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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 644 437 646
Rank change year-on-year -207 +209 -47
Permanent jobs citing Jest 72 227 170
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.081% 0.52% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.78% 2.85% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 34 86 150
10th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £47,375
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% -3.70% -10.00%
75th Percentile £79,688 £83,750 £94,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £140,677 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% -3.70% -10.00%

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 9,213 7,968 16,152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.40% 18.33% 19.23%
Number of salaries quoted 7,065 5,402 12,771
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -84 30 £62,500 +10.62% 11
Yorkshire -1 26 £72,500 -6.45% 6
London -70 20 £80,000 +20.75% 22
South East -34 15 £53,750 -17.31% 7
South West -67 5 £40,000 -61.54% 5
North West -82 3 £50,000 -23.08% 4
North East -51 1 £62,500 +38.89% 1
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 (6.94%) Confluence
2 3 (4.17%) JBoss
3 1 (1.39%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 43 (59.72%) AWS
2 34 (47.22%) Serverless
3 30 (41.67%) Amazon ECS
3 30 (41.67%) AWS Lambda
4 28 (38.89%) Amazon S3
5 27 (37.50%) Amazon ECR
5 27 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 27 (37.50%) AWS Step Functions
6 26 (36.11%) Apigee
7 21 (29.17%) Amazon SQS
8 14 (19.44%) GitHub
9 9 (12.50%) Azure
10 4 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (4.17%) GCP
11 3 (4.17%) GitHub Copilot
11 3 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (2.78%) SaaS
12 2 (2.78%) Supabase
12 2 (2.78%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.56%) VoIP
2 2 (2.78%) Asterisk PBX
2 2 (2.78%) LAN
2 2 (2.78%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.78%) WAN
3 1 (1.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (38.89%) DynamoDB
2 11 (15.28%) MongoDB
2 11 (15.28%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (12.50%) MySQL
4 3 (4.17%) Redis
4 3 (4.17%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.17%) Spatial Data
4 3 (4.17%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.78%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.39%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 39 (54.17%) Cypress.io
2 32 (44.44%) GitLab
3 28 (38.89%) Jenkins
3 28 (38.89%) SonarQube
4 27 (37.50%) Maven
5 16 (22.22%) Git
6 9 (12.50%) JIRA
7 7 (9.72%) Selenium
8 6 (8.33%) Vite
8 6 (8.33%) webpack
9 5 (6.94%) Mocha
10 4 (5.56%) Bitbucket
10 4 (5.56%) Claude Code
10 4 (5.56%) Jasmine
11 3 (4.17%) Cucumber
12 2 (2.78%) Karma Test Runner
12 2 (2.78%) NUnit
12 2 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (2.78%) YouTrack
13 1 (1.39%) fastlane
General
1 9 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.17%) Finance
4 2 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.39%) Front Office
5 1 (1.39%) Games
5 1 (1.39%) iGaming
5 1 (1.39%) Law
5 1 (1.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (87.50%) Developer
2 25 (34.72%) Java Developer
3 23 (31.94%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (20.83%) Senior
5 12 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 12 (16.67%) Senior Developer
6 11 (15.28%) Lead
7 10 (13.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 8 (11.11%) Lead Developer
8 8 (11.11%) React Developer
9 7 (9.72%) AWS Developer
10 5 (6.94%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (5.56%) JavaScript Developer
11 4 (5.56%) Python Developer
12 3 (4.17%) Angular Developer
12 3 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 3 (4.17%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
12 3 (4.17%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 3 (4.17%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 3 (4.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (52.78%) AngularJS
2 30 (41.67%) React
3 29 (40.28%) Node.js
4 28 (38.89%) Spring Boot
5 26 (36.11%) Gherkin
6 19 (26.39%) CSS
7 16 (22.22%) HTML
8 12 (16.67%) Vue
9 11 (15.28%) RESTful
10 9 (12.50%) HTML5
10 9 (12.50%) Next.js
11 8 (11.11%) Redux
11 8 (11.11%) REST
11 8 (11.11%) Sass
12 6 (8.33%) .NET
12 6 (8.33%) CSS3
12 6 (8.33%) Express.js
12 6 (8.33%) NestJS
12 6 (8.33%) React Native
12 6 (8.33%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 7 (9.72%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (8.33%) Mobile App
4 4 (5.56%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.78%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.39%) Blog
7 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.39%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.56%) Debian
1 4 (5.56%) Linux
2 3 (4.17%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.78%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.39%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (65.28%) CI/CD
2 44 (61.11%) Agile
3 38 (52.78%) DevOps
4 30 (41.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 23 (31.94%) SDLC
6 22 (30.56%) ITIL
6 22 (30.56%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 21 (29.17%) Clean Code
7 21 (29.17%) Secure Coding
8 19 (26.39%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (19.44%) Front End Development
10 12 (16.67%) Mentoring
10 12 (16.67%) Prototyping
10 12 (16.67%) Web Development
11 11 (15.28%) User Experience
12 9 (12.50%) Containerisation
13 8 (11.11%) AI
13 8 (11.11%) Code Quality
13 8 (11.11%) Microservices
14 7 (9.72%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 56 (77.78%) TypeScript
2 30 (41.67%) Java
2 30 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 29 (40.28%) Bash
4 27 (37.50%) Groovy
5 14 (19.44%) Python
6 10 (13.89%) PHP
7 7 (9.72%) C#
7 7 (9.72%) SQL
8 3 (4.17%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (36.11%) AWS Certification
2 21 (29.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 21 (29.17%) ITIL Certification
3 14 (19.44%) SC Cleared
3 14 (19.44%) Security Cleared
4 5 (6.94%) Degree
5 4 (5.56%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.78%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.39%) HNC
8 1 (1.39%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 6 (8.33%) WCAG
3 1 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 40 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (36.11%) HP Fortify
2 9 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 6 (8.33%) Terraform
4 1 (1.39%) Grafana
4 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (2.78%) Google
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.39%) Confluent
2 1 (1.39%) Dynatrace
2 1 (1.39%) OpenAI