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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 233 206
Rank change year-on-year -21 -27 +18
Permanent jobs citing JSON 127 218 430
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.80% 1.35% 1.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.50% 4.31% 5.44%
Number of salaries quoted 72 159 368
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £49,188 £50,612 £50,686
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £106,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -3.89%

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 2,824 5,060 7,910
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.86% 31.22% 30.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,135 3,238 6,859
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,000 £52,500 £47,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,350 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% +6.16% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £108,250 £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 31 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 (3.94%) Anypoint
2 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.36%) Confluence
3 3 (2.36%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.57%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.36%) Trello
2 1 (0.79%) EngageOne
2 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (15.75%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (4.72%) Shopify
3 2 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.79%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.79%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 72 (56.69%) Azure
2 42 (33.07%) Azure DevOps
2 42 (33.07%) GitHub
3 36 (28.35%) AWS
4 25 (19.69%) Entra ID
5 22 (17.32%) Azure Logic Apps
6 20 (15.75%) OCI
6 20 (15.75%) Power Platform
7 19 (14.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (13.39%) Azure Monitor
8 17 (13.39%) Azure Service Bus
9 16 (12.60%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (11.81%) Azure Event Grid
10 15 (11.81%) Serverless
11 13 (10.24%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (10.24%) Power Automate
12 8 (6.30%) PaaS
12 8 (6.30%) PowerApps
12 8 (6.30%) SaaS
13 7 (5.51%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.15%) AMQP
2 3 (2.36%) Cisco ISE
2 3 (2.36%) Ethernet
2 3 (2.36%) Firewall
2 3 (2.36%) LAN
2 3 (2.36%) SD-WAN
2 3 (2.36%) WAN
3 2 (1.57%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.79%) HTTP
4 1 (0.79%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.79%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (15.75%) SQL Server
2 16 (12.60%) Relational Database
3 14 (11.02%) Power BI
4 9 (7.09%) MySQL
4 9 (7.09%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (3.15%) Metadata
6 4 (3.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.36%) Power Query
7 3 (2.36%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.57%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.57%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.57%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.57%) Tableau
9 1 (0.79%) Big Data
9 1 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.79%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 26 (20.47%) Jenkins
2 20 (15.75%) Oracle Forms
3 9 (7.09%) Git
4 6 (4.72%) JIRA
4 6 (4.72%) Storybook
5 4 (3.15%) Maven
6 3 (2.36%) JUnit
6 3 (2.36%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.57%) Selenium
7 2 (1.57%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.79%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.79%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.79%) GitLab
8 1 (0.79%) Gradle
8 1 (0.79%) JMeter
8 1 (0.79%) Postman
8 1 (0.79%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.79%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.79%) Testinfra
General
1 58 (45.67%) Finance
2 39 (30.71%) Social Skills
3 20 (15.75%) Law
4 18 (14.17%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (10.24%) Marketing
6 10 (7.87%) Public Sector
7 9 (7.09%) Retail
8 5 (3.94%) Legal
8 5 (3.94%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.36%) Electronics
9 3 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.36%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.57%) Billing
11 1 (0.79%) Automotive
11 1 (0.79%) Banking
11 1 (0.79%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.79%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 40 (31.50%) Developer
2 30 (23.62%) Senior
3 22 (17.32%) Cloud Engineer
4 21 (16.54%) Applications Engineer
5 20 (15.75%) Integration Engineer
5 20 (15.75%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 13 (10.24%) Analyst
7 12 (9.45%) ServiceNow Developer
8 8 (6.30%) Integration Developer
8 8 (6.30%) Senior Developer
9 7 (5.51%) Java Developer
9 7 (5.51%) Support Engineer
10 6 (4.72%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 6 (4.72%) SQL Developer
11 5 (3.94%) Data Engineer
12 4 (3.15%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
12 4 (3.15%) Lead
12 4 (3.15%) SQL Analyst
12 4 (3.15%) SQL Data Analyst
12 4 (3.15%) SSRS Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (58.27%) XML
2 41 (32.28%) RESTful
3 38 (29.92%) REST
4 35 (27.56%) SOAP
5 20 (15.75%) HTML
6 17 (13.39%) CSS
6 17 (13.39%) OAuth
7 16 (12.60%) Web Services
8 14 (11.02%) OAuth2
9 12 (9.45%) React
10 8 (6.30%) Node.js
10 8 (6.30%) Spring
11 7 (5.51%) JSON-LD
12 6 (4.72%) Next.js
12 6 (4.72%) XSLT
13 5 (3.94%) Spring Boot
13 5 (3.94%) YAML
14 4 (3.15%) .NET
14 4 (3.15%) Middleware
14 4 (3.15%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 29 (22.83%) Cloud Native
2 22 (17.32%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (7.09%) Low-Code
4 5 (3.94%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.15%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.15%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.36%) PMI
6 3 (2.36%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.36%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.36%) Semantic Web
6 3 (2.36%) Social Media
7 2 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.57%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.79%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.79%) Linked Data
8 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.09%) Linux
2 6 (4.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (44.09%) CI/CD
2 52 (40.94%) Test Automation
3 50 (39.37%) DevOps
4 44 (34.65%) Agile
5 43 (33.86%) Coaching
6 40 (31.50%) Asset Management
7 39 (30.71%) Root Cause Analysis
8 37 (29.13%) Observability
9 31 (24.41%) Mentoring
10 29 (22.83%) ETL
11 28 (22.05%) Analytics
11 28 (22.05%) ERP
12 26 (20.47%) Translating Business Requirements
13 25 (19.69%) Data Governance
13 25 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (18.11%) Business Strategy
14 23 (18.11%) Data Integration
14 23 (18.11%) Migration
15 22 (17.32%) API Integration
16 20 (15.75%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (48.03%) SQL
2 46 (36.22%) Python
3 42 (33.07%) Java
4 33 (25.98%) JavaScript
5 25 (19.69%) Shell Script
6 23 (18.11%) PL/SQL
7 19 (14.96%) PowerShell
8 15 (11.81%) Bicep
9 13 (10.24%) C#
10 10 (7.87%) T-SQL
11 6 (4.72%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.57%) Groovy
12 2 (1.57%) PHP
13 1 (0.79%) Bash
13 1 (0.79%) Korn
13 1 (0.79%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.79%) SHACL
13 1 (0.79%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 11 (8.66%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.09%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.30%) Degree
4 4 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.36%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (2.36%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.57%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.54%) GDPR
2 12 (9.45%) Data Quality
3 9 (7.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (6.30%) Accessibility
5 7 (5.51%) QA
6 6 (4.72%) WCAG
7 3 (2.36%) HL7
7 3 (2.36%) NCSC
7 3 (2.36%) NIST
8 2 (1.57%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (18.90%) Active Directory
2 13 (10.24%) Docker
3 3 (2.36%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 40 (31.50%) Terraform
2 21 (16.54%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (9.45%) Kubernetes
4 7 (5.51%) Ansible
5 3 (2.36%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.79%) Packer
Vendors
1 29 (22.83%) Oracle
2 20 (15.75%) Okta
3 14 (11.02%) Ab Initio
4 13 (10.24%) Microsoft
4 13 (10.24%) ServiceNow
5 10 (7.87%) SAP
6 7 (5.51%) Google
6 7 (5.51%) MuleSoft
7 6 (4.72%) TIBCO
8 5 (3.94%) Dell
8 5 (3.94%) Epicor
8 5 (3.94%) IBM
8 5 (3.94%) IFS
8 5 (3.94%) Infor
8 5 (3.94%) Informatica
8 5 (3.94%) Jitterbit
8 5 (3.94%) SnapLogic
8 5 (3.94%) Software AG
8 5 (3.94%) Talend
8 5 (3.94%) Workday