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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 526 531 531
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 -6
Permanent jobs citing Jest 86 184 149
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.17% 0.33% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.40% 1.54% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 51 111 103
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £86,875 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £96,250 £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 6,149 11,929 11,885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.49% 21.43% 26.38%
Number of salaries quoted 4,703 7,260 9,869
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.52% +1.54%

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 7 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 7 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
London +41 34 £82,500 +3.13% 15
North of England +32 24 £62,500 +13.64% 15
South East -9 17 £62,500 -19.35% 20
North West +36 11 £60,000 +9.09% 9
Yorkshire +4 10 £80,000 - 6
South West +21 4 £76,250 +12.96% 9
Midlands +32 3 £53,750 -20.37%
North East +8 3 £50,000 -
West Midlands +34 2 £45,000 -40.00%
East of England +17 1 £60,000 -17.24% 1
East Midlands +11 1 £62,500 -3.85%
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 (10.47%) Headless CMS
2 2 (2.33%) nginx
3 1 (1.16%) CMS
3 1 (1.16%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.33%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (10.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 36 (41.86%) AWS
2 25 (29.07%) Serverless
3 24 (27.91%) AWS Lambda
4 23 (26.74%) Azure
5 22 (25.58%) Amazon S3
6 19 (22.09%) Figma
6 19 (22.09%) GitHub
7 18 (20.93%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (10.47%) Amazon ECR
9 9 (10.47%) Apigee
9 9 (10.47%) AWS Step Functions
10 8 (9.30%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (9.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (9.30%) Google Analytics
10 8 (9.30%) Vercel
11 6 (6.98%) npm
11 6 (6.98%) SaaS
12 5 (5.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (5.81%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.33%) AMQP
2 1 (1.16%) Broadband
2 1 (1.16%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.47%) DynamoDB
1 9 (10.47%) NoSQL
2 5 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.49%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 49 (56.98%) Cypress.io
2 23 (26.74%) Git
3 18 (20.93%) Jenkins
4 11 (12.79%) GitLab
4 11 (12.79%) JIRA
4 11 (12.79%) SonarQube
4 11 (12.79%) Storybook
5 10 (11.63%) Maven
5 10 (11.63%) Vite
6 6 (6.98%) Bitbucket
6 6 (6.98%) webpack
7 5 (5.81%) Babel
7 5 (5.81%) Visual Studio
7 5 (5.81%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (4.65%) rollup.js
9 3 (3.49%) Cucumber
10 2 (2.33%) JUnit
10 2 (2.33%) Mocha
10 2 (2.33%) Mockito
10 2 (2.33%) Selenium
General
1 22 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 21 (24.42%) Finance
3 6 (6.98%) Banking
4 5 (5.81%) Retail
5 3 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.49%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.49%) Law
6 2 (2.33%) Games
7 1 (1.16%) Advertising
7 1 (1.16%) Automotive
7 1 (1.16%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 51 (59.30%) Developer
2 29 (33.72%) Senior
3 19 (22.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 19 (22.09%) Lead
3 19 (22.09%) Senior Developer
3 19 (22.09%) Software Engineer
4 12 (13.95%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (12.79%) React Developer
5 11 (12.79%) Technical Leader
6 8 (9.30%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 8 (9.30%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (6.98%) Principal Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) Principal Software Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Senior Manager
8 5 (5.81%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Senior Technical Manager
8 5 (5.81%) Technical Manager
9 4 (4.65%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 4 (4.65%) Java Developer
9 4 (4.65%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (77.91%) React
2 39 (45.35%) CSS
3 34 (39.53%) HTML
4 29 (33.72%) RESTful
5 28 (32.56%) Next.js
6 26 (30.23%) Node.js
7 23 (26.74%) Spring Boot
8 22 (25.58%) GraphQL
9 21 (24.42%) Spring
10 18 (20.93%) Tailwind CSS
11 17 (19.77%) Redux
12 14 (16.28%) AngularJS
12 14 (16.28%) Playwright
12 14 (16.28%) Vitest
13 11 (12.79%) .NET
14 10 (11.63%) Express.js
14 10 (11.63%) Kafka
15 9 (10.47%) Gherkin
15 9 (10.47%) REST
16 8 (9.30%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.60%) Cloud Native
2 13 (15.12%) Product Ownership
3 11 (12.79%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.81%) Virtual Team
5 4 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.65%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (2.33%) Animation
6 2 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.33%) Online Banking
6 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.16%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.16%) Derivative
7 1 (1.16%) Equities
7 1 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.63%) Android
2 9 (10.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (72.09%) Agile
2 51 (59.30%) CI/CD
3 39 (45.35%) DevOps
3 39 (45.35%) User Experience
4 36 (41.86%) Full-Stack Development
5 34 (39.53%) Front End Development
6 33 (38.37%) Software Engineering
7 29 (33.72%) UX Design
8 22 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (22.09%) Mentoring
10 17 (19.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (18.60%) Analytics
11 16 (18.60%) Microservices
12 15 (17.44%) SDLC
12 15 (17.44%) Sprint Planning
12 15 (17.44%) Test Automation
12 15 (17.44%) Unit Testing
13 14 (16.28%) Pair Programming
13 14 (16.28%) Responsive Web Design
14 13 (15.12%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 81 (94.19%) TypeScript
2 45 (52.33%) JavaScript
3 28 (32.56%) Java
4 10 (11.63%) SQL
5 8 (9.30%) Bash
5 8 (9.30%) Groovy
6 4 (4.65%) C#
7 3 (3.49%) Python
8 1 (1.16%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.16%) Swift
Qualifications
1 13 (15.12%) Degree
2 9 (10.47%) AWS Certification
2 9 (10.47%) AWS Certified Developer
2 9 (10.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (4.65%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.65%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (36.05%) Accessibility
2 22 (25.58%) QA
3 5 (5.81%) GDPR
3 5 (5.81%) PERC
3 5 (5.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (26.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (10.47%) HP Fortify
2 8 (9.30%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.81%) Kibana
4 3 (3.49%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (9.30%) Apple
2 3 (3.49%) Google
3 1 (1.16%) Adobe
3 1 (1.16%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.16%) Netlify
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle
3 1 (1.16%) Veracode