Jest Jobs in England

Jest
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Jest skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Jest over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 680 631
Rank change year-on-year +208 -49 -322
Permanent jobs citing Jest 234 168 231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.45% 0.19% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.62% 0.97% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 91 148 193
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,125 £50,750
25th Percentile £53,625 £52,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -11.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £85,625 £92,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £140,677 £96,500 £101,185
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% -10.00% +7.14%

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 8,945 17,288 20,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.04% 19.26% 27.67%
Number of salaries quoted 5,502 13,476 15,098
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £108,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £67,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -10.45% +3.08%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Jest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Jest in England

Jest
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Jest in England.

Salary trend for Jest in England

Jest
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Jest in England over the 6 months to 16 July 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 16 July 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
North of England +113 95 £55,000 -4.35% 24
North West +70 85 £52,500 -8.70% 12
London +142 66 £66,250 -17.19% 41
South East +48 28 £65,000 -23.53% 18
Midlands +79 26 £60,000 -7.69% 13
West Midlands +75 20 £60,000 -7.69% 7
South West +100 14 £104,013 +98.12% 5
North East - 7 £45,000 - 6
East Midlands +42 6 £72,500 - 5
East of England +33 4 £51,250 -6.82% 4
Yorkshire +39 3 £77,500 +127.94% 8
Jest
UK

Jest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (4.27%) IIS
2 9 (3.85%) Headless CMS
3 7 (2.99%) CMS
4 4 (1.71%) WordPress
5 3 (1.28%) Confluence
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 12 (5.13%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (3.42%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 136 (58.12%) Azure
2 133 (56.84%) AWS
3 17 (7.26%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (7.26%) Serverless
4 15 (6.41%) npm
5 14 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (5.56%) GCP
6 13 (5.56%) GitHub
7 12 (5.13%) Cloudflare
8 10 (4.27%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (4.27%) Amazon S3
8 10 (4.27%) Figma
9 8 (3.42%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (3.42%) Google Analytics
9 8 (3.42%) Vercel
10 7 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (2.56%) SaaS
12 5 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.71%) Yarn
14 3 (1.28%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.85%) HTTP
2 1 (0.43%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (47.01%) SQL Server
2 18 (7.69%) MySQL
3 17 (7.26%) NoSQL
4 10 (4.27%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (1.71%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.85%) Big Data
6 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 103 (44.02%) Cucumber
2 102 (43.59%) Sonatype Nexus
3 98 (41.88%) JIRA
4 94 (40.17%) Selenium
5 93 (39.74%) Bitbucket
6 92 (39.32%) SonarQube
7 91 (38.89%) GitLab
7 91 (38.89%) Maven
8 75 (32.05%) Git
9 39 (16.67%) Cypress.io
10 33 (14.10%) webpack
11 22 (9.40%) Jasmine
12 18 (7.69%) NUnit
13 17 (7.26%) Mocha
13 17 (7.26%) Vite
14 10 (4.27%) TeamCity
15 9 (3.85%) JUnit
16 7 (2.99%) PHPUnit
17 6 (2.56%) Babel
17 6 (2.56%) Grunt
General
1 146 (62.39%) Finance
2 127 (54.27%) Banking
3 126 (53.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 104 (44.44%) Investment Banking
5 90 (38.46%) Corporate Banking
5 90 (38.46%) Retail
6 45 (19.23%) Social Skills
7 18 (7.69%) Law
8 12 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (4.27%) Games
10 7 (2.99%) Marketing
11 6 (2.56%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.43%) Advertising
12 1 (0.43%) Electronics
12 1 (0.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 132 (56.41%) Software Engineer
2 81 (34.62%) Developer
3 40 (17.09%) Senior
4 36 (15.38%) Senior Developer
5 32 (13.68%) React Developer
6 26 (11.11%) Lead
7 25 (10.68%) Full-Stack Developer
8 20 (8.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 20 (8.55%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 18 (7.69%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (5.13%) C# Developer
11 11 (4.70%) .NET Developer
11 11 (4.70%) Lead Developer
11 11 (4.70%) UI Engineer
12 10 (4.27%) Java Engineer
12 10 (4.27%) Senior React Developer
13 9 (3.85%) Senior .NET Developer
14 8 (3.42%) Lead Software Engineer
14 8 (3.42%) Senior C# Developer
14 8 (3.42%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (94.02%) React
2 168 (71.79%) CSS
3 155 (66.24%) HTML
4 139 (59.40%) RESTful
5 117 (50.00%) CSS3
5 117 (50.00%) Redux
6 115 (49.15%) HTML5
7 108 (46.15%) REST
8 106 (45.30%) Sass
9 104 (44.44%) Kafka
10 102 (43.59%) Spring Boot
11 98 (41.88%) Spring
12 91 (38.89%) JPA
13 48 (20.51%) Node.js
14 39 (16.67%) AngularJS
15 38 (16.24%) .NET
16 30 (12.82%) Vue
17 28 (11.97%) Next.js
18 27 (11.54%) GraphQL
19 26 (11.11%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 102 (43.59%) Product Ownership
2 90 (38.46%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (8.55%) Mobile App
4 10 (4.27%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.99%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.56%) Distributed Applications
6 6 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.56%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.14%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.71%) Derivative
8 4 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.71%) Equities
8 4 (1.71%) Online Games
8 4 (1.71%) Wiki
9 2 (0.85%) 3D Graphics
9 2 (0.85%) Cybercrime
10 1 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.43%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.85%) Android
1 9 (3.85%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.85%) Linux
2 2 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (78.21%) Agile
2 171 (73.08%) CI/CD
3 144 (61.54%) Full-Stack Development
4 140 (59.83%) Software Engineering
5 135 (57.69%) User Experience
6 133 (56.84%) DevOps
7 128 (54.70%) Front End Development
8 117 (50.00%) Test Automation
9 113 (48.29%) Microservices
9 113 (48.29%) Responsive Web Design
10 111 (47.44%) Containerisation
11 110 (47.01%) Mentoring
12 107 (45.73%) SDLC
13 101 (43.16%) Performance Optimisation
14 97 (41.45%) Migration
15 90 (38.46%) Strategic Thinking
16 51 (21.79%) Problem-Solving
17 35 (14.96%) Unit Testing
18 27 (11.54%) Design Patterns
19 24 (10.26%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 191 (81.62%) TypeScript
2 183 (78.21%) JavaScript
3 114 (48.72%) SQL
4 106 (45.30%) Java
5 34 (14.53%) C#
6 9 (3.85%) PHP
7 5 (2.14%) Python
8 2 (0.85%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.43%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 16 (6.84%) Degree
2 10 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.43%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (44.87%) QA
2 104 (44.44%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 133 (56.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 110 (47.01%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.98%) Terraform
3 3 (1.28%) Grafana
4 1 (0.43%) Kibana
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 90 (38.46%) Solace
2 16 (6.84%) Oracle
3 13 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.27%) Apple
4 10 (4.27%) Rollbar
5 8 (3.42%) Okta
6 2 (0.85%) Google
7 1 (0.43%) Adobe
7 1 (0.43%) Netlify
7 1 (0.43%) Veracode