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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 653 437 630
Rank change year-on-year -216 +193 -61
Permanent jobs citing Jest 86 213 146
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.091% 0.49% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.89% 2.80% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 46 75 126
10th Percentile £38,750 £46,450 £45,938
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,120 £62,500 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.19% -5.66% -12.45%
75th Percentile £79,688 £79,375 £92,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £100,500 £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 9,632 7,612 13,651
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.24% 17.43% 18.77%
Number of salaries quoted 7,217 5,082 10,216
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,875
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.87% -8.15%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -104 31 £67,500 +11.11% 9
London -66 30 £80,000 +18.52% 31
Yorkshire -12 23 £72,500 -6.45% 1
South East -48 16 £55,000 -15.38% 6
South West -68 5 £40,000 -36.00% 9
North West -88 5 £62,500 -3.85% 8
North East -62 3 £67,500 +42.11%
West Midlands -55 1 £75,000 +25.00% 2
Midlands -73 1 £75,000 +25.00% 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 5 (5.81%) Confluence
2 3 (3.49%) JBoss
3 1 (1.16%) Apache
3 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.16%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.16%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 52 (60.47%) AWS
2 37 (43.02%) Serverless
3 32 (37.21%) Amazon ECS
3 32 (37.21%) AWS Lambda
4 29 (33.72%) Amazon S3
5 26 (30.23%) Amazon ECR
6 25 (29.07%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (27.91%) AWS Step Functions
8 23 (26.74%) Apigee
9 22 (25.58%) Amazon SQS
9 22 (25.58%) GitHub
10 16 (18.60%) Azure
11 9 (10.47%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (8.14%) GCP
13 5 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (4.65%) GitHub Copilot
14 4 (4.65%) Kong
15 3 (3.49%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (3.49%) AWS Fargate
15 3 (3.49%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.65%) VoIP
2 2 (2.33%) Asterisk PBX
2 2 (2.33%) HTTP
2 2 (2.33%) LAN
2 2 (2.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.33%) WAN
3 1 (1.16%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (31.40%) DynamoDB
2 16 (18.60%) MongoDB
2 16 (18.60%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (11.63%) MySQL
4 6 (6.98%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.81%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.49%) DocumentDB
6 3 (3.49%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.49%) Redis
6 3 (3.49%) Spatial Data
7 1 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 43 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 32 (37.21%) GitLab
3 26 (30.23%) Git
3 26 (30.23%) Jenkins
4 25 (29.07%) SonarQube
5 24 (27.91%) Maven
6 11 (12.79%) Selenium
7 9 (10.47%) JIRA
7 9 (10.47%) Mocha
8 8 (9.30%) Vite
8 8 (9.30%) webpack
9 7 (8.14%) Jasmine
9 7 (8.14%) NUnit
10 5 (5.81%) Claude Code
11 4 (4.65%) Bitbucket
12 3 (3.49%) Cucumber
13 2 (2.33%) JUnit
13 2 (2.33%) Karma Test Runner
13 2 (2.33%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (2.33%) YouTrack
General
1 13 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (10.47%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.98%) Finance
4 5 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.81%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.33%) Law
6 1 (1.16%) Banking
6 1 (1.16%) Front Office
6 1 (1.16%) Games
6 1 (1.16%) iGaming
6 1 (1.16%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 70 (81.40%) Developer
2 27 (31.40%) Full-Stack Developer
3 22 (25.58%) Java Developer
4 18 (20.93%) Senior
5 13 (15.12%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 13 (15.12%) Lead
6 12 (13.95%) Senior Developer
7 9 (10.47%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 8 (9.30%) Lead Developer
8 8 (9.30%) React Developer
8 8 (9.30%) Software Engineer
9 6 (6.98%) AWS Developer
10 5 (5.81%) Angular Developer
10 5 (5.81%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (5.81%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) JavaScript Developer
11 4 (4.65%) Node.js Developer
11 4 (4.65%) Python Developer
11 4 (4.65%) Software Developer
12 3 (3.49%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (47.67%) AngularJS
1 41 (47.67%) React
2 39 (45.35%) Node.js
3 25 (29.07%) Spring Boot
4 23 (26.74%) CSS
4 23 (26.74%) Gherkin
5 22 (25.58%) RESTful
6 20 (23.26%) HTML
7 15 (17.44%) REST
8 14 (16.28%) Next.js
8 14 (16.28%) Vue
9 13 (15.12%) Redux
10 12 (13.95%) .NET
10 12 (13.95%) HTML5
11 10 (11.63%) Express.js
12 9 (10.47%) NestJS
12 9 (10.47%) Sass
13 8 (9.30%) CSS3
13 8 (9.30%) GraphQL
13 8 (9.30%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.79%) Product Ownership
2 8 (9.30%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (8.14%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (8.14%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (6.98%) Cloud Native
5 5 (5.81%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.49%) AI Agents
6 3 (3.49%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.16%) Blog
8 1 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.16%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.65%) Debian
1 4 (4.65%) Linux
2 3 (3.49%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.33%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.16%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (68.60%) CI/CD
2 52 (60.47%) Agile
3 43 (50.00%) DevOps
4 37 (43.02%) Full-Stack Development
5 25 (29.07%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (25.58%) Clean Code
6 22 (25.58%) SDLC
7 20 (23.26%) Front End Development
8 19 (22.09%) ITIL
8 19 (22.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 18 (20.93%) Secure Coding
10 17 (19.77%) Mentoring
11 16 (18.60%) Test Automation
12 14 (16.28%) Software Engineering
12 14 (16.28%) User Experience
13 13 (15.12%) Code Quality
14 11 (12.79%) AI
14 11 (12.79%) Microservices
14 11 (12.79%) Technical Leadership
14 11 (12.79%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 63 (73.26%) TypeScript
2 40 (46.51%) JavaScript
3 29 (33.72%) Java
4 26 (30.23%) Bash
5 24 (27.91%) Groovy
6 17 (19.77%) Python
7 12 (13.95%) C#
7 12 (13.95%) SQL
8 9 (10.47%) PHP
9 3 (3.49%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.16%) Ruby
10 1 (1.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (26.74%) AWS Certification
2 18 (20.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 18 (20.93%) ITIL Certification
3 16 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 16 (18.60%) Security Cleared
4 6 (6.98%) Degree
5 4 (4.65%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (3.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.33%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.16%) HNC
8 1 (1.16%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (19.77%) Accessibility
2 9 (10.47%) WCAG
3 6 (6.98%) QA
System Software
1 42 (48.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (26.74%) HP Fortify
2 13 (15.12%) Kubernetes
3 10 (11.63%) Terraform
4 2 (2.33%) Grafana
5 1 (1.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (4.65%) Google
2 3 (3.49%) Confluent
2 3 (3.49%) Dynatrace
2 3 (3.49%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.49%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.16%) IBM