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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 228 252
Rank change year-on-year -35 +24 -7
Permanent jobs citing JSON 148 181 412
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.82% 1.34% 1.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.65% 4.57% 4.83%
Number of salaries quoted 95 156 363
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,250 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +4.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £79,668 £83,750 £72,466
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,639 £91,547
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -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 3,183 3,961 8,526
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.53% 29.33% 26.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,283 3,206 7,475
10th Percentile £41,925 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,253 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,979 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 28 April 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 23 (15.54%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.35%) Confluence
3 2 (1.35%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.35%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.68%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.68%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) EngageOne
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.68%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (5.41%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.68%) Shopify
2 1 (0.68%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 80 (54.05%) Azure
2 36 (24.32%) AWS
3 34 (22.97%) Power Platform
4 32 (21.62%) Azure Logic Apps
5 31 (20.95%) Azure Data Factory
6 29 (19.59%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (16.89%) Power Automate
8 24 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (16.22%) PowerApps
8 24 (16.22%) SaaS
9 22 (14.86%) GitHub
10 18 (12.16%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 18 (12.16%) OneDrive
11 16 (10.81%) Entra ID
12 15 (10.14%) Serverless
13 12 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (8.11%) OpenShift
14 11 (7.43%) Azure Service Bus
15 9 (6.08%) Azure Event Grid
15 9 (6.08%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.11%) Firewall
2 6 (4.05%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (2.70%) AMQP
3 4 (2.70%) SSL
4 2 (1.35%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.68%) Broadband
5 1 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.68%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.68%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.68%) LAN
5 1 (0.68%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.68%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (21.62%) Power BI
2 19 (12.84%) Azure SQL Database
3 17 (11.49%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (10.81%) SQL Server
5 14 (9.46%) MySQL
6 8 (5.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (3.38%) Metadata
8 4 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.03%) Electronic Patient Records
9 3 (2.03%) Power Query
9 3 (2.03%) Redis
9 3 (2.03%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.35%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.35%) Oracle BI EE
10 2 (1.35%) Oracle ODI
10 2 (1.35%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (1.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (11.49%) Git
2 13 (8.78%) GitLab
3 12 (8.11%) Jenkins
4 10 (6.76%) JIRA
5 8 (5.41%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (3.38%) Browser DevTools
6 5 (3.38%) Selenium
6 5 (3.38%) SpecFlow
6 5 (3.38%) Storybook
6 5 (3.38%) WebDriver
7 4 (2.70%) Maven
8 3 (2.03%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.35%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.35%) JUnit
9 2 (1.35%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.68%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.68%) Gradle
10 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 72 (48.65%) Social Skills
2 49 (33.11%) Finance
3 33 (22.30%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.14%) Telecoms
5 10 (6.76%) Marketing
6 9 (6.08%) Health Technology
6 9 (6.08%) Law
6 9 (6.08%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.05%) Advertising
8 5 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.70%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.70%) Retail
10 3 (2.03%) Billing
11 2 (1.35%) Electronics
11 2 (1.35%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.68%) Legal
12 1 (0.68%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (32.43%) Developer
2 34 (22.97%) Senior
3 20 (13.51%) Senior Developer
4 12 (8.11%) Analyst
4 12 (8.11%) Automation Engineer
5 11 (7.43%) Network Engineer
5 11 (7.43%) Telecoms Engineer
6 10 (6.76%) Applications Engineer
6 10 (6.76%) Integration Engineer
7 9 (6.08%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (6.08%) Consultant
8 8 (5.41%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 8 (5.41%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
8 8 (5.41%) Data Analyst
8 8 (5.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 8 (5.41%) SQL Analyst
8 8 (5.41%) SQL Data Analyst
8 8 (5.41%) SSRS Analyst
8 8 (5.41%) Support Engineer
9 7 (4.73%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (42.57%) XML
2 42 (28.38%) HTML
3 39 (26.35%) CSS
4 37 (25.00%) REST
5 29 (19.59%) .NET
6 25 (16.89%) RESTful
7 21 (14.19%) HTML5 Canvas
8 20 (13.51%) .NET Core
9 18 (12.16%) Microsoft Graph
9 18 (12.16%) SOAP
9 18 (12.16%) SPFx
10 15 (10.14%) YAML
11 14 (9.46%) OAuth
12 12 (8.11%) React
13 11 (7.43%) Jinja
14 10 (6.76%) OAuth2
15 8 (5.41%) Node.js
15 8 (5.41%) Spring
15 8 (5.41%) Web Services
16 6 (4.05%) JSON-LD
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.49%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.46%) Onboarding
3 10 (6.76%) Data Structures
4 9 (6.08%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (6.08%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (4.05%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (3.38%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.03%) NHS
8 3 (2.03%) PMI
9 2 (1.35%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.35%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.35%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.35%) Semantic Web
9 2 (1.35%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.68%) Linked Data
10 1 (0.68%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.78%) Linux
2 8 (5.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (31.76%) CI/CD
2 39 (26.35%) Business Intelligence
3 38 (25.68%) DevOps
4 36 (24.32%) Test Automation
5 30 (20.27%) Agile
6 27 (18.24%) Technical Leadership
7 26 (17.57%) User Experience
8 25 (16.89%) Coaching
8 25 (16.89%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (15.54%) Validation
10 22 (14.86%) API Management
10 22 (14.86%) Asset Management
11 21 (14.19%) API Integration
11 21 (14.19%) Containerisation
11 21 (14.19%) Project Management
11 21 (14.19%) Task Automation
12 20 (13.51%) Analytics
12 20 (13.51%) Machine Learning
12 20 (13.51%) Observability
12 20 (13.51%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 77 (52.03%) SQL
2 59 (39.86%) JavaScript
3 42 (28.38%) Python
4 31 (20.95%) PowerShell
5 30 (20.27%) C#
5 30 (20.27%) Java
6 24 (16.22%) TypeScript
7 11 (7.43%) PL/SQL
8 10 (6.76%) T-SQL
9 9 (6.08%) Bicep
9 9 (6.08%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.03%) PHP
10 3 (2.03%) Ruby
11 2 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.68%) Bash
12 1 (0.68%) Groovy
12 1 (0.68%) Korn
12 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.68%) SHACL
12 1 (0.68%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 11 (7.43%) Degree
2 8 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.38%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.03%) Numerate Degree
4 3 (2.03%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.35%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.78%) GDPR
2 12 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (7.43%) SLA
4 10 (6.76%) Data Quality
4 10 (6.76%) QA
5 6 (4.05%) Accessibility
6 5 (3.38%) WCAG
7 4 (2.70%) HL7
8 2 (1.35%) NCSC
8 2 (1.35%) NIST
8 2 (1.35%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.68%) PERC
System Software
1 16 (10.81%) Active Directory
2 14 (9.46%) Docker
3 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (13.51%) Terraform
2 10 (6.76%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (2.70%) Ansible
5 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.68%) Kibana
Vendors
1 27 (18.24%) Microsoft
2 19 (12.84%) Adobe
3 15 (10.14%) Oracle
4 12 (8.11%) Cisco
5 11 (7.43%) Red Hat
6 9 (6.08%) Ab Initio
7 8 (5.41%) Okta
8 7 (4.73%) F5
8 7 (4.73%) ServiceNow
9 6 (4.05%) Juniper
9 6 (4.05%) Palo Alto
10 4 (2.70%) Databricks
10 4 (2.70%) Google
11 3 (2.03%) SAP
11 3 (2.03%) Splunk
12 2 (1.35%) IBM
12 2 (1.35%) MuleSoft
12 2 (1.35%) Salesforce
12 2 (1.35%) TIBCO
13 1 (0.68%) SnapLogic