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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 160 176
Rank change year-on-year -12 +16 +58
Permanent jobs citing JSON 13 32 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.20% 0.87% 0.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.26% 5.29% 5.56%
Number of salaries quoted 12 24 47
10th Percentile £40,625 £34,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,563 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,344 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.59% -9.43% +4.96%
75th Percentile £49,688 £64,688 £79,375
90th Percentile £53,625 £68,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -12.41%

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 399 605 1,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.23% 16.36% 17.61%
Number of salaries quoted 354 390 945
10th Percentile £29,825 £38,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -2.73%
75th Percentile £67,250 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%

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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 8 March 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 8 March 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 -19 6 £47,500 -36.67% 3
Warwickshire +14 3 £50,000 -4.76%
Birmingham -1 3 £43,750 -27.08% 5
Coventry - 1 £52,500 - 1
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 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Power Platform
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) PowerApps
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Relational Database
2 5 (38.46%) Power BI
3 2 (15.38%) Data Mining
3 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 2 (15.38%) Tableau
4 1 (7.69%) Looker
4 1 (7.69%) Metadata
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) Maven
1 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (76.92%) Social Skills
2 8 (61.54%) Retail
3 6 (46.15%) Finance
4 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Development Officer
3 1 (7.69%) Development Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) EDI Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Integration Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) REST
2 6 (46.15%) AngularJS
2 6 (46.15%) Razor View Engine
2 6 (46.15%) React
3 3 (23.08%) XML
4 2 (15.38%) SOAP
5 1 (7.69%) EDI
5 1 (7.69%) EDIFACT
5 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
5 1 (7.69%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (7.69%) Middleware
5 1 (7.69%) SLSA
5 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Onboarding
1 6 (46.15%) Operational Technology
2 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Continuous Improvement
1 10 (76.92%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) API Integration
2 6 (46.15%) Client Onboarding
2 6 (46.15%) Customer Experience
2 6 (46.15%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (46.15%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (30.77%) Analytics
5 3 (23.08%) Data Mapping
5 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
5 3 (23.08%) ETL
6 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
6 2 (15.38%) Data Architecture
6 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
6 2 (15.38%) DevOps
6 2 (15.38%) Logistics
6 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
6 2 (15.38%) User Experience
6 2 (15.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) SQL
2 7 (53.85%) PowerShell
3 6 (46.15%) C#
4 4 (30.77%) Python
5 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 2 (15.38%) T-SQL
6 1 (7.69%) ActionScript
6 1 (7.69%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (7.69%) Bash
6 1 (7.69%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.69%) Sonatype