Hybrid/Remote JSON Job Trends

JSON
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring JSON skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 260 258
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 -24
Permanent jobs citing JSON 138 182 402
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.74% 1.23% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.12% 4.04% 4.68%
Number of salaries quoted 94 156 352
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,275
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% +4.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £79,834 £83,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,375 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.52% +0.63% -7.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,349 4,503 8,597
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.99% 30.40% 26.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,425 3,035 7,529
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £114,592 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%

JSON
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JSON and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

JSON job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing JSON.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing JSON

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing JSON over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

JSON salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 23 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.45%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.45%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.72%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.72%) Confluence
4 1 (0.72%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 6 (4.35%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.72%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 72 (52.17%) Azure
2 37 (26.81%) AWS
3 33 (23.91%) Power Platform
4 29 (21.01%) Azure Logic Apps
5 28 (20.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 28 (20.29%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (18.12%) PowerApps
6 25 (18.12%) SaaS
7 24 (17.39%) Power Automate
8 19 (13.77%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 19 (13.77%) OneDrive
9 18 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (12.32%) GitHub
11 14 (10.14%) Entra ID
12 12 (8.70%) Serverless
13 11 (7.97%) OpenShift
14 10 (7.25%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (5.80%) Azure Service Bus
16 7 (5.07%) Azure Monitor
16 7 (5.07%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.70%) Firewall
2 6 (4.35%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (2.17%) AMQP
3 3 (2.17%) SSL
4 2 (1.45%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.72%) Broadband
5 1 (0.72%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.72%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.72%) HTTP
5 1 (0.72%) LAN
5 1 (0.72%) Network Security
5 1 (0.72%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (21.74%) Power BI
2 21 (15.22%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (13.77%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (10.87%) SQL Server
5 14 (10.14%) MySQL
6 8 (5.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (3.62%) Metadata
7 5 (3.62%) Redis
8 4 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.17%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (1.45%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.45%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.45%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.45%) Oracle ODI
10 2 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (1.45%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.45%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (12.32%) Git
2 13 (9.42%) GitLab
3 9 (6.52%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.52%) JIRA
4 6 (4.35%) Oracle Forms
4 6 (4.35%) Selenium
5 5 (3.62%) Browser DevTools
5 5 (3.62%) SpecFlow
5 5 (3.62%) WebDriver
6 3 (2.17%) Maven
7 2 (1.45%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.45%) JUnit
7 2 (1.45%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (1.45%) Storybook
7 2 (1.45%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.72%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.72%) Postman
8 1 (0.72%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.72%) Snyk
8 1 (0.72%) SonarQube
General
1 69 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 38 (27.54%) Finance
3 34 (24.64%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.87%) Telecoms
5 9 (6.52%) Health Technology
5 9 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (4.35%) Advertising
6 6 (4.35%) Marketing
7 5 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.62%) Law
8 4 (2.90%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.90%) Retail
9 3 (2.17%) Billing
10 2 (1.45%) Electronics
10 2 (1.45%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.45%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.72%) Legal
11 1 (0.72%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 45 (32.61%) Developer
2 34 (24.64%) Senior
3 22 (15.94%) Senior Developer
4 12 (8.70%) Automation Engineer
5 11 (7.97%) Analyst
5 11 (7.97%) Network Engineer
5 11 (7.97%) Telecoms Engineer
6 9 (6.52%) Consultant
7 8 (5.80%) Applications Engineer
7 8 (5.80%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 8 (5.80%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
7 8 (5.80%) Data Analyst
7 8 (5.80%) SQL Analyst
7 8 (5.80%) SQL Data Analyst
7 8 (5.80%) SSRS Analyst
8 7 (5.07%) Automation Specialist
8 7 (5.07%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (5.07%) Microsoft 365 Developer
8 7 (5.07%) QA Engineer
8 7 (5.07%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (41.30%) XML
2 41 (29.71%) HTML
3 38 (27.54%) CSS
4 34 (24.64%) REST
5 30 (21.74%) .NET
6 22 (15.94%) HTML5 Canvas
7 21 (15.22%) .NET Core
7 21 (15.22%) RESTful
8 19 (13.77%) Microsoft Graph
8 19 (13.77%) SPFx
9 15 (10.87%) YAML
10 14 (10.14%) SOAP
11 11 (7.97%) Jinja
12 10 (7.25%) OAuth
13 8 (5.80%) Node.js
13 8 (5.80%) React
14 7 (5.07%) OAuth2
14 7 (5.07%) Spring
14 7 (5.07%) Web Services
15 6 (4.35%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.87%) Onboarding
2 11 (7.97%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.52%) Data Structures
3 9 (6.52%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (5.07%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.17%) NHS
7 3 (2.17%) PMI
8 2 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.45%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.45%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.45%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.45%) Semantic Web
8 2 (1.45%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.72%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.72%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.72%) Linked Data
9 1 (0.72%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.42%) Linux
2 7 (5.07%) Unix
3 1 (0.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (28.99%) CI/CD
2 37 (26.81%) Business Intelligence
3 32 (23.19%) DevOps
4 29 (21.01%) Test Automation
5 28 (20.29%) User Experience
6 27 (19.57%) Agile
7 25 (18.12%) Technical Leadership
8 23 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (16.67%) Validation
9 22 (15.94%) Containerisation
9 22 (15.94%) Machine Learning
9 22 (15.94%) Project Management
10 21 (15.22%) Task Automation
11 19 (13.77%) API Management
11 19 (13.77%) Document Management
11 19 (13.77%) Web Design
12 18 (13.04%) API Integration
12 18 (13.04%) Coaching
13 17 (12.32%) Analytics
13 17 (12.32%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 74 (53.62%) SQL
2 58 (42.03%) JavaScript
3 39 (28.26%) Python
4 32 (23.19%) PowerShell
5 30 (21.74%) C#
6 29 (21.01%) Java
7 23 (16.67%) TypeScript
8 11 (7.97%) T-SQL
9 9 (6.52%) PL/SQL
10 6 (4.35%) Bicep
10 6 (4.35%) Shell Script
11 5 (3.62%) Ruby
12 3 (2.17%) PHP
13 2 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.72%) Bash
14 1 (0.72%) Groovy
14 1 (0.72%) Korn
14 1 (0.72%) Lua
14 1 (0.72%) SHACL
14 1 (0.72%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 13 (9.42%) Degree
2 10 (7.25%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.07%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.17%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (2.17%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.45%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.45%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.72%) CISSP
7 1 (0.72%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.72%) GIAC
7 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.72%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (7.97%) SLA
2 10 (7.25%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.25%) GDPR
2 10 (7.25%) QA
3 4 (2.90%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.90%) HL7
4 2 (1.45%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (1.45%) WCAG
5 1 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.72%) NCSC
5 1 (0.72%) NIST
5 1 (0.72%) PERC
System Software
1 14 (10.14%) Active Directory
1 14 (10.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (11.59%) Terraform
2 9 (6.52%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (2.90%) Ansible
5 1 (0.72%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.72%) Kibana
5 1 (0.72%) QRadar
Vendors
1 29 (21.01%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.49%) Adobe
3 12 (8.70%) Cisco
4 11 (7.97%) Oracle
4 11 (7.97%) Red Hat
5 7 (5.07%) F5
6 6 (4.35%) Ab Initio
6 6 (4.35%) Juniper
6 6 (4.35%) Okta
6 6 (4.35%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.90%) Databricks
7 4 (2.90%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.90%) Splunk
8 2 (1.45%) Google
8 2 (1.45%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.45%) SAP
9 1 (0.72%) Apple
9 1 (0.72%) Blue Coat
9 1 (0.72%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.72%) IBM