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 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 484 608
Rank change year-on-year -32 +124 -15
Permanent jobs citing Jest 89 189 154
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.15% 0.42% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.34% 1.90% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 54 118 123
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,125 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile £81,250 £94,694 £92,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £104,750 £111,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +3.45% -3.33%

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 6,630 9,930 15,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.18% 22.22% 22.84%
Number of salaries quoted 5,095 5,990 12,928
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.81% +7.64% -8.89%

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 15 February 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 15 February 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 +15 39 £60,000 +2.13% 14
Yorkshire +1 27 £77,500 - 3
London -25 22 £80,000 - 13
South East -38 15 £62,500 -19.35% 7
North West +2 8 £55,750 -5.11% 7
South West -17 6 £72,500 -14.96% 12
North East -4 4 £59,000 - 4
Midlands +2 2 £62,500 -5.66% 2
West Midlands +17 1 - - 2
East of England +14 1 £60,000 -17.24% 1
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 2 (2.25%) nginx
2 1 (1.12%) CMS
2 1 (1.12%) Confluence
2 1 (1.12%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.12%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.25%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 46 (51.69%) AWS
2 35 (39.33%) Serverless
3 33 (37.08%) AWS Lambda
4 32 (35.96%) Amazon S3
5 28 (31.46%) Amazon ECS
6 27 (30.34%) Amazon ECR
6 27 (30.34%) Apigee
6 27 (30.34%) AWS Step Functions
7 26 (29.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (20.22%) GitHub
9 17 (19.10%) Azure
10 13 (14.61%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (11.24%) Figma
12 9 (10.11%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (7.87%) npm
14 6 (6.74%) GCP
15 5 (5.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (5.62%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (5.62%) Amazon MSK
15 5 (5.62%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.25%) AMQP
2 1 (1.12%) Broadband
2 1 (1.12%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (30.34%) DynamoDB
2 5 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.37%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.37%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.25%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.12%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 59 (66.29%) Cypress.io
2 36 (40.45%) Jenkins
3 29 (32.58%) GitLab
4 27 (30.34%) Maven
4 27 (30.34%) SonarQube
5 23 (25.84%) Git
6 10 (11.24%) JIRA
7 9 (10.11%) Storybook
8 8 (8.99%) Vite
9 6 (6.74%) webpack
10 5 (5.62%) Babel
10 5 (5.62%) Visual Studio
10 5 (5.62%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (4.49%) Bitbucket
11 4 (4.49%) rollup.js
12 3 (3.37%) Mocha
13 2 (2.25%) Cucumber
13 2 (2.25%) JUnit
13 2 (2.25%) Selenium
13 2 (2.25%) Xcode
General
1 17 (19.10%) Finance
2 14 (15.73%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.62%) Retail
4 2 (2.25%) Banking
4 2 (2.25%) Games
4 2 (2.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.12%) Automotive
5 1 (1.12%) Front Office
5 1 (1.12%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.12%) Law
Job Titles
1 62 (69.66%) Developer
2 24 (26.97%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 24 (26.97%) Senior
3 20 (22.47%) Java Developer
4 17 (19.10%) Lead
5 16 (17.98%) Senior Developer
6 12 (13.48%) Software Engineer
7 11 (12.36%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 10 (11.24%) React Developer
8 10 (11.24%) Technical Leader
9 8 (8.99%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (6.74%) AWS Developer
11 5 (5.62%) Principal Engineer
11 5 (5.62%) Principal Software Engineer
12 4 (4.49%) Lead Developer
12 4 (4.49%) Senior Manager
12 4 (4.49%) Senior Technical Manager
12 4 (4.49%) Technical Manager
13 3 (3.37%) Senior Java Developer
13 3 (3.37%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (56.18%) React
2 39 (43.82%) Spring Boot
3 36 (40.45%) AngularJS
4 34 (38.20%) CSS
5 29 (32.58%) HTML
6 27 (30.34%) Gherkin
6 27 (30.34%) RESTful
7 21 (23.60%) Spring
8 19 (21.35%) Node.js
9 15 (16.85%) Redux
10 14 (15.73%) GraphQL
10 14 (15.73%) Next.js
11 12 (13.48%) Vue
12 11 (12.36%) CSS3
12 11 (12.36%) HTML5
12 11 (12.36%) Tailwind CSS
13 9 (10.11%) REST
14 8 (8.99%) .NET
14 8 (8.99%) Kafka
15 6 (6.74%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.85%) Cloud Native
2 13 (14.61%) Product Ownership
3 9 (10.11%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.49%) Video\Live Streaming
5 4 (4.49%) Virtual Team
6 3 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.25%) Animation
7 2 (2.25%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.12%) Online Banking
8 1 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.87%) Android
2 5 (5.62%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (70.79%) Agile
1 63 (70.79%) CI/CD
2 54 (60.67%) DevOps
3 38 (42.70%) Front End Development
4 32 (35.96%) Full-Stack Development
5 26 (29.21%) SDLC
5 26 (29.21%) Software Engineering
6 25 (28.09%) User Experience
7 18 (20.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (20.22%) Secure Coding
7 18 (20.22%) UX Design
8 17 (19.10%) Clean Code
9 16 (17.98%) Mentoring
9 16 (17.98%) Microservices
9 16 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (17.98%) Responsive Web Design
10 14 (15.73%) API Integration
11 13 (14.61%) Code Quality
11 13 (14.61%) ITIL
11 13 (14.61%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 81 (91.01%) TypeScript
2 44 (49.44%) Java
3 37 (41.57%) JavaScript
4 26 (29.21%) Bash
4 26 (29.21%) Groovy
5 4 (4.49%) Python
6 2 (2.25%) C#
6 2 (2.25%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.25%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.25%) Swift
7 1 (1.12%) PHP
7 1 (1.12%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.12%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (25.84%) AWS Certification
2 13 (14.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 13 (14.61%) Degree
2 13 (14.61%) ITIL Certification
3 10 (11.24%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (10.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (5.62%) SC Cleared
5 5 (5.62%) Security Cleared
6 4 (4.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (26.97%) Accessibility
2 19 (21.35%) QA
3 8 (8.99%) WCAG
4 5 (5.62%) GDPR
4 5 (5.62%) PERC
System Software
1 39 (43.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (30.34%) HP Fortify
2 7 (7.87%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.62%) Kibana
4 1 (1.12%) Grafana
4 1 (1.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (4.49%) Google
2 2 (2.25%) SendGrid
3 1 (1.12%) Adobe
3 1 (1.12%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.12%) Oracle