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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 232 214
Rank change year-on-year -28 -18 +16
Permanent jobs citing JSON 129 205 408
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.78% 1.37% 1.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.41% 4.26% 5.02%
Number of salaries quoted 70 164 358
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,800 £41,675
25th Percentile £45,688 £50,649 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £78,438
90th Percentile £81,250 £88,125 £99,452
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -7.41%

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 2,926 4,807 8,132
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.79% 32.05% 29.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,143 3,236 7,072
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,318 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% +10.53% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,225 £60,675
% change year-on-year -1.85% +9.15% -10.11%

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 27 February 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 8 (6.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.88%) Anypoint
3 3 (2.33%) Confluence
4 2 (1.55%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.55%) Oracle Application Server
4 2 (1.55%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.78%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.33%) Trello
2 1 (0.78%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (13.95%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (3.88%) Shopify
3 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.78%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 74 (57.36%) Azure
2 40 (31.01%) AWS
2 40 (31.01%) GitHub
3 38 (29.46%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (20.93%) Entra ID
5 22 (17.05%) Power Platform
6 21 (16.28%) Azure Logic Apps
7 18 (13.95%) OCI
8 17 (13.18%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (13.18%) Azure Monitor
8 17 (13.18%) Azure Service Bus
8 17 (13.18%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (12.40%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (11.63%) Azure Event Grid
10 15 (11.63%) Serverless
11 11 (8.53%) Power Automate
11 11 (8.53%) SaaS
12 7 (5.43%) GCP
12 7 (5.43%) PaaS
12 7 (5.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.20%) Firewall
2 4 (3.10%) AMQP
3 3 (2.33%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (2.33%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (2.33%) Ethernet
3 3 (2.33%) LAN
3 3 (2.33%) SD-WAN
3 3 (2.33%) WAN
4 2 (1.55%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.78%) HTTP
5 1 (0.78%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.73%) SQL Server
2 17 (13.18%) Power BI
3 12 (9.30%) MySQL
3 12 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (7.75%) Relational Database
5 8 (6.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.33%) Metadata
7 3 (2.33%) Power Query
7 3 (2.33%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.55%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.55%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.55%) Oracle BI EE
8 2 (1.55%) Oracle ODI
8 2 (1.55%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.55%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (18.60%) Jenkins
2 18 (13.95%) Oracle Forms
3 11 (8.53%) Git
4 6 (4.65%) GitLab
4 6 (4.65%) JIRA
4 6 (4.65%) Storybook
5 5 (3.88%) Selenium
5 5 (3.88%) WebDriver
6 4 (3.10%) Maven
6 4 (3.10%) SpecFlow
7 3 (2.33%) JUnit
7 3 (2.33%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.55%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.78%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.78%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.78%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.78%) JMeter
9 1 (0.78%) Postman
9 1 (0.78%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.78%) Testinfra
General
1 60 (46.51%) Finance
2 41 (31.78%) Social Skills
3 21 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.85%) Law
5 12 (9.30%) Marketing
6 9 (6.98%) Telecoms
7 7 (5.43%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.88%) Legal
8 5 (3.88%) Retail
9 2 (1.55%) Billing
9 2 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.55%) Electronics
9 2 (1.55%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.78%) Local Government
10 1 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (28.68%) Developer
2 29 (22.48%) Senior
3 20 (15.50%) Applications Engineer
3 20 (15.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 19 (14.73%) Integration Engineer
5 18 (13.95%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 14 (10.85%) Analyst
7 8 (6.20%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 8 (6.20%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
7 8 (6.20%) Data Analyst
7 8 (6.20%) Integration Developer
7 8 (6.20%) Senior Developer
7 8 (6.20%) SQL Analyst
7 8 (6.20%) SQL Data Analyst
7 8 (6.20%) SSRS Analyst
7 8 (6.20%) Support Engineer
8 7 (5.43%) Java Developer
9 6 (4.65%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (4.65%) QA Engineer
9 6 (4.65%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (57.36%) XML
2 40 (31.01%) REST
3 38 (29.46%) RESTful
4 31 (24.03%) SOAP
5 16 (12.40%) OAuth
6 14 (10.85%) HTML
6 14 (10.85%) OAuth2
7 13 (10.08%) React
7 13 (10.08%) Web Services
8 11 (8.53%) CSS
9 10 (7.75%) YAML
10 8 (6.20%) Spring
11 7 (5.43%) JSON-LD
11 7 (5.43%) Node.js
12 6 (4.65%) .NET
12 6 (4.65%) GraphQL
12 6 (4.65%) Next.js
12 6 (4.65%) XSLT
13 5 (3.88%) Jinja
13 5 (3.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 26 (20.16%) Cloud Native
2 19 (14.73%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (7.75%) Low-Code
4 9 (6.98%) Data Structures
5 8 (6.20%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.10%) Data Centre
7 4 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (2.33%) PMI
8 3 (2.33%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.33%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.33%) Social Media
9 2 (1.55%) Semantic Web
10 1 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.78%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.78%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.78%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.30%) Linux
2 9 (6.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (44.96%) CI/CD
2 51 (39.53%) Test Automation
3 49 (37.98%) DevOps
4 42 (32.56%) Agile
5 40 (31.01%) Coaching
6 38 (29.46%) Asset Management
7 35 (27.13%) Root Cause Analysis
8 34 (26.36%) Observability
9 27 (20.93%) Analytics
9 27 (20.93%) Mentoring
10 26 (20.16%) ETL
11 25 (19.38%) ERP
12 23 (17.83%) Translating Business Requirements
13 22 (17.05%) Data Integration
14 21 (16.28%) API Integration
14 21 (16.28%) Business Intelligence
14 21 (16.28%) Migration
15 20 (15.50%) API Management
15 20 (15.50%) Business Strategy
15 20 (15.50%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 67 (51.94%) SQL
2 51 (39.53%) Python
3 43 (33.33%) Java
4 30 (23.26%) JavaScript
5 23 (17.83%) Shell Script
6 21 (16.28%) PL/SQL
6 21 (16.28%) PowerShell
7 15 (11.63%) Bicep
7 15 (11.63%) C#
8 14 (10.85%) T-SQL
9 7 (5.43%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.55%) Bash
10 2 (1.55%) Groovy
10 2 (1.55%) PHP
11 1 (0.78%) Korn
11 1 (0.78%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.78%) SHACL
11 1 (0.78%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 11 (8.53%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.20%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.43%) Degree
4 3 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.33%) Numerate Degree
4 3 (2.33%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.50%) GDPR
2 14 (10.85%) Data Quality
3 12 (9.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (6.98%) QA
5 8 (6.20%) Accessibility
6 6 (4.65%) WCAG
7 3 (2.33%) HL7
7 3 (2.33%) NCSC
7 3 (2.33%) NIST
8 2 (1.55%) SLA
8 2 (1.55%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 26 (20.16%) Active Directory
2 13 (10.08%) Docker
3 3 (2.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 38 (29.46%) Terraform
2 18 (13.95%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (9.30%) Kubernetes
4 7 (5.43%) Ansible
5 3 (2.33%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.78%) Kibana
6 1 (0.78%) Packer
Vendors
1 29 (22.48%) Oracle
2 18 (13.95%) Okta
3 14 (10.85%) Ab Initio
4 12 (9.30%) Microsoft
5 8 (6.20%) Cisco
5 8 (6.20%) SAP
6 7 (5.43%) Google
6 7 (5.43%) ServiceNow
7 6 (4.65%) F5
7 6 (4.65%) MuleSoft
7 6 (4.65%) TIBCO
8 5 (3.88%) Dell
8 5 (3.88%) Epicor
8 5 (3.88%) IBM
8 5 (3.88%) Infor
8 5 (3.88%) Informatica
8 5 (3.88%) Red Hat
8 5 (3.88%) SnapLogic
8 5 (3.88%) Software AG
8 5 (3.88%) Talend