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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 476 625
Rank change year-on-year -112 +149 -12
Permanent jobs citing Jest 80 149 187
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.099% 0.39% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.02% 1.98% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 35 106 162
10th Percentile £37,500 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% +1.92% -18.75%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,833 £92,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £140,677 £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 7,833 7,540 16,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.68% 19.62% 20.28%
Number of salaries quoted 5,918 5,744 14,092
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% +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 £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 5 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 5 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 -46 44 £77,500 +40.91% 5
Yorkshire -22 41 £78,750 - 2
London -30 19 £80,000 +18.52% 4
South West -54 8 £40,000 -55.53% 4
South East -68 7 £65,000 -3.70% 2
North East -30 3 £59,000 +5.83% 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 3 (3.75%) Confluence
1 3 (3.75%) JBoss
2 1 (1.25%) nginx
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.25%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 49 (61.25%) AWS
2 44 (55.00%) Serverless
3 42 (52.50%) Amazon S3
3 42 (52.50%) AWS Lambda
4 41 (51.25%) Amazon ECR
4 41 (51.25%) Amazon ECS
4 41 (51.25%) Apigee
4 41 (51.25%) AWS Step Functions
5 40 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 23 (28.75%) Amazon SQS
7 9 (11.25%) GitHub
8 4 (5.00%) Azure
8 4 (5.00%) Figma
8 4 (5.00%) GCP
9 3 (3.75%) npm
10 2 (2.50%) Algolia
10 2 (2.50%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.50%) Stripe
10 2 (2.50%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (51.25%) DynamoDB
2 5 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.75%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.50%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.50%) MySQL
5 2 (2.50%) Spatial Data
5 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.25%) Redis
6 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 50 (62.50%) Cypress.io
2 44 (55.00%) GitLab
3 42 (52.50%) Jenkins
3 42 (52.50%) SonarQube
4 41 (51.25%) Maven
5 16 (20.00%) Git
6 5 (6.25%) Selenium
6 5 (6.25%) webpack
7 4 (5.00%) Babel
7 4 (5.00%) Cucumber
7 4 (5.00%) JIRA
7 4 (5.00%) rollup.js
7 4 (5.00%) Vite
8 3 (3.75%) Storybook
9 2 (2.50%) Android Studio
9 2 (2.50%) JUnit
9 2 (2.50%) Mocha
9 2 (2.50%) Xcode
10 1 (1.25%) Mockito
10 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (11.25%) Finance
2 7 (8.75%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.25%) Front Office
4 1 (1.25%) Games
4 1 (1.25%) iGaming
4 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.25%) Law
4 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (80.00%) Developer
2 30 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 19 (23.75%) Lead
4 16 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 14 (17.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 12 (15.00%) Senior
7 10 (12.50%) AWS Developer
7 10 (12.50%) React Developer
8 9 (11.25%) Senior Developer
9 8 (10.00%) Lead Developer
10 7 (8.75%) Technical Leader
11 6 (7.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 4 (5.00%) JavaScript Developer
12 4 (5.00%) Python Developer
12 4 (5.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 3 (3.75%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
13 3 (3.75%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 3 (3.75%) Software Engineer
14 2 (2.50%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
14 2 (2.50%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (61.25%) AngularJS
2 42 (52.50%) Spring Boot
3 41 (51.25%) Gherkin
4 31 (38.75%) React
5 25 (31.25%) CSS
6 21 (26.25%) Node.js
7 20 (25.00%) HTML
8 13 (16.25%) RESTful
9 11 (13.75%) Vue
10 10 (12.50%) Redux
10 10 (12.50%) Spring
11 9 (11.25%) HTML5
12 8 (10.00%) CSS3
12 8 (10.00%) Sass
13 7 (8.75%) GraphQL
13 7 (8.75%) React Native
13 7 (8.75%) Tailwind CSS
14 5 (6.25%) REST
15 4 (5.00%) Apollo GraphQL
15 4 (5.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.75%) Mobile App
3 6 (7.50%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (6.25%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (5.00%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.25%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.75%) Android
2 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 48 (60.00%) Agile
3 46 (57.50%) DevOps
4 32 (40.00%) SDLC
5 29 (36.25%) Secure Coding
6 28 (35.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 24 (30.00%) ITIL
7 24 (30.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 20 (25.00%) Clean Code
9 17 (21.25%) Front End Development
10 16 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (18.75%) Prototyping
12 10 (12.50%) Responsive Web Design
13 9 (11.25%) Microservices
13 9 (11.25%) Scrum
13 9 (11.25%) Web Development
14 8 (10.00%) API Integration
14 8 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 8 (10.00%) Design Patterns
15 7 (8.75%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 73 (91.25%) TypeScript
2 45 (56.25%) Java
3 40 (50.00%) Bash
3 40 (50.00%) Groovy
4 29 (36.25%) JavaScript
5 7 (8.75%) Python
6 6 (7.50%) PHP
7 5 (6.25%) Kotlin
8 3 (3.75%) C#
9 2 (2.50%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.50%) Swift
10 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (41.25%) AWS Certification
2 24 (30.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 24 (30.00%) ITIL Certification
3 9 (11.25%) AWS Certified Developer
4 8 (10.00%) Degree
4 8 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 8 (10.00%) Security Cleared
5 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) Accessibility
1 7 (8.75%) QA
2 3 (3.75%) WCAG
3 1 (1.25%) GDPR
3 1 (1.25%) PERC
System Software
1 46 (57.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (51.25%) HP Fortify
2 4 (5.00%) Terraform
3 3 (3.75%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.25%) Grafana
4 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (2.50%) Google
1 2 (2.50%) SendGrid
2 1 (1.25%) Adobe
2 1 (1.25%) OpenAI
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle