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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 250 171
Rank change year-on-year +4 -79 +54
Permanent jobs citing JSON 134 215 393
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.87% 1.25% 1.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.87% 4.08% 6.28%
Number of salaries quoted 81 151 339
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £43,750
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 £82,500 £83,750 £98,481
UK median annual salary £57,500 £59,425 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.24% -8.58% -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 2,753 5,266 6,262
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.93% 30.58% 30.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,168 3,421 5,315
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,500 £50,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.09%

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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 26 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 (3.73%) Anypoint
2 3 (2.24%) Confluence
3 2 (1.49%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.24%) Trello
2 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (14.93%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (4.48%) Shopify
3 2 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.75%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 77 (57.46%) Azure
2 50 (37.31%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (30.60%) GitHub
4 33 (24.63%) AWS
5 21 (15.67%) Azure Logic Apps
5 21 (15.67%) Entra ID
6 20 (14.93%) OCI
7 19 (14.18%) Azure Service Bus
8 18 (13.43%) Azure Data Factory
9 17 (12.69%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (11.19%) Azure Event Grid
10 15 (11.19%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (11.19%) Power Platform
11 13 (9.70%) Serverless
12 12 (8.96%) PaaS
12 12 (8.96%) Power Automate
13 9 (6.72%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (5.22%) Boomi
14 7 (5.22%) GCP
14 7 (5.22%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.24%) Cisco ISE
1 3 (2.24%) Ethernet
1 3 (2.24%) Firewall
1 3 (2.24%) LAN
1 3 (2.24%) SD-WAN
1 3 (2.24%) WAN
2 2 (1.49%) AMQP
2 2 (1.49%) HTTP
3 1 (0.75%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.75%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.75%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.67%) Relational Database
2 15 (11.19%) SQL Server
3 10 (7.46%) Power BI
4 7 (5.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.99%) MySQL
6 4 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.24%) Metadata
7 3 (2.24%) Power Query
7 3 (2.24%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.49%) Big Data
8 2 (1.49%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.49%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.49%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.49%) Tableau
9 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (20.15%) Jenkins
2 20 (14.93%) Oracle Forms
3 8 (5.97%) Git
3 8 (5.97%) JIRA
4 6 (4.48%) Storybook
5 4 (2.99%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.49%) JMeter
6 2 (1.49%) JUnit
6 2 (1.49%) Selenium
6 2 (1.49%) 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 (41.79%) Finance
2 39 (29.10%) Social Skills
3 29 (21.64%) Law
4 15 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (10.45%) Marketing
6 10 (7.46%) Public Sector
6 10 (7.46%) Retail
7 6 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.73%) Legal
9 4 (2.99%) Automotive
9 4 (2.99%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.24%) Electronics
10 3 (2.24%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.49%) Banking
12 1 (0.75%) Billing
12 1 (0.75%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.75%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 36 (26.87%) Developer
2 29 (21.64%) Senior
3 21 (15.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (14.93%) Applications Engineer
4 20 (14.93%) Integration Engineer
4 20 (14.93%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 12 (8.96%) ServiceNow Developer
6 9 (6.72%) Analyst
7 8 (5.97%) Data Engineer
7 8 (5.97%) Integration Developer
8 7 (5.22%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.48%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 6 (4.48%) SQL Developer
10 5 (3.73%) Consultant
10 5 (3.73%) Lead
10 5 (3.73%) Product Manager
10 5 (3.73%) Support Engineer
11 4 (2.99%) IT Manager
11 4 (2.99%) Support Consultant
11 4 (2.99%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (57.46%) XML
2 41 (30.60%) RESTful
3 39 (29.10%) REST
4 35 (26.12%) SOAP
5 24 (17.91%) HTML
6 23 (17.16%) CSS
7 20 (14.93%) OAuth
8 16 (11.94%) Web Services
9 14 (10.45%) OAuth2
10 11 (8.21%) React
11 9 (6.72%) YAML
12 7 (5.22%) JSON-LD
13 6 (4.48%) Next.js
13 6 (4.48%) Node.js
14 5 (3.73%) XSLT
15 4 (2.99%) ADO
15 4 (2.99%) Kafka
15 4 (2.99%) SAML
15 4 (2.99%) Spring
16 3 (2.24%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 28 (20.90%) Cloud Native
2 22 (16.42%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (5.97%) Low-Code
4 4 (2.99%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.99%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.24%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.24%) Semantic Web
5 3 (2.24%) Social Media
6 2 (1.49%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.49%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.49%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.75%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.75%) Linked Data
7 1 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.22%) Linux
2 5 (3.73%) Unix
3 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (43.28%) Test Automation
2 57 (42.54%) CI/CD
3 54 (40.30%) Agile
3 54 (40.30%) DevOps
4 42 (31.34%) Coaching
5 40 (29.85%) Asset Management
6 39 (29.10%) Root Cause Analysis
7 36 (26.87%) Observability
8 34 (25.37%) ETL
8 34 (25.37%) Mentoring
9 32 (23.88%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (22.39%) Analytics
11 28 (20.90%) ERP
12 27 (20.15%) Data Governance
13 26 (19.40%) Translating Business Requirements
14 23 (17.16%) API Integration
14 23 (17.16%) Data Integration
15 22 (16.42%) Business Strategy
16 21 (15.67%) Migration
16 21 (15.67%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (44.03%) SQL
2 43 (32.09%) Python
3 36 (26.87%) JavaScript
4 34 (25.37%) Java
5 25 (18.66%) Shell Script
6 21 (15.67%) PL/SQL
7 19 (14.18%) PowerShell
8 15 (11.19%) Bicep
9 12 (8.96%) C#
10 7 (5.22%) TypeScript
11 6 (4.48%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.75%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.75%) Bash
12 1 (0.75%) Go
12 1 (0.75%) Groovy
12 1 (0.75%) Korn
12 1 (0.75%) PHP
12 1 (0.75%) SOQL
12 1 (0.75%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (5.22%) SC Cleared
1 7 (5.22%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.73%) Degree
3 3 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (15.67%) GDPR
2 11 (8.21%) Data Quality
3 9 (6.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (5.97%) Accessibility
4 8 (5.97%) NCSC
4 8 (5.97%) NIST
5 7 (5.22%) QA
6 6 (4.48%) WCAG
7 3 (2.24%) HL7
8 1 (0.75%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 20 (14.93%) Active Directory
2 11 (8.21%) Docker
3 3 (2.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 38 (28.36%) Terraform
2 24 (17.91%) Single Sign-On
3 9 (6.72%) Kubernetes
4 6 (4.48%) Ansible
5 3 (2.24%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.75%) Packer
Vendors
1 27 (20.15%) Oracle
2 20 (14.93%) Okta
3 16 (11.94%) ServiceNow
4 14 (10.45%) Ab Initio
5 12 (8.96%) Microsoft
6 10 (7.46%) SAP
7 7 (5.22%) Google
7 7 (5.22%) MuleSoft
8 5 (3.73%) Dell
8 5 (3.73%) Epicor
8 5 (3.73%) IBM
8 5 (3.73%) IFS
8 5 (3.73%) Infor
8 5 (3.73%) Informatica
8 5 (3.73%) Jitterbit
8 5 (3.73%) SnapLogic
8 5 (3.73%) Software AG
8 5 (3.73%) Talend
8 5 (3.73%) TIBCO
8 5 (3.73%) Workday