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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 476 364 292
Rank change year-on-year -112 -72 -62
Permanent jobs citing JSON 359 346 741
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.70% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.04% 4.01% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 245 255 442
10th Percentile £34,450 £38,200 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,750 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -4.71% -1.92%
75th Percentile £79,336 £76,000 £75,938
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year - -5.17% +0.87%

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 11,823 8,620 16,812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.43% 17.38% 21.39%
Number of salaries quoted 8,520 5,518 10,914
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £39,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -83 333 £62,500 +4.17% 303
UK excluding London -117 211 £55,000 - 176
Work from Home -40 135 £57,500 -8.00% 571
London -24 125 £75,000 +13.21% 150
South East -45 74 £55,000 -15.38% 54
North of England -31 56 £60,000 +9.09% 30
North West -16 31 £62,500 +13.64% 16
Midlands -28 28 £55,000 +15.79% 22
East of England -49 27 £90,000 +71.43% 25
Yorkshire -33 20 £44,000 -31.25% 12
West Midlands -34 20 £60,900 +28.21% 14
South West -69 20 £52,500 -6.67% 25
East Midlands -31 8 £54,000 -10.00% 8
Wales - 6 £55,000 - 4
North East -58 5 £45,000 - 3
Scotland -6 3 - - 18

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 33 (9.19%) SharePoint
2 19 (5.29%) Confluence
3 15 (4.18%) Apache
4 14 (3.90%) IIS
5 9 (2.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (2.23%) CMS
7 6 (1.67%) WordPress
8 5 (1.39%) Apache Spark
8 5 (1.39%) Drupal
9 3 (0.84%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.56%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.56%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.28%) JBoss
11 1 (0.28%) SAS
11 1 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 23 (6.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.11%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.84%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.56%) Lightworks
7 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.28%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.56%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.28%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.28%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.28%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 161 (44.85%) Azure
2 94 (26.18%) AWS
3 65 (18.11%) Power Platform
4 58 (16.16%) Azure DevOps
5 51 (14.21%) Azure Logic Apps
6 42 (11.70%) Serverless
7 36 (10.03%) Power Automate
8 34 (9.47%) Microsoft 365
9 31 (8.64%) PowerApps
10 30 (8.36%) Azure Data Factory
11 26 (7.24%) AWS Lambda
11 26 (7.24%) GitHub
12 25 (6.96%) Dynamics 365
13 20 (5.57%) SaaS
14 17 (4.74%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 17 (4.74%) GCP
14 17 (4.74%) OneDrive
15 16 (4.46%) Boomi
16 15 (4.18%) Amazon S3
16 15 (4.18%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.79%) TCP/IP
2 9 (2.51%) Firewall
3 6 (1.67%) DNS
3 6 (1.67%) HTTP
3 6 (1.67%) Wireshark
4 5 (1.39%) Intranet
5 3 (0.84%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.84%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (0.84%) SSL
5 3 (0.84%) Wireless
6 2 (0.56%) MQTT
6 2 (0.56%) VPN
7 1 (0.28%) BGP
7 1 (0.28%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.28%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.28%) Network Security
7 1 (0.28%) RTP
7 1 (0.28%) RTSP
7 1 (0.28%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.28%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (12.81%) Power BI
2 45 (12.53%) PostgreSQL
3 39 (10.86%) SQL Server
4 26 (7.24%) Relational Database
5 23 (6.41%) MySQL
5 23 (6.41%) Redis
6 21 (5.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 21 (5.85%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (4.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 11 (3.06%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.51%) Metadata
9 9 (2.51%) RDBMS
10 8 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (2.23%) Parquet
11 7 (1.95%) Electronic Patient Records
12 6 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.67%) NoSQL
13 5 (1.39%) GIS
14 4 (1.11%) DynamoDB
14 4 (1.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 75 (20.89%) Git
2 47 (13.09%) JIRA
3 31 (8.64%) Jenkins
4 19 (5.29%) GitLab
5 16 (4.46%) Selenium
6 13 (3.62%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.62%) JMeter
6 13 (3.62%) Postman
7 7 (1.95%) JUnit
7 7 (1.95%) Maven
8 6 (1.67%) Mockito
8 6 (1.67%) SoapUI
9 5 (1.39%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.39%) Gatling
9 5 (1.39%) Gradle
9 5 (1.39%) Jasmine
9 5 (1.39%) Mocha
9 5 (1.39%) NUnit
9 5 (1.39%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 158 (44.01%) Social Skills
2 91 (25.35%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (18.66%) Finance
4 34 (9.47%) Organisational Skills
5 24 (6.69%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.18%) Health Technology
6 15 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (4.18%) Retail
7 13 (3.62%) Marketing
8 12 (3.34%) Advertising
8 12 (3.34%) Legal
9 11 (3.06%) Law
10 10 (2.79%) Banking
11 7 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.67%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.39%) Back Office
13 5 (1.39%) Local Government
14 4 (1.11%) Aviation
14 4 (1.11%) Investment Banking
14 4 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 138 (38.44%) Developer
2 86 (23.96%) Senior
3 43 (11.98%) Senior Developer
4 26 (7.24%) .NET Developer
4 26 (7.24%) Analyst
5 24 (6.69%) Architect
6 22 (6.13%) Web Developer
7 21 (5.85%) Lead
7 21 (5.85%) Software Engineer
8 18 (5.01%) Consultant
8 18 (5.01%) Software Developer
8 18 (5.01%) Support Engineer
9 17 (4.74%) Data Engineer
9 17 (4.74%) Integration Engineer
9 17 (4.74%) Ruby Developer
10 16 (4.46%) DevOps Engineer
10 16 (4.46%) Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (3.90%) Technical Support
12 13 (3.62%) .NET Web Developer
12 13 (3.62%) Senior Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (40.39%) XML
2 112 (31.20%) REST
3 94 (26.18%) HTML
4 84 (23.40%) .NET
5 82 (22.84%) CSS
6 53 (14.76%) RESTful
7 50 (13.93%) .NET Core
8 48 (13.37%) SOAP
9 42 (11.70%) ASP.NET
10 32 (8.91%) Middleware
11 29 (8.08%) Terraform
12 28 (7.80%) JWT
12 28 (7.80%) React
13 27 (7.52%) .NET Framework
14 26 (7.24%) YAML
15 21 (5.85%) Blazor
15 21 (5.85%) HTML5 Canvas
16 20 (5.57%) HTML5
17 19 (5.29%) AngularJS
17 19 (5.29%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.24%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.13%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (6.13%) Onboarding
3 19 (5.29%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (5.01%) Analytical Mindset
5 16 (4.46%) Management Information System
5 16 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (3.62%) Product Ownership
7 12 (3.34%) Data Structures
7 12 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (2.79%) Driving Licence
8 10 (2.79%) Taxonomies
9 9 (2.51%) Enterprise Cloud
9 9 (2.51%) NHS
9 9 (2.51%) Robotics
10 7 (1.95%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.95%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.39%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (14.76%) Linux
2 45 (12.53%) Windows
3 17 (4.74%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.56%) Android
6 2 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.28%) CentOS
7 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (39.83%) Agile
2 116 (32.31%) DevOps
3 111 (30.92%) CI/CD
4 109 (30.36%) Problem-Solving
5 62 (17.27%) Test Automation
6 56 (15.60%) Microservices
7 54 (15.04%) User Experience
8 51 (14.21%) Mentoring
9 49 (13.65%) Software Engineering
10 48 (13.37%) Scrum
11 47 (13.09%) AI
12 46 (12.81%) Data Modelling
12 46 (12.81%) Roadmaps
13 45 (12.53%) Business Intelligence
14 39 (10.86%) Containerisation
15 36 (10.03%) Analytics
15 36 (10.03%) Clean Code
15 36 (10.03%) Continuous Improvement
16 35 (9.75%) Validation
17 34 (9.47%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 152 (42.34%) SQL
2 132 (36.77%) JavaScript
3 94 (26.18%) C#
4 90 (25.07%) Python
5 46 (12.81%) Java
6 30 (8.36%) PowerShell
7 23 (6.41%) TypeScript
8 18 (5.01%) C++
8 18 (5.01%) Ruby
9 17 (4.74%) PHP
10 12 (3.34%) Shell Script
11 11 (3.06%) T-SQL
12 9 (2.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (1.67%) Perl
13 6 (1.67%) VBA
14 5 (1.39%) Groovy
15 4 (1.11%) VB
15 4 (1.11%) XPath
16 3 (0.84%) Bash
16 3 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 48 (13.37%) Degree
2 38 (10.58%) Security Cleared
3 29 (8.08%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.51%) Azure Certification
5 9 (2.51%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.67%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.39%) ISEB
8 5 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.11%) CISSP
10 3 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.84%) CCNP
10 3 (0.84%) CCSP
11 2 (0.56%) A+ Certification
11 2 (0.56%) GIAC
11 2 (0.56%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (12.53%) Accessibility
2 44 (12.26%) QA
3 22 (6.13%) Data Quality
4 16 (4.46%) WCAG
5 12 (3.34%) GDPR
5 12 (3.34%) TickIT
6 11 (3.06%) SLA
7 7 (1.95%) HL7
8 4 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.84%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.84%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.28%) Basel III
11 1 (0.28%) Dublin Core
11 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.28%) PERC
System Software
1 54 (15.04%) Docker
2 4 (1.11%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.11%) Hyper-V
2 4 (1.11%) vSphere
3 1 (0.28%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 27 (7.52%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.62%) Ansible
3 6 (1.67%) Kibana
4 5 (1.39%) Grafana
5 4 (1.11%) Packer
6 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.28%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.28%) QRadar
Vendors
1 117 (32.59%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.41%) Adobe
3 19 (5.29%) Google
4 15 (4.18%) Splunk
5 10 (2.79%) Oracle
5 10 (2.79%) SAP
6 8 (2.23%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.23%) IBM
7 6 (1.67%) Cisco
7 6 (1.67%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.39%) Databricks
8 5 (1.39%) Pega
8 5 (1.39%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.39%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.11%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.11%) F5
9 4 (1.11%) VMware
10 3 (0.84%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.84%) McAfee
10 3 (0.84%) ServiceNow