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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 376 326
Rank change year-on-year -119 -50 -106
Permanent jobs citing JSON 331 313 589
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.63% 0.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.81% 3.74% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 216 229 370
10th Percentile £35,875 £41,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £79,502 £75,000 £75,938
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
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 11,800 8,375 15,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.02% 16.87% 21.74%
Number of salaries quoted 8,371 5,333 9,884
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £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 8 October 2026.

Salary histogram for JSON in the UK

JSON
Top 17 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 8 October 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 -88 310 £62,500 +4.17% 447
UK excluding London -124 184 £55,000 - 224
London -28 131 £75,000 +7.14% 250
Work from Home -60 115 £55,000 -12.00% 197
South East -58 68 £55,000 -15.38% 64
North of England -55 42 £49,500 -7.91% 45
Midlands -34 29 £55,000 +15.79% 32
North West -24 23 £62,500 +8.70% 29
West Midlands -35 22 £61,700 +29.89% 22
East of England -55 20 £90,000 +63.64% 21
Yorkshire -20 16 £37,500 -1.32% 12
South West -60 16 £52,500 -12.50% 28
East Midlands -29 7 £54,000 -11.84% 10
Wales - 6 £55,000 - 10
North East -61 3 £31,000 -31.11% 5
Scotland -20 2 - - 25
Northern Ireland -79 1 - - 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 (8.46%) SharePoint
2 18 (5.44%) Confluence
3 17 (5.14%) Apache
4 16 (4.83%) IIS
5 8 (2.42%) CMS
5 8 (2.42%) WordPress
6 7 (2.11%) Drupal
6 7 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (1.51%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.91%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.60%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.30%) JBoss
Applications
1 20 (6.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.21%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.60%) Lightworks
5 2 (0.60%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.60%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.30%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.30%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.30%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 146 (44.11%) Azure
2 83 (25.08%) AWS
3 57 (17.22%) Power Platform
4 55 (16.62%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (14.20%) Azure Logic Apps
6 40 (12.08%) Serverless
7 31 (9.37%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (9.37%) Power Automate
8 24 (7.25%) GitHub
8 24 (7.25%) PowerApps
9 23 (6.95%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (6.34%) Azure Data Factory
11 19 (5.74%) Azure Functions
12 16 (4.83%) GCP
13 14 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (3.93%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (3.93%) SaaS
15 11 (3.32%) Azure Service Bus
16 10 (3.02%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.63%) TCP/IP
2 9 (2.72%) HTTP
3 8 (2.42%) Wireshark
4 7 (2.11%) DNS
4 7 (2.11%) Firewall
5 5 (1.51%) Intranet
6 3 (0.91%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.91%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (0.91%) VPN
6 3 (0.91%) Wireless
7 2 (0.60%) MQTT
8 1 (0.30%) Diameter Protocol
8 1 (0.30%) Network Security
8 1 (0.30%) RTP
8 1 (0.30%) RTSP
8 1 (0.30%) SCTP
8 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.30%) SS7
8 1 (0.30%) tcpdump
8 1 (0.30%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (13.90%) SQL Server
2 44 (13.29%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (10.57%) Power BI
4 25 (7.55%) MySQL
5 24 (7.25%) Relational Database
6 21 (6.34%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (6.34%) Redis
7 13 (3.93%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (3.63%) Data Lake
8 12 (3.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (2.72%) Amazon Athena
9 9 (2.72%) Parquet
10 8 (2.42%) Metadata
10 8 (2.42%) NoSQL
11 7 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.81%) RDBMS
13 5 (1.51%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (1.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 4 (1.21%) Apache Iceberg
14 4 (1.21%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 71 (21.45%) Git
2 30 (9.06%) JIRA
3 25 (7.55%) Jenkins
4 17 (5.14%) Selenium
5 15 (4.53%) Postman
6 12 (3.63%) JMeter
7 11 (3.32%) GitLab
8 8 (2.42%) Cucumber
9 7 (2.11%) JUnit
10 6 (1.81%) Maven
10 6 (1.81%) SoapUI
10 6 (1.81%) Visual Studio
11 5 (1.51%) Gatling
11 5 (1.51%) Jasmine
11 5 (1.51%) Mocha
11 5 (1.51%) Mockito
11 5 (1.51%) NUnit
11 5 (1.51%) Zephyr
12 4 (1.21%) Gradle
12 4 (1.21%) REST Assured
General
1 132 (39.88%) Social Skills
2 76 (22.96%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (19.64%) Finance
4 27 (8.16%) Organisational Skills
4 27 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (3.93%) Banking
6 13 (3.93%) Legal
7 12 (3.63%) Law
7 12 (3.63%) Retail
8 10 (3.02%) Health Technology
9 9 (2.72%) Advertising
9 9 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.11%) Marketing
11 6 (1.81%) Aviation
11 6 (1.81%) Back Office
11 6 (1.81%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.81%) Publishing
12 5 (1.51%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.91%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 131 (39.58%) Developer
2 79 (23.87%) Senior
3 36 (10.88%) Senior Developer
4 28 (8.46%) .NET Developer
5 25 (7.55%) Analyst
6 22 (6.65%) Architect
6 22 (6.65%) Web Developer
7 21 (6.34%) Lead
7 21 (6.34%) Software Engineer
8 18 (5.44%) Data Engineer
9 17 (5.14%) Integration Engineer
9 17 (5.14%) Software Developer
10 16 (4.83%) Full-Stack Developer
11 15 (4.53%) Ruby Developer
12 14 (4.23%) .NET Web Developer
13 13 (3.93%) Senior Integration Engineer
14 12 (3.63%) Consultant
14 12 (3.63%) Integration Architect
15 11 (3.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 11 (3.32%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (41.09%) XML
2 105 (31.72%) REST
3 82 (24.77%) HTML
4 76 (22.96%) .NET
5 71 (21.45%) CSS
6 48 (14.50%) RESTful
7 42 (12.69%) .NET Core
8 40 (12.08%) SOAP
9 39 (11.78%) ASP.NET
10 29 (8.76%) React
11 26 (7.85%) .NET Framework
11 26 (7.85%) JWT
12 25 (7.55%) Terraform
13 23 (6.95%) Middleware
14 21 (6.34%) Blazor
15 20 (6.04%) AngularJS
15 20 (6.04%) HTML5
16 19 (5.74%) Web Services
16 19 (5.74%) YAML
17 18 (5.44%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.55%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.04%) Enterprise Software
2 20 (6.04%) Onboarding
3 18 (5.44%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (3.93%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.63%) Taxonomies
7 11 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (3.32%) Robotics
8 8 (2.42%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.11%) Data Structures
9 7 (2.11%) Driving Licence
9 7 (2.11%) NHS
10 6 (1.81%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.81%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.81%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.81%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 53 (16.01%) Windows
2 49 (14.80%) Linux
3 19 (5.74%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.21%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.60%) Android
6 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.30%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (41.39%) Agile
2 110 (33.23%) DevOps
3 106 (32.02%) CI/CD
4 94 (28.40%) Problem-Solving
5 62 (18.73%) AI
6 58 (17.52%) Test Automation
7 51 (15.41%) Mentoring
7 51 (15.41%) Software Engineering
8 49 (14.80%) Microservices
9 46 (13.90%) Scrum
10 43 (12.99%) Data Modelling
11 42 (12.69%) Roadmaps
11 42 (12.69%) User Experience
12 38 (11.48%) Validation
13 36 (10.88%) Analytics
14 35 (10.57%) Business Intelligence
15 34 (10.27%) Clean Code
15 34 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (10.27%) Data Integration
16 33 (9.97%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 138 (41.69%) SQL
2 119 (35.95%) JavaScript
3 91 (27.49%) Python
4 88 (26.59%) C#
5 39 (11.78%) Java
6 27 (8.16%) PowerShell
7 21 (6.34%) C++
8 17 (5.14%) PHP
9 16 (4.83%) Ruby
9 16 (4.83%) TypeScript
10 11 (3.32%) T-SQL
11 10 (3.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 10 (3.02%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.51%) VBA
13 4 (1.21%) Bash
13 4 (1.21%) XPath
14 3 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.91%) VB
15 2 (0.60%) RPG
15 2 (0.60%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 43 (12.99%) Degree
2 38 (11.48%) Security Cleared
3 29 (8.76%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.63%) Azure Certification
5 11 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (3.02%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.81%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.51%) ISEB
9 4 (1.21%) CISSP
9 4 (1.21%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.91%) CCNP
10 3 (0.91%) CCSP
11 2 (0.60%) CASP
11 2 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.60%) GIAC
11 2 (0.60%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (14.80%) Accessibility
2 37 (11.18%) QA
3 25 (7.55%) Data Quality
4 20 (6.04%) WCAG
5 14 (4.23%) GDPR
6 7 (2.11%) TickIT
7 5 (1.51%) HL7
7 5 (1.51%) SLA
8 4 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.91%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.91%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.60%) Basel III
10 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.30%) Dublin Core
11 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.30%) PERC
11 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (14.80%) Docker
2 7 (2.11%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.11%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.21%) vSphere
4 2 (0.60%) NFS
4 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (5.14%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.42%) Ansible
2 8 (2.42%) Grafana
3 7 (2.11%) Kibana
4 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.30%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.30%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.30%) logstash
5 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 110 (33.23%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.44%) Google
3 12 (3.63%) Adobe
3 12 (3.63%) Splunk
4 10 (3.02%) Dynatrace
4 10 (3.02%) Oracle
4 10 (3.02%) SAP
5 8 (2.42%) VMware
6 5 (1.51%) IBM
6 5 (1.51%) MuleSoft
6 5 (1.51%) Pega
6 5 (1.51%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.21%) Databricks
7 4 (1.21%) Foundry
7 4 (1.21%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.21%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.91%) CheckPoint
8 3 (0.91%) F5
8 3 (0.91%) McAfee
8 3 (0.91%) Red Hat