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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 637 452 629
Rank change year-on-year -185 +177 -82
Permanent jobs citing Jest 87 208 140
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.092% 0.47% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.90% 2.75% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 46 70 119
10th Percentile £38,750 £43,625 £46,125
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,620 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% -3.85% -14.10%
75th Percentile £78,438 £77,188 £92,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £91,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £63,750 £67,500
% change year-on-year -13.73% -5.56% -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 9,646 7,565 13,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.17% 17.20% 18.74%
Number of salaries quoted 7,206 5,034 10,107
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -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 17 August 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 August 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 -114 31 £68,750 +5.77% 6
London -78 30 £80,000 +25.49% 30
Yorkshire -12 21 £72,500 -6.45% 1
South East -49 16 £55,000 -15.38% 8
North West -86 7 £66,250 - 4
South West -71 6 £40,000 -36.00% 10
North East -67 3 £67,500 +42.11% 1
West Midlands -37 1 £75,000 +36.36% 1
Midlands -52 1 £75,000 +25.00% 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 (5.75%) Confluence
2 3 (3.45%) JBoss
3 2 (2.30%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.30%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.30%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.15%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 53 (60.92%) AWS
2 36 (41.38%) Serverless
3 31 (35.63%) Amazon ECS
3 31 (35.63%) AWS Lambda
4 28 (32.18%) Amazon S3
5 24 (27.59%) Amazon ECR
5 24 (27.59%) AWS CloudFormation
6 23 (26.44%) GitHub
7 22 (25.29%) AWS Step Functions
8 21 (24.14%) Amazon SQS
8 21 (24.14%) Apigee
9 20 (22.99%) Azure
10 10 (11.49%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (8.05%) GCP
12 5 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (4.60%) GitHub Copilot
13 4 (4.60%) Kong
14 3 (3.45%) Anthropic Claude
14 3 (3.45%) AWS Fargate
14 3 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.60%) VoIP
2 2 (2.30%) Asterisk PBX
2 2 (2.30%) HTTP
2 2 (2.30%) LAN
2 2 (2.30%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.30%) WAN
3 1 (1.15%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (28.74%) DynamoDB
2 19 (21.84%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (18.39%) MongoDB
4 10 (11.49%) MySQL
5 8 (9.20%) Relational Database
6 6 (6.90%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.45%) DocumentDB
7 3 (3.45%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.45%) Redis
7 3 (3.45%) Spatial Data
8 2 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 43 (49.43%) Cypress.io
2 31 (35.63%) GitLab
3 27 (31.03%) Git
4 24 (27.59%) Jenkins
5 23 (26.44%) SonarQube
6 22 (25.29%) Maven
7 12 (13.79%) Selenium
8 11 (12.64%) Mocha
9 9 (10.34%) JIRA
10 7 (8.05%) Jasmine
10 7 (8.05%) NUnit
11 6 (6.90%) Vite
11 6 (6.90%) webpack
12 5 (5.75%) Claude Code
13 4 (4.60%) Bitbucket
14 3 (3.45%) Cucumber
14 3 (3.45%) JUnit
14 3 (3.45%) Mockito
14 3 (3.45%) Storybook
15 2 (2.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (14.94%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (11.49%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.90%) Finance
4 5 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.75%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.15%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.15%) Banking
5 1 (1.15%) Front Office
5 1 (1.15%) Games
5 1 (1.15%) iGaming
5 1 (1.15%) Law
5 1 (1.15%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 67 (77.01%) Developer
2 28 (32.18%) Full-Stack Developer
3 20 (22.99%) Java Developer
4 19 (21.84%) Senior
5 12 (13.79%) Lead
5 12 (13.79%) Software Engineer
6 11 (12.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 11 (12.64%) Senior Developer
7 9 (10.34%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 8 (9.20%) React Developer
9 7 (8.05%) Lead Developer
9 7 (8.05%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (6.90%) AWS Developer
11 5 (5.75%) Angular Developer
11 5 (5.75%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (4.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 4 (4.60%) Java Engineer
12 4 (4.60%) JavaScript Developer
12 4 (4.60%) Node.js Developer
12 4 (4.60%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (49.43%) React
2 41 (47.13%) Node.js
3 37 (42.53%) AngularJS
4 23 (26.44%) RESTful
4 23 (26.44%) Spring Boot
5 21 (24.14%) CSS
5 21 (24.14%) Gherkin
6 18 (20.69%) HTML
6 18 (20.69%) REST
7 17 (19.54%) Next.js
8 13 (14.94%) Redux
9 12 (13.79%) .NET
9 12 (13.79%) Vue
10 11 (12.64%) Express.js
10 11 (12.64%) NestJS
11 10 (11.49%) HTML5
12 9 (10.34%) GraphQL
12 9 (10.34%) React Native
13 8 (9.20%) Playwright
13 8 (9.20%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.64%) Product Ownership
2 8 (9.20%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (8.05%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (8.05%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (6.90%) Cloud Native
5 5 (5.75%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.45%) AI Agents
6 3 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.15%) Blog
8 1 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.15%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.60%) Debian
1 4 (4.60%) Linux
2 3 (3.45%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.30%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.15%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (68.97%) CI/CD
2 51 (58.62%) Agile
3 41 (47.13%) DevOps
4 39 (44.83%) Full-Stack Development
5 24 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (24.14%) Clean Code
6 21 (24.14%) SDLC
7 19 (21.84%) Test Automation
8 18 (20.69%) Front End Development
8 18 (20.69%) ITIL
8 18 (20.69%) Mentoring
8 18 (20.69%) Software Engineering
8 18 (20.69%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 17 (19.54%) Secure Coding
10 13 (14.94%) AI
10 13 (14.94%) Code Quality
11 12 (13.79%) Containerisation
11 12 (13.79%) User Experience
12 11 (12.64%) Microservices
12 11 (12.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 63 (72.41%) TypeScript
2 41 (47.13%) JavaScript
3 30 (34.48%) Java
4 24 (27.59%) Bash
5 22 (25.29%) Groovy
6 19 (21.84%) Python
7 12 (13.79%) C#
7 12 (13.79%) SQL
8 9 (10.34%) PHP
9 3 (3.45%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.15%) Ruby
10 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (24.14%) AWS Certification
2 18 (20.69%) SC Cleared
2 18 (20.69%) Security Cleared
3 17 (19.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 17 (19.54%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (6.90%) Degree
5 3 (3.45%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.30%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.15%) HNC
7 1 (1.15%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (19.54%) Accessibility
2 10 (11.49%) WCAG
3 6 (6.90%) QA
System Software
1 42 (48.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (24.14%) HP Fortify
2 15 (17.24%) Kubernetes
3 13 (14.94%) Terraform
4 2 (2.30%) Ansible
4 2 (2.30%) Grafana
5 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (4.60%) Google
1 4 (4.60%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.45%) Confluent
2 3 (3.45%) Dynatrace
2 3 (3.45%) OpenAI
3 2 (2.30%) IBM