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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 310 223
Rank change year-on-year -73 -87 +7
Permanent jobs citing JSON 311 560 878
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.81% 1.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.09% 3.99% 5.84%
Number of salaries quoted 230 359 730
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,675
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% -11.54% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £97,500
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 7,608 14,047 15,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.45% 20.32% 27.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,832 8,550 12,254
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,250 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% +2.68%

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 23 October 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 23 October 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 -59 268 £60,000 -1.23% 232
UK excluding London -40 204 £55,000 - 186
Work from Home -14 137 £62,500 -3.85% 175
London -15 91 £70,000 +3.70% 89
South East -18 82 £62,500 -13.79% 74
East of England +7 36 £55,000 -15.38% 13
North of England -22 32 £55,000 - 50
Midlands +13 26 £47,500 -17.39% 21
North West -19 26 £55,000 - 35
Scotland +17 23 £50,000 +12.36% 14
West Midlands +17 19 £47,500 -17.39% 13
East Midlands +2 7 £60,000 +17.07% 8
South West +24 5 £60,000 +20.00% 14
North East +15 4 £45,000 - 7
Northern Ireland +8 2 - - 2
Yorkshire -25 2 £38,000 -41.54% 9

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 11 (3.54%) IIS
2 9 (2.89%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.57%) Confluence
3 8 (2.57%) Tomcat
4 5 (1.61%) CMS
5 4 (1.29%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.96%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.64%) Oracle Service Bus
7 2 (0.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.32%) Appian
8 1 (0.32%) CICS
8 1 (0.32%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.89%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.57%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.29%) Trello
4 1 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.86%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.61%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.61%) Shopify
3 4 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.64%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.32%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 129 (41.48%) Azure
2 56 (18.01%) GitHub
3 55 (17.68%) AWS
4 54 (17.36%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (10.93%) Serverless
6 28 (9.00%) Power Automate
6 28 (9.00%) Power Platform
7 23 (7.40%) Amazon EC2
8 22 (7.07%) Amazon EKS
8 22 (7.07%) Azure Service Bus
8 22 (7.07%) Entra ID
9 21 (6.75%) Amazon ECS
10 18 (5.79%) Azure Logic Apps
11 17 (5.47%) Azure Data Factory
11 17 (5.47%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (5.14%) GCP
12 16 (5.14%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (4.50%) OCI
13 14 (4.50%) PaaS
13 14 (4.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.22%) Cisco ISE
1 10 (3.22%) Ethernet
1 10 (3.22%) Firewall
1 10 (3.22%) LAN
1 10 (3.22%) SD-WAN
1 10 (3.22%) WAN
2 7 (2.25%) DMARC
2 7 (2.25%) SSL
3 6 (1.93%) HTTP
4 5 (1.61%) FTP
5 4 (1.29%) VPN
6 2 (0.64%) DNS
6 2 (0.64%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.32%) Internet
7 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.32%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (17.68%) Relational Database
2 53 (17.04%) SQL Server
3 34 (10.93%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (7.72%) RDBMS
5 20 (6.43%) MySQL
5 20 (6.43%) Power BI
6 14 (4.50%) OLTP
7 11 (3.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (3.22%) Electronic Patient Records
8 10 (3.22%) NoSQL
9 9 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (2.57%) GIS
11 5 (1.61%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.61%) Power Query
11 5 (1.61%) Redis
12 4 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.96%) Parquet
13 3 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.64%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 48 (15.43%) Git
2 43 (13.83%) Jenkins
3 24 (7.72%) JUnit
4 23 (7.40%) JMeter
5 21 (6.75%) Mockito
6 15 (4.82%) JIRA
6 15 (4.82%) Visual Studio
7 12 (3.86%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (3.22%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (2.89%) MSBuild
9 9 (2.89%) Octopus Deploy
10 8 (2.57%) Selenium
11 7 (2.25%) Postman
12 6 (1.93%) Axure RP
13 5 (1.61%) webpack
14 3 (0.96%) Storybook
14 3 (0.96%) WebDriver
15 2 (0.64%) Babel
15 2 (0.64%) ESLint
15 2 (0.64%) Katalon Studio
General
1 104 (33.44%) Social Skills
2 58 (18.65%) Finance
3 47 (15.11%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (13.18%) Law
5 35 (11.25%) Retail
6 32 (10.29%) Public Sector
7 21 (6.75%) Marketing
8 10 (3.22%) Health Technology
9 8 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.25%) Czech Language
10 7 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.93%) Banking
11 6 (1.93%) Front Office
11 6 (1.93%) Legal
12 4 (1.29%) Automotive
13 3 (0.96%) Publishing
14 2 (0.64%) Games
14 2 (0.64%) iGaming
14 2 (0.64%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 133 (42.77%) Developer
2 52 (16.72%) Senior
3 36 (11.58%) Senior Developer
4 27 (8.68%) Full-Stack Developer
5 26 (8.36%) Analyst
6 21 (6.75%) Architect
6 21 (6.75%) Java Developer
7 18 (5.79%) Consultant
8 17 (5.47%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 14 (4.50%) Cloud Engineer
9 14 (4.50%) Lead
9 14 (4.50%) Mid-Level Java Developer
9 14 (4.50%) Oracle Developer
9 14 (4.50%) Senior Oracle Developer
10 13 (4.18%) Applications Engineer
10 13 (4.18%) ServiceNow Consultant
11 12 (3.86%) Data Engineer
11 12 (3.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 12 (3.86%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 12 (3.86%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (58.84%) XML
2 132 (42.44%) REST
3 119 (38.26%) HTML
4 71 (22.83%) CSS
5 50 (16.08%) Web Services
6 46 (14.79%) SOAP
7 39 (12.54%) RESTful
8 36 (11.58%) React
9 35 (11.25%) .NET
10 23 (7.40%) jQuery
10 23 (7.40%) Spring
11 22 (7.07%) Hibernate
11 22 (7.07%) Spring Boot
12 21 (6.75%) ActiveMQ
12 21 (6.75%) Apache Camel
12 21 (6.75%) ASP.NET
12 21 (6.75%) WireMock
13 18 (5.79%) AngularJS
14 16 (5.14%) OAuth
15 15 (4.82%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.32%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (8.04%) Cloud Native
3 23 (7.40%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (6.43%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (6.11%) Onboarding
6 14 (4.50%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.54%) Data Centre
8 10 (3.22%) Operational Technology
8 10 (3.22%) Public Cloud
9 9 (2.89%) Low-Code
10 8 (2.57%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (2.25%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.93%) BYOD
12 6 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.93%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.29%) NHS
13 4 (1.29%) Social Media
14 3 (0.96%) Blog
15 2 (0.64%) LIMS
15 2 (0.64%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.43%) Linux
2 15 (4.82%) Unix
3 11 (3.54%) Windows
4 5 (1.61%) Android
5 3 (0.96%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.96%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.64%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (38.91%) Agile
2 85 (27.33%) CI/CD
2 85 (27.33%) Problem-Solving
3 78 (25.08%) DevOps
4 56 (18.01%) Microservices
5 52 (16.72%) Test Automation
6 43 (13.83%) ETL
7 42 (13.50%) Mentoring
8 41 (13.18%) API Integration
9 38 (12.22%) Full-Stack Development
10 35 (11.25%) SDLC
11 33 (10.61%) Analytics
12 32 (10.29%) Root Cause Analysis
13 30 (9.65%) Workflow
14 29 (9.32%) BDD
14 29 (9.32%) CRM
14 29 (9.32%) TDD
15 28 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 28 (9.00%) Translating Business Requirements
15 28 (9.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 157 (50.48%) SQL
2 150 (48.23%) JavaScript
3 90 (28.94%) Python
4 71 (22.83%) Java
5 56 (18.01%) C#
6 42 (13.50%) PowerShell
7 37 (11.90%) Shell Script
8 28 (9.00%) PL/SQL
9 15 (4.82%) TypeScript
10 14 (4.50%) T-SQL
11 9 (2.89%) Bicep
12 7 (2.25%) PHP
12 7 (2.25%) VBA
13 5 (1.61%) Go
14 2 (0.64%) Bash
14 2 (0.64%) Dart
14 2 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.64%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.64%) Ruby
15 1 (0.32%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 26 (8.36%) Security Cleared
2 19 (6.11%) Degree
3 12 (3.86%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (0.96%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.96%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.64%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.32%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.32%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.32%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.32%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.00%) QA
2 21 (6.75%) GDPR
3 18 (5.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (4.82%) HL7
5 14 (4.50%) Accessibility
5 14 (4.50%) Data Quality
6 9 (2.89%) NCSC
6 9 (2.89%) NIST
7 1 (0.32%) DICOM
7 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (15.76%) Docker
2 21 (6.75%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 37 (11.90%) Kubernetes
2 33 (10.61%) Terraform
3 24 (7.72%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (6.75%) Kibana
5 11 (3.54%) Ansible
6 10 (3.22%) FortiGate
7 7 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.64%) Grafana
9 1 (0.32%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.32%) Packer
Vendors
1 46 (14.79%) Microsoft
1 46 (14.79%) Oracle
2 25 (8.04%) ServiceNow
3 22 (7.07%) Splunk
4 21 (6.75%) Dynatrace
5 18 (5.79%) Cisco
6 17 (5.47%) Google
7 12 (3.86%) Okta
8 10 (3.22%) Blue Coat
8 10 (3.22%) CheckPoint
8 10 (3.22%) F5
8 10 (3.22%) VMware
9 9 (2.89%) MuleSoft
10 7 (2.25%) OpenAI
10 7 (2.25%) Salesforce
10 7 (2.25%) SAP
11 6 (1.93%) HubSpot
11 6 (1.93%) IBM
11 6 (1.93%) Informatica
11 6 (1.93%) Trayport