Jest
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Jest skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Jest over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 642 638 298
Rank change year-on-year -4 -340 +108
Permanent jobs citing Jest 255 358 2,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.34% 1.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.22% 1.13% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 170 222 515
10th Percentile £47,375 £47,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +9.52%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Jest is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 20,974 31,729 61,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.39% 30.32% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,673 19,469 30,328
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,600 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Jest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Jest in the UK

Jest
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Jest.

Salary trend for Jest in the UK

Jest
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Jest over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Jest in the UK

Jest
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Jest within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
UK excluding London +114 203 £65,000 - 32
England -22 184 £67,500 -15.63% 56
Work from Home +11 67 £60,000 -20.00% 26
South East +60 62 £85,000 +21.43% 6
Scotland -4 62 £120,360 +78.31% 1
London -55 41 £77,500 -11.43% 23
North of England +73 35 £57,500 -14.81% 11
Midlands +15 26 £65,000 -7.14% 3
North West +30 25 £57,500 +15.00% 10
West Midlands +39 23 £65,000 - 1
South West -5 11 £45,000 -28.00% 8
Yorkshire +99 10 £34,000 -51.43% 1
East of England +8 7 - - 3
East Midlands -20 3 £72,500 +3.57% 2

Jest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (3.14%) Confluence
2 7 (2.75%) nginx
3 4 (1.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.39%) CMS
4 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 117 (45.88%) AWS
2 35 (13.73%) Azure
3 22 (8.63%) GitHub
4 21 (8.24%) Serverless
5 17 (6.67%) GCP
6 14 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (5.10%) npm
8 12 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (4.71%) SaaS
9 7 (2.75%) Figma
9 7 (2.75%) Yarn
10 5 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (1.96%) Firebase
11 4 (1.57%) Amazon Cognito
11 4 (1.57%) Vercel
12 3 (1.18%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.18%) Azure Pipelines
13 2 (0.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 2 (0.78%) Entra ID
13 2 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.53%) HTTP
2 7 (2.75%) AMQP
3 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.02%) NoSQL
2 10 (3.92%) MongoDB
3 9 (3.53%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.14%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.18%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.18%) MySQL
8 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.39%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 165 (64.71%) Cypress.io
2 118 (46.27%) Selenium
3 89 (34.90%) Git
4 78 (30.59%) Jasmine
5 63 (24.71%) Protractor
6 62 (24.31%) WebDriver
7 61 (23.92%) JUnit
7 61 (23.92%) Karma Test Runner
8 23 (9.02%) SoapUI
9 16 (6.27%) Bitbucket
10 15 (5.88%) JIRA
10 15 (5.88%) Mocha
11 13 (5.10%) GitLab
11 13 (5.10%) Storybook
12 11 (4.31%) Jenkins
12 11 (4.31%) webpack
13 8 (3.14%) ESLint
13 8 (3.14%) gulp
13 8 (3.14%) SonarQube
14 5 (1.96%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 78 (30.59%) Finance
2 70 (27.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 67 (26.27%) Banking
4 60 (23.53%) Investment Banking
4 60 (23.53%) Law
5 42 (16.47%) Social Skills
6 18 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.53%) Retail
8 7 (2.75%) Legal
9 5 (1.96%) Games
9 5 (1.96%) Retail Finance
10 4 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.18%) Automotive
12 2 (0.78%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.39%) Advertising
13 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.39%) Publishing
13 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 118 (46.27%) Developer
2 90 (35.29%) Software Engineer
3 63 (24.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 63 (24.71%) Senior
4 60 (23.53%) Java Engineer
4 60 (23.53%) Java Software Engineer
5 53 (20.78%) Senior Developer
6 47 (18.43%) Lead
7 29 (11.37%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 24 (9.41%) Full Stack Developer
9 22 (8.63%) Lead Java Engineer
9 22 (8.63%) Lead Software Engineer
9 22 (8.63%) React Developer
10 20 (7.84%) Development Team Leader
10 20 (7.84%) Software Development Team Leader
10 20 (7.84%) Software Team Leader
10 20 (7.84%) Team Leader
11 18 (7.06%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 10 (3.92%) Full Stack Engineer
13 9 (3.53%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (83.92%) React
2 146 (57.25%) CSS
3 132 (51.76%) HTML
4 130 (50.98%) Node.js
5 89 (34.90%) AngularJS
6 69 (27.06%) JSON
7 65 (25.49%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 64 (25.10%) jQuery
9 61 (23.92%) Spring
10 60 (23.53%) Hibernate
10 60 (23.53%) J2EE
10 60 (23.53%) JMS
11 44 (17.25%) HTML5
12 41 (16.08%) CSS3
13 40 (15.69%) .NET
14 37 (14.51%) Next.js
15 27 (10.59%) GraphQL
16 25 (9.80%) Redux
17 24 (9.41%) React Native
18 22 (8.63%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 62 (24.31%) Data Structures
2 22 (8.63%) Algorithms
3 20 (7.84%) Mobile App
4 19 (7.45%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (4.31%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.57%) Podcast
7 3 (1.18%) Derivative
7 3 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.18%) Graphic Design
7 3 (1.18%) Online Banking
7 3 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.78%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.78%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.39%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.39%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.88%) Apple iOS
2 11 (4.31%) Android
3 2 (0.78%) Linux
3 2 (0.78%) Windows
4 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (74.12%) Agile
2 136 (53.33%) Software Engineering
3 126 (49.41%) Artificial Intelligence
4 85 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 85 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 85 (33.33%) TDD
5 83 (32.55%) Front End Development
6 75 (29.41%) Web Development
7 69 (27.06%) SDLC
8 60 (23.53%) BDD
8 60 (23.53%) Multithreading
8 60 (23.53%) Operational Stability
9 55 (21.57%) Propensity Modelling
10 50 (19.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 45 (17.65%) Computer Science
12 43 (16.86%) Community of Practice
12 43 (16.86%) DevOps
12 43 (16.86%) Full Stack Development
13 36 (14.12%) Microservices
13 36 (14.12%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 231 (90.59%) TypeScript
2 200 (78.43%) JavaScript
3 78 (30.59%) Java
4 61 (23.92%) C#
5 38 (14.90%) PHP
6 29 (11.37%) SQL
7 11 (4.31%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.57%) Go
8 4 (1.57%) Python
9 2 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (25.49%) Degree
2 3 (1.18%) DBS Check
3 2 (0.78%) DV Cleared
3 2 (0.78%) OCP
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (0.78%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (14.51%) WCAG
2 19 (7.45%) QA
3 17 (6.67%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 86 (33.73%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 74 (29.02%) Kubernetes
2 22 (8.63%) Terraform
3 7 (2.75%) Grafana
3 7 (2.75%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.18%) Consul
4 3 (1.18%) Packer
Vendors
1 7 (2.75%) Atlassian
2 6 (2.35%) Adobe
3 5 (1.96%) Google
4 4 (1.57%) Splunk
5 2 (0.78%) Autodesk
5 2 (0.78%) Microsoft
5 2 (0.78%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.39%) Apple
6 1 (0.39%) ESRI
6 1 (0.39%) Mapbox
6 1 (0.39%) Netlify
6 1 (0.39%) Spotify
6 1 (0.39%) Veracode