JWT Job Trends in the UK excluding London

JSON Web Token (JWT)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring JWT skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 521 534
Rank change year-on-year +23 +13 +211
Permanent jobs citing JWT 11 45 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.28% 0.64% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 5 40 39
10th Percentile £33,000 - £49,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £23,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £57,500 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -34.78% -27.79% +13.76%
75th Percentile £43,750 £66,158 £84,056
90th Percentile £49,750 £93,778 -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year -4.35% -27.79% +2.75%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

JWT 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,886 7,008 8,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.16% 19.51% 23.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,980 3,898 6,314
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £36,270
25th Percentile £43,497 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

JWT
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JWT relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

JWT job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

JWT
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JWT.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JWT

JWT
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing JWT in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for JWT in the UK excluding London

JWT
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JWT within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
North of England -1 7 £37,500 -37.36% 10
Yorkshire -12 5 £37,500 -49.46% 6
South West - 3 - - 3
North West +11 2 £52,500 -10.64% 4
West Midlands +18 1 - - 1
Midlands +17 1 - - 1
JWT
UK

JWT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (36.36%) Anypoint
2 3 (27.27%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Datadog
3 3 (27.27%) GitHub
4 2 (18.18%) Azure
4 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) Slack
5 1 (9.09%) Apigee
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) CockroachDB
2 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Jenkins
2 4 (36.36%) Postman
3 3 (27.27%) JIRA
3 3 (27.27%) JUnit
3 3 (27.27%) Mockito
4 2 (18.18%) Checkstyle
4 2 (18.18%) Cypress.io
4 2 (18.18%) ESLint
4 2 (18.18%) GitLab
4 2 (18.18%) Gradle
4 2 (18.18%) Maven
4 2 (18.18%) Selenium
4 2 (18.18%) SonarQube
4 2 (18.18%) TestNG
5 1 (9.09%) Git
5 1 (9.09%) NUnit
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Law
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Integration Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Apigee Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Backend Developer
3 1 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Junior
3 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Security Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) OAuth
2 6 (54.55%) OpenAPI
2 6 (54.55%) RESTful
2 6 (54.55%) Swagger
3 5 (45.45%) SAML
4 4 (36.36%) OAuth2
4 4 (36.36%) RAML
5 3 (27.27%) Spring
5 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
6 2 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (18.18%) REST
6 2 (18.18%) Spring MVC
6 2 (18.18%) Spring Security
7 1 (9.09%) .NET
7 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
7 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Product Ownership
2 2 (18.18%) Private Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) DataPower
3 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
4 3 (27.27%) Code Quality
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Agile
5 2 (18.18%) Agile Project Management
5 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) Dependency Management
5 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (18.18%) Microservices
5 2 (18.18%) MVC
5 2 (18.18%) Project Management
5 2 (18.18%) Static Code Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Task Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 1 (9.09%) Analytics
6 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) DataWeave
1 4 (36.36%) PHP
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) Bash
4 1 (9.09%) C#
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) CISM
2 1 (9.09%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) CloudHub
2 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 2 (18.18%) Grafana
3 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
3 2 (18.18%) Terraform
4 1 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) MuleSoft
2 3 (27.27%) Google
2 3 (27.27%) Splunk
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle
4 1 (9.09%) IBM