JSON Job Trends in the West Midlands

JSON
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring JSON skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 159 150
Rank change year-on-year -34 -9 +16
Permanent jobs citing JSON 20 15 61
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.23% 0.45% 1.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.95% 2.91% 6.50%
Number of salaries quoted 14 12 42
10th Percentile £41,100 £33,810 £35,450
25th Percentile £43,438 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,900 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.21% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,450 £48,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £58,875 £73,625
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 677 516 939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.68% 15.64% 15.52%
Number of salaries quoted 495 386 599
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% +7.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £80,625 £75,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

JSON job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing JSON

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing JSON in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for JSON in the West Midlands

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JSON within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
Shropshire -26 6 £45,000 -5.26% 2
Coventry - 6 £66,250 -
Birmingham -32 4 £60,450 +0.75% 7
Warwickshire -14 3 - - 1
Worcestershire - 1 £43,000 -
JSON
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 6 (30.00%) Confluence
1 6 (30.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (15.00%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (15.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) Azure
2 9 (45.00%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 7 (35.00%) AWS
5 6 (30.00%) Azure Functions
5 6 (30.00%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (30.00%) Power Automate
5 6 (30.00%) Serverless
6 2 (10.00%) SaaS
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (5.00%) Boomi
7 1 (5.00%) GitHub
7 1 (5.00%) iPaaS
7 1 (5.00%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (15.00%) MySQL
4 2 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (10.00%) Power BI
5 1 (5.00%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 14 (70.00%) Git
2 6 (30.00%) Cucumber
2 6 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (30.00%) JIRA
2 6 (30.00%) JMeter
2 6 (30.00%) Postman
2 6 (30.00%) Selenium
3 5 (25.00%) GitLab
3 5 (25.00%) SoapUI
3 5 (25.00%) Zephyr
4 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (5.00%) Gradle
4 1 (5.00%) JUnit
4 1 (5.00%) Maven
4 1 (5.00%) REST Assured
4 1 (5.00%) TestNG
4 1 (5.00%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (30.00%) Finance
3 6 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Legal
5 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Analyst
3 5 (25.00%) Senior
4 4 (20.00%) Junior
5 3 (15.00%) Data Analyst
5 3 (15.00%) IT Support
5 3 (15.00%) IT Support Analyst
5 3 (15.00%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Junior Analyst
5 3 (15.00%) Junior Data Analyst
5 3 (15.00%) Junior IT Support
5 3 (15.00%) Junior Support Analyst
5 3 (15.00%) Junior Support Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Lead Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Support Analyst
5 3 (15.00%) Support Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (80.00%) XML
2 7 (35.00%) SOAP
2 7 (35.00%) XSLT
3 6 (30.00%) Playwright
4 5 (25.00%) ADO
5 4 (20.00%) CSS
5 4 (20.00%) HTML
6 3 (15.00%) REST
7 2 (10.00%) GraphQL
8 1 (5.00%) React
8 1 (5.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Management Information System
1 6 (30.00%) Taxonomies
2 5 (25.00%) Virtual Team
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (15.00%) Social Media
4 2 (10.00%) PMI
5 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
5 1 (5.00%) CMDB
5 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
5 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
1 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Agile
2 13 (65.00%) DevOps
3 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
4 9 (45.00%) Mentoring
5 8 (40.00%) Data Modelling
5 8 (40.00%) Scrum
5 8 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (35.00%) AI
6 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (35.00%) Roadmaps
6 7 (35.00%) Test Automation
6 7 (35.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (30.00%) API Testing
7 6 (30.00%) BDD
7 6 (30.00%) Change Data Capture
7 6 (30.00%) CRM
7 6 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (30.00%) Scenario Testing
7 6 (30.00%) Technical Debt
7 6 (30.00%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 12 (60.00%) SQL
2 7 (35.00%) Java
3 6 (30.00%) C#
4 3 (15.00%) PHP
4 3 (15.00%) Python
4 3 (15.00%) VBA
5 1 (5.00%) Bash
5 1 (5.00%) Ruby
5 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Degree
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (25.00%) ISEB
3 5 (25.00%) ISTQB
4 3 (15.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (10.00%) PMI Certification
5 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
6 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) Accessibility
1 6 (30.00%) GDPR
1 6 (30.00%) WCAG
2 5 (25.00%) QA
3 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (30.00%) SAP
3 5 (25.00%) Pega
4 3 (15.00%) Adobe
5 2 (10.00%) Databricks
5 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (5.00%) HubSpot
6 1 (5.00%) Informatica
6 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
6 1 (5.00%) Salesforce