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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 527 519 513
Rank change year-on-year -8 -6 +14
Permanent jobs citing Jest 87 182 143
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.17% 0.35% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.42% 1.61% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 52 113 99
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,125 £62,500 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.52% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £86,563 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £96,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% - -

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 6,145 11,306 11,466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.07% 21.61% 26.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4,758 6,915 9,528
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,883 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.36% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,210 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 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
London +42 31 £82,500 +3.13% 19
North of England +35 28 £65,000 +8.33% 30
South East -18 17 £62,500 -19.35% 24
Yorkshire - 15 £80,000 - 11
North West +29 10 £60,000 - 14
South West +5 4 £76,250 +12.96% 9
Midlands +25 3 £53,750 -17.31% 6
North East +1 3 £50,000 - 5
West Midlands +29 2 £45,000 -40.00% 3
East of England +17 1 £60,000 -17.24% 4
East Midlands -3 1 £62,500 - 3
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 9 (10.34%) Headless CMS
2 2 (2.30%) nginx
3 1 (1.15%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.30%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (10.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 41 (47.13%) AWS
2 31 (35.63%) Serverless
3 29 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 27 (31.03%) Amazon S3
5 23 (26.44%) Amazon ECS
6 22 (25.29%) Azure
7 20 (22.99%) GitHub
8 19 (21.84%) Figma
9 14 (16.09%) Amazon ECR
9 14 (16.09%) Apigee
9 14 (16.09%) AWS Step Functions
10 13 (14.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (12.64%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (11.49%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (9.20%) Google Analytics
13 8 (9.20%) Vercel
14 6 (6.90%) npm
14 6 (6.90%) SaaS
15 5 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (5.75%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.30%) AMQP
2 1 (1.15%) Broadband
2 1 (1.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.09%) DynamoDB
2 9 (10.34%) NoSQL
3 5 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.30%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.15%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 54 (62.07%) Cypress.io
2 24 (27.59%) Git
3 23 (26.44%) Jenkins
4 15 (17.24%) GitLab
4 15 (17.24%) SonarQube
5 14 (16.09%) Maven
6 12 (13.79%) Storybook
7 10 (11.49%) JIRA
8 7 (8.05%) Vite
9 6 (6.90%) webpack
10 5 (5.75%) Babel
10 5 (5.75%) Bitbucket
10 5 (5.75%) Visual Studio
10 5 (5.75%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (4.60%) rollup.js
12 2 (2.30%) Cucumber
12 2 (2.30%) ESLint
12 2 (2.30%) Mocha
13 1 (1.15%) Mockito
13 1 (1.15%) Selenium
General
1 23 (26.44%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.84%) Finance
3 5 (5.75%) Retail
4 4 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.45%) Banking
6 2 (2.30%) Games
7 1 (1.15%) Advertising
7 1 (1.15%) Automotive
7 1 (1.15%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.15%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 53 (60.92%) Developer
2 27 (31.03%) Senior
3 19 (21.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 19 (21.84%) Lead
4 18 (20.69%) Senior Developer
5 15 (17.24%) Software Engineer
6 13 (14.94%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (13.79%) Technical Leader
8 10 (11.49%) React Developer
9 8 (9.20%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 8 (9.20%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (6.90%) Java Developer
10 6 (6.90%) Principal Engineer
10 6 (6.90%) Principal Software Engineer
11 5 (5.75%) Senior Manager
11 5 (5.75%) Senior Technical Manager
11 5 (5.75%) Technical Manager
12 4 (4.60%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 3 (3.45%) Mobile Developer
13 3 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (71.26%) React
2 39 (44.83%) CSS
3 34 (39.08%) HTML
4 30 (34.48%) RESTful
5 28 (32.18%) Next.js
6 27 (31.03%) Spring Boot
7 25 (28.74%) Node.js
8 22 (25.29%) GraphQL
9 21 (24.14%) Spring
10 19 (21.84%) AngularJS
11 18 (20.69%) Tailwind CSS
12 16 (18.39%) Redux
13 14 (16.09%) Gherkin
13 14 (16.09%) Playwright
13 14 (16.09%) Vitest
14 11 (12.64%) .NET
14 11 (12.64%) Express.js
15 9 (10.34%) HTML5
15 9 (10.34%) REST
16 8 (9.20%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.39%) Cloud Native
2 13 (14.94%) Product Ownership
3 11 (12.64%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.75%) Virtual Team
5 4 (4.60%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.30%) Animation
7 2 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.30%) Online Banking
8 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.49%) Android
2 9 (10.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (71.26%) Agile
2 51 (58.62%) CI/CD
3 44 (50.57%) DevOps
4 38 (43.68%) Full-Stack Development
5 37 (42.53%) User Experience
6 34 (39.08%) Front End Development
7 30 (34.48%) Software Engineering
8 29 (33.33%) UX Design
9 23 (26.44%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (21.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (21.84%) Mentoring
11 17 (19.54%) Microservices
12 16 (18.39%) Analytics
12 16 (18.39%) SDLC
12 16 (18.39%) Sprint Planning
13 15 (17.24%) Responsive Web Design
13 15 (17.24%) Unit Testing
14 14 (16.09%) Code Quality
14 14 (16.09%) Pair Programming
14 14 (16.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 83 (95.40%) TypeScript
2 45 (51.72%) JavaScript
3 30 (34.48%) Java
4 13 (14.94%) Bash
4 13 (14.94%) Groovy
5 8 (9.20%) SQL
6 4 (4.60%) C#
7 2 (2.30%) Python
8 1 (1.15%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.15%) Swift
Qualifications
1 14 (16.09%) Degree
2 12 (13.79%) AWS Certification
3 10 (11.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (10.34%) AWS Certified Developer
5 5 (5.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.60%) SC Cleared
6 4 (4.60%) Security Cleared
7 3 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (36.78%) Accessibility
2 24 (27.59%) QA
3 6 (6.90%) WCAG
4 5 (5.75%) GDPR
4 5 (5.75%) PERC
System Software
1 28 (32.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (16.09%) HP Fortify
2 6 (6.90%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.75%) Kibana
4 3 (3.45%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (9.20%) Apple
2 4 (4.60%) Google
3 1 (1.15%) Adobe
3 1 (1.15%) Netlify
3 1 (1.15%) SendGrid