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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 163 153
Rank change year-on-year +4 -10 +78
Permanent jobs citing JSON 17 37 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.32% 0.87% 0.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.11% 5.31% 4.58%
Number of salaries quoted 17 24 25
10th Percentile £43,750 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,875 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,594 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.56% +5.89% -11.76%
75th Percentile £48,750 £65,313 £115,000
90th Percentile £55,250 £70,000 -
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% -7.14%

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 414 697 611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.80% 16.46% 17.17%
Number of salaries quoted 360 375 545
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,060 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +10.28% -4.81%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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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 7 January 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 7 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
Shropshire -9 11 £47,500 -36.67% 1
Warwickshire +25 3 £50,000 -4.76%
Birmingham -1 2 £43,750 -25.53% 2
Coventry - 1 £52,500 -
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 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.88%) Appian
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
1 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Power Platform
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) PowerApps
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) FTP
1 1 (5.88%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (64.71%) Relational Database
2 5 (29.41%) Power BI
3 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
4 2 (11.76%) Data Mining
4 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (11.76%) Tableau
5 1 (5.88%) Looker
5 1 (5.88%) MySQL
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 15 (88.24%) Social Skills
2 12 (70.59%) Retail
3 10 (58.82%) Finance
4 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Developer
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Development Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Development Officer
3 1 (5.88%) Development Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) Development Support Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) EDI Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) Integration Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (88.24%) REST
2 10 (58.82%) AngularJS
2 10 (58.82%) Razor View Engine
2 10 (58.82%) React
3 4 (23.53%) XML
4 3 (17.65%) SOAP
5 1 (5.88%) EDI
5 1 (5.88%) EDIFACT
5 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
5 1 (5.88%) HTML
5 1 (5.88%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (5.88%) Middleware
5 1 (5.88%) OAuth
5 1 (5.88%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (58.82%) Onboarding
1 10 (58.82%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (82.35%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (58.82%) API Integration
3 10 (58.82%) Client Onboarding
3 10 (58.82%) Customer Experience
3 10 (58.82%) Performance Tuning
3 10 (58.82%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (23.53%) Analytics
5 4 (23.53%) Data Modelling
6 3 (17.65%) Data Mapping
6 3 (17.65%) ETL
6 3 (17.65%) User Experience
7 2 (11.76%) Agile
7 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
7 2 (11.76%) Data Architecture
7 2 (11.76%) Data Governance
7 2 (11.76%) Logistics
7 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning
7 2 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) SQL
2 11 (64.71%) PowerShell
3 10 (58.82%) C#
4 3 (17.65%) Python
5 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.76%) T-SQL
6 1 (5.88%) ActionScript
6 1 (5.88%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (5.88%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) CA Agile Central