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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 312 228
Rank change year-on-year -34 -84 +16
Permanent jobs citing JSON 328 488 782
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.90% 1.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.68% 4.19% 5.89%
Number of salaries quoted 211 323 640
10th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £86,563
90th Percentile £81,750 £83,750 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 7,007 11,647 13,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.87% 21.40% 25.18%
Number of salaries quoted 5,217 6,869 10,799
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,200 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 -40 261 £55,000 -8.33% 315
UK excluding London -12 212 £55,000 +4.76% 287
Work from Home +14 131 £55,000 -15.38% 286
London +2 94 £75,000 +7.14% 59
East of England +57 60 £55,000 -13.73% 41
South East -66 57 £56,250 -13.46% 84
Scotland +31 42 £46,500 +4.49% 9
North of England -3 27 £55,000 +4.76% 64
Midlands -6 23 £47,500 -9.52% 49
North West +25 19 £57,500 +4.55% 34
West Midlands +10 17 £47,500 -14.56% 25
East Midlands -6 6 £60,000 +17.07% 21
Yorkshire -30 4 £56,750 +8.10% 26
North East - 4 £45,000 - 4
Northern Ireland -6 2 - - 5
South West -6 1 £60,000 +20.00% 32

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 9 (2.74%) Confluence
1 9 (2.74%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.52%) Anypoint
2 5 (1.52%) CMS
3 3 (0.91%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.61%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.61%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.30%) Apache
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.30%) Appian
5 1 (0.30%) CICS
5 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.30%) IIS
5 1 (0.30%) JBoss
5 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.13%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.83%) Trello
4 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (6.10%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.83%) NetSuite
2 6 (1.83%) Shopify
3 3 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.91%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 125 (38.11%) Azure
2 64 (19.51%) GitHub
3 59 (17.99%) AWS
3 59 (17.99%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (9.76%) Power Platform
5 29 (8.84%) Serverless
6 27 (8.23%) Azure Logic Apps
7 24 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
7 24 (7.32%) Power Automate
8 23 (7.01%) Entra ID
9 21 (6.40%) OCI
10 20 (6.10%) Azure Service Bus
11 19 (5.79%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (5.18%) Amazon EC2
12 17 (5.18%) Azure Monitor
12 17 (5.18%) GCP
13 16 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
13 16 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
13 16 (4.88%) Boomi
13 16 (4.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.66%) FTP
2 11 (3.35%) VPN
3 4 (1.22%) Cisco ISE
3 4 (1.22%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.22%) Firewall
3 4 (1.22%) HTTP
3 4 (1.22%) LAN
3 4 (1.22%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.22%) WAN
4 3 (0.91%) AMQP
4 3 (0.91%) DNS
4 3 (0.91%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.61%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.30%) DHCP
6 1 (0.30%) Modbus
6 1 (0.30%) SSL
6 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.30%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (14.94%) Relational Database
2 39 (11.89%) SQL Server
3 27 (8.23%) MySQL
4 25 (7.62%) Power BI
5 20 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (5.18%) Electronic Patient Records
7 15 (4.57%) RDBMS
8 12 (3.66%) OLTP
8 12 (3.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (3.05%) NoSQL
10 8 (2.44%) GIS
11 6 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.83%) Metadata
11 6 (1.83%) Power Query
12 3 (0.91%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (0.91%) Redis
12 3 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.61%) Data Mining
13 2 (0.61%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 42 (12.80%) Jenkins
2 20 (6.10%) Oracle Forms
3 18 (5.49%) Git
3 18 (5.49%) JIRA
4 15 (4.57%) JMeter
4 15 (4.57%) JUnit
5 14 (4.27%) Mockito
6 9 (2.74%) Postman
7 8 (2.44%) Visual Studio
8 7 (2.13%) Storybook
9 6 (1.83%) Axure RP
10 2 (0.61%) Crashlytics
10 2 (0.61%) Selenium
11 1 (0.30%) ESLint
11 1 (0.30%) Maven
11 1 (0.30%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.30%) Subversion
11 1 (0.30%) Testinfra
11 1 (0.30%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.30%) Xcode
General
1 99 (30.18%) Social Skills
2 79 (24.09%) Finance
3 43 (13.11%) Law
4 42 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (9.15%) Retail
6 28 (8.54%) Public Sector
7 21 (6.40%) Marketing
8 17 (5.18%) Health Technology
9 15 (4.57%) German Language
10 7 (2.13%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.83%) Legal
12 4 (1.22%) Automotive
13 3 (0.91%) Electronics
13 3 (0.91%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.61%) Banking
14 2 (0.61%) Billing
14 2 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.61%) Publishing
15 1 (0.30%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 117 (35.67%) Developer
2 63 (19.21%) Senior
3 35 (10.67%) Senior Developer
4 29 (8.84%) Analyst
5 24 (7.32%) Consultant
6 21 (6.40%) Applications Engineer
6 21 (6.40%) Cloud Engineer
7 20 (6.10%) Integration Engineer
7 20 (6.10%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 19 (5.79%) Java Developer
9 17 (5.18%) Full-Stack Developer
9 17 (5.18%) Technical Consultant
10 14 (4.27%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 14 (4.27%) Oracle Developer
10 14 (4.27%) Senior Oracle Developer
11 12 (3.66%) Data Engineer
11 12 (3.66%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 12 (3.66%) ServiceNow Developer
12 11 (3.35%) Lead
13 10 (3.05%) EPR Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (60.06%) XML
2 117 (35.67%) REST
3 110 (33.54%) HTML
4 53 (16.16%) SOAP
5 47 (14.33%) RESTful
6 44 (13.41%) Web Services
7 40 (12.20%) CSS
8 34 (10.37%) React
9 30 (9.15%) Regular Expression
10 27 (8.23%) OAuth
11 22 (6.71%) Spring
12 21 (6.40%) Spring Boot
13 20 (6.10%) FHIR
14 18 (5.49%) Hibernate
15 17 (5.18%) OAuth2
16 16 (4.88%) .NET
16 16 (4.88%) jQuery
17 14 (4.27%) ActiveMQ
17 14 (4.27%) Apache Camel
17 14 (4.27%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 47 (14.33%) Onboarding
2 42 (12.80%) Linux Command Line
3 35 (10.67%) Cloud Native
4 23 (7.01%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (5.18%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (4.88%) Low-Code
8 12 (3.66%) Data Structures
9 11 (3.35%) Operational Technology
10 10 (3.05%) NHS
11 8 (2.44%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.83%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.83%) Social Media
13 4 (1.22%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.22%) Semantic Web
14 3 (0.91%) Mobile App
14 3 (0.91%) Reference Data
15 2 (0.61%) Blog
15 2 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
15 2 (0.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (11.28%) Unix
2 22 (6.71%) Linux
3 4 (1.22%) Windows
4 3 (0.91%) Android
4 3 (0.91%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (31.10%) Agile
2 98 (29.88%) CI/CD
3 80 (24.39%) DevOps
4 72 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
5 71 (21.65%) Test Automation
6 52 (15.85%) ETL
7 49 (14.94%) Root Cause Analysis
8 47 (14.33%) AI
9 46 (14.02%) Analytics
10 45 (13.72%) API Integration
10 45 (13.72%) Coaching
11 42 (12.80%) Mentoring
12 41 (12.50%) Asset Management
12 41 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
13 38 (11.59%) LLM
13 38 (11.59%) Observability
14 34 (10.37%) Data Analysis
14 34 (10.37%) ERP
14 34 (10.37%) Translating Business Requirements
15 29 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 158 (48.17%) SQL
2 113 (34.45%) JavaScript
2 113 (34.45%) Python
3 69 (21.04%) Java
4 40 (12.20%) Shell Script
5 34 (10.37%) C#
5 34 (10.37%) PL/SQL
6 32 (9.76%) PowerShell
7 18 (5.49%) Bicep
8 13 (3.96%) TypeScript
9 11 (3.35%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.22%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.22%) PHP
11 3 (0.91%) ActionScript
11 3 (0.91%) ActionScript 2.0
11 3 (0.91%) C++
12 2 (0.61%) Bash
12 2 (0.61%) Perl
12 2 (0.61%) Ruby
12 2 (0.61%) VB
Qualifications
1 45 (13.72%) Degree
2 24 (7.32%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.35%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (0.61%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.30%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.30%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.30%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.01%) GDPR
2 20 (6.10%) HL7
3 18 (5.49%) Accessibility
3 18 (5.49%) QA
4 17 (5.18%) Data Quality
5 10 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (2.74%) NCSC
6 9 (2.74%) NIST
7 6 (1.83%) WCAG
8 2 (0.61%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 36 (10.98%) Docker
2 22 (6.71%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.22%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.30%) iptables
Systems Management
1 44 (13.41%) Terraform
2 32 (9.76%) Kubernetes
3 25 (7.62%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (4.27%) Kibana
5 10 (3.05%) Ansible
6 4 (1.22%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.61%) Grafana
8 1 (0.30%) Packer
8 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 45 (13.72%) Oracle
2 37 (11.28%) Microsoft
3 22 (6.71%) ServiceNow
4 20 (6.10%) Okta
5 15 (4.57%) Google
5 15 (4.57%) SAP
5 15 (4.57%) Splunk
6 14 (4.27%) Ab Initio
6 14 (4.27%) Dynatrace
7 11 (3.35%) Cisco
7 11 (3.35%) MuleSoft
8 9 (2.74%) Dell
9 7 (2.13%) Informatica
9 7 (2.13%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.13%) SnapLogic
9 7 (2.13%) Talend
10 6 (1.83%) IBM
10 6 (1.83%) Intapp
10 6 (1.83%) Workday
11 5 (1.52%) Epicor