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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 233 255 176
Rank change year-on-year +22 -79 +55
Permanent jobs citing JSON 138 215 394
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.91% 1.21% 1.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.02% 3.93% 6.39%
Number of salaries quoted 86 146 338
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,875
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £99,452
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year - -12.01% -5.90%

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 2,747 5,464 6,166
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.03% 30.65% 30.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,202 3,619 5,231
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +1.54% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £112,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%

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 14 December 2025.

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 (3.62%) Anypoint
2 3 (2.17%) Confluence
2 3 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.17%) Trello
2 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (13.77%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (4.35%) Shopify
3 2 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.72%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 79 (57.25%) Azure
2 50 (36.23%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (28.99%) GitHub
4 31 (22.46%) AWS
5 20 (14.49%) Azure Logic Apps
5 20 (14.49%) Azure Service Bus
5 20 (14.49%) Entra ID
6 19 (13.77%) OCI
7 17 (12.32%) Azure Data Factory
8 16 (11.59%) Azure Monitor
8 16 (11.59%) Power Platform
9 14 (10.14%) Azure Event Grid
9 14 (10.14%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (9.42%) Power Automate
10 13 (9.42%) Serverless
11 12 (8.70%) PaaS
12 8 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (5.80%) PowerApps
13 7 (5.07%) Boomi
13 7 (5.07%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.17%) Cisco ISE
1 3 (2.17%) Ethernet
1 3 (2.17%) Firewall
1 3 (2.17%) LAN
1 3 (2.17%) SD-WAN
1 3 (2.17%) WAN
2 2 (1.45%) AMQP
2 2 (1.45%) HTTP
3 1 (0.72%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.72%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.49%) Relational Database
2 16 (11.59%) SQL Server
3 11 (7.97%) Power BI
4 7 (5.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.17%) Metadata
7 3 (2.17%) MySQL
7 3 (2.17%) Power Query
8 2 (1.45%) Big Data
8 2 (1.45%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.45%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.45%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.45%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.45%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.45%) Redis
8 2 (1.45%) Tableau
9 1 (0.72%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 26 (18.84%) Jenkins
2 19 (13.77%) Oracle Forms
3 13 (9.42%) Git
4 7 (5.07%) JIRA
5 6 (4.35%) Storybook
5 6 (4.35%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.17%) MSBuild
6 3 (2.17%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (2.17%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.45%) JMeter
7 2 (1.45%) JUnit
7 2 (1.45%) Selenium
7 2 (1.45%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.72%) Appium
8 1 (0.72%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.72%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.72%) GitLab
8 1 (0.72%) Gradle
8 1 (0.72%) Maven
8 1 (0.72%) Xcode
General
1 53 (38.41%) Finance
2 40 (28.99%) Social Skills
3 31 (22.46%) Law
4 16 (11.59%) Marketing
5 14 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (7.97%) Retail
7 10 (7.25%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.62%) Legal
10 4 (2.90%) Automotive
11 3 (2.17%) Electronics
11 3 (2.17%) Manufacturing
11 3 (2.17%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.45%) Banking
13 1 (0.72%) Front Office
13 1 (0.72%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.72%) Local Government
13 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (28.99%) Developer
2 27 (19.57%) Senior
3 20 (14.49%) Cloud Engineer
4 19 (13.77%) Applications Engineer
4 19 (13.77%) Integration Engineer
4 19 (13.77%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 12 (8.70%) ServiceNow Developer
6 8 (5.80%) Analyst
6 8 (5.80%) Data Engineer
6 8 (5.80%) Integration Developer
7 7 (5.07%) Senior Developer
7 7 (5.07%) SQL Developer
8 6 (4.35%) Architect
8 6 (4.35%) Consultant
8 6 (4.35%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 6 (4.35%) ServiceNow Consultant
8 6 (4.35%) Support Consultant
9 5 (3.62%) Lead
9 5 (3.62%) Product Manager
9 5 (3.62%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (57.97%) XML
2 41 (29.71%) REST
2 41 (29.71%) RESTful
3 35 (25.36%) SOAP
4 30 (21.74%) CSS
4 30 (21.74%) HTML
5 20 (14.49%) OAuth
6 16 (11.59%) Web Services
7 14 (10.14%) OAuth2
8 12 (8.70%) React
9 9 (6.52%) YAML
10 7 (5.07%) JSON-LD
10 7 (5.07%) Node.js
11 6 (4.35%) .NET
11 6 (4.35%) Next.js
12 4 (2.90%) ADO
12 4 (2.90%) Kafka
12 4 (2.90%) SAML
12 4 (2.90%) Spring
12 4 (2.90%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.57%) Cloud Native
2 20 (14.49%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (5.80%) Low-Code
4 6 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.90%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.17%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.17%) Semantic Web
6 3 (2.17%) Social Media
7 2 (1.45%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.45%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.45%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.72%) BYOD
8 1 (0.72%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.72%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.72%) Linked Data
8 1 (0.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.35%) Linux
2 5 (3.62%) Unix
3 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (40.58%) CI/CD
2 55 (39.86%) Agile
2 55 (39.86%) DevOps
2 55 (39.86%) Test Automation
3 40 (28.99%) Coaching
4 38 (27.54%) Asset Management
5 37 (26.81%) Root Cause Analysis
6 34 (24.64%) Observability
6 34 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (23.91%) ETL
7 33 (23.91%) Mentoring
8 31 (22.46%) Analytics
9 26 (18.84%) Data Governance
9 26 (18.84%) ERP
10 25 (18.12%) Translating Business Requirements
11 24 (17.39%) API Integration
12 23 (16.67%) Problem Management
13 21 (15.22%) Data Integration
13 21 (15.22%) Event-Driven
13 21 (15.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 63 (45.65%) SQL
2 43 (31.16%) Python
3 41 (29.71%) JavaScript
4 31 (22.46%) Java
5 24 (17.39%) Shell Script
6 19 (13.77%) PL/SQL
7 18 (13.04%) PowerShell
8 15 (10.87%) C#
9 14 (10.14%) Bicep
10 8 (5.80%) TypeScript
11 6 (4.35%) T-SQL
12 3 (2.17%) Go
13 1 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.72%) Groovy
13 1 (0.72%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.72%) PHP
13 1 (0.72%) SHACL
13 1 (0.72%) SOQL
13 1 (0.72%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.72%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (5.07%) SC Cleared
1 7 (5.07%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.90%) Degree
3 3 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.94%) GDPR
2 10 (7.25%) Accessibility
2 10 (7.25%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.25%) QA
3 9 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (5.80%) NCSC
4 8 (5.80%) NIST
5 6 (4.35%) WCAG
6 2 (1.45%) HL7
System Software
1 19 (13.77%) Active Directory
2 14 (10.14%) Docker
3 3 (2.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 36 (26.09%) Terraform
2 23 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
3 9 (6.52%) Kubernetes
4 6 (4.35%) Ansible
5 3 (2.17%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.72%) Packer
Vendors
1 25 (18.12%) Oracle
2 19 (13.77%) Okta
3 18 (13.04%) ServiceNow
4 13 (9.42%) Ab Initio
4 13 (9.42%) Microsoft
5 10 (7.25%) SAP
6 7 (5.07%) Google
6 7 (5.07%) MuleSoft
7 5 (3.62%) Dell
7 5 (3.62%) Epicor
7 5 (3.62%) IBM
7 5 (3.62%) IFS
7 5 (3.62%) Infor
7 5 (3.62%) Informatica
7 5 (3.62%) Jitterbit
7 5 (3.62%) SnapLogic
7 5 (3.62%) Software AG
7 5 (3.62%) Talend
7 5 (3.62%) TIBCO
7 5 (3.62%) Workday