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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 275 271
Rank change year-on-year -37 -4 -61
Permanent jobs citing JSON 145 166 320
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.67% 1.01% 1.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.60% 3.92% 4.28%
Number of salaries quoted 114 136 251
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,187 £50,000 £49,824
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.40% +3.75% -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 4,029 4,239 7,480
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.65% 25.73% 25.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,051 2,885 6,223
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £39,250
25th Percentile £49,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,206 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +7.65% -5.89%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -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 21 July 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 24 (16.55%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.07%) Confluence
4 2 (1.38%) Apache
4 2 (1.38%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.69%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.69%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.69%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 72 (49.66%) Azure
2 36 (24.83%) AWS
3 34 (23.45%) Power Platform
4 29 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
5 25 (17.24%) SaaS
6 24 (16.55%) Azure Logic Apps
6 24 (16.55%) PowerApps
7 23 (15.86%) Azure Data Factory
7 23 (15.86%) Power Automate
8 19 (13.10%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 19 (13.10%) OneDrive
9 11 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (7.59%) OpenShift
10 9 (6.21%) Entra ID
11 7 (4.83%) Apigee
11 7 (4.83%) GCP
11 7 (4.83%) GitHub
11 7 (4.83%) Kong
12 6 (4.14%) Serverless
13 4 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.28%) Firewall
2 6 (4.14%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (2.07%) HTTP
3 3 (2.07%) SSL
4 2 (1.38%) Intranet
5 1 (0.69%) AMQP
5 1 (0.69%) Broadband
5 1 (0.69%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.69%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.69%) LAN
5 1 (0.69%) MQTT
5 1 (0.69%) Network Security
5 1 (0.69%) RTP
5 1 (0.69%) RTSP
5 1 (0.69%) SCTP
5 1 (0.69%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.69%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.69%) SS7
5 1 (0.69%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.69%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (21.38%) Power BI
2 29 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (17.24%) SQL Server
4 20 (13.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 17 (11.72%) MySQL
6 14 (9.66%) Redis
7 8 (5.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (4.83%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.76%) Metadata
10 2 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.38%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.38%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.38%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.38%) Oracle BI EE
10 2 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (1.38%) Parquet
10 2 (1.38%) Power Query
10 2 (1.38%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (1.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (12.41%) Git
2 13 (8.97%) GitLab
3 11 (7.59%) JIRA
4 6 (4.14%) Selenium
5 5 (3.45%) Browser DevTools
5 5 (3.45%) SpecFlow
5 5 (3.45%) WebDriver
6 4 (2.76%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.38%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.38%) Bower
7 2 (1.38%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.38%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.69%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.69%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.69%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.69%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.69%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.69%) webpack
General
1 78 (53.79%) Social Skills
2 38 (26.21%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (14.48%) Finance
4 13 (8.97%) Health Technology
5 12 (8.28%) Telecoms
6 9 (6.21%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.14%) Advertising
7 6 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.76%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.07%) Law
9 3 (2.07%) Publishing
10 2 (1.38%) Billing
10 2 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.38%) Legal
10 2 (1.38%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Marketing
11 1 (0.69%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 60 (41.38%) Developer
2 26 (17.93%) Senior
3 18 (12.41%) Senior Developer
4 14 (9.66%) Ruby Developer
4 14 (9.66%) Web Developer
5 13 (8.97%) Automation Engineer
5 13 (8.97%) Consultant
6 11 (7.59%) .NET Developer
6 11 (7.59%) Analyst
6 11 (7.59%) Full-Stack Developer
6 11 (7.59%) Full-Stack Web Developer
6 11 (7.59%) Network Engineer
6 11 (7.59%) Telecoms Engineer
7 10 (6.90%) .NET Web Developer
7 10 (6.90%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 8 (5.52%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 8 (5.52%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
8 8 (5.52%) Data Analyst
8 8 (5.52%) SQL Analyst
8 8 (5.52%) SSRS Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (40.00%) XML
2 44 (30.34%) .NET
3 42 (28.97%) HTML
4 39 (26.90%) CSS
5 26 (17.93%) REST
6 24 (16.55%) RESTful
7 21 (14.48%) .NET Core
7 21 (14.48%) HTML5 Canvas
8 20 (13.79%) Microsoft Graph
9 19 (13.10%) SPFx
10 16 (11.03%) JWT
11 14 (9.66%) Ruby on Rails
11 14 (9.66%) Sidekiq
12 13 (8.97%) ASP.NET
12 13 (8.97%) YAML
13 11 (7.59%) .NET Framework
13 11 (7.59%) ASP.NET MVC
13 11 (7.59%) Jinja
14 10 (6.90%) Classic ASP
14 10 (6.90%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.03%) Onboarding
2 10 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (6.21%) Data Structures
4 8 (5.52%) Cloud Native
4 8 (5.52%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (4.83%) NHS
6 4 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.07%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.38%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.38%) PMI
8 2 (1.38%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.38%) Replication
8 2 (1.38%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.69%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (0.69%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.69%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.03%) Linux
2 6 (4.14%) Unix
3 1 (0.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (30.34%) Agile
2 40 (27.59%) Business Intelligence
3 30 (20.69%) Containerisation
3 30 (20.69%) User Experience
4 26 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (15.86%) CI/CD
5 23 (15.86%) DevOps
5 23 (15.86%) Machine Learning
6 22 (15.17%) Project Management
6 22 (15.17%) Validation
7 21 (14.48%) Task Automation
7 21 (14.48%) Web Design
8 20 (13.79%) Data Modelling
8 20 (13.79%) Scrum
8 20 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
9 19 (13.10%) API Design
9 19 (13.10%) Clean Code
9 19 (13.10%) Document Management
9 19 (13.10%) Full-Stack Development
9 19 (13.10%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 77 (53.10%) SQL
2 70 (48.28%) JavaScript
3 45 (31.03%) C#
4 35 (24.14%) Python
5 32 (22.07%) PowerShell
6 21 (14.48%) TypeScript
7 15 (10.34%) T-SQL
8 14 (9.66%) Ruby
9 12 (8.28%) Java
10 5 (3.45%) PHP
11 3 (2.07%) Bash
11 3 (2.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.38%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.69%) C++
13 1 (0.69%) Lua
13 1 (0.69%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (11.03%) Degree
2 7 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.14%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.45%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.76%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.07%) CISSP
7 2 (1.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.38%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.38%) CASP
7 2 (1.38%) CCSP
7 2 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.38%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (1.38%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.38%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.69%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.69%) GIAC
8 1 (0.69%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.69%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.28%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.59%) QA
2 11 (7.59%) SLA
3 10 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (4.83%) HL7
5 5 (3.45%) GDPR
6 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.69%) PERC
6 1 (0.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (13.79%) Docker
2 8 (5.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (3.45%) Terraform
2 4 (2.76%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.69%) Ansible
4 1 (0.69%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.69%) Kibana
4 1 (0.69%) QRadar
Vendors
1 46 (31.72%) Microsoft
2 20 (13.79%) Adobe
3 13 (8.97%) Google
4 12 (8.28%) Cisco
5 11 (7.59%) Red Hat
6 7 (4.83%) F5
7 6 (4.14%) Juniper
7 6 (4.14%) Palo Alto
7 6 (4.14%) Splunk
8 5 (3.45%) Databricks
9 4 (2.76%) Oracle
9 4 (2.76%) Salesforce
10 3 (2.07%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.38%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.38%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.69%) ArcSight
12 1 (0.69%) Exabeam
12 1 (0.69%) HubSpot
12 1 (0.69%) Workday
12 1 (0.69%) Zoho