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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 601 478 639
Rank change year-on-year -123 +161 -22
Permanent jobs citing Jest 80 124 186
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.10% 0.33% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.04% 1.60% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 42 104 161
10th Percentile £38,000 £49,125 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -15.63%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £92,500
90th Percentile £91,375 £129,224 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,750 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.96% -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 7,690 7,773 16,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.06% 20.93% 20.53%
Number of salaries quoted 5,805 5,916 14,141
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 17 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 17 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 -22 46 £68,250 +24.09% 6
Yorkshire -20 40 £78,750 - 2
London -23 18 £80,000 +18.52% 16
South West -53 8 £40,000 -53.08% 5
South East -68 6 £65,000 -16.13% 5
North East -35 4 £59,000 +5.83% 1
North West -26 2 £45,000 -18.18% 3
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 (3.75%) JBoss
2 2 (2.50%) nginx
3 1 (1.25%) Confluence
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.25%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.50%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 47 (58.75%) AWS
2 44 (55.00%) Serverless
3 42 (52.50%) AWS Lambda
4 41 (51.25%) Amazon S3
5 40 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
5 40 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
5 40 (50.00%) Apigee
5 40 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
6 39 (48.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (27.50%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (10.00%) GitHub
9 6 (7.50%) Figma
10 5 (6.25%) Azure
11 4 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (5.00%) GCP
11 4 (5.00%) npm
12 3 (3.75%) Yarn
13 2 (2.50%) Algolia
13 2 (2.50%) Cloud Functions
13 2 (2.50%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) AMQP
2 1 (1.25%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (3.75%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.75%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.50%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.25%) MySQL
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.25%) Redis
4 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 56 (70.00%) Cypress.io
2 42 (52.50%) GitLab
2 42 (52.50%) Jenkins
3 41 (51.25%) SonarQube
4 40 (50.00%) Maven
5 17 (21.25%) Git
6 6 (7.50%) webpack
7 5 (6.25%) Cucumber
7 5 (6.25%) Selenium
8 4 (5.00%) Babel
8 4 (5.00%) JIRA
8 4 (5.00%) rollup.js
8 4 (5.00%) Vite
9 3 (3.75%) Mocha
9 3 (3.75%) Storybook
9 3 (3.75%) Visual Studio
9 3 (3.75%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (2.50%) Android Studio
10 2 (2.50%) Xcode
11 1 (1.25%) JUnit
General
1 11 (13.75%) Finance
2 5 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (6.25%) Social Skills
3 3 (3.75%) Retail
4 2 (2.50%) Games
4 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.25%) Front Office
5 1 (1.25%) iGaming
5 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 62 (77.50%) Developer
2 29 (36.25%) Java Developer
3 19 (23.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 16 (20.00%) Lead
5 13 (16.25%) Senior
6 12 (15.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (12.50%) Senior Developer
8 9 (11.25%) AWS Developer
9 7 (8.75%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 7 (8.75%) Technical Leader
10 6 (7.50%) Lead Developer
10 6 (7.50%) React Developer
10 6 (7.50%) Software Engineer
11 5 (6.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 4 (5.00%) JavaScript Developer
12 4 (5.00%) Python Developer
13 3 (3.75%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
13 3 (3.75%) Full-Stack Python Developer
14 2 (2.50%) Lead Java Developer
14 2 (2.50%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (61.25%) AngularJS
2 41 (51.25%) Spring Boot
3 40 (50.00%) Gherkin
4 30 (37.50%) CSS
5 29 (36.25%) React
6 23 (28.75%) HTML
7 22 (27.50%) Node.js
8 13 (16.25%) RESTful
8 13 (16.25%) Vue
9 10 (12.50%) Spring
10 9 (11.25%) Tailwind CSS
11 8 (10.00%) GraphQL
11 8 (10.00%) HTML5
11 8 (10.00%) Sass
12 7 (8.75%) CSS3
12 7 (8.75%) Redux
13 5 (6.25%) OAuth
13 5 (6.25%) REST
14 4 (5.00%) Express.js
14 4 (5.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.00%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.75%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (8.75%) Mobile App
3 6 (7.50%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (5.00%) Video\Live Streaming
5 3 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.50%) Animation
6 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.25%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.50%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (66.25%) Agile
2 50 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 46 (57.50%) DevOps
4 32 (40.00%) SDLC
5 28 (35.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 28 (35.00%) Secure Coding
6 23 (28.75%) ITIL
6 23 (28.75%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 20 (25.00%) Clean Code
7 20 (25.00%) Front End Development
8 16 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (20.00%) Prototyping
9 12 (15.00%) Responsive Web Design
10 11 (13.75%) Scrum
10 11 (13.75%) Software Engineering
10 11 (13.75%) User Experience
11 10 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (12.50%) Microservices
12 9 (11.25%) API Integration
12 9 (11.25%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 73 (91.25%) TypeScript
2 45 (56.25%) Java
3 39 (48.75%) Bash
3 39 (48.75%) Groovy
4 31 (38.75%) JavaScript
5 8 (10.00%) Python
6 6 (7.50%) PHP
7 5 (6.25%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.50%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.50%) Swift
9 1 (1.25%) C#
9 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 23 (28.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 23 (28.75%) ITIL Certification
3 9 (11.25%) AWS Certified Developer
3 9 (11.25%) Degree
3 9 (11.25%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.25%) Security Cleared
4 5 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.75%) Accessibility
2 9 (11.25%) QA
3 3 (3.75%) GDPR
3 3 (3.75%) PERC
3 3 (3.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 45 (56.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (50.00%) HP Fortify
2 4 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.00%) Terraform
3 1 (1.25%) Grafana
3 1 (1.25%) Kibana
3 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (2.50%) Google
1 2 (2.50%) SendGrid
2 1 (1.25%) Adobe
2 1 (1.25%) OpenAI
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle