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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 336 252
Rank change year-on-year -103 -84 +11
Permanent jobs citing JSON 354 399 1,039
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.81% 1.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.46% 4.48% 5.44%
Number of salaries quoted 258 294 635
10th Percentile £35,500 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,874 £47,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +3.75% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £89,125 £86,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% 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 10,220 8,907 19,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.23% 18.06% 19.86%
Number of salaries quoted 7,645 5,894 14,339
10th Percentile £41,100 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,375 £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 20 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 20 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 -84 323 £62,500 - 82
UK excluding London -93 207 £55,000 - 55
Work from Home -28 146 £57,500 -8.73% 33
London -35 113 £75,000 +11.11% 31
South East -20 93 £55,000 -15.38% 23
North of England -10 49 £55,000 - 8
North West -6 30 £62,500 +13.64% 6
East of England -30 30 £90,000 +89.47% 3
Midlands -34 15 £47,500 -19.49% 12
South West -66 15 £50,000 -16.67% 7
Yorkshire -16 14 £42,750 +5.56% 2
West Midlands -24 9 £45,000 -23.73% 6
East Midlands -20 6 £52,500 -7.08% 6
Wales - 6 £55,000 - 2
North East - 5 £45,000 -
Scotland +3 2 £72,500 +62.92% 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 (7.91%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (3.67%) Confluence
4 11 (3.11%) Apache
5 10 (2.82%) IIS
6 8 (2.26%) CMS
7 7 (1.98%) WordPress
8 5 (1.41%) Drupal
9 4 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.85%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.56%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.56%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.56%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.28%) SAS
12 1 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.85%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.85%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.56%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.28%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.28%) Magento
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 160 (45.20%) Azure
2 91 (25.71%) AWS
3 65 (18.36%) Power Platform
4 47 (13.28%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (13.28%) Azure Logic Apps
5 44 (12.43%) Microsoft 365
6 32 (9.04%) Serverless
7 30 (8.47%) SaaS
8 26 (7.34%) PowerApps
9 25 (7.06%) Power Automate
10 24 (6.78%) Azure Data Factory
10 24 (6.78%) GitHub
11 23 (6.50%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (5.65%) Dynamics 365
12 20 (5.65%) OneDrive
13 19 (5.37%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 16 (4.52%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (4.52%) Boomi
15 14 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (3.39%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.93%) Firewall
2 7 (1.98%) DNS
2 7 (1.98%) HTTP
2 7 (1.98%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.69%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (1.41%) Intranet
4 5 (1.41%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.85%) BGP
5 3 (0.85%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (0.85%) SSL
6 2 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.56%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.56%) LAN
6 2 (0.56%) MQTT
6 2 (0.56%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.56%) WAN
7 1 (0.28%) FTP
7 1 (0.28%) RTSP
7 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (14.41%) PostgreSQL
1 51 (14.41%) Power BI
2 35 (9.89%) SQL Server
3 33 (9.32%) MySQL
4 30 (8.47%) Relational Database
5 22 (6.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 21 (5.93%) Redis
7 20 (5.65%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (5.08%) Metadata
9 14 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (3.67%) RDBMS
11 7 (1.98%) Electronic Patient Records
11 7 (1.98%) GIS
12 6 (1.69%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.41%) Delta Lake
13 5 (1.41%) Oracle Database
14 4 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (1.13%) Apache Iceberg
14 4 (1.13%) Power Query
14 4 (1.13%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 59 (16.67%) Git
2 42 (11.86%) JIRA
3 28 (7.91%) Jenkins
4 26 (7.34%) GitLab
5 11 (3.11%) Postman
6 10 (2.82%) Selenium
7 8 (2.26%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.26%) ERwin
7 8 (2.26%) JMeter
8 7 (1.98%) JUnit
8 7 (1.98%) Mockito
9 6 (1.69%) Maven
9 6 (1.69%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.41%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.41%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (1.41%) Gradle
10 5 (1.41%) SpecFlow
10 5 (1.41%) Visual Studio
10 5 (1.41%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.13%) Artifactory
General
1 150 (42.37%) Social Skills
2 90 (25.42%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (18.08%) Finance
4 25 (7.06%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (4.24%) Retail
6 14 (3.95%) Advertising
6 14 (3.95%) Marketing
7 13 (3.67%) Health Technology
7 13 (3.67%) Telecoms
8 10 (2.82%) Law
8 10 (2.82%) Public Sector
9 7 (1.98%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.41%) Back Office
11 5 (1.41%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.13%) Aviation
12 4 (1.13%) Banking
12 4 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.85%) Legal
13 3 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 124 (35.03%) Developer
2 76 (21.47%) Senior
3 44 (12.43%) Senior Developer
4 30 (8.47%) Analyst
5 25 (7.06%) Architect
5 25 (7.06%) Consultant
6 20 (5.65%) .NET Developer
6 20 (5.65%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (5.65%) Support Engineer
7 19 (5.37%) Data Analyst
7 19 (5.37%) Web Developer
8 18 (5.08%) Software Developer
8 18 (5.08%) Software Engineer
9 16 (4.52%) Full-Stack Developer
10 15 (4.24%) Data Engineer
10 15 (4.24%) Integration Engineer
10 15 (4.24%) Lead
11 14 (3.95%) Automation Engineer
11 14 (3.95%) Ruby Developer
12 13 (3.67%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (43.79%) XML
2 113 (31.92%) REST
3 91 (25.71%) HTML
4 80 (22.60%) .NET
5 79 (22.32%) CSS
6 48 (13.56%) RESTful
7 44 (12.43%) .NET Core
8 43 (12.15%) SOAP
9 37 (10.45%) ASP.NET
10 35 (9.89%) YAML
11 34 (9.60%) Middleware
12 27 (7.63%) JWT
12 27 (7.63%) React
13 21 (5.93%) .NET Framework
13 21 (5.93%) HTML5 Canvas
14 20 (5.65%) Microsoft Graph
14 20 (5.65%) Node.js
15 19 (5.37%) SPFx
16 18 (5.08%) HTML5
16 18 (5.08%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.32%) Onboarding
2 31 (8.76%) Data Structures
3 22 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (5.65%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (5.65%) Cloud Native
5 18 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.54%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (2.54%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.54%) Robotics
8 8 (2.26%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (2.26%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.98%) Driving Licence
9 7 (1.98%) e-Learning
9 7 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.98%) NHS
9 7 (1.98%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.41%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.41%) SCADA
11 4 (1.13%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 60 (16.95%) Linux
2 40 (11.30%) Windows
3 15 (4.24%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.69%) Unix
6 4 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (30.79%) Agile
2 97 (27.40%) DevOps
3 96 (27.12%) CI/CD
4 95 (26.84%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (16.95%) Data Modelling
6 56 (15.82%) Microservices
7 52 (14.69%) Business Intelligence
8 49 (13.84%) Containerisation
9 47 (13.28%) User Experience
10 44 (12.43%) Test Automation
11 42 (11.86%) Infrastructure as Code
12 41 (11.58%) API Integration
13 37 (10.45%) AI
14 36 (10.17%) Analytics
14 36 (10.17%) Roadmaps
14 36 (10.17%) Software Engineering
15 34 (9.60%) Validation
16 33 (9.32%) API Design
17 32 (9.04%) Mentoring
17 32 (9.04%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 165 (46.61%) SQL
2 128 (36.16%) JavaScript
3 118 (33.33%) Python
4 84 (23.73%) C#
5 47 (13.28%) Java
6 43 (12.15%) PowerShell
7 27 (7.63%) TypeScript
8 19 (5.37%) PHP
9 17 (4.80%) T-SQL
10 15 (4.24%) C++
10 15 (4.24%) Ruby
11 13 (3.67%) Shell Script
12 8 (2.26%) Perl
13 6 (1.69%) Groovy
13 6 (1.69%) VB
14 5 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (1.13%) Bash
15 4 (1.13%) VBA
16 3 (0.85%) Bicep
16 3 (0.85%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (11.86%) Degree
2 37 (10.45%) Security Cleared
3 22 (6.21%) SC Cleared
4 18 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.26%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.69%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.69%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.85%) CISSP
8 2 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.56%) CASP
8 2 (0.56%) CCSP
8 2 (0.56%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.56%) ISEB
8 2 (0.56%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.56%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.89%) QA
2 24 (6.78%) Accessibility
3 21 (5.93%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.39%) TickIT
5 11 (3.11%) SLA
6 10 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.98%) HL7
7 7 (1.98%) WCAG
8 6 (1.69%) GDPR
9 4 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.85%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.85%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.28%) PERC
System Software
1 50 (14.12%) Docker
2 15 (4.24%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.98%) vSphere
4 4 (1.13%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.56%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 33 (9.32%) Terraform
2 29 (8.19%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.67%) Ansible
4 6 (1.69%) Kibana
5 4 (1.13%) Packer
6 2 (0.56%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.28%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.28%) QRadar
Vendors
1 105 (29.66%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.78%) Adobe
3 17 (4.80%) Cisco
4 15 (4.24%) Splunk
5 14 (3.95%) Google
5 14 (3.95%) Oracle
5 14 (3.95%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.54%) Databricks
6 9 (2.54%) F5
6 9 (2.54%) Palo Alto
6 9 (2.54%) VMware
7 8 (2.26%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.26%) SAP
8 7 (1.98%) Sparx
9 6 (1.69%) IBM
9 6 (1.69%) Juniper
9 6 (1.69%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.41%) MuleSoft
11 4 (1.13%) AppDynamics
12 3 (0.85%) OpenAI