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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 249 176
Rank change year-on-year +7 -73 +50
Permanent jobs citing JSON 130 204 394
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.86% 1.23% 1.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.83% 4.00% 6.18%
Number of salaries quoted 77 146 341
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
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 £80,000 £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 2,694 5,098 6,378
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.78% 30.64% 30.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,100 3,264 5,436
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £66,184 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,125 £108,750 £100,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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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 8 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 (3.85%) Anypoint
2 3 (2.31%) Confluence
3 2 (1.54%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.31%) Trello
2 1 (0.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (15.38%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (4.62%) Shopify
3 2 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.77%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 75 (57.69%) Azure
2 48 (36.92%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (31.54%) GitHub
4 34 (26.15%) AWS
5 21 (16.15%) Azure Logic Apps
5 21 (16.15%) Entra ID
6 20 (15.38%) OCI
7 18 (13.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (13.85%) Azure Service Bus
8 17 (13.08%) Azure Monitor
9 15 (11.54%) Azure Event Grid
9 15 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (11.54%) Power Platform
10 14 (10.77%) Serverless
11 12 (9.23%) Power Automate
12 11 (8.46%) PaaS
13 9 (6.92%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (5.38%) Boomi
14 7 (5.38%) GCP
14 7 (5.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.31%) AMQP
1 3 (2.31%) Cisco ISE
1 3 (2.31%) Ethernet
1 3 (2.31%) Firewall
1 3 (2.31%) LAN
1 3 (2.31%) SD-WAN
1 3 (2.31%) WAN
2 2 (1.54%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.77%) HTTP
3 1 (0.77%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.77%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.15%) Relational Database
2 16 (12.31%) SQL Server
3 10 (7.69%) Power BI
4 7 (5.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.08%) MySQL
6 4 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.31%) Metadata
7 3 (2.31%) Power Query
7 3 (2.31%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.54%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.54%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.54%) Tableau
9 1 (0.77%) Big Data
9 1 (0.77%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.77%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.77%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.77%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (19.23%) Jenkins
2 20 (15.38%) Oracle Forms
3 9 (6.92%) JIRA
4 7 (5.38%) Git
5 6 (4.62%) Storybook
6 3 (2.31%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.77%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.77%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.77%) GitLab
7 1 (0.77%) Gradle
7 1 (0.77%) JMeter
7 1 (0.77%) JUnit
7 1 (0.77%) Maven
7 1 (0.77%) Postman
7 1 (0.77%) Selenium
7 1 (0.77%) Testinfra
7 1 (0.77%) WebDriver
General
1 56 (43.08%) Finance
2 38 (29.23%) Social Skills
3 26 (20.00%) Law
4 16 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (10.77%) Marketing
6 10 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 10 (7.69%) Retail
7 6 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.85%) Legal
8 5 (3.85%) Telecoms
9 4 (3.08%) Automotive
10 3 (2.31%) Electronics
10 3 (2.31%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.54%) Billing
12 1 (0.77%) Banking
12 1 (0.77%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.77%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 38 (29.23%) Developer
2 30 (23.08%) Senior
3 21 (16.15%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (15.38%) Applications Engineer
4 20 (15.38%) Integration Engineer
4 20 (15.38%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 12 (9.23%) ServiceNow Developer
6 9 (6.92%) Analyst
7 8 (6.15%) Data Engineer
7 8 (6.15%) Integration Developer
7 8 (6.15%) Senior Developer
8 6 (4.62%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 6 (4.62%) SQL Developer
9 5 (3.85%) Product Manager
9 5 (3.85%) Support Engineer
10 4 (3.08%) Data Integration Developer
10 4 (3.08%) Development Support Engineer
10 4 (3.08%) IT Manager
10 4 (3.08%) Java Developer
10 4 (3.08%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (58.46%) XML
2 41 (31.54%) RESTful
3 37 (28.46%) REST
4 35 (26.92%) SOAP
5 22 (16.92%) HTML
6 20 (15.38%) CSS
6 20 (15.38%) OAuth
7 17 (13.08%) Web Services
8 14 (10.77%) OAuth2
9 12 (9.23%) React
10 8 (6.15%) YAML
11 7 (5.38%) JSON-LD
11 7 (5.38%) Node.js
12 6 (4.62%) Next.js
12 6 (4.62%) XSLT
13 5 (3.85%) Spring
14 4 (3.08%) ADO
14 4 (3.08%) SAML
14 4 (3.08%) Spring Boot
15 3 (2.31%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 28 (21.54%) Cloud Native
2 22 (16.92%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (6.15%) Low-Code
4 4 (3.08%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.31%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.31%) Semantic Web
5 3 (2.31%) Social Media
6 2 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.54%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.54%) PMI
6 2 (1.54%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.77%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.77%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.77%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.15%) Linux
2 5 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (43.85%) CI/CD
1 57 (43.85%) Test Automation
2 53 (40.77%) DevOps
3 51 (39.23%) Agile
4 42 (32.31%) Coaching
5 40 (30.77%) Asset Management
6 39 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 36 (27.69%) Observability
8 34 (26.15%) ETL
9 33 (25.38%) Mentoring
10 30 (23.08%) Analytics
10 30 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (21.54%) ERP
12 27 (20.77%) Data Governance
13 26 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
14 23 (17.69%) Data Integration
15 22 (16.92%) API Integration
15 22 (16.92%) Business Strategy
15 22 (16.92%) Migration
16 20 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (46.15%) SQL
2 44 (33.85%) Python
3 36 (27.69%) Java
4 34 (26.15%) JavaScript
5 25 (19.23%) Shell Script
6 22 (16.92%) PL/SQL
7 18 (13.85%) PowerShell
8 15 (11.54%) Bicep
9 11 (8.46%) C#
10 7 (5.38%) TypeScript
11 6 (4.62%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.77%) Bash
12 1 (0.77%) Go
12 1 (0.77%) Groovy
12 1 (0.77%) Korn
12 1 (0.77%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.77%) PHP
12 1 (0.77%) SHACL
12 1 (0.77%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 7 (5.38%) SC Cleared
1 7 (5.38%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.62%) Degree
3 3 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.54%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (1.54%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.77%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.77%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.77%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.38%) GDPR
2 11 (8.46%) Data Quality
3 8 (6.15%) Accessibility
3 8 (6.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (6.15%) QA
4 7 (5.38%) NCSC
4 7 (5.38%) NIST
5 6 (4.62%) WCAG
6 3 (2.31%) HL7
7 2 (1.54%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 20 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 11 (8.46%) Docker
3 3 (2.31%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 38 (29.23%) Terraform
2 24 (18.46%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (8.46%) Kubernetes
4 6 (4.62%) Ansible
5 3 (2.31%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.77%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (21.54%) Oracle
2 20 (15.38%) Okta
3 14 (10.77%) Ab Initio
3 14 (10.77%) ServiceNow
4 12 (9.23%) Microsoft
5 10 (7.69%) SAP
6 7 (5.38%) Google
6 7 (5.38%) MuleSoft
7 5 (3.85%) Dell
7 5 (3.85%) Epicor
7 5 (3.85%) IBM
7 5 (3.85%) IFS
7 5 (3.85%) Infor
7 5 (3.85%) Informatica
7 5 (3.85%) Jitterbit
7 5 (3.85%) SnapLogic
7 5 (3.85%) Software AG
7 5 (3.85%) Talend
7 5 (3.85%) TIBCO
7 5 (3.85%) Workday