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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 156 175
Rank change year-on-year -43 +19 +34
Permanent jobs citing JSON 6 17 86
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.077% 0.56% 1.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.26% 3.43% 6.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2 15 64
10th Percentile £40,050 £36,750 £39,500
25th Percentile £40,125 £48,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.55% -8.33% +5.11%
75th Percentile £44,125 £65,625 £72,500
90th Percentile £44,950 £68,750 £104,875
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -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 476 495 1,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.09% 16.19% 15.16%
Number of salaries quoted 383 364 1,036
10th Percentile £34,000 £38,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,875 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,468 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% +5.93% -3.98%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,313 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £75,772
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,340 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.02% +10.57% -11.11%

JSON
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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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 6 June 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
Warwickshire -6 3 - -
Birmingham -19 2 £40,000 -36.00% 3
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 3 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (50.00%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) Data Mining
2 1 (16.67%) Metadata
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
1 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) IT Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) IT Support
1 3 (50.00%) IT Support Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Junior
1 3 (50.00%) Junior Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Junior Data Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Junior IT Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Junior IT Support
1 3 (50.00%) Junior IT Support Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Junior Support Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Junior Support Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Support Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Development Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) CSS
1 3 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) EDI
3 1 (16.67%) EDIFACT
3 1 (16.67%) React
3 1 (16.67%) SLSA
3 1 (16.67%) SOAP
3 1 (16.67%) XSLT
3 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (50.00%) Social Media
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 3 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Social Media Management
2 3 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) AI
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) ERP
4 1 (16.67%) Logistics
4 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 1 (16.67%) Product Management
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Statistics
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 3 (50.00%) PHP
3 3 (50.00%) VBA
4 2 (33.33%) Python
5 1 (16.67%) ActionScript
5 1 (16.67%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (16.67%) Groovy
5 1 (16.67%) Java
5 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Adobe
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Sonatype