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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 285 267
Rank change year-on-year -40 -18 -82
Permanent jobs citing JSON 135 143 244
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.56% 0.88% 1.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.01% 3.68% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 101 120 164
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,688 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,750 £63,750
% change year-on-year +2.88% -4.71% -1.92%

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 4,491 3,885 6,762
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.78% 23.93% 28.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,314 2,589 4,926
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £119,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -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 12 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 21 (15.56%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.96%) Apache
2 4 (2.96%) Confluence
3 3 (2.22%) IIS
4 2 (1.48%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.74%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 3 (2.22%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.74%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 64 (47.41%) Azure
2 36 (26.67%) AWS
3 26 (19.26%) Azure Logic Apps
4 25 (18.52%) Azure Data Factory
5 24 (17.78%) Power Platform
6 21 (15.56%) PowerApps
7 20 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
7 20 (14.81%) Power Automate
8 17 (12.59%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 17 (12.59%) OneDrive
9 14 (10.37%) SaaS
10 12 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (6.67%) GitHub
11 9 (6.67%) Serverless
12 8 (5.93%) GCP
13 7 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (5.19%) Azure Functions
14 6 (4.44%) Amazon S3
14 6 (4.44%) AWS Step Functions
15 5 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.22%) HTTP
1 3 (2.22%) SSL
2 2 (1.48%) Firewall
2 2 (1.48%) Intranet
3 1 (0.74%) Broadband
3 1 (0.74%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (0.74%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (0.74%) FTP
3 1 (0.74%) MQTT
3 1 (0.74%) Network Security
3 1 (0.74%) RTP
3 1 (0.74%) RTSP
3 1 (0.74%) SCTP
3 1 (0.74%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (0.74%) SS7
3 1 (0.74%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.74%) VoIP
3 1 (0.74%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (16.30%) Power BI
3 19 (14.07%) SQL Server
4 18 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 17 (12.59%) Redis
6 10 (7.41%) Data Lake
7 8 (5.93%) MySQL
8 7 (5.19%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (5.19%) Electronic Patient Records
8 7 (5.19%) Parquet
9 5 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (3.70%) Metadata
9 5 (3.70%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.22%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.48%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.48%) MariaDB
11 2 (1.48%) Power Query
12 1 (0.74%) Apache Iceberg
12 1 (0.74%) Trino
Development Applications
1 24 (17.78%) Git
2 11 (8.15%) JIRA
3 4 (2.96%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (2.96%) GitLab
3 4 (2.96%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.48%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.48%) Bower
4 2 (1.48%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.74%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.74%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.74%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.74%) ERwin
5 1 (0.74%) JMeter
5 1 (0.74%) Postman
5 1 (0.74%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.74%) Selenium
5 1 (0.74%) Snyk
5 1 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.74%) TeamCity
General
1 65 (48.15%) Social Skills
2 31 (22.96%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (12.59%) Finance
4 15 (11.11%) Health Technology
5 11 (8.15%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (4.44%) Advertising
6 6 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.70%) Legal
8 3 (2.22%) Law
8 3 (2.22%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.22%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.48%) Billing
9 2 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.48%) Local Government
9 2 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.48%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.48%) Publishing
10 1 (0.74%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.74%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 61 (45.19%) Developer
2 27 (20.00%) Senior
3 17 (12.59%) Ruby Developer
3 17 (12.59%) Web Developer
4 16 (11.85%) .NET Developer
5 15 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 13 (9.63%) .NET Web Developer
6 13 (9.63%) Consultant
7 11 (8.15%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (8.15%) Full-Stack Web Developer
8 10 (7.41%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 9 (6.67%) Data Engineer
10 8 (5.93%) Customer Support Specialist
10 8 (5.93%) Support Specialist
11 7 (5.19%) Architect
11 7 (5.19%) EPR Consultant
11 7 (5.19%) Lead
11 7 (5.19%) Technical Support
12 6 (4.44%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 6 (4.44%) Senior Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (31.85%) .NET
1 43 (31.85%) XML
2 42 (31.11%) HTML
3 40 (29.63%) CSS
4 29 (21.48%) RESTful
5 21 (15.56%) .NET Core
6 19 (14.07%) HTML5 Canvas
6 19 (14.07%) JWT
7 18 (13.33%) Microsoft Graph
8 17 (12.59%) Ruby on Rails
8 17 (12.59%) Sidekiq
8 17 (12.59%) SPFx
9 15 (11.11%) REST
10 14 (10.37%) .NET Framework
10 14 (10.37%) ASP.NET
11 13 (9.63%) Entity Framework
12 11 (8.15%) ASP.NET MVC
13 10 (7.41%) Classic ASP
13 10 (7.41%) Google Maps API
14 8 (5.93%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.89%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.67%) NHS
3 7 (5.19%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (4.44%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.96%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.22%) Clustering
6 3 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.22%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.22%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.48%) Blog
7 2 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.48%) PMI
7 2 (1.48%) Replication
8 1 (0.74%) CUDA
8 1 (0.74%) IoT
8 1 (0.74%) Linked Data
8 1 (0.74%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.15%) Linux
2 4 (2.96%) Windows
3 3 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (39.26%) Agile
2 32 (23.70%) User Experience
3 29 (21.48%) Business Intelligence
4 27 (20.00%) DevOps
4 27 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 25 (18.52%) Clean Code
5 25 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (18.52%) Scrum
6 23 (17.04%) Analytics
6 23 (17.04%) CI/CD
6 23 (17.04%) Machine Learning
7 22 (16.30%) Containerisation
8 21 (15.56%) API Design
9 20 (14.81%) Project Management
9 20 (14.81%) Web Development
10 19 (14.07%) MVC
10 19 (14.07%) OOP
10 19 (14.07%) Technical Leadership
10 19 (14.07%) Web Design
11 18 (13.33%) AI
Programming Languages
1 66 (48.89%) SQL
2 65 (48.15%) JavaScript
3 44 (32.59%) C#
4 21 (15.56%) PowerShell
4 21 (15.56%) Python
5 19 (14.07%) TypeScript
6 17 (12.59%) Ruby
7 10 (7.41%) Java
8 9 (6.67%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (2.22%) PHP
10 2 (1.48%) Bash
10 2 (1.48%) C++
10 2 (1.48%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.74%) Lua
11 1 (0.74%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.74%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 15 (11.11%) Degree
2 14 (10.37%) SC Cleared
2 14 (10.37%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.96%) CISSP
5 4 (2.96%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (2.22%) CCSP
6 3 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.48%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.48%) CASP
7 2 (1.48%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.48%) GIAC
7 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.48%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.74%) CISM
8 1 (0.74%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 11 (8.15%) SLA
3 10 (7.41%) QA
4 8 (5.93%) Accessibility
5 7 (5.19%) HL7
6 5 (3.70%) GDPR
7 2 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.74%) Dublin Core
8 1 (0.74%) PERC
8 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (17.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.22%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.74%) QRadar
Vendors
1 48 (35.56%) Microsoft
2 18 (13.33%) Adobe
3 12 (8.89%) Google
4 6 (4.44%) Splunk
5 4 (2.96%) Databricks
6 3 (2.22%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.22%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.22%) Oracle
6 3 (2.22%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.48%) Cisco
7 2 (1.48%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.48%) IBM
7 2 (1.48%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.74%) ArcSight
8 1 (0.74%) Exabeam
8 1 (0.74%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.74%) LogRhythm
8 1 (0.74%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.74%) Workday
8 1 (0.74%) Zoho