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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 522 502 528
Rank change year-on-year -20 +26 -1
Permanent jobs citing Jest 89 186 136
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.17% 0.37% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.42% 1.72% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 52 118 92
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £50,200
25th Percentile £53,125 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +10.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £96,917 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% - -

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 6,267 10,841 11,505
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.90% 21.61% 25.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,821 6,488 9,603
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.09%

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 26 December 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 26 December 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 +41 31 £62,500 +4.17% 37
London +18 30 £80,000 -1.54% 24
South East -29 17 £62,500 -19.35% 26
Yorkshire - 17 £77,500 - 11
North West +27 10 £60,000 - 21
North East +14 4 £54,250 - 5
South West +6 4 £76,250 +12.96% 14
Midlands +20 3 £53,750 -14.00% 16
West Midlands +33 2 £45,000 -40.00% 8
East of England +16 1 £60,000 -17.24% 14
East Midlands -11 1 £62,500 +4.17% 7
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 9 (10.11%) Headless CMS
2 2 (2.25%) nginx
3 1 (1.12%) CMS
3 1 (1.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.25%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (10.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 44 (49.44%) AWS
2 34 (38.20%) Serverless
3 32 (35.96%) AWS Lambda
4 30 (33.71%) Amazon S3
5 26 (29.21%) Amazon ECS
6 22 (24.72%) GitHub
7 21 (23.60%) Azure
8 19 (21.35%) Figma
9 17 (19.10%) Amazon ECR
9 17 (19.10%) Apigee
9 17 (19.10%) AWS Step Functions
10 16 (17.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (13.48%) Amazon SQS
12 11 (12.36%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (8.99%) Google Analytics
13 8 (8.99%) Vercel
14 6 (6.74%) GCP
14 6 (6.74%) npm
14 6 (6.74%) SaaS
15 5 (5.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.25%) AMQP
2 1 (1.12%) Broadband
2 1 (1.12%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (19.10%) DynamoDB
2 10 (11.24%) NoSQL
3 5 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.25%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 57 (64.04%) Cypress.io
2 26 (29.21%) Jenkins
3 24 (26.97%) Git
4 18 (20.22%) GitLab
4 18 (20.22%) SonarQube
5 17 (19.10%) Maven
6 13 (14.61%) Storybook
7 11 (12.36%) JIRA
8 7 (7.87%) Vite
9 6 (6.74%) webpack
10 5 (5.62%) Babel
10 5 (5.62%) Bitbucket
10 5 (5.62%) Visual Studio
10 5 (5.62%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (4.49%) rollup.js
12 2 (2.25%) Cucumber
12 2 (2.25%) Mocha
13 1 (1.12%) Jasmine
13 1 (1.12%) Mockito
13 1 (1.12%) Selenium
General
1 22 (24.72%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.35%) Finance
3 5 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.62%) Retail
4 3 (3.37%) Banking
5 2 (2.25%) Games
6 1 (1.12%) Automotive
6 1 (1.12%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.12%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 58 (65.17%) Developer
2 28 (31.46%) Senior
3 21 (23.60%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 20 (22.47%) Lead
5 19 (21.35%) Senior Developer
6 14 (15.73%) Full-Stack Developer
7 13 (14.61%) Software Engineer
8 12 (13.48%) Technical Leader
9 10 (11.24%) React Developer
10 9 (10.11%) Java Developer
10 9 (10.11%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 8 (8.99%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (6.74%) Principal Engineer
12 6 (6.74%) Principal Software Engineer
13 5 (5.62%) Senior Manager
13 5 (5.62%) Senior Technical Manager
13 5 (5.62%) Technical Manager
14 4 (4.49%) AWS Developer
14 4 (4.49%) Lead Developer
15 3 (3.37%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (67.42%) React
2 39 (43.82%) CSS
3 34 (38.20%) HTML
4 32 (35.96%) RESTful
5 30 (33.71%) Spring Boot
6 27 (30.34%) Next.js
7 25 (28.09%) Node.js
8 23 (25.84%) AngularJS
9 22 (24.72%) GraphQL
9 22 (24.72%) Spring
10 17 (19.10%) Gherkin
10 17 (19.10%) Tailwind CSS
11 15 (16.85%) Redux
12 14 (15.73%) Vitest
13 12 (13.48%) Express.js
13 12 (13.48%) Playwright
14 11 (12.36%) .NET
15 10 (11.24%) HTML5
16 9 (10.11%) CSS3
16 9 (10.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.98%) Cloud Native
2 14 (15.73%) Product Ownership
3 10 (11.24%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.62%) Virtual Team
5 4 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.49%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (2.25%) Animation
6 2 (2.25%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.25%) Online Banking
7 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.24%) Android
2 9 (10.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (71.91%) Agile
2 54 (60.67%) CI/CD
3 47 (52.81%) DevOps
4 39 (43.82%) Full-Stack Development
5 36 (40.45%) Front End Development
6 35 (39.33%) User Experience
7 29 (32.58%) Software Engineering
8 27 (30.34%) UX Design
9 25 (28.09%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (22.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (21.35%) Mentoring
11 19 (21.35%) SDLC
12 18 (20.22%) Microservices
13 17 (19.10%) Analytics
13 17 (19.10%) Sprint Planning
14 16 (17.98%) Responsive Web Design
15 15 (16.85%) Code Quality
15 15 (16.85%) Unit Testing
16 14 (15.73%) Pair Programming
16 14 (15.73%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 84 (94.38%) TypeScript
2 47 (52.81%) JavaScript
3 33 (37.08%) Java
4 16 (17.98%) Bash
4 16 (17.98%) Groovy
5 8 (8.99%) SQL
6 2 (2.25%) C#
6 2 (2.25%) Python
6 2 (2.25%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.12%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.12%) Swift
Qualifications
1 14 (15.73%) AWS Certification
2 13 (14.61%) Degree
3 10 (11.24%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (10.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (5.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.49%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (4.49%) SC Cleared
6 4 (4.49%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (37.08%) Accessibility
2 22 (24.72%) QA
3 7 (7.87%) WCAG
4 5 (5.62%) GDPR
4 5 (5.62%) PERC
System Software
1 31 (34.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (19.10%) HP Fortify
2 6 (6.74%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.62%) Kibana
4 3 (3.37%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (8.99%) Apple
2 5 (5.62%) Google
3 2 (2.25%) SendGrid
4 1 (1.12%) Adobe