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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 679 449 611
Rank change year-on-year -230 +162 -65
Permanent jobs citing Jest 81 204 142
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.083% 0.47% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.76% 2.55% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 42 63 104
10th Percentile £40,500 £44,500 £46,625
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -15.63%
75th Percentile £77,188 £81,875 £89,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% -3.70% -10.80%

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 10,724 7,997 14,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.04% 18.27% 20.82%
Number of salaries quoted 7,963 5,346 10,433
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,442 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +6.83% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,438 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -77 29 £80,000 +18.52% 54
North of England -112 25 £68,750 +5.77% 10
South East -50 16 £55,000 -15.38% 10
Yorkshire -26 15 £72,500 -6.45% 1
North West -88 7 £66,250 - 7
South West -71 5 £40,000 - 13
North East -65 3 £67,500 +42.11% 2
West Midlands -38 2 £75,000 +50.00% 1
Midlands -65 2 £75,000 +36.36% 1
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 (6.17%) Confluence
2 2 (2.47%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.47%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.47%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.23%) Apache
3 1 (1.23%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 48 (59.26%) AWS
2 32 (39.51%) Serverless
3 27 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 27 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 26 (32.10%) GitHub
5 24 (29.63%) Amazon S3
6 20 (24.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (24.69%) Azure
7 19 (23.46%) Amazon ECR
8 18 (22.22%) Amazon SQS
9 17 (20.99%) AWS Step Functions
10 16 (19.75%) Apigee
11 12 (14.81%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (8.64%) GCP
13 5 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (6.17%) Kong
14 4 (4.94%) GitHub Copilot
15 3 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (3.70%) Anthropic Claude
15 3 (3.70%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.94%) VoIP
2 3 (3.70%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.47%) Asterisk PBX
3 2 (2.47%) DNS
3 2 (2.47%) HTTP
3 2 (2.47%) LAN
3 2 (2.47%) WAN
4 1 (1.23%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (25.93%) DynamoDB
2 19 (23.46%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (19.75%) MongoDB
4 9 (11.11%) MySQL
5 7 (8.64%) Relational Database
6 6 (7.41%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.70%) DocumentDB
7 3 (3.70%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.70%) Redis
7 3 (3.70%) Spatial Data
8 2 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 37 (45.68%) Cypress.io
2 27 (33.33%) GitLab
3 25 (30.86%) Git
4 19 (23.46%) Jenkins
5 18 (22.22%) SonarQube
6 17 (20.99%) Maven
7 11 (13.58%) Mocha
8 10 (12.35%) Selenium
9 9 (11.11%) JIRA
10 7 (8.64%) Jasmine
10 7 (8.64%) NUnit
11 5 (6.17%) Claude Code
12 4 (4.94%) Bitbucket
12 4 (4.94%) Vite
12 4 (4.94%) webpack
13 3 (3.70%) JUnit
13 3 (3.70%) Mockito
13 3 (3.70%) Storybook
14 2 (2.47%) Karma Test Runner
14 2 (2.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
1 11 (13.58%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.64%) Finance
3 5 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (6.17%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.23%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.23%) Banking
4 1 (1.23%) Front Office
4 1 (1.23%) Games
4 1 (1.23%) iGaming
4 1 (1.23%) Law
4 1 (1.23%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 60 (74.07%) Developer
2 28 (34.57%) Full-Stack Developer
3 21 (25.93%) Senior
4 15 (18.52%) Java Developer
5 13 (16.05%) Senior Developer
6 12 (14.81%) Software Engineer
7 10 (12.35%) Lead
8 9 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 9 (11.11%) React Developer
9 8 (9.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 7 (8.64%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (6.17%) Lead Developer
11 5 (6.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (4.94%) Angular Developer
12 4 (4.94%) AWS Developer
12 4 (4.94%) Backend Developer
12 4 (4.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 4 (4.94%) Java Engineer
12 4 (4.94%) Software Developer
13 3 (3.70%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (50.62%) React
2 39 (48.15%) Node.js
3 30 (37.04%) AngularJS
4 25 (30.86%) RESTful
5 19 (23.46%) REST
6 18 (22.22%) CSS
6 18 (22.22%) Spring Boot
7 16 (19.75%) Gherkin
7 16 (19.75%) HTML
7 16 (19.75%) Next.js
8 14 (17.28%) Redux
9 13 (16.05%) Terraform
10 12 (14.81%) .NET
10 12 (14.81%) Express.js
10 12 (14.81%) NestJS
11 10 (12.35%) Playwright
12 9 (11.11%) GraphQL
12 9 (11.11%) React Native
12 9 (11.11%) Vue
13 8 (9.88%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
1 9 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.64%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.64%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (4.94%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.70%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.23%) Blog
7 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.23%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.17%) Linux
2 4 (4.94%) Debian
3 3 (3.70%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.47%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.23%) Android
5 1 (1.23%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.23%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (72.84%) CI/CD
2 47 (58.02%) Agile
3 38 (46.91%) DevOps
3 38 (46.91%) Full-Stack Development
4 22 (27.16%) Test Automation
5 19 (23.46%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (23.46%) Software Engineering
6 18 (22.22%) SDLC
7 17 (20.99%) Clean Code
7 17 (20.99%) Mentoring
8 15 (18.52%) ITIL
8 15 (18.52%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 14 (17.28%) Front End Development
9 14 (17.28%) Secure Coding
10 13 (16.05%) AI
10 13 (16.05%) Code Quality
11 12 (14.81%) Containerisation
11 12 (14.81%) Microservices
11 12 (14.81%) Technical Leadership
12 11 (13.58%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 57 (70.37%) TypeScript
2 36 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 25 (30.86%) Java
4 19 (23.46%) Bash
4 19 (23.46%) Python
5 17 (20.99%) Groovy
6 13 (16.05%) SQL
7 12 (14.81%) C#
8 7 (8.64%) PHP
9 1 (1.23%) C
9 1 (1.23%) Go
9 1 (1.23%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.23%) Ruby
9 1 (1.23%) Rust
9 1 (1.23%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 17 (20.99%) SC Cleared
3 16 (19.75%) AWS Certification
4 14 (17.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 14 (17.28%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (7.41%) Degree
6 2 (2.47%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.23%) HNC
7 1 (1.23%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (19.75%) Accessibility
2 11 (13.58%) WCAG
3 7 (8.64%) QA
System Software
1 37 (45.68%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 16 (19.75%) HP Fortify
2 15 (18.52%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.70%) Grafana
4 2 (2.47%) Ansible
5 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (4.94%) Google
1 4 (4.94%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.70%) Confluent
2 3 (3.70%) Dynatrace
2 3 (3.70%) OpenAI
3 2 (2.47%) IBM
4 1 (1.23%) Pega