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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 436 333 257
Rank change year-on-year -103 -76 +10
Permanent jobs citing JSON 334 385 1,120
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.85% 1.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.43% 4.41% 5.27%
Number of salaries quoted 240 286 689
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% +4.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,813 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,875 £86,250 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -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 9,739 8,734 21,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.25% 19.23% 20.02%
Number of salaries quoted 7,289 5,749 16,199
10th Percentile £40,450 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,350 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +10.58% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £79,600
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -75 302 £65,000 +3.17% 117
UK excluding London -71 189 £60,000 +7.14% 89
Work from Home -23 135 £62,500 -2.34% 59
London -36 109 £75,000 +11.11% 50
South East -40 84 £60,000 -7.69% 35
North of England -19 49 £55,000 - 17
North West +7 30 £62,500 +13.64% 12
East of England -18 29 £90,000 +89.47% 4
Yorkshire -30 14 £42,750 +5.56% 4
South West -69 14 £52,500 -12.50% 9
Midlands -32 9 £47,500 -20.17% 14
West Midlands -28 5 £43,000 -27.12% 6
North East -39 5 £45,000 -41.94% 1
Wales - 5 - - 4
East Midlands -24 4 £47,500 -20.83% 8
Scotland -6 2 £72,500 +62.92% 7

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 (8.38%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (3.29%) Confluence
4 10 (2.99%) Apache
5 9 (2.69%) IIS
6 8 (2.40%) CMS
7 7 (2.10%) WordPress
8 5 (1.50%) Drupal
9 4 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.90%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.60%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.60%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.30%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.30%) SAS
12 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.90%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.90%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.30%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.30%) EngageOne
3 1 (0.30%) Lightworks
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.30%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.30%) Magento
2 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.30%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 153 (45.81%) Azure
2 86 (25.75%) AWS
3 63 (18.86%) Power Platform
4 44 (13.17%) Azure Logic Apps
5 43 (12.87%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (12.87%) Microsoft 365
6 33 (9.88%) Serverless
7 29 (8.68%) SaaS
8 25 (7.49%) PowerApps
9 24 (7.19%) AWS Lambda
9 24 (7.19%) Azure Data Factory
9 24 (7.19%) Power Automate
10 23 (6.89%) GitHub
11 20 (5.99%) Dynamics 365
11 20 (5.99%) OneDrive
12 19 (5.69%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 16 (4.79%) Boomi
14 15 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (4.49%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (3.89%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.69%) Firewall
2 6 (1.80%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (1.80%) DNS
3 5 (1.50%) HTTP
3 5 (1.50%) Intranet
3 5 (1.50%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.20%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.90%) BGP
5 3 (0.90%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.90%) SSL
6 2 (0.60%) AMQP
6 2 (0.60%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.60%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.60%) LAN
6 2 (0.60%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.60%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.60%) WAN
7 1 (0.30%) MQTT
7 1 (0.30%) PuTTY
7 1 (0.30%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (14.97%) Power BI
2 47 (14.07%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (9.88%) MySQL
4 29 (8.68%) Relational Database
5 26 (7.78%) SQL Server
6 22 (6.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 20 (5.99%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (5.39%) Metadata
8 18 (5.39%) Redis
9 13 (3.89%) RDBMS
10 12 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (2.10%) Electronic Patient Records
11 7 (2.10%) GIS
11 7 (2.10%) Oracle Database
12 6 (1.80%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (1.50%) Delta Lake
14 4 (1.20%) Apache Iceberg
14 4 (1.20%) Power Query
14 4 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 58 (17.37%) Git
2 41 (12.28%) JIRA
3 27 (8.08%) Jenkins
4 24 (7.19%) GitLab
5 11 (3.29%) Postman
6 10 (2.99%) JUnit
7 8 (2.40%) ERwin
7 8 (2.40%) Maven
8 7 (2.10%) Mockito
8 7 (2.10%) Selenium
9 6 (1.80%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.80%) JMeter
9 6 (1.80%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.50%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.50%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.50%) Gradle
10 5 (1.50%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.50%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.20%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 149 (44.61%) Social Skills
2 89 (26.65%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (18.56%) Finance
4 22 (6.59%) Organisational Skills
5 17 (5.09%) Retail
6 16 (4.79%) Telecoms
7 14 (4.19%) Advertising
7 14 (4.19%) Marketing
8 13 (3.89%) Health Technology
9 10 (2.99%) Law
10 7 (2.10%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.80%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.50%) Back Office
13 4 (1.20%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.90%) Banking
14 3 (0.90%) Billing
14 3 (0.90%) Local Government
14 3 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 110 (32.93%) Developer
2 70 (20.96%) Senior
3 44 (13.17%) Senior Developer
4 30 (8.98%) Architect
5 28 (8.38%) Analyst
6 27 (8.08%) Consultant
7 21 (6.29%) DevOps Engineer
7 21 (6.29%) Support Engineer
8 19 (5.69%) Data Analyst
9 18 (5.39%) Software Developer
10 17 (5.09%) Software Engineer
11 15 (4.49%) Integration Architect
12 14 (4.19%) Automation Engineer
12 14 (4.19%) Data Engineer
12 14 (4.19%) Lead
13 12 (3.59%) Java Developer
13 12 (3.59%) Technical Support
13 12 (3.59%) Telecoms Engineer
14 11 (3.29%) Applications Architect
14 11 (3.29%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (43.71%) XML
2 120 (35.93%) REST
3 87 (26.05%) HTML
4 74 (22.16%) CSS
5 62 (18.56%) .NET
6 49 (14.67%) SOAP
7 41 (12.28%) .NET Core
8 40 (11.98%) RESTful
9 38 (11.38%) Middleware
10 34 (10.18%) YAML
11 27 (8.08%) React
12 26 (7.78%) JWT
13 22 (6.59%) ASP.NET
14 21 (6.29%) HTML5 Canvas
15 20 (5.99%) Microsoft Graph
15 20 (5.99%) OAuth
16 19 (5.69%) Node.js
16 19 (5.69%) SPFx
17 18 (5.39%) HTML5
18 17 (5.09%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.58%) Data Structures
1 32 (9.58%) Onboarding
2 23 (6.89%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (5.99%) Analytical Mindset
3 20 (5.99%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (5.69%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.69%) Enterprise Cloud
5 9 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.69%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (2.69%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.40%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.10%) Driving Licence
7 7 (2.10%) e-Learning
7 7 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.10%) NHS
7 7 (2.10%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.10%) Robotics
8 6 (1.80%) Operational Technology
8 6 (1.80%) SCADA
9 4 (1.20%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 57 (17.07%) Linux
2 34 (10.18%) Windows
3 14 (4.19%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.10%) Unix
5 6 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (28.14%) Agile
2 92 (27.54%) Problem-Solving
3 90 (26.95%) CI/CD
3 90 (26.95%) DevOps
4 62 (18.56%) Data Modelling
5 53 (15.87%) Microservices
6 51 (15.27%) Business Intelligence
7 46 (13.77%) User Experience
8 44 (13.17%) Containerisation
9 41 (12.28%) Infrastructure as Code
10 40 (11.98%) API Integration
11 37 (11.08%) Test Automation
12 36 (10.78%) Roadmaps
13 35 (10.48%) Analytics
13 35 (10.48%) Validation
14 34 (10.18%) AI
15 33 (9.88%) ERP
16 31 (9.28%) Integration Patterns
17 30 (8.98%) API Design
17 30 (8.98%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 164 (49.10%) SQL
2 114 (34.13%) JavaScript
3 109 (32.63%) Python
4 66 (19.76%) C#
5 56 (16.77%) Java
6 42 (12.57%) PowerShell
7 27 (8.08%) TypeScript
8 21 (6.29%) PHP
9 17 (5.09%) T-SQL
10 12 (3.59%) Shell Script
11 11 (3.29%) C++
11 11 (3.29%) Ruby
12 9 (2.69%) Perl
13 7 (2.10%) VB
14 6 (1.80%) Groovy
15 5 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (1.50%) PL/SQL
16 4 (1.20%) VBA
17 3 (0.90%) Bash
17 3 (0.90%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 41 (12.28%) Security Cleared
2 40 (11.98%) Degree
3 25 (7.49%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.10%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.80%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.50%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.90%) CISSP
9 2 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.60%) CASP
9 2 (0.60%) CCSP
9 2 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.60%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.60%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.30%) GIAC
10 1 (0.30%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (11.38%) QA
2 21 (6.29%) Accessibility
3 19 (5.69%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.59%) TickIT
5 11 (3.29%) SLA
6 10 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (2.10%) HL7
8 6 (1.80%) GDPR
8 6 (1.80%) WCAG
9 4 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.90%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.90%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.30%) PERC
11 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 49 (14.67%) Docker
2 14 (4.19%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.80%) vSphere
4 4 (1.20%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.60%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 33 (9.88%) Terraform
2 32 (9.58%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.89%) Ansible
4 6 (1.80%) Kibana
5 4 (1.20%) Packer
6 2 (0.60%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.30%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 91 (27.25%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.19%) Adobe
3 18 (5.39%) Oracle
4 16 (4.79%) Cisco
5 15 (4.49%) Splunk
6 13 (3.89%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.69%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.40%) Databricks
8 8 (2.40%) Dynatrace
8 8 (2.40%) F5
8 8 (2.40%) VMware
9 7 (2.10%) Sparx
10 6 (1.80%) Juniper
10 6 (1.80%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.80%) SAP
11 5 (1.50%) Google
11 5 (1.50%) IBM
11 5 (1.50%) MuleSoft
12 4 (1.20%) AppDynamics
13 3 (0.90%) OpenAI