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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 227 218
Rank change year-on-year -33 -9 +22
Permanent jobs citing JSON 129 181 444
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.77% 1.41% 1.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.27% 4.29% 5.19%
Number of salaries quoted 79 156 389
10th Percentile £40,500 £41,875 £41,450
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £82,300 £95,639 £91,934
UK median annual salary £61,250 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.08% - -9.09%

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 3,023 4,220 8,554
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.96% 32.89% 27.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,199 3,288 7,433
10th Percentile £41,925 £40,890 £39,500
25th Percentile £52,208 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £66,230 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.41% +10.38% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £79,600
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -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 27 March 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 9 (6.98%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.88%) Anypoint
4 3 (2.33%) Confluence
5 2 (1.55%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.55%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.78%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.33%) Trello
2 1 (0.78%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 10 (7.75%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (3.88%) Shopify
3 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.78%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 73 (56.59%) Azure
2 39 (30.23%) AWS
3 30 (23.26%) GitHub
4 28 (21.71%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (18.60%) Power Platform
6 22 (17.05%) Azure Logic Apps
6 22 (17.05%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (16.28%) Azure Data Factory
8 18 (13.95%) Entra ID
9 17 (13.18%) SaaS
10 15 (11.63%) Power Automate
10 15 (11.63%) Serverless
11 14 (10.85%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (10.08%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (9.30%) OpenShift
14 11 (8.53%) Azure Event Grid
14 11 (8.53%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (7.75%) OCI
15 10 (7.75%) PowerApps
16 8 (6.20%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.30%) Firewall
2 6 (4.65%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (3.10%) AMQP
4 3 (2.33%) SSL
5 2 (1.55%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.78%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.78%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.78%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.78%) LAN
6 1 (0.78%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (17.05%) Power BI
2 20 (15.50%) SQL Server
3 14 (10.85%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (10.08%) MySQL
5 9 (6.98%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (6.20%) Relational Database
6 8 (6.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.33%) Metadata
8 3 (2.33%) Power Query
9 2 (1.55%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.55%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.55%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.55%) Oracle BI EE
9 2 (1.55%) Oracle ODI
9 2 (1.55%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.55%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (10.85%) Git
1 14 (10.85%) Jenkins
2 12 (9.30%) GitLab
3 10 (7.75%) Oracle Forms
4 8 (6.20%) JIRA
5 6 (4.65%) Storybook
6 5 (3.88%) Selenium
6 5 (3.88%) SpecFlow
6 5 (3.88%) WebDriver
7 4 (3.10%) Maven
8 3 (2.33%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.55%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (1.55%) JUnit
9 2 (1.55%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.78%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.78%) Gradle
10 1 (0.78%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.78%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.78%) webpack
General
1 57 (44.19%) Social Skills
2 51 (39.53%) Finance
3 24 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.63%) Telecoms
5 14 (10.85%) Law
6 12 (9.30%) Marketing
7 6 (4.65%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.88%) Legal
9 4 (3.10%) Retail
10 3 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.55%) Billing
11 2 (1.55%) Electronics
11 2 (1.55%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.78%) Advertising
12 1 (0.78%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (30.23%) Developer
2 24 (18.60%) Senior
3 19 (14.73%) Integration Engineer
4 13 (10.08%) Analyst
5 12 (9.30%) Applications Engineer
5 12 (9.30%) Automation Engineer
5 12 (9.30%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (8.53%) Network Engineer
6 11 (8.53%) Senior Developer
6 11 (8.53%) Telecoms Engineer
7 10 (7.75%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 9 (6.98%) Support Engineer
9 8 (6.20%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 8 (6.20%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
9 8 (6.20%) Data Analyst
9 8 (6.20%) SQL Analyst
9 8 (6.20%) SQL Data Analyst
9 8 (6.20%) SSRS Analyst
10 7 (5.43%) Automation Specialist
10 7 (5.43%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (51.94%) XML
2 42 (32.56%) REST
3 29 (22.48%) RESTful
4 23 (17.83%) SOAP
5 20 (15.50%) HTML
6 17 (13.18%) CSS
6 17 (13.18%) YAML
7 14 (10.85%) .NET
7 14 (10.85%) OAuth
8 13 (10.08%) React
9 12 (9.30%) Web Services
10 11 (8.53%) Jinja
10 11 (8.53%) OAuth2
11 8 (6.20%) .NET Core
11 8 (6.20%) Node.js
11 8 (6.20%) Spring
12 7 (5.43%) HTML5 Canvas
12 7 (5.43%) JSON-LD
13 6 (4.65%) Microsoft Graph
13 6 (4.65%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.73%) Cloud Native
2 13 (10.08%) Onboarding
3 11 (8.53%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (7.75%) Data Structures
5 9 (6.98%) Low-Code
5 9 (6.98%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.10%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.33%) PMI
7 3 (2.33%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.33%) Social Media
8 2 (1.55%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.55%) Semantic Web
9 1 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.78%) Linked Data
9 1 (0.78%) NHS
9 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.63%) Linux
2 12 (9.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (40.31%) CI/CD
2 42 (32.56%) DevOps
3 41 (31.78%) Test Automation
4 33 (25.58%) Agile
5 28 (21.71%) Coaching
6 27 (20.93%) Asset Management
6 27 (20.93%) Business Intelligence
7 24 (18.60%) Observability
7 24 (18.60%) Root Cause Analysis
8 23 (17.83%) API Management
8 23 (17.83%) ETL
8 23 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (17.05%) Analytics
9 22 (17.05%) Containerisation
9 22 (17.05%) Task Automation
10 21 (16.28%) API Integration
11 20 (15.50%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (14.73%) Mentoring
13 18 (13.95%) Validation
14 17 (13.18%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 69 (53.49%) SQL
2 46 (35.66%) Python
3 38 (29.46%) JavaScript
4 34 (26.36%) Java
5 22 (17.05%) PowerShell
6 20 (15.50%) C#
7 15 (11.63%) Shell Script
8 14 (10.85%) T-SQL
9 13 (10.08%) PL/SQL
9 13 (10.08%) TypeScript
10 12 (9.30%) Bicep
11 3 (2.33%) PHP
12 1 (0.78%) Bash
12 1 (0.78%) Groovy
12 1 (0.78%) Korn
12 1 (0.78%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.78%) Ruby
12 1 (0.78%) SHACL
12 1 (0.78%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 10 (7.75%) Degree
2 9 (6.98%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.65%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.33%) Numerate Degree
4 3 (2.33%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.55%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.95%) GDPR
2 14 (10.85%) Data Quality
3 13 (10.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (7.75%) QA
5 7 (5.43%) Accessibility
6 6 (4.65%) WCAG
7 4 (3.10%) SLA
8 3 (2.33%) HL7
8 3 (2.33%) NCSC
8 3 (2.33%) NIST
9 2 (1.55%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 18 (13.95%) Active Directory
2 14 (10.85%) Docker
3 1 (0.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (19.38%) Terraform
2 12 (9.30%) Kubernetes
3 10 (7.75%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (3.10%) Ansible
5 1 (0.78%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.78%) Kibana
Vendors
1 21 (16.28%) Oracle
2 17 (13.18%) Microsoft
3 12 (9.30%) Cisco
4 11 (8.53%) Ab Initio
4 11 (8.53%) Red Hat
5 10 (7.75%) Okta
6 7 (5.43%) F5
6 7 (5.43%) SAP
6 7 (5.43%) ServiceNow
7 6 (4.65%) Adobe
7 6 (4.65%) Juniper
7 6 (4.65%) Palo Alto
7 6 (4.65%) TIBCO
8 5 (3.88%) Google
8 5 (3.88%) IFS
8 5 (3.88%) Jitterbit
8 5 (3.88%) MuleSoft
8 5 (3.88%) SnapLogic
8 5 (3.88%) Talend
8 5 (3.88%) Workday