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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 502 543
Rank change year-on-year -21 +41 +34
Permanent jobs citing Jest 81 180 133
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.15% 0.37% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.30% 1.73% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 54 112 88
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £49,625
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,563 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £73,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% +5.36% -12.50%
75th Percentile £81,250 £88,750 £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% -3.23%

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 6,216 10,377 12,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.85% 21.52% 24.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4,789 6,085 10,082
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £41,007
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £85,000
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 10 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 10 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 +28 32 £60,000 -4.00% 26
London +3 22 £80,000 - 14
Yorkshire - 17 £77,500 - 10
South East -23 15 £62,500 -19.35% 27
North West +19 10 £60,000 -4.00% 11
North East +7 5 £59,000 - 5
South West -1 5 £72,500 +7.41% 16
Midlands +23 3 £53,750 -17.31% 11
West Midlands +23 2 £45,000 -40.00% 4
East of England +7 1 £60,000 -17.24% 15
East Midlands +1 1 £62,500 - 7
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 (2.47%) nginx
2 1 (1.23%) CMS
2 1 (1.23%) Confluence
2 1 (1.23%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.47%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 36 (44.44%) AWS
2 26 (32.10%) Serverless
3 24 (29.63%) AWS Lambda
4 22 (27.16%) Amazon S3
5 20 (24.69%) GitHub
6 19 (23.46%) Azure
7 18 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (20.99%) Amazon ECR
8 17 (20.99%) Apigee
8 17 (20.99%) AWS Step Functions
9 16 (19.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (13.58%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (13.58%) Figma
11 6 (7.41%) GCP
11 6 (7.41%) npm
11 6 (7.41%) SaaS
12 5 (6.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (6.17%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (6.17%) Amazon MSK
12 5 (6.17%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.47%) AMQP
2 1 (1.23%) Broadband
2 1 (1.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.99%) DynamoDB
2 5 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.47%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.47%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.47%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 49 (60.49%) Cypress.io
2 26 (32.10%) Jenkins
3 24 (29.63%) Git
4 18 (22.22%) GitLab
4 18 (22.22%) SonarQube
5 17 (20.99%) Maven
6 11 (13.58%) JIRA
6 11 (13.58%) Storybook
7 7 (8.64%) Vite
8 6 (7.41%) webpack
9 5 (6.17%) Babel
9 5 (6.17%) Bitbucket
9 5 (6.17%) Visual Studio
9 5 (6.17%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (4.94%) rollup.js
11 2 (2.47%) Android Studio
11 2 (2.47%) Cucumber
11 2 (2.47%) Mocha
11 2 (2.47%) Xcode
12 1 (1.23%) Browser DevTools
General
1 18 (22.22%) Finance
2 14 (17.28%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.17%) Retail
4 3 (3.70%) Banking
5 2 (2.47%) Games
6 1 (1.23%) Automotive
6 1 (1.23%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 49 (60.49%) Developer
2 23 (28.40%) Senior
3 22 (27.16%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 19 (23.46%) Lead
5 14 (17.28%) Software Engineer
6 13 (16.05%) Senior Developer
7 12 (14.81%) Technical Leader
8 11 (13.58%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 10 (12.35%) React Developer
10 9 (11.11%) Java Developer
11 6 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (7.41%) Principal Engineer
11 6 (7.41%) Principal Software Engineer
12 5 (6.17%) Senior Manager
12 5 (6.17%) Senior Technical Manager
12 5 (6.17%) Technical Manager
13 4 (4.94%) AWS Developer
13 4 (4.94%) Senior Software Engineer
14 3 (3.70%) Lead Developer
15 2 (2.47%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (65.43%) React
2 33 (40.74%) CSS
3 30 (37.04%) Spring Boot
4 28 (34.57%) HTML
5 26 (32.10%) RESTful
6 23 (28.40%) AngularJS
7 22 (27.16%) Spring
8 17 (20.99%) Gherkin
8 17 (20.99%) Next.js
8 17 (20.99%) Node.js
9 16 (19.75%) Redux
10 15 (18.52%) GraphQL
11 10 (12.35%) HTML5
12 9 (11.11%) .NET
12 9 (11.11%) CSS3
12 9 (11.11%) REST
12 9 (11.11%) Tailwind CSS
13 8 (9.88%) Kafka
13 8 (9.88%) Vue
14 7 (8.64%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.75%) Cloud Native
2 14 (17.28%) Product Ownership
3 10 (12.35%) Mobile App
4 5 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.17%) Virtual Team
5 4 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.94%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.47%) Animation
7 2 (2.47%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.47%) Online Banking
8 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.11%) Android
2 7 (8.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (67.90%) Agile
1 55 (67.90%) CI/CD
2 46 (56.79%) DevOps
3 37 (45.68%) Front End Development
4 31 (38.27%) Full-Stack Development
5 30 (37.04%) Software Engineering
6 26 (32.10%) User Experience
7 20 (24.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (23.46%) SDLC
9 18 (22.22%) Mentoring
9 18 (22.22%) Microservices
9 18 (22.22%) UX Design
10 16 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (19.75%) Responsive Web Design
11 15 (18.52%) Code Quality
12 13 (16.05%) Design Patterns
12 13 (16.05%) Scrum
13 12 (14.81%) API Integration
14 11 (13.58%) Clean Code
15 10 (12.35%) Micro Frontends
Programming Languages
1 74 (91.36%) TypeScript
2 40 (49.38%) JavaScript
3 33 (40.74%) Java
4 16 (19.75%) Bash
4 16 (19.75%) Groovy
5 2 (2.47%) C#
5 2 (2.47%) Kotlin
5 2 (2.47%) Python
5 2 (2.47%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.47%) Swift
Qualifications
1 14 (17.28%) AWS Certification
2 13 (16.05%) Degree
3 10 (12.35%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (6.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.94%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (4.94%) SC Cleared
6 4 (4.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (29.63%) Accessibility
2 22 (27.16%) QA
3 7 (8.64%) WCAG
4 5 (6.17%) GDPR
4 5 (6.17%) PERC
System Software
1 31 (38.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (20.99%) HP Fortify
2 6 (7.41%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.17%) Kibana
4 3 (3.70%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (6.17%) Google
2 2 (2.47%) SendGrid
3 1 (1.23%) Adobe