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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 230 224
Rank change year-on-year -20 -6 +17
Permanent jobs citing JSON 147 179 441
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.85% 1.38% 1.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.67% 4.37% 5.08%
Number of salaries quoted 92 153 385
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,600 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,375 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £92,750 £96,756 £91,934
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,375 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.52% +0.63% -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 3,145 4,096 8,678
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 18.17% 31.54% 27.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,276 3,278 7,503
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,160 £39,517
25th Percentile £52,304 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £66,212 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% +10.35% -8.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -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 10 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 14 (9.52%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.40%) Anypoint
4 4 (2.72%) Confluence
5 2 (1.36%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.36%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.68%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.04%) Trello
2 1 (0.68%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 8 (5.44%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (3.40%) Shopify
3 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.68%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 79 (53.74%) Azure
2 41 (27.89%) AWS
3 29 (19.73%) Power Platform
4 26 (17.69%) GitHub
4 26 (17.69%) Microsoft 365
5 25 (17.01%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (17.01%) Azure Logic Apps
6 24 (16.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 22 (14.97%) SaaS
8 20 (13.61%) Power Automate
9 16 (10.88%) Entra ID
9 16 (10.88%) Serverless
10 15 (10.20%) PowerApps
11 13 (8.84%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (8.16%) Azure Service Bus
12 12 (8.16%) OpenShift
13 10 (6.80%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 10 (6.80%) Azure Event Grid
13 10 (6.80%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (6.80%) OneDrive
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%) 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 27 (18.37%) Power BI
2 19 (12.93%) SQL Server
3 16 (10.88%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (10.20%) MySQL
5 13 (8.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (5.44%) Relational Database
6 8 (5.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.72%) Metadata
8 4 (2.72%) Power Query
9 3 (2.04%) Electronic Patient Records
9 3 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.36%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.36%) Oracle BI EE
10 2 (1.36%) Oracle ODI
10 2 (1.36%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (1.36%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.36%) Snowflake Schema
10 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%) Selenium
7 5 (3.40%) SpecFlow
7 5 (3.40%) WebDriver
8 4 (2.72%) Browser DevTools
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%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.68%) Gradle
10 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 71 (48.30%) Social Skills
2 50 (34.01%) Finance
3 32 (21.77%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.20%) Telecoms
5 13 (8.84%) Law
5 13 (8.84%) Marketing
6 8 (5.44%) Health Technology
6 8 (5.44%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.08%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.40%) Legal
9 4 (2.72%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.72%) Retail
10 3 (2.04%) Advertising
10 3 (2.04%) Billing
11 2 (1.36%) Electronics
11 2 (1.36%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 46 (31.29%) Developer
2 28 (19.05%) Senior
3 17 (11.56%) Integration Engineer
4 16 (10.88%) Senior Developer
5 15 (10.20%) Analyst
6 12 (8.16%) Automation Engineer
7 11 (7.48%) Network Engineer
7 11 (7.48%) Support Engineer
7 11 (7.48%) Telecoms Engineer
8 10 (6.80%) Applications Engineer
8 10 (6.80%) Cloud 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%) Java Developer
10 7 (4.76%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (47.62%) XML
2 44 (29.93%) REST
3 32 (21.77%) HTML
4 29 (19.73%) CSS
4 29 (19.73%) RESTful
5 22 (14.97%) SOAP
6 20 (13.61%) .NET
7 16 (10.88%) YAML
8 15 (10.20%) OAuth
9 13 (8.84%) React
10 12 (8.16%) .NET Core
10 12 (8.16%) HTML5 Canvas
10 12 (8.16%) Web Services
11 11 (7.48%) Jinja
11 11 (7.48%) OAuth2
12 10 (6.80%) Microsoft Graph
12 10 (6.80%) SPFx
13 8 (5.44%) Node.js
13 8 (5.44%) Spring
14 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%) Low-Code
4 9 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (4.08%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.72%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.04%) NHS
7 3 (2.04%) PMI
7 3 (2.04%) Social Media
8 2 (1.36%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.36%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.36%) Semantic Web
9 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.68%) Linked Data
9 1 (0.68%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.56%) Linux
2 12 (8.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 39 (26.53%) DevOps
3 38 (25.85%) Test Automation
4 35 (23.81%) Agile
5 34 (23.13%) Business Intelligence
6 29 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (18.37%) Coaching
8 24 (16.33%) Analytics
8 24 (16.33%) Asset Management
8 24 (16.33%) Containerisation
9 23 (15.65%) API Management
10 22 (14.97%) ETL
10 22 (14.97%) Observability
10 22 (14.97%) Task Automation
11 21 (14.29%) API Integration
11 21 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
11 21 (14.29%) Validation
12 19 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (12.93%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (12.93%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 77 (52.38%) SQL
2 53 (36.05%) JavaScript
3 46 (31.29%) Python
4 33 (22.45%) Java
5 25 (17.01%) C#
5 25 (17.01%) PowerShell
6 17 (11.56%) TypeScript
7 13 (8.84%) Shell Script
7 13 (8.84%) T-SQL
8 11 (7.48%) Bicep
8 11 (7.48%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.04%) PHP
10 2 (1.36%) Ruby
11 1 (0.68%) Bash
11 1 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.68%) Groovy
11 1 (0.68%) Korn
11 1 (0.68%) Lua
11 1 (0.68%) SHACL
11 1 (0.68%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 12 (8.16%) Degree
2 9 (6.12%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.08%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.04%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (2.04%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.36%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.56%) GDPR
2 12 (8.16%) Data Quality
2 12 (8.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (6.80%) QA
3 10 (6.80%) SLA
4 7 (4.76%) Accessibility
5 6 (4.08%) WCAG
6 5 (3.40%) HL7
7 2 (1.36%) NCSC
7 2 (1.36%) NIST
7 2 (1.36%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (11.56%) Docker
2 16 (10.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (14.97%) Terraform
2 14 (9.52%) 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 20 (13.61%) Microsoft
2 19 (12.93%) Oracle
3 12 (8.16%) Cisco
4 11 (7.48%) Adobe
4 11 (7.48%) Red Hat
5 10 (6.80%) Ab Initio
6 8 (5.44%) Okta
7 7 (4.76%) F5
7 7 (4.76%) SAP
7 7 (4.76%) ServiceNow
8 6 (4.08%) Google
8 6 (4.08%) IBM
8 6 (4.08%) Juniper
8 6 (4.08%) MuleSoft
8 6 (4.08%) Palo Alto
8 6 (4.08%) TIBCO
9 5 (3.40%) IFS
9 5 (3.40%) Jitterbit
9 5 (3.40%) SnapLogic
9 5 (3.40%) Workday