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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 470 620
Rank change year-on-year -87 +150 -36
Permanent jobs citing Jest 84 148 172
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.39% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.18% 1.77% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 50 119 148
10th Percentile £45,875 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,438 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -3.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £80,938 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,695 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% -6.67%

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 7,143 8,361 16,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.63% 22.10% 21.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5,439 5,975 13,630
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,300 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,001
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 -26 43 £62,500 +12.11% 16
Yorkshire -8 35 £78,750 - 7
London -25 20 £80,000 +18.52% 13
South East -60 10 £65,000 -16.13% 3
South West -41 7 £52,500 -38.42% 9
North East -22 4 £59,000 +5.83% 3
North West -26 4 £52,500 -10.64% 6
West Midlands -11 1 - - 6
Midlands -34 1 - - 6
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 (2.38%) JBoss
1 2 (2.38%) nginx
2 1 (1.19%) CMS
2 1 (1.19%) Confluence
2 1 (1.19%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.19%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.38%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 44 (52.38%) AWS
2 38 (45.24%) Serverless
3 36 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
4 35 (41.67%) Amazon S3
5 34 (40.48%) Amazon ECR
5 34 (40.48%) Amazon ECS
5 34 (40.48%) Apigee
5 34 (40.48%) AWS Step Functions
6 33 (39.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (21.43%) Amazon SQS
8 12 (14.29%) GitHub
9 9 (10.71%) Azure
10 7 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (7.14%) Figma
11 6 (7.14%) npm
12 4 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (4.76%) Amazon MSK
12 4 (4.76%) GCP
12 4 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.38%) AMQP
2 1 (1.19%) Broadband
2 1 (1.19%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (40.48%) DynamoDB
2 5 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.57%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.38%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.19%) MySQL
5 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.19%) Redis
5 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 58 (69.05%) Cypress.io
2 39 (46.43%) Jenkins
3 36 (42.86%) GitLab
4 35 (41.67%) SonarQube
5 34 (40.48%) Maven
6 20 (23.81%) Git
7 7 (8.33%) webpack
8 6 (7.14%) JIRA
9 5 (5.95%) Babel
9 5 (5.95%) Storybook
9 5 (5.95%) Visual Studio
9 5 (5.95%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (5.95%) Vite
10 4 (4.76%) Cucumber
10 4 (4.76%) rollup.js
10 4 (4.76%) Selenium
11 3 (3.57%) Mocha
12 2 (2.38%) Android Studio
12 2 (2.38%) Xcode
13 1 (1.19%) Jasmine
General
1 13 (15.48%) Finance
2 6 (7.14%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.95%) Retail
4 2 (2.38%) Games
4 2 (2.38%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.19%) Automotive
5 1 (1.19%) Front Office
5 1 (1.19%) iGaming
5 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.19%) Law
Job Titles
1 63 (75.00%) Developer
2 25 (29.76%) Java Developer
3 23 (27.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 17 (20.24%) Senior
5 15 (17.86%) Lead
6 14 (16.67%) Senior Developer
7 10 (11.90%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 9 (10.71%) Software Engineer
9 8 (9.52%) AWS Developer
9 8 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (9.52%) React Developer
10 6 (7.14%) Lead Developer
10 6 (7.14%) Technical Leader
11 4 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
11 4 (4.76%) Principal Software Engineer
12 3 (3.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 2 (2.38%) Lead Java Developer
13 2 (2.38%) Python Developer
13 2 (2.38%) Senior Java Developer
13 2 (2.38%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (52.38%) AngularJS
2 38 (45.24%) React
2 38 (45.24%) Spring Boot
3 34 (40.48%) CSS
3 34 (40.48%) Gherkin
4 28 (33.33%) HTML
5 21 (25.00%) Node.js
5 21 (25.00%) RESTful
6 14 (16.67%) Vue
7 13 (15.48%) Spring
8 12 (14.29%) GraphQL
8 12 (14.29%) Tailwind CSS
9 10 (11.90%) HTML5
9 10 (11.90%) Redux
10 9 (10.71%) CSS3
11 7 (8.33%) REST
11 7 (8.33%) Sass
12 6 (7.14%) Kafka
12 6 (7.14%) Next.js
12 6 (7.14%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.48%) Product Ownership
2 9 (10.71%) Cloud Native
3 7 (8.33%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.95%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.76%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.38%) Animation
7 2 (2.38%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.19%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.57%) Android
2 1 (1.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (66.67%) Agile
2 54 (64.29%) CI/CD
3 48 (57.14%) DevOps
4 29 (34.52%) Front End Development
4 29 (34.52%) Full-Stack Development
5 27 (32.14%) SDLC
6 23 (27.38%) Secure Coding
7 18 (21.43%) Clean Code
7 18 (21.43%) ITIL
7 18 (21.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 17 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (20.24%) User Experience
9 16 (19.05%) Software Engineering
10 15 (17.86%) Responsive Web Design
11 13 (15.48%) API Integration
11 13 (15.48%) Microservices
11 13 (15.48%) Prototyping
12 11 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (13.10%) Mentoring
12 11 (13.10%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 77 (91.67%) TypeScript
2 42 (50.00%) Java
3 33 (39.29%) Bash
3 33 (39.29%) Groovy
3 33 (39.29%) JavaScript
4 6 (7.14%) Python
5 4 (4.76%) Kotlin
5 4 (4.76%) PHP
6 2 (2.38%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.38%) Swift
7 1 (1.19%) C#
7 1 (1.19%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.19%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (30.95%) AWS Certification
2 18 (21.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 18 (21.43%) ITIL Certification
3 9 (10.71%) Degree
4 8 (9.52%) AWS Certified Developer
4 8 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 8 (9.52%) Security Cleared
5 5 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (20.24%) Accessibility
2 13 (15.48%) QA
3 6 (7.14%) WCAG
4 5 (5.95%) GDPR
4 5 (5.95%) PERC
System Software
1 39 (46.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (40.48%) HP Fortify
2 4 (4.76%) Kibana
2 4 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.57%) Terraform
4 1 (1.19%) Grafana
4 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (2.38%) Google
1 2 (2.38%) SendGrid
2 1 (1.19%) Adobe
2 1 (1.19%) OpenAI
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle