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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 303 232
Rank change year-on-year -112 -71 +45
Permanent jobs citing JSON 327 413 1,184
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.98% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.76% 4.87% 5.83%
Number of salaries quoted 205 313 778
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £47,092 £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 £75,250 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £89,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -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 8,692 8,481 20,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.82% 20.14% 21.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,347 6,479 15,736
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -116 275 £64,585 +3.34% 127
UK excluding London -91 197 £60,000 +9.09% 110
Work from Home -35 146 £57,500 -8.37% 103
London -46 93 £65,000 -7.14% 36
South East -73 61 £63,750 -1.92% 38
East of England +5 59 £82,500 +73.68% 14
North of England -44 39 £57,500 +9.52% 24
North West -34 26 £60,000 +14.29% 10
Scotland -12 24 £72,500 +52.45% 5
Yorkshire -59 11 £70,000 +33.33% 11
Midlands -66 11 £47,500 -11.53% 21
West Midlands -40 7 £43,000 -20.87% 7
South West -69 6 £31,500 -48.57% 9
East Midlands -66 4 £47,500 -8.65% 14
North East -42 2 £46,250 -40.32% 3

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 (8.56%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.83%) Confluence
4 4 (1.22%) IIS
5 3 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.92%) CMS
6 2 (0.61%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.61%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.61%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.61%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.61%) WordPress
7 1 (0.31%) Apache
7 1 (0.31%) CICS
7 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.31%) Drupal
7 1 (0.31%) JBoss
7 1 (0.31%) SAS
7 1 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.92%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.61%) Trello
4 1 (0.31%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.31%) EngageOne
4 1 (0.31%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (2.45%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.61%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.61%) Shopify
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
1 144 (44.04%) Azure
2 67 (20.49%) AWS
3 60 (18.35%) Power Platform
4 44 (13.46%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (11.31%) GitHub
6 34 (10.40%) Azure Logic Apps
7 32 (9.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 32 (9.79%) Microsoft 365
8 30 (9.17%) Serverless
9 27 (8.26%) Power Automate
10 26 (7.95%) SaaS
11 24 (7.34%) PowerApps
12 19 (5.81%) Boomi
13 17 (5.20%) OneDrive
14 16 (4.89%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 16 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
14 16 (4.89%) Dynamics 365
14 16 (4.89%) Entra ID
15 15 (4.59%) Azure Service Bus
15 15 (4.59%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.20%) Firewall
2 7 (2.14%) VPN
3 6 (1.83%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (1.53%) DNS
4 5 (1.53%) FTP
5 4 (1.22%) AMQP
5 4 (1.22%) SSL
6 3 (0.92%) BGP
7 2 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.61%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.61%) HTTP
7 2 (0.61%) LAN
7 2 (0.61%) PuTTY
7 2 (0.61%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.61%) WAN
8 1 (0.31%) Broadband
8 1 (0.31%) CTI
8 1 (0.31%) DHCP
8 1 (0.31%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.31%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (16.51%) Power BI
2 32 (9.79%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (9.48%) MySQL
4 25 (7.65%) SQL Server
5 23 (7.03%) Relational Database
6 22 (6.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 19 (5.81%) Metadata
8 18 (5.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (3.67%) RDBMS
10 10 (3.06%) Electronic Patient Records
11 9 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (2.45%) Oracle Database
13 7 (2.14%) GIS
14 6 (1.83%) OLTP
14 6 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (1.53%) Redis
16 4 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
16 4 (1.22%) MongoDB
16 4 (1.22%) Power Query
16 4 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (11.31%) Git
1 37 (11.31%) JIRA
2 28 (8.56%) Jenkins
3 20 (6.12%) GitLab
4 11 (3.36%) Postman
5 8 (2.45%) JUnit
5 8 (2.45%) Maven
5 8 (2.45%) Oracle Forms
6 7 (2.14%) ERwin
7 6 (1.83%) Selenium
7 6 (1.83%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.53%) Browser DevTools
8 5 (1.53%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.53%) Gradle
8 5 (1.53%) Mockito
8 5 (1.53%) SpecFlow
8 5 (1.53%) Storybook
8 5 (1.53%) WebDriver
9 4 (1.22%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.22%) Bitbucket
General
1 127 (38.84%) Social Skills
2 78 (23.85%) Analytical Skills
3 75 (22.94%) Finance
4 23 (7.03%) Marketing
5 20 (6.12%) Law
5 20 (6.12%) Retail
6 18 (5.50%) Telecoms
7 16 (4.89%) Health Technology
8 13 (3.98%) German Language
8 13 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (3.06%) Public Sector
10 8 (2.45%) Advertising
11 7 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.14%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.22%) Legal
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
Job Titles
1 101 (30.89%) Developer
2 72 (22.02%) Senior
3 45 (13.76%) Senior Developer
4 30 (9.17%) Analyst
4 30 (9.17%) Consultant
5 25 (7.65%) Architect
6 20 (6.12%) Data Analyst
7 17 (5.20%) Java Developer
8 16 (4.89%) Support Engineer
9 15 (4.59%) Applications Engineer
9 15 (4.59%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (3.98%) DevOps Engineer
10 13 (3.98%) Integration Engineer
11 12 (3.67%) Automation Engineer
12 11 (3.36%) Applications Architect
12 11 (3.36%) Lead
12 11 (3.36%) Network Engineer
12 11 (3.36%) Telecoms Engineer
13 10 (3.06%) Data Engineer
13 10 (3.06%) EPR Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (51.99%) XML
2 109 (33.33%) REST
3 90 (27.52%) HTML
4 57 (17.43%) SOAP
5 49 (14.98%) CSS
6 44 (13.46%) RESTful
7 40 (12.23%) .NET
8 29 (8.87%) Regular Expression
9 27 (8.26%) YAML
10 26 (7.95%) Middleware
11 25 (7.65%) OAuth
12 22 (6.73%) Web Services
13 21 (6.42%) .NET Core
14 20 (6.12%) HTML5 Canvas
15 19 (5.81%) Spring
16 18 (5.50%) OAuth2
16 18 (5.50%) React
17 16 (4.89%) Microsoft Graph
17 16 (4.89%) SPFx
17 16 (4.89%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 44 (13.46%) Onboarding
2 38 (11.62%) Linux Command Line
3 36 (11.01%) Data Structures
4 23 (7.03%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (6.73%) Cloud Native
6 18 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (4.28%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (3.36%) Low-Code
10 10 (3.06%) NHS
11 8 (2.45%) Enterprise Cloud
12 7 (2.14%) e-Learning
12 7 (2.14%) Operational Technology
12 7 (2.14%) SCADA
13 6 (1.83%) Product Ownership
13 6 (1.83%) Public Cloud
14 5 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (1.53%) Management Information System
14 5 (1.53%) Social Media
15 4 (1.22%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 38 (11.62%) Linux
2 34 (10.40%) Unix
3 11 (3.36%) Windows
4 7 (2.14%) 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 86 (26.30%) CI/CD
2 83 (25.38%) DevOps
3 79 (24.16%) Agile
4 73 (22.32%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (18.04%) Business Intelligence
6 56 (17.13%) Data Modelling
7 50 (15.29%) Test Automation
8 47 (14.37%) AI
9 46 (14.07%) API Integration
10 43 (13.15%) Data Analysis
11 41 (12.54%) Analytics
12 39 (11.93%) ERP
13 36 (11.01%) Validation
14 35 (10.70%) Microservices
15 34 (10.40%) User Experience
16 33 (10.09%) Infrastructure as Code
17 32 (9.79%) ETL
18 30 (9.17%) Asset Management
18 30 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
18 30 (9.17%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 170 (51.99%) SQL
2 120 (36.70%) Python
3 95 (29.05%) JavaScript
4 72 (22.02%) Java
5 39 (11.93%) C#
6 33 (10.09%) PowerShell
7 25 (7.65%) TypeScript
8 20 (6.12%) PL/SQL
9 19 (5.81%) Shell Script
10 12 (3.67%) Bicep
11 11 (3.36%) Perl
12 10 (3.06%) PHP
12 10 (3.06%) T-SQL
13 9 (2.75%) VB
14 6 (1.83%) Groovy
15 4 (1.22%) VBA
16 3 (0.92%) ActionScript
16 3 (0.92%) ActionScript 2.0
16 3 (0.92%) R
17 2 (0.61%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 50 (15.29%) Degree
2 35 (10.70%) Security Cleared
3 19 (5.81%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.53%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.92%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.92%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (0.92%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.87%) QA
2 17 (5.20%) GDPR
3 15 (4.59%) Data Quality
4 14 (4.28%) Accessibility
5 13 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (3.36%) HL7
6 11 (3.36%) SLA
6 11 (3.36%) TickIT
7 7 (2.14%) WCAG
8 3 (0.92%) NCSC
8 3 (0.92%) NIST
9 2 (0.61%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.31%) PERC
System Software
1 33 (10.09%) 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 33 (10.09%) Terraform
2 31 (9.48%) Kubernetes
3 17 (5.20%) Ansible
4 8 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.22%) Kibana
5 4 (1.22%) Packer
6 2 (0.61%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.31%) Grafana
7 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 63 (19.27%) Microsoft
2 37 (11.31%) Oracle
3 21 (6.42%) Adobe
4 16 (4.89%) Cisco
5 11 (3.36%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.75%) Ab Initio
6 9 (2.75%) Databricks
6 9 (2.75%) Google
6 9 (2.75%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.45%) F5
7 8 (2.45%) IBM
7 8 (2.45%) Okta
8 7 (2.14%) SAP
8 7 (2.14%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.14%) Sparx
8 7 (2.14%) Splunk
9 6 (1.83%) Juniper
9 6 (1.83%) VMware
10 5 (1.53%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.53%) Salesforce