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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 294 239
Rank change year-on-year -105 -55 +34
Permanent jobs citing JSON 297 460 1,075
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 1.05% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.77% 4.71% 5.71%
Number of salaries quoted 179 340 792
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £49,875 £45,725 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.11%
75th Percentile £73,125 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £81,750 £90,000 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.27% -4.09% -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 7,869 9,764 18,831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.78% 22.27% 22.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,746 6,715 15,138
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
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 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -135 237 £60,000 -4.00% 232
UK excluding London -97 178 £55,000 +4.27% 185
Work from Home -41 124 £57,500 -8.73% 148
London -45 89 £70,000 -3.45% 57
South East -66 57 £55,000 - 53
East of England +28 45 £55,000 -11.18% 29
Scotland +5 34 £72,500 +62.92% 13
North of England -47 24 £55,000 +4.76% 40
North West -14 17 £55,000 -4.35% 21
Midlands -46 15 £47,500 -9.95% 29
West Midlands -24 10 £47,500 -12.59% 15
East Midlands -45 5 £54,000 +3.85% 13
Yorkshire -51 4 £55,750 +31.18% 15
North East -15 3 £45,000 -41.94% 4
Northern Ireland -27 2 - - 3
South West -42 1 £72,500 +18.37% 17

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 14 (4.71%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.36%) Confluence
4 5 (1.68%) Anypoint
5 4 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.67%) IIS
6 2 (0.67%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.67%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.67%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.34%) Apache
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.34%) CICS
7 1 (0.34%) CMS
7 1 (0.34%) JBoss
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.02%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.02%) Trello
3 1 (0.34%) EngageOne
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (4.71%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.68%) Shopify
3 3 (1.01%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.01%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.34%) Magento
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.34%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 125 (42.09%) Azure
2 58 (19.53%) AWS
3 53 (17.85%) GitHub
4 45 (15.15%) Power Platform
5 44 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (8.08%) Azure Logic Apps
7 23 (7.74%) Power Automate
8 22 (7.41%) Entra ID
8 22 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
9 21 (7.07%) Serverless
10 20 (6.73%) Azure Data Factory
11 18 (6.06%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (5.39%) GCP
12 16 (5.39%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (5.05%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (5.05%) OCI
13 15 (5.05%) SaaS
14 14 (4.71%) Azure Event Grid
14 14 (4.71%) Boomi
15 13 (4.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.38%) Firewall
2 11 (3.70%) VPN
3 7 (2.36%) FTP
4 5 (1.68%) DNS
5 4 (1.35%) AMQP
5 4 (1.35%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (1.01%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (1.01%) Ethernet
6 3 (1.01%) HTTP
6 3 (1.01%) HTTPS
6 3 (1.01%) LAN
6 3 (1.01%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.01%) WAN
7 2 (0.67%) BGP
7 2 (0.67%) PuTTY
8 1 (0.34%) CTI
8 1 (0.34%) DHCP
8 1 (0.34%) Modbus
8 1 (0.34%) SSL
8 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (13.13%) Power BI
2 34 (11.45%) SQL Server
3 30 (10.10%) Relational Database
4 28 (9.43%) MySQL
5 23 (7.74%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (4.71%) Metadata
6 14 (4.71%) RDBMS
7 11 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (3.37%) Electronic Patient Records
9 8 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.02%) OLTP
10 6 (2.02%) Power Query
11 4 (1.35%) Oracle Database
11 4 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.01%) Crystal Reports
12 3 (1.01%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.01%) GIS
12 3 (1.01%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.01%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (10.10%) Jenkins
2 26 (8.75%) Git
3 14 (4.71%) JIRA
3 14 (4.71%) Oracle Forms
4 12 (4.04%) Postman
5 9 (3.03%) GitLab
5 9 (3.03%) JUnit
6 8 (2.69%) Visual Studio
7 7 (2.36%) Selenium
8 6 (2.02%) Axure RP
8 6 (2.02%) JMeter
8 6 (2.02%) Mockito
8 6 (2.02%) Storybook
9 5 (1.68%) ERwin
9 5 (1.68%) Maven
9 5 (1.68%) SpecFlow
9 5 (1.68%) WebDriver
10 2 (0.67%) Crashlytics
10 2 (0.67%) Gradle
10 2 (0.67%) Oracle APEX
General
1 93 (31.31%) Social Skills
2 79 (26.60%) Finance
3 50 (16.84%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (9.09%) Law
5 19 (6.40%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.40%) Retail
6 16 (5.39%) Marketing
7 15 (5.05%) German Language
8 14 (4.71%) Telecoms
9 10 (3.37%) Health Technology
10 7 (2.36%) Legal
11 5 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.68%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.01%) Publishing
13 2 (0.67%) Advertising
13 2 (0.67%) Billing
13 2 (0.67%) Electronics
13 2 (0.67%) Front Office
13 2 (0.67%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 97 (32.66%) Developer
2 53 (17.85%) Senior
3 34 (11.45%) Analyst
4 27 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 21 (7.07%) Consultant
6 20 (6.73%) Integration Engineer
7 19 (6.40%) Cloud Engineer
8 18 (6.06%) Applications Engineer
9 17 (5.72%) Data Analyst
9 17 (5.72%) Java Developer
10 14 (4.71%) Architect
10 14 (4.71%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 13 (4.38%) Data Engineer
12 11 (3.70%) Support Engineer
13 10 (3.37%) EPR Consultant
13 10 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
13 10 (3.37%) Technical Consultant
14 9 (3.03%) Automation Engineer
14 9 (3.03%) Oracle Developer
14 9 (3.03%) Senior Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (57.91%) XML
2 105 (35.35%) REST
3 76 (25.59%) HTML
4 45 (15.15%) RESTful
4 45 (15.15%) SOAP
5 32 (10.77%) Regular Expression
6 30 (10.10%) Web Services
7 27 (9.09%) CSS
7 27 (9.09%) React
8 23 (7.74%) .NET
9 20 (6.73%) OAuth
9 20 (6.73%) Spring
10 17 (5.72%) Spring Boot
11 16 (5.39%) OAuth2
11 16 (5.39%) YAML
12 13 (4.38%) FHIR
12 13 (4.38%) Node.js
13 11 (3.70%) Hibernate
14 9 (3.03%) Middleware
14 9 (3.03%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 49 (16.50%) Onboarding
2 42 (14.14%) Linux Command Line
3 30 (10.10%) Data Structures
4 23 (7.74%) Cloud Native
5 21 (7.07%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (6.06%) Low-Code
7 12 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (3.37%) NHS
9 7 (2.36%) Operational Technology
9 7 (2.36%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (2.02%) Social Media
11 5 (1.68%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.68%) e-Learning
12 3 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.01%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.01%) Reference Data
12 3 (1.01%) SCADA
12 3 (1.01%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 41 (13.80%) Unix
2 32 (10.77%) Linux
3 10 (3.37%) Windows
4 4 (1.35%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.01%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.34%) Android
6 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (28.28%) Agile
1 84 (28.28%) CI/CD
2 68 (22.90%) DevOps
3 59 (19.87%) Test Automation
4 58 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (17.85%) Business Intelligence
6 52 (17.51%) AI
7 45 (15.15%) Data Modelling
8 44 (14.81%) Analytics
9 43 (14.48%) ETL
10 39 (13.13%) API Integration
11 37 (12.46%) Data Analysis
12 36 (12.12%) Asset Management
13 35 (11.78%) Coaching
13 35 (11.78%) Root Cause Analysis
14 32 (10.77%) Observability
15 30 (10.10%) ERP
15 30 (10.10%) LLM
15 30 (10.10%) Validation
16 29 (9.76%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 154 (51.85%) SQL
2 115 (38.72%) Python
3 81 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 69 (23.23%) Java
5 32 (10.77%) C#
6 29 (9.76%) PowerShell
6 29 (9.76%) Shell Script
7 25 (8.42%) PL/SQL
8 16 (5.39%) Bicep
9 15 (5.05%) T-SQL
9 15 (5.05%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.68%) PHP
11 4 (1.35%) Perl
11 4 (1.35%) VB
12 3 (1.01%) ActionScript
12 3 (1.01%) ActionScript 2.0
12 3 (1.01%) C++
13 2 (0.67%) Bash
13 2 (0.67%) R
13 2 (0.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 46 (15.49%) Degree
2 30 (10.10%) Security Cleared
3 15 (5.05%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.35%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (1.01%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.67%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.34%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.34%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.74%) GDPR
2 19 (6.40%) QA
3 18 (6.06%) Accessibility
3 18 (6.06%) Data Quality
4 14 (4.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (4.38%) HL7
6 7 (2.36%) WCAG
7 5 (1.68%) NCSC
7 5 (1.68%) NIST
8 2 (0.67%) SLA
8 2 (0.67%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 29 (9.76%) Docker
2 25 (8.42%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.01%) VMware NSX
3 3 (1.01%) vSphere
4 1 (0.34%) iptables
Systems Management
1 37 (12.46%) Terraform
2 24 (8.08%) Kubernetes
3 15 (5.05%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (3.37%) Ansible
5 7 (2.36%) Kibana
6 3 (1.01%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.34%) Grafana
7 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 41 (13.80%) Oracle
2 37 (12.46%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.71%) Okta
4 13 (4.38%) Ab Initio
4 13 (4.38%) Google
4 13 (4.38%) SAP
5 12 (4.04%) Cisco
6 8 (2.69%) Databricks
6 8 (2.69%) Dell
6 8 (2.69%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.69%) Splunk
7 7 (2.36%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.36%) F5
7 7 (2.36%) Intapp
7 7 (2.36%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.36%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.36%) Talend
8 6 (2.02%) Informatica
8 6 (2.02%) TIBCO
8 6 (2.02%) VMware