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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 669 461 612
Rank change year-on-year -208 +151 -73
Permanent jobs citing Jest 80 204 137
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.083% 0.47% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.74% 2.53% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 42 63 106
10th Percentile £40,500 £44,500 £45,938
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -12.90%
75th Percentile £77,188 £81,875 £86,813
90th Percentile £120,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% -3.70% -10.00%

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 10,769 8,053 14,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.13% 18.36% 20.73%
Number of salaries quoted 8,022 5,394 10,469
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £38,978
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,525 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +5.42% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -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 29 August 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 29 August 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
London -77 29 £80,000 +18.52% 53
North of England -119 25 £68,750 +5.77% 13
South East -48 16 £55,000 -15.38% 10
Yorkshire -28 15 £72,500 -6.45% 1
North West -86 7 £66,250 - 10
South West -63 5 £40,000 - 15
North East -66 3 £67,500 +42.11% 2
West Midlands -37 1 £75,000 +50.00% 3
Midlands -58 1 £75,000 +36.36% 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 5 (6.25%) Confluence
2 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.50%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.50%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.25%) Apache
3 1 (1.25%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 48 (60.00%) AWS
2 32 (40.00%) Serverless
3 27 (33.75%) Amazon ECS
3 27 (33.75%) AWS Lambda
4 25 (31.25%) GitHub
5 24 (30.00%) Amazon S3
6 20 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (25.00%) Azure
7 19 (23.75%) Amazon ECR
8 18 (22.50%) Amazon SQS
9 17 (21.25%) AWS Step Functions
10 16 (20.00%) Apigee
11 12 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (8.75%) GCP
13 5 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (6.25%) Kong
14 4 (5.00%) GitHub Copilot
15 3 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (3.75%) AWS Fargate
15 3 (3.75%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.00%) VoIP
2 3 (3.75%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.50%) Asterisk PBX
3 2 (2.50%) DNS
3 2 (2.50%) HTTP
3 2 (2.50%) LAN
3 2 (2.50%) WAN
4 1 (1.25%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (26.25%) DynamoDB
2 19 (23.75%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (20.00%) MongoDB
4 9 (11.25%) MySQL
5 7 (8.75%) Relational Database
6 6 (7.50%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.75%) DocumentDB
7 3 (3.75%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.75%) Redis
7 3 (3.75%) Spatial Data
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 36 (45.00%) Cypress.io
2 26 (32.50%) GitLab
3 25 (31.25%) Git
4 19 (23.75%) Jenkins
5 18 (22.50%) SonarQube
6 17 (21.25%) Maven
7 11 (13.75%) Mocha
8 10 (12.50%) Selenium
9 9 (11.25%) JIRA
10 7 (8.75%) Jasmine
10 7 (8.75%) NUnit
11 5 (6.25%) Claude Code
12 4 (5.00%) Bitbucket
12 4 (5.00%) Vite
12 4 (5.00%) webpack
13 3 (3.75%) JUnit
13 3 (3.75%) Mockito
13 3 (3.75%) Storybook
14 2 (2.50%) Karma Test Runner
14 2 (2.50%) YouTrack
General
1 11 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.75%) Finance
4 5 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.25%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.25%) Banking
5 1 (1.25%) Front Office
5 1 (1.25%) Games
5 1 (1.25%) iGaming
5 1 (1.25%) Law
5 1 (1.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 59 (73.75%) Developer
2 28 (35.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 20 (25.00%) Senior
4 15 (18.75%) Java Developer
5 12 (15.00%) Senior Developer
5 12 (15.00%) Software Engineer
6 10 (12.50%) Lead
7 9 (11.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 8 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 8 (10.00%) React Developer
9 7 (8.75%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (6.25%) Lead Developer
10 5 (6.25%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (5.00%) Angular Developer
11 4 (5.00%) AWS Developer
11 4 (5.00%) Backend Developer
11 4 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 4 (5.00%) Java Engineer
11 4 (5.00%) Software Developer
12 3 (3.75%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (50.00%) React
2 39 (48.75%) Node.js
3 30 (37.50%) AngularJS
4 24 (30.00%) RESTful
5 18 (22.50%) REST
5 18 (22.50%) Spring Boot
6 17 (21.25%) CSS
7 16 (20.00%) Gherkin
7 16 (20.00%) Next.js
8 15 (18.75%) HTML
9 13 (16.25%) Redux
9 13 (16.25%) Terraform
10 12 (15.00%) .NET
10 12 (15.00%) Express.js
10 12 (15.00%) NestJS
11 9 (11.25%) GraphQL
11 9 (11.25%) Playwright
11 9 (11.25%) React Native
11 9 (11.25%) Vue
12 7 (8.75%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.25%) Product Ownership
2 8 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (8.75%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (7.50%) Cloud Native
4 6 (7.50%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (5.00%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.75%) AI Agents
6 3 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.25%) Blog
8 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.25%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.25%) Linux
2 4 (5.00%) Debian
3 3 (3.75%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.50%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.25%) Android
5 1 (1.25%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.25%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (72.50%) CI/CD
2 46 (57.50%) Agile
3 38 (47.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 37 (46.25%) DevOps
5 21 (26.25%) Test Automation
6 19 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (23.75%) Software Engineering
7 18 (22.50%) SDLC
8 17 (21.25%) Clean Code
9 16 (20.00%) Mentoring
10 15 (18.75%) ITIL
10 15 (18.75%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 14 (17.50%) Front End Development
11 14 (17.50%) Secure Coding
12 13 (16.25%) AI
12 13 (16.25%) Code Quality
13 12 (15.00%) Containerisation
13 12 (15.00%) Microservices
14 11 (13.75%) Technical Leadership
14 11 (13.75%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 56 (70.00%) TypeScript
2 35 (43.75%) JavaScript
3 25 (31.25%) Java
4 19 (23.75%) Bash
4 19 (23.75%) Python
5 17 (21.25%) Groovy
6 13 (16.25%) SQL
7 12 (15.00%) C#
8 7 (8.75%) PHP
9 1 (1.25%) C
9 1 (1.25%) Go
9 1 (1.25%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.25%) Ruby
9 1 (1.25%) Rust
9 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (22.50%) Security Cleared
2 17 (21.25%) SC Cleared
3 16 (20.00%) AWS Certification
4 14 (17.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 14 (17.50%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (7.50%) Degree
6 2 (2.50%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.25%) HNC
7 1 (1.25%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.75%) Accessibility
2 10 (12.50%) WCAG
3 7 (8.75%) QA
System Software
1 37 (46.25%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 16 (20.00%) HP Fortify
2 15 (18.75%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.75%) Grafana
4 2 (2.50%) Ansible
5 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (5.00%) Google
1 4 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.75%) Confluent
2 3 (3.75%) Dynatrace
2 3 (3.75%) OpenAI
3 2 (2.50%) IBM