JSON Job Trends in London

JSON
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring JSON skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 288 173
Rank change year-on-year -8 -115 +26
Permanent jobs citing JSON 85 154 371
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.58% 1.00% 1.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.13% 3.79% 6.67%
Number of salaries quoted 48 97 323
10th Percentile £53,750 £42,500 £50,018
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £81,844 £82,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,250 £101,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% -7.14%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,716 4,068 5,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.48% 26.41% 27.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,931 2,511 4,814
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - -
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%

JSON
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JSON relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

JSON job vacancy trend in London

JSON
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing JSON.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing JSON

JSON
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing JSON in London over the 6 months to 27 January 2026.

Salary histogram for JSON in London

JSON
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JSON within the London region over the 6 months to 27 January 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
South London +46 11 £70,000 +55.56% 1
Central London -16 6 £95,000 +40.74% 12
JSON
England

JSON
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 5 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.71%) Anypoint
3 3 (3.53%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.18%) Apache
4 1 (1.18%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.18%) JBoss
4 1 (1.18%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.18%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (5.88%) Shopify
2 2 (2.35%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.18%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 31 (36.47%) Azure
2 24 (28.24%) AWS
3 20 (23.53%) Serverless
4 15 (17.65%) Amazon EC2
5 13 (15.29%) Amazon ECS
5 13 (15.29%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (15.29%) Power Automate
6 12 (14.12%) Boomi
7 9 (10.59%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (9.41%) GitHub
9 7 (8.24%) Power Platform
10 6 (7.06%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (5.88%) GCP
11 5 (5.88%) iPaaS
11 5 (5.88%) PaaS
11 5 (5.88%) PowerApps
12 4 (4.71%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (4.71%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.06%) VPN
2 3 (3.53%) AMQP
3 1 (1.18%) DHCP
3 1 (1.18%) DNS
3 1 (1.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 13 (15.29%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (11.76%) RDBMS
4 6 (7.06%) Electronic Patient Records
4 6 (7.06%) MySQL
4 6 (7.06%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.53%) Power BI
5 3 (3.53%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.35%) Big Data
6 2 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.35%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.18%) Metadata
7 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (18.82%) Jenkins
2 15 (17.65%) JUnit
3 13 (15.29%) JMeter
4 12 (14.12%) Mockito
5 6 (7.06%) Git
5 6 (7.06%) Postman
6 4 (4.71%) JIRA
7 3 (3.53%) Maven
8 2 (2.35%) Crashlytics
8 2 (2.35%) Selenium
9 1 (1.18%) Android Studio
9 1 (1.18%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.18%) Gradle
9 1 (1.18%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.18%) Subversion
9 1 (1.18%) WebDriver
9 1 (1.18%) Xcode
General
1 20 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 17 (20.00%) Law
3 10 (11.76%) Finance
3 10 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.24%) German Language
5 6 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.06%) Health Technology
6 5 (5.88%) Legal
6 5 (5.88%) Retail
7 3 (3.53%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Banking
9 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (47.06%) Developer
2 18 (21.18%) Java Developer
3 14 (16.47%) Senior
4 12 (14.12%) Senior Developer
5 11 (12.94%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (12.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 10 (11.76%) Mid-Level Java Developer
7 9 (10.59%) Consultant
8 6 (7.06%) EPR Consultant
8 6 (7.06%) Technical Consultant
9 5 (5.88%) Integration Engineer
9 5 (5.88%) Workflow Developer
10 4 (4.71%) Architect
10 4 (4.71%) Development Engineer
10 4 (4.71%) Development Support Engineer
10 4 (4.71%) Support Engineer
11 3 (3.53%) Applications Developer
11 3 (3.53%) Java Engineer
11 3 (3.53%) Python Developer
11 3 (3.53%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (62.35%) XML
2 52 (61.18%) REST
3 22 (25.88%) Spring
4 21 (24.71%) HTML
5 20 (23.53%) Spring Boot
6 19 (22.35%) Web Services
7 16 (18.82%) Hibernate
8 13 (15.29%) jQuery
9 12 (14.12%) ActiveMQ
9 12 (14.12%) Apache Camel
9 12 (14.12%) SOAP
9 12 (14.12%) WireMock
10 11 (12.94%) React
11 9 (10.59%) RESTful
12 7 (8.24%) Regular Expression
12 7 (8.24%) YAML
13 6 (7.06%) FHIR
13 6 (7.06%) OAuth
14 5 (5.88%) JWT
15 4 (4.71%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.29%) Linux Command Line
1 13 (15.29%) Low-Code
2 12 (14.12%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (14.12%) Onboarding
3 6 (7.06%) NHS
4 5 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.88%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.53%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.35%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.18%) CMDB
7 1 (1.18%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.18%) PKI
7 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.12%) Linux
2 11 (12.94%) Unix
3 1 (1.18%) Android
3 1 (1.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (48.24%) CI/CD
2 37 (43.53%) Agile
3 24 (28.24%) DevOps
4 19 (22.35%) Microservices
4 19 (22.35%) Workflow
5 18 (21.18%) AI
5 18 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (17.65%) SDLC
6 15 (17.65%) Test Automation
6 15 (17.65%) Validation
7 13 (15.29%) BDD
7 13 (15.29%) LLM
7 13 (15.29%) TDD
8 12 (14.12%) Full-Stack Development
9 10 (11.76%) API Integration
9 10 (11.76%) ETL
9 10 (11.76%) Mentoring
9 10 (11.76%) Process Management
9 10 (11.76%) User Experience
10 9 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 40 (47.06%) JavaScript
2 39 (45.88%) Python
3 32 (37.65%) SQL
4 27 (31.76%) Java
5 16 (18.82%) Shell Script
6 13 (15.29%) C#
7 8 (9.41%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.71%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.53%) Bicep
9 3 (3.53%) PHP
10 2 (2.35%) ActionScript
10 2 (2.35%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (1.18%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.18%) Bash
11 1 (1.18%) C++
11 1 (1.18%) Korn
11 1 (1.18%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.18%) R
11 1 (1.18%) Swift
Qualifications
1 13 (15.29%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.76%) Degree
3 3 (3.53%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.06%) GDPR
1 6 (7.06%) HL7
2 5 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.88%) NCSC
2 5 (5.88%) NIST
3 4 (4.71%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.53%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.53%) QA
System Software
1 27 (31.76%) Docker
2 1 (1.18%) iptables
Systems Management
1 27 (31.76%) Kubernetes
2 12 (14.12%) Kibana
3 5 (5.88%) Terraform
4 3 (3.53%) Ansible
5 1 (1.18%) Grafana
5 1 (1.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (14.12%) Dynatrace
1 12 (14.12%) Splunk
2 9 (10.59%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.24%) MuleSoft
3 7 (8.24%) Oracle
4 6 (7.06%) Dell
4 6 (7.06%) Intapp
4 6 (7.06%) SAP
5 5 (5.88%) Talend
5 5 (5.88%) Workday
6 4 (4.71%) Epicor
6 4 (4.71%) Google
6 4 (4.71%) IBM
6 4 (4.71%) IFS
6 4 (4.71%) Infor
6 4 (4.71%) Informatica
6 4 (4.71%) Jitterbit
6 4 (4.71%) SnapLogic
6 4 (4.71%) Software AG
6 4 (4.71%) TIBCO