JSON Job Trends

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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 312 219
Rank change year-on-year -49 -93 +16
Permanent jobs citing JSON 336 557 851
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.83% 1.64%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.56% 4.06% 6.13%
Number of salaries quoted 235 349 710
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% -4.51%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +0.43%

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 7,364 13,706 13,876
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.80% 20.33% 26.67%
Number of salaries quoted 5,260 8,241 11,383
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,750 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%
75th Percentile £85,700 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,281
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025. 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 -46 282 £57,500 -6.50% 234
UK excluding London -19 217 £55,000 - 150
Work from Home +24 137 £57,500 -11.54% 139
London -18 101 £73,750 +5.36% 113
South East -5 77 £62,500 -3.85% 54
East of England +48 52 £55,000 -13.73% 18
Scotland +32 30 £50,000 +12.36% 12
North of England -7 29 £55,000 - 26
Midlands +23 26 £47,500 -9.52% 29
North West +27 22 £55,000 - 18
West Midlands +21 18 £47,500 -17.39% 16
East Midlands +21 8 £60,000 +18.81% 12
North East +12 4 £45,000 - 2
South West +13 3 £61,250 +22.50% 7
Yorkshire -22 3 £43,500 -33.08% 6
Northern Ireland +8 2 - - 5

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 10 (2.98%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.68%) Confluence
3 6 (1.79%) Anypoint
4 5 (1.49%) CMS
5 3 (0.89%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.60%) IIS
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.30%) Appian
7 1 (0.30%) CICS
7 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (2.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.38%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.79%) Trello
4 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (4.17%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (2.08%) Shopify
3 5 (1.49%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.89%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.30%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 129 (38.39%) Azure
2 64 (19.05%) GitHub
3 60 (17.86%) AWS
4 58 (17.26%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (10.42%) Serverless
6 34 (10.12%) Power Platform
7 26 (7.74%) Power Automate
8 23 (6.85%) Amazon EC2
9 22 (6.55%) Amazon EKS
10 21 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (5.95%) Azure Logic Apps
11 20 (5.95%) Azure Service Bus
12 19 (5.65%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (5.36%) Azure Data Factory
14 17 (5.06%) Entra ID
14 17 (5.06%) GCP
14 17 (5.06%) PaaS
15 15 (4.46%) Boomi
16 14 (4.17%) OCI
16 14 (4.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.98%) FTP
2 7 (2.08%) Cisco ISE
2 7 (2.08%) Ethernet
2 7 (2.08%) Firewall
2 7 (2.08%) LAN
2 7 (2.08%) SD-WAN
2 7 (2.08%) WAN
3 6 (1.79%) HTTP
4 5 (1.49%) VPN
5 3 (0.89%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.60%) DNS
7 1 (0.30%) AMQP
7 1 (0.30%) Internet
7 1 (0.30%) Modbus
7 1 (0.30%) SSL
7 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.30%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (17.26%) Relational Database
2 47 (13.99%) SQL Server
3 25 (7.44%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (7.44%) Power BI
4 24 (7.14%) MySQL
5 22 (6.55%) RDBMS
6 16 (4.76%) OLTP
7 11 (3.27%) Electronic Patient Records
8 10 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (2.98%) NoSQL
9 9 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (2.08%) GIS
10 7 (2.08%) Power Query
11 6 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.79%) Redis
12 5 (1.49%) Metadata
13 4 (1.19%) MongoDB
14 3 (0.89%) Big Data
14 3 (0.89%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 46 (13.69%) Jenkins
2 39 (11.61%) Git
3 24 (7.14%) JUnit
4 23 (6.85%) JMeter
5 21 (6.25%) Mockito
6 17 (5.06%) JIRA
7 14 (4.17%) Oracle Forms
7 14 (4.17%) Visual Studio
8 7 (2.08%) Postman
8 7 (2.08%) Selenium
9 6 (1.79%) Axure RP
9 6 (1.79%) MSBuild
9 6 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
9 6 (1.79%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (1.49%) Storybook
11 4 (1.19%) webpack
12 3 (0.89%) Maven
12 3 (0.89%) WebDriver
13 2 (0.60%) Babel
13 2 (0.60%) Xcode
General
1 110 (32.74%) Social Skills
2 67 (19.94%) Finance
3 48 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (14.29%) Law
4 35 (10.42%) Public Sector
5 33 (9.82%) Retail
6 25 (7.44%) Marketing
7 11 (3.27%) Health Technology
8 8 (2.38%) Legal
9 7 (2.08%) German Language
9 7 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.19%) Automotive
10 4 (1.19%) Banking
10 4 (1.19%) Front Office
11 3 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.89%) Publishing
12 2 (0.60%) Electronics
12 2 (0.60%) Games
12 2 (0.60%) iGaming
12 2 (0.60%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 140 (41.67%) Developer
2 63 (18.75%) Senior
3 43 (12.80%) Senior Developer
4 28 (8.33%) Analyst
5 25 (7.44%) Full-Stack Developer
6 23 (6.85%) Java Developer
7 18 (5.36%) Consultant
7 18 (5.36%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 16 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
8 16 (4.76%) Oracle Developer
8 16 (4.76%) Senior Oracle Developer
9 15 (4.46%) Applications Engineer
9 15 (4.46%) Architect
9 15 (4.46%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 14 (4.17%) Lead
10 14 (4.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 13 (3.87%) Data Engineer
11 13 (3.87%) ServiceNow Consultant
12 12 (3.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (59.23%) XML
2 133 (39.58%) HTML
3 131 (38.99%) REST
4 66 (19.64%) CSS
5 49 (14.58%) Web Services
6 46 (13.69%) RESTful
7 45 (13.39%) SOAP
8 36 (10.71%) React
9 29 (8.63%) .NET
10 24 (7.14%) Spring
11 23 (6.85%) Hibernate
11 23 (6.85%) jQuery
12 22 (6.55%) Spring Boot
13 21 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
13 21 (6.25%) Apache Camel
13 21 (6.25%) WireMock
14 19 (5.65%) OAuth
14 19 (5.65%) Regular Expression
15 16 (4.76%) AngularJS
16 15 (4.46%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 37 (11.01%) Onboarding
2 31 (9.23%) Cloud Native
3 25 (7.44%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (6.85%) Linux Command Line
5 22 (6.55%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (4.76%) Low-Code
7 15 (4.46%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (3.87%) Product Ownership
9 11 (3.27%) Data Structures
10 10 (2.98%) Operational Technology
11 8 (2.38%) Data Centre
11 8 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (2.08%) Mobile App
12 7 (2.08%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.79%) Social Media
14 4 (1.19%) BYOD
14 4 (1.19%) NHS
15 3 (0.89%) Reference Data
15 3 (0.89%) Semantic Web
16 2 (0.60%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.74%) Unix
2 17 (5.06%) Linux
3 5 (1.49%) Android
3 5 (1.49%) Windows
4 3 (0.89%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.89%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.60%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (35.42%) Agile
2 94 (27.98%) CI/CD
3 83 (24.70%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (23.81%) DevOps
5 62 (18.45%) Test Automation
6 51 (15.18%) Microservices
7 46 (13.69%) ETL
8 44 (13.10%) API Integration
9 42 (12.50%) AI
10 41 (12.20%) Mentoring
11 40 (11.90%) Analytics
12 37 (11.01%) Full-Stack Development
12 37 (11.01%) Root Cause Analysis
13 34 (10.12%) Business Intelligence
13 34 (10.12%) SDLC
14 33 (9.82%) Workflow
15 32 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
16 31 (9.23%) Coaching
17 30 (8.93%) LLM
17 30 (8.93%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 162 (48.21%) SQL
2 143 (42.56%) JavaScript
3 107 (31.85%) Python
4 69 (20.54%) Java
5 49 (14.58%) C#
6 42 (12.50%) Shell Script
7 34 (10.12%) PowerShell
8 31 (9.23%) PL/SQL
9 17 (5.06%) TypeScript
10 12 (3.57%) Bicep
11 11 (3.27%) T-SQL
12 7 (2.08%) PHP
13 5 (1.49%) Go
14 4 (1.19%) C++
14 4 (1.19%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.60%) C
15 2 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.60%) Ruby
15 2 (0.60%) Swift
16 1 (0.30%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 36 (10.71%) Degree
2 26 (7.74%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.27%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.19%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.60%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.30%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.30%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.30%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.30%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.30%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.44%) GDPR
1 25 (7.44%) QA
2 18 (5.36%) Accessibility
3 16 (4.76%) Data Quality
4 14 (4.17%) HL7
5 12 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.98%) NCSC
6 10 (2.98%) NIST
7 4 (1.19%) WCAG
8 1 (0.30%) DICOM
System Software
1 48 (14.29%) Docker
2 16 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.08%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 37 (11.01%) Kubernetes
2 36 (10.71%) Terraform
3 21 (6.25%) Kibana
4 19 (5.65%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (2.98%) Ansible
6 7 (2.08%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.30%) Grafana
7 1 (0.30%) Packer
Vendors
1 44 (13.10%) Microsoft
2 42 (12.50%) Oracle
3 25 (7.44%) ServiceNow
4 22 (6.55%) Splunk
5 21 (6.25%) Dynatrace
6 16 (4.76%) Google
7 14 (4.17%) Cisco
7 14 (4.17%) Okta
8 12 (3.57%) SAP
9 11 (3.27%) MuleSoft
10 8 (2.38%) Ab Initio
10 8 (2.38%) IBM
10 8 (2.38%) Informatica
11 7 (2.08%) Blue Coat
11 7 (2.08%) CheckPoint
11 7 (2.08%) Dell
11 7 (2.08%) F5
11 7 (2.08%) Salesforce
11 7 (2.08%) SnapLogic
11 7 (2.08%) VMware