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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 225 247
Rank change year-on-year -40 +22 -12
Permanent jobs citing JSON 146 181 417
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.81% 1.36% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.59% 4.50% 4.87%
Number of salaries quoted 93 157 366
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £49,923
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,267 £89,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -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 3,179 4,018 8,563
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.71% 30.11% 26.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,286 3,226 7,512
10th Percentile £41,925 £40,300 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £98,722
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 April 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 21 (14.38%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.37%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.37%) Confluence
3 2 (1.37%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.37%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.68%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) EngageOne
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.68%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (5.48%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.37%) Shopify
3 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.68%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 79 (54.11%) Azure
2 36 (24.66%) AWS
3 32 (21.92%) Power Platform
4 30 (20.55%) Azure Logic Apps
5 29 (19.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 28 (19.18%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (16.44%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (16.44%) Power Automate
7 24 (16.44%) SaaS
8 22 (15.07%) GitHub
8 22 (15.07%) PowerApps
9 16 (10.96%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 16 (10.96%) Entra ID
9 16 (10.96%) OneDrive
10 15 (10.27%) Serverless
11 12 (8.22%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (8.22%) OpenShift
12 11 (7.53%) Azure Service Bus
13 9 (6.16%) Azure Event Grid
13 9 (6.16%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.22%) Firewall
2 6 (4.11%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (2.74%) AMQP
3 4 (2.74%) SSL
4 2 (1.37%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.68%) Broadband
5 1 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.68%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.68%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.68%) LAN
5 1 (0.68%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.68%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (20.55%) Power BI
2 17 (11.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 16 (10.96%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (10.96%) SQL Server
4 14 (9.59%) MySQL
5 8 (5.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (3.42%) Metadata
7 4 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.74%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.05%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (2.05%) Power Query
8 3 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.37%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.37%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.37%) Oracle BI EE
9 2 (1.37%) Oracle ODI
9 2 (1.37%) Redis
9 2 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (11.64%) Git
2 13 (8.90%) GitLab
3 12 (8.22%) Jenkins
4 10 (6.85%) JIRA
5 8 (5.48%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (3.42%) Browser DevTools
6 5 (3.42%) Selenium
6 5 (3.42%) SpecFlow
6 5 (3.42%) Storybook
6 5 (3.42%) WebDriver
7 4 (2.74%) Maven
8 3 (2.05%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.37%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.37%) JUnit
9 2 (1.37%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.68%) Gradle
10 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.68%) TeamCity
General
1 70 (47.95%) Social Skills
2 49 (33.56%) Finance
3 33 (22.60%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.27%) Telecoms
5 10 (6.85%) Law
5 10 (6.85%) Marketing
6 9 (6.16%) Health Technology
6 9 (6.16%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.11%) Advertising
8 5 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.74%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.74%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.74%) Retail
10 3 (2.05%) Billing
11 2 (1.37%) Electronics
11 2 (1.37%) Legal
11 2 (1.37%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.68%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 47 (32.19%) Developer
2 33 (22.60%) Senior
3 20 (13.70%) Senior Developer
4 12 (8.22%) Analyst
4 12 (8.22%) Automation Engineer
5 11 (7.53%) Integration Engineer
5 11 (7.53%) Network Engineer
5 11 (7.53%) Telecoms Engineer
6 10 (6.85%) Applications Engineer
7 9 (6.16%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (6.16%) Support Engineer
8 8 (5.48%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 8 (5.48%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
8 8 (5.48%) Data Analyst
8 8 (5.48%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 8 (5.48%) SQL Analyst
8 8 (5.48%) SQL Data Analyst
8 8 (5.48%) SSRS Analyst
9 7 (4.79%) Microsoft 365 Developer
9 7 (4.79%) Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (43.84%) XML
2 40 (27.40%) HTML
3 38 (26.03%) REST
4 37 (25.34%) CSS
5 27 (18.49%) .NET
6 25 (17.12%) RESTful
7 19 (13.01%) HTML5 Canvas
7 19 (13.01%) SOAP
8 18 (12.33%) .NET Core
9 16 (10.96%) Microsoft Graph
9 16 (10.96%) SPFx
10 15 (10.27%) YAML
11 14 (9.59%) OAuth
12 12 (8.22%) React
13 11 (7.53%) Jinja
14 10 (6.85%) OAuth2
15 9 (6.16%) Web Services
16 8 (5.48%) Node.js
16 8 (5.48%) Spring
17 6 (4.11%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.64%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.59%) Onboarding
3 10 (6.85%) Data Structures
4 9 (6.16%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (6.16%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (4.11%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (4.11%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.05%) NHS
7 3 (2.05%) PMI
8 2 (1.37%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.37%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.37%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.37%) Semantic Web
8 2 (1.37%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.68%) Linked Data
9 1 (0.68%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.59%) Linux
2 9 (6.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (32.19%) CI/CD
2 38 (26.03%) DevOps
3 37 (25.34%) Business Intelligence
4 36 (24.66%) Test Automation
5 30 (20.55%) Agile
6 26 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (17.12%) Coaching
7 25 (17.12%) Technical Leadership
8 24 (16.44%) User Experience
9 23 (15.75%) Validation
10 22 (15.07%) API Management
10 22 (15.07%) Asset Management
11 21 (14.38%) API Integration
11 21 (14.38%) Containerisation
11 21 (14.38%) Task Automation
12 20 (13.70%) Analytics
12 20 (13.70%) Observability
12 20 (13.70%) Root Cause Analysis
13 19 (13.01%) Project Management
14 18 (12.33%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 76 (52.05%) SQL
2 58 (39.73%) JavaScript
3 43 (29.45%) Python
4 31 (21.23%) Java
5 29 (19.86%) C#
5 29 (19.86%) PowerShell
6 22 (15.07%) TypeScript
7 11 (7.53%) PL/SQL
8 10 (6.85%) Shell Script
8 10 (6.85%) T-SQL
9 9 (6.16%) Bicep
10 3 (2.05%) PHP
11 2 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.37%) Ruby
12 1 (0.68%) Groovy
12 1 (0.68%) Korn
12 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.68%) Lua
12 1 (0.68%) SHACL
12 1 (0.68%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 11 (7.53%) Degree
2 8 (5.48%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.42%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.05%) Numerate Degree
4 3 (2.05%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.37%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.59%) GDPR
2 12 (8.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (7.53%) SLA
4 10 (6.85%) Data Quality
4 10 (6.85%) QA
5 6 (4.11%) Accessibility
6 5 (3.42%) WCAG
7 4 (2.74%) HL7
8 2 (1.37%) NCSC
8 2 (1.37%) NIST
8 2 (1.37%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.68%) PERC
System Software
1 16 (10.96%) Active Directory
2 14 (9.59%) Docker
3 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (13.70%) Terraform
2 11 (7.53%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.48%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (2.74%) Ansible
5 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.68%) Kibana
Vendors
1 25 (17.12%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.64%) Adobe
3 16 (10.96%) Oracle
4 12 (8.22%) Cisco
5 11 (7.53%) Red Hat
6 9 (6.16%) Ab Initio
7 8 (5.48%) Okta
8 7 (4.79%) F5
8 7 (4.79%) ServiceNow
9 6 (4.11%) Juniper
9 6 (4.11%) Palo Alto
10 4 (2.74%) Databricks
10 4 (2.74%) Google
10 4 (2.74%) SAP
11 3 (2.05%) IBM
11 3 (2.05%) MuleSoft
11 3 (2.05%) Splunk
11 3 (2.05%) TIBCO
12 2 (1.37%) Epicor
12 2 (1.37%) Informatica