Jest Job Trends in England

Jest
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Jest skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 595 493 633
Rank change year-on-year -102 +140 -20
Permanent jobs citing Jest 82 121 183
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.32% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.06% 1.55% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 42 101 158
10th Percentile £38,000 £48,750 £47,125
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -15.63%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £92,500
90th Percentile £91,375 £140,677 £96,500
UK median annual salary £58,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% -3.57% -6.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Jest 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,751 7,789 16,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.95% 20.85% 20.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,865 5,913 14,024
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Jest relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Jest job vacancy trend in England

Jest
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Jest.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Jest

Jest
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Jest in England over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Jest in England

Jest
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Jest within the England region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
North of England -28 47 £68,250 +24.09% 8
Yorkshire -19 41 £78,750 - 3
London -28 19 £80,000 +18.52% 10
South West -63 8 £40,000 -53.08% 3
South East -76 6 £65,000 -16.13% 5
North East -36 4 £59,000 +5.83% 1
North West -39 2 £45,000 -18.18% 4
Jest
UK

Jest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (3.66%) JBoss
2 2 (2.44%) nginx
3 1 (1.22%) Confluence
3 1 (1.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.22%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.44%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 48 (58.54%) AWS
2 45 (54.88%) Serverless
3 43 (52.44%) AWS Lambda
4 42 (51.22%) Amazon S3
5 41 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
5 41 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
5 41 (50.00%) Apigee
5 41 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
6 40 (48.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (28.05%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (9.76%) GitHub
9 6 (7.32%) Figma
10 5 (6.10%) Azure
11 4 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (4.88%) GCP
11 4 (4.88%) npm
12 3 (3.66%) Yarn
13 2 (2.44%) Algolia
13 2 (2.44%) Firebase
13 2 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.44%) AMQP
2 1 (1.22%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (3.66%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.66%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.44%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.22%) MySQL
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.22%) Redis
4 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 57 (69.51%) Cypress.io
2 43 (52.44%) GitLab
2 43 (52.44%) Jenkins
3 42 (51.22%) SonarQube
4 41 (50.00%) Maven
5 17 (20.73%) Git
6 6 (7.32%) webpack
7 5 (6.10%) Cucumber
7 5 (6.10%) Selenium
8 4 (4.88%) Babel
8 4 (4.88%) JIRA
8 4 (4.88%) rollup.js
8 4 (4.88%) Vite
9 3 (3.66%) Mocha
9 3 (3.66%) Storybook
9 3 (3.66%) Visual Studio
9 3 (3.66%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (2.44%) Android Studio
10 2 (2.44%) Xcode
11 1 (1.22%) Jasmine
General
1 11 (13.41%) Finance
2 5 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (6.10%) Social Skills
3 3 (3.66%) Retail
4 2 (2.44%) Games
4 2 (2.44%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.22%) Front Office
5 1 (1.22%) iGaming
5 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.22%) Law
Job Titles
1 64 (78.05%) Developer
2 30 (36.59%) Java Developer
3 19 (23.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 16 (19.51%) Lead
5 13 (15.85%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (15.85%) Senior
6 10 (12.20%) AWS Developer
6 10 (12.20%) Senior Developer
7 8 (9.76%) React Developer
8 7 (8.54%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 7 (8.54%) Technical Leader
9 6 (7.32%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 6 (7.32%) Lead Developer
9 6 (7.32%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.88%) JavaScript Developer
10 4 (4.88%) Python Developer
11 3 (3.66%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
11 3 (3.66%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 2 (2.44%) Lead Java Developer
12 2 (2.44%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (60.98%) AngularJS
2 42 (51.22%) Spring Boot
3 41 (50.00%) Gherkin
4 31 (37.80%) React
5 30 (36.59%) CSS
6 23 (28.05%) HTML
7 22 (26.83%) Node.js
8 13 (15.85%) RESTful
8 13 (15.85%) Vue
9 10 (12.20%) Spring
10 9 (10.98%) Tailwind CSS
11 8 (9.76%) GraphQL
11 8 (9.76%) HTML5
11 8 (9.76%) Redux
11 8 (9.76%) Sass
12 7 (8.54%) CSS3
13 5 (6.10%) OAuth
13 5 (6.10%) REST
14 4 (4.88%) Express.js
14 4 (4.88%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.63%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.54%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (8.54%) Mobile App
3 6 (7.32%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.88%) Video\Live Streaming
5 3 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.44%) Animation
6 2 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.44%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.22%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.44%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (65.85%) Agile
2 51 (62.20%) CI/CD
3 47 (57.32%) DevOps
4 33 (40.24%) SDLC
5 29 (35.37%) Full-Stack Development
5 29 (35.37%) Secure Coding
6 24 (29.27%) ITIL
6 24 (29.27%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 21 (25.61%) Clean Code
8 20 (24.39%) Front End Development
9 17 (20.73%) Prototyping
10 16 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (14.63%) Responsive Web Design
12 11 (13.41%) Scrum
12 11 (13.41%) Software Engineering
12 11 (13.41%) User Experience
13 10 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (12.20%) Microservices
14 9 (10.98%) API Integration
14 9 (10.98%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 75 (91.46%) TypeScript
2 46 (56.10%) Java
3 40 (48.78%) Bash
3 40 (48.78%) Groovy
4 31 (37.80%) JavaScript
5 8 (9.76%) Python
6 6 (7.32%) PHP
7 5 (6.10%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.44%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.44%) Swift
9 1 (1.22%) C#
9 1 (1.22%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (40.24%) AWS Certification
2 24 (29.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 24 (29.27%) ITIL Certification
3 9 (10.98%) AWS Certified Developer
3 9 (10.98%) Degree
3 9 (10.98%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.98%) Security Cleared
4 5 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.41%) Accessibility
2 9 (10.98%) QA
3 3 (3.66%) GDPR
3 3 (3.66%) PERC
3 3 (3.66%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (56.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (50.00%) HP Fortify
2 4 (4.88%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.88%) Terraform
3 1 (1.22%) Grafana
3 1 (1.22%) Kibana
3 1 (1.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (2.44%) Google
1 2 (2.44%) SendGrid
2 1 (1.22%) Adobe
2 1 (1.22%) OpenAI
2 1 (1.22%) Oracle