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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 582 542
Rank change year-on-year +118 -40 -189
Permanent jobs citing Jest 192 169 184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.44% 0.25% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.72% 1.27% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 52 101 145
10th Percentile £44,125 £46,250 £52,200
25th Percentile £51,063 £52,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £75,669
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% -4.19% +4.37%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £95,000 £99,711
UK median annual salary £65,000 £71,991 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.71% -4.01% +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 7,051 13,352 14,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.34% 19.43% 27.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,617 8,762 12,065
10th Percentile £38,750 £39,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £108,450
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.26% +2.31%

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

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +99 89 £65,000 +18.18% 18
North West +74 80 £66,250 +20.45% 10
London +62 51 £67,500 -15.63% 24
South East +19 23 £65,000 -16.13% 20
Midlands +62 20 £47,500 -26.92% 2
West Midlands +60 14 £45,000 -30.77% 2
East Midlands +31 6 £62,500 -1.96%
North East +21 6 £45,000 - 2
East of England -7 4 £53,750 -10.42% 2
South West +65 3 £82,500 +94.12% 3
Yorkshire +16 3 £77,500 +127.94% 7
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 (5.21%) IIS
2 9 (4.69%) Headless CMS
3 3 (1.56%) Confluence
4 2 (1.04%) CMS
5 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 8 (4.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 127 (66.15%) AWS
2 112 (58.33%) Azure
3 17 (8.85%) Serverless
4 16 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (7.29%) Amazon S3
5 14 (7.29%) Figma
6 13 (6.77%) GitHub
7 11 (5.73%) Cloudflare
8 9 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (4.17%) Google Analytics
9 8 (4.17%) Vercel
10 7 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (3.13%) SaaS
12 5 (2.60%) CloudFront
13 4 (2.08%) Yarn
14 3 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (1.56%) npm
15 2 (1.04%) AWS Step Functions
15 2 (1.04%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.52%) DNS
1 1 (0.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (53.13%) SQL Server
2 15 (7.81%) MySQL
3 12 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 10 (5.21%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.04%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 101 (52.60%) JIRA
2 97 (50.52%) Bitbucket
3 93 (48.44%) SonarQube
4 91 (47.40%) Cucumber
4 91 (47.40%) GitLab
4 91 (47.40%) Maven
4 91 (47.40%) Selenium
4 91 (47.40%) Sonatype Nexus
5 43 (22.40%) Git
6 29 (15.10%) Cypress.io
7 22 (11.46%) Vite
8 14 (7.29%) webpack
9 11 (5.73%) Jasmine
10 10 (5.21%) NUnit
10 10 (5.21%) TeamCity
11 9 (4.69%) Storybook
12 4 (2.08%) PHPUnit
13 3 (1.56%) Babel
13 3 (1.56%) ESLint
13 3 (1.56%) Jenkins
General
1 130 (67.71%) Finance
2 108 (56.25%) Banking
2 108 (56.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 101 (52.60%) Investment Banking
4 90 (46.88%) Corporate Banking
4 90 (46.88%) Retail
5 38 (19.79%) Social Skills
6 18 (9.38%) Law
7 8 (4.17%) Games
8 5 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.08%) Marketing
10 1 (0.52%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 126 (65.63%) Software Engineer
2 54 (28.13%) Developer
3 33 (17.19%) Senior
4 25 (13.02%) Senior Developer
5 23 (11.98%) Full-Stack Developer
6 18 (9.38%) Lead
6 18 (9.38%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 13 (6.77%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 12 (6.25%) React Developer
8 12 (6.25%) UI Engineer
9 10 (5.21%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 9 (4.69%) Lead Software Engineer
11 8 (4.17%) Web Engineer
12 7 (3.65%) Senior Software Engineer
12 7 (3.65%) Technical Leader
13 5 (2.60%) Senior .NET Developer
13 5 (2.60%) Senior Manager
13 5 (2.60%) Senior Technical Manager
13 5 (2.60%) Software Developer
13 5 (2.60%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (95.83%) React
2 148 (77.08%) CSS
3 141 (73.44%) HTML
4 121 (63.02%) RESTful
5 110 (57.29%) CSS3
6 109 (56.77%) HTML5
6 109 (56.77%) REST
7 106 (55.21%) Redux
7 106 (55.21%) Spring
8 102 (53.13%) Kafka
9 99 (51.56%) Spring Boot
10 95 (49.48%) Sass
11 92 (47.92%) JPA
12 27 (14.06%) Playwright
13 26 (13.54%) Next.js
14 21 (10.94%) .NET
15 20 (10.42%) AngularJS
15 20 (10.42%) GraphQL
16 19 (9.90%) Node.js
17 15 (7.81%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 97 (50.52%) Product Ownership
2 90 (46.88%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (10.42%) Mobile App
4 11 (5.73%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.65%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.60%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.08%) Derivative
7 4 (2.08%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (2.08%) Equities
7 4 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.08%) Online Games
7 4 (2.08%) Wiki
8 3 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.04%) 3D Graphics
10 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.52%) Online Banking
10 1 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.73%) Android
1 11 (5.73%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (81.25%) Agile
2 144 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 137 (71.35%) Software Engineering
4 135 (70.31%) User Experience
5 132 (68.75%) Full-Stack Development
6 122 (63.54%) DevOps
7 119 (61.98%) Front End Development
8 112 (58.33%) SDLC
9 106 (55.21%) Test Automation
10 105 (54.69%) Responsive Web Design
11 101 (52.60%) Mentoring
12 99 (51.56%) Performance Optimisation
13 98 (51.04%) Microservices
14 95 (49.48%) Strategic Thinking
15 93 (48.44%) Migration
16 92 (47.92%) Containerisation
17 30 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
17 30 (15.63%) UX Design
18 17 (8.85%) Mobile First
19 16 (8.33%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 183 (95.31%) TypeScript
2 156 (81.25%) JavaScript
3 108 (56.25%) Java
4 104 (54.17%) SQL
5 20 (10.42%) C#
6 5 (2.60%) PHP
7 4 (2.08%) Python
8 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.52%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.52%) Swift
Qualifications
1 15 (7.81%) Degree
2 12 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.60%) AWS Certification
3 5 (2.60%) AWS Certified Developer
3 5 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (58.85%) Accessibility
2 110 (57.29%) QA
3 4 (2.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 111 (57.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 100 (52.08%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.21%) Terraform
3 3 (1.56%) Grafana
4 1 (0.52%) Kibana
Vendors
1 90 (46.88%) Solace
2 12 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.21%) Rollbar
4 8 (4.17%) Apple
5 4 (2.08%) Oracle
6 2 (1.04%) Google
7 1 (0.52%) Adobe
7 1 (0.52%) Netlify
7 1 (0.52%) Veracode