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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 682 449 574
Rank change year-on-year -233 +125 -18
Permanent jobs citing Jest 87 198 165
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.085% 0.46% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.80% 2.62% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 46 56 97
10th Percentile £46,875 £45,625 £48,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,740 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% -10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £74,688 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,625 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £71,991
% change year-on-year -15.38% -9.71% -4.01%

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 10,851 7,563 14,329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.55% 17.66% 21.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,918 4,995 9,257
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -3.70%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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
London -89 29 £80,000 +18.52% 53
North of England -122 28 £67,500 +1.89% 17
South East -56 17 £55,000 -15.38% 10
Yorkshire -27 15 £72,500 -6.45% 3
North West -103 8 £70,000 +3.70% 13
North East -70 5 £67,500 +50.00% 1
South West -76 4 £40,000 -51.52% 9
West Midlands -51 3 £75,000 +66.67%
Midlands -74 3 £75,000 +57.89% 5
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%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.45%) Tomcat
2 3 (3.45%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.15%) Apache
3 1 (1.15%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 54 (62.07%) AWS
2 35 (40.23%) Serverless
3 32 (36.78%) Amazon ECS
4 30 (34.48%) AWS Lambda
5 28 (32.18%) GitHub
6 27 (31.03%) Amazon S3
7 24 (27.59%) Azure
8 22 (25.29%) Amazon ECR
9 21 (24.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 20 (22.99%) Amazon SQS
11 18 (20.69%) AWS Step Functions
12 17 (19.54%) Apigee
13 13 (14.94%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (9.20%) GCP
15 7 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (8.05%) Kong
16 6 (6.90%) GitHub Copilot
17 5 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
17 5 (5.75%) AWS Fargate
17 5 (5.75%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.60%) VoIP
2 3 (3.45%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.30%) Asterisk PBX
3 2 (2.30%) DNS
3 2 (2.30%) HTTP
3 2 (2.30%) LAN
3 2 (2.30%) WAN
4 1 (1.15%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (25.29%) DynamoDB
2 21 (24.14%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (22.99%) MongoDB
4 9 (10.34%) MySQL
5 7 (8.05%) Relational Database
6 6 (6.90%) SQL Server
7 5 (5.75%) DocumentDB
7 5 (5.75%) Redis
8 3 (3.45%) NoSQL
8 3 (3.45%) Spatial Data
9 2 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 41 (47.13%) Cypress.io
2 31 (35.63%) GitLab
3 29 (33.33%) Git
4 22 (25.29%) Jenkins
5 18 (20.69%) Maven
5 18 (20.69%) SonarQube
6 12 (13.79%) Mocha
7 11 (12.64%) JIRA
7 11 (12.64%) Selenium
8 7 (8.05%) Jasmine
8 7 (8.05%) NUnit
9 5 (5.75%) Claude Code
9 5 (5.75%) Vite
10 4 (4.60%) Bitbucket
10 4 (4.60%) JUnit
10 4 (4.60%) Mockito
10 4 (4.60%) Storybook
10 4 (4.60%) webpack
11 2 (2.30%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (2.30%) YouTrack
General
1 13 (14.94%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.05%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.90%) Finance
4 6 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.15%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.15%) Banking
5 1 (1.15%) Front Office
5 1 (1.15%) Law
5 1 (1.15%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (72.41%) Developer
2 29 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 22 (25.29%) Senior
4 15 (17.24%) Java Developer
5 14 (16.09%) Senior Developer
5 14 (16.09%) Software Engineer
6 12 (13.79%) Lead
7 11 (12.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 10 (11.49%) React Developer
9 8 (9.20%) Software Developer
10 7 (8.05%) Lead Developer
10 7 (8.05%) Senior Software Engineer
11 6 (6.90%) Angular Developer
11 6 (6.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 6 (6.90%) Java Engineer
12 5 (5.75%) AWS Developer
12 5 (5.75%) Node.js Developer
12 5 (5.75%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 4 (4.60%) Backend Developer
14 3 (3.45%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (49.43%) React
2 42 (48.28%) Node.js
3 33 (37.93%) AngularJS
4 29 (33.33%) RESTful
5 23 (26.44%) REST
6 19 (21.84%) Spring Boot
7 18 (20.69%) CSS
8 17 (19.54%) Gherkin
9 16 (18.39%) HTML
9 16 (18.39%) Next.js
10 15 (17.24%) Terraform
11 14 (16.09%) Express.js
11 14 (16.09%) Redux
12 12 (13.79%) .NET
12 12 (13.79%) NestJS
12 12 (13.79%) Playwright
13 10 (11.49%) React Native
14 9 (10.34%) GraphQL
14 9 (10.34%) HTML5
15 8 (9.20%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.79%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (12.64%) Cloud Native
2 11 (12.64%) Product Ownership
3 7 (8.05%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (5.75%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.45%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.45%) Blog
5 3 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.45%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.90%) Linux
2 4 (4.60%) Debian
3 3 (3.45%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.30%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.15%) Android
5 1 (1.15%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.15%) OpenWrt
5 1 (1.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (77.01%) CI/CD
2 52 (59.77%) Agile
3 45 (51.72%) DevOps
4 41 (47.13%) Full-Stack Development
5 29 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 23 (26.44%) Software Engineering
7 22 (25.29%) Clean Code
8 21 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (24.14%) SDLC
9 18 (20.69%) Mentoring
10 16 (18.39%) ITIL
10 16 (18.39%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 15 (17.24%) Code Quality
11 15 (17.24%) Microservices
11 15 (17.24%) Secure Coding
12 14 (16.09%) AI
12 14 (16.09%) Containerisation
13 13 (14.94%) Front End Development
13 13 (14.94%) Technical Leadership
13 13 (14.94%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 61 (70.11%) TypeScript
2 39 (44.83%) JavaScript
3 27 (31.03%) Java
4 21 (24.14%) Bash
5 19 (21.84%) Python
6 18 (20.69%) Groovy
7 13 (14.94%) SQL
8 12 (13.79%) C#
9 6 (6.90%) PHP
10 1 (1.15%) C
10 1 (1.15%) Go
10 1 (1.15%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.15%) Ruby
10 1 (1.15%) Rust
10 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (25.29%) Security Cleared
2 20 (22.99%) SC Cleared
3 16 (18.39%) AWS Certification
4 15 (17.24%) ITIL Certification
5 14 (16.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (6.90%) Degree
7 2 (2.30%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.15%) HNC
8 1 (1.15%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (21.84%) Accessibility
2 13 (14.94%) WCAG
3 10 (11.49%) QA
System Software
1 42 (48.28%) Docker
2 1 (1.15%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 18 (20.69%) Kubernetes
2 17 (19.54%) HP Fortify
3 2 (2.30%) Ansible
3 2 (2.30%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (5.75%) Confluent
1 5 (5.75%) Dynatrace
2 4 (4.60%) Google
2 4 (4.60%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.45%) IBM
3 3 (3.45%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.30%) Pega