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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 533 534
Rank change year-on-year +60 +1 -106
Permanent jobs citing Jest 145 173 150
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.33% 0.29% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.15% 1.40% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 57 99 112
10th Percentile £43,250 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £75,669
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -0.88% +0.89%
75th Percentile £86,250 £93,750 £97,290
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% -3.33% +3.45%

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 6,733 12,352 12,971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.21% 20.37% 27.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4,669 7,408 10,644
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,075 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.52% +1.54%

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 8 November 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 8 November 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 +64 52 £80,000 - 79
North of England +48 52 £55,000 -8.33% 33
North West +45 44 £60,000 - 18
South East +1 23 £62,500 -19.35% 83
Midlands +67 8 £53,750 +7.50% 9
North East +16 6 £45,000 - 5
West Midlands +47 5 £45,000 - 7
South West +25 4 £81,250 +20.37% 5
East Midlands +20 3 £62,500 +25.00% 2
East of England +15 3 £53,750 -25.86% 4
Yorkshire +9 2 £78,750 - 10
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 (6.21%) Headless CMS
2 6 (4.14%) IIS
3 3 (2.07%) Confluence
4 1 (0.69%) CMS
4 1 (0.69%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Adobe XD
1 2 (1.38%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (6.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 71 (48.97%) AWS
2 61 (42.07%) Azure
3 20 (13.79%) GitHub
4 16 (11.03%) Figma
4 16 (11.03%) Serverless
5 15 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (8.97%) Amazon S3
7 10 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (6.21%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (5.52%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (5.52%) Google Analytics
9 8 (5.52%) Vercel
10 7 (4.83%) Cloudflare
10 7 (4.83%) SaaS
11 6 (4.14%) npm
12 5 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (3.45%) Amazon MSK
12 5 (3.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 5 (3.45%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.38%) HTTP
2 1 (0.69%) AMQP
2 1 (0.69%) Broadband
2 1 (0.69%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (30.34%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.28%) NoSQL
3 8 (5.52%) MySQL
4 6 (4.14%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.38%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.69%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 50 (34.48%) JIRA
2 46 (31.72%) Cypress.io
3 43 (29.66%) Bitbucket
4 39 (26.90%) SonarQube
5 38 (26.21%) Cucumber
5 38 (26.21%) Git
6 37 (25.52%) GitLab
6 37 (25.52%) Maven
6 37 (25.52%) Selenium
6 37 (25.52%) Sonatype Nexus
7 23 (15.86%) Vite
8 13 (8.97%) webpack
9 10 (6.90%) Jenkins
9 10 (6.90%) Storybook
10 7 (4.83%) Jasmine
11 6 (4.14%) NUnit
11 6 (4.14%) TeamCity
12 4 (2.76%) Babel
12 4 (2.76%) Visual Studio
12 4 (2.76%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 75 (51.72%) Finance
2 54 (37.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 53 (36.55%) Banking
4 45 (31.03%) Investment Banking
5 40 (27.59%) Retail
6 36 (24.83%) Corporate Banking
6 36 (24.83%) Social Skills
7 18 (12.41%) Law
8 6 (4.14%) Games
9 4 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.76%) Marketing
10 1 (0.69%) Advertising
10 1 (0.69%) Automotive
10 1 (0.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 76 (52.41%) Software Engineer
2 58 (40.00%) Developer
3 38 (26.21%) Senior
4 28 (19.31%) Senior Developer
5 19 (13.10%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 18 (12.41%) Full-Stack Developer
7 17 (11.72%) Lead
8 14 (9.66%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (8.28%) React Developer
9 12 (8.28%) UI Engineer
10 11 (7.59%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 9 (6.21%) Lead Software Engineer
12 8 (5.52%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (5.52%) Web Engineer
13 7 (4.83%) Principal Engineer
13 7 (4.83%) Principal Software Engineer
13 7 (4.83%) Senior Front-End Developer
14 6 (4.14%) Technical Leader
15 5 (3.45%) Senior .NET Developer
15 5 (3.45%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (89.66%) React
2 94 (64.83%) CSS
3 85 (58.62%) HTML
4 70 (48.28%) RESTful
5 57 (39.31%) Spring
6 54 (37.24%) Redux
7 53 (36.55%) CSS3
7 53 (36.55%) Kafka
8 52 (35.86%) HTML5
9 51 (35.17%) REST
10 50 (34.48%) Spring Boot
11 41 (28.28%) Sass
12 38 (26.21%) JPA
13 29 (20.00%) Next.js
14 27 (18.62%) Playwright
15 24 (16.55%) Node.js
16 23 (15.86%) GraphQL
17 19 (13.10%) AngularJS
18 18 (12.41%) .NET
18 18 (12.41%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 50 (34.48%) Product Ownership
2 36 (24.83%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (10.34%) Cloud Native
4 14 (9.66%) Mobile App
5 7 (4.83%) Algorithms
6 5 (3.45%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.76%) Derivative
7 4 (2.76%) Equities
7 4 (2.76%) Online Games
7 4 (2.76%) Wiki
8 2 (1.38%) Animation
8 2 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.38%) Online Banking
8 2 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.69%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.28%) Android
1 12 (8.28%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (77.93%) Agile
2 97 (66.90%) CI/CD
3 92 (63.45%) Software Engineering
4 85 (58.62%) User Experience
5 80 (55.17%) Full-Stack Development
6 74 (51.03%) DevOps
6 74 (51.03%) Front End Development
7 60 (41.38%) SDLC
8 55 (37.93%) Mentoring
9 54 (37.24%) Test Automation
10 52 (35.86%) Responsive Web Design
11 48 (33.10%) Microservices
11 48 (33.10%) Performance Optimisation
12 42 (28.97%) Strategic Thinking
13 39 (26.90%) Containerisation
14 37 (25.52%) Migration
15 34 (23.45%) UX Design
16 31 (21.38%) Problem-Solving
17 18 (12.41%) Analytics
18 17 (11.72%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 139 (95.86%) TypeScript
2 101 (69.66%) JavaScript
3 61 (42.07%) Java
4 50 (34.48%) SQL
5 13 (8.97%) C#
6 5 (3.45%) Python
7 2 (1.38%) PHP
8 1 (0.69%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.69%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.69%) Swift
Qualifications
1 14 (9.66%) Degree
2 11 (7.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.45%) AWS Certification
3 5 (3.45%) AWS Certified Developer
3 5 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (2.76%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.76%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (46.21%) Accessibility
2 59 (40.69%) QA
3 6 (4.14%) WCAG
4 4 (2.76%) GDPR
4 4 (2.76%) PERC
System Software
1 55 (37.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 49 (33.79%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.14%) Terraform
3 5 (3.45%) Kibana
4 3 (2.07%) Grafana
Vendors
1 36 (24.83%) Solace
2 8 (5.52%) Apple
3 7 (4.83%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.14%) Rollbar
5 4 (2.76%) Oracle
6 3 (2.07%) Google
7 1 (0.69%) Netlify
7 1 (0.69%) Veracode