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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 241 201
Rank change year-on-year -9 -40 +24
Permanent jobs citing JSON 123 216 420
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.79% 1.32% 1.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.41% 4.24% 5.57%
Number of salaries quoted 69 158 357
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,134 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £106,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -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 2,786 5,095 7,541
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.85% 31.12% 30.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,123 3,248 6,523
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,649 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £81,063
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%

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 January 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 5 (4.07%) Anypoint
2 3 (2.44%) Confluence
3 2 (1.63%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.63%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.44%) Trello
2 1 (0.81%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (16.26%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (4.88%) Shopify
3 2 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.81%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.81%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 69 (56.10%) Azure
2 42 (34.15%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (33.33%) GitHub
4 36 (29.27%) AWS
5 22 (17.89%) Entra ID
6 21 (17.07%) Azure Logic Apps
7 20 (16.26%) OCI
8 18 (14.63%) Azure Data Factory
9 17 (13.82%) Azure Monitor
9 17 (13.82%) Azure Service Bus
10 16 (13.01%) Power Platform
11 15 (12.20%) Azure Event Grid
11 15 (12.20%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (11.38%) Serverless
13 12 (9.76%) Power Automate
14 10 (8.13%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (6.50%) PaaS
16 7 (5.69%) Boomi
16 7 (5.69%) GCP
16 7 (5.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.25%) AMQP
2 3 (2.44%) Cisco ISE
2 3 (2.44%) Ethernet
2 3 (2.44%) Firewall
2 3 (2.44%) LAN
2 3 (2.44%) SD-WAN
2 3 (2.44%) WAN
3 2 (1.63%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.81%) HTTP
4 1 (0.81%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.81%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.01%) Relational Database
1 16 (13.01%) SQL Server
2 11 (8.94%) Power BI
3 5 (4.07%) MySQL
3 5 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (3.25%) Metadata
5 3 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.44%) Power Query
5 3 (2.44%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.63%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.63%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.63%) Tableau
7 1 (0.81%) Big Data
7 1 (0.81%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.81%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.81%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (21.14%) Jenkins
2 20 (16.26%) Oracle Forms
3 9 (7.32%) Git
4 6 (4.88%) JIRA
4 6 (4.88%) Storybook
5 4 (3.25%) Maven
6 3 (2.44%) JUnit
6 3 (2.44%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.81%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.81%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.81%) GitLab
7 1 (0.81%) Gradle
7 1 (0.81%) JMeter
7 1 (0.81%) Postman
7 1 (0.81%) Selenium
7 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.81%) Testinfra
7 1 (0.81%) WebDriver
General
1 56 (45.53%) Finance
2 35 (28.46%) Social Skills
3 21 (17.07%) Law
4 14 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (10.57%) Marketing
6 10 (8.13%) Public Sector
7 8 (6.50%) Retail
8 5 (4.07%) Legal
8 5 (4.07%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.44%) Electronics
9 3 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.44%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.63%) Automotive
10 2 (1.63%) Billing
11 1 (0.81%) Banking
11 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.81%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 39 (31.71%) Developer
2 29 (23.58%) Senior
3 22 (17.89%) Cloud Engineer
4 21 (17.07%) Applications Engineer
5 20 (16.26%) Integration Engineer
5 20 (16.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 12 (9.76%) ServiceNow Developer
7 10 (8.13%) Analyst
8 8 (6.50%) Integration Developer
9 7 (5.69%) Java Developer
9 7 (5.69%) Senior Developer
9 7 (5.69%) Support Engineer
10 6 (4.88%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 6 (4.88%) SQL Developer
11 5 (4.07%) Data Engineer
11 5 (4.07%) Lead
12 4 (3.25%) Data Integration Developer
12 4 (3.25%) Data Integration Engineer
12 4 (3.25%) Development Engineer
12 4 (3.25%) Development Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (57.72%) XML
2 40 (32.52%) RESTful
3 37 (30.08%) REST
4 36 (29.27%) SOAP
5 18 (14.63%) HTML
5 18 (14.63%) OAuth
6 16 (13.01%) CSS
6 16 (13.01%) Web Services
7 14 (11.38%) OAuth2
8 12 (9.76%) React
9 8 (6.50%) Spring
10 7 (5.69%) JSON-LD
10 7 (5.69%) Node.js
11 6 (4.88%) Next.js
11 6 (4.88%) XSLT
11 6 (4.88%) YAML
12 5 (4.07%) Spring Boot
13 4 (3.25%) Hibernate
13 4 (3.25%) RabbitMQ
14 3 (2.44%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 28 (22.76%) Cloud Native
2 22 (17.89%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (7.32%) Low-Code
4 4 (3.25%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.44%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.44%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.44%) Semantic Web
5 3 (2.44%) Social Media
6 2 (1.63%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.63%) PMI
6 2 (1.63%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.81%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.81%) Linked Data
7 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.81%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.32%) Linux
2 6 (4.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (45.53%) CI/CD
2 51 (41.46%) Test Automation
3 50 (40.65%) DevOps
4 45 (36.59%) Agile
5 43 (34.96%) Coaching
6 40 (32.52%) Asset Management
7 39 (31.71%) Root Cause Analysis
8 36 (29.27%) Observability
9 30 (24.39%) Mentoring
10 29 (23.58%) ETL
11 28 (22.76%) Analytics
11 28 (22.76%) ERP
12 26 (21.14%) Translating Business Requirements
13 25 (20.33%) Data Governance
13 25 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (18.70%) Data Integration
15 22 (17.89%) API Integration
15 22 (17.89%) Business Strategy
15 22 (17.89%) Migration
16 20 (16.26%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (46.34%) SQL
2 43 (34.96%) Python
3 40 (32.52%) Java
4 31 (25.20%) JavaScript
5 25 (20.33%) Shell Script
6 22 (17.89%) PL/SQL
7 16 (13.01%) PowerShell
8 15 (12.20%) Bicep
9 11 (8.94%) C#
10 7 (5.69%) T-SQL
11 6 (4.88%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.63%) Groovy
13 1 (0.81%) Bash
13 1 (0.81%) Korn
13 1 (0.81%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.81%) PHP
13 1 (0.81%) SHACL
13 1 (0.81%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 11 (8.94%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.32%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.88%) Degree
4 3 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.63%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.63%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.26%) GDPR
2 9 (7.32%) Data Quality
3 8 (6.50%) Accessibility
4 6 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (4.88%) QA
4 6 (4.88%) WCAG
5 4 (3.25%) NCSC
5 4 (3.25%) NIST
6 3 (2.44%) HL7
7 2 (1.63%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.81%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (17.07%) Active Directory
2 13 (10.57%) Docker
3 3 (2.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 40 (32.52%) Terraform
2 22 (17.89%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (9.76%) Kubernetes
4 7 (5.69%) Ansible
5 3 (2.44%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.81%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (22.76%) Oracle
2 20 (16.26%) Okta
3 14 (11.38%) Ab Initio
4 13 (10.57%) ServiceNow
5 12 (9.76%) Microsoft
6 10 (8.13%) SAP
7 7 (5.69%) Google
7 7 (5.69%) MuleSoft
8 6 (4.88%) TIBCO
9 5 (4.07%) Dell
9 5 (4.07%) Epicor
9 5 (4.07%) IBM
9 5 (4.07%) IFS
9 5 (4.07%) Infor
9 5 (4.07%) Informatica
9 5 (4.07%) Jitterbit
9 5 (4.07%) SnapLogic
9 5 (4.07%) Software AG
9 5 (4.07%) Talend
9 5 (4.07%) Workday