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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 600 491 643
Rank change year-on-year -109 +152 -20
Permanent jobs citing Jest 79 127 187
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.10% 0.34% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.02% 1.67% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 37 107 162
10th Percentile £37,500 £48,750 £46,375
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -15.63%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £92,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £140,677 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -18.52% -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 7,733 7,612 16,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.83% 20.23% 20.38%
Number of salaries quoted 5,846 5,857 14,106
10th Percentile £39,563 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,750
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,064
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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -15 45 £77,500 +40.91% 6
Yorkshire -20 41 £78,750 - 3
London -36 18 £80,000 +18.52% 6
South West -63 8 £40,000 -53.08% 4
South East -72 6 £65,000 -10.34% 3
North East -42 3 £59,000 +5.83% 1
North West -44 1 £45,000 -18.18% 2
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 3 (3.80%) JBoss
2 1 (1.27%) Confluence
2 1 (1.27%) nginx
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.27%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.27%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 47 (59.49%) AWS
2 44 (55.70%) Serverless
3 42 (53.16%) Amazon S3
3 42 (53.16%) AWS Lambda
4 41 (51.90%) Amazon ECR
4 41 (51.90%) Amazon ECS
4 41 (51.90%) Apigee
4 41 (51.90%) AWS Step Functions
5 40 (50.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 23 (29.11%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (8.86%) GitHub
8 5 (6.33%) Azure
8 5 (6.33%) Figma
9 4 (5.06%) GCP
10 3 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.80%) npm
11 2 (2.53%) Algolia
11 2 (2.53%) Cloud Functions
11 2 (2.53%) Firebase
11 2 (2.53%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.27%) AMQP
1 1 (1.27%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (51.90%) DynamoDB
2 3 (3.80%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.53%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.53%) MySQL
3 2 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.27%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.27%) Redis
4 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 53 (67.09%) Cypress.io
2 43 (54.43%) GitLab
3 42 (53.16%) Jenkins
3 42 (53.16%) SonarQube
4 41 (51.90%) Maven
5 17 (21.52%) Git
6 5 (6.33%) Cucumber
6 5 (6.33%) Selenium
6 5 (6.33%) webpack
7 4 (5.06%) Babel
7 4 (5.06%) rollup.js
7 4 (5.06%) Vite
8 3 (3.80%) JIRA
8 3 (3.80%) Storybook
9 2 (2.53%) Android Studio
9 2 (2.53%) JUnit
9 2 (2.53%) Mocha
9 2 (2.53%) Visual Studio
9 2 (2.53%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (2.53%) Xcode
General
1 10 (12.66%) Finance
2 6 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.53%) Games
4 2 (2.53%) Retail
5 1 (1.27%) Front Office
5 1 (1.27%) iGaming
5 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.27%) Law
5 1 (1.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 62 (78.48%) Developer
2 30 (37.97%) Java Developer
3 17 (21.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 17 (21.52%) Lead
4 12 (15.19%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (13.92%) Senior
6 10 (12.66%) AWS Developer
7 9 (11.39%) React Developer
8 8 (10.13%) Senior Developer
9 7 (8.86%) Technical Leader
10 6 (7.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 6 (7.59%) Lead Developer
11 5 (6.33%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 4 (5.06%) JavaScript Developer
12 4 (5.06%) Python Developer
12 4 (5.06%) Software Engineer
13 3 (3.80%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
13 3 (3.80%) Full-Stack Python Developer
14 2 (2.53%) Lead Java Developer
14 2 (2.53%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (62.03%) AngularJS
2 42 (53.16%) Spring Boot
3 41 (51.90%) Gherkin
4 29 (36.71%) React
5 27 (34.18%) CSS
6 21 (26.58%) HTML
7 20 (25.32%) Node.js
8 12 (15.19%) RESTful
8 12 (15.19%) Vue
9 10 (12.66%) Spring
10 9 (11.39%) HTML5
10 9 (11.39%) Redux
11 8 (10.13%) CSS3
11 8 (10.13%) Sass
11 8 (10.13%) Tailwind CSS
12 6 (7.59%) GraphQL
13 5 (6.33%) React Native
13 5 (6.33%) REST
14 4 (5.06%) OAuth
15 3 (3.80%) Drools
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.66%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.86%) Mobile App
3 6 (7.59%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (6.33%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (5.06%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.53%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.27%) Animation
8 1 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.27%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.53%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (64.56%) Agile
2 50 (63.29%) CI/CD
3 45 (56.96%) DevOps
4 32 (40.51%) SDLC
5 29 (36.71%) Secure Coding
6 27 (34.18%) Full-Stack Development
7 24 (30.38%) ITIL
7 24 (30.38%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 21 (26.58%) Clean Code
9 18 (22.78%) Front End Development
10 16 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (20.25%) Prototyping
11 11 (13.92%) Responsive Web Design
12 10 (12.66%) Scrum
13 9 (11.39%) API Integration
13 9 (11.39%) Design Patterns
13 9 (11.39%) Microservices
13 9 (11.39%) User Experience
13 9 (11.39%) Web Development
14 8 (10.13%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 72 (91.14%) TypeScript
2 45 (56.96%) Java
3 40 (50.63%) Bash
3 40 (50.63%) Groovy
4 29 (36.71%) JavaScript
5 7 (8.86%) Python
6 6 (7.59%) PHP
7 5 (6.33%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.53%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.53%) Swift
9 1 (1.27%) C#
9 1 (1.27%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (41.77%) AWS Certification
2 24 (30.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 24 (30.38%) ITIL Certification
3 9 (11.39%) AWS Certified Developer
4 8 (10.13%) Degree
4 8 (10.13%) SC Cleared
4 8 (10.13%) Security Cleared
5 4 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.39%) Accessibility
2 8 (10.13%) QA
3 3 (3.80%) WCAG
4 2 (2.53%) GDPR
4 2 (2.53%) PERC
System Software
1 46 (58.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (51.90%) HP Fortify
2 4 (5.06%) Terraform
3 3 (3.80%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.27%) Grafana
4 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (2.53%) Google
1 2 (2.53%) SendGrid
2 1 (1.27%) Adobe
2 1 (1.27%) OpenAI
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle