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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 290 276
Rank change year-on-year -38 -14 -101
Permanent jobs citing JSON 127 136 234
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.51% 0.82% 1.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.84% 3.58% 3.47%
Number of salaries quoted 92 109 143
10th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £83,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,375 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.52% -7.12% -

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 4,479 3,801 6,747
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.10% 22.95% 29.71%
Number of salaries quoted 3,300 2,486 4,636
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £49,471
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -1.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £88,188
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -3.70%

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 28 September 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 16 (12.60%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.94%) IIS
3 4 (3.15%) Apache
3 4 (3.15%) Confluence
4 2 (1.57%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.79%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.36%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.79%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 55 (43.31%) Azure
2 32 (25.20%) AWS
3 22 (17.32%) Azure Logic Apps
4 19 (14.96%) Azure Data Factory
4 19 (14.96%) Power Platform
5 16 (12.60%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (12.60%) PowerApps
6 15 (11.81%) Power Automate
7 13 (10.24%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (9.45%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 12 (9.45%) OneDrive
9 11 (8.66%) SaaS
10 10 (7.87%) Serverless
11 8 (6.30%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (6.30%) Azure Functions
11 8 (6.30%) GitHub
12 7 (5.51%) Amazon S3
12 7 (5.51%) AWS Step Functions
13 6 (4.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (3.94%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.15%) HTTP
2 2 (1.57%) Intranet
3 1 (0.79%) Broadband
3 1 (0.79%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (0.79%) FTP
3 1 (0.79%) MQTT
3 1 (0.79%) Network Security
3 1 (0.79%) RTP
3 1 (0.79%) RTSP
3 1 (0.79%) SCTP
3 1 (0.79%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (0.79%) SS7
3 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.79%) VoIP
3 1 (0.79%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (19.69%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (15.75%) SQL Server
3 17 (13.39%) Power BI
4 16 (12.60%) Redis
5 13 (10.24%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (8.66%) Data Lake
7 8 (6.30%) Amazon Athena
7 8 (6.30%) Parquet
8 7 (5.51%) MySQL
9 6 (4.72%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (4.72%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (4.72%) Relational Database
10 5 (3.94%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.94%) Metadata
11 3 (2.36%) DynamoDB
12 2 (1.57%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.57%) Power Query
13 1 (0.79%) Apache Iceberg
13 1 (0.79%) Delta Lake
13 1 (0.79%) Trino
Development Applications
1 23 (18.11%) Git
2 8 (6.30%) JIRA
3 4 (3.15%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.36%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (1.57%) Bower
5 2 (1.57%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.57%) Postman
6 1 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.79%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.79%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.79%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.79%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.79%) ERwin
6 1 (0.79%) GitLab
6 1 (0.79%) JMeter
6 1 (0.79%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.79%) Selenium
6 1 (0.79%) Snyk
6 1 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.79%) TeamCity
General
1 57 (44.88%) Social Skills
2 30 (23.62%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (11.02%) Finance
4 13 (10.24%) Health Technology
5 7 (5.51%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.94%) Advertising
7 5 (3.94%) Legal
8 3 (2.36%) Law
8 3 (2.36%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.36%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.36%) Publishing
9 2 (1.57%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.57%) Billing
9 2 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.57%) Local Government
10 1 (0.79%) Back Office
10 1 (0.79%) Marketing
10 1 (0.79%) Military
10 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (45.67%) Developer
2 25 (19.69%) Senior
3 17 (13.39%) .NET Developer
3 17 (13.39%) Web Developer
4 16 (12.60%) Ruby Developer
5 14 (11.02%) .NET Web Developer
6 12 (9.45%) Consultant
7 11 (8.66%) Senior Developer
8 10 (7.87%) Data Engineer
8 10 (7.87%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 10 (7.87%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (7.87%) Full-Stack Web Developer
9 8 (6.30%) Architect
10 7 (5.51%) Customer Support Specialist
10 7 (5.51%) Lead
10 7 (5.51%) Software Developer
10 7 (5.51%) Support Specialist
11 6 (4.72%) Analyst
11 6 (4.72%) EPR Consultant
12 5 (3.94%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (33.07%) XML
2 38 (29.92%) .NET
3 37 (29.13%) HTML
4 35 (27.56%) CSS
5 30 (23.62%) RESTful
6 20 (15.75%) JWT
7 16 (12.60%) .NET Core
7 16 (12.60%) Ruby on Rails
7 16 (12.60%) Sidekiq
8 14 (11.02%) .NET Framework
8 14 (11.02%) Entity Framework
8 14 (11.02%) HTML5 Canvas
9 13 (10.24%) ASP.NET
9 13 (10.24%) Microsoft Graph
9 13 (10.24%) SPFx
10 12 (9.45%) REST
11 11 (8.66%) ASP.NET MVC
12 10 (7.87%) Classic ASP
12 10 (7.87%) Google Maps API
13 9 (7.09%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.45%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.30%) NHS
3 6 (4.72%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (4.72%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.15%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.36%) Clustering
6 3 (2.36%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.36%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.36%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.36%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.57%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.57%) Blog
7 2 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.57%) PMI
7 2 (1.57%) Replication
8 1 (0.79%) Derivative
8 1 (0.79%) PKI
8 1 (0.79%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.66%) Linux
2 8 (6.30%) Windows
3 5 (3.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (44.88%) Agile
2 29 (22.83%) DevOps
3 27 (21.26%) Performance Tuning
3 27 (21.26%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (21.26%) User Experience
4 25 (19.69%) Clean Code
5 24 (18.90%) Analytics
5 24 (18.90%) Scrum
6 23 (18.11%) Business Intelligence
6 23 (18.11%) CI/CD
7 21 (16.54%) AI
8 20 (15.75%) API Design
8 20 (15.75%) Web Development
9 19 (14.96%) Machine Learning
10 18 (14.17%) Containerisation
10 18 (14.17%) MVC
10 18 (14.17%) OOP
11 17 (13.39%) Mentoring
11 17 (13.39%) Validation
12 15 (11.81%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (47.24%) SQL
2 58 (45.67%) JavaScript
3 39 (30.71%) C#
4 21 (16.54%) Python
5 18 (14.17%) PowerShell
6 16 (12.60%) Ruby
7 15 (11.81%) TypeScript
8 11 (8.66%) Java
9 9 (7.09%) T-SQL
10 3 (2.36%) C++
10 3 (2.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (2.36%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.57%) Bash
11 2 (1.57%) PHP
11 2 (1.57%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.79%) Bicep
12 1 (0.79%) Lua
12 1 (0.79%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.79%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 17 (13.39%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.60%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.66%) Degree
4 6 (4.72%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.15%) CISSP
6 3 (2.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (2.36%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.36%) CCSP
6 3 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.36%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.57%) CASP
7 2 (1.57%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (1.57%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.57%) GIAC
7 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.57%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.79%) CISM
8 1 (0.79%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.39%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.09%) Accessibility
2 9 (7.09%) QA
3 7 (5.51%) SLA
4 6 (4.72%) HL7
5 4 (3.15%) GDPR
6 1 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.79%) Dublin Core
6 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.79%) PERC
6 1 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (18.11%) Docker
2 2 (1.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.79%) NFS
3 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.36%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.79%) Grafana
3 1 (0.79%) Kibana
3 1 (0.79%) logstash
3 1 (0.79%) QRadar
Vendors
1 44 (34.65%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.24%) Adobe
3 12 (9.45%) Google
4 4 (3.15%) Databricks
5 3 (2.36%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.36%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.36%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.36%) Oracle
5 3 (2.36%) Splunk
6 2 (1.57%) IBM
6 2 (1.57%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.57%) VMware
7 1 (0.79%) ArcSight
7 1 (0.79%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.79%) Informatica
7 1 (0.79%) LogRhythm
7 1 (0.79%) Sage
7 1 (0.79%) SAP
7 1 (0.79%) webMethods
7 1 (0.79%) Zoho