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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 491 596
Rank change year-on-year -40 +105 -36
Permanent jobs citing Jest 87 179 143
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.16% 0.38% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.37% 1.74% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 55 107 106
10th Percentile £47,255 £52,000 £50,625
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £63,750 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -12.07% -3.33% -3.23%

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 6,355 10,276 14,149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.52% 21.68% 23.58%
Number of salaries quoted 4,845 6,017 12,007
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £38,750
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £103,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%

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 January 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 January 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 +28 36 £62,500 -1.96% 15
Yorkshire +11 23 £77,500 - 4
London +2 22 £85,000 +6.25% 14
South East -27 15 £62,500 -19.35% 12
North West +22 9 £60,000 -5.88% 8
South West -6 6 £72,500 +7.41% 10
North East 0 4 £59,000 - 3
Midlands +14 3 £53,750 -18.87% 6
West Midlands +29 2 £45,000 -40.00% 3
East of England +9 1 £60,000 -17.24% 4
East Midlands -16 1 £62,500 -3.85% 3
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 (2.30%) nginx
2 1 (1.15%) CMS
2 1 (1.15%) Confluence
2 1 (1.15%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.15%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.30%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 43 (49.43%) AWS
2 32 (36.78%) Serverless
3 30 (34.48%) AWS Lambda
4 29 (33.33%) Amazon S3
5 24 (27.59%) Amazon ECS
6 23 (26.44%) Amazon ECR
6 23 (26.44%) Apigee
6 23 (26.44%) AWS Step Functions
7 22 (25.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (22.99%) GitHub
9 17 (19.54%) Azure
10 11 (12.64%) Figma
11 10 (11.49%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (6.90%) GCP
13 6 (6.90%) npm
13 6 (6.90%) SaaS
14 5 (5.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (5.75%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.30%) AMQP
2 1 (1.15%) Broadband
2 1 (1.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (26.44%) DynamoDB
2 5 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.45%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.45%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.30%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 56 (64.37%) Cypress.io
2 33 (37.93%) Jenkins
3 25 (28.74%) GitLab
4 24 (27.59%) Git
4 24 (27.59%) SonarQube
5 23 (26.44%) Maven
6 11 (12.64%) JIRA
7 9 (10.34%) Storybook
8 7 (8.05%) Vite
9 5 (5.75%) Babel
9 5 (5.75%) Bitbucket
9 5 (5.75%) Visual Studio
9 5 (5.75%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (5.75%) webpack
10 4 (4.60%) rollup.js
11 3 (3.45%) Mocha
12 2 (2.30%) Cucumber
12 2 (2.30%) JUnit
12 2 (2.30%) Selenium
12 2 (2.30%) Xcode
General
1 19 (21.84%) Finance
2 15 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.75%) Retail
4 3 (3.45%) Banking
5 2 (2.30%) Games
5 2 (2.30%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.15%) Automotive
6 1 (1.15%) Front Office
6 1 (1.15%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (64.37%) Developer
2 25 (28.74%) Senior
3 22 (25.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 18 (20.69%) Lead
5 16 (18.39%) Java Developer
6 15 (17.24%) Senior Developer
7 14 (16.09%) Software Engineer
8 11 (12.64%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 11 (12.64%) Technical Leader
9 10 (11.49%) React Developer
10 6 (6.90%) AWS Developer
10 6 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (6.90%) Principal Engineer
10 6 (6.90%) Principal Software Engineer
11 5 (5.75%) Senior Manager
11 5 (5.75%) Senior Technical Manager
11 5 (5.75%) Technical Manager
12 4 (4.60%) Senior Software Engineer
13 3 (3.45%) Lead Developer
14 2 (2.30%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (59.77%) React
2 36 (41.38%) Spring Boot
3 34 (39.08%) CSS
4 30 (34.48%) AngularJS
5 29 (33.33%) HTML
6 26 (29.89%) RESTful
7 23 (26.44%) Gherkin
8 22 (25.29%) Spring
9 19 (21.84%) Node.js
10 16 (18.39%) Redux
11 15 (17.24%) Next.js
12 14 (16.09%) GraphQL
13 11 (12.64%) HTML5
14 10 (11.49%) CSS3
14 10 (11.49%) Tailwind CSS
14 10 (11.49%) Vue
15 9 (10.34%) REST
16 8 (9.20%) Kafka
17 7 (8.05%) .NET
18 6 (6.90%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.39%) Cloud Native
2 13 (14.94%) Product Ownership
3 9 (10.34%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.75%) Virtual Team
5 4 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.60%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.30%) Animation
7 2 (2.30%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.30%) Online Banking
8 1 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.05%) Android
2 5 (5.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (71.26%) CI/CD
2 61 (70.11%) Agile
3 51 (58.62%) DevOps
4 37 (42.53%) Front End Development
5 30 (34.48%) Full-Stack Development
6 29 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 25 (28.74%) SDLC
8 24 (27.59%) User Experience
9 19 (21.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (19.54%) Mentoring
10 17 (19.54%) UX Design
11 16 (18.39%) Microservices
11 16 (18.39%) Responsive Web Design
12 15 (17.24%) Code Quality
12 15 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (17.24%) Secure Coding
13 14 (16.09%) Clean Code
14 13 (14.94%) Design Patterns
14 13 (14.94%) Scrum
15 12 (13.79%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 79 (90.80%) TypeScript
2 41 (47.13%) Java
3 39 (44.83%) JavaScript
4 22 (25.29%) Bash
4 22 (25.29%) Groovy
5 4 (4.60%) Python
6 2 (2.30%) C#
6 2 (2.30%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.30%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.30%) Swift
7 1 (1.15%) PHP
7 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.15%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (22.99%) AWS Certification
2 14 (16.09%) Degree
3 10 (11.49%) AWS Certified Developer
3 10 (11.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 10 (11.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (11.49%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (5.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (5.75%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (26.44%) Accessibility
2 21 (24.14%) QA
3 7 (8.05%) WCAG
4 5 (5.75%) GDPR
4 5 (5.75%) PERC
System Software
1 37 (42.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (26.44%) HP Fortify
2 7 (8.05%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.75%) Kibana
4 2 (2.30%) Grafana
5 1 (1.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (4.60%) Google
2 2 (2.30%) SendGrid
3 1 (1.15%) Adobe
3 1 (1.15%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.15%) Oracle