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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 656 442 627
Rank change year-on-year -214 +185 -42
Permanent jobs citing Jest 75 225 161
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.083% 0.52% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.80% 2.85% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 38 85 142
10th Percentile £36,750 £47,500 £45,688
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -10.80%
75th Percentile £79,688 £82,500 £94,375
90th Percentile £92,000 £131,906 £99,500
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 9,363 7,887 14,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.42% 18.11% 18.79%
Number of salaries quoted 7,123 5,327 11,259
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -88 30 £65,000 +16.59% 10
Yorkshire -11 25 £72,500 -6.45% 4
London -56 23 £80,000 +20.75% 21
South East -35 15 £53,750 -17.31% 6
South West -66 4 £40,000 -61.54% 3
North West -83 3 £50,000 -23.08% 4
North East -56 2 £65,000 +36.84% 2
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 (6.67%) Confluence
2 3 (4.00%) JBoss
3 1 (1.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 44 (58.67%) AWS
2 35 (46.67%) Serverless
3 31 (41.33%) Amazon ECS
3 31 (41.33%) AWS Lambda
4 28 (37.33%) Amazon S3
5 27 (36.00%) Amazon ECR
6 26 (34.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 26 (34.67%) AWS Step Functions
7 25 (33.33%) Apigee
8 22 (29.33%) Amazon SQS
9 16 (21.33%) GitHub
10 9 (12.00%) Azure
11 5 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (4.00%) GCP
12 3 (4.00%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (4.00%) Supabase
12 3 (4.00%) Vercel
13 2 (2.67%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.33%) VoIP
2 2 (2.67%) Asterisk PBX
2 2 (2.67%) LAN
2 2 (2.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.67%) WAN
3 1 (1.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (37.33%) DynamoDB
2 13 (17.33%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (16.00%) MongoDB
4 9 (12.00%) MySQL
5 3 (4.00%) Redis
5 3 (4.00%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.00%) Spatial Data
5 3 (4.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.67%) DocumentDB
6 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 39 (52.00%) Cypress.io
2 32 (42.67%) GitLab
3 27 (36.00%) Jenkins
3 27 (36.00%) SonarQube
4 26 (34.67%) Maven
5 19 (25.33%) Git
6 9 (12.00%) JIRA
7 8 (10.67%) Selenium
8 7 (9.33%) Vite
8 7 (9.33%) webpack
9 6 (8.00%) Mocha
10 5 (6.67%) Jasmine
11 4 (5.33%) Bitbucket
11 4 (5.33%) Claude Code
12 3 (4.00%) Cucumber
12 3 (4.00%) NUnit
13 2 (2.67%) Karma Test Runner
13 2 (2.67%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (2.67%) YouTrack
14 1 (1.33%) fastlane
General
1 10 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (9.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.00%) Finance
3 3 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (4.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.33%) Front Office
4 1 (1.33%) Games
4 1 (1.33%) iGaming
4 1 (1.33%) Law
4 1 (1.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (86.67%) Developer
2 25 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 24 (32.00%) Java Developer
4 16 (21.33%) Senior
5 12 (16.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 12 (16.00%) Senior Developer
6 11 (14.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 11 (14.67%) Lead
7 8 (10.67%) Lead Developer
7 8 (10.67%) React Developer
8 6 (8.00%) AWS Developer
9 5 (6.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (5.33%) Angular Developer
10 4 (5.33%) JavaScript Developer
10 4 (5.33%) Python Developer
10 4 (5.33%) Software Engineer
11 3 (4.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
11 3 (4.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 3 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
11 3 (4.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (50.67%) AngularJS
2 32 (42.67%) React
3 31 (41.33%) Node.js
4 27 (36.00%) Spring Boot
5 25 (33.33%) Gherkin
6 20 (26.67%) CSS
7 17 (22.67%) HTML
8 13 (17.33%) RESTful
9 12 (16.00%) Vue
10 11 (14.67%) REST
11 10 (13.33%) Next.js
12 9 (12.00%) HTML5
12 9 (12.00%) Redux
13 8 (10.67%) Sass
14 7 (9.33%) .NET
14 7 (9.33%) Express.js
14 7 (9.33%) NestJS
15 6 (8.00%) CSS3
15 6 (8.00%) React Native
15 6 (8.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (6.67%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.67%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.33%) Blog
6 1 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.33%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.33%) Debian
1 4 (5.33%) Linux
2 3 (4.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.67%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 48 (64.00%) Agile
3 39 (52.00%) DevOps
4 33 (44.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 23 (30.67%) SDLC
6 22 (29.33%) Clean Code
7 21 (28.00%) ITIL
7 21 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (28.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 20 (26.67%) Secure Coding
9 15 (20.00%) Mentoring
10 14 (18.67%) Front End Development
11 12 (16.00%) User Experience
12 11 (14.67%) Prototyping
12 11 (14.67%) Web Development
13 9 (12.00%) Containerisation
13 9 (12.00%) Test Automation
14 8 (10.67%) AI
14 8 (10.67%) Code Quality
14 8 (10.67%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 57 (76.00%) TypeScript
2 32 (42.67%) JavaScript
3 29 (38.67%) Java
4 28 (37.33%) Bash
5 26 (34.67%) Groovy
6 15 (20.00%) Python
7 9 (12.00%) PHP
7 9 (12.00%) SQL
8 8 (10.67%) C#
9 3 (4.00%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 20 (26.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 20 (26.67%) ITIL Certification
3 15 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 15 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (6.67%) Degree
5 4 (5.33%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.67%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.33%) HNC
8 1 (1.33%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.33%) Accessibility
2 7 (9.33%) WCAG
3 3 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 40 (53.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (33.33%) HP Fortify
2 10 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 7 (9.33%) Terraform
4 1 (1.33%) Grafana
4 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (4.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.67%) Confluent
2 2 (2.67%) Dynatrace
2 2 (2.67%) Google
3 1 (1.33%) OpenAI