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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 216 217
Rank change year-on-year -37 +1 +28
Permanent jobs citing JSON 136 182 447
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.81% 1.42% 1.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.38% 4.40% 5.19%
Number of salaries quoted 86 157 393
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,800 £41,300
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £82,938 £95,267 £91,934
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%

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 3,104 4,140 8,608
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.40% 32.26% 27.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,252 3,275 7,468
10th Percentile £41,925 £41,070 £39,500
25th Percentile £52,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,720 £66,219 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% +10.37% -8.40%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £79,600
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -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 3 April 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 11 (8.09%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.68%) Anypoint
4 4 (2.94%) Confluence
5 2 (1.47%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.47%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.74%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.21%) Trello
2 1 (0.74%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 8 (5.88%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (3.68%) Shopify
3 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.74%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 73 (53.68%) Azure
2 38 (27.94%) AWS
3 26 (19.12%) GitHub
3 26 (19.12%) Power Platform
4 24 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (16.91%) Azure Logic Apps
6 22 (16.18%) Azure Data Factory
7 21 (15.44%) SaaS
8 17 (12.50%) Power Automate
9 16 (11.76%) Entra ID
10 15 (11.03%) Serverless
11 13 (9.56%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (8.82%) Azure Service Bus
12 12 (8.82%) OpenShift
12 12 (8.82%) PowerApps
13 10 (7.35%) Azure Event Grid
13 10 (7.35%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (5.88%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 8 (5.88%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.82%) Firewall
2 6 (4.41%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (2.94%) AMQP
3 4 (2.94%) SSL
4 2 (1.47%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.74%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.74%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.74%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.74%) LAN
5 1 (0.74%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.74%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (17.65%) Power BI
2 19 (13.97%) SQL Server
3 14 (10.29%) MySQL
3 14 (10.29%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (8.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 8 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.94%) Metadata
7 3 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.21%) Power Query
8 2 (1.47%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.47%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (1.47%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.47%) Oracle BI EE
8 2 (1.47%) Oracle ODI
8 2 (1.47%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.47%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (11.03%) Git
2 12 (8.82%) GitLab
2 12 (8.82%) Jenkins
3 10 (7.35%) JIRA
4 8 (5.88%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (4.41%) Storybook
6 5 (3.68%) Selenium
6 5 (3.68%) SpecFlow
6 5 (3.68%) WebDriver
7 4 (2.94%) Maven
8 3 (2.21%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (2.21%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.47%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.47%) JUnit
9 2 (1.47%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.74%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.74%) Gradle
10 1 (0.74%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.74%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.74%) webpack
General
1 64 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 49 (36.03%) Finance
3 29 (21.32%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.03%) Telecoms
5 13 (9.56%) Law
5 13 (9.56%) Marketing
6 6 (4.41%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.68%) Legal
7 5 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.94%) Health Technology
8 4 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.94%) Retail
9 2 (1.47%) Advertising
9 2 (1.47%) Billing
9 2 (1.47%) Electronics
9 2 (1.47%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.74%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 41 (30.15%) Developer
2 25 (18.38%) Senior
3 18 (13.24%) Integration Engineer
4 15 (11.03%) Analyst
5 13 (9.56%) Senior Developer
6 12 (8.82%) Automation Engineer
7 11 (8.09%) Network Engineer
7 11 (8.09%) Telecoms Engineer
8 10 (7.35%) Applications Engineer
8 10 (7.35%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (7.35%) Support Engineer
9 8 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 8 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
9 8 (5.88%) Data Analyst
9 8 (5.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 8 (5.88%) SQL Analyst
9 8 (5.88%) SQL Data Analyst
9 8 (5.88%) SSRS Analyst
10 7 (5.15%) Automation Specialist
10 7 (5.15%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (51.47%) XML
2 43 (31.62%) REST
3 26 (19.12%) HTML
3 26 (19.12%) RESTful
4 23 (16.91%) CSS
5 22 (16.18%) SOAP
6 17 (12.50%) .NET
7 16 (11.76%) YAML
8 15 (11.03%) OAuth
9 13 (9.56%) React
10 12 (8.82%) Web Services
11 11 (8.09%) Jinja
11 11 (8.09%) OAuth2
12 10 (7.35%) .NET Core
13 9 (6.62%) HTML5 Canvas
14 8 (5.88%) Microsoft Graph
14 8 (5.88%) Node.js
14 8 (5.88%) SPFx
14 8 (5.88%) Spring
15 7 (5.15%) JSON-LD
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.29%) Onboarding
3 10 (7.35%) Data Structures
4 9 (6.62%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (6.62%) Low-Code
4 9 (6.62%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.68%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.21%) PMI
7 3 (2.21%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.21%) Social Media
8 2 (1.47%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.47%) NHS
8 2 (1.47%) Semantic Web
9 1 (0.74%) Linked Data
9 1 (0.74%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.74%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.76%) Linux
2 12 (8.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (35.29%) CI/CD
2 38 (27.94%) Test Automation
3 37 (27.21%) DevOps
4 32 (23.53%) Agile
5 30 (22.06%) Business Intelligence
6 26 (19.12%) Coaching
7 25 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (17.65%) Asset Management
9 23 (16.91%) Analytics
10 22 (16.18%) API Management
10 22 (16.18%) Containerisation
10 22 (16.18%) ETL
10 22 (16.18%) Observability
10 22 (16.18%) Task Automation
11 21 (15.44%) Root Cause Analysis
12 20 (14.71%) API Integration
13 19 (13.97%) Infrastructure as Code
13 19 (13.97%) Validation
14 17 (12.50%) Mentoring
14 17 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 71 (52.21%) SQL
2 44 (32.35%) JavaScript
2 44 (32.35%) Python
3 32 (23.53%) Java
4 23 (16.91%) PowerShell
5 22 (16.18%) C#
6 15 (11.03%) TypeScript
7 13 (9.56%) Shell Script
7 13 (9.56%) T-SQL
8 11 (8.09%) Bicep
8 11 (8.09%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.21%) PHP
10 1 (0.74%) Bash
10 1 (0.74%) Groovy
10 1 (0.74%) Korn
10 1 (0.74%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.74%) Ruby
10 1 (0.74%) SHACL
10 1 (0.74%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 12 (8.82%) Degree
2 9 (6.62%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.41%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.21%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (2.21%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.47%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.50%) GDPR
2 13 (9.56%) Data Quality
3 12 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (6.62%) QA
5 7 (5.15%) Accessibility
5 7 (5.15%) SLA
6 6 (4.41%) WCAG
7 4 (2.94%) HL7
8 2 (1.47%) NCSC
8 2 (1.47%) NIST
8 2 (1.47%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 14 (10.29%) Docker
3 1 (0.74%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (16.18%) Terraform
2 12 (8.82%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (2.94%) Ansible
5 1 (0.74%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.74%) Kibana
Vendors
1 19 (13.97%) Oracle
2 18 (13.24%) Microsoft
3 12 (8.82%) Cisco
4 11 (8.09%) Red Hat
5 10 (7.35%) Ab Initio
6 9 (6.62%) Adobe
7 8 (5.88%) Okta
8 7 (5.15%) F5
8 7 (5.15%) SAP
8 7 (5.15%) ServiceNow
9 6 (4.41%) Google
9 6 (4.41%) IBM
9 6 (4.41%) Juniper
9 6 (4.41%) MuleSoft
9 6 (4.41%) Palo Alto
9 6 (4.41%) TIBCO
10 5 (3.68%) Dell
10 5 (3.68%) Epicor
10 5 (3.68%) Informatica
10 5 (3.68%) Software AG