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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 383 319
Rank change year-on-year -90 -64 -98
Permanent jobs citing JSON 364 320 609
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.65% 0.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.03% 3.80% 3.78%
Number of salaries quoted 238 235 382
10th Percentile £35,500 £40,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,750 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -1.22% -5.38%
75th Percentile £79,189 £75,000 £77,500
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 12,006 8,418 16,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.18% 17.01% 21.54%
Number of salaries quoted 8,519 5,380 10,048
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,911 £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 £87,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,167
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 1 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 1 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 -74 341 £62,500 +4.17% 491
UK excluding London -117 208 £55,000 - 262
London -20 136 £75,000 +7.14% 266
Work from Home -55 127 £55,000 -12.00% 219
South East -59 78 £55,000 -15.38% 73
North of England -56 53 £61,250 +11.36% 55
Midlands -36 31 £55,000 +15.79% 38
North West -28 30 £62,500 +13.64% 33
East of England -50 23 £90,000 +63.64% 27
West Midlands -41 22 £62,500 +31.58% 26
Yorkshire -19 19 £44,000 -11.56% 19
South West -67 17 £52,500 -6.67% 37
East Midlands -30 9 £54,000 -11.84% 12
Wales - 6 £55,000 - 9
North East -65 4 £38,000 -15.56% 4
Scotland -3 2 - - 23
Northern Ireland -85 1 - - 8

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 31 (8.52%) SharePoint
2 19 (5.22%) Confluence
3 17 (4.67%) IIS
4 16 (4.40%) Apache
5 10 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (2.20%) CMS
7 7 (1.92%) WordPress
8 6 (1.65%) Drupal
9 5 (1.37%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.82%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.55%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.27%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.27%) JBoss
12 1 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.27%) Umbraco
Applications
1 21 (5.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.10%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.82%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.55%) Lightworks
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.55%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.27%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.27%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 157 (43.13%) Azure
2 92 (25.27%) AWS
3 64 (17.58%) Power Platform
4 59 (16.21%) Azure DevOps
5 50 (13.74%) Azure Logic Apps
6 47 (12.91%) Serverless
7 34 (9.34%) Power Automate
8 33 (9.07%) Microsoft 365
9 28 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
10 27 (7.42%) AWS Lambda
10 27 (7.42%) GitHub
10 27 (7.42%) PowerApps
11 25 (6.87%) Azure Data Factory
12 19 (5.22%) Azure Functions
13 16 (4.40%) Amazon S3
13 16 (4.40%) Boomi
13 16 (4.40%) GCP
14 15 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.30%) TCP/IP
2 9 (2.47%) HTTP
3 8 (2.20%) Wireshark
4 7 (1.92%) DNS
4 7 (1.92%) Firewall
5 5 (1.37%) Intranet
6 3 (0.82%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.82%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (0.82%) VPN
6 3 (0.82%) Wireless
7 2 (0.55%) MQTT
8 1 (0.27%) Diameter Protocol
8 1 (0.27%) Network Security
8 1 (0.27%) RTP
8 1 (0.27%) RTSP
8 1 (0.27%) SCTP
8 1 (0.27%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.27%) SS7
8 1 (0.27%) tcpdump
8 1 (0.27%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (12.91%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (12.36%) SQL Server
3 42 (11.54%) Power BI
4 26 (7.14%) MySQL
4 26 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 22 (6.04%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (6.04%) Redis
6 17 (4.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 16 (4.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (3.30%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.47%) Amazon Athena
9 9 (2.47%) Parquet
10 8 (2.20%) Metadata
10 8 (2.20%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (1.92%) RDBMS
12 6 (1.65%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (1.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 5 (1.37%) GIS
14 4 (1.10%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 78 (21.43%) Git
2 42 (11.54%) JIRA
3 32 (8.79%) Jenkins
4 17 (4.67%) Postman
4 17 (4.67%) Selenium
5 16 (4.40%) GitLab
6 13 (3.57%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.57%) JMeter
7 8 (2.20%) JUnit
8 7 (1.92%) Maven
9 6 (1.65%) Mockito
9 6 (1.65%) SoapUI
9 6 (1.65%) Visual Studio
10 5 (1.37%) Gatling
10 5 (1.37%) Gradle
10 5 (1.37%) Jasmine
10 5 (1.37%) Mocha
10 5 (1.37%) NUnit
10 5 (1.37%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.37%) Zephyr
General
1 153 (42.03%) Social Skills
2 90 (24.73%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (18.41%) Finance
4 31 (8.52%) Organisational Skills
5 27 (7.42%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (4.40%) Retail
8 13 (3.57%) Banking
8 13 (3.57%) Health Technology
8 13 (3.57%) Legal
8 13 (3.57%) Marketing
9 12 (3.30%) Law
10 10 (2.75%) Advertising
11 8 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.92%) Back Office
13 6 (1.65%) Aviation
13 6 (1.65%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.37%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.37%) Publishing
15 3 (0.82%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 146 (40.11%) Developer
2 90 (24.73%) Senior
3 44 (12.09%) Senior Developer
4 29 (7.97%) .NET Developer
4 29 (7.97%) Analyst
5 24 (6.59%) Architect
6 22 (6.04%) Lead
6 22 (6.04%) Software Engineer
6 22 (6.04%) Web Developer
7 18 (4.95%) Data Engineer
7 18 (4.95%) Software Developer
8 17 (4.67%) Integration Engineer
9 16 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
9 16 (4.40%) Full-Stack Developer
9 16 (4.40%) Ruby Developer
10 15 (4.12%) Consultant
11 14 (3.85%) .NET Web Developer
11 14 (3.85%) Support Engineer
12 13 (3.57%) Integration Architect
12 13 (3.57%) Senior Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (41.48%) XML
2 119 (32.69%) REST
3 90 (24.73%) HTML
4 81 (22.25%) .NET
5 78 (21.43%) CSS
6 53 (14.56%) RESTful
7 48 (13.19%) SOAP
8 45 (12.36%) .NET Core
9 41 (11.26%) ASP.NET
10 31 (8.52%) Middleware
11 30 (8.24%) Terraform
12 29 (7.97%) JWT
12 29 (7.97%) React
13 27 (7.42%) .NET Framework
14 24 (6.59%) YAML
15 21 (5.77%) AngularJS
15 21 (5.77%) Blazor
16 20 (5.49%) HTML5
16 20 (5.49%) Web Services
17 19 (5.22%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.42%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.49%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (5.49%) Onboarding
4 19 (5.22%) Management Information System
5 16 (4.40%) Analytical Mindset
6 15 (4.12%) Product Ownership
6 15 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (3.30%) Taxonomies
8 11 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (3.02%) Robotics
9 9 (2.47%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (2.20%) AI Agents
10 8 (2.20%) Data Structures
10 8 (2.20%) Driving Licence
10 8 (2.20%) NHS
11 7 (1.92%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.65%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (15.38%) Linux
2 54 (14.84%) Windows
3 20 (5.49%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.55%) Android
6 2 (0.55%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.27%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (40.66%) Agile
2 122 (33.52%) DevOps
3 116 (31.87%) CI/CD
4 108 (29.67%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (17.58%) Test Automation
6 62 (17.03%) AI
7 56 (15.38%) Microservices
8 54 (14.84%) Mentoring
9 52 (14.29%) Software Engineering
10 49 (13.46%) Roadmaps
11 48 (13.19%) Scrum
11 48 (13.19%) User Experience
12 46 (12.64%) Data Modelling
13 39 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
14 37 (10.16%) Analytics
14 37 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
14 37 (10.16%) Validation
15 36 (9.89%) Clean Code
16 35 (9.62%) Containerisation
16 35 (9.62%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 155 (42.58%) SQL
2 131 (35.99%) JavaScript
3 100 (27.47%) Python
4 92 (25.27%) C#
5 48 (13.19%) Java
6 29 (7.97%) PowerShell
7 21 (5.77%) C++
8 19 (5.22%) TypeScript
9 17 (4.67%) PHP
9 17 (4.67%) Ruby
10 12 (3.30%) Shell Script
11 11 (3.02%) T-SQL
12 10 (2.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (1.65%) Perl
13 6 (1.65%) VBA
14 5 (1.37%) Groovy
14 5 (1.37%) VB
15 4 (1.10%) Bash
15 4 (1.10%) XPath
16 3 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 45 (12.36%) Degree
2 43 (11.81%) Security Cleared
3 32 (8.79%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.02%) Azure Certification
5 11 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (2.75%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.65%) ISTQB
8 5 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.37%) ISEB
9 4 (1.10%) CISSP
9 4 (1.10%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.82%) CCNP
10 3 (0.82%) CCSP
11 2 (0.55%) A+ Certification
11 2 (0.55%) GIAC
11 2 (0.55%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.55%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (13.19%) Accessibility
2 45 (12.36%) QA
3 25 (6.87%) Data Quality
4 19 (5.22%) WCAG
5 14 (3.85%) GDPR
6 12 (3.30%) TickIT
7 7 (1.92%) SLA
8 6 (1.65%) HL7
9 4 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.82%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.82%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.55%) Basel III
11 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.55%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.27%) Dublin Core
12 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.27%) PERC
12 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 55 (15.11%) Docker
2 7 (1.92%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.92%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.10%) vSphere
4 2 (0.55%) NFS
4 2 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (7.42%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.85%) Ansible
3 8 (2.20%) Kibana
4 7 (1.92%) Grafana
5 4 (1.10%) Packer
6 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.27%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.27%) logstash
7 1 (0.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 118 (32.42%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.22%) Google
3 17 (4.67%) Adobe
4 13 (3.57%) Splunk
5 11 (3.02%) Oracle
6 10 (2.75%) Dynatrace
6 10 (2.75%) IBM
6 10 (2.75%) SAP
7 8 (2.20%) VMware
8 6 (1.65%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.37%) Databricks
9 5 (1.37%) Pega
9 5 (1.37%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.10%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.10%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.10%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.82%) Cisco
11 3 (0.82%) F5
11 3 (0.82%) Foundry
11 3 (0.82%) Red Hat