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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 536 531
Rank change year-on-year +23 -5 -5
Permanent jobs citing Jest 96 188 147
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.33% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.53% 1.55% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 54 111 101
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £54,063 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.90% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £87,188 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £96,250 £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 6,267 12,107 11,742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.13% 21.31% 26.38%
Number of salaries quoted 4,754 7,335 9,733
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% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,028
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.56% +1.58%

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 4 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 4 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 +49 42 £82,500 +3.13% 16
North of England +43 26 £65,000 +18.18% 8
South East -9 17 £62,500 -19.35% 14
North West +40 13 £62,500 +13.64% 4
Yorkshire +14 10 £80,000 - 4
South West +17 5 £76,250 +12.96% 8
Midlands +46 3 £53,750 -20.37%
North East +15 3 £50,000 -
West Midlands +46 2 £45,000 -40.00%
East of England +17 1 £60,000 -17.24%
East Midlands +14 1 £62,500 -3.85%
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 (9.38%) Headless CMS
2 2 (2.08%) nginx
3 1 (1.04%) CMS
3 1 (1.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.08%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (9.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 36 (37.50%) AWS
2 25 (26.04%) Serverless
3 24 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 23 (23.96%) Azure
5 22 (22.92%) Amazon S3
6 19 (19.79%) Figma
6 19 (19.79%) GitHub
7 18 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (9.38%) Amazon ECR
9 9 (9.38%) Apigee
9 9 (9.38%) AWS Step Functions
10 8 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (8.33%) Google Analytics
10 8 (8.33%) Vercel
11 6 (6.25%) SaaS
12 5 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (5.21%) Amazon MSK
12 5 (5.21%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.08%) AMQP
2 1 (1.04%) Broadband
2 1 (1.04%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.42%) NoSQL
2 9 (9.38%) DynamoDB
3 5 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.13%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 53 (55.21%) Cypress.io
2 26 (27.08%) Git
3 18 (18.75%) Jenkins
4 14 (14.58%) Vite
5 12 (12.50%) SonarQube
6 11 (11.46%) JIRA
7 10 (10.42%) GitLab
7 10 (10.42%) Maven
7 10 (10.42%) Storybook
8 9 (9.38%) webpack
9 6 (6.25%) Bitbucket
10 5 (5.21%) Babel
10 5 (5.21%) Visual Studio
10 5 (5.21%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (4.17%) rollup.js
12 3 (3.13%) Cucumber
13 2 (2.08%) Ant
13 2 (2.08%) Mocha
13 2 (2.08%) Mockito
13 2 (2.08%) Selenium
General
1 27 (28.13%) Finance
2 24 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.38%) Banking
4 7 (7.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (7.29%) Law
5 5 (5.21%) Investment Banking
5 5 (5.21%) Retail
6 3 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Games
8 1 (1.04%) Advertising
8 1 (1.04%) Automotive
8 1 (1.04%) Marketing
8 1 (1.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 51 (53.13%) Developer
2 31 (32.29%) Senior
3 27 (28.13%) Software Engineer
4 22 (22.92%) Lead
5 20 (20.83%) Senior Developer
6 18 (18.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 12 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (12.50%) React Developer
8 11 (11.46%) Technical Leader
9 8 (8.33%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 8 (8.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (7.29%) Principal Engineer
10 7 (7.29%) Principal Software Engineer
10 7 (7.29%) Senior Software Engineer
11 6 (6.25%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 6 (6.25%) UI Engineer
12 5 (5.21%) Lead Developer
12 5 (5.21%) Lead Software Engineer
12 5 (5.21%) Senior Manager
12 5 (5.21%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (78.13%) React
2 44 (45.83%) CSS
3 38 (39.58%) HTML
4 28 (29.17%) Next.js
4 28 (29.17%) Node.js
4 28 (29.17%) RESTful
5 24 (25.00%) GraphQL
6 23 (23.96%) Spring
6 23 (23.96%) Spring Boot
7 18 (18.75%) AngularJS
7 18 (18.75%) Playwright
7 18 (18.75%) Tailwind CSS
8 17 (17.71%) Redux
9 14 (14.58%) Kafka
10 13 (13.54%) Vitest
11 11 (11.46%) .NET
11 11 (11.46%) REST
12 10 (10.42%) Express.js
13 9 (9.38%) React Native
13 9 (9.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.71%) Cloud Native
2 15 (15.63%) Product Ownership
3 12 (12.50%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.21%) Virtual Team
5 4 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.17%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (3.13%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.08%) Animation
7 2 (2.08%) Derivative
7 2 (2.08%) Equities
7 2 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.08%) Online Banking
7 2 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.08%) Wiki
8 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.46%) Android
2 10 (10.42%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (71.88%) Agile
2 55 (57.29%) CI/CD
3 44 (45.83%) Software Engineering
4 42 (43.75%) DevOps
4 42 (43.75%) User Experience
5 39 (40.63%) Full-Stack Development
6 34 (35.42%) Front End Development
7 31 (32.29%) UX Design
8 24 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (19.79%) Mentoring
10 18 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (18.75%) SDLC
11 17 (17.71%) Test Automation
12 16 (16.67%) Analytics
12 16 (16.67%) Microservices
12 16 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
13 15 (15.63%) Code Quality
13 15 (15.63%) Pair Programming
13 15 (15.63%) Sprint Planning
14 14 (14.58%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 91 (94.79%) TypeScript
2 51 (53.13%) JavaScript
3 31 (32.29%) Java
4 11 (11.46%) SQL
5 8 (8.33%) Bash
5 8 (8.33%) Groovy
6 5 (5.21%) C#
7 4 (4.17%) Python
8 2 (2.08%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.08%) Swift
9 1 (1.04%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 14 (14.58%) Degree
2 10 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (9.38%) AWS Certification
3 9 (9.38%) AWS Certified Developer
4 5 (5.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (4.17%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (32.29%) Accessibility
2 25 (26.04%) QA
3 5 (5.21%) GDPR
3 5 (5.21%) PERC
3 5 (5.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (26.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (10.42%) Kubernetes
2 9 (9.38%) HP Fortify
3 5 (5.21%) Kibana
4 3 (3.13%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (8.33%) Apple
2 3 (3.13%) Google
3 2 (2.08%) Oracle
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.04%) Netlify
4 1 (1.04%) Veracode