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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 656 429 639
Rank change year-on-year -227 +210 -40
Permanent jobs citing Jest 73 227 162
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.082% 0.52% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.79% 2.88% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 36 87 143
10th Percentile £38,750 £47,500 £45,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,875 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -14.10%
75th Percentile £79,063 £83,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £140,677 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% -3.70% -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 9,265 7,892 15,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.40% 18.24% 18.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,072 5,334 11,816
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,438 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -97 30 £65,000 +16.59% 16
Yorkshire -10 25 £72,500 -6.45% 6
London -73 21 £80,000 +20.75% 27
South East -31 15 £53,750 -17.31% 7
South West -67 4 £40,000 -61.54% 7
North West -83 3 £50,000 -23.08% 10
North East -53 2 £65,000 +36.84%
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 (6.85%) Confluence
2 3 (4.11%) JBoss
3 1 (1.37%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 44 (60.27%) AWS
2 35 (47.95%) Serverless
3 31 (42.47%) Amazon ECS
3 31 (42.47%) AWS Lambda
4 28 (38.36%) Amazon S3
5 27 (36.99%) Amazon ECR
6 26 (35.62%) AWS CloudFormation
6 26 (35.62%) AWS Step Functions
7 25 (34.25%) Apigee
8 22 (30.14%) Amazon SQS
9 15 (20.55%) GitHub
10 9 (12.33%) Azure
11 5 (6.85%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (4.11%) GCP
12 3 (4.11%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
13 2 (2.74%) AWS Fargate
13 2 (2.74%) Figma
13 2 (2.74%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.48%) VoIP
2 2 (2.74%) Asterisk PBX
2 2 (2.74%) LAN
2 2 (2.74%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.74%) WAN
3 1 (1.37%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (38.36%) DynamoDB
2 12 (16.44%) MongoDB
2 12 (16.44%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (12.33%) MySQL
4 3 (4.11%) Redis
4 3 (4.11%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.11%) Spatial Data
4 3 (4.11%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.74%) DocumentDB
5 2 (2.74%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 39 (53.42%) Cypress.io
2 32 (43.84%) GitLab
3 27 (36.99%) Jenkins
3 27 (36.99%) SonarQube
4 26 (35.62%) Maven
5 18 (24.66%) Git
6 9 (12.33%) JIRA
7 7 (9.59%) Selenium
8 6 (8.22%) Vite
8 6 (8.22%) webpack
9 5 (6.85%) Mocha
10 4 (5.48%) Bitbucket
10 4 (5.48%) Claude Code
10 4 (5.48%) Jasmine
11 3 (4.11%) Cucumber
12 2 (2.74%) Karma Test Runner
12 2 (2.74%) NUnit
12 2 (2.74%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (2.74%) YouTrack
13 1 (1.37%) fastlane
General
1 9 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (9.59%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.11%) Finance
3 3 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.37%) Front Office
4 1 (1.37%) Games
4 1 (1.37%) iGaming
4 1 (1.37%) Law
4 1 (1.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 64 (87.67%) Developer
2 24 (32.88%) Java Developer
3 23 (31.51%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (20.55%) Senior
5 12 (16.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 12 (16.44%) Senior Developer
6 11 (15.07%) Lead
7 10 (13.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 8 (10.96%) Lead Developer
8 8 (10.96%) React Developer
9 6 (8.22%) AWS Developer
10 5 (6.85%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (5.48%) Angular Developer
11 4 (5.48%) JavaScript Developer
11 4 (5.48%) Python Developer
12 3 (4.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 3 (4.11%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
12 3 (4.11%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 3 (4.11%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 3 (4.11%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (52.05%) AngularJS
2 31 (42.47%) React
3 30 (41.10%) Node.js
4 27 (36.99%) Spring Boot
5 25 (34.25%) Gherkin
6 19 (26.03%) CSS
7 16 (21.92%) HTML
8 12 (16.44%) RESTful
8 12 (16.44%) Vue
9 11 (15.07%) REST
10 9 (12.33%) HTML5
10 9 (12.33%) Next.js
10 9 (12.33%) Redux
11 8 (10.96%) Sass
12 7 (9.59%) Express.js
12 7 (9.59%) NestJS
13 6 (8.22%) .NET
13 6 (8.22%) CSS3
13 6 (8.22%) React Native
13 6 (8.22%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) Product Ownership
2 6 (8.22%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (6.85%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.85%) Mobile App
4 4 (5.48%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.11%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.74%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.37%) Blog
7 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.37%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.48%) Debian
1 4 (5.48%) Linux
2 3 (4.11%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.74%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.37%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (67.12%) CI/CD
2 46 (63.01%) Agile
3 38 (52.05%) DevOps
4 31 (42.47%) Full-Stack Development
5 23 (31.51%) SDLC
6 22 (30.14%) Clean Code
7 21 (28.77%) ITIL
7 21 (28.77%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 20 (27.40%) Secure Coding
9 19 (26.03%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (19.18%) Front End Development
10 14 (19.18%) Mentoring
11 12 (16.44%) User Experience
12 11 (15.07%) Prototyping
12 11 (15.07%) Web Development
13 9 (12.33%) Containerisation
14 8 (10.96%) AI
14 8 (10.96%) API Integration
14 8 (10.96%) Code Quality
14 8 (10.96%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 57 (78.08%) TypeScript
2 31 (42.47%) JavaScript
3 29 (39.73%) Java
4 28 (38.36%) Bash
5 26 (35.62%) Groovy
6 13 (17.81%) Python
7 9 (12.33%) PHP
8 8 (10.96%) SQL
9 7 (9.59%) C#
10 3 (4.11%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (34.25%) AWS Certification
2 20 (27.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 20 (27.40%) ITIL Certification
3 15 (20.55%) SC Cleared
3 15 (20.55%) Security Cleared
4 5 (6.85%) Degree
5 4 (5.48%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (4.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.74%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.37%) HNC
8 1 (1.37%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.81%) Accessibility
2 7 (9.59%) WCAG
3 3 (4.11%) QA
System Software
1 40 (54.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (34.25%) HP Fortify
2 10 (13.70%) Kubernetes
3 7 (9.59%) Terraform
4 1 (1.37%) Grafana
4 1 (1.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (2.74%) Confluent
1 2 (2.74%) Dynatrace
1 2 (2.74%) Google
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.37%) OpenAI