JSON Web Token (JWT)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring JWT skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited JWT over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 645 859 932
Rank change year-on-year +214 +73 +47
Permanent jobs citing JWT 57 48 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.046% 0.038%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.60% 0.22% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 45 39 22
10th Percentile £44,550 £51,000 £63,000
25th Percentile £53,000 £54,375 £67,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £55,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.45% -24.14% +7.41%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £82,188
90th Percentile £93,517 £111,250 £87,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £55,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +54.55% -31.25% +20.96%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

JWT 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 9,568 21,459 28,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.13% 20.70% 29.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,873 15,949 17,957
10th Percentile £38,350 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

JWT
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JWT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JWT in the UK

JWT
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing JWT.

Salary trend for JWT in the UK

JWT
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JWT over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for JWT in the UK

JWT
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JWT within the UK over the 6 months to 31 May 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 +178 53 £73,500 +33.64% 33
UK excluding London +195 36 £85,000 +54.55% 14
London +103 21 £60,000 -20.00% 23
Work from Home +109 17 £63,000 +14.55% 32
East of England +62 14 £85,000 +54.55%
North of England +43 13 £74,500 +35.45% 4
Yorkshire +64 9 £88,662 +61.20%
North West 0 4 £67,250 +22.27% 4
Scotland - 4 £74,500 - 2
Midlands +57 3 £60,000 +9.09%
East Midlands +44 3 £60,000 +9.09%
South West +113 2 - -

JWT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.26%) OpenEdge
2 1 (1.75%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (49.12%) AWS
2 21 (36.84%) Azure
3 18 (31.58%) Amazon SQS
4 16 (28.07%) AWS Lambda
4 16 (28.07%) Serverless
5 14 (24.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 14 (24.56%) Amazon EventBridge
5 14 (24.56%) AWS CodeBuild
5 14 (24.56%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 14 (24.56%) AWS CodePipeline
5 14 (24.56%) AWS Step Functions
5 14 (24.56%) Boomi
5 14 (24.56%) SaaS
6 9 (15.79%) GCP
7 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (5.26%) Apigee
8 3 (5.26%) npm
8 3 (5.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.75%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.75%) HTTP
2 1 (1.75%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.75%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (24.56%) Big Data
2 9 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (10.53%) MongoDB
4 5 (8.77%) MySQL
5 4 (7.02%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (7.02%) NoSQL
6 3 (5.26%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.51%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (3.51%) DynamoDB
7 2 (3.51%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.75%) Endeca
8 1 (1.75%) Power BI
8 1 (1.75%) Redis
8 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (29.82%) Git
2 12 (21.05%) webpack
3 8 (14.04%) Jenkins
3 8 (14.04%) Mocha
4 6 (10.53%) Grunt
4 6 (10.53%) Jasmine
4 6 (10.53%) Postman
5 5 (8.77%) Babel
5 5 (8.77%) GitLab
6 4 (7.02%) JIRA
7 3 (5.26%) Bitbucket
7 3 (5.26%) REST Assured
7 3 (5.26%) SoapUI
8 2 (3.51%) Gatling
8 2 (3.51%) Gradle
8 2 (3.51%) JMeter
8 2 (3.51%) TestRail
9 1 (1.75%) IntelliJ
9 1 (1.75%) Maven
9 1 (1.75%) Xcode
General
1 20 (35.09%) Public Sector
2 19 (33.33%) Finance
2 19 (33.33%) Law
3 16 (28.07%) Social Skills
4 13 (22.81%) Banking
5 8 (14.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (10.53%) Retail Banking
7 3 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (5.26%) Marketing
8 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.75%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 21 (36.84%) Lead
2 20 (35.09%) Developer
3 14 (24.56%) Software Engineer
4 11 (19.30%) Senior
5 10 (17.54%) React Developer
5 10 (17.54%) Senior Software Engineer
6 9 (15.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 6 (10.53%) Lead Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Progress Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Tester
9 2 (3.51%) Associate Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Backend Developer
9 2 (3.51%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (3.51%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Identity Management Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Integration Tester
10 1 (1.75%) HTML CSS Developer
10 1 (1.75%) iOS Android Developer
10 1 (1.75%) Junior Backend Developer
10 1 (1.75%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (84.21%) OAuth
2 29 (50.88%) RESTful
3 25 (43.86%) OAuth2
4 16 (28.07%) React
5 14 (24.56%) REST
6 13 (22.81%) JSON
6 13 (22.81%) Redux
7 12 (21.05%) OpenID
8 10 (17.54%) CSS
9 9 (15.79%) Jest
9 9 (15.79%) SOAP
10 8 (14.04%) .NET
10 8 (14.04%) Next.js
10 8 (14.04%) Spring
10 8 (14.04%) Spring Boot
11 7 (12.28%) Material-UI
12 6 (10.53%) Enzyme
12 6 (10.53%) MobX
12 6 (10.53%) Semantic UI
12 6 (10.53%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.26%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.51%) AI Agents
2 2 (3.51%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.51%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.51%) PKI
2 2 (3.51%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.51%) Public Cloud
2 2 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.75%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.75%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.75%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.75%) Android
1 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (77.19%) CI/CD
2 32 (56.14%) DevOps
3 27 (47.37%) Agile
4 24 (42.11%) API Development
5 23 (40.35%) Containerisation
6 22 (38.60%) Continuous Improvement
6 22 (38.60%) Microservices
7 21 (36.84%) Coaching
8 17 (29.82%) Analytics
8 17 (29.82%) Event-Driven
9 16 (28.07%) Data Analytics
9 16 (28.07%) Front End Development
10 15 (26.32%) Software Engineering
11 14 (24.56%) API Design
11 14 (24.56%) Collaborative Culture
11 14 (24.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 14 (24.56%) Line Management
11 14 (24.56%) Project Management
11 14 (24.56%) Technology Strategy
12 12 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 32 (56.14%) Java
2 18 (31.58%) C#
3 16 (28.07%) JavaScript
4 15 (26.32%) TypeScript
5 9 (15.79%) SQL
6 4 (7.02%) Python
6 4 (7.02%) Rust
7 3 (5.26%) Apex Code
7 3 (5.26%) OpenEdge ABL
7 3 (5.26%) Progress 4GL
Qualifications
1 16 (28.07%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.26%) ISTQB
2 3 (5.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.51%) DBS Check
3 2 (3.51%) Degree
3 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) Accessibility
1 3 (5.26%) WCAG
2 2 (3.51%) GDPR
2 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.51%) NIST
2 2 (3.51%) QA
3 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.75%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.75%) NCSC
3 1 (1.75%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (43.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (45.61%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (3.51%) Ansible
3 2 (3.51%) Argo
3 2 (3.51%) Graylog
3 2 (3.51%) Progress Chef
3 2 (3.51%) Terraform
4 1 (1.75%) Grafana
4 1 (1.75%) Nessus
Vendors
1 17 (29.82%) MuleSoft
1 17 (29.82%) Salesforce
2 14 (24.56%) Informatica
2 14 (24.56%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.26%) ForgeRock
3 3 (5.26%) Ping Identity
3 3 (5.26%) Progress
3 3 (5.26%) Splunk
4 2 (3.51%) Google
4 2 (3.51%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.51%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.75%) CyberSource
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle