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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 265 183
Rank change year-on-year -36 -82 +26
Permanent jobs citing JSON 87 158 356
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.56% 1.06% 1.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.16% 3.96% 6.35%
Number of salaries quoted 52 99 311
10th Percentile £55,125 £42,500 £49,898
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,375 £60,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £81,375 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £94,500 £103,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £58,750 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.20% +2.40% -10.00%

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 2,751 3,989 5,609
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 17.79% 26.74% 26.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,975 2,512 4,849
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £49,898
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £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 16 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 16 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 +40 10 £70,000 +55.56%
Central London -18 5 £95,000 +28.81% 9
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 (5.75%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.60%) Anypoint
3 2 (2.30%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.15%) Apache
4 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.15%) JBoss
4 1 (1.15%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.15%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (4.60%) Shopify
2 2 (2.30%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 32 (36.78%) Azure
2 21 (24.14%) AWS
3 16 (18.39%) Serverless
4 13 (14.94%) Power Automate
5 12 (13.79%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (12.64%) Boomi
7 10 (11.49%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (11.49%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (9.20%) Power Platform
9 7 (8.05%) GitHub
10 6 (6.90%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (5.75%) GCP
11 5 (5.75%) PaaS
11 5 (5.75%) PowerApps
12 4 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (4.60%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (4.60%) iPaaS
12 4 (4.60%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.90%) VPN
2 3 (3.45%) AMQP
3 1 (1.15%) CTI
3 1 (1.15%) DHCP
3 1 (1.15%) DNS
3 1 (1.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.24%) Relational Database
2 11 (12.64%) RDBMS
3 10 (11.49%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (6.90%) Electronic Patient Records
4 6 (6.90%) MySQL
5 5 (5.75%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.60%) Power BI
7 3 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.45%) Metadata
7 3 (3.45%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.30%) Big Data
8 2 (2.30%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (14.94%) Jenkins
2 12 (13.79%) JUnit
3 10 (11.49%) JMeter
4 9 (10.34%) Mockito
4 9 (10.34%) Postman
5 5 (5.75%) Git
5 5 (5.75%) Selenium
6 4 (4.60%) WebDriver
7 3 (3.45%) JIRA
7 3 (3.45%) Maven
7 3 (3.45%) SpecFlow
8 2 (2.30%) Crashlytics
8 2 (2.30%) ERwin
9 1 (1.15%) Android Studio
9 1 (1.15%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.15%) Gradle
9 1 (1.15%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.15%) Subversion
9 1 (1.15%) Xcode
General
1 20 (22.99%) Law
1 20 (22.99%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.94%) Finance
3 9 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.05%) German Language
5 6 (6.90%) Health Technology
6 5 (5.75%) Legal
7 4 (4.60%) Retail
8 3 (3.45%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.30%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.15%) Advertising
10 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (42.53%) Developer
2 15 (17.24%) Java Developer
3 13 (14.94%) Senior
4 11 (12.64%) Consultant
4 11 (12.64%) Senior Developer
5 10 (11.49%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (11.49%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 9 (10.34%) Mid-Level Java Developer
7 6 (6.90%) EPR Consultant
7 6 (6.90%) Technical Consultant
8 5 (5.75%) Analyst
8 5 (5.75%) Architect
8 5 (5.75%) Data Analyst
8 5 (5.75%) Workflow Developer
9 4 (4.60%) Development Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Development Support Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Lead
9 4 (4.60%) Support Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Apigee Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (62.07%) REST
2 52 (59.77%) XML
3 19 (21.84%) Spring
4 18 (20.69%) HTML
4 18 (20.69%) Web Services
5 17 (19.54%) Spring Boot
6 13 (14.94%) Hibernate
7 12 (13.79%) SOAP
8 11 (12.64%) React
9 10 (11.49%) jQuery
9 10 (11.49%) RESTful
10 9 (10.34%) ActiveMQ
10 9 (10.34%) Apache Camel
10 9 (10.34%) WireMock
11 7 (8.05%) .NET
11 7 (8.05%) OAuth
11 7 (8.05%) Regular Expression
11 7 (8.05%) Swagger
11 7 (8.05%) YAML
12 6 (6.90%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.94%) Linux Command Line
1 13 (14.94%) Low-Code
1 13 (14.94%) Onboarding
2 11 (12.64%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (11.49%) Data Structures
4 6 (6.90%) NHS
5 4 (4.60%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.45%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.30%) e-Learning
7 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.30%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.15%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.15%) CMDB
8 1 (1.15%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.15%) PKI
8 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.15%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.79%) Linux
2 11 (12.64%) Unix
3 1 (1.15%) Android
3 1 (1.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (41.38%) CI/CD
2 35 (40.23%) Agile
3 23 (26.44%) AI
4 20 (22.99%) DevOps
5 18 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (18.39%) Microservices
6 16 (18.39%) Test Automation
6 16 (18.39%) Workflow
7 13 (14.94%) API Integration
7 13 (14.94%) BDD
7 13 (14.94%) Data Modelling
7 13 (14.94%) Validation
8 12 (13.79%) SDLC
9 11 (12.64%) Data Analysis
9 11 (12.64%) LLM
9 11 (12.64%) User Experience
10 10 (11.49%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (11.49%) ETL
10 10 (11.49%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 39 (44.83%) SQL
2 38 (43.68%) Python
3 35 (40.23%) JavaScript
4 27 (31.03%) Java
5 15 (17.24%) C#
6 13 (14.94%) Shell Script
7 8 (9.20%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.45%) PHP
8 3 (3.45%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.30%) ActionScript
9 2 (2.30%) ActionScript 2.0
9 2 (2.30%) Bicep
10 1 (1.15%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.15%) Bash
10 1 (1.15%) C++
10 1 (1.15%) Korn
10 1 (1.15%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.15%) R
10 1 (1.15%) Swift
Qualifications
1 12 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.49%) Degree
3 3 (3.45%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.05%) GDPR
2 6 (6.90%) HL7
2 6 (6.90%) QA
3 5 (5.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.75%) NCSC
3 5 (5.75%) NIST
4 4 (4.60%) Accessibility
5 3 (3.45%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (27.59%) Docker
2 1 (1.15%) iptables
Systems Management
1 24 (27.59%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.34%) Kibana
3 5 (5.75%) Terraform
4 3 (3.45%) Ansible
5 1 (1.15%) Grafana
5 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (12.64%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.49%) Splunk
3 9 (10.34%) Dynatrace
4 7 (8.05%) Oracle
5 6 (6.90%) Dell
5 6 (6.90%) Intapp
5 6 (6.90%) MuleSoft
5 6 (6.90%) SAP
6 5 (5.75%) Talend
6 5 (5.75%) Workday
7 4 (4.60%) Epicor
7 4 (4.60%) IBM
7 4 (4.60%) IFS
7 4 (4.60%) Infor
7 4 (4.60%) Informatica
7 4 (4.60%) Jitterbit
7 4 (4.60%) SnapLogic
7 4 (4.60%) Software AG
7 4 (4.60%) TIBCO
8 3 (3.45%) Google