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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 159 165
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 +62
Permanent jobs citing JSON 15 59 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.46% 0.97% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.34% 6.61% 4.93%
Number of salaries quoted 12 38 27
10th Percentile £33,810 £34,100 £29,300
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £58,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.15% +17.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £48,750 £70,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £58,875 £75,625 £67,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 449 892 669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.79% 14.74% 17.29%
Number of salaries quoted 337 532 551
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,418
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £69,000 £65,000 £68,125
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,914 £78,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing JSON as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for JSON 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 - 8 £47,500 - 6
Birmingham 0 2 £60,000 -7.69% 4
Solihull 0 2 - -
Warwickshire +23 1 £34,480 -21.64% 1
Walsall - 1 £33,000 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) Appian
2 1 (6.67%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) Serverless
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.67%) GitHub
2 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
2 1 (6.67%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (73.33%) Relational Database
2 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (13.33%) MySQL
3 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
1 2 (13.33%) JMeter
1 2 (13.33%) JUnit
1 2 (13.33%) Mockito
2 1 (6.67%) Subversion
General
1 12 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (60.00%) Finance
3 8 (53.33%) Retail
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Games
4 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Back Office
5 1 (6.67%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) iGaming
5 1 (6.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
2 2 (13.33%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Development Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Development Officer
3 1 (6.67%) Development Support Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (6.67%) Junior
3 1 (6.67%) Junior Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Junior Front-End Developer (Junior Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (6.67%) Junior JavaScript Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Python Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (73.33%) REST
2 9 (60.00%) React
3 8 (53.33%) AngularJS
4 7 (46.67%) HTML
4 7 (46.67%) Razor View Engine
5 3 (20.00%) jQuery
5 3 (20.00%) SOAP
5 3 (20.00%) Web Services
5 3 (20.00%) XML
6 2 (13.33%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (13.33%) Apache Camel
6 2 (13.33%) CSS
6 2 (13.33%) Hibernate
6 2 (13.33%) HTML5
6 2 (13.33%) Pixi.js
6 2 (13.33%) Spring
6 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
6 2 (13.33%) WireMock
7 1 (6.67%) Middleware
7 1 (6.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Onboarding
1 7 (46.67%) Operational Technology
2 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Low-Code
3 1 (6.67%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) CentOS
1 1 (6.67%) Debian
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (53.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (46.67%) API Integration
3 7 (46.67%) Client Onboarding
3 7 (46.67%) Customer Experience
3 7 (46.67%) Performance Tuning
3 7 (46.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (40.00%) Agile
5 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (20.00%) User Experience
6 2 (13.33%) BDD
6 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
6 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (13.33%) Microservices
6 2 (13.33%) Process Management
6 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) TDD
6 2 (13.33%) Unit Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Workflow
7 1 (6.67%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) SQL
2 8 (53.33%) PowerShell
3 7 (46.67%) C#
4 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 4 (26.67%) Python
6 3 (20.00%) Java
7 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
8 1 (6.67%) Bash
8 1 (6.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kibana
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Dynatrace
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (13.33%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat