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 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 526 516 534
Rank change year-on-year -10 +18 +44
Permanent jobs citing Jest 80 180 134
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.15% 0.37% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.28% 1.72% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 52 112 90
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,375 £49,875
25th Percentile £54,688 £61,563 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £76,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.75% +8.93% -12.50%
75th Percentile £82,500 £93,125 £92,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £96,125 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% -3.33% -3.23%

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 6,235 10,477 11,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.86% 21.49% 24.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4,798 6,169 9,746
10th Percentile £35,854 £40,013 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 7 January 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 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
North of England +26 31 £62,500 - 22
London +9 23 £80,000 - 16
Yorkshire - 17 £77,500 - 7
South East -30 15 £62,500 -19.35% 23
North West +18 10 £60,000 -4.00% 9
North East +6 4 £58,750 - 6
South West +4 4 £76,250 +12.96% 11
Midlands +16 3 £53,750 -17.31% 7
West Midlands +23 2 £45,000 -40.00% 3
East of England +14 1 £60,000 -17.24% 14
East Midlands -1 1 £62,500 - 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 2 (2.50%) Headless CMS
1 2 (2.50%) nginx
2 1 (1.25%) CMS
2 1 (1.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.50%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 37 (46.25%) AWS
2 27 (33.75%) Serverless
3 25 (31.25%) AWS Lambda
4 23 (28.75%) Amazon S3
5 20 (25.00%) GitHub
6 19 (23.75%) Amazon ECS
6 19 (23.75%) Azure
7 17 (21.25%) Amazon ECR
7 17 (21.25%) Apigee
7 17 (21.25%) AWS Step Functions
8 16 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (15.00%) Figma
10 11 (13.75%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (7.50%) GCP
11 6 (7.50%) npm
11 6 (7.50%) SaaS
12 5 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (6.25%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) AMQP
2 1 (1.25%) Broadband
2 1 (1.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (21.25%) DynamoDB
2 5 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.75%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.50%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 50 (62.50%) Cypress.io
2 26 (32.50%) Jenkins
3 24 (30.00%) Git
4 18 (22.50%) GitLab
4 18 (22.50%) SonarQube
5 17 (21.25%) Maven
6 11 (13.75%) JIRA
6 11 (13.75%) Storybook
7 7 (8.75%) Vite
8 6 (7.50%) webpack
9 5 (6.25%) Babel
9 5 (6.25%) Bitbucket
9 5 (6.25%) Visual Studio
9 5 (6.25%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (5.00%) rollup.js
11 2 (2.50%) Cucumber
11 2 (2.50%) Mocha
12 1 (1.25%) Jasmine
12 1 (1.25%) Mockito
12 1 (1.25%) Selenium
General
1 17 (21.25%) Finance
2 15 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.25%) Retail
4 3 (3.75%) Banking
5 2 (2.50%) Games
6 1 (1.25%) Automotive
6 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 49 (61.25%) Developer
2 22 (27.50%) Senior
3 21 (26.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 19 (23.75%) Lead
5 13 (16.25%) Senior Developer
5 13 (16.25%) Software Engineer
6 12 (15.00%) Technical Leader
7 10 (12.50%) React Developer
7 10 (12.50%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 9 (11.25%) Java Developer
9 7 (8.75%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (7.50%) Principal Engineer
10 6 (7.50%) Principal Software Engineer
11 5 (6.25%) Senior Manager
11 5 (6.25%) Senior Technical Manager
11 5 (6.25%) Technical Manager
12 4 (5.00%) AWS Developer
13 3 (3.75%) Lead Developer
13 3 (3.75%) Senior Software Engineer
14 2 (2.50%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (65.00%) React
2 33 (41.25%) CSS
3 30 (37.50%) Spring Boot
4 28 (35.00%) HTML
5 26 (32.50%) RESTful
6 23 (28.75%) AngularJS
7 22 (27.50%) Spring
8 18 (22.50%) Next.js
8 18 (22.50%) Node.js
9 17 (21.25%) Gherkin
10 15 (18.75%) GraphQL
10 15 (18.75%) Redux
11 10 (12.50%) HTML5
11 10 (12.50%) Tailwind CSS
12 9 (11.25%) .NET
12 9 (11.25%) CSS3
13 8 (10.00%) Kafka
13 8 (10.00%) REST
13 8 (10.00%) Vue
14 7 (8.75%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 14 (17.50%) Product Ownership
3 9 (11.25%) Mobile App
4 5 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.25%) Virtual Team
5 4 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (5.00%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (2.50%) Animation
6 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.50%) Online Banking
7 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.00%) Android
2 7 (8.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (70.00%) Agile
2 53 (66.25%) CI/CD
3 46 (57.50%) DevOps
4 36 (45.00%) Front End Development
5 32 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 29 (36.25%) Software Engineering
7 27 (33.75%) User Experience
8 20 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (23.75%) SDLC
9 19 (23.75%) UX Design
10 18 (22.50%) Mentoring
10 18 (22.50%) Microservices
11 17 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
13 15 (18.75%) Code Quality
14 13 (16.25%) Scrum
15 12 (15.00%) API Integration
15 12 (15.00%) Design Patterns
16 11 (13.75%) Clean Code
17 10 (12.50%) Micro Frontends
Programming Languages
1 74 (92.50%) TypeScript
2 40 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 33 (41.25%) Java
4 16 (20.00%) Bash
4 16 (20.00%) Groovy
5 2 (2.50%) C#
5 2 (2.50%) Python
5 2 (2.50%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.25%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.25%) SQL
6 1 (1.25%) Swift
Qualifications
1 14 (17.50%) AWS Certification
2 13 (16.25%) Degree
3 10 (12.50%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (11.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (5.00%) SC Cleared
6 4 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (31.25%) Accessibility
2 22 (27.50%) QA
3 7 (8.75%) WCAG
4 5 (6.25%) GDPR
4 5 (6.25%) PERC
System Software
1 31 (38.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (21.25%) HP Fortify
2 6 (7.50%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.25%) Kibana
4 3 (3.75%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (6.25%) Google
2 2 (2.50%) SendGrid
3 1 (1.25%) Adobe
3 1 (1.25%) Apple