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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 503 566
Rank change year-on-year -32 +63 +12
Permanent jobs citing Jest 87 181 143
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.16% 0.38% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.37% 1.75% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 56 110 99
10th Percentile £47,296 £51,250 £51,000
25th Percentile £54,688 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,125 £112,500
UK median annual salary £63,750 £72,500 £73,750
% change year-on-year -12.07% -1.69% -7.81%

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 6,358 10,353 13,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.67% 21.64% 23.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,864 6,088 11,216
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £39,748
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -5.55%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £63,802
% change year-on-year - +1.88% -5.48%

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 22 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 22 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 +33 36 £60,000 -4.00% 30
Yorkshire +6 22 £77,500 - 13
London -2 22 £85,000 +6.25% 16
South East -22 15 £62,500 -19.35% 35
North West +17 9 £60,000 -4.00% 12
South West +8 6 £72,500 +7.41% 25
North East +6 5 £59,000 - 5
Midlands +14 3 £53,750 -18.87% 15
West Midlands +29 2 £45,000 -40.00% 6
East of England +13 1 £60,000 -17.24% 22
East Midlands -7 1 £62,500 -3.85% 8
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 (2.30%) nginx
2 1 (1.15%) CMS
2 1 (1.15%) Confluence
2 1 (1.15%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.15%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.30%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 42 (48.28%) AWS
2 31 (35.63%) Serverless
3 29 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 28 (32.18%) Amazon S3
5 23 (26.44%) Amazon ECS
6 22 (25.29%) Amazon ECR
6 22 (25.29%) Apigee
6 22 (25.29%) AWS Step Functions
7 21 (24.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (22.99%) GitHub
9 17 (19.54%) Azure
10 11 (12.64%) Figma
11 9 (10.34%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (6.90%) GCP
12 6 (6.90%) npm
12 6 (6.90%) SaaS
13 5 (5.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (5.75%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.30%) AMQP
2 1 (1.15%) Broadband
2 1 (1.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (25.29%) DynamoDB
2 5 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.45%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.45%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.30%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 55 (63.22%) Cypress.io
2 32 (36.78%) Jenkins
3 24 (27.59%) Git
3 24 (27.59%) GitLab
4 23 (26.44%) SonarQube
5 22 (25.29%) Maven
6 11 (12.64%) JIRA
7 9 (10.34%) Storybook
8 7 (8.05%) Vite
9 5 (5.75%) Babel
9 5 (5.75%) Bitbucket
9 5 (5.75%) Visual Studio
9 5 (5.75%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (5.75%) webpack
10 4 (4.60%) rollup.js
11 3 (3.45%) Mocha
12 2 (2.30%) Cucumber
12 2 (2.30%) JUnit
12 2 (2.30%) Selenium
12 2 (2.30%) Xcode
General
1 19 (21.84%) Finance
2 15 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.75%) Retail
4 3 (3.45%) Banking
5 2 (2.30%) Games
5 2 (2.30%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.15%) Automotive
6 1 (1.15%) Front Office
6 1 (1.15%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (64.37%) Developer
2 25 (28.74%) Senior
3 22 (25.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 18 (20.69%) Lead
5 15 (17.24%) Java Developer
5 15 (17.24%) Senior Developer
6 14 (16.09%) Software Engineer
7 11 (12.64%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 11 (12.64%) Technical Leader
8 10 (11.49%) React Developer
9 6 (6.90%) AWS Developer
9 6 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (6.90%) Principal Engineer
9 6 (6.90%) Principal Software Engineer
10 5 (5.75%) Senior Manager
10 5 (5.75%) Senior Technical Manager
10 5 (5.75%) Technical Manager
11 4 (4.60%) Senior Software Engineer
12 3 (3.45%) Lead Developer
13 2 (2.30%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (60.92%) React
2 35 (40.23%) Spring Boot
3 34 (39.08%) CSS
4 29 (33.33%) AngularJS
4 29 (33.33%) HTML
5 26 (29.89%) RESTful
6 22 (25.29%) Gherkin
6 22 (25.29%) Spring
7 19 (21.84%) Node.js
8 16 (18.39%) Redux
9 15 (17.24%) Next.js
10 14 (16.09%) GraphQL
11 11 (12.64%) HTML5
12 10 (11.49%) CSS3
12 10 (11.49%) Tailwind CSS
12 10 (11.49%) Vue
13 9 (10.34%) REST
14 8 (9.20%) Kafka
15 7 (8.05%) .NET
16 6 (6.90%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.39%) Cloud Native
2 13 (14.94%) Product Ownership
3 10 (11.49%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.75%) Virtual Team
5 4 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.60%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.30%) Animation
7 2 (2.30%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.30%) Online Banking
8 1 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.20%) Android
2 6 (6.90%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (70.11%) Agile
1 61 (70.11%) CI/CD
2 50 (57.47%) DevOps
3 37 (42.53%) Front End Development
4 30 (34.48%) Full-Stack Development
5 29 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 24 (27.59%) SDLC
6 24 (27.59%) User Experience
7 19 (21.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (19.54%) Mentoring
8 17 (19.54%) UX Design
9 16 (18.39%) Microservices
9 16 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (18.39%) Responsive Web Design
10 15 (17.24%) Clean Code
10 15 (17.24%) Code Quality
11 14 (16.09%) Secure Coding
12 13 (14.94%) Design Patterns
12 13 (14.94%) Scrum
13 12 (13.79%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 79 (90.80%) TypeScript
2 40 (45.98%) Java
2 40 (45.98%) JavaScript
3 21 (24.14%) Bash
3 21 (24.14%) Groovy
4 4 (4.60%) Python
5 2 (2.30%) C#
5 2 (2.30%) Kotlin
5 2 (2.30%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.30%) Swift
6 1 (1.15%) PHP
6 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.15%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (21.84%) AWS Certification
2 14 (16.09%) Degree
3 10 (11.49%) AWS Certified Developer
3 10 (11.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (10.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 9 (10.34%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (5.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (5.75%) SC Cleared
5 5 (5.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (26.44%) Accessibility
2 21 (24.14%) QA
3 7 (8.05%) WCAG
4 5 (5.75%) GDPR
4 5 (5.75%) PERC
System Software
1 36 (41.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (25.29%) HP Fortify
2 7 (8.05%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.75%) Kibana
4 2 (2.30%) Grafana
5 1 (1.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (4.60%) Google
2 2 (2.30%) SendGrid
3 1 (1.15%) Adobe
3 1 (1.15%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.15%) Oracle