (0.90%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 41 (12.24%) Security Cleared
2 39 (11.64%) Degree
3 25 (7.46%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.09%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.79%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.79%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.90%) CISSP
8 2 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.60%) CASP
8 2 (0.60%) CCSP
8 2 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.60%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.30%) GIAC
9 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.30%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (10.45%) QA
2 22 (6.57%) Accessibility
3 19 (5.67%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.58%) TickIT
5 11 (3.28%) SLA
6 10 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (2.09%) HL7
7 7 (2.09%) WCAG
8 6 (1.79%) GDPR
9 4 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.90%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.90%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.30%) PERC
11 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (14.63%) Docker
2 14 (4.18%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.79%) vSphere
4 4 (1.19%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.60%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 34 (10.15%) Terraform
2 30 (8.96%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.88%) Ansible
4 6 (1.79%) Kibana
5 4 (1.19%) Packer
6 2 (0.60%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.30%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 95 (28.36%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.16%) Adobe
3 16 (4.78%) Cisco
4 15 (4.48%) Oracle
4 15 (4.48%) Splunk
5 13 (3.88%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.69%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.39%) Databricks
7 8 (2.39%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.39%) F5
7 8 (2.39%) VMware
8 7 (2.09%) Google
8 7 (2.09%) Sparx
9 6 (1.79%) Juniper
9 6 (1.79%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.49%) IBM
10 5 (1.49%) SAP
11 4 (1.19%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.19%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.90%) OpenAI