JSON Job Trends

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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 290 231
Rank change year-on-year -124 -59 +40
Permanent jobs citing JSON 308 440 1,123
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 1.03% 1.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.82% 4.69% 5.91%
Number of salaries quoted 188 329 801
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.03%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £81,863 £90,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.39% -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 8,067 9,381 19,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.78% 21.93% 22.37%
Number of salaries quoted 5,900 6,642 15,146
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -111 248 £60,000 - 161
UK excluding London -89 185 £55,000 +2.44% 126
Work from Home -43 130 £57,500 -8.37% 95
London -47 90 £72,500 - 59
South East -52 63 £55,000 - 41
East of England +19 48 £55,000 -11.18% 20
Scotland -3 32 £72,500 +62.92% 10
North of England -59 22 £55,000 +4.76% 28
Midlands -45 15 £47,500 -11.53% 20
North West -25 14 £55,000 -4.35% 15
West Midlands -17 10 £47,500 -13.64% 10
East Midlands -45 5 £54,000 +3.35% 10
Yorkshire -52 5 £41,500 -2.35% 10
North East -18 3 £45,000 -41.94% 3
South West -48 3 £55,000 -8.33% 6
Northern Ireland -33 2 - - 1

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 17 (5.52%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.92%) Confluence
3 8 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.62%) Anypoint
5 4 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.65%) IIS
6 2 (0.65%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.65%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.65%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.32%) Apache
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.32%) CICS
7 1 (0.32%) CMS
7 1 (0.32%) JBoss
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.32%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.32%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.95%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.95%) Trello
3 1 (0.32%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.32%) EngageOne
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.32%) Sketch
3 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.90%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.62%) Shopify
3 3 (0.97%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.65%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.32%) Magento
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.32%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 133 (43.18%) Azure
2 62 (20.13%) AWS
3 52 (16.88%) GitHub
4 47 (15.26%) Power Platform
5 44 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (8.12%) Azure Logic Apps
6 25 (8.12%) Power Automate
7 23 (7.47%) Azure Data Factory
7 23 (7.47%) Microsoft 365
8 22 (7.14%) Serverless
9 20 (6.49%) Entra ID
10 18 (5.84%) GCP
10 18 (5.84%) SaaS
11 17 (5.52%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (4.87%) PowerApps
14 13 (4.22%) Azure Event Grid
14 13 (4.22%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (4.22%) Boomi
14 13 (4.22%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.52%) Firewall
2 11 (3.57%) VPN
3 7 (2.27%) FTP
4 6 (1.95%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (1.62%) DNS
6 4 (1.30%) AMQP
7 3 (0.97%) BGP
7 3 (0.97%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (0.97%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.97%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.97%) LAN
7 3 (0.97%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.97%) WAN
8 2 (0.65%) HTTP
8 2 (0.65%) PuTTY
8 2 (0.65%) SSL
9 1 (0.32%) CTI
9 1 (0.32%) DHCP
9 1 (0.32%) Modbus
9 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (13.31%) Power BI
2 35 (11.36%) SQL Server
3 31 (10.06%) Relational Database
4 30 (9.74%) MySQL
5 29 (9.42%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (5.19%) Metadata
7 14 (4.55%) RDBMS
8 11 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (3.25%) Electronic Patient Records
10 7 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.95%) OLTP
11 6 (1.95%) Power Query
12 5 (1.62%) Oracle Database
13 4 (1.30%) GIS
13 4 (1.30%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.30%) Redis
13 4 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (10.39%) Git
2 27 (8.77%) Jenkins
3 17 (5.52%) JIRA
4 14 (4.55%) GitLab
5 12 (3.90%) Oracle Forms
6 11 (3.57%) JUnit
7 10 (3.25%) Postman
8 8 (2.60%) Mockito
8 8 (2.60%) Visual Studio
9 6 (1.95%) Axure RP
9 6 (1.95%) ERwin
9 6 (1.95%) JMeter
9 6 (1.95%) Selenium
9 6 (1.95%) Storybook
10 5 (1.62%) Maven
10 5 (1.62%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.62%) WebDriver
11 3 (0.97%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.65%) Gradle
12 2 (0.65%) Oracle APEX
General
1 101 (32.79%) Social Skills
2 77 (25.00%) Finance
3 53 (17.21%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (8.77%) Law
5 19 (6.17%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.84%) Retail
6 18 (5.84%) Telecoms
7 16 (5.19%) Marketing
8 15 (4.87%) German Language
9 10 (3.25%) Health Technology
10 7 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.27%) Legal
11 6 (1.95%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.97%) Publishing
13 2 (0.65%) Advertising
13 2 (0.65%) Billing
13 2 (0.65%) Front Office
13 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 101 (32.79%) Developer
2 54 (17.53%) Senior
3 32 (10.39%) Analyst
4 28 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 23 (7.47%) Consultant
6 20 (6.49%) Integration Engineer
7 19 (6.17%) Java Developer
8 17 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (5.52%) Data Analyst
9 16 (5.19%) Applications Engineer
10 14 (4.55%) Architect
11 13 (4.22%) Data Engineer
12 12 (3.90%) Automation Engineer
12 12 (3.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 11 (3.57%) Network Engineer
13 11 (3.57%) Telecoms Engineer
14 10 (3.25%) EPR Consultant
14 10 (3.25%) Full-Stack Developer
14 10 (3.25%) Support Engineer
14 10 (3.25%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (56.17%) XML
2 108 (35.06%) REST
3 81 (26.30%) HTML
4 48 (15.58%) RESTful
5 44 (14.29%) SOAP
6 32 (10.39%) Regular Expression
7 31 (10.06%) CSS
8 30 (9.74%) Web Services
9 27 (8.77%) .NET
9 27 (8.77%) React
10 22 (7.14%) OAuth
10 22 (7.14%) Spring
11 21 (6.82%) YAML
12 19 (6.17%) Spring Boot
13 17 (5.52%) OAuth2
14 14 (4.55%) Node.js
15 13 (4.22%) Hibernate
16 12 (3.90%) FHIR
17 11 (3.57%) Jinja
17 11 (3.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 50 (16.23%) Onboarding
2 42 (13.64%) Linux Command Line
3 34 (11.04%) Data Structures
4 24 (7.79%) Cloud Native
5 23 (7.47%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (5.52%) Low-Code
7 16 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (4.22%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (3.25%) NHS
10 7 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (2.27%) Operational Technology
10 7 (2.27%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.95%) e-Learning
11 6 (1.95%) Social Media
12 5 (1.62%) Data Centre
13 4 (1.30%) SCADA
14 3 (0.97%) Public Cloud
14 3 (0.97%) Reference Data
14 3 (0.97%) Security Posture
14 3 (0.97%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 43 (13.96%) Unix
2 34 (11.04%) Linux
3 10 (3.25%) Windows
4 4 (1.30%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.97%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.32%) Android
6 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (29.22%) CI/CD
2 85 (27.60%) Agile
3 72 (23.38%) DevOps
4 59 (19.16%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (18.83%) Test Automation
6 55 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
7 53 (17.21%) AI
8 47 (15.26%) Data Modelling
9 44 (14.29%) Analytics
10 43 (13.96%) ETL
11 41 (13.31%) API Integration
12 37 (12.01%) Data Analysis
13 35 (11.36%) Asset Management
13 35 (11.36%) Validation
14 32 (10.39%) Coaching
15 31 (10.06%) Continuous Improvement
15 31 (10.06%) Root Cause Analysis
16 30 (9.74%) API Management
16 30 (9.74%) Infrastructure as Code
16 30 (9.74%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 155 (50.32%) SQL
2 120 (38.96%) Python
3 87 (28.25%) JavaScript
4 70 (22.73%) Java
5 33 (10.71%) C#
6 30 (9.74%) PowerShell
7 27 (8.77%) Shell Script
8 24 (7.79%) PL/SQL
9 18 (5.84%) TypeScript
10 16 (5.19%) Bicep
11 15 (4.87%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.95%) PHP
13 5 (1.62%) Perl
13 5 (1.62%) VB
14 3 (0.97%) ActionScript
14 3 (0.97%) ActionScript 2.0
14 3 (0.97%) C++
14 3 (0.97%) Ruby
15 2 (0.65%) Bash
15 2 (0.65%) R
Qualifications
1 49 (15.91%) Degree
2 31 (10.06%) Security Cleared
3 15 (4.87%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.30%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.97%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.97%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (0.97%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.32%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.32%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.32%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.47%) GDPR
2 20 (6.49%) QA
3 19 (6.17%) Accessibility
3 19 (6.17%) Data Quality
4 15 (4.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (3.90%) HL7
6 7 (2.27%) WCAG
7 5 (1.62%) NCSC
7 5 (1.62%) NIST
8 3 (0.97%) SLA
9 2 (0.65%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 32 (10.39%) Docker
2 23 (7.47%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.97%) VMware NSX
3 3 (0.97%) vSphere
4 1 (0.32%) iptables
Systems Management
1 34 (11.04%) Terraform
2 26 (8.44%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.22%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (3.25%) Ansible
5 7 (2.27%) Kibana
6 3 (0.97%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.32%) Grafana
7 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 42 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 41 (13.31%) Oracle
3 17 (5.52%) Cisco
4 13 (4.22%) Google
4 13 (4.22%) SAP
5 12 (3.90%) Ab Initio
5 12 (3.90%) Okta
6 11 (3.57%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.92%) F5
7 9 (2.92%) Palo Alto
7 9 (2.92%) Splunk
8 8 (2.60%) Databricks
9 7 (2.27%) Dell
9 7 (2.27%) Dynatrace
9 7 (2.27%) Intapp
9 7 (2.27%) MuleSoft
9 7 (2.27%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.27%) Talend
10 6 (1.95%) IBM
10 6 (1.95%) Juniper