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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 232 218
Rank change year-on-year -30 -14 +14
Permanent jobs citing JSON 130 197 415
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.78% 1.36% 1.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.36% 4.22% 5.01%
Number of salaries quoted 71 159 364
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,250 £41,975
25th Percentile £45,875 £50,612 £50,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year - -1.64% -9.63%

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 2,979 4,667 8,281
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.78% 32.14% 28.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,189 3,226 7,188
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £39,785
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,948 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,274 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +10.46% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,219 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.84% +10.37% -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 6 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 5 (3.85%) Anypoint
3 3 (2.31%) Confluence
3 3 (2.31%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.54%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.54%) Oracle Application Server
5 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 17 (13.08%) 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 40 (30.77%) AWS
3 39 (30.00%) GitHub
4 37 (28.46%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (20.00%) Entra ID
6 22 (16.92%) Azure Logic Apps
6 22 (16.92%) Power Platform
7 18 (13.85%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (13.08%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (13.08%) Azure Monitor
8 17 (13.08%) Azure Service Bus
8 17 (13.08%) OCI
9 16 (12.31%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (11.54%) Azure Event Grid
10 15 (11.54%) Serverless
11 12 (9.23%) Power Automate
11 12 (9.23%) SaaS
12 8 (6.15%) OpenShift
12 8 (6.15%) PowerApps
13 7 (5.38%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.69%) Firewall
2 4 (3.08%) AMQP
2 4 (3.08%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (2.31%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (2.31%) Ethernet
3 3 (2.31%) LAN
3 3 (2.31%) SD-WAN
3 3 (2.31%) WAN
4 2 (1.54%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.77%) HTTP
5 1 (0.77%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.77%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.62%) SQL Server
2 17 (13.08%) Power BI
3 12 (9.23%) MySQL
3 12 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (7.69%) Relational Database
5 8 (6.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (3.08%) 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
7 3 (2.31%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.54%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.54%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.54%) Oracle BI EE
8 2 (1.54%) Oracle ODI
8 2 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.54%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (16.15%) Jenkins
2 17 (13.08%) Oracle Forms
3 12 (9.23%) Git
4 7 (5.38%) GitLab
5 6 (4.62%) 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%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.77%) Gradle
10 1 (0.77%) Postman
10 1 (0.77%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.77%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.77%) webpack
General
1 61 (46.92%) Finance
2 44 (33.85%) Social Skills
3 22 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.77%) Law
5 12 (9.23%) Marketing
6 11 (8.46%) Telecoms
7 6 (4.62%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.85%) Legal
8 5 (3.85%) Retail
9 3 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.54%) Billing
10 2 (1.54%) Electronics
10 2 (1.54%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.77%) Local Government
11 1 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.77%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (29.23%) Developer
2 29 (22.31%) Senior
3 19 (14.62%) Applications Engineer
3 19 (14.62%) Cloud Engineer
3 19 (14.62%) Integration Engineer
4 17 (13.08%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 14 (10.77%) Analyst
6 9 (6.92%) Senior Developer
7 8 (6.15%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (6.15%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 8 (6.15%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
7 8 (6.15%) Data Analyst
7 8 (6.15%) Integration Developer
7 8 (6.15%) SQL Analyst
7 8 (6.15%) SQL Data Analyst
7 8 (6.15%) SSRS Analyst
7 8 (6.15%) Support Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) Java Developer
8 7 (5.38%) Network Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (56.92%) XML
2 42 (32.31%) REST
3 37 (28.46%) RESTful
4 30 (23.08%) SOAP
5 16 (12.31%) OAuth
6 15 (11.54%) HTML
7 14 (10.77%) OAuth2
8 13 (10.00%) React
8 13 (10.00%) Web Services
9 12 (9.23%) CSS
9 12 (9.23%) YAML
10 8 (6.15%) .NET
10 8 (6.15%) Spring
11 7 (5.38%) Jinja
11 7 (5.38%) JSON-LD
11 7 (5.38%) Node.js
12 6 (4.62%) GraphQL
12 6 (4.62%) Next.js
12 6 (4.62%) XSLT
13 5 (3.85%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 25 (19.23%) Cloud Native
2 18 (13.85%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (7.69%) Low-Code
4 9 (6.92%) Data Structures
4 9 (6.92%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.38%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.08%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.31%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.31%) PMI
7 3 (2.31%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.31%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.31%) Social Media
8 2 (1.54%) Semantic Web
9 1 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.77%) Linked Data
9 1 (0.77%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.77%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.77%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.23%) Linux
2 10 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (44.62%) CI/CD
2 49 (37.69%) DevOps
2 49 (37.69%) Test Automation
3 42 (32.31%) Agile
4 38 (29.23%) Coaching
5 37 (28.46%) Asset Management
6 34 (26.15%) Root Cause Analysis
7 33 (25.38%) Observability
8 26 (20.00%) Analytics
8 26 (20.00%) ETL
9 25 (19.23%) Mentoring
10 24 (18.46%) ERP
11 22 (16.92%) API Integration
11 22 (16.92%) API Management
12 21 (16.15%) Business Intelligence
12 21 (16.15%) Data Integration
12 21 (16.15%) Translating Business Requirements
13 20 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
13 20 (15.38%) Migration
13 20 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 68 (52.31%) SQL
2 51 (39.23%) Python
3 42 (32.31%) Java
4 32 (24.62%) JavaScript
5 22 (16.92%) Shell Script
6 21 (16.15%) PowerShell
7 20 (15.38%) PL/SQL
8 17 (13.08%) C#
9 15 (11.54%) Bicep
10 14 (10.77%) T-SQL
11 8 (6.15%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.54%) Bash
12 2 (1.54%) Groovy
12 2 (1.54%) PHP
13 1 (0.77%) Korn
13 1 (0.77%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.77%) SHACL
13 1 (0.77%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 11 (8.46%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.15%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.38%) Degree
4 3 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.31%) Numerate Degree
4 3 (2.31%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.77%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.77%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.77%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.38%) GDPR
2 14 (10.77%) Data Quality
3 12 (9.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (6.92%) QA
5 8 (6.15%) Accessibility
6 6 (4.62%) WCAG
7 3 (2.31%) HL7
7 3 (2.31%) NCSC
7 3 (2.31%) NIST
8 2 (1.54%) SLA
8 2 (1.54%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 25 (19.23%) Active Directory
2 13 (10.00%) Docker
3 3 (2.31%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 37 (28.46%) Terraform
2 17 (13.08%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (9.23%) Kubernetes
4 6 (4.62%) Ansible
5 3 (2.31%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.77%) Kibana
Vendors
1 28 (21.54%) Oracle
2 17 (13.08%) Okta
3 14 (10.77%) Ab Initio
4 13 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 10 (7.69%) Cisco
6 7 (5.38%) F5
6 7 (5.38%) Google
6 7 (5.38%) Red Hat
6 7 (5.38%) SAP
6 7 (5.38%) ServiceNow
7 6 (4.62%) MuleSoft
7 6 (4.62%) TIBCO
8 5 (3.85%) Dell
8 5 (3.85%) Epicor
8 5 (3.85%) Infor
8 5 (3.85%) Informatica
8 5 (3.85%) Jitterbit
8 5 (3.85%) SnapLogic
8 5 (3.85%) Software AG
8 5 (3.85%) Talend