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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 467 600
Rank change year-on-year -85 +133 +17
Permanent jobs citing Jest 88 168 178
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.14% 0.42% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.29% 1.89% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 55 129 151
10th Percentile £47,255 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,695 £111,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% -6.67%

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 6,848 8,874 16,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.74% 22.42% 21.84%
Number of salaries quoted 5,228 6,096 13,608
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,175
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -1 44 £62,500 +12.11% 19
Yorkshire -8 33 £77,500 - 6
London -11 21 £80,000 +18.52% 12
South East -65 11 £65,000 -16.13% 6
North West -18 7 £60,000 +2.13% 10
South West -34 7 £72,500 -14.96% 10
North East -16 4 £59,000 +5.83% 3
West Midlands -3 1 - - 6
East of England -3 1 £60,000 -17.24% 2
Midlands -27 1 - - 7
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 (2.27%) JBoss
1 2 (2.27%) nginx
2 1 (1.14%) CMS
2 1 (1.14%) Confluence
2 1 (1.14%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.14%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.27%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 47 (53.41%) AWS
2 37 (42.05%) Serverless
3 35 (39.77%) AWS Lambda
4 34 (38.64%) Amazon S3
5 33 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
6 32 (36.36%) Amazon ECR
6 32 (36.36%) Apigee
6 32 (36.36%) AWS Step Functions
7 31 (35.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
9 15 (17.05%) GitHub
10 12 (13.64%) Azure
11 7 (7.95%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (7.95%) Figma
11 7 (7.95%) npm
12 6 (6.82%) GCP
13 5 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (5.68%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (5.68%) Amazon MSK
13 5 (5.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) AMQP
2 1 (1.14%) Broadband
2 1 (1.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (36.36%) DynamoDB
2 6 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.41%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.41%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.27%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.14%) MySQL
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.14%) Redis
5 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 61 (69.32%) Cypress.io
2 41 (46.59%) Jenkins
3 34 (38.64%) GitLab
4 33 (37.50%) SonarQube
5 32 (36.36%) Maven
6 21 (23.86%) Git
7 7 (7.95%) JIRA
7 7 (7.95%) webpack
8 6 (6.82%) Vite
9 5 (5.68%) Babel
9 5 (5.68%) Storybook
9 5 (5.68%) Visual Studio
9 5 (5.68%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (4.55%) Cucumber
10 4 (4.55%) rollup.js
10 4 (4.55%) Selenium
11 3 (3.41%) Mocha
12 2 (2.27%) Android Studio
12 2 (2.27%) Xcode
13 1 (1.14%) JUnit
General
1 14 (15.91%) Finance
2 7 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (7.95%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.68%) Retail
4 2 (2.27%) Banking
4 2 (2.27%) Games
4 2 (2.27%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.14%) Automotive
5 1 (1.14%) Front Office
5 1 (1.14%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 63 (71.59%) Developer
2 24 (27.27%) Java Developer
3 21 (23.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 20 (22.73%) Senior
5 16 (18.18%) Lead
6 15 (17.05%) Senior Developer
7 12 (13.64%) Software Engineer
8 10 (11.36%) React Developer
8 10 (11.36%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 8 (9.09%) AWS Developer
9 8 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (7.95%) Technical Leader
11 6 (6.82%) Lead Developer
12 5 (5.68%) Principal Engineer
12 5 (5.68%) Principal Software Engineer
13 3 (3.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 3 (3.41%) Senior Java Developer
13 3 (3.41%) Senior Software Engineer
14 2 (2.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 2 (2.27%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (50.00%) React
2 43 (48.86%) AngularJS
3 40 (45.45%) Spring Boot
4 35 (39.77%) CSS
5 32 (36.36%) Gherkin
6 30 (34.09%) HTML
7 26 (29.55%) RESTful
8 21 (23.86%) Node.js
9 17 (19.32%) Spring
10 14 (15.91%) Vue
11 13 (14.77%) GraphQL
11 13 (14.77%) HTML5
11 13 (14.77%) Redux
12 12 (13.64%) CSS3
13 11 (12.50%) Tailwind CSS
14 8 (9.09%) Kafka
14 8 (9.09%) Next.js
15 6 (6.82%) REST
15 6 (6.82%) Sass
15 6 (6.82%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.05%) Product Ownership
2 12 (13.64%) Cloud Native
3 7 (7.95%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.55%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.27%) Animation
7 2 (2.27%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.14%) Online Banking
8 1 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.41%) Android
2 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (67.05%) Agile
2 58 (65.91%) CI/CD
3 50 (56.82%) DevOps
4 31 (35.23%) Front End Development
4 31 (35.23%) Full-Stack Development
5 26 (29.55%) SDLC
6 22 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 21 (23.86%) Secure Coding
8 19 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (21.59%) User Experience
9 17 (19.32%) Clean Code
10 16 (18.18%) ITIL
10 16 (18.18%) Responsive Web Design
10 16 (18.18%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 15 (17.05%) Microservices
12 13 (14.77%) API Integration
12 13 (14.77%) Mentoring
13 12 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (13.64%) Prototyping
13 12 (13.64%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 80 (90.91%) TypeScript
2 45 (51.14%) Java
3 37 (42.05%) JavaScript
4 31 (35.23%) Bash
4 31 (35.23%) Groovy
5 5 (5.68%) Python
6 4 (4.55%) Kotlin
7 3 (3.41%) PHP
8 2 (2.27%) C#
8 2 (2.27%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.27%) Swift
9 1 (1.14%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (28.41%) AWS Certification
2 16 (18.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 16 (18.18%) ITIL Certification
3 10 (11.36%) Degree
4 9 (10.23%) AWS Certified Developer
5 6 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (6.82%) SC Cleared
5 6 (6.82%) Security Cleared
6 3 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (21.59%) Accessibility
2 15 (17.05%) QA
3 7 (7.95%) WCAG
4 5 (5.68%) GDPR
4 5 (5.68%) PERC
System Software
1 42 (47.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (36.36%) HP Fortify
2 7 (7.95%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.68%) Kibana
4 3 (3.41%) Terraform
5 2 (2.27%) Grafana
6 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (4.55%) Google
2 2 (2.27%) SendGrid
3 1 (1.14%) Adobe
3 1 (1.14%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.14%) Oracle