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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 278 267
Rank change year-on-year -20 -11 -38
Permanent jobs citing JSON 135 171 376
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.66% 1.10% 1.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.64% 4.02% 4.11%
Number of salaries quoted 104 141 303
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,896 £83,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 - £83,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.40% +4.58% -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 3,710 4,253 9,151
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.17% 27.32% 26.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,772 2,863 7,788
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -8.19%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,340 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.02% +10.57% -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 24 June 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 24 (17.78%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.22%) Confluence
4 2 (1.48%) Apache
4 2 (1.48%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.74%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.74%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.48%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.74%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 67 (49.63%) Azure
2 34 (25.19%) AWS
3 33 (24.44%) Power Platform
4 29 (21.48%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (19.26%) SaaS
6 24 (17.78%) Azure Logic Apps
6 24 (17.78%) PowerApps
7 23 (17.04%) Azure Data Factory
7 23 (17.04%) Power Automate
8 19 (14.07%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 19 (14.07%) OneDrive
9 11 (8.15%) OpenShift
10 10 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (6.67%) Entra ID
12 7 (5.19%) Apigee
12 7 (5.19%) Kong
12 7 (5.19%) Serverless
13 6 (4.44%) GCP
13 6 (4.44%) GitHub
14 4 (2.96%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.89%) Firewall
2 6 (4.44%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (2.22%) SSL
4 2 (1.48%) AMQP
4 2 (1.48%) HTTP
4 2 (1.48%) Intranet
4 2 (1.48%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.74%) Broadband
5 1 (0.74%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.74%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.74%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.74%) FTP
5 1 (0.74%) LAN
5 1 (0.74%) RTP
5 1 (0.74%) SCTP
5 1 (0.74%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.74%) SS7
5 1 (0.74%) VoIP
5 1 (0.74%) VoLTE
5 1 (0.74%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (22.22%) Power BI
2 26 (19.26%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (14.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 16 (11.85%) SQL Server
5 15 (11.11%) MySQL
6 11 (8.15%) Redis
7 8 (5.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (3.70%) Electronic Patient Records
8 5 (3.70%) Metadata
9 4 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.48%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.48%) MariaDB
11 2 (1.48%) Oracle BI EE
11 2 (1.48%) Oracle ODI
11 2 (1.48%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (1.48%) Parquet
11 2 (1.48%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.48%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (1.48%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (14.81%) Git
2 13 (9.63%) GitLab
2 13 (9.63%) JIRA
3 6 (4.44%) Selenium
4 5 (3.70%) Browser DevTools
4 5 (3.70%) SpecFlow
4 5 (3.70%) WebDriver
5 3 (2.22%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.22%) Maven
5 3 (2.22%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.48%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.48%) Bower
6 2 (1.48%) JUnit
6 2 (1.48%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.74%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.74%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.74%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.74%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.74%) webpack
General
1 76 (56.30%) Social Skills
2 39 (28.89%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (15.56%) Finance
4 14 (10.37%) Telecoms
5 11 (8.15%) Health Technology
6 9 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.44%) Advertising
7 6 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.96%) Billing
8 4 (2.96%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.22%) Law
9 3 (2.22%) Publishing
10 2 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.48%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.48%) Retail
11 1 (0.74%) Legal
11 1 (0.74%) Marketing
11 1 (0.74%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 50 (37.04%) Developer
2 28 (20.74%) Senior
3 19 (14.07%) Senior Developer
4 14 (10.37%) Automation Engineer
5 11 (8.15%) Analyst
5 11 (8.15%) Consultant
5 11 (8.15%) Network Engineer
5 11 (8.15%) Ruby Developer
5 11 (8.15%) Telecoms Engineer
6 8 (5.93%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 8 (5.93%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
6 8 (5.93%) Data Analyst
6 8 (5.93%) SQL Analyst
6 8 (5.93%) SQL Data Analyst
6 8 (5.93%) SSRS Analyst
7 7 (5.19%) Automation Specialist
7 7 (5.19%) Microsoft 365 Developer
7 7 (5.19%) Network Specialist
7 7 (5.19%) Senior Microsoft Developer
7 7 (5.19%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (37.04%) XML
2 42 (31.11%) HTML
3 38 (28.15%) CSS
4 33 (24.44%) .NET
5 31 (22.96%) REST
6 21 (15.56%) .NET Core
6 21 (15.56%) HTML5 Canvas
7 20 (14.81%) Microsoft Graph
8 19 (14.07%) RESTful
8 19 (14.07%) SPFx
9 14 (10.37%) YAML
10 12 (8.89%) JWT
11 11 (8.15%) Jinja
11 11 (8.15%) Ruby on Rails
11 11 (8.15%) Sidekiq
12 9 (6.67%) SOAP
13 6 (4.44%) OAuth
13 6 (4.44%) Web Services
13 6 (4.44%) YANG
14 5 (3.70%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.85%) Onboarding
2 11 (8.15%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 8 (5.93%) Cloud Native
4 8 (5.93%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.70%) NHS
6 4 (2.96%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.22%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.22%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.48%) PMI
8 2 (1.48%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.48%) Replication
8 2 (1.48%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.74%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.74%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.74%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.59%) Linux
2 7 (5.19%) Unix
3 1 (0.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (27.41%) Business Intelligence
2 30 (22.22%) User Experience
3 29 (21.48%) Agile
4 27 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 26 (19.26%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (17.78%) CI/CD
6 24 (17.78%) DevOps
7 23 (17.04%) Machine Learning
7 23 (17.04%) Validation
8 22 (16.30%) Project Management
9 21 (15.56%) Task Automation
9 21 (15.56%) Technical Leadership
9 21 (15.56%) Web Design
10 19 (14.07%) Data Modelling
10 19 (14.07%) Document Management
11 17 (12.59%) AI
11 17 (12.59%) Scrum
12 16 (11.85%) Analytics
12 16 (11.85%) Clean Code
12 16 (11.85%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 76 (56.30%) SQL
2 58 (42.96%) JavaScript
3 36 (26.67%) Python
4 34 (25.19%) C#
5 32 (23.70%) PowerShell
6 21 (15.56%) TypeScript
7 19 (14.07%) Java
8 15 (11.11%) T-SQL
9 11 (8.15%) Ruby
10 5 (3.70%) PHP
11 3 (2.22%) Bash
11 3 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (1.48%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.48%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.48%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.74%) C++
13 1 (0.74%) Groovy
13 1 (0.74%) Lua
13 1 (0.74%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 16 (11.85%) Degree
2 9 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.44%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.96%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.22%) CISSP
7 2 (1.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.48%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.48%) CASP
7 2 (1.48%) CCSP
7 2 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.48%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.48%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (1.48%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.74%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.74%) GIAC
8 1 (0.74%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.63%) QA
2 11 (8.15%) Data Quality
2 11 (8.15%) SLA
3 10 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.70%) GDPR
4 5 (3.70%) HL7
5 2 (1.48%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.74%) PERC
System Software
1 18 (13.33%) Docker
2 8 (5.93%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.74%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (4.44%) Kubernetes
1 6 (4.44%) Terraform
2 2 (1.48%) Ansible
2 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.74%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.74%) Kibana
3 1 (0.74%) QRadar
Vendors
1 35 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.81%) Adobe
3 12 (8.89%) Cisco
4 11 (8.15%) Red Hat
5 7 (5.19%) F5
6 6 (4.44%) Juniper
6 6 (4.44%) Palo Alto
6 6 (4.44%) Splunk
7 5 (3.70%) Oracle
8 4 (2.96%) Databricks
8 4 (2.96%) Salesforce
9 3 (2.22%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.48%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.48%) Google
10 2 (1.48%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.74%) Apple
11 1 (0.74%) Blue Coat
11 1 (0.74%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.74%) Sage
11 1 (0.74%) VMware