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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 606 490 646
Rank change year-on-year -116 +156 -20
Permanent jobs citing Jest 80 128 184
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.10% 0.34% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.03% 1.70% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 37 107 159
10th Percentile £37,500 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -15.63%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £92,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £140,677 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £68,750
% change year-on-year -18.52% -1.82% -8.33%

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 7,784 7,540 16,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.78% 19.93% 20.30%
Number of salaries quoted 5,886 5,824 14,041
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,651
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £66,295 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.31% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 28 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 28 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 -25 45 £77,500 +40.91% 9
Yorkshire -22 41 £78,750 - 3
London -24 19 £80,000 +18.52% 10
South West -58 8 £40,000 -53.08% 6
South East -77 6 £65,000 -10.34% 7
North East -40 3 £59,000 +5.83% 1
North West -36 1 £45,000 -18.18% 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 (3.75%) JBoss
2 1 (1.25%) Confluence
2 1 (1.25%) nginx
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.25%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.25%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 47 (58.75%) AWS
2 44 (55.00%) Serverless
3 42 (52.50%) Amazon S3
3 42 (52.50%) AWS Lambda
4 41 (51.25%) Amazon ECR
4 41 (51.25%) Amazon ECS
4 41 (51.25%) Apigee
4 41 (51.25%) AWS Step Functions
5 40 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 23 (28.75%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (10.00%) GitHub
8 5 (6.25%) Azure
8 5 (6.25%) Figma
9 4 (5.00%) GCP
10 3 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.75%) npm
11 2 (2.50%) Algolia
11 2 (2.50%) Cloud Functions
11 2 (2.50%) Stripe
11 2 (2.50%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) AMQP
1 1 (1.25%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (51.25%) DynamoDB
2 3 (3.75%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.75%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.50%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.50%) MySQL
3 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.25%) Redis
4 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 53 (66.25%) Cypress.io
2 44 (55.00%) GitLab
3 42 (52.50%) Jenkins
3 42 (52.50%) SonarQube
4 41 (51.25%) Maven
5 17 (21.25%) Git
6 5 (6.25%) Cucumber
6 5 (6.25%) Selenium
6 5 (6.25%) webpack
7 4 (5.00%) Babel
7 4 (5.00%) rollup.js
7 4 (5.00%) Vite
8 3 (3.75%) JIRA
8 3 (3.75%) Storybook
9 2 (2.50%) Android Studio
9 2 (2.50%) JUnit
9 2 (2.50%) Mocha
9 2 (2.50%) Visual Studio
9 2 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (2.50%) Xcode
General
1 10 (12.50%) Finance
2 6 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.25%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.50%) Games
4 2 (2.50%) Retail
5 1 (1.25%) Front Office
5 1 (1.25%) iGaming
5 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.25%) Law
5 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 62 (77.50%) Developer
2 30 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 17 (21.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 17 (21.25%) Lead
4 12 (15.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 12 (15.00%) Senior
5 10 (12.50%) AWS Developer
6 9 (11.25%) React Developer
7 8 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 7 (8.75%) Technical Leader
9 6 (7.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 6 (7.50%) Lead Developer
10 5 (6.25%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 4 (5.00%) JavaScript Developer
11 4 (5.00%) Python Developer
11 4 (5.00%) Software Engineer
12 3 (3.75%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
12 3 (3.75%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 2 (2.50%) Lead Java Developer
13 2 (2.50%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (61.25%) AngularJS
2 42 (52.50%) Spring Boot
3 41 (51.25%) Gherkin
4 29 (36.25%) React
5 27 (33.75%) CSS
6 21 (26.25%) HTML
7 20 (25.00%) Node.js
8 12 (15.00%) RESTful
8 12 (15.00%) Vue
9 10 (12.50%) Spring
10 9 (11.25%) HTML5
10 9 (11.25%) Redux
11 8 (10.00%) CSS3
11 8 (10.00%) Sass
11 8 (10.00%) Tailwind CSS
12 6 (7.50%) GraphQL
12 6 (7.50%) React Native
13 5 (6.25%) REST
14 4 (5.00%) OAuth
15 3 (3.75%) Drools
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.75%) Mobile App
3 6 (7.50%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (6.25%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (5.00%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.25%) Animation
8 1 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.25%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.75%) Android
2 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (63.75%) Agile
1 51 (63.75%) CI/CD
2 45 (56.25%) DevOps
3 32 (40.00%) SDLC
4 29 (36.25%) Secure Coding
5 27 (33.75%) Full-Stack Development
6 24 (30.00%) ITIL
6 24 (30.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 21 (26.25%) Clean Code
8 18 (22.50%) Front End Development
9 16 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (20.00%) Prototyping
10 11 (13.75%) Responsive Web Design
11 10 (12.50%) Scrum
12 9 (11.25%) API Integration
12 9 (11.25%) Design Patterns
12 9 (11.25%) Microservices
12 9 (11.25%) User Experience
12 9 (11.25%) Web Development
13 8 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 73 (91.25%) TypeScript
2 45 (56.25%) Java
3 40 (50.00%) Bash
3 40 (50.00%) Groovy
4 29 (36.25%) JavaScript
5 7 (8.75%) Python
6 6 (7.50%) PHP
7 5 (6.25%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.50%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.50%) Swift
9 1 (1.25%) C#
9 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (41.25%) AWS Certification
2 24 (30.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 24 (30.00%) ITIL Certification
3 9 (11.25%) AWS Certified Developer
4 8 (10.00%) Degree
4 8 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 8 (10.00%) Security Cleared
5 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.25%) Accessibility
2 8 (10.00%) QA
3 3 (3.75%) WCAG
4 2 (2.50%) GDPR
4 2 (2.50%) PERC
System Software
1 46 (57.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (51.25%) HP Fortify
2 4 (5.00%) Terraform
3 3 (3.75%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.25%) Grafana
4 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (2.50%) Google
1 2 (2.50%) SendGrid
2 1 (1.25%) Adobe
2 1 (1.25%) OpenAI
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle