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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 441 337 255
Rank change year-on-year -104 -82 +2
Permanent jobs citing JSON 353 400 1,069
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.81% 1.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.46% 4.49% 5.47%
Number of salaries quoted 258 294 654
10th Percentile £35,500 £36,475 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,874 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,563 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,875 £86,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 10,188 8,909 19,553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.30% 18.13% 19.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,609 5,889 14,710
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -94 322 £62,500 - 123
UK excluding London -85 206 £55,000 - 102
Work from Home -34 146 £57,500 -8.73% 80
London -31 113 £75,000 +11.11% 35
South East -20 93 £55,000 -15.38% 34
North of England -14 49 £55,000 - 24
North West -5 30 £62,500 +13.64% 16
East of England -24 30 £90,000 +89.47% 4
South West -58 15 £50,000 -16.67% 10
Yorkshire -27 14 £42,750 +5.56% 8
Midlands -37 14 £47,500 -19.49% 19
West Midlands -26 8 £44,000 -25.42% 9
East Midlands -13 6 £52,500 -7.08% 10
Wales - 6 £55,000 - 3
North East - 5 £45,000 -
Scotland -5 2 £72,500 +62.92% 6

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 28 (7.93%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (3.68%) Confluence
4 11 (3.12%) Apache
5 10 (2.83%) IIS
6 8 (2.27%) CMS
7 7 (1.98%) WordPress
8 5 (1.42%) Drupal
9 4 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.85%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.57%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.57%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.28%) SAS
12 1 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (4.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.85%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.85%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.57%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.28%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.28%) Magento
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 159 (45.04%) Azure
2 90 (25.50%) AWS
3 64 (18.13%) Power Platform
4 47 (13.31%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (13.31%) Azure Logic Apps
5 44 (12.46%) Microsoft 365
6 32 (9.07%) Serverless
7 29 (8.22%) SaaS
8 26 (7.37%) PowerApps
9 25 (7.08%) Power Automate
10 24 (6.80%) Azure Data Factory
10 24 (6.80%) GitHub
11 23 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (5.67%) Dynamics 365
12 20 (5.67%) OneDrive
13 19 (5.38%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 16 (4.53%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (4.53%) Boomi
15 14 (3.97%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (3.40%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.95%) Firewall
2 7 (1.98%) DNS
2 7 (1.98%) HTTP
2 7 (1.98%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.70%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (1.42%) Intranet
4 5 (1.42%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.85%) BGP
5 3 (0.85%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (0.85%) SSL
6 2 (0.57%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.57%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.57%) LAN
6 2 (0.57%) MQTT
6 2 (0.57%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.57%) WAN
7 1 (0.28%) FTP
7 1 (0.28%) RTSP
7 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (14.45%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (14.16%) Power BI
3 35 (9.92%) SQL Server
4 33 (9.35%) MySQL
5 29 (8.22%) Relational Database
6 22 (6.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 21 (5.95%) Redis
8 20 (5.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 18 (5.10%) Metadata
10 14 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (3.68%) RDBMS
12 7 (1.98%) Electronic Patient Records
13 6 (1.70%) GIS
13 6 (1.70%) MongoDB
14 5 (1.42%) Delta Lake
14 5 (1.42%) Oracle Database
15 4 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
15 4 (1.13%) Apache Iceberg
15 4 (1.13%) Power Query
15 4 (1.13%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 60 (17.00%) Git
2 42 (11.90%) JIRA
3 28 (7.93%) Jenkins
4 25 (7.08%) GitLab
5 11 (3.12%) Postman
6 9 (2.55%) Selenium
7 8 (2.27%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.27%) ERwin
7 8 (2.27%) JMeter
7 8 (2.27%) JUnit
8 7 (1.98%) Maven
8 7 (1.98%) Mockito
9 6 (1.70%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.42%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.42%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.42%) Gradle
10 5 (1.42%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.42%) Visual Studio
10 5 (1.42%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.13%) Artifactory
General
1 151 (42.78%) Social Skills
2 90 (25.50%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (17.85%) Finance
4 25 (7.08%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (4.25%) Retail
6 14 (3.97%) Advertising
6 14 (3.97%) Marketing
7 13 (3.68%) Health Technology
7 13 (3.68%) Telecoms
8 10 (2.83%) Law
8 10 (2.83%) Public Sector
9 7 (1.98%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.42%) Back Office
12 4 (1.13%) Aviation
12 4 (1.13%) Banking
12 4 (1.13%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.85%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 125 (35.41%) Developer
2 75 (21.25%) Senior
3 44 (12.46%) Senior Developer
4 30 (8.50%) Analyst
5 25 (7.08%) Architect
5 25 (7.08%) Consultant
6 20 (5.67%) .NET Developer
6 20 (5.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (5.67%) Support Engineer
7 19 (5.38%) Data Analyst
7 19 (5.38%) Web Developer
8 18 (5.10%) Software Developer
9 17 (4.82%) Software Engineer
10 16 (4.53%) Full-Stack Developer
11 15 (4.25%) Integration Engineer
11 15 (4.25%) Lead
12 14 (3.97%) Automation Engineer
12 14 (3.97%) Data Engineer
12 14 (3.97%) Ruby Developer
13 13 (3.68%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (43.91%) XML
2 115 (32.58%) REST
3 91 (25.78%) HTML
4 79 (22.38%) .NET
4 79 (22.38%) CSS
5 46 (13.03%) RESTful
6 45 (12.75%) SOAP
7 44 (12.46%) .NET Core
8 37 (10.48%) ASP.NET
9 35 (9.92%) Middleware
9 35 (9.92%) YAML
10 27 (7.65%) JWT
10 27 (7.65%) React
11 21 (5.95%) .NET Framework
11 21 (5.95%) HTML5 Canvas
12 20 (5.67%) Microsoft Graph
12 20 (5.67%) Node.js
13 19 (5.38%) SPFx
14 18 (5.10%) HTML5
14 18 (5.10%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.35%) Onboarding
2 31 (8.78%) Data Structures
3 22 (6.23%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (5.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 19 (5.38%) Cloud Native
5 19 (5.38%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.55%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (2.55%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.55%) Robotics
8 8 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (2.27%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.98%) Driving Licence
9 7 (1.98%) e-Learning
9 7 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.98%) NHS
9 7 (1.98%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.42%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.42%) SCADA
11 4 (1.13%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 60 (17.00%) Linux
2 40 (11.33%) Windows
3 15 (4.25%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.70%) Unix
6 4 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (30.31%) Agile
2 96 (27.20%) DevOps
3 95 (26.91%) CI/CD
3 95 (26.91%) Problem-Solving
4 59 (16.71%) Data Modelling
5 56 (15.86%) Microservices
6 51 (14.45%) Business Intelligence
7 49 (13.88%) Containerisation
8 47 (13.31%) User Experience
9 43 (12.18%) Test Automation
10 42 (11.90%) Infrastructure as Code
11 41 (11.61%) API Integration
12 37 (10.48%) AI
13 36 (10.20%) Roadmaps
14 35 (9.92%) Analytics
14 35 (9.92%) Software Engineering
15 34 (9.63%) Validation
16 33 (9.35%) API Design
17 32 (9.07%) Scrum
18 31 (8.78%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 164 (46.46%) SQL
2 128 (36.26%) JavaScript
3 115 (32.58%) Python
4 83 (23.51%) C#
5 48 (13.60%) Java
6 42 (11.90%) PowerShell
7 27 (7.65%) TypeScript
8 19 (5.38%) PHP
9 17 (4.82%) T-SQL
10 15 (4.25%) C++
10 15 (4.25%) Ruby
11 13 (3.68%) Shell Script
12 8 (2.27%) Perl
13 6 (1.70%) Groovy
13 6 (1.70%) VB
14 5 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (1.13%) Bash
15 4 (1.13%) VBA
16 3 (0.85%) Bicep
16 3 (0.85%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (12.18%) Degree
2 38 (10.76%) Security Cleared
3 23 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.27%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.70%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.70%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.85%) CISSP
8 2 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.57%) CASP
8 2 (0.57%) CCSP
8 2 (0.57%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.57%) ISEB
8 2 (0.57%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (10.20%) QA
2 24 (6.80%) Accessibility
3 19 (5.38%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.40%) TickIT
5 11 (3.12%) SLA
6 10 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.98%) HL7
7 7 (1.98%) WCAG
8 6 (1.70%) GDPR
9 4 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.85%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.85%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.28%) PERC
11 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 50 (14.16%) Docker
2 15 (4.25%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.98%) vSphere
4 4 (1.13%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.57%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 33 (9.35%) Terraform
2 29 (8.22%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.68%) Ansible
4 6 (1.70%) Kibana
5 4 (1.13%) Packer
6 2 (0.57%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.28%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.28%) QRadar
Vendors
1 105 (29.75%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.80%) Adobe
3 17 (4.82%) Cisco
4 15 (4.25%) Splunk
5 14 (3.97%) Google
5 14 (3.97%) Oracle
5 14 (3.97%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.55%) F5
6 9 (2.55%) Palo Alto
6 9 (2.55%) VMware
7 8 (2.27%) Databricks
7 8 (2.27%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.27%) SAP
8 7 (1.98%) Sparx
9 6 (1.70%) IBM
9 6 (1.70%) Juniper
9 6 (1.70%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.42%) MuleSoft
11 4 (1.13%) AppDynamics
12 3 (0.85%) OpenAI