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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 269 171
Rank change year-on-year -3 -98 +15
Permanent jobs citing JSON 93 154 332
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.67% 1.00% 1.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.53% 3.75% 6.69%
Number of salaries quoted 55 96 285
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £45,725 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £82,313 £80,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £105,500 £98,125 £113,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% -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 2,632 4,108 4,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.91% 26.57% 27.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,898 2,528 4,301
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £63,250 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - -
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 9 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 9 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 +41 12 £70,000 +55.56% 2
Central London -3 6 £95,000 +65.22% 10
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 6 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.30%) Anypoint
3 3 (3.23%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.08%) Apache
4 1 (1.08%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.08%) CMS
4 1 (1.08%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.08%) JBoss
4 1 (1.08%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.08%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.08%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.38%) Shopify
2 2 (2.15%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.08%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 40 (43.01%) Azure
2 23 (24.73%) AWS
3 20 (21.51%) Serverless
4 17 (18.28%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (16.13%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (15.05%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (15.05%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (15.05%) Power Automate
7 12 (12.90%) Boomi
8 9 (9.68%) GitHub
8 9 (9.68%) PaaS
9 8 (8.60%) Power Platform
10 7 (7.53%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (6.45%) PowerApps
12 5 (5.38%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (5.38%) GCP
12 5 (5.38%) iPaaS
13 4 (4.30%) Google Gemini
13 4 (4.30%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.45%) VPN
2 2 (2.15%) AMQP
2 2 (2.15%) DNS
3 1 (1.08%) DHCP
3 1 (1.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (22.58%) Relational Database
2 14 (15.05%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (11.83%) RDBMS
4 7 (7.53%) MySQL
4 7 (7.53%) NoSQL
5 6 (6.45%) Electronic Patient Records
6 5 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.23%) Power BI
8 2 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.15%) Big Data
8 2 (2.15%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.15%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.08%) Metadata
9 1 (1.08%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.08%) Redis
9 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (17.20%) Jenkins
2 14 (15.05%) JMeter
2 14 (15.05%) JUnit
3 13 (13.98%) Mockito
4 7 (7.53%) JIRA
5 5 (5.38%) Postman
6 4 (4.30%) Git
7 2 (2.15%) Crashlytics
7 2 (2.15%) Selenium
8 1 (1.08%) Android Studio
8 1 (1.08%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.08%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.08%) Subversion
8 1 (1.08%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.08%) Xcode
General
1 23 (24.73%) Social Skills
2 21 (22.58%) Law
3 11 (11.83%) Public Sector
4 10 (10.75%) Finance
5 7 (7.53%) German Language
6 6 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.45%) Health Technology
7 5 (5.38%) Legal
7 5 (5.38%) Retail
8 4 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (3.23%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.08%) Banking
11 1 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.08%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.08%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 42 (45.16%) Developer
2 16 (17.20%) Java Developer
3 15 (16.13%) Senior
4 13 (13.98%) Full-Stack Developer
4 13 (13.98%) Senior Developer
5 12 (12.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 11 (11.83%) Mid-Level Java Developer
7 9 (9.68%) Consultant
8 6 (6.45%) EPR Consultant
8 6 (6.45%) Technical Consultant
9 5 (5.38%) Data Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) Integration Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) Workflow Developer
10 4 (4.30%) Applications Developer
10 4 (4.30%) Architect
10 4 (4.30%) Development Support Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) IT Manager
10 4 (4.30%) Support Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) Test Automation Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (59.14%) XML
2 52 (55.91%) REST
3 25 (26.88%) HTML
4 20 (21.51%) Spring
4 20 (21.51%) Spring Boot
4 20 (21.51%) Web Services
5 16 (17.20%) Hibernate
6 14 (15.05%) jQuery
7 13 (13.98%) ActiveMQ
7 13 (13.98%) Apache Camel
7 13 (13.98%) WireMock
8 12 (12.90%) React
9 10 (10.75%) YAML
10 9 (9.68%) RESTful
10 9 (9.68%) SOAP
11 7 (7.53%) Regular Expression
12 6 (6.45%) FHIR
12 6 (6.45%) OAuth
13 5 (5.38%) CSS
13 5 (5.38%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.98%) Distributed Systems
1 13 (13.98%) Linux Command Line
1 13 (13.98%) Low-Code
2 12 (12.90%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.45%) NHS
4 4 (4.30%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.23%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.15%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.08%) CMDB
7 1 (1.08%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.08%) PKI
7 1 (1.08%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.08%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.83%) Linux
1 11 (11.83%) Unix
2 1 (1.08%) Android
2 1 (1.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (49.46%) Agile
2 45 (48.39%) CI/CD
3 31 (33.33%) DevOps
4 22 (23.66%) Microservices
4 22 (23.66%) Test Automation
5 20 (21.51%) SDLC
5 20 (21.51%) Workflow
6 18 (19.35%) AI
6 18 (19.35%) Validation
7 17 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (17.20%) Mentoring
9 14 (15.05%) BDD
9 14 (15.05%) Full-Stack Development
9 14 (15.05%) LLM
9 14 (15.05%) TDD
10 12 (12.90%) ETL
10 12 (12.90%) User Experience
11 11 (11.83%) Data Modelling
11 11 (11.83%) Process Management
12 10 (10.75%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 46 (49.46%) JavaScript
2 44 (47.31%) Python
3 36 (38.71%) SQL
4 25 (26.88%) Java
5 17 (18.28%) Shell Script
6 14 (15.05%) C#
7 13 (13.98%) PowerShell
8 5 (5.38%) TypeScript
9 4 (4.30%) PHP
10 3 (3.23%) Bicep
11 2 (2.15%) ActionScript
11 2 (2.15%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (1.08%) Apex Code
12 1 (1.08%) Bash
12 1 (1.08%) C++
12 1 (1.08%) Go
12 1 (1.08%) Korn
12 1 (1.08%) R
12 1 (1.08%) Swift
12 1 (1.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (11.83%) Degree
1 11 (11.83%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (9.68%) NCSC
1 9 (9.68%) NIST
2 7 (7.53%) Data Quality
3 6 (6.45%) GDPR
3 6 (6.45%) HL7
4 5 (5.38%) QA
5 4 (4.30%) Accessibility
System Software
1 28 (30.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.08%) iptables
Systems Management
1 28 (30.11%) Kubernetes
2 13 (13.98%) Kibana
3 5 (5.38%) Terraform
4 2 (2.15%) Ansible
5 1 (1.08%) Grafana
5 1 (1.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (13.98%) Dynatrace
1 13 (13.98%) Splunk
2 10 (10.75%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.53%) MuleSoft
3 7 (7.53%) Oracle
4 6 (6.45%) Dell
4 6 (6.45%) Intapp
4 6 (6.45%) SAP
5 5 (5.38%) Talend
5 5 (5.38%) Workday
6 4 (4.30%) Epicor
6 4 (4.30%) IBM
6 4 (4.30%) IFS
6 4 (4.30%) Infor
6 4 (4.30%) Informatica
6 4 (4.30%) Jitterbit
6 4 (4.30%) OpenAI
6 4 (4.30%) SnapLogic
6 4 (4.30%) Software AG
6 4 (4.30%) TIBCO