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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 542 552
Rank change year-on-year +31 +10 -99
Permanent jobs citing Jest 106 178 146
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.29% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.64% 1.44% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 57 103 106
10th Percentile £43,250 £51,250 £52,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £75,669
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +2.42% +0.89%
75th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £97,030
90th Percentile £93,750 £98,029 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% -3.33% +3.45%

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 6,470 12,388 12,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.07% 20.35% 26.92%
Number of salaries quoted 4,753 7,421 10,451
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,750 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +2.27%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025. 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 +50 53 £82,500 +3.13% 57
North of England +41 21 £51,500 -6.36% 14
South East -13 20 £65,000 -16.13% 27
North West +41 15 £60,000 +9.09% 9
North East +9 5 £45,000 - 1
South West +23 4 £81,250 +20.37% 9
Midlands +51 3 £53,750 +7.50% 4
West Midlands +43 2 £45,000 - 3
East of England +17 2 £53,750 -25.86% 1
East Midlands +21 1 £62,500 +25.00% 1
Yorkshire +10 1 £80,000 - 4
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 9 (8.49%) Headless CMS
2 5 (4.72%) IIS
3 2 (1.89%) Confluence
4 1 (0.94%) CMS
4 1 (0.94%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Adobe XD
1 2 (1.89%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (8.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 32 (30.19%) AWS
2 25 (23.58%) Azure
3 21 (19.81%) GitHub
4 17 (16.04%) Figma
5 15 (14.15%) Serverless
6 14 (13.21%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (12.26%) Amazon S3
8 11 (10.38%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (8.49%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (7.55%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (7.55%) Google Analytics
10 8 (7.55%) Vercel
11 6 (5.66%) SaaS
12 5 (4.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (4.72%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (4.72%) Amazon MSK
12 5 (4.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 5 (4.72%) Cloudflare
12 5 (4.72%) CloudFront
12 5 (4.72%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.89%) HTTP
2 1 (0.94%) AMQP
2 1 (0.94%) Broadband
2 1 (0.94%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.32%) NoSQL
2 7 (6.60%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.72%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (4.72%) MySQL
3 5 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.89%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 47 (44.34%) Cypress.io
2 36 (33.96%) Git
3 23 (21.70%) Vite
4 13 (12.26%) JIRA
4 13 (12.26%) webpack
5 10 (9.43%) Jenkins
5 10 (9.43%) Storybook
6 6 (5.66%) Bitbucket
6 6 (5.66%) Jasmine
7 5 (4.72%) Babel
7 5 (4.72%) NUnit
7 5 (4.72%) TeamCity
7 5 (4.72%) Visual Studio
7 5 (4.72%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (2.83%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.89%) Ant
9 2 (1.89%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.89%) JUnit
9 2 (1.89%) Mockito
9 2 (1.89%) rollup.js
General
1 38 (35.85%) Finance
2 34 (32.08%) Social Skills
3 18 (16.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (16.98%) Law
4 17 (16.04%) Banking
5 9 (8.49%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.66%) Games
7 5 (4.72%) Retail
8 4 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.77%) Marketing
9 1 (0.94%) Advertising
9 1 (0.94%) Automotive
9 1 (0.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 57 (53.77%) Developer
2 39 (36.79%) Software Engineer
3 37 (34.91%) Senior
4 27 (25.47%) Senior Developer
5 20 (18.87%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 17 (16.04%) Lead
7 16 (15.09%) Full-Stack Developer
8 13 (12.26%) React Developer
8 13 (12.26%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (11.32%) UI Engineer
10 10 (9.43%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 9 (8.49%) Lead Software Engineer
12 8 (7.55%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 8 (7.55%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (7.55%) Web Engineer
13 7 (6.60%) Principal Engineer
13 7 (6.60%) Principal Software Engineer
14 6 (5.66%) Technical Leader
15 5 (4.72%) Senior .NET Developer
15 5 (4.72%) Senior Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (84.91%) React
2 56 (52.83%) CSS
3 47 (44.34%) HTML
4 33 (31.13%) RESTful
5 29 (27.36%) Next.js
6 26 (24.53%) Node.js
7 25 (23.58%) Playwright
8 24 (22.64%) GraphQL
9 21 (19.81%) Spring
10 18 (16.98%) AngularJS
10 18 (16.98%) Tailwind CSS
11 17 (16.04%) .NET
11 17 (16.04%) Kafka
11 17 (16.04%) Redux
12 16 (15.09%) CSS3
12 16 (15.09%) Vue
13 15 (14.15%) HTML5
14 14 (13.21%) Spring Boot
15 13 (12.26%) Vitest
16 12 (11.32%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.15%) Cloud Native
1 15 (14.15%) Product Ownership
2 13 (12.26%) Mobile App
3 7 (6.60%) Algorithms
4 5 (4.72%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.77%) Derivative
5 4 (3.77%) Equities
5 4 (3.77%) Online Games
5 4 (3.77%) Wiki
6 2 (1.89%) Animation
6 2 (1.89%) Online Banking
6 2 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.89%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.32%) Android
1 12 (11.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (72.64%) Agile
2 60 (56.60%) CI/CD
3 55 (51.89%) Software Engineering
4 49 (46.23%) User Experience
5 42 (39.62%) Full-Stack Development
6 38 (35.85%) DevOps
7 37 (34.91%) Front End Development
8 34 (32.08%) UX Design
9 31 (29.25%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (23.58%) SDLC
11 19 (17.92%) Analytics
11 19 (17.92%) Mentoring
12 18 (16.98%) Test Automation
13 17 (16.04%) Clean Code
13 17 (16.04%) Responsive Web Design
14 16 (15.09%) AI
15 15 (14.15%) Code Quality
15 15 (14.15%) Pair Programming
15 15 (14.15%) Sprint Planning
15 15 (14.15%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 101 (95.28%) TypeScript
2 64 (60.38%) JavaScript
3 25 (23.58%) Java
4 14 (13.21%) SQL
5 11 (10.38%) C#
6 5 (4.72%) Python
7 1 (0.94%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.94%) Objective-C
7 1 (0.94%) Swift
Qualifications
1 14 (13.21%) Degree
2 10 (9.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.72%) AWS Certification
3 5 (4.72%) AWS Certified Developer
3 5 (4.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (3.77%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.77%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (30.19%) Accessibility
2 23 (21.70%) QA
3 6 (5.66%) WCAG
4 5 (4.72%) GDPR
4 5 (4.72%) PERC
System Software
1 18 (16.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (12.26%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.72%) Kibana
2 5 (4.72%) Terraform
3 3 (2.83%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (7.55%) Apple
2 6 (5.66%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.72%) Rollbar
4 4 (3.77%) Oracle
5 3 (2.83%) Google
6 1 (0.94%) Netlify
6 1 (0.94%) Veracode