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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 490 633
Rank change year-on-year -109 +143 -24
Permanent jobs citing Jest 83 125 181
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.34% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.09% 1.60% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 45 105 154
10th Percentile £39,500 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -1.82% -14.06%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £92,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,889 £100,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.59% -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 7,599 7,816 16,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.26% 21.39% 20.93%
Number of salaries quoted 5,759 5,954 14,041
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,350 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +10.58% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -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 10 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 10 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 -36 47 £65,000 +18.18% 12
Yorkshire -16 40 £78,750 - 3
London -28 18 £80,000 +18.52% 12
South West -55 8 £40,000 -53.08% 8
South East -63 7 £65,000 -16.13% 5
North East -28 4 £59,000 +5.83% 3
North West -39 3 £45,000 -18.18% 6
West Midlands -25 1 - - 5
Midlands -65 1 - - 5
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 (3.61%) JBoss
2 2 (2.41%) nginx
3 1 (1.20%) Confluence
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.20%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.41%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 48 (57.83%) AWS
2 44 (53.01%) Serverless
3 42 (50.60%) AWS Lambda
4 41 (49.40%) Amazon S3
5 40 (48.19%) Amazon ECR
5 40 (48.19%) Amazon ECS
5 40 (48.19%) Apigee
5 40 (48.19%) AWS Step Functions
6 39 (46.99%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (26.51%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (9.64%) GitHub
9 6 (7.23%) Figma
10 5 (6.02%) Azure
10 5 (6.02%) npm
11 4 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (4.82%) GCP
11 4 (4.82%) SaaS
12 3 (3.61%) Yarn
13 2 (2.41%) Algolia
13 2 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.41%) AMQP
2 1 (1.20%) Broadband
2 1 (1.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (48.19%) DynamoDB
2 3 (3.61%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.61%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.41%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.20%) MySQL
4 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.20%) Redis
4 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 59 (71.08%) Cypress.io
2 43 (51.81%) Jenkins
3 42 (50.60%) GitLab
4 41 (49.40%) SonarQube
5 40 (48.19%) Maven
6 17 (20.48%) Git
7 7 (8.43%) webpack
8 5 (6.02%) Babel
8 5 (6.02%) Cucumber
8 5 (6.02%) Selenium
8 5 (6.02%) Vite
9 4 (4.82%) JIRA
9 4 (4.82%) rollup.js
10 3 (3.61%) Mocha
10 3 (3.61%) Storybook
10 3 (3.61%) Visual Studio
10 3 (3.61%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (2.41%) Android Studio
11 2 (2.41%) Xcode
12 1 (1.20%) JUnit
General
1 11 (13.25%) Finance
2 5 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (6.02%) Social Skills
3 3 (3.61%) Retail
4 2 (2.41%) Games
4 2 (2.41%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.20%) Automotive
5 1 (1.20%) Front Office
5 1 (1.20%) iGaming
5 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.20%) Law
Job Titles
1 63 (75.90%) Developer
2 29 (34.94%) Java Developer
3 21 (25.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 16 (19.28%) Lead
5 14 (16.87%) Senior
6 12 (14.46%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (13.25%) Senior Developer
8 9 (10.84%) AWS Developer
9 8 (9.64%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 7 (8.43%) Software Engineer
10 7 (8.43%) Technical Leader
11 6 (7.23%) Lead Developer
11 6 (7.23%) React Developer
12 5 (6.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 4 (4.82%) JavaScript Developer
13 4 (4.82%) Python Developer
14 3 (3.61%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
14 3 (3.61%) Full-Stack Python Developer
15 2 (2.41%) Lead Java Developer
15 2 (2.41%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (60.24%) AngularJS
2 42 (50.60%) Spring Boot
3 40 (48.19%) Gherkin
4 32 (38.55%) CSS
5 31 (37.35%) React
6 25 (30.12%) HTML
7 22 (26.51%) Node.js
8 16 (19.28%) RESTful
9 13 (15.66%) Vue
10 11 (13.25%) Spring
11 10 (12.05%) Tailwind CSS
12 9 (10.84%) HTML5
13 8 (9.64%) CSS3
13 8 (9.64%) GraphQL
13 8 (9.64%) Sass
14 7 (8.43%) Redux
15 5 (6.02%) OAuth
15 5 (6.02%) REST
16 4 (4.82%) Express.js
16 4 (4.82%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.46%) Product Ownership
2 8 (9.64%) Mobile App
3 7 (8.43%) Cloud Native
3 7 (8.43%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.82%) Video\Live Streaming
5 3 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.41%) Animation
6 2 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.41%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.20%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.41%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (66.27%) Agile
2 52 (62.65%) CI/CD
3 47 (56.63%) DevOps
4 32 (38.55%) SDLC
5 29 (34.94%) Full-Stack Development
6 28 (33.73%) Secure Coding
7 23 (27.71%) ITIL
7 23 (27.71%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 22 (26.51%) Front End Development
9 20 (24.10%) Clean Code
10 17 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (19.28%) Prototyping
12 13 (15.66%) Software Engineering
13 12 (14.46%) Responsive Web Design
13 12 (14.46%) User Experience
14 11 (13.25%) Microservices
14 11 (13.25%) Scrum
15 10 (12.05%) API Integration
15 10 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
16 9 (10.84%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 76 (91.57%) TypeScript
2 46 (55.42%) Java
3 39 (46.99%) Bash
3 39 (46.99%) Groovy
4 33 (39.76%) JavaScript
5 8 (9.64%) Python
6 6 (7.23%) PHP
7 5 (6.02%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.41%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.41%) Swift
9 1 (1.20%) C#
9 1 (1.20%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.20%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (38.55%) AWS Certification
2 23 (27.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 23 (27.71%) ITIL Certification
3 10 (12.05%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.05%) Security Cleared
4 9 (10.84%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (10.84%) Degree
5 5 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.46%) Accessibility
2 10 (12.05%) QA
3 4 (4.82%) WCAG
4 3 (3.61%) GDPR
4 3 (3.61%) PERC
System Software
1 45 (54.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (48.19%) HP Fortify
2 4 (4.82%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.82%) Terraform
3 2 (2.41%) Kibana
4 1 (1.20%) Grafana
4 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (2.41%) Google
1 2 (2.41%) SendGrid
2 1 (1.20%) Adobe
2 1 (1.20%) OpenAI
2 1 (1.20%) Oracle