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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 527 519
Rank change year-on-year +15 -8 -28
Permanent jobs citing Jest 96 189 144
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.32% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.55% 1.54% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 54 112 100
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £51,800
25th Percentile £54,063 £56,875 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £77,500 £75,335
Median % change year-on-year -12.90% +2.87% +0.45%
75th Percentile £87,188 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £96,125 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% - +3.45%

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 6,184 12,283 12,070
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.16% 20.95% 26.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4,669 7,444 10,004
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%

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 30 November 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 30 November 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
London +48 43 £82,500 +3.13% 20
North of England +48 24 £62,500 +13.64% 6
South East -6 18 £65,000 -16.13% 25
North West +42 13 £62,500 +13.64% 4
Yorkshire +18 8 £80,000 - 2
South West +27 5 £76,250 +12.96% 10
Midlands +46 3 £53,750 -17.31% 1
North East +9 3 £50,000 -
West Midlands +52 2 £45,000 -40.00% 1
East of England +26 1 £60,000 -17.24%
East Midlands +20 1 £62,500 +4.17%
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 (9.38%) Headless CMS
2 2 (2.08%) nginx
3 1 (1.04%) CMS
3 1 (1.04%) Confluence
3 1 (1.04%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.08%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (9.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 35 (36.46%) AWS
2 23 (23.96%) Azure
2 23 (23.96%) Serverless
3 22 (22.92%) AWS Lambda
4 20 (20.83%) Amazon S3
5 19 (19.79%) Figma
5 19 (19.79%) GitHub
6 16 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (8.33%) Google Analytics
8 8 (8.33%) Vercel
9 7 (7.29%) Amazon ECR
9 7 (7.29%) Apigee
9 7 (7.29%) AWS Step Functions
10 6 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (6.25%) SaaS
11 5 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (5.21%) CloudFront
11 5 (5.21%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.08%) AMQP
2 1 (1.04%) Broadband
2 1 (1.04%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.46%) NoSQL
2 7 (7.29%) DynamoDB
3 5 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.13%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.08%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.04%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 51 (53.13%) Cypress.io
2 27 (28.13%) Git
3 16 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 15 (15.63%) Vite
5 11 (11.46%) JIRA
6 10 (10.42%) SonarQube
6 10 (10.42%) Storybook
7 9 (9.38%) webpack
8 8 (8.33%) GitLab
8 8 (8.33%) Maven
9 6 (6.25%) Bitbucket
10 5 (5.21%) Babel
10 5 (5.21%) Visual Studio
10 5 (5.21%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (4.17%) rollup.js
12 3 (3.13%) Cucumber
13 2 (2.08%) Ant
13 2 (2.08%) Jasmine
13 2 (2.08%) Mocha
13 2 (2.08%) Mockito
General
1 28 (29.17%) Finance
2 25 (26.04%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.42%) Banking
4 8 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (8.33%) Law
5 6 (6.25%) Investment Banking
6 5 (5.21%) Retail
7 3 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.13%) Games
8 1 (1.04%) Advertising
8 1 (1.04%) Automotive
8 1 (1.04%) Marketing
8 1 (1.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 52 (54.17%) Developer
2 32 (33.33%) Senior
3 28 (29.17%) Software Engineer
4 21 (21.88%) Senior Developer
5 20 (20.83%) Lead
6 18 (18.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 13 (13.54%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (12.50%) React Developer
9 10 (10.42%) Technical Leader
10 9 (9.38%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (8.33%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 7 (7.29%) Principal Engineer
12 7 (7.29%) Principal Software Engineer
12 7 (7.29%) Senior Software Engineer
13 6 (6.25%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
13 6 (6.25%) UI Engineer
14 5 (5.21%) Lead Developer
14 5 (5.21%) Lead Software Engineer
14 5 (5.21%) Senior Manager
14 5 (5.21%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (80.21%) React
2 45 (46.88%) CSS
3 39 (40.63%) HTML
4 29 (30.21%) RESTful
5 28 (29.17%) Next.js
5 28 (29.17%) Node.js
6 24 (25.00%) GraphQL
7 23 (23.96%) Spring
8 21 (21.88%) Spring Boot
9 18 (18.75%) Playwright
9 18 (18.75%) Tailwind CSS
10 17 (17.71%) AngularJS
10 17 (17.71%) Redux
11 15 (15.63%) Kafka
12 13 (13.54%) Vitest
13 12 (12.50%) .NET
14 11 (11.46%) REST
15 10 (10.42%) CSS3
15 10 (10.42%) Express.js
15 10 (10.42%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 15 (15.63%) Product Ownership
3 12 (12.50%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.21%) Virtual Team
5 4 (4.17%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.17%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.08%) Animation
7 2 (2.08%) Derivative
7 2 (2.08%) Equities
7 2 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.08%) Online Banking
7 2 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.08%) Wiki
8 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.04%) Online Games
8 1 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.46%) Android
2 10 (10.42%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (71.88%) Agile
2 55 (57.29%) CI/CD
3 45 (46.88%) Software Engineering
4 42 (43.75%) User Experience
5 40 (41.67%) DevOps
6 39 (40.63%) Full-Stack Development
7 34 (35.42%) Front End Development
8 31 (32.29%) UX Design
9 23 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (19.79%) Mentoring
10 19 (19.79%) SDLC
11 17 (17.71%) Analytics
11 17 (17.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (17.71%) Test Automation
12 16 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
13 15 (15.63%) Microservices
13 15 (15.63%) Pair Programming
13 15 (15.63%) Sprint Planning
14 14 (14.58%) Code Quality
14 14 (14.58%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 91 (94.79%) TypeScript
2 52 (54.17%) JavaScript
3 30 (31.25%) Java
4 12 (12.50%) SQL
5 6 (6.25%) Bash
5 6 (6.25%) C#
5 6 (6.25%) Groovy
6 4 (4.17%) Python
7 2 (2.08%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.08%) Swift
8 1 (1.04%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 14 (14.58%) Degree
2 10 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 8 (8.33%) AWS Certified Developer
4 5 (5.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (4.17%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (32.29%) Accessibility
2 24 (25.00%) QA
3 5 (5.21%) GDPR
3 5 (5.21%) PERC
3 5 (5.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (23.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (11.46%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.29%) HP Fortify
3 5 (5.21%) Kibana
4 3 (3.13%) Grafana
5 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (8.33%) Apple
2 3 (3.13%) Google
2 3 (3.13%) Oracle
3 2 (2.08%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.04%) Netlify
4 1 (1.04%) Rollbar
4 1 (1.04%) Veracode