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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 229 236
Rank change year-on-year -25 +7 +4
Permanent jobs citing JSON 147 178 419
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.82% 1.33% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.60% 4.38% 4.91%
Number of salaries quoted 91 154 367
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £49,898
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,383 £90,774
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 3,198 4,060 8,526
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.90% 30.43% 26.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,295 3,247 7,466
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,690 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,400 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,100 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% +10.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 21 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 19 (12.93%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.04%) Anypoint
3 3 (2.04%) Confluence
4 2 (1.36%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.36%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.68%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.36%) Trello
2 1 (0.68%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 8 (5.44%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (2.04%) Shopify
3 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.68%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 81 (55.10%) Azure
2 37 (25.17%) AWS
3 31 (21.09%) Power Platform
4 29 (19.73%) Azure Logic Apps
5 28 (19.05%) Azure Data Factory
6 27 (18.37%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (17.01%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (16.33%) GitHub
8 24 (16.33%) SaaS
9 23 (15.65%) Power Automate
10 20 (13.61%) PowerApps
11 16 (10.88%) Entra ID
11 16 (10.88%) Serverless
12 14 (9.52%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 14 (9.52%) OneDrive
13 13 (8.84%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (8.16%) Azure Service Bus
14 12 (8.16%) OpenShift
15 10 (6.80%) Azure Event Grid
15 10 (6.80%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.16%) Firewall
2 6 (4.08%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (2.72%) AMQP
3 4 (2.72%) SSL
4 2 (1.36%) 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 29 (19.73%) Power BI
2 16 (10.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (10.88%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (10.88%) SQL Server
3 14 (9.52%) MySQL
4 8 (5.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (3.40%) Metadata
5 5 (3.40%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.72%) Power Query
7 3 (2.04%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.36%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.36%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.36%) Oracle BI EE
8 2 (1.36%) Oracle ODI
8 2 (1.36%) Redis
8 2 (1.36%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.36%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (11.56%) Git
2 13 (8.84%) GitLab
3 12 (8.16%) Jenkins
4 11 (7.48%) JIRA
5 8 (5.44%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (4.08%) Storybook
7 5 (3.40%) Browser DevTools
7 5 (3.40%) Selenium
7 5 (3.40%) SpecFlow
7 5 (3.40%) WebDriver
8 4 (2.72%) Maven
8 4 (2.72%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.36%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.36%) JUnit
9 2 (1.36%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.68%) Gradle
10 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.68%) TeamCity
General
1 70 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 50 (34.01%) Finance
3 32 (21.77%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.20%) Telecoms
5 12 (8.16%) Marketing
6 11 (7.48%) Law
7 9 (6.12%) Health Technology
7 9 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (3.40%) Advertising
8 5 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.40%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.72%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.72%) Retail
10 3 (2.04%) Billing
10 3 (2.04%) Legal
11 2 (1.36%) Electronics
11 2 (1.36%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 45 (30.61%) Developer
2 31 (21.09%) Senior
3 18 (12.24%) Senior Developer
4 13 (8.84%) Analyst
4 13 (8.84%) Integration Engineer
5 12 (8.16%) Automation Engineer
6 11 (7.48%) Network Engineer
6 11 (7.48%) Telecoms Engineer
7 10 (6.80%) Applications Engineer
8 9 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (6.12%) Support Engineer
9 8 (5.44%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 8 (5.44%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
9 8 (5.44%) Data Analyst
9 8 (5.44%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 8 (5.44%) SQL Analyst
9 8 (5.44%) SQL Data Analyst
9 8 (5.44%) SSRS Analyst
10 7 (4.76%) Automation Specialist
10 7 (4.76%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (44.22%) XML
2 39 (26.53%) REST
3 38 (25.85%) HTML
4 35 (23.81%) CSS
5 27 (18.37%) RESTful
6 25 (17.01%) .NET
7 20 (13.61%) SOAP
8 17 (11.56%) HTML5 Canvas
9 16 (10.88%) .NET Core
10 15 (10.20%) OAuth
10 15 (10.20%) YAML
11 14 (9.52%) Microsoft Graph
11 14 (9.52%) SPFx
12 13 (8.84%) React
13 11 (7.48%) Jinja
13 11 (7.48%) OAuth2
14 10 (6.80%) Web Services
15 8 (5.44%) Node.js
15 8 (5.44%) Spring
16 7 (4.76%) JSON-LD
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.24%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 10 (6.80%) Data Structures
4 9 (6.12%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (4.76%) Low-Code
6 6 (4.08%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.04%) NHS
8 3 (2.04%) PMI
8 3 (2.04%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.36%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.36%) Semantic Web
9 2 (1.36%) Social Media
9 2 (1.36%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.68%) Linked Data
10 1 (0.68%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.20%) Linux
2 10 (6.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 39 (26.53%) DevOps
3 38 (25.85%) Test Automation
4 36 (24.49%) Business Intelligence
5 32 (21.77%) Agile
6 27 (18.37%) Coaching
6 27 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (16.33%) Asset Management
8 23 (15.65%) API Management
8 23 (15.65%) Technical Leadership
8 23 (15.65%) Validation
9 22 (14.97%) Analytics
9 22 (14.97%) Containerisation
9 22 (14.97%) User Experience
10 21 (14.29%) API Integration
10 21 (14.29%) Observability
10 21 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
10 21 (14.29%) Task Automation
11 19 (12.93%) ETL
12 18 (12.24%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 76 (51.70%) SQL
2 57 (38.78%) JavaScript
3 43 (29.25%) Python
4 32 (21.77%) Java
5 28 (19.05%) C#
6 27 (18.37%) PowerShell
7 21 (14.29%) TypeScript
8 11 (7.48%) PL/SQL
8 11 (7.48%) Shell Script
9 10 (6.80%) Bicep
9 10 (6.80%) T-SQL
10 3 (2.04%) PHP
11 2 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.36%) Ruby
12 1 (0.68%) Bash
12 1 (0.68%) Groovy
12 1 (0.68%) Korn
12 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.68%) Lua
12 1 (0.68%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 11 (7.48%) Degree
2 8 (5.44%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.40%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.04%) Numerate Degree
4 3 (2.04%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.36%) 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 16 (10.88%) GDPR
2 12 (8.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (7.48%) SLA
4 10 (6.80%) Data Quality
4 10 (6.80%) QA
5 7 (4.76%) Accessibility
6 6 (4.08%) WCAG
7 4 (2.72%) HL7
8 2 (1.36%) NCSC
8 2 (1.36%) NIST
8 2 (1.36%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.68%) PERC
System Software
1 16 (10.88%) Active Directory
2 15 (10.20%) Docker
3 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (14.29%) Terraform
2 12 (8.16%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.44%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (2.72%) Ansible
5 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.68%) Kibana
Vendors
1 23 (15.65%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.56%) Oracle
3 15 (10.20%) Adobe
4 12 (8.16%) Cisco
5 11 (7.48%) Red Hat
6 10 (6.80%) Ab Initio
7 8 (5.44%) Okta
8 7 (4.76%) F5
8 7 (4.76%) ServiceNow
9 6 (4.08%) Juniper
9 6 (4.08%) Palo Alto
10 5 (3.40%) Google
10 5 (3.40%) SAP
11 4 (2.72%) Databricks
11 4 (2.72%) IBM
11 4 (2.72%) MuleSoft
11 4 (2.72%) TIBCO
12 3 (2.04%) Epicor
12 3 (2.04%) Informatica
12 3 (2.04%) SnapLogic