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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 309 220
Rank change year-on-year -60 -89 +10
Permanent jobs citing JSON 323 551 863
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.81% 1.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.25% 4.00% 5.98%
Number of salaries quoted 238 351 718
10th Percentile £42,275 £36,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% -3.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,875 £85,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £97,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +3.45%

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 7,599 13,771 14,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.98% 20.23% 27.14%
Number of salaries quoted 5,098 8,311 11,810
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,460
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -0.70% +0.71%
75th Percentile £86,250 £84,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £108,750 £106,250
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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025. 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 -50 277 £57,500 -4.17% 431
UK excluding London -39 207 £55,000 - 341
Work from Home -13 135 £62,500 -3.85% 322
London -23 99 £70,000 - 187
South East -20 81 £62,500 -5.66% 157
East of England +47 44 £55,000 -15.38% 27
North of England -35 29 £55,000 - 84
Midlands +15 25 £47,500 -9.52% 26
Scotland +13 24 £50,000 +12.36% 26
North West +4 22 £55,000 - 66
West Midlands +18 18 £47,500 -17.39% 9
East Midlands +19 7 £60,000 +18.81% 16
South West +25 4 £60,000 +20.00% 10
North East +13 4 £45,000 - 4
Yorkshire -18 3 £43,500 -33.08% 14
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 5

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 10 (3.10%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.79%) Confluence
3 6 (1.86%) Anypoint
3 6 (1.86%) IIS
4 5 (1.55%) CMS
4 5 (1.55%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.93%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.31%) Appian
7 1 (0.31%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.48%) MS Visio
3 7 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.86%) Trello
5 1 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.72%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (2.17%) Shopify
3 5 (1.55%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.93%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.62%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.31%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 130 (40.25%) Azure
2 60 (18.58%) GitHub
3 57 (17.65%) AWS
4 54 (16.72%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (11.15%) Serverless
6 32 (9.91%) Power Platform
7 30 (9.29%) Power Automate
8 24 (7.43%) Amazon EC2
9 23 (7.12%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (6.81%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (6.19%) Azure Service Bus
12 19 (5.88%) Entra ID
13 18 (5.57%) Azure Logic Apps
14 17 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
14 17 (5.26%) GCP
14 17 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (5.26%) PaaS
15 15 (4.64%) Boomi
16 14 (4.33%) Microsoft 365
16 14 (4.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.79%) Cisco ISE
1 9 (2.79%) Ethernet
1 9 (2.79%) Firewall
1 9 (2.79%) FTP
1 9 (2.79%) LAN
1 9 (2.79%) SD-WAN
1 9 (2.79%) WAN
2 6 (1.86%) HTTP
3 5 (1.55%) VPN
4 4 (1.24%) DMARC
4 4 (1.24%) SSL
5 2 (0.62%) DNS
5 2 (0.62%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.31%) Internet
6 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.31%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (17.65%) Relational Database
2 51 (15.79%) SQL Server
3 29 (8.98%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (7.12%) MySQL
4 23 (7.12%) Power BI
4 23 (7.12%) RDBMS
5 15 (4.64%) OLTP
6 11 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (3.41%) Electronic Patient Records
7 10 (3.10%) NoSQL
8 9 (2.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (2.48%) GIS
10 7 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (2.17%) Power Query
11 6 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.86%) Redis
12 5 (1.55%) MongoDB
13 3 (0.93%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (0.93%) Parquet
14 2 (0.62%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 43 (13.31%) Jenkins
2 42 (13.00%) Git
3 25 (7.74%) JUnit
4 24 (7.43%) JMeter
5 22 (6.81%) Mockito
6 16 (4.95%) JIRA
7 15 (4.64%) Visual Studio
8 12 (3.72%) Oracle Forms
9 8 (2.48%) Selenium
10 7 (2.17%) MSBuild
10 7 (2.17%) Octopus Deploy
10 7 (2.17%) Postman
10 7 (2.17%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (1.86%) Axure RP
12 4 (1.24%) webpack
13 3 (0.93%) Storybook
13 3 (0.93%) WebDriver
14 2 (0.62%) Babel
14 2 (0.62%) Katalon Studio
14 2 (0.62%) Maven
General
1 111 (34.37%) Social Skills
2 58 (17.96%) Finance
3 50 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (14.86%) Law
5 35 (10.84%) Public Sector
6 33 (10.22%) Retail
7 22 (6.81%) Marketing
8 11 (3.41%) Health Technology
9 9 (2.79%) Legal
10 8 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.86%) Front Office
12 5 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.24%) Automotive
13 4 (1.24%) Czech Language
13 4 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.93%) Banking
14 3 (0.93%) German Language
14 3 (0.93%) Publishing
15 2 (0.62%) Games
15 2 (0.62%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 133 (41.18%) Developer
2 55 (17.03%) Senior
3 38 (11.76%) Senior Developer
4 28 (8.67%) Analyst
5 26 (8.05%) Full-Stack Developer
6 22 (6.81%) Java Developer
7 18 (5.57%) Architect
7 18 (5.57%) Consultant
7 18 (5.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 15 (4.64%) Integration Engineer
8 15 (4.64%) Mid-Level Java Developer
8 15 (4.64%) Oracle Developer
8 15 (4.64%) Senior Oracle Developer
9 14 (4.33%) Cloud Engineer
9 14 (4.33%) Lead
10 13 (4.02%) Applications Engineer
10 13 (4.02%) Data Engineer
10 13 (4.02%) ServiceNow Consultant
11 12 (3.72%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 12 (3.72%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (59.75%) XML
2 136 (42.11%) REST
3 124 (38.39%) HTML
4 67 (20.74%) CSS
5 52 (16.10%) Web Services
6 46 (14.24%) SOAP
7 40 (12.38%) RESTful
8 33 (10.22%) React
9 30 (9.29%) .NET
10 24 (7.43%) jQuery
10 24 (7.43%) Spring
11 23 (7.12%) Hibernate
11 23 (7.12%) Spring Boot
12 22 (6.81%) ActiveMQ
12 22 (6.81%) Apache Camel
12 22 (6.81%) WireMock
13 17 (5.26%) AngularJS
14 16 (4.95%) ASP.NET
14 16 (4.95%) OAuth
15 14 (4.33%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.67%) Onboarding
2 27 (8.36%) Self-Motivation
3 26 (8.05%) Cloud Native
4 25 (7.74%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (4.64%) Low-Code
7 14 (4.33%) Linux Command Line
7 14 (4.33%) Product Ownership
8 10 (3.10%) Data Centre
8 10 (3.10%) Data Structures
8 10 (3.10%) Operational Technology
9 9 (2.79%) Public Cloud
10 8 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.86%) BYOD
11 6 (1.86%) Social Media
12 5 (1.55%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.24%) NHS
14 2 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
14 2 (0.62%) Blog
14 2 (0.62%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.50%) Unix
2 20 (6.19%) Linux
3 8 (2.48%) Windows
4 4 (1.24%) Android
5 3 (0.93%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (37.46%) Agile
2 88 (27.24%) CI/CD
3 87 (26.93%) Problem-Solving
4 78 (24.15%) DevOps
5 56 (17.34%) Test Automation
6 54 (16.72%) Microservices
7 46 (14.24%) ETL
8 42 (13.00%) API Integration
9 41 (12.69%) Mentoring
10 37 (11.46%) Full-Stack Development
10 37 (11.46%) SDLC
11 36 (11.15%) Analytics
12 33 (10.22%) AI
12 33 (10.22%) Root Cause Analysis
12 33 (10.22%) Workflow
13 31 (9.60%) Business Intelligence
13 31 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (8.98%) BDD
14 29 (8.98%) TDD
14 29 (8.98%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 163 (50.46%) SQL
2 148 (45.82%) JavaScript
3 97 (30.03%) Python
4 71 (21.98%) Java
5 52 (16.10%) C#
6 40 (12.38%) Shell Script
7 39 (12.07%) PowerShell
8 29 (8.98%) PL/SQL
9 16 (4.95%) TypeScript
10 12 (3.72%) T-SQL
11 10 (3.10%) Bicep
12 7 (2.17%) PHP
13 5 (1.55%) Go
14 4 (1.24%) VBA
15 2 (0.62%) C++
15 2 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.62%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.62%) Ruby
16 1 (0.31%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.31%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 26 (8.05%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.74%) Degree
3 11 (3.41%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.93%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.62%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.62%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.31%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.31%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.31%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.31%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.74%) QA
2 22 (6.81%) GDPR
3 17 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (4.33%) Accessibility
4 14 (4.33%) Data Quality
4 14 (4.33%) HL7
5 11 (3.41%) NCSC
5 11 (3.41%) NIST
6 2 (0.62%) WCAG
7 1 (0.31%) DICOM
System Software
1 50 (15.48%) Docker
2 18 (5.57%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.79%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 40 (12.38%) Kubernetes
2 33 (10.22%) Terraform
3 22 (6.81%) Kibana
4 21 (6.50%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (3.41%) Ansible
6 9 (2.79%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.31%) Grafana
8 1 (0.31%) Packer
Vendors
1 46 (14.24%) Microsoft
2 42 (13.00%) Oracle
3 26 (8.05%) ServiceNow
4 23 (7.12%) Splunk
5 22 (6.81%) Dynatrace
6 17 (5.26%) Cisco
6 17 (5.26%) Google
7 12 (3.72%) Okta
8 11 (3.41%) MuleSoft
8 11 (3.41%) SAP
9 9 (2.79%) Blue Coat
9 9 (2.79%) CheckPoint
9 9 (2.79%) F5
9 9 (2.79%) VMware
10 8 (2.48%) Informatica
11 7 (2.17%) Dell
11 7 (2.17%) IBM
11 7 (2.17%) Salesforce
11 7 (2.17%) SnapLogic
11 7 (2.17%) Talend