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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 683 435 568
Rank change year-on-year -248 +133 -17
Permanent jobs citing Jest 82 201 178
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.079% 0.46% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.76% 2.70% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 47 59 101
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.34% -4.19%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £92,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £71,991
% change year-on-year -15.38% -9.71% -4.01%

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 10,769 7,452 14,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.36% 17.23% 21.68%
Number of salaries quoted 7,818 4,917 9,120
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,857 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,500 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,600
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -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 2 October 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 2 October 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
London -82 30 £72,500 +7.41% 73
North of England -133 24 £67,500 +3.85% 24
South East -58 17 £55,000 -15.38% 19
Yorkshire -25 10 £72,500 -6.45% 6
North West -104 8 £70,000 +5.66% 17
North East -62 6 £67,500 +50.00% 1
West Midlands -54 3 £75,000 +66.67% 3
Midlands -67 3 £75,000 +57.89% 7
South West -71 2 - - 9
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 (6.10%) Confluence
2 3 (3.66%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.66%) Tomcat
2 3 (3.66%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.22%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 49 (59.76%) AWS
2 30 (36.59%) Serverless
3 29 (35.37%) GitHub
4 27 (32.93%) Amazon ECS
5 26 (31.71%) Azure
6 25 (30.49%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (26.83%) Amazon S3
8 17 (20.73%) Amazon ECR
8 17 (20.73%) Amazon SQS
9 15 (18.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (17.07%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (14.63%) AWS Step Functions
12 11 (13.41%) Apigee
13 9 (10.98%) GCP
14 8 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (9.76%) Kong
15 6 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (7.32%) AWS Fargate
15 6 (7.32%) AWS KMS
15 6 (7.32%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.88%) VoIP
2 3 (3.66%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.44%) Asterisk PBX
3 2 (2.44%) DNS
3 2 (2.44%) HTTP
3 2 (2.44%) LAN
3 2 (2.44%) WAN
4 1 (1.22%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (28.05%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (26.83%) MongoDB
3 16 (19.51%) DynamoDB
4 9 (10.98%) MySQL
5 8 (9.76%) SQL Server
6 7 (8.54%) Relational Database
7 6 (7.32%) DocumentDB
8 5 (6.10%) Redis
9 3 (3.66%) NoSQL
9 3 (3.66%) Spatial Data
10 2 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (1.22%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 37 (45.12%) Cypress.io
2 30 (36.59%) Git
3 26 (31.71%) GitLab
4 16 (19.51%) Jenkins
5 12 (14.63%) Maven
5 12 (14.63%) Mocha
5 12 (14.63%) SonarQube
6 11 (13.41%) JIRA
7 10 (12.20%) Selenium
8 7 (8.54%) Jasmine
8 7 (8.54%) NUnit
9 5 (6.10%) Claude Code
9 5 (6.10%) Storybook
9 5 (6.10%) Vite
10 4 (4.88%) Bitbucket
10 4 (4.88%) JUnit
10 4 (4.88%) Mockito
10 4 (4.88%) webpack
11 2 (2.44%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (2.44%) YouTrack
General
1 14 (17.07%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.98%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (7.32%) Finance
6 1 (1.22%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.22%) Banking
6 1 (1.22%) Front Office
6 1 (1.22%) Law
6 1 (1.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 58 (70.73%) Developer
2 26 (31.71%) Full-Stack Developer
3 23 (28.05%) Senior
4 14 (17.07%) Senior Developer
4 14 (17.07%) Software Engineer
5 11 (13.41%) Java Developer
5 11 (13.41%) Lead
6 10 (12.20%) React Developer
7 9 (10.98%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 8 (9.76%) Software Developer
9 7 (8.54%) Angular Developer
9 7 (8.54%) Lead Developer
9 7 (8.54%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (7.32%) Java Engineer
10 6 (7.32%) Node.js Developer
11 5 (6.10%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (4.88%) AWS Developer
12 4 (4.88%) Backend Developer
12 4 (4.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 3 (3.66%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (54.88%) React
2 41 (50.00%) Node.js
3 31 (37.80%) RESTful
4 28 (34.15%) AngularJS
5 25 (30.49%) REST
6 18 (21.95%) Next.js
7 17 (20.73%) CSS
8 16 (19.51%) HTML
9 15 (18.29%) Express.js
9 15 (18.29%) Redux
9 15 (18.29%) Terraform
10 13 (15.85%) .NET
10 13 (15.85%) NestJS
10 13 (15.85%) Playwright
10 13 (15.85%) Spring Boot
11 11 (13.41%) Gherkin
12 10 (12.20%) GraphQL
12 10 (12.20%) React Native
13 9 (10.98%) HTML5
14 8 (9.76%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.85%) Enterprise Software
2 12 (14.63%) Cloud Native
3 11 (13.41%) Product Ownership
4 7 (8.54%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.88%) AI Agents
6 3 (3.66%) Blog
6 3 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.22%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.32%) Linux
2 4 (4.88%) Debian
3 3 (3.66%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.44%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.22%) Android
5 1 (1.22%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.22%) OpenWrt
5 1 (1.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (78.05%) CI/CD
2 47 (57.32%) Agile
3 42 (51.22%) DevOps
4 40 (48.78%) Full-Stack Development
5 30 (36.59%) Test Automation
6 24 (29.27%) Software Engineering
7 21 (25.61%) Clean Code
8 20 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (21.95%) Mentoring
10 17 (20.73%) SDLC
11 16 (19.51%) AI
11 16 (19.51%) Code Quality
12 15 (18.29%) Microservices
13 14 (17.07%) Containerisation
14 13 (15.85%) Front End Development
14 13 (15.85%) Technical Leadership
14 13 (15.85%) Unit Testing
15 12 (14.63%) User Experience
16 11 (13.41%) Infrastructure as Code
16 11 (13.41%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 56 (68.29%) TypeScript
2 38 (46.34%) JavaScript
3 21 (25.61%) Java
4 18 (21.95%) Python
5 16 (19.51%) Bash
6 14 (17.07%) SQL
7 12 (14.63%) C#
7 12 (14.63%) Groovy
8 4 (4.88%) PHP
9 1 (1.22%) C
9 1 (1.22%) Go
9 1 (1.22%) Ruby
9 1 (1.22%) Rust
9 1 (1.22%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (23.17%) Security Cleared
2 17 (20.73%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.20%) AWS Certification
3 10 (12.20%) ITIL Certification
4 9 (10.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 7 (8.54%) Degree
6 2 (2.44%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.22%) HNC
7 1 (1.22%) HND
7 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (24.39%) Accessibility
2 14 (17.07%) WCAG
3 11 (13.41%) QA
System Software
1 38 (46.34%) Docker
2 1 (1.22%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 20 (24.39%) Kubernetes
2 11 (13.41%) HP Fortify
3 2 (2.44%) Ansible
3 2 (2.44%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (7.32%) Confluent
1 6 (7.32%) Dynatrace
2 5 (6.10%) Google
2 5 (6.10%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.88%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.66%) IBM
5 2 (2.44%) Pega