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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 343 257
Rank change year-on-year -105 -86 -1
Permanent jobs citing JSON 363 393 934
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.80% 1.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.48% 4.51% 5.56%
Number of salaries quoted 259 289 578
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,052
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,900 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% +3.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -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 10,419 8,722 16,802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.24% 17.68% 19.29%
Number of salaries quoted 7,720 5,725 12,373
10th Percentile £41,225 £38,175 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,888 £105,000
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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -88 332 £62,500 - 114
UK excluding London -80 215 £55,000 - 76
Work from Home -43 146 £57,500 -8.73% 42
London -31 116 £75,000 +11.11% 46
South East -32 93 £55,000 -15.38% 31
North of England -21 51 £55,000 - 17
North West -14 31 £62,500 +13.64% 9
East of England -40 29 £90,000 +89.47% 7
South West -59 19 £52,500 - 8
Midlands -37 18 £47,500 -20.83% 13
Yorkshire -20 15 £42,750 +5.56% 8
West Midlands -31 11 £45,000 -25.00% 9
East Midlands -26 7 £53,250 -5.75% 4
Wales - 6 £55,000 - 1
North East - 5 £45,000 -
Scotland +1 2 £72,500 +53.44% 1

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 (7.71%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.68%) Confluence
3 14 (3.86%) Apache
3 14 (3.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (2.75%) IIS
5 8 (2.20%) CMS
6 7 (1.93%) WordPress
7 5 (1.38%) Drupal
8 4 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (1.10%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.55%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.55%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.55%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.28%) JBoss
10 1 (0.28%) SAS
10 1 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.10%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.83%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.55%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.28%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 163 (44.90%) Azure
2 95 (26.17%) AWS
3 63 (17.36%) Power Platform
4 51 (14.05%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (12.95%) Azure Logic Apps
6 41 (11.29%) Microsoft 365
7 30 (8.26%) Serverless
8 26 (7.16%) GitHub
8 26 (7.16%) PowerApps
8 26 (7.16%) SaaS
9 25 (6.89%) Power Automate
10 23 (6.34%) Azure Data Factory
11 22 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (5.51%) Dynamics 365
12 20 (5.51%) OneDrive
13 19 (5.23%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 16 (4.41%) Boomi
15 15 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
16 13 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
17 12 (3.31%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.79%) Firewall
2 8 (2.20%) TCP/IP
3 7 (1.93%) DNS
3 7 (1.93%) HTTP
4 6 (1.65%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (1.65%) Wireshark
5 5 (1.38%) Intranet
6 3 (0.83%) BGP
6 3 (0.83%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (0.83%) SSL
7 2 (0.55%) MQTT
7 2 (0.55%) Wireless
8 1 (0.28%) Broadband
8 1 (0.28%) CTI
8 1 (0.28%) LAN
8 1 (0.28%) RTP
8 1 (0.28%) RTSP
8 1 (0.28%) SS7
8 1 (0.28%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (14.33%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (13.77%) Power BI
3 31 (8.54%) Relational Database
3 31 (8.54%) SQL Server
4 30 (8.26%) MySQL
5 22 (6.06%) Redis
6 20 (5.51%) Azure SQL Database
7 19 (5.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (4.68%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (4.68%) Metadata
9 13 (3.58%) RDBMS
10 7 (1.93%) Electronic Patient Records
10 7 (1.93%) GIS
11 6 (1.65%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.38%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.38%) Delta Lake
12 5 (1.38%) Oracle Database
13 4 (1.10%) Apache Iceberg
13 4 (1.10%) NoSQL
13 4 (1.10%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 65 (17.91%) Git
2 46 (12.67%) JIRA
3 29 (7.99%) Jenkins
4 27 (7.44%) GitLab
5 14 (3.86%) Selenium
6 11 (3.03%) Postman
7 10 (2.75%) Cucumber
7 10 (2.75%) JMeter
8 8 (2.20%) ERwin
8 8 (2.20%) JUnit
9 7 (1.93%) Mockito
10 6 (1.65%) Maven
10 6 (1.65%) WebDriver
11 5 (1.38%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.38%) Browser DevTools
11 5 (1.38%) Gradle
11 5 (1.38%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.38%) SpecFlow
11 5 (1.38%) Visual Studio
12 4 (1.10%) Artifactory
General
1 150 (41.32%) Social Skills
2 91 (25.07%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (19.01%) Finance
4 28 (7.71%) Organisational Skills
5 14 (3.86%) Advertising
5 14 (3.86%) Marketing
5 14 (3.86%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.58%) Health Technology
6 13 (3.58%) Retail
6 13 (3.58%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.20%) Law
8 7 (1.93%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.65%) Banking
9 6 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.65%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.38%) Back Office
10 5 (1.38%) Legal
11 4 (1.10%) Local Government
11 4 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 128 (35.26%) Developer
2 78 (21.49%) Senior
3 43 (11.85%) Senior Developer
4 26 (7.16%) Analyst
5 25 (6.89%) Architect
5 25 (6.89%) Consultant
6 21 (5.79%) .NET Developer
6 21 (5.79%) Software Engineer
7 20 (5.51%) Software Developer
8 19 (5.23%) Support Engineer
8 19 (5.23%) Web Developer
9 18 (4.96%) DevOps Engineer
9 18 (4.96%) Lead
10 16 (4.41%) Automation Engineer
10 16 (4.41%) Data Engineer
10 16 (4.41%) Full-Stack Developer
10 16 (4.41%) Integration Engineer
11 15 (4.13%) Ruby Developer
12 14 (3.86%) Data Analyst
13 13 (3.58%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (42.98%) XML
2 113 (31.13%) REST
3 90 (24.79%) HTML
4 85 (23.42%) .NET
5 79 (21.76%) CSS
6 50 (13.77%) RESTful
7 44 (12.12%) .NET Core
8 43 (11.85%) SOAP
9 39 (10.74%) ASP.NET
10 34 (9.37%) YAML
11 33 (9.09%) Middleware
12 28 (7.71%) JWT
12 28 (7.71%) React
13 21 (5.79%) .NET Framework
13 21 (5.79%) HTML5 Canvas
14 20 (5.51%) Microsoft Graph
14 20 (5.51%) Node.js
15 19 (5.23%) AngularJS
15 19 (5.23%) SPFx
16 18 (4.96%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.26%) Onboarding
2 28 (7.71%) Data Structures
3 21 (5.79%) Analytical Mindset
3 21 (5.79%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (5.23%) Cloud Native
5 18 (4.96%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (4.96%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.75%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.75%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.48%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (2.48%) Robotics
8 8 (2.20%) Driving Licence
8 8 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (2.20%) NHS
9 7 (1.93%) e-Learning
9 7 (1.93%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.38%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.38%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.38%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 62 (17.08%) Linux
2 43 (11.85%) Windows
3 15 (4.13%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.65%) Unix
6 4 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.28%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (33.88%) Agile
2 105 (28.93%) DevOps
3 101 (27.82%) CI/CD
4 98 (27.00%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (15.98%) Data Modelling
5 58 (15.98%) Microservices
6 51 (14.05%) Business Intelligence
7 50 (13.77%) Containerisation
7 50 (13.77%) Test Automation
8 49 (13.50%) User Experience
9 41 (11.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 39 (10.74%) API Integration
10 39 (10.74%) Scrum
10 39 (10.74%) Software Engineering
11 38 (10.47%) AI
12 37 (10.19%) Analytics
12 37 (10.19%) Mentoring
13 36 (9.92%) Roadmaps
14 33 (9.09%) Clean Code
14 33 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 164 (45.18%) SQL
2 128 (35.26%) JavaScript
3 117 (32.23%) Python
4 90 (24.79%) C#
5 49 (13.50%) Java
6 39 (10.74%) PowerShell
7 28 (7.71%) TypeScript
8 18 (4.96%) C++
8 18 (4.96%) PHP
9 16 (4.41%) Ruby
10 15 (4.13%) T-SQL
11 14 (3.86%) Shell Script
12 8 (2.20%) Perl
13 6 (1.65%) VB
14 5 (1.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (1.38%) Groovy
15 4 (1.10%) Bash
15 4 (1.10%) VBA
16 3 (0.83%) Bicep
17 2 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 43 (11.85%) Degree
2 40 (11.02%) Security Cleared
3 25 (6.89%) SC Cleared
4 18 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.03%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.65%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.38%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.83%) CISSP
9 3 (0.83%) ISEB
9 3 (0.83%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.55%) CASP
10 2 (0.55%) CCNP
10 2 (0.55%) CCSP
10 2 (0.55%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.55%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (11.02%) QA
2 26 (7.16%) Accessibility
3 20 (5.51%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.31%) TickIT
5 10 (2.75%) SLA
6 7 (1.93%) HL7
6 7 (1.93%) WCAG
7 6 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (1.38%) GDPR
9 4 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.83%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.83%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.55%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.28%) PERC
System Software
1 54 (14.88%) Docker
2 12 (3.31%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.93%) vSphere
4 4 (1.10%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (8.54%) Terraform
2 29 (7.99%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.58%) Ansible
4 6 (1.65%) Kibana
5 4 (1.10%) Packer
6 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.28%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.28%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.28%) QRadar
Vendors
1 104 (28.65%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.61%) Adobe
3 17 (4.68%) Cisco
4 16 (4.41%) Oracle
5 15 (4.13%) Splunk
6 14 (3.86%) Red Hat
7 13 (3.58%) Google
8 11 (3.03%) Databricks
9 9 (2.48%) F5
9 9 (2.48%) Palo Alto
10 8 (2.20%) Dynatrace
10 8 (2.20%) SAP
10 8 (2.20%) VMware
11 7 (1.93%) IBM
11 7 (1.93%) Sparx
12 6 (1.65%) Juniper
13 5 (1.38%) MuleSoft
13 5 (1.38%) Salesforce
14 4 (1.10%) AppDynamics
14 4 (1.10%) Pega