JSON Job Trends in the South West

JSON
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring JSON skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 157 218
Rank change year-on-year -56 +61 -37
Permanent jobs citing JSON 19 17 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.22% 0.49% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.47% 3.76% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 16 11 14
10th Percentile £29,750 £46,250 £35,375
25th Percentile £35,313 £48,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.48% -15.91%
75th Percentile £57,500 £68,750 £63,250
90th Percentile £59,375 £82,500 £68,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 768 452 1,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.79% 13.01% 14.88%
Number of salaries quoted 606 340 912
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,813 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,813 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,375 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JSON relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

JSON job vacancy trend in the South West

JSON
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing JSON.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing JSON

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing JSON in the South West over the 6 months to 4 August 2026.

Salary histogram for JSON in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JSON within the South West region over the 6 months to 4 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wiltshire - 6 £55,000 -
Dorset -3 5 £31,500 -33.68% 5
Devon - 4 £52,500 - 1
Bristol -38 2 £53,750 -10.42% 1
Somerset -40 1 - - 1
Gloucestershire - 1 - - 3
JSON
England

JSON
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (21.05%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) Apache
2 1 (5.26%) JBoss
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (21.05%) MS Visio
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (5.26%) Adobe XD
3 1 (5.26%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) AWS
3 3 (15.79%) Lucidchart
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.26%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Stack
5 1 (5.26%) Figma
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
3 2 (10.53%) MySQL
3 2 (10.53%) Power Query
4 1 (5.26%) MariaDB
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (5.26%) SQLite
4 1 (5.26%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Git
1 7 (36.84%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Claude Code
2 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.26%) Eclipse
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) JUnit
2 1 (5.26%) Maven
2 1 (5.26%) Mockito
2 1 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (42.11%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Manufacturing
3 3 (15.79%) Local Government
4 2 (10.53%) Finance
4 2 (10.53%) Publishing
5 1 (5.26%) Aerospace
5 1 (5.26%) Automotive
5 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.26%) Military
5 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Software Developer
3 3 (15.79%) 1st Line Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) 1st Line Support
3 3 (15.79%) 1st Line Support Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Applications Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Applications Support
3 3 (15.79%) Applications Support Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Data Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Support Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Business Systems Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Applications Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (57.89%) XML
2 7 (36.84%) .NET
3 6 (31.58%) AngularJS
4 4 (21.05%) EDI
4 4 (21.05%) Middleware
5 3 (15.79%) Node.js
5 3 (15.79%) RESTful
6 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET
6 2 (10.53%) CSS
6 2 (10.53%) HTML
6 2 (10.53%) JWT
6 2 (10.53%) OAuth
6 2 (10.53%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (10.53%) REST
7 1 (5.26%) Hibernate
7 1 (5.26%) JPA
7 1 (5.26%) LAMP
7 1 (5.26%) SGML
7 1 (5.26%) XSL
7 1 (5.26%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
1 4 (21.05%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (15.79%) Driving Licence
3 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) PKI
3 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) CentOS
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) DevOps
1 9 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (42.11%) Validation
3 5 (26.32%) Agile
3 5 (26.32%) Clean Code
3 5 (26.32%) Logistics
3 5 (26.32%) Project Delivery
3 5 (26.32%) User Experience
4 4 (21.05%) Analytics
4 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (21.05%) ERP
4 4 (21.05%) Migration
4 4 (21.05%) MVC
4 4 (21.05%) Process Improvement
4 4 (21.05%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (21.05%) SDLC
4 4 (21.05%) Secure Coding
4 4 (21.05%) Six Sigma
4 4 (21.05%) User Stories
5 3 (15.79%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 14 (73.68%) SQL
2 8 (42.11%) C#
3 6 (31.58%) T-SQL
4 5 (26.32%) Python
5 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
6 2 (10.53%) C++
6 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (10.53%) Java
6 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
6 2 (10.53%) VBScript
7 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) QA
2 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Ansible
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle
3 2 (10.53%) SAP
4 1 (5.26%) Adobe
4 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.26%) Google