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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 304 226
Rank change year-on-year -106 -78 +45
Permanent jobs citing JSON 313 405 1,201
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.99% 1.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.76% 4.61% 6.07%
Number of salaries quoted 194 315 813
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,278 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £56,318
% change year-on-year - -2.34% -3.73%

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 8,321 8,776 19,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.48% 21.48% 22.09%
Number of salaries quoted 6,095 6,569 15,464
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -101 256 £62,500 - 169
UK excluding London -91 188 £55,000 - 125
Work from Home -44 132 £57,500 -8.73% 90
London -51 88 £70,000 -3.45% 65
South East -73 64 £62,500 +4.60% 44
East of England +17 55 £55,000 +15.79% 25
North of England -57 27 £55,000 +4.76% 33
Scotland -8 26 £72,500 +52.45% 3
North West -23 17 £55,000 +2.33% 15
Midlands -52 12 £47,500 -10.38% 15
West Midlands -27 8 £47,500 -11.53% 6
Yorkshire -54 8 £76,997 +62.10% 15
South West -53 5 £34,500 -42.50% 3
East Midlands -51 4 £50,750 -2.87% 9
North East -25 2 £46,250 -40.32% 3
Northern Ireland -38 2 - - 2

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 21 (6.71%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.51%) Confluence
3 9 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.60%) Anypoint
5 4 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.64%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.64%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.32%) Apache
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.32%) CICS
7 1 (0.32%) CMS
7 1 (0.32%) IIS
7 1 (0.32%) JBoss
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.32%) SAS
7 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.32%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.32%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.92%) Trello
3 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.96%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.32%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.32%) EngageOne
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.32%) Sketch
4 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.56%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.60%) Shopify
3 3 (0.96%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.64%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.32%) Magento
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.32%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 129 (41.21%) Azure
2 64 (20.45%) AWS
3 52 (16.61%) Power Platform
4 43 (13.74%) GitHub
5 38 (12.14%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (8.95%) Power Automate
7 27 (8.63%) Microsoft 365
8 26 (8.31%) Azure Logic Apps
9 25 (7.99%) Azure Data Factory
9 25 (7.99%) Serverless
10 23 (7.35%) SaaS
11 19 (6.07%) GCP
12 18 (5.75%) PowerApps
13 16 (5.11%) Entra ID
14 15 (4.79%) Azure Service Bus
15 14 (4.47%) Boomi
15 14 (4.47%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (4.15%) Amazon EC2
17 12 (3.83%) OpenShift
17 12 (3.83%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.11%) Firewall
2 10 (3.19%) VPN
3 7 (2.24%) FTP
4 6 (1.92%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (1.28%) AMQP
5 4 (1.28%) DNS
5 4 (1.28%) SSL
6 3 (0.96%) BGP
6 3 (0.96%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.64%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.64%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.64%) HTTP
7 2 (0.64%) LAN
7 2 (0.64%) PuTTY
7 2 (0.64%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.64%) WAN
8 1 (0.32%) CTI
8 1 (0.32%) DHCP
8 1 (0.32%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (15.02%) Power BI
2 33 (10.54%) SQL Server
3 31 (9.90%) MySQL
4 29 (9.27%) Relational Database
5 28 (8.95%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (5.75%) Metadata
7 14 (4.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (4.47%) RDBMS
8 12 (3.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (3.51%) Electronic Patient Records
10 7 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.92%) OLTP
11 6 (1.92%) Oracle Database
11 6 (1.92%) Power Query
12 5 (1.60%) GIS
13 4 (1.28%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.28%) Redis
13 4 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.96%) NoSQL
14 3 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (11.18%) Git
2 29 (9.27%) JIRA
3 26 (8.31%) Jenkins
4 19 (6.07%) GitLab
5 10 (3.19%) Postman
6 9 (2.88%) JUnit
7 8 (2.56%) Oracle Forms
7 8 (2.56%) Visual Studio
8 7 (2.24%) ERwin
9 6 (1.92%) Mockito
9 6 (1.92%) Selenium
9 6 (1.92%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.92%) Storybook
10 5 (1.60%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.60%) Maven
10 5 (1.60%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.60%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.28%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.28%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.28%) JMeter
General
1 111 (35.46%) Social Skills
2 72 (23.00%) Finance
3 56 (17.89%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.31%) Law
5 18 (5.75%) Marketing
5 18 (5.75%) Telecoms
6 17 (5.43%) Public Sector
7 15 (4.79%) German Language
7 15 (4.79%) Retail
8 12 (3.83%) Health Technology
9 7 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.24%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.24%) Legal
10 6 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.28%) Advertising
11 4 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.96%) Publishing
13 2 (0.64%) Billing
13 2 (0.64%) Front Office
13 2 (0.64%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 100 (31.95%) Developer
2 56 (17.89%) Senior
3 32 (10.22%) Senior Developer
4 31 (9.90%) Analyst
5 27 (8.63%) Consultant
6 19 (6.07%) Integration Engineer
6 19 (6.07%) Java Developer
7 17 (5.43%) Data Analyst
8 15 (4.79%) Architect
9 14 (4.47%) Applications Engineer
10 13 (4.15%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (4.15%) Support Engineer
11 12 (3.83%) Automation Engineer
11 12 (3.83%) Data Engineer
12 11 (3.51%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.51%) EPR Consultant
12 11 (3.51%) Network Engineer
12 11 (3.51%) Telecoms Engineer
13 10 (3.19%) Technical Consultant
14 9 (2.88%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (54.63%) XML
2 108 (34.50%) REST
3 83 (26.52%) HTML
4 44 (14.06%) SOAP
5 43 (13.74%) RESTful
6 35 (11.18%) CSS
7 32 (10.22%) .NET
7 32 (10.22%) Regular Expression
8 28 (8.95%) Web Services
9 25 (7.99%) React
10 24 (7.67%) YAML
11 23 (7.35%) OAuth
12 20 (6.39%) Spring
13 17 (5.43%) Spring Boot
14 16 (5.11%) OAuth2
15 14 (4.47%) Node.js
16 13 (4.15%) .NET Core
16 13 (4.15%) FHIR
17 11 (3.51%) Jinja
17 11 (3.51%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 50 (15.97%) Onboarding
2 43 (13.74%) Linux Command Line
3 37 (11.82%) Data Structures
4 23 (7.35%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (6.71%) Cloud Native
6 17 (5.43%) Low-Code
7 16 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (3.51%) NHS
10 9 (2.88%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (2.24%) e-Learning
11 7 (2.24%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.92%) Operational Technology
12 6 (1.92%) Social Media
13 5 (1.60%) SCADA
14 4 (1.28%) Data Centre
14 4 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
15 3 (0.96%) Reference Data
15 3 (0.96%) Security Posture
15 3 (0.96%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 43 (13.74%) Unix
2 40 (12.78%) Linux
3 9 (2.88%) Windows
4 3 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.96%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.64%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.32%) Android
6 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (27.48%) CI/CD
2 83 (26.52%) Agile
3 70 (22.36%) DevOps
4 62 (19.81%) Business Intelligence
5 60 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (18.21%) Test Automation
7 55 (17.57%) AI
8 49 (15.65%) Data Modelling
9 46 (14.70%) Analytics
10 40 (12.78%) Data Analysis
10 40 (12.78%) ETL
11 38 (12.14%) API Integration
12 36 (11.50%) Validation
13 33 (10.54%) Infrastructure as Code
14 31 (9.90%) Microservices
15 30 (9.58%) Asset Management
15 30 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
15 30 (9.58%) LLM
15 30 (9.58%) User Experience
16 29 (9.27%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 160 (51.12%) SQL
2 120 (38.34%) Python
3 89 (28.43%) JavaScript
4 68 (21.73%) Java
5 34 (10.86%) C#
6 30 (9.58%) PowerShell
7 22 (7.03%) Shell Script
7 22 (7.03%) TypeScript
8 20 (6.39%) PL/SQL
9 14 (4.47%) Bicep
9 14 (4.47%) T-SQL
10 9 (2.88%) Perl
11 6 (1.92%) Groovy
11 6 (1.92%) PHP
11 6 (1.92%) VB
12 3 (0.96%) ActionScript
12 3 (0.96%) ActionScript 2.0
12 3 (0.96%) C++
12 3 (0.96%) R
12 3 (0.96%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 53 (16.93%) Degree
2 33 (10.54%) Security Cleared
3 17 (5.43%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.28%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.96%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.96%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (0.96%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.32%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.67%) QA
2 21 (6.71%) GDPR
3 18 (5.75%) Data Quality
4 16 (5.11%) Accessibility
5 14 (4.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (4.15%) HL7
7 7 (2.24%) WCAG
8 6 (1.92%) SLA
9 4 (1.28%) NCSC
9 4 (1.28%) NIST
10 2 (0.64%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.32%) TickIT
System Software
1 31 (9.90%) Docker
2 19 (6.07%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.96%) vSphere
4 2 (0.64%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.32%) iptables
Systems Management
1 32 (10.22%) Terraform
2 29 (9.27%) Kubernetes
3 14 (4.47%) Ansible
4 9 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.60%) Kibana
6 4 (1.28%) Packer
7 2 (0.64%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.32%) Grafana
8 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 45 (14.38%) Microsoft
2 38 (12.14%) Oracle
3 16 (5.11%) Cisco
4 13 (4.15%) Google
4 13 (4.15%) SAP
5 11 (3.51%) IBM
5 11 (3.51%) Red Hat
6 10 (3.19%) Ab Initio
6 10 (3.19%) Adobe
7 9 (2.88%) Palo Alto
7 9 (2.88%) Splunk
8 8 (2.56%) Databricks
8 8 (2.56%) F5
8 8 (2.56%) MuleSoft
8 8 (2.56%) Okta
9 7 (2.24%) Dell
9 7 (2.24%) Intapp
9 7 (2.24%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.24%) Sparx
9 7 (2.24%) Talend