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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 555 453 623
Rank change year-on-year -102 +170 -27
Permanent jobs citing Jest 89 160 172
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.14% 0.41% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.25% 1.83% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 55 122 146
10th Percentile £46,587 £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 £91,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £109,375
UK median annual salary £61,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.89% -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 7,110 8,729 16,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.84% 22.30% 21.67%
Number of salaries quoted 5,429 6,031 13,579
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,296 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -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 14 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 14 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 -18 45 £62,500 +12.11% 15
Yorkshire -8 34 £77,500 - 3
London -12 21 £80,000 +18.52% 15
South East -55 11 £65,000 -16.13% 2
South West -40 8 £62,500 -26.69% 6
North West -16 7 £60,000 +2.13% 8
North East -19 4 £59,000 +5.83% 4
West Midlands -3 1 - - 8
Midlands -34 1 - - 8
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 (2.25%) JBoss
1 2 (2.25%) nginx
2 1 (1.12%) CMS
2 1 (1.12%) Confluence
2 1 (1.12%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.12%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.25%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 46 (51.69%) AWS
2 37 (41.57%) Serverless
3 35 (39.33%) AWS Lambda
4 34 (38.20%) Amazon S3
5 33 (37.08%) Amazon ECR
5 33 (37.08%) Amazon ECS
5 33 (37.08%) Apigee
5 33 (37.08%) AWS Step Functions
6 32 (35.96%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (19.10%) Amazon SQS
8 15 (16.85%) GitHub
9 11 (12.36%) Azure
10 7 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (7.87%) npm
11 6 (6.74%) Figma
11 6 (6.74%) GCP
12 5 (5.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (5.62%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (5.62%) Amazon MSK
12 5 (5.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.25%) AMQP
2 1 (1.12%) Broadband
2 1 (1.12%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (37.08%) DynamoDB
2 6 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.37%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.37%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.25%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.12%) MySQL
5 1 (1.12%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.12%) Redis
5 1 (1.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 61 (68.54%) Cypress.io
2 42 (47.19%) Jenkins
3 35 (39.33%) GitLab
4 34 (38.20%) SonarQube
5 33 (37.08%) Maven
6 21 (23.60%) Git
7 7 (7.87%) webpack
8 6 (6.74%) JIRA
9 5 (5.62%) Babel
9 5 (5.62%) Storybook
9 5 (5.62%) Visual Studio
9 5 (5.62%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (5.62%) Vite
10 4 (4.49%) Cucumber
10 4 (4.49%) rollup.js
10 4 (4.49%) Selenium
11 3 (3.37%) Mocha
12 2 (2.25%) Android Studio
12 2 (2.25%) Xcode
13 1 (1.12%) Jasmine
General
1 14 (15.73%) Finance
2 7 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.74%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.62%) Retail
5 3 (3.37%) Games
6 2 (2.25%) Banking
6 2 (2.25%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.12%) Automotive
7 1 (1.12%) Front Office
7 1 (1.12%) iGaming
7 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.12%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.12%) Law
Job Titles
1 66 (74.16%) Developer
2 25 (28.09%) Java Developer
3 23 (25.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 19 (21.35%) Senior
5 15 (16.85%) Lead
5 15 (16.85%) Senior Developer
6 11 (12.36%) Software Engineer
7 10 (11.24%) React Developer
7 10 (11.24%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 9 (10.11%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (8.99%) AWS Developer
10 6 (6.74%) Lead Developer
10 6 (6.74%) Technical Leader
11 5 (5.62%) Principal Engineer
11 5 (5.62%) Principal Software Engineer
12 3 (3.37%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 3 (3.37%) JavaScript Developer
12 3 (3.37%) Senior Java Developer
12 3 (3.37%) Senior Software Engineer
13 2 (2.25%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (49.44%) AngularJS
2 43 (48.31%) React
3 39 (43.82%) Spring Boot
4 37 (41.57%) CSS
5 33 (37.08%) Gherkin
6 31 (34.83%) HTML
7 26 (29.21%) RESTful
8 22 (24.72%) Node.js
9 15 (16.85%) Spring
9 15 (16.85%) Vue
10 14 (15.73%) Redux
11 13 (14.61%) GraphQL
11 13 (14.61%) HTML5
12 12 (13.48%) CSS3
12 12 (13.48%) Tailwind CSS
13 7 (7.87%) Kafka
13 7 (7.87%) Next.js
13 7 (7.87%) REST
13 7 (7.87%) Sass
14 6 (6.74%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.85%) Product Ownership
2 10 (11.24%) Cloud Native
3 8 (8.99%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.62%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.49%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.25%) Animation
7 2 (2.25%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.12%) Online Banking
8 1 (1.12%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.37%) Android
2 1 (1.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (66.29%) Agile
2 57 (64.04%) CI/CD
3 49 (55.06%) DevOps
4 31 (34.83%) Front End Development
5 30 (33.71%) Full-Stack Development
6 26 (29.21%) SDLC
7 22 (24.72%) Secure Coding
8 20 (22.47%) Software Engineering
9 19 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (21.35%) User Experience
10 17 (19.10%) Clean Code
10 17 (19.10%) ITIL
10 17 (19.10%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 16 (17.98%) Responsive Web Design
12 14 (15.73%) Microservices
13 13 (14.61%) API Integration
14 12 (13.48%) Mentoring
14 12 (13.48%) Prototyping
14 12 (13.48%) Scrum
15 11 (12.36%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 80 (89.89%) TypeScript
2 44 (49.44%) Java
3 37 (41.57%) JavaScript
4 32 (35.96%) Bash
4 32 (35.96%) Groovy
5 6 (6.74%) Python
6 4 (4.49%) Kotlin
6 4 (4.49%) PHP
7 2 (2.25%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.25%) Swift
8 1 (1.12%) C#
8 1 (1.12%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.12%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (28.09%) AWS Certification
2 17 (19.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 17 (19.10%) ITIL Certification
3 9 (10.11%) Degree
4 8 (8.99%) AWS Certified Developer
5 7 (7.87%) SC Cleared
5 7 (7.87%) Security Cleared
6 5 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (20.22%) Accessibility
2 14 (15.73%) QA
3 7 (7.87%) WCAG
4 5 (5.62%) GDPR
4 5 (5.62%) PERC
System Software
1 41 (46.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (37.08%) HP Fortify
2 6 (6.74%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.62%) Kibana
4 3 (3.37%) Terraform
5 2 (2.25%) Grafana
6 1 (1.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (4.49%) Google
2 2 (2.25%) SendGrid
3 1 (1.12%) Adobe
3 1 (1.12%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.12%) Oracle