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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 309 237
Rank change year-on-year -105 -72 +46
Permanent jobs citing JSON 327 418 1,175
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.99% 1.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.74% 5.00% 5.78%
Number of salaries quoted 211 315 774
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £47,724 £46,250 £44,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £89,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +11.36% -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 8,745 8,364 20,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.74% 19.73% 21.25%
Number of salaries quoted 6,391 6,401 15,732
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,487 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +9.17% -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 30 April 2026.

Salary histogram for JSON in the UK

JSON
Top 15 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 30 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 -98 278 £65,000 +7.00% 99
UK excluding London -96 197 £61,250 +11.36% 76
Work from Home -21 146 £60,000 -4.00% 41
London -38 94 £68,000 -2.86% 34
South East -63 64 £62,500 -3.85% 32
East of England +9 57 £86,250 +81.58% 6
North of England -65 40 £60,000 +14.29% 20
North West -31 27 £65,000 +23.81% 11
Scotland -12 22 £72,500 +52.45% 1
Midlands -55 11 £47,500 -11.53% 14
Yorkshire -63 11 £70,000 +33.33% 8
West Midlands -36 7 £43,000 -20.87% 4
South West -63 6 £31,500 -47.50% 4
East Midlands -54 4 £47,500 -9.52% 10
North East -31 2 £46,250 -40.32% 1

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 30 (9.17%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.53%) Confluence
3 5 (1.53%) IIS
4 4 (1.22%) CMS
5 3 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.92%) WordPress
6 2 (0.61%) Apache
6 2 (0.61%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.61%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.61%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.61%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.31%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.31%) Drupal
7 1 (0.31%) JBoss
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.92%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.31%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.31%) EngageOne
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.31%) Sketch
3 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.45%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.61%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.31%) Magento
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.31%) Shopify
3 1 (0.31%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 146 (44.65%) Azure
2 68 (20.80%) AWS
3 64 (19.57%) Power Platform
4 46 (14.07%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (11.62%) Azure Logic Apps
6 36 (11.01%) GitHub
6 36 (11.01%) Microsoft 365
7 34 (10.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 30 (9.17%) Serverless
9 28 (8.56%) Power Automate
10 27 (8.26%) PowerApps
11 26 (7.95%) SaaS
12 20 (6.12%) OneDrive
13 19 (5.81%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 18 (5.50%) Boomi
15 17 (5.20%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (5.20%) Dynamics 365
16 16 (4.89%) Entra ID
17 14 (4.28%) Azure Service Bus
17 14 (4.28%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.20%) Firewall
2 6 (1.83%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (1.83%) VPN
3 5 (1.53%) DNS
4 4 (1.22%) AMQP
4 4 (1.22%) FTP
4 4 (1.22%) SSL
5 3 (0.92%) BGP
6 2 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.61%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.61%) HTTP
6 2 (0.61%) LAN
6 2 (0.61%) PuTTY
6 2 (0.61%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.61%) WAN
7 1 (0.31%) Broadband
7 1 (0.31%) CTI
7 1 (0.31%) DHCP
7 1 (0.31%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.31%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (17.43%) Power BI
2 34 (10.40%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (9.17%) MySQL
4 23 (7.03%) SQL Server
4 23 (7.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 22 (6.73%) Relational Database
6 20 (6.12%) Azure SQL Database
7 19 (5.81%) Metadata
8 12 (3.67%) RDBMS
9 9 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (2.75%) Electronic Patient Records
10 8 (2.45%) Oracle Database
11 7 (2.14%) GIS
12 6 (1.83%) OLTP
12 6 (1.83%) Redis
12 6 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (1.22%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
14 3 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 39 (11.93%) Git
2 37 (11.31%) JIRA
3 28 (8.56%) Jenkins
4 20 (6.12%) GitLab
5 12 (3.67%) Postman
6 8 (2.45%) JUnit
6 8 (2.45%) Maven
6 8 (2.45%) Oracle Forms
7 7 (2.14%) ERwin
8 6 (1.83%) Selenium
8 6 (1.83%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.53%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.53%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (1.53%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.53%) Gradle
9 5 (1.53%) Mockito
9 5 (1.53%) SpecFlow
9 5 (1.53%) WebDriver
10 4 (1.22%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.22%) Storybook
General
1 130 (39.76%) Social Skills
2 81 (24.77%) Analytical Skills
3 75 (22.94%) Finance
4 22 (6.73%) Marketing
5 21 (6.42%) Retail
6 18 (5.50%) Telecoms
7 17 (5.20%) Law
8 15 (4.59%) Health Technology
8 15 (4.59%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (3.67%) German Language
10 9 (2.75%) Advertising
10 9 (2.75%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.14%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.92%) Billing
13 3 (0.92%) Legal
13 3 (0.92%) Local Government
14 2 (0.61%) Front Office
14 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 102 (31.19%) Developer
2 75 (22.94%) Senior
3 47 (14.37%) Senior Developer
4 31 (9.48%) Consultant
5 29 (8.87%) Analyst
6 26 (7.95%) Architect
7 20 (6.12%) Data Analyst
8 16 (4.89%) Java Developer
8 16 (4.89%) Support Engineer
9 15 (4.59%) Applications Engineer
9 15 (4.59%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (4.28%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (3.67%) Automation Engineer
11 12 (3.67%) Integration Engineer
12 11 (3.36%) Applications Architect
12 11 (3.36%) Network Engineer
12 11 (3.36%) Telecoms Engineer
13 10 (3.06%) Data Engineer
13 10 (3.06%) Integration Architect
13 10 (3.06%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (51.07%) XML
2 111 (33.94%) REST
3 90 (27.52%) HTML
4 57 (17.43%) SOAP
5 53 (16.21%) CSS
6 44 (13.46%) .NET
6 44 (13.46%) RESTful
7 28 (8.56%) Middleware
8 27 (8.26%) YAML
9 26 (7.95%) .NET Core
9 26 (7.95%) Regular Expression
10 25 (7.65%) OAuth
11 23 (7.03%) HTML5 Canvas
12 20 (6.12%) Web Services
13 19 (5.81%) Microsoft Graph
13 19 (5.81%) SPFx
13 19 (5.81%) Spring
14 18 (5.50%) OAuth2
14 18 (5.50%) React
15 16 (4.89%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 43 (13.15%) Onboarding
2 35 (10.70%) Data Structures
3 34 (10.40%) Linux Command Line
4 24 (7.34%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (6.73%) Cloud Native
6 18 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (4.28%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (3.98%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (2.75%) Enterprise Cloud
9 9 (2.75%) NHS
10 8 (2.45%) Low-Code
11 7 (2.14%) e-Learning
11 7 (2.14%) Operational Technology
11 7 (2.14%) SCADA
12 6 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.83%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.83%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.53%) Management Information System
14 4 (1.22%) Reference Data
14 4 (1.22%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 37 (11.31%) Linux
2 30 (9.17%) Unix
3 13 (3.98%) Windows
4 8 (2.45%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.31%) Android
6 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (26.61%) CI/CD
2 86 (26.30%) DevOps
3 79 (24.16%) Agile
4 74 (22.63%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (18.35%) Business Intelligence
6 57 (17.43%) Data Modelling
7 51 (15.60%) Test Automation
8 47 (14.37%) API Integration
9 46 (14.07%) AI
10 40 (12.23%) Data Analysis
10 40 (12.23%) ERP
11 39 (11.93%) Analytics
11 39 (11.93%) User Experience
12 37 (11.31%) Microservices
13 35 (10.70%) Validation
14 33 (10.09%) Infrastructure as Code
15 31 (9.48%) Containerisation
15 31 (9.48%) Mentoring
16 30 (9.17%) ETL
16 30 (9.17%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 170 (51.99%) SQL
2 118 (36.09%) Python
3 97 (29.66%) JavaScript
4 72 (22.02%) Java
5 43 (13.15%) C#
6 35 (10.70%) PowerShell
7 27 (8.26%) TypeScript
8 20 (6.12%) PL/SQL
9 18 (5.50%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.36%) Bicep
10 11 (3.36%) Perl
10 11 (3.36%) PHP
11 10 (3.06%) T-SQL
12 9 (2.75%) VB
13 6 (1.83%) Groovy
14 4 (1.22%) VBA
15 3 (0.92%) ActionScript
15 3 (0.92%) ActionScript 2.0
15 3 (0.92%) R
15 3 (0.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 48 (14.68%) Degree
2 35 (10.70%) Security Cleared
3 20 (6.12%) SC Cleared
4 17 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.53%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.92%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.92%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (0.92%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.17%) QA
2 15 (4.59%) Accessibility
2 15 (4.59%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.59%) GDPR
3 12 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.67%) TickIT
4 11 (3.36%) SLA
5 10 (3.06%) HL7
6 6 (1.83%) WCAG
7 2 (0.61%) NCSC
7 2 (0.61%) NIST
7 2 (0.61%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.31%) PERC
System Software
1 33 (10.09%) Docker
2 20 (6.12%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.22%) vSphere
4 2 (0.61%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.31%) iptables
Systems Management
1 33 (10.09%) Terraform
2 31 (9.48%) Kubernetes
3 16 (4.89%) Ansible
4 8 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.22%) Kibana
5 4 (1.22%) Packer
6 2 (0.61%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.31%) Grafana
7 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 69 (21.10%) Microsoft
2 36 (11.01%) Oracle
3 24 (7.34%) Adobe
4 16 (4.89%) Cisco
5 11 (3.36%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.75%) Databricks
6 9 (2.75%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.45%) Ab Initio
7 8 (2.45%) F5
7 8 (2.45%) Google
7 8 (2.45%) Okta
8 7 (2.14%) IBM
8 7 (2.14%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.14%) Sparx
8 7 (2.14%) Splunk
9 6 (1.83%) Juniper
9 6 (1.83%) SAP
9 6 (1.83%) VMware
10 5 (1.53%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.22%) Dynatrace