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 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 433 547 552
Rank change year-on-year +114 +5 -157
Permanent jobs citing Jest 203 170 158
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 0.28% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.99% 1.35% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 60 97 120
10th Percentile £47,125 £50,950 £52,500
25th Percentile £53,125 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £75,669
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% -4.19% +2.60%
75th Percentile £84,375 £92,500 £96,510
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% -3.33% +5.63%

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 6,778 12,578 13,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.79% 20.44% 27.11%
Number of salaries quoted 4,463 7,625 10,983
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%

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 25 October 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 25 October 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
North of England +88 95 £60,000 +4.35% 24
North West +70 85 £65,000 +13.04% 11
London +66 53 £77,500 -3.13% 44
South East -3 25 £63,750 -17.74% 42
Midlands +56 19 £53,750 +7.50% 7
West Midlands - 13 £45,000 - 5
North East +18 7 £45,000 - 3
East Midlands +14 6 £62,500 +25.00% 2
South West +43 4 £81,250 +20.37% 8
East of England -4 4 £53,750 -25.86%
Yorkshire +15 3 £77,500 - 10
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 (4.43%) Headless CMS
2 8 (3.94%) IIS
3 3 (1.48%) Confluence
4 1 (0.49%) CMS
4 1 (0.49%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.49%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (4.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 130 (64.04%) AWS
2 117 (57.64%) Azure
3 19 (9.36%) GitHub
4 17 (8.37%) Serverless
5 16 (7.88%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (7.39%) Figma
7 13 (6.40%) Amazon S3
8 11 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (4.43%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (4.43%) Cloudflare
10 8 (3.94%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (3.94%) Google Analytics
10 8 (3.94%) SaaS
10 8 (3.94%) Vercel
11 6 (2.96%) npm
12 5 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (2.46%) Amazon MSK
12 5 (2.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 5 (2.46%) CloudFront
12 5 (2.46%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.99%) HTTP
2 1 (0.49%) AMQP
2 1 (0.49%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (49.26%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.91%) MySQL
2 12 (5.91%) NoSQL
3 8 (3.94%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.99%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.99%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 103 (50.74%) JIRA
2 97 (47.78%) Bitbucket
3 93 (45.81%) SonarQube
4 91 (44.83%) Cucumber
4 91 (44.83%) GitLab
4 91 (44.83%) Maven
4 91 (44.83%) Selenium
4 91 (44.83%) Sonatype Nexus
5 43 (21.18%) Cypress.io
6 42 (20.69%) Git
7 23 (11.33%) Vite
8 15 (7.39%) webpack
9 11 (5.42%) Storybook
10 10 (4.93%) Jenkins
11 8 (3.94%) Jasmine
11 8 (3.94%) NUnit
11 8 (3.94%) TeamCity
12 3 (1.48%) PHPUnit
12 3 (1.48%) Visual Studio
12 3 (1.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 132 (65.02%) Finance
2 108 (53.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 107 (52.71%) Banking
4 99 (48.77%) Investment Banking
5 93 (45.81%) Retail
6 90 (44.33%) Corporate Banking
7 38 (18.72%) Social Skills
8 18 (8.87%) Law
9 6 (2.96%) Games
10 4 (1.97%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.97%) Marketing
11 1 (0.49%) Advertising
11 1 (0.49%) Automotive
11 1 (0.49%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 130 (64.04%) Software Engineer
2 61 (30.05%) Developer
3 38 (18.72%) Senior
4 29 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 22 (10.84%) Full-Stack Developer
6 18 (8.87%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 18 (8.87%) Lead
7 16 (7.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (5.91%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 12 (5.91%) React Developer
8 12 (5.91%) UI Engineer
9 9 (4.43%) Lead Software Engineer
10 8 (3.94%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (3.94%) Web Engineer
11 7 (3.45%) Principal Engineer
11 7 (3.45%) Principal Software Engineer
11 7 (3.45%) Technical Leader
12 6 (2.96%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 5 (2.46%) Mobile Developer
13 5 (2.46%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (93.60%) React
2 151 (74.38%) CSS
3 143 (70.44%) HTML
4 127 (62.56%) RESTful
5 111 (54.68%) Spring
6 110 (54.19%) Redux
7 109 (53.69%) CSS3
7 109 (53.69%) REST
8 108 (53.20%) HTML5
9 107 (52.71%) Kafka
10 104 (51.23%) Spring Boot
11 96 (47.29%) Sass
12 92 (45.32%) JPA
13 30 (14.78%) Next.js
14 27 (13.30%) Playwright
15 23 (11.33%) Node.js
16 22 (10.84%) GraphQL
17 21 (10.34%) .NET
17 21 (10.34%) AngularJS
18 18 (8.87%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 103 (50.74%) Product Ownership
2 90 (44.33%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (8.37%) Mobile App
4 15 (7.39%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.45%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.46%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.97%) Derivative
7 4 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.97%) Equities
7 4 (1.97%) Online Games
7 4 (1.97%) Wiki
8 3 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.99%) Online Banking
9 2 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.49%) 3D Graphics
10 1 (0.49%) Animation
10 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.91%) Android
1 12 (5.91%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (82.27%) Agile
2 155 (76.35%) CI/CD
3 145 (71.43%) Software Engineering
4 139 (68.47%) User Experience
5 138 (67.98%) Full-Stack Development
6 130 (64.04%) DevOps
7 129 (63.55%) Front End Development
8 113 (55.67%) SDLC
9 108 (53.20%) Mentoring
9 108 (53.20%) Test Automation
10 106 (52.22%) Responsive Web Design
11 103 (50.74%) Microservices
11 103 (50.74%) Performance Optimisation
12 96 (47.29%) Strategic Thinking
13 93 (45.81%) Containerisation
14 91 (44.83%) Migration
15 34 (16.75%) UX Design
16 31 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
17 17 (8.37%) Analytics
18 16 (7.88%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 195 (96.06%) TypeScript
2 157 (77.34%) JavaScript
3 115 (56.65%) Java
4 104 (51.23%) SQL
5 17 (8.37%) C#
6 5 (2.46%) Python
7 4 (1.97%) PHP
8 1 (0.49%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.49%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.49%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 15 (7.39%) Degree
2 12 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.46%) AWS Certification
3 5 (2.46%) AWS Certified Developer
3 5 (2.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (1.97%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.97%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (58.62%) Accessibility
2 114 (56.16%) QA
3 7 (3.45%) WCAG
4 3 (1.48%) GDPR
4 3 (1.48%) PERC
System Software
1 112 (55.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 103 (50.74%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.94%) Terraform
3 5 (2.46%) Kibana
4 4 (1.97%) Grafana
Vendors
1 90 (44.33%) Solace
2 10 (4.93%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.94%) Apple
3 8 (3.94%) Rollbar
4 4 (1.97%) Google
4 4 (1.97%) Oracle
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe
5 1 (0.49%) Netlify
5 1 (0.49%) Veracode