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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 273 168
Rank change year-on-year -5 -105 +17
Permanent jobs citing JSON 94 155 330
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.68% 1.00% 1.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.55% 3.75% 6.71%
Number of salaries quoted 56 97 283
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £55,938 £45,651 £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 £82,219 £80,000 £95,625
90th Percentile £103,750 £97,750 £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 2,651 4,134 4,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.18% 26.57% 27.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,910 2,543 4,260
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £62,028
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 6 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 6 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 +43 13 £70,000 +55.56% 1
Central London -4 6 £95,000 +72.73% 9
North London - 1 £32,500 -
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 (6.38%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.26%) Anypoint
3 3 (3.19%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.06%) Apache
4 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.06%) CMS
4 1 (1.06%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.06%) JBoss
4 1 (1.06%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.06%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.06%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.32%) Shopify
2 2 (2.13%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.06%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 41 (43.62%) Azure
2 24 (25.53%) AWS
3 21 (22.34%) Serverless
4 17 (18.09%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (17.02%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (15.96%) Amazon ECS
6 15 (15.96%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (14.89%) Power Automate
8 12 (12.77%) Boomi
9 9 (9.57%) GitHub
9 9 (9.57%) PaaS
10 8 (8.51%) Power Platform
11 7 (7.45%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (6.38%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (6.38%) PowerApps
13 5 (5.32%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (5.32%) iPaaS
14 4 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (4.26%) GCP
14 4 (4.26%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.38%) VPN
2 2 (2.13%) AMQP
2 2 (2.13%) DNS
2 2 (2.13%) HTTP
3 1 (1.06%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (23.40%) Relational Database
2 15 (15.96%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (12.77%) RDBMS
4 7 (7.45%) MySQL
4 7 (7.45%) NoSQL
5 6 (6.38%) Electronic Patient Records
6 5 (5.32%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.19%) Power BI
7 3 (3.19%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.13%) Big Data
8 2 (2.13%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.06%) Metadata
9 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.06%) Redis
9 1 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (18.09%) Jenkins
2 15 (15.96%) JMeter
2 15 (15.96%) JUnit
3 14 (14.89%) Mockito
4 7 (7.45%) JIRA
5 5 (5.32%) Git
6 4 (4.26%) Postman
7 2 (2.13%) Crashlytics
7 2 (2.13%) Selenium
8 1 (1.06%) Android Studio
8 1 (1.06%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.06%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.06%) Subversion
8 1 (1.06%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.06%) Xcode
General
1 23 (24.47%) Social Skills
2 21 (22.34%) Law
3 12 (12.77%) Public Sector
4 10 (10.64%) Finance
5 7 (7.45%) German Language
6 6 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.38%) Health Technology
7 5 (5.32%) Legal
7 5 (5.32%) Retail
8 4 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.13%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.06%) Banking
10 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.06%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.06%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (46.81%) Developer
2 17 (18.09%) Java Developer
3 15 (15.96%) Full-Stack Developer
3 15 (15.96%) Senior
4 13 (13.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 13 (13.83%) Senior Developer
5 12 (12.77%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 9 (9.57%) Consultant
7 6 (6.38%) EPR Consultant
7 6 (6.38%) Technical Consultant
8 5 (5.32%) Data Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Integration Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Workflow Developer
9 4 (4.26%) Applications Developer
9 4 (4.26%) Development Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) Development Support Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) IT Manager
9 4 (4.26%) Support Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) Test Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (59.57%) XML
2 53 (56.38%) REST
3 27 (28.72%) HTML
4 21 (22.34%) Web Services
5 20 (21.28%) Spring
5 20 (21.28%) Spring Boot
6 17 (18.09%) Hibernate
7 15 (15.96%) jQuery
8 14 (14.89%) ActiveMQ
8 14 (14.89%) Apache Camel
8 14 (14.89%) WireMock
9 13 (13.83%) React
10 10 (10.64%) YAML
11 9 (9.57%) RESTful
11 9 (9.57%) SOAP
12 7 (7.45%) Regular Expression
13 6 (6.38%) .NET
13 6 (6.38%) CSS
13 6 (6.38%) FHIR
13 6 (6.38%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.89%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (13.83%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (13.83%) Low-Code
3 12 (12.77%) Onboarding
4 6 (6.38%) Cloud Native
4 6 (6.38%) NHS
5 4 (4.26%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.19%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.13%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.06%) CMDB
8 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.06%) PKI
8 1 (1.06%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.06%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.70%) Linux
1 11 (11.70%) Unix
2 1 (1.06%) Android
2 1 (1.06%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (50.00%) Agile
2 46 (48.94%) CI/CD
3 31 (32.98%) DevOps
4 22 (23.40%) Microservices
4 22 (23.40%) Test Automation
5 21 (22.34%) SDLC
5 21 (22.34%) Workflow
6 18 (19.15%) AI
7 17 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (18.09%) Validation
8 16 (17.02%) Full-Stack Development
8 16 (17.02%) Mentoring
9 15 (15.96%) BDD
9 15 (15.96%) TDD
10 14 (14.89%) LLM
11 12 (12.77%) ETL
11 12 (12.77%) Process Management
12 11 (11.70%) Data Modelling
12 11 (11.70%) User Experience
13 10 (10.64%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 47 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 45 (47.87%) Python
3 36 (38.30%) SQL
4 25 (26.60%) Java
5 18 (19.15%) Shell Script
6 15 (15.96%) C#
7 13 (13.83%) PowerShell
8 5 (5.32%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.19%) Bicep
9 3 (3.19%) PHP
10 2 (2.13%) ActionScript
10 2 (2.13%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (1.06%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.06%) Bash
11 1 (1.06%) C++
11 1 (1.06%) Go
11 1 (1.06%) Korn
11 1 (1.06%) R
11 1 (1.06%) Swift
11 1 (1.06%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (12.77%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.70%) Degree
3 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (9.57%) NCSC
1 9 (9.57%) NIST
2 7 (7.45%) Data Quality
3 6 (6.38%) GDPR
3 6 (6.38%) HL7
4 5 (5.32%) QA
5 4 (4.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 28 (29.79%) Docker
2 2 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.06%) iptables
Systems Management
1 28 (29.79%) Kubernetes
2 14 (14.89%) Kibana
3 5 (5.32%) Terraform
4 2 (2.13%) Ansible
5 1 (1.06%) Grafana
5 1 (1.06%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (14.89%) Dynatrace
1 14 (14.89%) Splunk
2 10 (10.64%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.45%) MuleSoft
3 7 (7.45%) Oracle
4 6 (6.38%) Dell
4 6 (6.38%) Intapp
4 6 (6.38%) SAP
5 5 (5.32%) Talend
5 5 (5.32%) Workday
6 4 (4.26%) Epicor
6 4 (4.26%) IBM
6 4 (4.26%) IFS
6 4 (4.26%) Infor
6 4 (4.26%) Informatica
6 4 (4.26%) Jitterbit
6 4 (4.26%) OpenAI
6 4 (4.26%) SnapLogic
6 4 (4.26%) Software AG
6 4 (4.26%) TIBCO