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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 293 276
Rank change year-on-year -43 -17 -94
Permanent jobs citing JSON 131 137 236
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.53% 0.83% 1.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.90% 3.57% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 94 110 145
10th Percentile £37,750 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
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 £83,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -

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 4,512 3,833 6,765
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.20% 23.10% 29.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,321 2,515 4,650
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,875 £49,527
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -2.26%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -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 27 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 17 (12.98%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.82%) IIS
3 4 (3.05%) Apache
3 4 (3.05%) Confluence
4 2 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.76%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.29%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.76%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 57 (43.51%) Azure
2 33 (25.19%) AWS
3 23 (17.56%) Azure Logic Apps
4 20 (15.27%) Azure Data Factory
4 20 (15.27%) Power Platform
5 17 (12.98%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (12.98%) PowerApps
6 16 (12.21%) Power Automate
7 13 (9.92%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 13 (9.92%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (9.92%) OneDrive
8 12 (9.16%) SaaS
9 10 (7.63%) Serverless
10 8 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (6.11%) Azure Functions
10 8 (6.11%) GitHub
11 7 (5.34%) Amazon S3
11 7 (5.34%) AWS Step Functions
12 6 (4.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (4.58%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.05%) HTTP
2 2 (1.53%) Intranet
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%) SSL
3 1 (0.76%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.76%) VoIP
3 1 (0.76%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (19.08%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (15.27%) SQL Server
3 18 (13.74%) Power BI
4 16 (12.21%) Redis
5 14 (10.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (8.40%) Data Lake
7 8 (6.11%) Amazon Athena
7 8 (6.11%) Parquet
8 7 (5.34%) MySQL
9 6 (4.58%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (4.58%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (4.58%) Relational Database
10 5 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.82%) Metadata
11 3 (2.29%) DynamoDB
12 2 (1.53%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.53%) Power Query
13 1 (0.76%) Amazon QuickSight
13 1 (0.76%) Apache Iceberg
13 1 (0.76%) Trino
Development Applications
1 23 (17.56%) Git
2 9 (6.87%) JIRA
3 4 (3.05%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.29%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (1.53%) Bower
5 2 (1.53%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.53%) Postman
6 1 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.76%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.76%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.76%) ERwin
6 1 (0.76%) GitLab
6 1 (0.76%) JMeter
6 1 (0.76%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.76%) Selenium
6 1 (0.76%) Snyk
6 1 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.76%) TeamCity
General
1 60 (45.80%) Social Skills
2 31 (23.66%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (11.45%) Finance
4 14 (10.69%) Health Technology
5 9 (6.87%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.82%) Advertising
7 5 (3.82%) Legal
8 3 (2.29%) Law
8 3 (2.29%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.29%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.29%) Publishing
9 2 (1.53%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.53%) Billing
9 2 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.53%) Local Government
10 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Marketing
10 1 (0.76%) Military
10 1 (0.76%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 60 (45.80%) Developer
2 26 (19.85%) Senior
3 18 (13.74%) Web Developer
4 17 (12.98%) .NET Developer
5 16 (12.21%) Ruby Developer
6 14 (10.69%) .NET Web Developer
7 12 (9.16%) Consultant
7 12 (9.16%) Senior Developer
8 11 (8.40%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (8.40%) Full-Stack Web Developer
9 10 (7.63%) Data Engineer
9 10 (7.63%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 8 (6.11%) Architect
10 8 (6.11%) Customer Support Specialist
10 8 (6.11%) Support Specialist
11 7 (5.34%) Lead
11 7 (5.34%) Software Developer
12 6 (4.58%) Analyst
12 6 (4.58%) EPR Consultant
13 5 (3.82%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (32.82%) XML
2 40 (30.53%) .NET
2 40 (30.53%) HTML
3 38 (29.01%) CSS
4 30 (22.90%) RESTful
5 20 (15.27%) JWT
6 17 (12.98%) .NET Core
7 16 (12.21%) Ruby on Rails
7 16 (12.21%) Sidekiq
8 15 (11.45%) .NET Framework
8 15 (11.45%) HTML5 Canvas
9 14 (10.69%) ASP.NET
9 14 (10.69%) Entity Framework
9 14 (10.69%) Microsoft Graph
9 14 (10.69%) REST
9 14 (10.69%) SPFx
10 11 (8.40%) ASP.NET MVC
11 10 (7.63%) Classic ASP
11 10 (7.63%) Google Maps API
12 9 (6.87%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.16%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.11%) NHS
3 6 (4.58%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (4.58%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.05%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.05%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.29%) Clustering
6 3 (2.29%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.29%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.29%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.53%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.53%) Blog
7 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.53%) PMI
7 2 (1.53%) Replication
8 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.40%) Linux
2 8 (6.11%) Windows
3 5 (3.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (43.51%) Agile
2 29 (22.14%) DevOps
2 29 (22.14%) User Experience
3 28 (21.37%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (20.61%) Performance Tuning
5 25 (19.08%) Clean Code
6 24 (18.32%) Analytics
6 24 (18.32%) Business Intelligence
6 24 (18.32%) Scrum
7 23 (17.56%) CI/CD
8 21 (16.03%) AI
8 21 (16.03%) Web Development
9 20 (15.27%) API Design
9 20 (15.27%) Machine Learning
10 19 (14.50%) MVC
11 18 (13.74%) Containerisation
11 18 (13.74%) OOP
12 17 (12.98%) Mentoring
12 17 (12.98%) Validation
13 16 (12.21%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 61 (46.56%) JavaScript
1 61 (46.56%) SQL
2 41 (31.30%) C#
3 21 (16.03%) Python
4 19 (14.50%) PowerShell
5 16 (12.21%) Ruby
5 16 (12.21%) TypeScript
6 11 (8.40%) Java
7 9 (6.87%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.29%) C++
8 3 (2.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (2.29%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.53%) Bash
9 2 (1.53%) PHP
9 2 (1.53%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.76%) Bicep
10 1 (0.76%) Lua
10 1 (0.76%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.76%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 17 (12.98%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.21%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.92%) Degree
4 6 (4.58%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.05%) CISSP
5 4 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (2.29%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.29%) CCSP
6 3 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.29%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.53%) CASP
7 2 (1.53%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (1.53%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.53%) GIAC
7 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.53%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.98%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.87%) Accessibility
2 9 (6.87%) QA
2 9 (6.87%) SLA
3 6 (4.58%) HL7
4 4 (3.05%) GDPR
5 1 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.76%) Dublin Core
5 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.76%) PERC
5 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (17.56%) Docker
2 2 (1.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.76%) NFS
3 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.76%) Grafana
3 1 (0.76%) Kibana
3 1 (0.76%) logstash
3 1 (0.76%) QRadar
Vendors
1 46 (35.11%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.69%) Adobe
3 12 (9.16%) Google
4 4 (3.05%) Databricks
4 4 (3.05%) Splunk
5 3 (2.29%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.29%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.29%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.29%) Oracle
6 2 (1.53%) IBM
6 2 (1.53%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.53%) VMware
7 1 (0.76%) ArcSight
7 1 (0.76%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.76%) Informatica
7 1 (0.76%) LogRhythm
7 1 (0.76%) Sage
7 1 (0.76%) SAP
7 1 (0.76%) webMethods
7 1 (0.76%) Zoho