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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 504 547
Rank change year-on-year -7 +43 +19
Permanent jobs citing Jest 82 180 132
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.16% 0.37% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.32% 1.72% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 52 112 88
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,375 £49,625
25th Percentile £54,688 £61,563 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £76,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.75% +8.93% -12.50%
75th Percentile £82,500 £93,125 £92,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £96,125 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% -3.33% -

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 6,194 10,482 11,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.92% 21.45% 24.82%
Number of salaries quoted 4,762 6,174 9,671
10th Percentile £35,854 £40,004 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,863 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £85,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 4 January 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 4 January 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 +34 31 £62,500 - 45
London +22 25 £80,000 - 19
Yorkshire - 17 £77,500 - 19
South East -33 15 £62,500 -19.35% 38
North West +24 10 £60,000 -4.00% 19
North East +8 4 £58,750 - 7
South West +3 4 £76,250 +12.96% 22
Midlands +16 3 £53,750 -17.31% 33
West Midlands +29 2 £45,000 -40.00% 17
East of England +16 1 £60,000 -17.24% 27
East Midlands -3 1 £62,500 - 14
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 4 (4.88%) Headless CMS
2 2 (2.44%) nginx
3 1 (1.22%) CMS
3 1 (1.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.44%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 39 (47.56%) AWS
2 29 (35.37%) Serverless
3 27 (32.93%) AWS Lambda
4 25 (30.49%) Amazon S3
5 21 (25.61%) Amazon ECS
6 20 (24.39%) GitHub
7 19 (23.17%) Azure
8 17 (20.73%) Amazon ECR
8 17 (20.73%) Apigee
8 17 (20.73%) AWS Step Functions
9 16 (19.51%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (17.07%) Figma
11 11 (13.41%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (8.54%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (7.32%) GCP
13 6 (7.32%) npm
13 6 (7.32%) SaaS
14 5 (6.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (6.10%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (6.10%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.44%) AMQP
2 1 (1.22%) Broadband
2 1 (1.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.73%) DynamoDB
2 5 (6.10%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.44%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 52 (63.41%) Cypress.io
2 26 (31.71%) Jenkins
3 24 (29.27%) Git
4 18 (21.95%) GitLab
4 18 (21.95%) SonarQube
5 17 (20.73%) Maven
6 11 (13.41%) JIRA
6 11 (13.41%) Storybook
7 7 (8.54%) Vite
8 6 (7.32%) webpack
9 5 (6.10%) Babel
9 5 (6.10%) Bitbucket
9 5 (6.10%) Visual Studio
9 5 (6.10%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (4.88%) rollup.js
11 2 (2.44%) Cucumber
11 2 (2.44%) Mocha
12 1 (1.22%) Jasmine
12 1 (1.22%) Mockito
12 1 (1.22%) Selenium
General
1 17 (20.73%) Finance
1 17 (20.73%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (6.10%) Retail
3 3 (3.66%) Banking
4 2 (2.44%) Games
5 1 (1.22%) Automotive
5 1 (1.22%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 51 (62.20%) Developer
2 24 (29.27%) Senior
3 21 (25.61%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 19 (23.17%) Lead
5 15 (18.29%) Senior Developer
6 13 (15.85%) Software Engineer
7 12 (14.63%) Technical Leader
8 10 (12.20%) React Developer
8 10 (12.20%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 9 (10.98%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (10.98%) Java Developer
10 6 (7.32%) Principal Engineer
10 6 (7.32%) Principal Software Engineer
11 5 (6.10%) Senior Manager
11 5 (6.10%) Senior Technical Manager
11 5 (6.10%) Technical Manager
12 4 (4.88%) AWS Developer
13 3 (3.66%) Lead Developer
13 3 (3.66%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 3 (3.66%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (65.85%) React
2 35 (42.68%) CSS
3 30 (36.59%) HTML
3 30 (36.59%) Spring Boot
4 28 (34.15%) RESTful
5 23 (28.05%) AngularJS
6 22 (26.83%) Spring
7 20 (24.39%) Next.js
7 20 (24.39%) Node.js
8 17 (20.73%) Gherkin
8 17 (20.73%) GraphQL
9 15 (18.29%) Redux
10 12 (14.63%) Tailwind CSS
11 10 (12.20%) HTML5
12 9 (10.98%) .NET
12 9 (10.98%) CSS3
12 9 (10.98%) Vitest
13 8 (9.76%) Kafka
13 8 (9.76%) REST
13 8 (9.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.51%) Cloud Native
2 14 (17.07%) Product Ownership
3 9 (10.98%) Mobile App
4 5 (6.10%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.10%) Virtual Team
5 4 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.88%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (2.44%) Animation
6 2 (2.44%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.44%) Online Banking
7 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.76%) Android
2 7 (8.54%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (70.73%) Agile
2 53 (64.63%) CI/CD
3 46 (56.10%) DevOps
4 36 (43.90%) Front End Development
5 34 (41.46%) Full-Stack Development
6 29 (35.37%) Software Engineering
6 29 (35.37%) User Experience
7 21 (25.61%) UX Design
8 20 (24.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (23.17%) SDLC
10 18 (21.95%) Mentoring
10 18 (21.95%) Microservices
11 16 (19.51%) Responsive Web Design
12 15 (18.29%) Code Quality
13 13 (15.85%) Scrum
14 12 (14.63%) Analytics
14 12 (14.63%) API Integration
14 12 (14.63%) Design Patterns
14 12 (14.63%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 76 (92.68%) TypeScript
2 42 (51.22%) JavaScript
3 33 (40.24%) Java
4 16 (19.51%) Bash
4 16 (19.51%) Groovy
5 3 (3.66%) SQL
6 2 (2.44%) C#
6 2 (2.44%) Python
6 2 (2.44%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.22%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.22%) Swift
Qualifications
1 14 (17.07%) AWS Certification
2 13 (15.85%) Degree
3 10 (12.20%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (10.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (6.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (4.88%) SC Cleared
6 4 (4.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (32.93%) Accessibility
2 22 (26.83%) QA
3 7 (8.54%) WCAG
4 5 (6.10%) GDPR
4 5 (6.10%) PERC
System Software
1 31 (37.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (20.73%) HP Fortify
2 6 (7.32%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.10%) Kibana
4 3 (3.66%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (6.10%) Google
2 3 (3.66%) Apple
3 2 (2.44%) SendGrid
4 1 (1.22%) Adobe