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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 288 284
Rank change year-on-year -30 -4 -105
Permanent jobs citing JSON 132 139 238
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.54% 0.85% 1.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.93% 3.59% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 96 114 154
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.88% -6.54% -

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 4,499 3,876 6,799
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.48% 23.76% 28.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,320 2,575 4,839
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £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 £86,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -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 18 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 18 (13.64%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.03%) Apache
2 4 (3.03%) Confluence
2 4 (3.03%) IIS
3 2 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.76%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 3 (2.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.76%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 59 (44.70%) Azure
2 33 (25.00%) AWS
3 24 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
4 22 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 21 (15.91%) Power Platform
6 18 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (13.64%) PowerApps
7 17 (12.88%) Power Automate
8 15 (11.36%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 15 (11.36%) OneDrive
9 13 (9.85%) SaaS
10 11 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (6.82%) Serverless
12 8 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (5.30%) Amazon S3
13 7 (5.30%) AWS Step Functions
13 7 (5.30%) Azure Functions
13 7 (5.30%) GCP
13 7 (5.30%) GitHub
14 6 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.27%) HTTP
2 2 (1.52%) Intranet
2 2 (1.52%) SSL
3 1 (0.76%) Broadband
3 1 (0.76%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (0.76%) FTP
3 1 (0.76%) MQTT
3 1 (0.76%) Network Security
3 1 (0.76%) RTP
3 1 (0.76%) RTSP
3 1 (0.76%) SCTP
3 1 (0.76%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (0.76%) SS7
3 1 (0.76%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.76%) VoIP
3 1 (0.76%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (18.94%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (15.15%) Power BI
2 20 (15.15%) SQL Server
3 16 (12.12%) Azure SQL Database
3 16 (12.12%) Redis
4 11 (8.33%) Data Lake
5 8 (6.06%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (6.06%) MySQL
5 8 (6.06%) Parquet
6 7 (5.30%) Electronic Patient Records
7 6 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (4.55%) Relational Database
8 5 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.79%) Metadata
9 3 (2.27%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.52%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.52%) Power Query
11 1 (0.76%) Apache Iceberg
11 1 (0.76%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.76%) Trino
Development Applications
1 23 (17.42%) Git
2 10 (7.58%) JIRA
3 4 (3.03%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (3.03%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.52%) Bower
4 2 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.52%) Postman
5 1 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.76%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.76%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.76%) ERwin
5 1 (0.76%) GitLab
5 1 (0.76%) JMeter
5 1 (0.76%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.76%) Selenium
5 1 (0.76%) Snyk
5 1 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.76%) TeamCity
General
1 61 (46.21%) Social Skills
2 31 (23.48%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (11.36%) Finance
3 15 (11.36%) Health Technology
4 10 (7.58%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (4.55%) Advertising
5 6 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.79%) Legal
7 3 (2.27%) Law
7 3 (2.27%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.52%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.52%) Billing
8 2 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.52%) Local Government
8 2 (1.52%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.52%) Publishing
9 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Marketing
9 1 (0.76%) Military
9 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (46.21%) Developer
2 27 (20.45%) Senior
3 18 (13.64%) Web Developer
4 17 (12.88%) .NET Developer
5 16 (12.12%) Ruby Developer
6 14 (10.61%) .NET Web Developer
6 14 (10.61%) Senior Developer
7 13 (9.85%) Consultant
8 11 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (8.33%) Full-Stack Web Developer
9 10 (7.58%) Data Engineer
9 10 (7.58%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 8 (6.06%) Customer Support Specialist
10 8 (6.06%) Support Specialist
11 7 (5.30%) Architect
11 7 (5.30%) EPR Consultant
11 7 (5.30%) Lead
11 7 (5.30%) Software Developer
11 7 (5.30%) Technical Support
12 5 (3.79%) Microsoft 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (33.33%) XML
2 42 (31.82%) .NET
3 41 (31.06%) HTML
4 39 (29.55%) CSS
5 30 (22.73%) RESTful
6 19 (14.39%) .NET Core
6 19 (14.39%) JWT
7 17 (12.88%) HTML5 Canvas
8 16 (12.12%) Microsoft Graph
8 16 (12.12%) Ruby on Rails
8 16 (12.12%) Sidekiq
9 15 (11.36%) .NET Framework
9 15 (11.36%) SPFx
10 14 (10.61%) ASP.NET
10 14 (10.61%) Entity Framework
11 13 (9.85%) REST
12 11 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC
13 10 (7.58%) Classic ASP
13 10 (7.58%) Google Maps API
14 9 (6.82%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.82%) NHS
3 7 (5.30%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.03%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.27%) Clustering
7 3 (2.27%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.27%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.27%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.27%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.52%) Blog
8 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.52%) PMI
8 2 (1.52%) Replication
9 1 (0.76%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.09%) Linux
2 7 (5.30%) Windows
3 5 (3.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (41.67%) Agile
2 31 (23.48%) User Experience
3 27 (20.45%) Business Intelligence
3 27 (20.45%) DevOps
3 27 (20.45%) Performance Tuning
3 27 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (18.94%) Clean Code
5 24 (18.18%) Analytics
5 24 (18.18%) Scrum
6 21 (15.91%) CI/CD
6 21 (15.91%) Machine Learning
6 21 (15.91%) Web Development
7 19 (14.39%) AI
7 19 (14.39%) API Design
7 19 (14.39%) MVC
8 18 (13.64%) Containerisation
8 18 (13.64%) OOP
8 18 (13.64%) Project Management
8 18 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
9 17 (12.88%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 65 (49.24%) SQL
2 63 (47.73%) JavaScript
3 43 (32.58%) C#
4 19 (14.39%) PowerShell
4 19 (14.39%) Python
5 18 (13.64%) TypeScript
6 16 (12.12%) Ruby
7 11 (8.33%) Java
8 9 (6.82%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.27%) C++
9 3 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (2.27%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.52%) Bash
10 2 (1.52%) PHP
10 2 (1.52%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.76%) Lua
11 1 (0.76%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.76%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 16 (12.12%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.36%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.85%) Degree
4 6 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.03%) CISSP
7 3 (2.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (2.27%) CCSP
7 3 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.27%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.52%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.52%) CASP
8 2 (1.52%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (1.52%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.52%) GIAC
8 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.52%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.76%) CISM
9 1 (0.76%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.88%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.58%) SLA
3 9 (6.82%) Accessibility
3 9 (6.82%) QA
4 7 (5.30%) HL7
5 4 (3.03%) GDPR
6 1 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.76%) Dublin Core
6 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.76%) PERC
6 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (17.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.76%) Kibana
3 1 (0.76%) logstash
3 1 (0.76%) QRadar
Vendors
1 46 (34.85%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.12%) Adobe
3 12 (9.09%) Google
4 5 (3.79%) Splunk
5 4 (3.03%) Databricks
6 3 (2.27%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.27%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.27%) Oracle
7 2 (1.52%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.52%) IBM
7 2 (1.52%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.76%) ArcSight
8 1 (0.76%) Foundry
8 1 (0.76%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.76%) Informatica
8 1 (0.76%) LogRhythm
8 1 (0.76%) webMethods
8 1 (0.76%) Workday
8 1 (0.76%) YouTube
8 1 (0.76%) Zoho