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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 307 237
Rank change year-on-year -115 -70 +43
Permanent jobs citing JSON 327 418 1,162
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.97% 1.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.72% 4.97% 5.72%
Number of salaries quoted 210 314 762
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £47,612 £46,250 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £89,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +11.36% -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 8,787 8,418 20,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.66% 19.60% 21.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,423 6,348 15,703
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,000 £51,250 £45,000
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 £87,500 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 5 May 2026.

Salary histogram for JSON in the UK

JSON
Top 15 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 5 May 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 -97 279 £65,000 +5.48% 124
UK excluding London -91 198 £61,250 +11.36% 83
Work from Home -28 144 £61,250 -2.00% 58
London -39 94 £66,000 -4.00% 47
South East -62 66 £62,500 -3.85% 31
East of England +18 56 £90,000 +89.47% 5
North of England -60 40 £60,000 +14.29% 29
North West -21 27 £65,000 +23.81% 15
Scotland -10 22 £72,500 +52.45% 2
Midlands -56 11 £47,500 -11.53% 13
Yorkshire -60 11 £70,000 +33.33% 12
West Midlands -38 7 £43,000 -20.87% 4
South West -62 6 £31,500 -47.50% 5
East Midlands -49 4 £47,500 -9.52% 9
North East -30 2 £46,250 -40.32% 2

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 29 (8.87%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.53%) CMS
3 5 (1.53%) IIS
4 4 (1.22%) Confluence
4 4 (1.22%) WordPress
5 3 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.61%) Apache
6 2 (0.61%) Drupal
6 2 (0.61%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.61%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.61%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.61%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.31%) CICS
7 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.31%) JBoss
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.31%) SAS
7 1 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.92%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.31%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.31%) EngageOne
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.31%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (2.45%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.61%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.31%) Magento
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.31%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 143 (43.73%) Azure
2 72 (22.02%) AWS
3 63 (19.27%) Power Platform
4 45 (13.76%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (11.62%) Azure Logic Apps
6 35 (10.70%) GitHub
6 35 (10.70%) Microsoft 365
7 34 (10.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 32 (9.79%) Serverless
9 26 (7.95%) Power Automate
9 26 (7.95%) PowerApps
9 26 (7.95%) SaaS
10 20 (6.12%) OneDrive
11 19 (5.81%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 18 (5.50%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (5.20%) Dynamics 365
14 16 (4.89%) Boomi
14 16 (4.89%) Entra ID
15 14 (4.28%) Amazon EC2
15 14 (4.28%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.20%) Firewall
2 6 (1.83%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (1.83%) VPN
3 5 (1.53%) DNS
4 4 (1.22%) AMQP
4 4 (1.22%) SSL
5 3 (0.92%) BGP
5 3 (0.92%) FTP
6 2 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.61%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.61%) HTTP
6 2 (0.61%) LAN
6 2 (0.61%) PuTTY
6 2 (0.61%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.61%) WAN
7 1 (0.31%) Broadband
7 1 (0.31%) CTI
7 1 (0.31%) DHCP
7 1 (0.31%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.31%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (17.13%) Power BI
2 36 (11.01%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (9.17%) MySQL
4 23 (7.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 22 (6.73%) Relational Database
5 22 (6.73%) SQL Server
6 19 (5.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (5.81%) Metadata
7 13 (3.98%) RDBMS
8 9 (2.75%) Electronic Patient Records
9 8 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (2.45%) Oracle Database
10 7 (2.14%) GIS
10 7 (2.14%) Redis
11 6 (1.83%) OLTP
11 6 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.22%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (0.92%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 40 (12.23%) Git
2 36 (11.01%) JIRA
3 30 (9.17%) Jenkins
4 20 (6.12%) GitLab
5 12 (3.67%) Postman
6 9 (2.75%) JUnit
6 9 (2.75%) Maven
7 8 (2.45%) Oracle Forms
8 7 (2.14%) ERwin
9 6 (1.83%) Gradle
9 6 (1.83%) Mockito
9 6 (1.83%) Selenium
9 6 (1.83%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.53%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.53%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.53%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.53%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.53%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.22%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.22%) JMeter
General
1 130 (39.76%) Social Skills
2 80 (24.46%) Analytical Skills
3 75 (22.94%) Finance
4 21 (6.42%) Marketing
4 21 (6.42%) Retail
5 18 (5.50%) Telecoms
6 15 (4.59%) Health Technology
6 15 (4.59%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (4.28%) Law
8 12 (3.67%) German Language
9 9 (2.75%) Advertising
9 9 (2.75%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.14%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.92%) Billing
13 3 (0.92%) Local Government
14 2 (0.61%) Front Office
14 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.61%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 103 (31.50%) Developer
2 76 (23.24%) Senior
3 48 (14.68%) Senior Developer
4 31 (9.48%) Consultant
5 27 (8.26%) Analyst
6 26 (7.95%) Architect
7 20 (6.12%) Data Analyst
8 16 (4.89%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (4.89%) Java Developer
8 16 (4.89%) Support Engineer
9 15 (4.59%) Applications Engineer
9 15 (4.59%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (3.67%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (3.36%) Applications Architect
11 11 (3.36%) Integration Architect
11 11 (3.36%) Integration Engineer
11 11 (3.36%) Network Engineer
11 11 (3.36%) Telecoms Engineer
12 10 (3.06%) Data Engineer
12 10 (3.06%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (50.76%) XML
2 110 (33.64%) REST
3 91 (27.83%) HTML
4 56 (17.13%) SOAP
5 54 (16.51%) CSS
6 45 (13.76%) RESTful
7 44 (13.46%) .NET
8 29 (8.87%) Middleware
9 27 (8.26%) YAML
10 26 (7.95%) .NET Core
10 26 (7.95%) OAuth
10 26 (7.95%) Regular Expression
11 23 (7.03%) HTML5 Canvas
12 20 (6.12%) Spring
13 19 (5.81%) Microsoft Graph
13 19 (5.81%) OAuth2
13 19 (5.81%) SPFx
13 19 (5.81%) Web Services
14 18 (5.50%) JWT
14 18 (5.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 43 (13.15%) Onboarding
2 34 (10.40%) Data Structures
2 34 (10.40%) Linux Command Line
3 24 (7.34%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (7.03%) Cloud Native
5 20 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (3.98%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (3.98%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.75%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (2.75%) NHS
8 7 (2.14%) e-Learning
8 7 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.14%) Operational Technology
8 7 (2.14%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.14%) SCADA
9 6 (1.83%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.53%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.53%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.22%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.22%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 37 (11.31%) Linux
2 29 (8.87%) Unix
3 13 (3.98%) Windows
4 8 (2.45%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.31%) Android
6 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (27.22%) CI/CD
2 87 (26.61%) DevOps
3 80 (24.46%) Agile
4 72 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (18.04%) Business Intelligence
6 58 (17.74%) Data Modelling
7 51 (15.60%) Test Automation
8 47 (14.37%) AI
9 45 (13.76%) API Integration
10 40 (12.23%) Data Analysis
10 40 (12.23%) ERP
10 40 (12.23%) Microservices
11 38 (11.62%) Analytics
11 38 (11.62%) User Experience
12 34 (10.40%) Infrastructure as Code
12 34 (10.40%) Validation
13 32 (9.79%) Containerisation
13 32 (9.79%) Integration Patterns
14 31 (9.48%) Mentoring
15 29 (8.87%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 166 (50.76%) SQL
2 119 (36.39%) Python
3 97 (29.66%) JavaScript
4 73 (22.32%) Java
5 42 (12.84%) C#
6 34 (10.40%) PowerShell
7 27 (8.26%) TypeScript
8 20 (6.12%) PL/SQL
9 18 (5.50%) Shell Script
10 12 (3.67%) PHP
11 11 (3.36%) Bicep
11 11 (3.36%) Perl
12 10 (3.06%) T-SQL
13 9 (2.75%) VB
14 6 (1.83%) Groovy
15 4 (1.22%) Ruby
15 4 (1.22%) VBA
16 3 (0.92%) ActionScript
16 3 (0.92%) ActionScript 2.0
16 3 (0.92%) R
Qualifications
1 49 (14.98%) Degree
2 36 (11.01%) Security Cleared
3 21 (6.42%) SC Cleared
4 18 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.53%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.92%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.92%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (0.92%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.48%) QA
2 16 (4.89%) Accessibility
3 15 (4.59%) Data Quality
4 14 (4.28%) GDPR
5 12 (3.67%) TickIT
6 11 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (3.36%) SLA
7 10 (3.06%) HL7
8 7 (2.14%) WCAG
9 2 (0.61%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.31%) NCSC
10 1 (0.31%) NIST
10 1 (0.31%) PERC
System Software
1 35 (10.70%) Docker
2 20 (6.12%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.22%) vSphere
4 2 (0.61%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.31%) iptables
Systems Management
1 34 (10.40%) Terraform
2 32 (9.79%) Kubernetes
3 17 (5.20%) Ansible
4 8 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.53%) Kibana
6 4 (1.22%) Packer
7 2 (0.61%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.31%) Grafana
8 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 69 (21.10%) Microsoft
2 35 (10.70%) Oracle
3 24 (7.34%) Adobe
4 16 (4.89%) Cisco
5 11 (3.36%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.75%) Databricks
6 9 (2.75%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.45%) Ab Initio
7 8 (2.45%) F5
7 8 (2.45%) Okta
7 8 (2.45%) Splunk
8 7 (2.14%) Google
8 7 (2.14%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.14%) Sparx
9 6 (1.83%) IBM
9 6 (1.83%) Juniper
9 6 (1.83%) VMware
10 5 (1.53%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.53%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.53%) SAP