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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 419 642
Rank change year-on-year -184 +223 -34
Permanent jobs citing Jest 82 215 179
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.10% 0.55% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.01% 2.71% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 34 102 157
10th Percentile £37,500 £48,875 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% - -18.75%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £80,875 £136,859 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -18.52% - -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 8,146 7,939 17,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.98% 20.16% 20.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,172 5,590 14,134
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,938 £51,250 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,720 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -82 45 £77,500 +30.25% 6
Yorkshire -11 42 £77,500 - 3
London -52 19 £77,500 +14.81% 10
South West -49 8 £40,000 -53.08% 3
South East -52 7 £65,000 -3.70% 10
North East -39 3 £59,000 +5.83%
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 4 (4.88%) Confluence
2 3 (3.66%) JBoss
3 1 (1.22%) nginx
3 1 (1.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.22%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 52 (63.41%) AWS
2 45 (54.88%) Serverless
3 43 (52.44%) Amazon ECS
3 43 (52.44%) Amazon S3
3 43 (52.44%) AWS Lambda
4 42 (51.22%) AWS Step Functions
5 41 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
5 41 (50.00%) Apigee
5 41 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 24 (29.27%) Amazon SQS
7 11 (13.41%) GitHub
8 5 (6.10%) Azure
9 4 (4.88%) GCP
10 3 (3.66%) Figma
10 3 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (3.66%) npm
11 2 (2.44%) Algolia
11 2 (2.44%) Sentry
11 2 (2.44%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.22%) AMQP
1 1 (1.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (52.44%) DynamoDB
2 6 (7.32%) MongoDB
2 6 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.66%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.66%) Spatial Data
3 3 (3.66%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.44%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.44%) MySQL
5 1 (1.22%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.22%) Redis
5 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 52 (63.41%) Cypress.io
2 45 (54.88%) GitLab
3 43 (52.44%) Jenkins
4 42 (51.22%) Maven
4 42 (51.22%) SonarQube
5 15 (18.29%) Git
6 5 (6.10%) Selenium
6 5 (6.10%) webpack
7 4 (4.88%) Cucumber
7 4 (4.88%) JIRA
7 4 (4.88%) Vite
8 3 (3.66%) Storybook
9 2 (2.44%) Android Studio
9 2 (2.44%) Babel
9 2 (2.44%) JUnit
9 2 (2.44%) Mocha
9 2 (2.44%) rollup.js
9 2 (2.44%) Xcode
10 1 (1.22%) Mockito
10 1 (1.22%) PHPUnit
General
1 9 (10.98%) Finance
1 9 (10.98%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.22%) Front Office
3 1 (1.22%) Games
3 1 (1.22%) iGaming
3 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (1.22%) Law
3 1 (1.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 66 (80.49%) Developer
2 31 (37.80%) Java Developer
3 20 (24.39%) Lead
4 16 (19.51%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 15 (18.29%) Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (17.07%) Senior
7 11 (13.41%) AWS Developer
7 11 (13.41%) Senior Developer
8 9 (10.98%) Lead Developer
9 8 (9.76%) React Developer
10 7 (8.54%) Technical Leader
11 6 (7.32%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 4 (4.88%) JavaScript Developer
12 4 (4.88%) Python Developer
13 3 (3.66%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
13 3 (3.66%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 3 (3.66%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 3 (3.66%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 3 (3.66%) Senior Java Developer
13 3 (3.66%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (63.41%) AngularJS
2 43 (52.44%) Spring Boot
3 41 (50.00%) Gherkin
4 31 (37.80%) React
5 23 (28.05%) CSS
6 21 (25.61%) Node.js
7 19 (23.17%) HTML
8 14 (17.07%) RESTful
9 11 (13.41%) Spring
9 11 (13.41%) Vue
10 10 (12.20%) Redux
11 9 (10.98%) HTML5
11 9 (10.98%) Sass
12 8 (9.76%) CSS3
13 7 (8.54%) GraphQL
13 7 (8.54%) React Native
14 6 (7.32%) REST
14 6 (7.32%) Tailwind CSS
15 4 (4.88%) Apollo GraphQL
15 4 (4.88%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.76%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.54%) Mobile App
3 6 (7.32%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.32%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.66%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.44%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.44%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.22%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.66%) Android
2 1 (1.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (64.63%) CI/CD
2 50 (60.98%) Agile
3 48 (58.54%) DevOps
4 31 (37.80%) SDLC
5 29 (35.37%) Secure Coding
6 28 (34.15%) Full-Stack Development
7 25 (30.49%) ITIL
7 25 (30.49%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 22 (26.83%) Clean Code
9 17 (20.73%) Front End Development
9 17 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (18.29%) Prototyping
11 10 (12.20%) Scrum
11 10 (12.20%) Web Development
12 9 (10.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (10.98%) Microservices
13 8 (9.76%) API Integration
13 8 (9.76%) Computer Science
13 8 (9.76%) Responsive Web Design
13 8 (9.76%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 74 (90.24%) TypeScript
2 46 (56.10%) Java
3 41 (50.00%) Bash
3 41 (50.00%) Groovy
4 29 (35.37%) JavaScript
5 7 (8.54%) Python
6 6 (7.32%) PHP
7 5 (6.10%) C#
7 5 (6.10%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.44%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.44%) SQL
8 2 (2.44%) Swift
9 1 (1.22%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (41.46%) AWS Certification
2 24 (29.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 24 (29.27%) ITIL Certification
3 9 (10.98%) AWS Certified Developer
3 9 (10.98%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.98%) Security Cleared
4 7 (8.54%) Degree
5 4 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.76%) Accessibility
2 6 (7.32%) QA
3 5 (6.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (58.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (50.00%) HP Fortify
2 4 (4.88%) Terraform
3 3 (3.66%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.22%) Grafana
4 1 (1.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (2.44%) Google
1 2 (2.44%) SendGrid
2 1 (1.22%) Adobe
2 1 (1.22%) OpenAI
2 1 (1.22%) Oracle