JSON
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for JSON skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited JSON over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 238 282 186
Rank change year-on-year +44 -96 +27
Permanent jobs citing JSON 1,192 1,297 3,378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.21% 1.25% 2.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.65% 4.15% 5.33%
Number of salaries quoted 766 919 1,746
10th Percentile £34,750 £44,423 £37,171
25th Percentile £44,750 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £98,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +15.79%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

JSON is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,080 31,272 63,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.38% 30.13% 40.50%
Number of salaries quoted 15,747 19,246 30,345
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

JSON
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JSON in the UK

JSON
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for JSON in the UK

JSON
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JSON over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for JSON in the UK

JSON
Top 17 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 3 May 2024. 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 +15 871 £60,000 -7.69% 159
UK excluding London +81 831 £57,500 - 99
Work from Home -3 411 £60,000 -7.69% 98
London -15 303 £67,500 -6.90% 68
Scotland +70 249 £57,500 -14.98% 6
North of England +59 178 £55,000 - 23
South East -20 138 £55,000 -3.08% 29
North West +40 119 £55,000 - 15
Midlands +70 108 £60,000 +9.09% 14
West Midlands +63 83 £60,000 +4.96% 8
East of England +19 68 £35,500 -32.38% 15
South West -37 65 £58,000 -14.07% 6
Yorkshire +55 51 £60,000 -9.03% 6
East Midlands +6 24 £55,000 +49.24% 6
Wales -3 17 £51,250 +2.50% 5
Northern Ireland +25 9 £82,500 +70.10% 3
North East -2 8 £45,000 -9.20% 2

JSON
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 66 (5.54%) IIS
2 53 (4.45%) FileNet
3 30 (2.52%) CMS
4 29 (2.43%) JBoss
4 29 (2.43%) Red Hat Fuse
5 28 (2.35%) OpenStack
6 22 (1.85%) Confluence
7 18 (1.51%) SharePoint
8 17 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
9 15 (1.26%) Apache
10 10 (0.84%) Apache Spark
10 10 (0.84%) EPiServer
11 7 (0.59%) ArcGIS
12 6 (0.50%) NServiceBus
12 6 (0.50%) WordPress
13 5 (0.42%) BizTalk Server
13 5 (0.42%) Drupal
13 5 (0.42%) IBM Notes
14 4 (0.34%) Umbraco
15 3 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (1.09%) Trello
4 4 (0.34%) Acrobat
4 4 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.084%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.084%) Notion
6 1 (0.084%) Sketch
6 1 (0.084%) UXPin
6 1 (0.084%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 24 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
1 24 (2.01%) Remedy ITSM
2 10 (0.84%) Shopify
3 8 (0.67%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.25%) Infor M3
5 3 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.084%) Magento
7 1 (0.084%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.084%) Oracle FAH
7 1 (0.084%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.084%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 332 (27.85%) Azure
2 293 (24.58%) AWS
3 185 (15.52%) Azure DevOps
4 104 (8.72%) Power Platform
5 102 (8.56%) Amazon S3
6 98 (8.22%) SaaS
7 88 (7.38%) Serverless
8 64 (5.37%) PaaS
9 48 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
10 46 (3.86%) PowerApps
11 45 (3.78%) Amazon ECS
12 43 (3.61%) Power Automate
13 39 (3.27%) Dynamics 365
14 38 (3.19%) IaaS
15 35 (2.94%) GitHub
16 34 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
17 33 (2.77%) Amazon EC2
17 33 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
18 25 (2.10%) Amazon Kinesis
19 21 (1.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 69 (5.79%) Kerberos
2 37 (3.10%) HTTP
3 36 (3.02%) VPN
4 14 (1.17%) Internet
5 13 (1.09%) NGFW
6 11 (0.92%) BGP
6 11 (0.92%) DNS
6 11 (0.92%) Ethernet VPN
6 11 (0.92%) MPLS
7 10 (0.84%) Firewall
8 9 (0.76%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.42%) FTP
9 5 (0.42%) MQTT
9 5 (0.42%) RS-485
10 4 (0.34%) RS-232
10 4 (0.34%) SSH
10 4 (0.34%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.25%) HTTPS
11 3 (0.25%) NetScaler
11 3 (0.25%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (17.95%) SQL Server
2 152 (12.75%) NoSQL
3 142 (11.91%) Relational Database
4 87 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
5 85 (7.13%) MySQL
6 72 (6.04%) Power BI
7 67 (5.62%) Metadata
8 65 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
9 63 (5.29%) Elasticsearch
10 54 (4.53%) RDBMS
11 53 (4.45%) Apache Cassandra
12 39 (3.27%) MongoDB
13 38 (3.19%) Oracle Database
14 35 (2.94%) DynamoDB
15 29 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
16 25 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
17 21 (1.76%) MS Access
18 18 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
18 18 (1.51%) GIS
18 18 (1.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 295 (24.75%) Git
2 151 (12.67%) Jenkins
3 137 (11.49%) JUnit
4 108 (9.06%) Visual Studio
5 92 (7.72%) Jasmine
6 90 (7.55%) Selenium
7 88 (7.38%) Karma Test Runner
8 83 (6.96%) JIRA
9 80 (6.71%) WebDriver
10 77 (6.46%) Bitbucket
11 74 (6.21%) Cypress.io
12 67 (5.62%) Artifactory
13 60 (5.03%) Protractor
14 45 (3.78%) Postman
15 34 (2.85%) IntelliJ
16 33 (2.77%) GitLab
17 31 (2.60%) Oracle APEX
18 21 (1.76%) Maven
19 18 (1.51%) Team Foundation Server
20 16 (1.34%) Eclipse
General
1 392 (32.89%) Finance
2 249 (20.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 245 (20.55%) Law
4 236 (19.80%) Social Skills
5 102 (8.56%) Banking
6 99 (8.31%) Marketing
7 93 (7.80%) Legal
8 92 (7.72%) Analytical Skills
9 75 (6.29%) Public Sector
10 62 (5.20%) Investment Banking
11 46 (3.86%) Retail
12 19 (1.59%) Games
13 17 (1.43%) Financial Institution
13 17 (1.43%) Telecoms
14 12 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (0.67%) Health Technology
17 8 (0.67%) Manufacturing
18 7 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 521 (43.71%) Developer
2 291 (24.41%) Software Engineer
3 287 (24.08%) Senior
4 230 (19.30%) Lead
5 133 (11.16%) Lead Software Engineer
6 130 (10.91%) Java Engineer
7 129 (10.82%) Senior Developer
8 120 (10.07%) Java Software Engineer
9 100 (8.39%) Senior Software Engineer
10 71 (5.96%) Analyst
11 65 (5.45%) Full Stack Engineer
12 64 (5.37%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 62 (5.20%) Java Developer
14 60 (5.03%) Architect
14 60 (5.03%) Software Developer
15 52 (4.36%) C# Developer
16 45 (3.78%) .NET Developer
17 37 (3.10%) Technical Leader
18 33 (2.77%) Full Stack Developer
19 32 (2.68%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 577 (48.41%) XML
2 429 (35.99%) HTML
3 370 (31.04%) REST
4 363 (30.45%) CSS
5 346 (29.03%) Web Services
6 315 (26.43%) .NET
7 311 (26.09%) AngularJS
8 258 (21.64%) Spring
9 240 (20.13%) Node.js
10 226 (18.96%) React
11 204 (17.11%) RESTful
12 198 (16.61%) jQuery
13 190 (15.94%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 187 (15.69%) SOAP
15 177 (14.85%) Hibernate
16 143 (12.00%) ASP.NET
17 141 (11.83%) J2EE
18 132 (11.07%) JMS
19 89 (7.47%) Spring Boot
20 88 (7.38%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 141 (11.83%) Data Structures
1 141 (11.83%) Management Information System
2 80 (6.71%) Cloud Native
3 73 (6.12%) Enterprise Cloud
4 72 (6.04%) Algorithms
5 65 (5.45%) Reference Data
6 46 (3.86%) Product Ownership
7 35 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
8 34 (2.85%) Distributed Systems
9 30 (2.52%) IoT
10 24 (2.01%) Mobile App
11 22 (1.85%) Private Cloud
12 21 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
13 18 (1.51%) Onboarding
14 17 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
15 16 (1.34%) CMDB
15 16 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
15 16 (1.34%) Public Cloud
16 12 (1.01%) Digital Media
17 11 (0.92%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 79 (6.63%) Linux
2 66 (5.54%) Windows
3 24 (2.01%) Android
4 22 (1.85%) Apple iOS
5 19 (1.59%) Windows Server
6 16 (1.34%) Unix
7 11 (0.92%) CentOS
8 3 (0.25%) VMS
8 3 (0.25%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.084%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.084%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 607 (50.92%) Agile
2 378 (31.71%) CI/CD
3 368 (30.87%) Software Engineering
4 346 (29.03%) DevOps
5 309 (25.92%) SDLC
6 226 (18.96%) Problem-Solving
7 203 (17.03%) Test Automation
8 202 (16.95%) Operational Stability
9 167 (14.01%) Community of Practice
10 164 (13.76%) Microservices
11 163 (13.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 160 (13.42%) Machine Learning
13 159 (13.34%) Web Development
14 157 (13.17%) Artificial Intelligence
15 140 (11.74%) Data Modelling
16 138 (11.58%) TDD
17 137 (11.49%) Roadmaps
18 136 (11.41%) Scrum
19 129 (10.82%) Full Stack Development
20 121 (10.15%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 519 (43.54%) JavaScript
2 516 (43.29%) SQL
3 349 (29.28%) Java
4 274 (22.99%) C#
5 209 (17.53%) TypeScript
6 203 (17.03%) Python
7 135 (11.33%) T-SQL
8 101 (8.47%) PowerShell
9 89 (7.47%) PHP
10 86 (7.21%) Go
11 84 (7.05%) VB.NET
12 65 (5.45%) Prolog
12 65 (5.45%) SPARQL
13 57 (4.78%) VB
14 39 (3.27%) PL/SQL
15 28 (2.35%) Shell Script
15 28 (2.35%) VB6
16 27 (2.27%) C++
16 27 (2.27%) Scala
17 25 (2.10%) C
Qualifications
1 144 (12.08%) Degree
2 117 (9.82%) Security Cleared
3 82 (6.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 82 (6.88%) SC Cleared
4 20 (1.68%) Azure Certification
5 15 (1.26%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.09%) AWS Certification
7 10 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.50%) HNC
9 5 (0.42%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.25%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.084%) CISSP
13 1 (0.084%) ISEB
13 1 (0.084%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.084%) OCP
13 1 (0.084%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.084%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (11.33%) QA
2 15 (1.26%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.17%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.50%) NCSC
5 2 (0.17%) GDPR
5 2 (0.17%) HL7
5 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.17%) SEPA
6 1 (0.084%) COREP
6 1 (0.084%) IFRS
6 1 (0.084%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.084%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.084%) SLA
System Software
1 137 (11.49%) Docker
2 97 (8.14%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.43%) Hyper-V
4 21 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (1.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (1.51%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (1.26%) vSphere
7 2 (0.17%) NFS
7 2 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.084%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 157 (13.17%) Kubernetes
2 103 (8.64%) Terraform
3 69 (5.79%) Ansible
4 18 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.42%) Progress Chef
5 5 (0.42%) Puppet
6 4 (0.34%) Istio
6 4 (0.34%) vRealize
7 3 (0.25%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.17%) Kibana
8 2 (0.17%) Packer
8 2 (0.17%) Rancher
9 1 (0.084%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.084%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.084%) Podman
9 1 (0.084%) SCCM
9 1 (0.084%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 252 (21.14%) Microsoft
2 128 (10.74%) Oracle
3 48 (4.03%) Google
4 38 (3.19%) ServiceNow
5 37 (3.10%) VMware
6 35 (2.94%) Citrix
7 29 (2.43%) Salesforce
8 28 (2.35%) HP
8 28 (2.35%) WSO2
9 24 (2.01%) BMC
9 24 (2.01%) Remedy
10 17 (1.43%) SolarWinds
11 16 (1.34%) Cisco
12 12 (1.01%) Databricks
13 11 (0.92%) Adobe
13 11 (0.92%) Atlassian
13 11 (0.92%) Automation Anywhere
13 11 (0.92%) Blue Prism
13 11 (0.92%) UiPath
14 8 (0.67%) IBM