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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 358 262
Rank change year-on-year -102 -96 -14
Permanent jobs citing JSON 363 384 890
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.77% 1.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.40% 4.47% 5.56%
Number of salaries quoted 255 282 541
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,125 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,250 £86,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -1.71%

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 10,686 8,587 16,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.09% 17.20% 19.28%
Number of salaries quoted 7,825 5,603 11,499
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,293
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.87% -8.15%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -88 330 £62,500 +3.52% 293
UK excluding London -98 211 £55,000 - 156
Work from Home -34 143 £60,900 -2.56% 118
London -59 119 £75,000 +11.11% 167
South East -35 86 £55,000 -15.38% 52
North of England -27 53 £55,000 - 36
North West -6 33 £62,500 +13.64% 20
East of England -50 28 £90,000 +89.47% 13
Midlands -29 20 £52,500 -11.02% 23
South West -63 19 £52,500 - 11
Yorkshire -30 15 £44,000 +8.64% 14
West Midlands -25 12 £46,250 -21.61% 13
East Midlands -20 8 £54,000 -4.42% 10
Wales - 6 £55,000 - 7
North East - 5 £45,000 - 2
Scotland -1 2 £72,500 +62.92% 11

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 29 (7.99%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.68%) Confluence
3 15 (4.13%) Apache
4 10 (2.75%) IIS
4 10 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (2.20%) CMS
6 7 (1.93%) WordPress
7 5 (1.38%) Apache Spark
7 5 (1.38%) Drupal
8 4 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.55%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.55%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.55%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.28%) JBoss
10 1 (0.28%) SAS
10 1 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.10%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.83%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.55%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.28%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 156 (42.98%) Azure
2 96 (26.45%) AWS
3 60 (16.53%) Power Platform
4 50 (13.77%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (13.22%) Azure Logic Apps
6 37 (10.19%) Microsoft 365
7 30 (8.26%) Serverless
8 28 (7.71%) PowerApps
9 27 (7.44%) GitHub
9 27 (7.44%) Power Automate
10 23 (6.34%) Azure Data Factory
11 22 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (5.79%) SaaS
13 20 (5.51%) Dynamics 365
13 20 (5.51%) OneDrive
14 19 (5.23%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 15 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (4.13%) Boomi
15 15 (4.13%) GCP
16 13 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.79%) Firewall
2 8 (2.20%) TCP/IP
3 7 (1.93%) DNS
3 7 (1.93%) HTTP
4 6 (1.65%) Wireshark
5 5 (1.38%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (1.38%) Intranet
6 3 (0.83%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (0.83%) SSL
6 3 (0.83%) Wireless
7 2 (0.55%) MQTT
8 1 (0.28%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.28%) Diameter Protocol
8 1 (0.28%) Network Security
8 1 (0.28%) RTSP
8 1 (0.28%) SCTP
8 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.28%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.28%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (14.05%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (12.67%) Power BI
3 29 (7.99%) Relational Database
4 27 (7.44%) SQL Server
5 26 (7.16%) MySQL
6 24 (6.61%) Redis
7 20 (5.51%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (4.41%) Metadata
10 15 (4.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 12 (3.31%) RDBMS
12 7 (1.93%) Electronic Patient Records
12 7 (1.93%) GIS
13 6 (1.65%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.65%) MongoDB
14 5 (1.38%) Delta Lake
14 5 (1.38%) NoSQL
14 5 (1.38%) Oracle Database
15 4 (1.10%) Apache Iceberg
15 4 (1.10%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 68 (18.73%) Git
2 46 (12.67%) JIRA
3 29 (7.99%) Jenkins
4 26 (7.16%) GitLab
5 15 (4.13%) Selenium
6 11 (3.03%) Cucumber
6 11 (3.03%) Postman
7 10 (2.75%) JMeter
8 8 (2.20%) JUnit
9 7 (1.93%) ERwin
9 7 (1.93%) Maven
9 7 (1.93%) Mockito
10 5 (1.38%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.38%) Gradle
10 5 (1.38%) Jasmine
10 5 (1.38%) Mocha
10 5 (1.38%) NUnit
10 5 (1.38%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.38%) Visual Studio
10 5 (1.38%) WebDriver
General
1 151 (41.60%) Social Skills
2 88 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (18.73%) Finance
4 30 (8.26%) Organisational Skills
5 16 (4.41%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.86%) Health Technology
6 14 (3.86%) Marketing
7 13 (3.58%) Advertising
7 13 (3.58%) Retail
8 12 (3.31%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.48%) Law
10 8 (2.20%) Legal
11 6 (1.65%) Banking
11 6 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.65%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.65%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.38%) Back Office
12 5 (1.38%) Local Government
13 4 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 131 (36.09%) Developer
2 81 (22.31%) Senior
3 43 (11.85%) Senior Developer
4 25 (6.89%) Architect
5 24 (6.61%) Consultant
6 22 (6.06%) Analyst
6 22 (6.06%) Software Engineer
7 21 (5.79%) .NET Developer
8 20 (5.51%) Software Developer
9 19 (5.23%) Lead
9 19 (5.23%) Web Developer
10 18 (4.96%) Support Engineer
11 17 (4.68%) Data Engineer
11 17 (4.68%) Integration Engineer
11 17 (4.68%) Ruby Developer
12 16 (4.41%) Automation Engineer
12 16 (4.41%) DevOps Engineer
13 15 (4.13%) Full-Stack Developer
14 13 (3.58%) Network Engineer
14 13 (3.58%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (40.77%) XML
2 110 (30.30%) REST
3 92 (25.34%) HTML
4 85 (23.42%) .NET
5 80 (22.04%) CSS
6 52 (14.33%) RESTful
7 45 (12.40%) .NET Core
8 42 (11.57%) SOAP
9 40 (11.02%) ASP.NET
10 34 (9.37%) YAML
11 32 (8.82%) Middleware
12 30 (8.26%) JWT
13 28 (7.71%) React
14 21 (5.79%) .NET Framework
14 21 (5.79%) HTML5 Canvas
15 20 (5.51%) Microsoft Graph
16 19 (5.23%) AngularJS
16 19 (5.23%) Razor View Engine
16 19 (5.23%) SPFx
17 18 (4.96%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.89%) Onboarding
2 23 (6.34%) Data Structures
3 22 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (5.79%) Cloud Native
5 20 (5.51%) Analytical Mindset
6 19 (5.23%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (4.96%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (3.31%) Product Ownership
9 11 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (3.03%) Management Information System
10 9 (2.48%) Driving Licence
10 9 (2.48%) Enterprise Cloud
10 9 (2.48%) NHS
10 9 (2.48%) Robotics
11 8 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (2.20%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.65%) e-Learning
13 5 (1.38%) Operational Technology
13 5 (1.38%) SCADA
14 4 (1.10%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 62 (17.08%) Linux
2 44 (12.12%) Windows
3 15 (4.13%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.38%) Unix
6 4 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.28%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (36.09%) Agile
2 106 (29.20%) DevOps
3 104 (28.65%) CI/CD
4 98 (27.00%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (15.98%) Microservices
6 52 (14.33%) Test Automation
7 51 (14.05%) Containerisation
7 51 (14.05%) Data Modelling
7 51 (14.05%) User Experience
8 47 (12.95%) Business Intelligence
9 44 (12.12%) Scrum
10 41 (11.29%) Software Engineering
11 40 (11.02%) Mentoring
12 38 (10.47%) API Integration
12 38 (10.47%) Infrastructure as Code
12 38 (10.47%) Roadmaps
13 37 (10.19%) AI
13 37 (10.19%) Analytics
14 35 (9.64%) Clean Code
15 33 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 154 (42.42%) SQL
2 127 (34.99%) JavaScript
3 109 (30.03%) Python
4 88 (24.24%) C#
5 45 (12.40%) Java
6 33 (9.09%) PowerShell
7 27 (7.44%) TypeScript
8 18 (4.96%) C++
8 18 (4.96%) PHP
8 18 (4.96%) Ruby
9 14 (3.86%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.03%) T-SQL
11 8 (2.20%) Perl
12 6 (1.65%) VB
13 5 (1.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (1.38%) Groovy
14 4 (1.10%) Bash
14 4 (1.10%) VBA
15 2 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.55%) R
Qualifications
1 44 (12.12%) Degree
2 39 (10.74%) Security Cleared
3 25 (6.89%) SC Cleared
4 18 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.31%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.65%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.38%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.83%) CCNP
9 3 (0.83%) CISSP
9 3 (0.83%) ISEB
9 3 (0.83%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.55%) CASP
10 2 (0.55%) CCSP
10 2 (0.55%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.55%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (11.29%) QA
2 28 (7.71%) Accessibility
3 17 (4.68%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.31%) TickIT
5 10 (2.75%) SLA
6 8 (2.20%) WCAG
7 7 (1.93%) HL7
8 4 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.10%) GDPR
9 3 (0.83%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.83%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.55%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.28%) PERC
System Software
1 57 (15.70%) Docker
2 8 (2.20%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.93%) vSphere
4 4 (1.10%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (8.54%) Terraform
2 29 (7.99%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.86%) Ansible
4 6 (1.65%) Kibana
5 4 (1.10%) Packer
6 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.28%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.28%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.28%) Grafana
7 1 (0.28%) QRadar
Vendors
1 103 (28.37%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.61%) Adobe
3 15 (4.13%) Cisco
3 15 (4.13%) Google
4 14 (3.86%) Oracle
4 14 (3.86%) Splunk
5 13 (3.58%) Red Hat
6 12 (3.31%) Databricks
7 9 (2.48%) F5
8 8 (2.20%) Dynatrace
8 8 (2.20%) SAP
8 8 (2.20%) VMware
9 7 (1.93%) IBM
10 6 (1.65%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.65%) Sparx
11 5 (1.38%) Juniper
11 5 (1.38%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.38%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.10%) AppDynamics
12 4 (1.10%) CheckPoint