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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 257 272
Rank change year-on-year -28 +15 -40
Permanent jobs citing JSON 130 174 387
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.67% 1.17% 1.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.80% 4.08% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 95 147 329
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £49,898
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £79,043 £82,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £86,250 £83,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £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 3,419 4,261 8,844
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.73% 28.66% 26.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,481 2,852 7,656
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -8.19%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
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 5 June 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 (17.69%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.54%) Confluence
3 2 (1.54%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.54%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.77%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.77%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.77%) EngageOne
1 1 (0.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.77%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 64 (49.23%) Azure
2 35 (26.92%) AWS
3 32 (24.62%) Power Platform
4 29 (22.31%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (20.77%) Azure Logic Apps
6 25 (19.23%) SaaS
7 24 (18.46%) Azure Data Factory
7 24 (18.46%) PowerApps
8 23 (17.69%) Power Automate
9 19 (14.62%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 19 (14.62%) OneDrive
10 11 (8.46%) OpenShift
11 10 (7.69%) Entra ID
12 9 (6.92%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (6.92%) GitHub
12 9 (6.92%) Serverless
13 7 (5.38%) Apigee
13 7 (5.38%) Kong
14 6 (4.62%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (3.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.23%) Firewall
2 6 (4.62%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (2.31%) SSL
4 2 (1.54%) AMQP
4 2 (1.54%) HTTP
4 2 (1.54%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.77%) Broadband
5 1 (0.77%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.77%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.77%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.77%) FTP
5 1 (0.77%) LAN
5 1 (0.77%) Network Security
5 1 (0.77%) RTP
5 1 (0.77%) SCTP
5 1 (0.77%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.77%) SS7
5 1 (0.77%) VoIP
5 1 (0.77%) VoLTE
5 1 (0.77%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (22.31%) Power BI
2 25 (19.23%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (14.62%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (11.54%) SQL Server
5 14 (10.77%) MySQL
6 8 (6.15%) Redis
6 8 (6.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.08%) Metadata
8 3 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.31%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (1.54%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.54%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.54%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.54%) Oracle BI EE
9 2 (1.54%) Oracle ODI
9 2 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.54%) Power Query
9 2 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.54%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (13.08%) Git
2 13 (10.00%) GitLab
3 10 (7.69%) JIRA
4 6 (4.62%) Selenium
5 5 (3.85%) Browser DevTools
5 5 (3.85%) Jenkins
5 5 (3.85%) SpecFlow
5 5 (3.85%) WebDriver
6 3 (2.31%) Maven
7 2 (1.54%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.54%) JUnit
7 2 (1.54%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (1.54%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (1.54%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.77%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.77%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.77%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.77%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.77%) webpack
General
1 72 (55.38%) Social Skills
2 36 (27.69%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (20.77%) Finance
4 15 (11.54%) Telecoms
5 9 (6.92%) Health Technology
5 9 (6.92%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (4.62%) Advertising
7 5 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.08%) Billing
8 4 (3.08%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (3.08%) Retail
9 3 (2.31%) Law
10 2 (1.54%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.54%) Marketing
10 2 (1.54%) Publishing
11 1 (0.77%) Electronics
11 1 (0.77%) Legal
11 1 (0.77%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.77%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 44 (33.85%) Developer
2 32 (24.62%) Senior
3 21 (16.15%) Senior Developer
4 14 (10.77%) Automation Engineer
5 11 (8.46%) Analyst
5 11 (8.46%) Network Engineer
5 11 (8.46%) Telecoms Engineer
6 10 (7.69%) Consultant
7 8 (6.15%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 8 (6.15%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
7 8 (6.15%) Data Analyst
7 8 (6.15%) Ruby Developer
7 8 (6.15%) SQL Analyst
7 8 (6.15%) SQL Data Analyst
7 8 (6.15%) SSRS Analyst
8 7 (5.38%) Automation Specialist
8 7 (5.38%) Microsoft 365 Developer
8 7 (5.38%) Microsoft Developer
8 7 (5.38%) Network Specialist
8 7 (5.38%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (37.69%) XML
2 39 (30.00%) HTML
3 35 (26.92%) CSS
4 34 (26.15%) REST
5 29 (22.31%) .NET
6 21 (16.15%) .NET Core
6 21 (16.15%) HTML5 Canvas
7 20 (15.38%) Microsoft Graph
8 19 (14.62%) SPFx
9 18 (13.85%) RESTful
10 14 (10.77%) YAML
11 11 (8.46%) Jinja
12 9 (6.92%) JWT
12 9 (6.92%) SOAP
13 8 (6.15%) Ruby on Rails
13 8 (6.15%) Sidekiq
14 7 (5.38%) Node.js
14 7 (5.38%) OAuth
15 6 (4.62%) Spring
15 6 (4.62%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.31%) Onboarding
2 9 (6.92%) Data Structures
2 9 (6.92%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (6.15%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.62%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.31%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.31%) NHS
6 3 (2.31%) PMI
7 2 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.54%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.54%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.54%) Replication
7 2 (1.54%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.77%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.77%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.00%) Linux
2 7 (5.38%) Unix
3 1 (0.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (26.92%) Business Intelligence
2 29 (22.31%) CI/CD
3 28 (21.54%) User Experience
4 27 (20.77%) Agile
4 27 (20.77%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (19.23%) DevOps
6 24 (18.46%) Containerisation
7 23 (17.69%) Machine Learning
7 23 (17.69%) Validation
8 22 (16.92%) Project Management
8 22 (16.92%) Technical Leadership
9 21 (16.15%) Task Automation
10 19 (14.62%) Document Management
10 19 (14.62%) Web Design
11 18 (13.85%) Data Modelling
11 18 (13.85%) Test Automation
12 16 (12.31%) API Management
13 15 (11.54%) Analytics
13 15 (11.54%) API Integration
13 15 (11.54%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 70 (53.85%) SQL
2 56 (43.08%) JavaScript
3 38 (29.23%) Python
4 33 (25.38%) PowerShell
5 30 (23.08%) C#
6 24 (18.46%) Java
7 21 (16.15%) TypeScript
8 11 (8.46%) T-SQL
9 8 (6.15%) Ruby
10 5 (3.85%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.31%) Bash
11 3 (2.31%) PHP
12 2 (1.54%) Bicep
12 2 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.54%) Search Processing Language
12 2 (1.54%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.77%) C++
13 1 (0.77%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.77%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 15 (11.54%) Degree
2 10 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.38%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.31%) CISSP
4 3 (2.31%) Numerate Degree
4 3 (2.31%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.54%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.54%) CASP
5 2 (1.54%) CCSP
5 2 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.54%) CompTIA CySA+
5 2 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (1.54%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.77%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.77%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.77%) GIAC
6 1 (0.77%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.46%) SLA
2 10 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (7.69%) QA
3 7 (5.38%) GDPR
4 4 (3.08%) HL7
5 2 (1.54%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.77%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.77%) PERC
System Software
1 16 (12.31%) Docker
2 10 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.77%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (7.69%) Terraform
2 8 (6.15%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.08%) Ansible
4 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.77%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.77%) Kibana
5 1 (0.77%) QRadar
Vendors
1 33 (25.38%) Microsoft
2 20 (15.38%) Adobe
3 12 (9.23%) Cisco
4 11 (8.46%) Red Hat
5 7 (5.38%) F5
5 7 (5.38%) Oracle
6 6 (4.62%) Juniper
6 6 (4.62%) Palo Alto
6 6 (4.62%) Splunk
7 4 (3.08%) Databricks
8 2 (1.54%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.54%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.54%) Google
8 2 (1.54%) Okta
8 2 (1.54%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.54%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.77%) Blue Coat
9 1 (0.77%) Exabeam
9 1 (0.77%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.77%) VMware