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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 664 460 602
Rank change year-on-year -204 +142 -49
Permanent jobs citing Jest 81 190 161
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.081% 0.44% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.76% 2.48% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 42 50 102
10th Percentile £45,375 £43,625 £46,375
25th Percentile £51,563 £52,188 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,620 £65,000 £71,991
Median % change year-on-year -3.66% -9.71% -7.11%
75th Percentile £77,188 £82,500 £87,188
90th Percentile £120,000 £104,125 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £71,991
% change year-on-year -15.38% -9.71% -4.01%

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 10,601 7,670 14,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.59% 17.68% 21.20%
Number of salaries quoted 7,808 5,067 9,770
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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
London -68 28 £80,000 +18.52% 48
North of England -117 26 £67,500 +3.85% 13
South East -46 16 £55,000 -15.38% 5
Yorkshire -32 15 £72,500 -6.45% 1
North West -86 7 £66,250 - 10
North East -62 4 £67,500 +50.00% 2
South West -67 4 £40,000 - 8
West Midlands -50 3 £75,000 +66.67%
Midlands -73 3 £75,000 +57.89%
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 (6.17%) Confluence
2 2 (2.47%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.47%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.47%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.23%) Apache
3 1 (1.23%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 50 (61.73%) AWS
2 34 (41.98%) Serverless
3 29 (35.80%) Amazon ECS
3 29 (35.80%) AWS Lambda
4 26 (32.10%) Amazon S3
4 26 (32.10%) GitHub
5 21 (25.93%) Amazon ECR
5 21 (25.93%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (24.69%) Amazon SQS
6 20 (24.69%) Azure
7 18 (22.22%) AWS Step Functions
8 17 (20.99%) Apigee
9 11 (13.58%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (8.64%) GCP
11 6 (7.41%) Kong
12 5 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (4.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (4.94%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (4.94%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (4.94%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.94%) VoIP
2 3 (3.70%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.47%) Asterisk PBX
3 2 (2.47%) DNS
3 2 (2.47%) HTTP
3 2 (2.47%) LAN
3 2 (2.47%) WAN
4 1 (1.23%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (27.16%) DynamoDB
2 19 (23.46%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (20.99%) MongoDB
4 9 (11.11%) MySQL
5 7 (8.64%) Relational Database
6 6 (7.41%) SQL Server
7 4 (4.94%) DocumentDB
8 3 (3.70%) NoSQL
8 3 (3.70%) Redis
8 3 (3.70%) Spatial Data
9 2 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 39 (48.15%) Cypress.io
2 30 (37.04%) GitLab
3 25 (30.86%) Git
4 20 (24.69%) Jenkins
5 18 (22.22%) Maven
5 18 (22.22%) SonarQube
6 11 (13.58%) Mocha
7 10 (12.35%) Selenium
8 9 (11.11%) JIRA
9 7 (8.64%) Jasmine
9 7 (8.64%) NUnit
10 5 (6.17%) Claude Code
11 4 (4.94%) Bitbucket
11 4 (4.94%) Vite
11 4 (4.94%) webpack
12 3 (3.70%) JUnit
12 3 (3.70%) Mockito
12 3 (3.70%) Storybook
13 2 (2.47%) Karma Test Runner
13 2 (2.47%) YouTrack
General
1 12 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
1 12 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.41%) Finance
2 6 (7.41%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.23%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.23%) Banking
4 1 (1.23%) Front Office
4 1 (1.23%) Law
4 1 (1.23%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 61 (75.31%) Developer
2 29 (35.80%) Full-Stack Developer
3 22 (27.16%) Senior
4 16 (19.75%) Java Developer
5 14 (17.28%) Senior Developer
6 12 (14.81%) Software Engineer
7 11 (13.58%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 10 (12.35%) Lead
8 10 (12.35%) React Developer
9 7 (8.64%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (7.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 5 (6.17%) Angular Developer
11 5 (6.17%) AWS Developer
11 5 (6.17%) Lead Developer
11 5 (6.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (6.17%) Software Developer
12 4 (4.94%) Backend Developer
12 4 (4.94%) Java Engineer
12 4 (4.94%) Node.js Developer
13 3 (3.70%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (49.38%) React
2 38 (46.91%) Node.js
3 32 (39.51%) AngularJS
4 27 (33.33%) RESTful
5 20 (24.69%) REST
6 19 (23.46%) Spring Boot
7 17 (20.99%) CSS
7 17 (20.99%) Gherkin
8 16 (19.75%) HTML
8 16 (19.75%) Next.js
9 14 (17.28%) Redux
9 14 (17.28%) Terraform
10 13 (16.05%) Express.js
11 12 (14.81%) .NET
11 12 (14.81%) NestJS
12 10 (12.35%) Playwright
13 9 (11.11%) GraphQL
13 9 (11.11%) HTML5
13 9 (11.11%) React Native
14 8 (9.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.58%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (12.35%) Cloud Native
2 10 (12.35%) Product Ownership
3 7 (8.64%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (6.17%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.70%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.70%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.23%) Blog
7 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.17%) Linux
2 4 (4.94%) Debian
3 3 (3.70%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.47%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.23%) Android
5 1 (1.23%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.23%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (76.54%) CI/CD
2 50 (61.73%) Agile
3 41 (50.62%) DevOps
4 39 (48.15%) Full-Stack Development
5 25 (30.86%) Test Automation
6 20 (24.69%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (24.69%) SDLC
6 20 (24.69%) Software Engineering
7 19 (23.46%) Clean Code
8 18 (22.22%) Mentoring
9 16 (19.75%) ITIL
9 16 (19.75%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 15 (18.52%) Secure Coding
11 13 (16.05%) AI
11 13 (16.05%) Code Quality
11 13 (16.05%) Front End Development
11 13 (16.05%) Microservices
11 13 (16.05%) Technical Leadership
12 12 (14.81%) Containerisation
13 11 (13.58%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 58 (71.60%) TypeScript
2 36 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 26 (32.10%) Java
4 20 (24.69%) Bash
5 18 (22.22%) Groovy
5 18 (22.22%) Python
6 13 (16.05%) SQL
7 12 (14.81%) C#
8 6 (7.41%) PHP
9 1 (1.23%) C
9 1 (1.23%) Go
9 1 (1.23%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.23%) Ruby
9 1 (1.23%) Rust
9 1 (1.23%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (23.46%) Security Cleared
2 17 (20.99%) SC Cleared
3 16 (19.75%) AWS Certification
4 15 (18.52%) ITIL Certification
5 14 (17.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) Degree
7 2 (2.47%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.23%) HNC
8 1 (1.23%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (20.99%) Accessibility
2 12 (14.81%) WCAG
3 9 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 38 (46.91%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 17 (20.99%) HP Fortify
2 15 (18.52%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.47%) Ansible
3 2 (2.47%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (4.94%) Confluent
1 4 (4.94%) Dynatrace
1 4 (4.94%) Google
1 4 (4.94%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.70%) OpenAI
3 2 (2.47%) IBM
3 2 (2.47%) Pega