JSON
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring JSON skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited JSON over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 266 269
Rank change year-on-year -120 +3 -49
Permanent jobs citing JSON 403 1,094 1,127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 1.06% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.04% 5.28% 4.71%
Number of salaries quoted 297 670 873
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,186 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,175 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.62% -8.96% +4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £72,500 £77,542
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,250 £55,000 £56,750
% change year-on-year +0.45% -3.08% +3.18%

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 9,964 20,738 23,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.58% 20.03% 27.89%
Number of salaries quoted 6,057 15,221 17,000
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,227
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £66,375
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -9.60% +2.12%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

JSON
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JSON as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JSON in the UK

JSON
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing JSON.

Salary trend for JSON in the UK

JSON
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JSON over the 6 months to 12 July 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 12 July 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 -76 355 £63,000 +5.00% 347
UK excluding London -136 229 £55,250 +0.45% 274
Work from Home -39 172 £63,000 +5.00% 170
London -14 124 £70,000 +3.70% 126
South East +32 90 £65,000 +13.04% 89
East of England +16 39 £47,500 +33.80% 45
North of England -101 38 £55,000 - 54
North West -85 31 £55,000 - 32
South West +84 23 £60,000 +3.45% 28
Midlands -12 22 £59,500 +1.28% 33
West Midlands +4 15 £59,000 -1.67% 18
Scotland -64 13 £44,500 -22.61% 12
East Midlands +17 7 £60,000 +14.29% 15
Northern Ireland +43 6 £57,500 -45.24% 13
Yorkshire -11 6 £40,500 -32.50% 18
North East +33 1 £77,500 +58.97% 5

JSON
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (4.47%) IIS
2 12 (2.98%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.98%) Tomcat
3 11 (2.73%) Confluence
4 8 (1.99%) CMS
5 7 (1.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (1.49%) WordPress
7 5 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.24%) OpenEdge
8 4 (0.99%) Mule
9 3 (0.74%) CICS
9 3 (0.74%) Drupal
9 3 (0.74%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.50%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.50%) Apache
10 2 (0.50%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.50%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.25%) Appian
11 1 (0.25%) Ethereum
Applications
1 12 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.24%) Trello
4 3 (0.74%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (4.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (2.98%) NetSuite
3 11 (2.73%) JDE OneWorld
4 2 (0.50%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 175 (43.42%) Azure
2 72 (17.87%) AWS
3 65 (16.13%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (11.66%) Power Platform
5 45 (11.17%) Azure Service Bus
6 40 (9.93%) Serverless
7 38 (9.43%) GCP
8 36 (8.93%) GitHub
9 35 (8.68%) Power Automate
10 31 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 30 (7.44%) Microsoft 365
12 28 (6.95%) Azure Logic Apps
13 27 (6.70%) SaaS
13 27 (6.70%) SonarCloud
14 22 (5.46%) Dynamics 365
15 21 (5.21%) PowerApps
16 18 (4.47%) Amazon EC2
17 17 (4.22%) Amazon EKS
18 16 (3.97%) Azure Data Factory
18 16 (3.97%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.45%) Firewall
2 25 (6.20%) Ethernet
2 25 (6.20%) LAN
2 25 (6.20%) WAN
3 24 (5.96%) Cisco ISE
3 24 (5.96%) SD-WAN
4 17 (4.22%) HTTP
5 14 (3.47%) SSL
6 13 (3.23%) FTP
7 9 (2.23%) DMARC
8 3 (0.74%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.50%) DNS
9 2 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.50%) VPN
9 2 (0.50%) Wireless
10 1 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.25%) LTE
10 1 (0.25%) Network Security
10 1 (0.25%) SSH
10 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (23.33%) SQL Server
2 38 (9.43%) Relational Database
3 35 (8.68%) Power BI
4 31 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (7.20%) Elasticsearch
5 29 (7.20%) MySQL
6 28 (6.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 22 (5.46%) RDBMS
8 20 (4.96%) NoSQL
9 15 (3.72%) OLTP
9 15 (3.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (2.98%) MongoDB
11 11 (2.73%) Tableau
12 8 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (1.99%) Parquet
13 7 (1.74%) Data Lake
14 6 (1.49%) Redis
15 5 (1.24%) Power Query
16 4 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
16 4 (0.99%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 112 (27.79%) Git
2 55 (13.65%) Visual Studio
3 50 (12.41%) Jenkins
4 35 (8.68%) Team Foundation Server
5 32 (7.94%) JIRA
6 31 (7.69%) Octopus Deploy
7 27 (6.70%) MSBuild
8 20 (4.96%) JUnit
9 18 (4.47%) JMeter
10 17 (4.22%) Selenium
11 13 (3.23%) Mockito
12 12 (2.98%) Postman
12 12 (2.98%) TeamCity
13 8 (1.99%) GitLab
14 7 (1.74%) NUnit
15 6 (1.49%) Bitbucket
15 6 (1.49%) Subversion
15 6 (1.49%) webpack
16 5 (1.24%) Jasmine
16 5 (1.24%) SpecFlow
General
1 132 (32.75%) Social Skills
2 55 (13.65%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (12.41%) Finance
4 34 (8.44%) Retail
5 28 (6.95%) Law
5 28 (6.95%) Public Sector
6 24 (5.96%) Marketing
7 14 (3.47%) Banking
8 12 (2.98%) Games
9 10 (2.48%) Front Office
9 10 (2.48%) iGaming
9 10 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (2.23%) Czech Language
10 9 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.49%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.24%) Digital Healthcare
13 5 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 173 (42.93%) Developer
2 61 (15.14%) Architect
3 50 (12.41%) Senior
4 39 (9.68%) Analyst
5 37 (9.18%) Senior Developer
6 30 (7.44%) Technical Architect
7 25 (6.20%) Full-Stack Developer
8 23 (5.71%) Network Architect
9 18 (4.47%) .NET Developer
9 18 (4.47%) Java Developer
9 18 (4.47%) Software Engineer
10 17 (4.22%) Lead
11 16 (3.97%) C# Developer
12 15 (3.72%) Oracle Developer
12 15 (3.72%) Senior Oracle Developer
13 13 (3.23%) Support Analyst
14 12 (2.98%) Data Engineer
15 11 (2.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 11 (2.73%) NetSuite Developer
15 11 (2.73%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (49.88%) XML
2 188 (46.65%) HTML
3 156 (38.71%) REST
4 126 (31.27%) CSS
5 111 (27.54%) .NET
6 85 (21.09%) Web Services
7 69 (17.12%) SOAP
8 54 (13.40%) ASP.NET
9 48 (11.91%) React
10 44 (10.92%) RESTful
11 43 (10.67%) Bootstrap
11 43 (10.67%) jQuery
12 40 (9.93%) .NET Framework
13 34 (8.44%) .NET Core
13 34 (8.44%) AngularJS
13 34 (8.44%) HTML5
14 29 (7.20%) ASP.NET Web API
14 29 (7.20%) Hibernate
15 27 (6.70%) gRPC
16 26 (6.45%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.94%) Self-Motivation
2 30 (7.44%) Mobile App
3 26 (6.45%) Data Centre
4 25 (6.20%) Public Cloud
5 22 (5.46%) Product Ownership
6 19 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (3.72%) Cloud Native
8 13 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (2.48%) Onboarding
10 9 (2.23%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (2.23%) Mobile Games
11 8 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.74%) Client/Server
13 6 (1.49%) BYOD
14 5 (1.24%) Data Structures
14 5 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (1.24%) LIMS
15 4 (0.99%) Social Media
16 3 (0.74%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.44%) Linux
2 19 (4.71%) Windows
3 15 (3.72%) Unix
4 9 (2.23%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.99%) Android
6 3 (0.74%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.50%) zOS
8 1 (0.25%) CentOS
8 1 (0.25%) Debian
8 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (35.73%) Agile
2 110 (27.30%) Problem-Solving
3 103 (25.56%) DevOps
4 93 (23.08%) Microservices
5 66 (16.38%) CI/CD
6 53 (13.15%) Test Automation
7 52 (12.90%) MVC
8 51 (12.66%) Code Quality
9 50 (12.41%) CRM
10 42 (10.42%) Business Intelligence
11 39 (9.68%) Design Patterns
11 39 (9.68%) Event-Driven
12 38 (9.43%) API Integration
12 38 (9.43%) Project Management
13 37 (9.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 37 (9.18%) Full-Stack Development
13 37 (9.18%) Mentoring
13 37 (9.18%) Performance Optimisation
13 37 (9.18%) User Experience
14 33 (8.19%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 219 (54.34%) SQL
2 216 (53.60%) JavaScript
3 100 (24.81%) C#
4 82 (20.35%) Python
5 79 (19.60%) Java
6 34 (8.44%) TypeScript
7 29 (7.20%) PowerShell
8 23 (5.71%) PL/SQL
9 21 (5.21%) Shell Script
10 13 (3.23%) PHP
11 9 (2.23%) VBA
12 8 (1.99%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.49%) Go
14 5 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (1.24%) OpenEdge ABL
15 4 (0.99%) Bash
15 4 (0.99%) Dart
15 4 (0.99%) Progress 4GL
15 4 (0.99%) SPARQL
15 4 (0.99%) Swift
Qualifications
1 39 (9.68%) Degree
2 38 (9.43%) Security Cleared
3 28 (6.95%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (0.99%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.99%) DBS Check
7 4 (0.99%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.74%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.74%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.50%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.50%) ACCA
9 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.25%) CCNA
10 1 (0.25%) CCNP
10 1 (0.25%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.19%) QA
2 32 (7.94%) GDPR
3 25 (6.20%) Accessibility
4 18 (4.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (3.72%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.74%) HL7
7 6 (1.49%) NIST
8 4 (0.99%) NCSC
9 3 (0.74%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.74%) WCAG
10 2 (0.50%) SLA
11 1 (0.25%) DICOM
11 1 (0.25%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.25%) ISO 15022
11 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 69 (17.12%) Docker
2 24 (5.96%) VMware NSX
3 16 (3.97%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.25%) Firmware
5 1 (0.25%) HDFS
5 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 33 (8.19%) Terraform
3 28 (6.95%) Ansible
4 26 (6.45%) FortiGate
5 14 (3.47%) Kibana
6 11 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.99%) Grafana
8 4 (0.99%) Graylog
9 3 (0.74%) Packer
10 2 (0.50%) Argo
10 2 (0.50%) CA Endevor
10 2 (0.50%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.25%) Control-M
11 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 90 (22.33%) Microsoft
2 54 (13.40%) Oracle
3 36 (8.93%) Google
4 29 (7.20%) Cisco
5 26 (6.45%) VMware
6 25 (6.20%) CheckPoint
6 25 (6.20%) F5
7 24 (5.96%) Blue Coat
8 19 (4.71%) Splunk
9 16 (3.97%) Salesforce
9 16 (3.97%) ServiceNow
10 15 (3.72%) IBM
11 13 (3.23%) Dynatrace
12 12 (2.98%) Dell
13 6 (1.49%) Databricks
13 6 (1.49%) Trayport
14 5 (1.24%) MuleSoft
14 5 (1.24%) Talend
15 4 (0.99%) Atlassian
16 3 (0.74%) Pega