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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 284 180
Rank change year-on-year -12 -104 +20
Permanent jobs citing JSON 83 154 371
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.56% 1.01% 1.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.07% 3.81% 6.50%
Number of salaries quoted 48 97 322
10th Percentile £54,625 £42,500 £49,898
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £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 £81,750 £85,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £112,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £63,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.73% -3.08% -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 2,701 4,039 5,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.23% 26.40% 26.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,919 2,497 4,938
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 £106,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,350 £123,750 £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 2 February 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 2 February 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 +37 10 £70,000 +55.56%
Central London -13 6 £95,000 +28.81% 20
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 (6.02%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.82%) Anypoint
3 3 (3.61%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.20%) Apache
4 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.20%) JBoss
4 1 (1.20%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.20%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (6.02%) Shopify
2 2 (2.41%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 31 (37.35%) Azure
2 21 (25.30%) AWS
3 17 (20.48%) Serverless
4 13 (15.66%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (15.66%) Power Automate
5 12 (14.46%) Boomi
6 11 (13.25%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (13.25%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (9.64%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (9.64%) GitHub
8 7 (8.43%) Power Platform
9 6 (7.23%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (6.02%) GCP
10 5 (6.02%) iPaaS
10 5 (6.02%) PaaS
10 5 (6.02%) PowerApps
11 4 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (4.82%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (4.82%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.23%) VPN
2 3 (3.61%) AMQP
3 1 (1.20%) DHCP
3 1 (1.20%) DNS
3 1 (1.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.87%) Relational Database
2 11 (13.25%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (10.84%) RDBMS
4 6 (7.23%) Electronic Patient Records
4 6 (7.23%) MySQL
4 6 (7.23%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.61%) Power BI
5 3 (3.61%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.41%) Big Data
6 2 (2.41%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.20%) Metadata
7 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (16.87%) Jenkins
2 13 (15.66%) JUnit
3 11 (13.25%) JMeter
4 10 (12.05%) Mockito
5 7 (8.43%) Postman
6 6 (7.23%) Git
7 3 (3.61%) JIRA
7 3 (3.61%) Maven
7 3 (3.61%) Selenium
8 2 (2.41%) Crashlytics
8 2 (2.41%) WebDriver
9 1 (1.20%) Android Studio
9 1 (1.20%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.20%) Gradle
9 1 (1.20%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.20%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.20%) Subversion
9 1 (1.20%) Xcode
General
1 19 (22.89%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.69%) Law
3 10 (12.05%) Finance
4 9 (10.84%) Public Sector
5 7 (8.43%) German Language
6 6 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (7.23%) Health Technology
7 5 (6.02%) Legal
7 5 (6.02%) Retail
8 3 (3.61%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (45.78%) Developer
2 16 (19.28%) Java Developer
3 14 (16.87%) Senior
4 12 (14.46%) Senior Developer
5 10 (12.05%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (12.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 9 (10.84%) Consultant
6 9 (10.84%) Mid-Level Java Developer
7 6 (7.23%) EPR Consultant
7 6 (7.23%) Technical Consultant
8 5 (6.02%) Integration Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Workflow Developer
9 4 (4.82%) Architect
9 4 (4.82%) Development Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Development Support Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Support Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) Analyst
10 3 (3.61%) Java Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) Python Developer
10 3 (3.61%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (62.65%) REST
2 50 (60.24%) XML
3 20 (24.10%) Spring
4 19 (22.89%) HTML
5 18 (21.69%) Spring Boot
5 18 (21.69%) Web Services
6 14 (16.87%) Hibernate
7 12 (14.46%) SOAP
8 11 (13.25%) jQuery
8 11 (13.25%) React
9 10 (12.05%) ActiveMQ
9 10 (12.05%) Apache Camel
9 10 (12.05%) WireMock
10 9 (10.84%) RESTful
11 7 (8.43%) Regular Expression
11 7 (8.43%) YAML
12 6 (7.23%) FHIR
12 6 (7.23%) OAuth
13 5 (6.02%) JWT
13 5 (6.02%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.66%) Linux Command Line
1 13 (15.66%) Low-Code
2 12 (14.46%) Onboarding
3 11 (13.25%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (7.23%) Data Structures
4 6 (7.23%) NHS
5 5 (6.02%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.61%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.41%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.20%) CMDB
8 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.20%) PKI
8 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.46%) Linux
2 11 (13.25%) Unix
3 1 (1.20%) Android
3 1 (1.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (46.99%) CI/CD
2 34 (40.96%) Agile
3 22 (26.51%) DevOps
4 19 (22.89%) AI
5 18 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (20.48%) Microservices
6 17 (20.48%) Workflow
7 15 (18.07%) Test Automation
8 14 (16.87%) Validation
9 13 (15.66%) SDLC
10 12 (14.46%) BDD
10 12 (14.46%) LLM
11 11 (13.25%) API Integration
11 11 (13.25%) TDD
12 10 (12.05%) ETL
12 10 (12.05%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (12.05%) Mentoring
12 10 (12.05%) User Experience
13 9 (10.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (10.84%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 38 (45.78%) JavaScript
2 36 (43.37%) Python
3 33 (39.76%) SQL
4 26 (31.33%) Java
5 14 (16.87%) C#
5 14 (16.87%) Shell Script
6 8 (9.64%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.61%) Bicep
7 3 (3.61%) PHP
7 3 (3.61%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.41%) ActionScript
8 2 (2.41%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (1.20%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.20%) Bash
9 1 (1.20%) C++
9 1 (1.20%) Korn
9 1 (1.20%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.20%) R
9 1 (1.20%) Swift
Qualifications
1 12 (14.46%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.05%) Degree
3 3 (3.61%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.23%) GDPR
1 6 (7.23%) HL7
2 5 (6.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.02%) NCSC
2 5 (6.02%) NIST
3 4 (4.82%) QA
4 3 (3.61%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.61%) Data Quality
System Software
1 25 (30.12%) Docker
2 1 (1.20%) iptables
Systems Management
1 25 (30.12%) Kubernetes
2 10 (12.05%) Kibana
3 5 (6.02%) Terraform
4 3 (3.61%) Ansible
5 1 (1.20%) Grafana
5 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (12.05%) Dynatrace
1 10 (12.05%) Microsoft
1 10 (12.05%) Splunk
2 7 (8.43%) MuleSoft
2 7 (8.43%) Oracle
3 6 (7.23%) Dell
3 6 (7.23%) Intapp
3 6 (7.23%) SAP
4 5 (6.02%) Talend
4 5 (6.02%) Workday
5 4 (4.82%) Epicor
5 4 (4.82%) IBM
5 4 (4.82%) IFS
5 4 (4.82%) Infor
5 4 (4.82%) Informatica
5 4 (4.82%) Jitterbit
5 4 (4.82%) SnapLogic
5 4 (4.82%) Software AG
5 4 (4.82%) TIBCO
6 3 (3.61%) Google