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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 255 174
Rank change year-on-year +9 -81 +48
Permanent jobs citing JSON 133 213 392
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.88% 1.24% 1.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.88% 4.07% 6.31%
Number of salaries quoted 80 152 339
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £44,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% -7.59%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £83,125
90th Percentile £82,163 £83,750 £98,481
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% -6.40%

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 2,725 5,229 6,209
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.99% 30.55% 30.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,126 3,383 5,278
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,495 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,001 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +0.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 31 December 2025.

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 5 (3.76%) Anypoint
2 3 (2.26%) Confluence
3 2 (1.50%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.26%) Trello
2 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (15.04%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (4.51%) Shopify
3 2 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.75%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 76 (57.14%) Azure
2 49 (36.84%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (30.83%) GitHub
4 34 (25.56%) AWS
5 21 (15.79%) Azure Logic Apps
5 21 (15.79%) Entra ID
6 20 (15.04%) OCI
7 19 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
8 18 (13.53%) Azure Data Factory
9 17 (12.78%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (11.28%) Azure Event Grid
10 15 (11.28%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (11.28%) Power Platform
11 14 (10.53%) Serverless
12 12 (9.02%) Power Automate
13 11 (8.27%) PaaS
14 9 (6.77%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (5.26%) Boomi
15 7 (5.26%) GCP
15 7 (5.26%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.26%) AMQP
1 3 (2.26%) Cisco ISE
1 3 (2.26%) Ethernet
1 3 (2.26%) Firewall
1 3 (2.26%) LAN
1 3 (2.26%) SD-WAN
1 3 (2.26%) WAN
2 2 (1.50%) HTTP
3 1 (0.75%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.75%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.75%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.79%) Relational Database
2 16 (12.03%) SQL Server
3 10 (7.52%) Power BI
4 7 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.01%) MySQL
6 4 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.26%) Metadata
7 3 (2.26%) Power Query
7 3 (2.26%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.50%) Big Data
8 2 (1.50%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.50%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.50%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.50%) Tableau
9 1 (0.75%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (20.30%) Jenkins
2 20 (15.04%) Oracle Forms
3 8 (6.02%) Git
3 8 (6.02%) JIRA
4 6 (4.51%) Storybook
5 4 (3.01%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.50%) JMeter
6 2 (1.50%) JUnit
6 2 (1.50%) Selenium
6 2 (1.50%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.75%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.75%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.75%) Gradle
7 1 (0.75%) Maven
7 1 (0.75%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.75%) Postman
7 1 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.75%) Testinfra
7 1 (0.75%) Xcode
7 1 (0.75%) XCUITest
General
1 56 (42.11%) Finance
2 39 (29.32%) Social Skills
3 27 (20.30%) Law
4 16 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (10.53%) Marketing
6 11 (8.27%) Retail
7 10 (7.52%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.76%) Legal
10 4 (3.01%) Automotive
10 4 (3.01%) Telecoms
11 3 (2.26%) Electronics
11 3 (2.26%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.75%) Banking
12 1 (0.75%) Billing
12 1 (0.75%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.75%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 38 (28.57%) Developer
2 29 (21.80%) Senior
3 21 (15.79%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (15.04%) Applications Engineer
4 20 (15.04%) Integration Engineer
4 20 (15.04%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 12 (9.02%) ServiceNow Developer
6 9 (6.77%) Analyst
7 8 (6.02%) Data Engineer
7 8 (6.02%) Integration Developer
7 8 (6.02%) Senior Developer
8 6 (4.51%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 6 (4.51%) SQL Developer
9 5 (3.76%) Lead
9 5 (3.76%) Product Manager
9 5 (3.76%) Support Engineer
10 4 (3.01%) Consultant
10 4 (3.01%) Data Integration Engineer
10 4 (3.01%) IT Manager
10 4 (3.01%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (57.89%) XML
2 41 (30.83%) RESTful
3 39 (29.32%) REST
4 35 (26.32%) SOAP
5 24 (18.05%) HTML
6 22 (16.54%) CSS
7 20 (15.04%) OAuth
8 17 (12.78%) Web Services
9 14 (10.53%) OAuth2
10 12 (9.02%) React
11 8 (6.02%) YAML
12 7 (5.26%) JSON-LD
12 7 (5.26%) Node.js
13 6 (4.51%) Next.js
14 5 (3.76%) Spring
14 5 (3.76%) XSLT
15 4 (3.01%) ADO
15 4 (3.01%) Kafka
15 4 (3.01%) SAML
15 4 (3.01%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 22 (16.54%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (6.02%) Low-Code
4 4 (3.01%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.01%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.26%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.26%) Semantic Web
5 3 (2.26%) Social Media
6 2 (1.50%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.50%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.50%) PMI
6 2 (1.50%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.75%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.26%) Linux
2 5 (3.76%) Unix
3 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 57 (42.86%) Test Automation
2 54 (40.60%) DevOps
3 52 (39.10%) Agile
4 42 (31.58%) Coaching
5 40 (30.08%) Asset Management
6 39 (29.32%) Root Cause Analysis
7 36 (27.07%) Observability
8 34 (25.56%) ETL
8 34 (25.56%) Mentoring
9 32 (24.06%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (22.56%) Analytics
11 28 (21.05%) ERP
12 27 (20.30%) Data Governance
13 26 (19.55%) Translating Business Requirements
14 23 (17.29%) API Integration
14 23 (17.29%) Data Integration
15 22 (16.54%) Business Strategy
15 22 (16.54%) Migration
16 20 (15.04%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 61 (45.86%) SQL
2 43 (32.33%) Python
3 36 (27.07%) Java
3 36 (27.07%) JavaScript
4 25 (18.80%) Shell Script
5 22 (16.54%) PL/SQL
6 18 (13.53%) PowerShell
7 15 (11.28%) Bicep
8 12 (9.02%) C#
9 7 (5.26%) TypeScript
10 6 (4.51%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.75%) Bash
11 1 (0.75%) Go
11 1 (0.75%) Groovy
11 1 (0.75%) Korn
11 1 (0.75%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.75%) PHP
11 1 (0.75%) SHACL
11 1 (0.75%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 7 (5.26%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.51%) Degree
3 3 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.50%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (1.50%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (15.79%) GDPR
2 11 (8.27%) Data Quality
3 8 (6.02%) Accessibility
3 8 (6.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (5.26%) NCSC
4 7 (5.26%) NIST
4 7 (5.26%) QA
5 6 (4.51%) WCAG
6 3 (2.26%) HL7
7 1 (0.75%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 20 (15.04%) Active Directory
2 12 (9.02%) Docker
3 3 (2.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 38 (28.57%) Terraform
2 24 (18.05%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (7.52%) Kubernetes
4 6 (4.51%) Ansible
5 3 (2.26%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.75%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (21.05%) Oracle
2 20 (15.04%) Okta
3 15 (11.28%) ServiceNow
4 14 (10.53%) Ab Initio
5 12 (9.02%) Microsoft
6 10 (7.52%) SAP
7 7 (5.26%) Google
7 7 (5.26%) MuleSoft
8 5 (3.76%) Dell
8 5 (3.76%) Epicor
8 5 (3.76%) IBM
8 5 (3.76%) IFS
8 5 (3.76%) Infor
8 5 (3.76%) Informatica
8 5 (3.76%) Jitterbit
8 5 (3.76%) SnapLogic
8 5 (3.76%) Software AG
8 5 (3.76%) Talend
8 5 (3.76%) TIBCO
8 5 (3.76%) Workday