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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 645 825 929
Rank change year-on-year +180 +104 +41
Permanent jobs citing JWT 67 53 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.054% 0.043%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.71% 0.25% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 56 44 29
10th Percentile £46,000 £49,650 £64,500
25th Percentile £51,053 £52,500 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £55,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.55% -29.03% +14.81%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £111,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £55,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +54.55% -31.25% +30.08%

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 9,497 21,024 30,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.24% 21.23% 30.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,223 15,725 18,834
10th Percentile £37,733 £36,250 £40,775
25th Percentile £50,300 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £87,500 £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 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for JWT in the UK

JWT
Top 13 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 14 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 +150 58 £67,500 +22.73% 33
UK excluding London +203 46 £85,000 +54.55% 16
Work from Home +107 23 £63,000 +14.55% 32
London +111 21 £55,000 -26.67% 26
East of England +59 15 £85,000 +54.55% 2
North of England +57 13 £74,500 +35.45% 2
Yorkshire +83 9 £88,662 +61.20%
Scotland - 9 £79,750 - 1
Midlands +57 7 £53,750 -2.27%
West Midlands +49 4 £47,500 -13.64%
North West +4 4 £67,250 +22.27% 2
East Midlands +34 3 £60,000 +9.09%
South West +108 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 (4.48%) OpenEdge
2 1 (1.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.49%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.49%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 29 (43.28%) AWS
2 24 (35.82%) Azure
3 16 (23.88%) Amazon SQS
3 16 (23.88%) AWS Lambda
3 16 (23.88%) Serverless
4 15 (22.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 15 (22.39%) SaaS
5 14 (20.90%) Amazon EventBridge
5 14 (20.90%) AWS CodeBuild
5 14 (20.90%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 14 (20.90%) AWS CodePipeline
5 14 (20.90%) AWS Step Functions
5 14 (20.90%) Boomi
5 14 (20.90%) GCP
6 5 (7.46%) npm
7 4 (5.97%) Amazon S3
7 4 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.48%) Apigee
8 3 (4.48%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (2.99%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.49%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.49%) HTTP
2 1 (1.49%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.39%) Big Data
2 9 (13.43%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (11.94%) MongoDB
4 5 (7.46%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.48%) MySQL
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.99%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.49%) Endeca
7 1 (1.49%) Power BI
7 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (31.34%) Git
2 14 (20.90%) webpack
3 10 (14.93%) Mocha
4 8 (11.94%) Jenkins
5 7 (10.45%) Babel
6 6 (8.96%) Grunt
6 6 (8.96%) Jasmine
6 6 (8.96%) Postman
7 5 (7.46%) GitLab
8 4 (5.97%) JIRA
9 3 (4.48%) Bitbucket
9 3 (4.48%) REST Assured
9 3 (4.48%) SoapUI
10 2 (2.99%) Gatling
10 2 (2.99%) Gradle
10 2 (2.99%) JMeter
10 2 (2.99%) TestRail
11 1 (1.49%) IntelliJ
11 1 (1.49%) Maven
11 1 (1.49%) Xcode
General
1 26 (38.81%) Finance
2 22 (32.84%) Social Skills
3 21 (31.34%) Public Sector
4 18 (26.87%) Banking
5 17 (25.37%) Law
6 6 (8.96%) Advertising
6 6 (8.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (8.96%) Retail Banking
7 3 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (35.82%) Developer
2 21 (31.34%) Lead
3 17 (25.37%) Software Engineer
4 12 (17.91%) Senior
5 11 (16.42%) Senior Software Engineer
6 10 (14.93%) React Developer
7 9 (13.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 6 (8.96%) Lead Developer
8 6 (8.96%) UI Developer
9 3 (4.48%) Architect
9 3 (4.48%) Progress Developer
9 3 (4.48%) Tester
10 2 (2.99%) Backend Developer
10 2 (2.99%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
10 2 (2.99%) Identity Management Engineer
10 2 (2.99%) Integration Tester
10 2 (2.99%) Technical Architect
11 1 (1.49%) HTML CSS Developer
11 1 (1.49%) iOS Android Developer
11 1 (1.49%) Junior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (76.12%) OAuth
2 36 (53.73%) RESTful
3 30 (44.78%) OAuth2
4 22 (32.84%) React
5 20 (29.85%) Redux
6 16 (23.88%) CSS
7 15 (22.39%) JSON
7 15 (22.39%) REST
8 13 (19.40%) Spring
8 13 (19.40%) Spring Boot
9 11 (16.42%) Jest
10 10 (14.93%) HTML
10 10 (14.93%) Next.js
10 10 (14.93%) OpenID
10 10 (14.93%) SOAP
11 9 (13.43%) HTML5
12 8 (11.94%) .NET
12 8 (11.94%) Enzyme
13 7 (10.45%) Material-UI
13 7 (10.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.97%) Data Structures
2 2 (2.99%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (2.99%) PKI
2 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.49%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.49%) Robotics
3 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.49%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.49%) Android
1 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (73.13%) CI/CD
2 37 (55.22%) DevOps
3 29 (43.28%) Agile
4 27 (40.30%) Containerisation
5 25 (37.31%) API Development
5 25 (37.31%) Microservices
6 23 (34.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 23 (34.33%) Software Engineering
7 21 (31.34%) Coaching
8 18 (26.87%) Event-Driven
9 17 (25.37%) Front End Development
10 16 (23.88%) Analytics
11 15 (22.39%) API Design
11 15 (22.39%) Data Analytics
11 15 (22.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 15 (22.39%) Project Management
11 15 (22.39%) Technology Strategy
12 14 (20.90%) Collaborative Culture
12 14 (20.90%) Collaborative Working
12 14 (20.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 36 (53.73%) Java
2 22 (32.84%) JavaScript
3 17 (25.37%) C#
4 15 (22.39%) TypeScript
5 8 (11.94%) SQL
6 3 (4.48%) Apex Code
6 3 (4.48%) OpenEdge ABL
6 3 (4.48%) Progress 4GL
7 2 (2.99%) Python
7 2 (2.99%) Rust
Qualifications
1 16 (23.88%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.94%) Degree
3 6 (8.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.48%) ISTQB
4 3 (4.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.99%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.99%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.48%) Accessibility
1 3 (4.48%) WCAG
2 2 (2.99%) GDPR
2 2 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.99%) NIST
2 2 (2.99%) QA
3 1 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.49%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.49%) NCSC
3 1 (1.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (44.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (43.28%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.97%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.99%) Ansible
3 2 (2.99%) Argo
3 2 (2.99%) Graylog
3 2 (2.99%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.99%) Terraform
4 1 (1.49%) Grafana
4 1 (1.49%) Nessus
Vendors
1 17 (25.37%) MuleSoft
1 17 (25.37%) Salesforce
2 14 (20.90%) Informatica
2 14 (20.90%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.97%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.48%) ForgeRock
4 3 (4.48%) Ping Identity
4 3 (4.48%) Progress
4 3 (4.48%) Splunk
5 2 (2.99%) Google
6 1 (1.49%) Adobe
6 1 (1.49%) CyberSource
6 1 (1.49%) Oracle