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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 297 227
Rank change year-on-year -112 -70 +50
Permanent jobs citing JSON 320 407 1,201
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 1.00% 1.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.82% 4.63% 6.06%
Number of salaries quoted 201 317 813
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,306 £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 £57,000
% change year-on-year - -3.51% -2.56%

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 8,380 8,782 19,817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.50% 21.48% 22.03%
Number of salaries quoted 6,129 6,572 15,498
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,206 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +10.34% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £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 2 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 2 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 -120 263 £62,500 - 169
UK excluding London -93 192 £55,000 - 125
Work from Home -32 135 £57,500 -8.37% 90
London -46 89 £70,000 -3.45% 65
South East -70 64 £62,500 +4.60% 44
East of England +17 55 £55,000 +15.79% 25
North of England -66 29 £55,000 +4.76% 33
Scotland -15 26 £72,500 +52.45% 3
North West -22 20 £55,000 +2.33% 15
Midlands -58 13 £47,500 -10.96% 15
West Midlands -33 8 £47,500 -12.59% 6
Yorkshire -54 8 £76,997 +62.10% 15
South West -49 6 £31,500 -47.50% 3
East Midlands -55 5 £47,500 -9.09% 9
Northern Ireland -41 2 - - 2
North East -25 1 £47,500 -38.71% 3

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 (6.56%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.44%) Confluence
2 11 (3.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.56%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.63%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.63%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.31%) Apache
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.31%) CICS
6 1 (0.31%) CMS
6 1 (0.31%) IIS
6 1 (0.31%) JBoss
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.31%) SAS
6 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.31%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.88%) Trello
3 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.94%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.31%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.31%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.31%) Sketch
5 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.50%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.56%) Shopify
3 3 (0.94%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.63%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.31%) Magento
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.31%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 131 (40.94%) Azure
2 64 (20.00%) AWS
3 55 (17.19%) Power Platform
4 45 (14.06%) GitHub
5 40 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (8.75%) Power Automate
7 27 (8.44%) Microsoft 365
8 26 (8.13%) Azure Logic Apps
9 25 (7.81%) Azure Data Factory
9 25 (7.81%) Serverless
10 23 (7.19%) SaaS
11 19 (5.94%) GCP
12 18 (5.63%) PowerApps
13 16 (5.00%) Boomi
13 16 (5.00%) Entra ID
14 15 (4.69%) Azure Service Bus
15 14 (4.38%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (4.06%) Amazon EC2
17 12 (3.75%) OpenShift
17 12 (3.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.00%) Firewall
2 10 (3.13%) VPN
3 7 (2.19%) FTP
4 6 (1.88%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (1.25%) AMQP
5 4 (1.25%) DNS
5 4 (1.25%) SSL
6 3 (0.94%) BGP
6 3 (0.94%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.63%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.63%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.63%) HTTP
7 2 (0.63%) LAN
7 2 (0.63%) PuTTY
7 2 (0.63%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.63%) WAN
8 1 (0.31%) CTI
8 1 (0.31%) DHCP
8 1 (0.31%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (15.63%) Power BI
2 33 (10.31%) SQL Server
3 31 (9.69%) MySQL
4 29 (9.06%) Relational Database
5 28 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (5.63%) Metadata
7 14 (4.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (4.38%) RDBMS
7 14 (4.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 11 (3.44%) Electronic Patient Records
9 8 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.88%) OLTP
10 6 (1.88%) Oracle Database
10 6 (1.88%) Power Query
11 5 (1.56%) GIS
12 4 (1.25%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.25%) Redis
12 4 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.94%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (10.94%) Git
2 32 (10.00%) JIRA
3 26 (8.13%) Jenkins
4 19 (5.94%) GitLab
5 10 (3.13%) Postman
6 9 (2.81%) JUnit
7 8 (2.50%) Oracle Forms
7 8 (2.50%) Visual Studio
8 7 (2.19%) ERwin
9 6 (1.88%) Mockito
9 6 (1.88%) Selenium
9 6 (1.88%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.88%) Storybook
10 5 (1.56%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.56%) Maven
10 5 (1.56%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.56%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.25%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.25%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.25%) JMeter
General
1 116 (36.25%) Social Skills
2 72 (22.50%) Finance
3 61 (19.06%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.13%) Law
5 20 (6.25%) Marketing
6 18 (5.63%) Telecoms
7 17 (5.31%) Public Sector
7 17 (5.31%) Retail
8 15 (4.69%) German Language
9 13 (4.06%) Health Technology
10 8 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.19%) Financial Institution
11 7 (2.19%) Legal
12 4 (1.25%) Advertising
12 4 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.94%) Local Government
13 3 (0.94%) Publishing
14 2 (0.63%) Front Office
14 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 103 (32.19%) Developer
2 60 (18.75%) Senior
3 34 (10.63%) Analyst
3 34 (10.63%) Senior Developer
4 27 (8.44%) Consultant
5 19 (5.94%) Integration Engineer
5 19 (5.94%) Java Developer
6 18 (5.63%) Data Analyst
7 15 (4.69%) Applications Engineer
7 15 (4.69%) Architect
8 13 (4.06%) Cloud Engineer
8 13 (4.06%) Support Engineer
9 12 (3.75%) Automation Engineer
9 12 (3.75%) Data Engineer
10 11 (3.44%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (3.44%) EPR Consultant
10 11 (3.44%) Network Engineer
10 11 (3.44%) Telecoms Engineer
11 10 (3.13%) Applications Support
11 10 (3.13%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (54.69%) XML
2 110 (34.38%) REST
3 84 (26.25%) HTML
4 46 (14.38%) SOAP
5 43 (13.44%) RESTful
6 36 (11.25%) CSS
7 33 (10.31%) .NET
8 32 (10.00%) Regular Expression
9 28 (8.75%) Web Services
10 25 (7.81%) React
11 24 (7.50%) YAML
12 23 (7.19%) OAuth
13 20 (6.25%) Spring
14 17 (5.31%) Spring Boot
15 16 (5.00%) OAuth2
16 14 (4.38%) Node.js
17 13 (4.06%) .NET Core
17 13 (4.06%) FHIR
18 12 (3.75%) Middleware
19 11 (3.44%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 50 (15.63%) Onboarding
2 43 (13.44%) Linux Command Line
3 37 (11.56%) Data Structures
4 23 (7.19%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (6.56%) Cloud Native
6 17 (5.31%) Low-Code
7 16 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (3.44%) NHS
10 9 (2.81%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (2.19%) e-Learning
11 7 (2.19%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.88%) Operational Technology
12 6 (1.88%) Social Media
13 5 (1.56%) SCADA
14 4 (1.25%) Data Centre
14 4 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
15 3 (0.94%) Driving Licence
15 3 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
15 3 (0.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 43 (13.44%) Unix
2 40 (12.50%) Linux
3 9 (2.81%) Windows
4 3 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.63%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.31%) Android
6 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (26.88%) CI/CD
2 84 (26.25%) Agile
3 72 (22.50%) DevOps
4 64 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 64 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (17.81%) Test Automation
6 55 (17.19%) AI
7 49 (15.31%) Data Modelling
8 47 (14.69%) Analytics
9 40 (12.50%) API Integration
9 40 (12.50%) Data Analysis
9 40 (12.50%) ETL
10 36 (11.25%) Validation
11 33 (10.31%) Infrastructure as Code
12 31 (9.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (9.69%) Decision-Making
12 31 (9.69%) Microservices
12 31 (9.69%) User Experience
13 30 (9.38%) Asset Management
13 30 (9.38%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 165 (51.56%) SQL
2 121 (37.81%) Python
3 90 (28.13%) JavaScript
4 68 (21.25%) Java
5 34 (10.63%) C#
6 30 (9.38%) PowerShell
7 22 (6.88%) Shell Script
7 22 (6.88%) TypeScript
8 20 (6.25%) PL/SQL
9 14 (4.38%) Bicep
9 14 (4.38%) T-SQL
10 9 (2.81%) Perl
11 7 (2.19%) VB
12 6 (1.88%) Groovy
12 6 (1.88%) PHP
13 3 (0.94%) ActionScript
13 3 (0.94%) ActionScript 2.0
13 3 (0.94%) C++
13 3 (0.94%) R
13 3 (0.94%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 54 (16.88%) Degree
2 33 (10.31%) Security Cleared
3 17 (5.31%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.25%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.94%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (0.94%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.31%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.50%) QA
2 21 (6.56%) GDPR
3 18 (5.63%) Data Quality
4 16 (5.00%) Accessibility
5 14 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (4.06%) HL7
7 7 (2.19%) SLA
7 7 (2.19%) WCAG
8 4 (1.25%) NCSC
8 4 (1.25%) NIST
9 3 (0.94%) TickIT
10 2 (0.63%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 31 (9.69%) Docker
2 19 (5.94%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.94%) vSphere
4 2 (0.63%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.31%) iptables
Systems Management
1 32 (10.00%) Terraform
2 29 (9.06%) Kubernetes
3 14 (4.38%) Ansible
4 9 (2.81%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.56%) Kibana
6 4 (1.25%) Packer
7 2 (0.63%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.31%) Grafana
8 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 47 (14.69%) Microsoft
2 38 (11.88%) Oracle
3 16 (5.00%) Cisco
4 13 (4.06%) Google
4 13 (4.06%) SAP
5 11 (3.44%) IBM
5 11 (3.44%) Red Hat
6 10 (3.13%) Ab Initio
6 10 (3.13%) Adobe
7 9 (2.81%) Palo Alto
7 9 (2.81%) Splunk
8 8 (2.50%) Databricks
8 8 (2.50%) F5
8 8 (2.50%) MuleSoft
8 8 (2.50%) Okta
9 7 (2.19%) Dell
9 7 (2.19%) Intapp
9 7 (2.19%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.19%) Sparx
9 7 (2.19%) Talend