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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 632 410 681
Rank change year-on-year -222 +271 -80
Permanent jobs citing Jest 72 227 180
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.086% 0.57% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.82% 2.91% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 31 94 154
10th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,625 £55,313 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -12.90%
75th Percentile £79,375 £83,438 £92,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £134,099 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% -3.70% -10.00%

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 8,782 7,804 18,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.49% 19.61% 19.28%
Number of salaries quoted 6,697 5,253 14,834
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,838 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -85 33 £62,500 - 1
Yorkshire -16 28 £75,000 -3.23% 1
London -70 19 £80,000 +18.52% 5
South East -40 12 £52,500 -20.75% 6
South West -67 6 £40,000 -61.54% 2
North East -52 3 £59,000 +18.00%
North West -74 2 £56,250 -11.76%
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 6 (8.33%) Confluence
2 3 (4.17%) JBoss
3 1 (1.39%) Apache
3 1 (1.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.39%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 41 (56.94%) AWS
2 33 (45.83%) Serverless
3 30 (41.67%) Amazon ECS
3 30 (41.67%) Amazon S3
3 30 (41.67%) AWS Lambda
4 28 (38.89%) Amazon ECR
4 28 (38.89%) AWS CloudFormation
4 28 (38.89%) AWS Step Functions
5 27 (37.50%) Apigee
6 24 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
7 12 (16.67%) GitHub
8 6 (8.33%) Azure
9 3 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.78%) Figma
10 2 (2.78%) GCP
10 2 (2.78%) SaaS
11 1 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (1.39%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.56%) VoIP
2 2 (2.78%) Asterisk PBX
2 2 (2.78%) LAN
2 2 (2.78%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.78%) WAN
3 1 (1.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (40.28%) DynamoDB
2 9 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 8 (11.11%) MySQL
3 8 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.17%) Redis
5 3 (4.17%) Spatial Data
5 3 (4.17%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.39%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.39%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (58.33%) Cypress.io
2 34 (47.22%) GitLab
3 29 (40.28%) Jenkins
3 29 (40.28%) SonarQube
4 28 (38.89%) Maven
5 15 (20.83%) Git
6 9 (12.50%) JIRA
7 6 (8.33%) Selenium
8 4 (5.56%) Bitbucket
8 4 (5.56%) Mocha
8 4 (5.56%) Vite
8 4 (5.56%) webpack
9 3 (4.17%) Cucumber
10 2 (2.78%) JUnit
10 2 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (2.78%) Xcode
11 1 (1.39%) Appium
11 1 (1.39%) CocoaPods
11 1 (1.39%) fastlane
11 1 (1.39%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 9 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.72%) Finance
4 2 (2.78%) Front Office
4 2 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.39%) Games
5 1 (1.39%) iGaming
5 1 (1.39%) Law
5 1 (1.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 64 (88.89%) Developer
2 27 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 17 (23.61%) Full-Stack Developer
4 16 (22.22%) Senior
5 15 (20.83%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 14 (19.44%) Senior Developer
7 10 (13.89%) Lead
8 8 (11.11%) AWS Developer
8 8 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 8 (11.11%) React Developer
9 7 (9.72%) Lead Developer
10 4 (5.56%) JavaScript Developer
10 4 (5.56%) Python Developer
10 4 (5.56%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 3 (4.17%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
11 3 (4.17%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 3 (4.17%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
12 2 (2.78%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (55.56%) AngularJS
2 32 (44.44%) React
3 29 (40.28%) Spring Boot
4 27 (37.50%) Gherkin
5 25 (34.72%) Node.js
6 21 (29.17%) CSS
7 17 (23.61%) HTML
8 13 (18.06%) Vue
9 12 (16.67%) RESTful
10 10 (13.89%) HTML5
11 9 (12.50%) Redux
11 9 (12.50%) Sass
12 7 (9.72%) CSS3
12 7 (9.72%) React Native
12 7 (9.72%) REST
13 6 (8.33%) Tailwind CSS
14 5 (6.94%) Express.js
14 5 (6.94%) GraphQL
15 4 (5.56%) Next.js
15 4 (5.56%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.72%) Mobile App
1 7 (9.72%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.94%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.39%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.56%) Debian
1 4 (5.56%) Linux
2 3 (4.17%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.78%) Android
3 2 (2.78%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (70.83%) CI/CD
2 44 (61.11%) Agile
3 38 (52.78%) DevOps
4 26 (36.11%) SDLC
5 24 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 23 (31.94%) ITIL
6 23 (31.94%) Secure Coding
6 23 (31.94%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 22 (30.56%) Clean Code
8 17 (23.61%) Front End Development
9 15 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (19.44%) Prototyping
11 12 (16.67%) Web Development
12 11 (15.28%) User Experience
13 9 (12.50%) Mentoring
14 8 (11.11%) API Integration
14 8 (11.11%) Computer Science
14 8 (11.11%) Containerisation
14 8 (11.11%) Scrum
15 7 (9.72%) AI
Programming Languages
1 58 (80.56%) TypeScript
2 33 (45.83%) Java
3 30 (41.67%) Bash
4 29 (40.28%) JavaScript
5 28 (38.89%) Groovy
6 11 (15.28%) Python
7 10 (13.89%) PHP
8 6 (8.33%) C#
9 5 (6.94%) SQL
10 4 (5.56%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.39%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.39%) Swift
11 1 (1.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (37.50%) AWS Certification
2 22 (30.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 22 (30.56%) ITIL Certification
3 13 (18.06%) SC Cleared
3 13 (18.06%) Security Cleared
4 7 (9.72%) Degree
5 4 (5.56%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.78%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.39%) HNC
8 1 (1.39%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 6 (8.33%) WCAG
3 2 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 38 (52.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (37.50%) HP Fortify
2 6 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.94%) Terraform
4 1 (1.39%) Grafana
4 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (2.78%) OpenAI
2 1 (1.39%) Confluent
2 1 (1.39%) Dynatrace
2 1 (1.39%) Google
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle
2 1 (1.39%) SendGrid