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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 225 213
Rank change year-on-year -31 -12 +20
Permanent jobs citing JSON 130 192 445
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.77% 1.44% 1.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.31% 4.38% 5.22%
Number of salaries quoted 77 161 389
10th Percentile £39,750 £41,250 £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 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,450 £93,778 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 3,017 4,388 8,520
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.84% 32.84% 28.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,186 3,292 7,396
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £39,500
25th Percentile £52,400 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,219 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% +10.37% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 20 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 8 (6.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (5.38%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.85%) Anypoint
4 3 (2.31%) Confluence
5 2 (1.54%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.54%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.77%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.31%) Trello
2 1 (0.77%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (9.23%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (3.85%) Shopify
3 1 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.77%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 75 (57.69%) Azure
2 41 (31.54%) AWS
3 34 (26.15%) GitHub
4 31 (23.85%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (16.92%) Power Platform
6 21 (16.15%) Azure Logic Apps
7 20 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 20 (15.38%) Entra ID
7 20 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (12.31%) SaaS
9 15 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (11.54%) Serverless
10 14 (10.77%) Azure Service Bus
11 13 (10.00%) Power Automate
12 12 (9.23%) Azure Event Grid
12 12 (9.23%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (9.23%) OCI
12 12 (9.23%) OpenShift
13 8 (6.15%) GCP
13 8 (6.15%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.00%) Firewall
2 6 (4.62%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (3.08%) AMQP
4 3 (2.31%) SSL
5 2 (1.54%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (1.54%) Ethernet
5 2 (1.54%) LAN
5 2 (1.54%) PuTTY
5 2 (1.54%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.54%) WAN
6 1 (0.77%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (15.38%) Power BI
1 20 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 14 (10.77%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (9.23%) MySQL
4 8 (6.15%) Relational Database
4 8 (6.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (5.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.31%) Metadata
7 3 (2.31%) Power Query
8 2 (1.54%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.54%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.54%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.54%) Oracle ODI
8 2 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.54%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.54%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (12.31%) Jenkins
2 15 (11.54%) Git
3 12 (9.23%) GitLab
3 12 (9.23%) Oracle Forms
4 8 (6.15%) JIRA
5 6 (4.62%) Storybook
6 5 (3.85%) Selenium
6 5 (3.85%) SpecFlow
6 5 (3.85%) WebDriver
7 4 (3.08%) Maven
8 3 (2.31%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.54%) JUnit
9 2 (1.54%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.77%) Axure RP
10 1 (0.77%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.77%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.77%) Gradle
10 1 (0.77%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.77%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.77%) webpack
General
1 55 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 54 (41.54%) Finance
3 24 (18.46%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.54%) Telecoms
5 14 (10.77%) Law
6 12 (9.23%) Marketing
7 6 (4.62%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.85%) Legal
9 4 (3.08%) Retail
10 3 (2.31%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.54%) Billing
11 2 (1.54%) Electronics
11 2 (1.54%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.77%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (29.23%) Developer
2 24 (18.46%) Senior
3 19 (14.62%) Integration Engineer
4 14 (10.77%) Applications Engineer
4 14 (10.77%) Cloud Engineer
5 13 (10.00%) Analyst
6 12 (9.23%) Automation Engineer
6 12 (9.23%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 11 (8.46%) Network Engineer
7 11 (8.46%) Telecoms Engineer
8 9 (6.92%) Senior Developer
9 8 (6.15%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 8 (6.15%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
9 8 (6.15%) Data Analyst
9 8 (6.15%) SQL Analyst
9 8 (6.15%) SQL Data Analyst
9 8 (6.15%) SSRS Analyst
9 8 (6.15%) Support Engineer
10 7 (5.38%) Automation Specialist
10 7 (5.38%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (53.08%) XML
2 43 (33.08%) REST
3 32 (24.62%) RESTful
4 25 (19.23%) SOAP
5 19 (14.62%) HTML
6 17 (13.08%) YAML
7 16 (12.31%) CSS
8 15 (11.54%) OAuth
9 13 (10.00%) React
10 12 (9.23%) .NET
10 12 (9.23%) OAuth2
10 12 (9.23%) Web Services
11 11 (8.46%) Jinja
12 8 (6.15%) Node.js
12 8 (6.15%) Spring
13 7 (5.38%) JSON-LD
14 6 (4.62%) .NET Core
14 6 (4.62%) Next.js
14 6 (4.62%) YANG
15 5 (3.85%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.15%) Cloud Native
2 13 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 13 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 10 (7.69%) Data Structures
4 9 (6.92%) Low-Code
4 9 (6.92%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.31%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.31%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.31%) PMI
6 3 (2.31%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.31%) Social Media
7 2 (1.54%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.54%) Semantic Web
8 1 (0.77%) Linked Data
8 1 (0.77%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.77%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.77%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.77%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.77%) Linux
2 12 (9.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (42.31%) CI/CD
2 45 (34.62%) DevOps
3 44 (33.85%) Test Automation
4 36 (27.69%) Agile
5 31 (23.85%) Coaching
6 30 (23.08%) Asset Management
7 27 (20.77%) Observability
7 27 (20.77%) Root Cause Analysis
8 24 (18.46%) API Management
8 24 (18.46%) Business Intelligence
8 24 (18.46%) ETL
9 23 (17.69%) API Integration
9 23 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (16.92%) Analytics
10 22 (16.92%) Containerisation
10 22 (16.92%) Task Automation
11 21 (16.15%) Infrastructure as Code
11 21 (16.15%) Mentoring
12 18 (13.85%) Deployment Automation
12 18 (13.85%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 67 (51.54%) SQL
2 49 (37.69%) Python
3 36 (27.69%) Java
3 36 (27.69%) JavaScript
4 20 (15.38%) PowerShell
5 18 (13.85%) C#
6 17 (13.08%) Shell Script
7 15 (11.54%) PL/SQL
8 14 (10.77%) T-SQL
9 13 (10.00%) Bicep
10 11 (8.46%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.31%) PHP
12 1 (0.77%) Bash
12 1 (0.77%) Groovy
12 1 (0.77%) Korn
12 1 (0.77%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.77%) Ruby
12 1 (0.77%) SHACL
12 1 (0.77%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 10 (7.69%) Degree
1 10 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.38%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.31%) Numerate Degree
4 3 (2.31%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.54%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.77%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.77%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.62%) GDPR
2 14 (10.77%) Data Quality
3 13 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (7.69%) QA
5 8 (6.15%) Accessibility
6 6 (4.62%) WCAG
7 4 (3.08%) SLA
8 3 (2.31%) NCSC
8 3 (2.31%) NIST
9 2 (1.54%) HL7
9 2 (1.54%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 20 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 14 (10.77%) Docker
3 2 (1.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (22.31%) Terraform
2 12 (9.23%) Kubernetes
2 12 (9.23%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (3.85%) Ansible
4 2 (1.54%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.77%) Kibana
Vendors
1 23 (17.69%) Oracle
2 15 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 13 (10.00%) Cisco
4 12 (9.23%) Ab Initio
4 12 (9.23%) Okta
5 11 (8.46%) Red Hat
6 8 (6.15%) F5
7 7 (5.38%) SAP
7 7 (5.38%) ServiceNow
8 6 (4.62%) Google
8 6 (4.62%) Juniper
8 6 (4.62%) Palo Alto
8 6 (4.62%) TIBCO
9 5 (3.85%) Dell
9 5 (3.85%) Epicor
9 5 (3.85%) IBM
9 5 (3.85%) Infor
9 5 (3.85%) Informatica
9 5 (3.85%) SnapLogic
9 5 (3.85%) Software AG