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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 606 426 632
Rank change year-on-year -180 +206 -37
Permanent jobs citing Jest 84 212 183
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.10% 0.54% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.02% 2.71% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 34 101 161
10th Percentile £37,500 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% - -18.75%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £80,875 £140,677 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -18.52% - -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 8,202 7,827 17,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.98% 19.93% 20.09%
Number of salaries quoted 6,203 5,497 14,124
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,561 £51,250 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,720 £66,253 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,064
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -76 45 £77,500 +24.00% 8
Yorkshire -2 42 £77,500 - 5
London -49 20 £77,500 +16.98% 10
South East -53 8 £62,500 -12.28% 9
South West -59 8 £40,000 -53.08% 2
North East -40 3 £59,000 +5.83%
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 4 (4.76%) Confluence
2 3 (3.57%) JBoss
3 1 (1.19%) Apache
3 1 (1.19%) nginx
3 1 (1.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.19%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 52 (61.90%) AWS
2 45 (53.57%) Serverless
3 43 (51.19%) Amazon ECS
3 43 (51.19%) Amazon S3
3 43 (51.19%) AWS Lambda
4 42 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 41 (48.81%) Amazon ECR
5 41 (48.81%) Apigee
5 41 (48.81%) AWS CloudFormation
6 24 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
7 12 (14.29%) GitHub
8 7 (8.33%) Azure
9 4 (4.76%) GCP
10 3 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.57%) Figma
10 3 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (3.57%) npm
11 2 (2.38%) Sentry
11 2 (2.38%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) AMQP
1 1 (1.19%) Asterisk PBX
1 1 (1.19%) HTTP
1 1 (1.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (51.19%) DynamoDB
2 6 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 6 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.57%) MySQL
3 3 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.57%) Spatial Data
3 3 (3.57%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.38%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.19%) Redis
5 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 55 (65.48%) Cypress.io
2 45 (53.57%) GitLab
3 43 (51.19%) Jenkins
3 43 (51.19%) SonarQube
4 42 (50.00%) Maven
5 16 (19.05%) Git
6 5 (5.95%) JIRA
6 5 (5.95%) Selenium
6 5 (5.95%) webpack
7 4 (4.76%) Cucumber
7 4 (4.76%) Vite
8 3 (3.57%) Storybook
9 2 (2.38%) Android Studio
9 2 (2.38%) JUnit
9 2 (2.38%) Mocha
9 2 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (2.38%) Xcode
10 1 (1.19%) Appium
10 1 (1.19%) Mockito
10 1 (1.19%) PHPUnit
General
1 10 (11.90%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.71%) Finance
3 6 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.19%) Front Office
4 1 (1.19%) Games
4 1 (1.19%) iGaming
4 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.19%) Law
4 1 (1.19%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 68 (80.95%) Developer
2 31 (36.90%) Java Developer
3 20 (23.81%) Lead
4 17 (20.24%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 15 (17.86%) Full-Stack Developer
5 15 (17.86%) Senior
6 12 (14.29%) Senior Developer
7 11 (13.10%) AWS Developer
8 9 (10.71%) Lead Developer
9 7 (8.33%) React Developer
9 7 (8.33%) Technical Leader
10 6 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 4 (4.76%) JavaScript Developer
11 4 (4.76%) Python Developer
12 3 (3.57%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
12 3 (3.57%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 3 (3.57%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 3 (3.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 3 (3.57%) Senior Java Developer
12 3 (3.57%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (64.29%) AngularJS
2 43 (51.19%) Spring Boot
3 41 (48.81%) Gherkin
4 32 (38.10%) React
5 23 (27.38%) CSS
6 22 (26.19%) Node.js
7 20 (23.81%) HTML
8 15 (17.86%) RESTful
9 12 (14.29%) Vue
10 11 (13.10%) Spring
11 10 (11.90%) Redux
11 10 (11.90%) Sass
12 9 (10.71%) HTML5
13 8 (9.52%) CSS3
14 7 (8.33%) GraphQL
14 7 (8.33%) React Native
15 6 (7.14%) REST
15 6 (7.14%) Tailwind CSS
16 4 (4.76%) .NET
16 4 (4.76%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.71%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.33%) Mobile App
3 6 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.38%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.19%) Sports Betting
7 1 (1.19%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.57%) Android
2 1 (1.19%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.19%) Debian
2 1 (1.19%) Linux
2 1 (1.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 52 (61.90%) Agile
3 49 (58.33%) DevOps
4 30 (35.71%) SDLC
5 29 (34.52%) Secure Coding
6 28 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 25 (29.76%) ITIL
7 25 (29.76%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 22 (26.19%) Clean Code
9 18 (21.43%) Front End Development
9 18 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (17.86%) Prototyping
11 11 (13.10%) Scrum
11 11 (13.10%) Web Development
12 10 (11.90%) Computer Science
12 10 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (11.90%) User Experience
13 9 (10.71%) API Integration
13 9 (10.71%) Microservices
14 8 (9.52%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 74 (88.10%) TypeScript
2 46 (54.76%) Java
3 42 (50.00%) Bash
4 41 (48.81%) Groovy
5 29 (34.52%) JavaScript
6 8 (9.52%) Python
7 7 (8.33%) PHP
8 6 (7.14%) C#
9 5 (5.95%) Kotlin
10 2 (2.38%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.38%) SQL
10 2 (2.38%) Swift
11 1 (1.19%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (40.48%) AWS Certification
2 24 (28.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 24 (28.57%) ITIL Certification
3 10 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.90%) Security Cleared
4 9 (10.71%) AWS Certified Developer
5 8 (9.52%) Degree
6 4 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.19%) HNC
8 1 (1.19%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.90%) Accessibility
2 7 (8.33%) WCAG
3 6 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 49 (58.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (48.81%) HP Fortify
2 4 (4.76%) Terraform
3 3 (3.57%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.19%) Grafana
4 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (2.38%) Google
1 2 (2.38%) SendGrid
2 1 (1.19%) Adobe
2 1 (1.19%) OpenAI
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle