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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 674 439 571
Rank change year-on-year -235 +132 -29
Permanent jobs citing Jest 84 201 178
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.081% 0.47% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.78% 2.66% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 47 59 101
10th Percentile £49,500 £46,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,740 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% -10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £74,375 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £105,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £71,991
% change year-on-year -15.38% -9.71% -4.01%

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 10,828 7,553 14,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.47% 17.48% 21.61%
Number of salaries quoted 7,882 4,996 9,334
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,212 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -3.70%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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
London -86 30 £76,250 +8.93% 73
North of England -125 25 £67,500 +1.89% 18
South East -45 17 £55,000 -15.38% 15
Yorkshire -35 11 £72,500 -6.45% 3
North West -99 8 £70,000 +3.70% 14
North East -62 6 £67,500 +50.00% 1
West Midlands -49 3 £75,000 +66.67% 2
Midlands -66 3 £75,000 +57.89% 7
South West -76 3 £40,000 -51.52% 9
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 (5.95%) Confluence
2 3 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.57%) Tomcat
2 3 (3.57%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.19%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 51 (60.71%) AWS
2 32 (38.10%) Serverless
3 29 (34.52%) Amazon ECS
4 28 (33.33%) GitHub
5 27 (32.14%) AWS Lambda
6 25 (29.76%) Azure
7 24 (28.57%) Amazon S3
8 19 (22.62%) Amazon ECR
9 18 (21.43%) Amazon SQS
10 17 (20.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
12 13 (15.48%) Apigee
12 13 (15.48%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (9.52%) GCP
13 8 (9.52%) Kong
14 7 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
15 6 (7.14%) AWS KMS
15 6 (7.14%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.76%) VoIP
2 3 (3.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.38%) Asterisk PBX
3 2 (2.38%) DNS
3 2 (2.38%) HTTP
3 2 (2.38%) LAN
3 2 (2.38%) WAN
4 1 (1.19%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (26.19%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 18 (21.43%) DynamoDB
4 9 (10.71%) MySQL
5 7 (8.33%) Relational Database
5 7 (8.33%) SQL Server
6 6 (7.14%) DocumentDB
7 5 (5.95%) Redis
8 3 (3.57%) NoSQL
8 3 (3.57%) Spatial Data
9 2 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 38 (45.24%) Cypress.io
2 30 (35.71%) Git
3 28 (33.33%) GitLab
4 18 (21.43%) Jenkins
5 14 (16.67%) Maven
5 14 (16.67%) SonarQube
6 12 (14.29%) Mocha
7 11 (13.10%) JIRA
8 10 (11.90%) Selenium
9 7 (8.33%) Jasmine
9 7 (8.33%) NUnit
10 5 (5.95%) Claude Code
10 5 (5.95%) Storybook
10 5 (5.95%) Vite
11 4 (4.76%) Bitbucket
11 4 (4.76%) JUnit
11 4 (4.76%) Mockito
11 4 (4.76%) webpack
12 2 (2.38%) Karma Test Runner
12 2 (2.38%) YouTrack
General
1 14 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (7.14%) Finance
6 1 (1.19%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.19%) Banking
6 1 (1.19%) Front Office
6 1 (1.19%) Law
6 1 (1.19%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 61 (72.62%) Developer
2 28 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 22 (26.19%) Senior
4 14 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 14 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 13 (15.48%) Java Developer
6 11 (13.10%) Lead
7 10 (11.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 10 (11.90%) React Developer
8 8 (9.52%) Software Developer
9 7 (8.33%) Angular Developer
9 7 (8.33%) Lead Developer
9 7 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (7.14%) Java Engineer
10 6 (7.14%) Node.js Developer
11 5 (5.95%) AWS Developer
11 5 (5.95%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 5 (5.95%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (4.76%) Backend Developer
13 3 (3.57%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (52.38%) React
2 42 (50.00%) Node.js
3 30 (35.71%) AngularJS
3 30 (35.71%) RESTful
4 25 (29.76%) REST
5 17 (20.24%) CSS
5 17 (20.24%) Next.js
6 16 (19.05%) HTML
7 15 (17.86%) Express.js
7 15 (17.86%) Spring Boot
7 15 (17.86%) Terraform
8 14 (16.67%) Redux
9 13 (15.48%) .NET
9 13 (15.48%) Gherkin
9 13 (15.48%) NestJS
9 13 (15.48%) Playwright
10 10 (11.90%) GraphQL
10 10 (11.90%) React Native
11 9 (10.71%) HTML5
12 8 (9.52%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.48%) Enterprise Software
2 12 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 11 (13.10%) Product Ownership
4 7 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.57%) AI Agents
6 3 (3.57%) Blog
7 2 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.38%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.14%) Linux
2 4 (4.76%) Debian
3 3 (3.57%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.38%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.19%) Android
5 1 (1.19%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.19%) OpenWrt
5 1 (1.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 49 (58.33%) Agile
3 43 (51.19%) DevOps
4 41 (48.81%) Full-Stack Development
5 30 (35.71%) Test Automation
6 23 (27.38%) Software Engineering
7 21 (25.00%) Clean Code
8 20 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (22.62%) SDLC
10 18 (21.43%) Mentoring
11 15 (17.86%) AI
11 15 (17.86%) Code Quality
11 15 (17.86%) Microservices
12 14 (16.67%) Containerisation
13 13 (15.48%) Front End Development
13 13 (15.48%) ITIL
13 13 (15.48%) Technical Leadership
13 13 (15.48%) Unit Testing
13 13 (15.48%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 12 (14.29%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 58 (69.05%) TypeScript
2 38 (45.24%) JavaScript
3 23 (27.38%) Java
4 18 (21.43%) Python
5 17 (20.24%) Bash
6 14 (16.67%) Groovy
7 13 (15.48%) SQL
8 12 (14.29%) C#
9 5 (5.95%) PHP
10 1 (1.19%) C
10 1 (1.19%) Go
10 1 (1.19%) Ruby
10 1 (1.19%) Rust
10 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 18 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 12 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 12 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
4 11 (13.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 6 (7.14%) Degree
6 2 (2.38%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.19%) HNC
7 1 (1.19%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (23.81%) Accessibility
2 14 (16.67%) WCAG
3 11 (13.10%) QA
System Software
1 39 (46.43%) Docker
2 1 (1.19%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 19 (22.62%) Kubernetes
2 13 (15.48%) HP Fortify
3 2 (2.38%) Ansible
3 2 (2.38%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (7.14%) Confluent
1 6 (7.14%) Dynatrace
2 5 (5.95%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.76%) Google
4 3 (3.57%) IBM
4 3 (3.57%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.38%) Pega