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 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 642 429 667
Rank change year-on-year -213 +238 -59
Permanent jobs citing Jest 73 226 179
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.085% 0.54% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.81% 2.86% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 31 91 154
10th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £46,625
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -10.00%
75th Percentile £79,375 £83,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £140,677 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £66,250 £67,500
% change year-on-year -16.98% -1.85% -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 8,992 7,897 18,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.48% 19.04% 19.45%
Number of salaries quoted 6,877 5,345 14,465
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,698 £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 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -10.49%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -102 34 £62,500 +2.88% 6
Yorkshire -14 29 £73,750 -4.84% 2
London -76 17 £80,000 +18.52% 22
South East -40 13 £52,500 -19.23% 12
South West -67 6 £40,000 -61.54% 6
North West -76 3 £50,000 -23.08% 4
North East -55 2 £60,750 +21.50%
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 5 (6.85%) Confluence
2 3 (4.11%) JBoss
3 1 (1.37%) Apache
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.37%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 44 (60.27%) AWS
2 35 (47.95%) Serverless
3 33 (45.21%) Amazon ECS
3 33 (45.21%) AWS Lambda
4 32 (43.84%) Amazon S3
5 30 (41.10%) Amazon ECR
5 30 (41.10%) AWS CloudFormation
5 30 (41.10%) AWS Step Functions
6 29 (39.73%) Apigee
7 25 (34.25%) Amazon SQS
8 11 (15.07%) GitHub
9 6 (8.22%) Azure
10 4 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (2.74%) Amazon Cognito
12 2 (2.74%) Figma
12 2 (2.74%) GitHub Copilot
12 2 (2.74%) Google Gemini
12 2 (2.74%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.48%) VoIP
2 2 (2.74%) Asterisk PBX
2 2 (2.74%) LAN
2 2 (2.74%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.74%) WAN
3 1 (1.37%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (42.47%) DynamoDB
2 10 (13.70%) MongoDB
3 9 (12.33%) MySQL
3 9 (12.33%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.48%) Redis
5 3 (4.11%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.11%) Spatial Data
5 3 (4.11%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.37%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.37%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 43 (58.90%) Cypress.io
2 36 (49.32%) GitLab
3 32 (43.84%) Jenkins
4 31 (42.47%) SonarQube
5 30 (41.10%) Maven
6 14 (19.18%) Git
7 9 (12.33%) JIRA
8 6 (8.22%) Selenium
9 4 (5.48%) Bitbucket
9 4 (5.48%) Mocha
9 4 (5.48%) Vite
9 4 (5.48%) webpack
10 3 (4.11%) Cucumber
11 2 (2.74%) Claude Code
11 2 (2.74%) Jasmine
11 2 (2.74%) JUnit
11 2 (2.74%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (2.74%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (2.74%) Xcode
11 2 (2.74%) YouTrack
General
1 7 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (9.59%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.22%) Finance
3 2 (2.74%) Front Office
3 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (2.74%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.37%) Games
4 1 (1.37%) iGaming
4 1 (1.37%) Law
4 1 (1.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (89.04%) Developer
2 29 (39.73%) Java Developer
3 19 (26.03%) Full-Stack Developer
4 16 (21.92%) Senior
5 14 (19.18%) Senior Developer
6 13 (17.81%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 11 (15.07%) Lead
8 10 (13.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 8 (10.96%) AWS Developer
9 8 (10.96%) Lead Developer
10 7 (9.59%) React Developer
11 5 (6.85%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (5.48%) JavaScript Developer
12 4 (5.48%) Python Developer
13 3 (4.11%) Angular Developer
13 3 (4.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 3 (4.11%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
13 3 (4.11%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 3 (4.11%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
13 3 (4.11%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (57.53%) AngularJS
2 31 (42.47%) Spring Boot
3 30 (41.10%) React
4 29 (39.73%) Gherkin
5 25 (34.25%) Node.js
6 18 (24.66%) CSS
7 15 (20.55%) HTML
8 13 (17.81%) Vue
9 10 (13.70%) RESTful
10 9 (12.33%) HTML5
11 8 (10.96%) Redux
11 8 (10.96%) Sass
12 7 (9.59%) React Native
12 7 (9.59%) REST
13 6 (8.22%) CSS3
13 6 (8.22%) Tailwind CSS
14 4 (5.48%) .NET
14 4 (5.48%) pytest
14 4 (5.48%) Spring
14 4 (5.48%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.59%) Mobile App
2 6 (8.22%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.85%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (5.48%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.11%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.37%) Blog
7 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.37%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.48%) Debian
1 4 (5.48%) Linux
2 3 (4.11%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.74%) Android
3 2 (2.74%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (71.23%) CI/CD
2 44 (60.27%) Agile
3 39 (53.42%) DevOps
4 26 (35.62%) Full-Stack Development
4 26 (35.62%) SDLC
5 25 (34.25%) ITIL
5 25 (34.25%) Secure Coding
5 25 (34.25%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 24 (32.88%) Clean Code
7 15 (20.55%) Prototyping
8 14 (19.18%) Front End Development
9 13 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (16.44%) Web Development
11 10 (13.70%) User Experience
12 9 (12.33%) Containerisation
12 9 (12.33%) Mentoring
13 8 (10.96%) AI
14 7 (9.59%) API Integration
14 7 (9.59%) Computer Science
14 7 (9.59%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 59 (80.82%) TypeScript
2 35 (47.95%) Java
3 32 (43.84%) Bash
4 30 (41.10%) Groovy
5 27 (36.99%) JavaScript
6 11 (15.07%) Python
7 10 (13.70%) PHP
8 6 (8.22%) C#
8 6 (8.22%) SQL
9 4 (5.48%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.37%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.37%) Swift
10 1 (1.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (39.73%) AWS Certification
2 24 (32.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 24 (32.88%) ITIL Certification
3 14 (19.18%) SC Cleared
3 14 (19.18%) Security Cleared
4 6 (8.22%) Degree
5 4 (5.48%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (4.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.74%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.37%) HNC
8 1 (1.37%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.07%) Accessibility
2 5 (6.85%) WCAG
3 1 (1.37%) QA
System Software
1 41 (56.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (39.73%) HP Fortify
2 7 (9.59%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.85%) Terraform
4 1 (1.37%) Grafana
4 1 (1.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (2.74%) OpenAI
2 1 (1.37%) Confluent
2 1 (1.37%) Dynatrace
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle