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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 233 213
Rank change year-on-year -19 -20 +19
Permanent jobs citing JSON 128 220 420
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.79% 1.40% 1.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.42% 4.42% 5.14%
Number of salaries quoted 72 167 369
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,590 £51,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +6.56% -9.63%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £96,539
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -7.59%

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 2,894 4,973 8,165
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.93% 31.70% 29.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,152 3,259 7,120
10th Percentile £42,050 £41,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,400 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,295 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +9.58% -6.92%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.66% +7.48% -8.89%

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 13 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 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.91%) Anypoint
3 3 (2.34%) Confluence
3 3 (2.34%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.34%) Trello
2 1 (0.78%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (15.63%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (3.91%) Shopify
3 2 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.78%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 77 (60.16%) Azure
2 42 (32.81%) GitHub
3 41 (32.03%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (29.69%) AWS
5 29 (22.66%) Entra ID
6 24 (18.75%) Power Platform
7 22 (17.19%) Azure Logic Apps
8 20 (15.63%) OCI
9 19 (14.84%) Azure Data Factory
10 17 (13.28%) Azure Monitor
10 17 (13.28%) Azure Service Bus
10 17 (13.28%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (11.72%) Azure Event Grid
12 15 (11.72%) Serverless
13 13 (10.16%) Power Automate
14 11 (8.59%) SaaS
15 8 (6.25%) PaaS
15 8 (6.25%) PowerApps
16 7 (5.47%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.69%) Firewall
2 4 (3.13%) AMQP
3 3 (2.34%) Cisco ISE
3 3 (2.34%) Ethernet
3 3 (2.34%) LAN
3 3 (2.34%) SD-WAN
3 3 (2.34%) WAN
4 2 (1.56%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (1.56%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.78%) HTTP
5 1 (0.78%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (17.19%) SQL Server
2 18 (14.06%) Power BI
3 13 (10.16%) MySQL
3 13 (10.16%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (10.16%) Relational Database
4 8 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (3.13%) Metadata
6 3 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.34%) Power Query
6 3 (2.34%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.56%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.56%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.56%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.56%) Tableau
8 1 (0.78%) Big Data
8 1 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.78%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 26 (20.31%) Jenkins
2 20 (15.63%) Oracle Forms
3 9 (7.03%) Git
4 6 (4.69%) Storybook
5 5 (3.91%) JIRA
6 4 (3.13%) GitLab
6 4 (3.13%) Maven
7 3 (2.34%) JUnit
7 3 (2.34%) Selenium
7 3 (2.34%) Visual Studio
7 3 (2.34%) WebDriver
8 2 (1.56%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.78%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.78%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.78%) Gradle
9 1 (0.78%) JMeter
9 1 (0.78%) Postman
9 1 (0.78%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.78%) Testinfra
General
1 59 (46.09%) Finance
2 42 (32.81%) Social Skills
3 22 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (13.28%) Law
5 13 (10.16%) Marketing
6 10 (7.81%) Public Sector
7 8 (6.25%) Telecoms
8 6 (4.69%) Retail
9 5 (3.91%) Legal
10 3 (2.34%) Electronics
10 3 (2.34%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.56%) Billing
11 2 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.78%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 37 (28.91%) Developer
2 30 (23.44%) Senior
3 22 (17.19%) Applications Engineer
3 22 (17.19%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (15.63%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 19 (14.84%) Integration Engineer
6 16 (12.50%) Analyst
7 9 (7.03%) ServiceNow Developer
8 8 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 8 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
8 8 (6.25%) Data Analyst
8 8 (6.25%) Integration Developer
8 8 (6.25%) Senior Developer
8 8 (6.25%) SQL Analyst
8 8 (6.25%) SQL Data Analyst
8 8 (6.25%) SSRS Analyst
8 8 (6.25%) Support Engineer
9 7 (5.47%) Java Developer
10 6 (4.69%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 6 (4.69%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (57.03%) XML
2 41 (32.03%) RESTful
3 39 (30.47%) REST
4 33 (25.78%) SOAP
5 17 (13.28%) HTML
6 16 (12.50%) OAuth
7 14 (10.94%) CSS
7 14 (10.94%) OAuth2
7 14 (10.94%) Web Services
8 12 (9.38%) React
9 8 (6.25%) Node.js
9 8 (6.25%) Spring
9 8 (6.25%) YAML
10 7 (5.47%) JSON-LD
11 6 (4.69%) Next.js
11 6 (4.69%) XSLT
12 5 (3.91%) .NET
12 5 (3.91%) Spring Boot
13 4 (3.13%) Hibernate
13 4 (3.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 29 (22.66%) Cloud Native
2 22 (17.19%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (7.81%) Low-Code
4 9 (7.03%) Data Structures
5 8 (6.25%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.13%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.34%) PMI
8 3 (2.34%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.34%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.34%) Semantic Web
8 3 (2.34%) Social Media
9 2 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.56%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.78%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.78%) Linked Data
10 1 (0.78%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.59%) Linux
2 8 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (46.09%) CI/CD
2 52 (40.63%) Test Automation
3 51 (39.84%) DevOps
4 43 (33.59%) Coaching
5 42 (32.81%) Agile
6 40 (31.25%) Asset Management
7 38 (29.69%) Root Cause Analysis
8 37 (28.91%) Observability
9 31 (24.22%) Mentoring
10 27 (21.09%) Analytics
10 27 (21.09%) ERP
11 26 (20.31%) ETL
11 26 (20.31%) Translating Business Requirements
12 23 (17.97%) API Integration
12 23 (17.97%) Business Strategy
12 23 (17.97%) Data Governance
12 23 (17.97%) Data Integration
12 23 (17.97%) Migration
13 21 (16.41%) Business Intelligence
13 21 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 65 (50.78%) SQL
2 52 (40.63%) Python
3 43 (33.59%) Java
4 32 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 25 (19.53%) Shell Script
6 23 (17.97%) PL/SQL
6 23 (17.97%) PowerShell
7 15 (11.72%) Bicep
8 14 (10.94%) C#
8 14 (10.94%) T-SQL
9 6 (4.69%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.56%) Groovy
10 2 (1.56%) PHP
11 1 (0.78%) Bash
11 1 (0.78%) Korn
11 1 (0.78%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.78%) SHACL
11 1 (0.78%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 12 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.03%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.25%) Degree
4 4 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.34%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (2.34%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.56%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.41%) GDPR
2 15 (11.72%) Data Quality
3 13 (10.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (6.25%) Accessibility
4 8 (6.25%) QA
5 6 (4.69%) WCAG
6 3 (2.34%) HL7
6 3 (2.34%) NCSC
6 3 (2.34%) NIST
7 2 (1.56%) SLA
7 2 (1.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 28 (21.88%) Active Directory
2 13 (10.16%) Docker
3 3 (2.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 40 (31.25%) Terraform
2 20 (15.63%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (9.38%) Kubernetes
4 7 (5.47%) Ansible
5 3 (2.34%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.78%) Packer
Vendors
1 29 (22.66%) Oracle
2 20 (15.63%) Okta
3 14 (10.94%) Ab Initio
4 13 (10.16%) Microsoft
5 10 (7.81%) SAP
5 10 (7.81%) ServiceNow
6 7 (5.47%) Google
7 6 (4.69%) Cisco
7 6 (4.69%) MuleSoft
7 6 (4.69%) TIBCO
8 5 (3.91%) Dell
8 5 (3.91%) Epicor
8 5 (3.91%) IBM
8 5 (3.91%) IFS
8 5 (3.91%) Infor
8 5 (3.91%) Informatica
8 5 (3.91%) Jitterbit
8 5 (3.91%) SnapLogic
8 5 (3.91%) Software AG
8 5 (3.91%) Workday