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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 617 416 645
Rank change year-on-year -201 +229 -41
Permanent jobs citing Jest 78 220 176
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.094% 0.57% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.92% 2.87% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 33 98 158
10th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -18.75%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £81,000 £140,677 £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 8,476 7,677 17,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.19% 19.84% 19.75%
Number of salaries quoted 6,450 5,235 14,276
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,850 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.83% +10.35% -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 30 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 30 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 -105 40 £73,750 +23.95% 7
Yorkshire -14 36 £77,500 - 3
London -65 20 £80,000 +18.52% 13
South East -45 9 £52,500 -22.22% 7
South West -59 6 £40,000 -53.08% 1
North East -46 3 £59,000 +18.00% 1
North West -78 1 £50,000 -21.57% 3
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 (5.13%) Confluence
2 3 (3.85%) JBoss
3 1 (1.28%) Apache
3 1 (1.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.28%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 45 (57.69%) AWS
2 39 (50.00%) Serverless
3 37 (47.44%) Amazon ECS
3 37 (47.44%) Amazon S3
3 37 (47.44%) AWS Lambda
4 36 (46.15%) AWS CloudFormation
4 36 (46.15%) AWS Step Functions
5 35 (44.87%) Amazon ECR
5 35 (44.87%) Apigee
6 25 (32.05%) Amazon SQS
7 12 (15.38%) GitHub
8 7 (8.97%) Azure
9 3 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.85%) GCP
9 3 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.56%) Algolia
10 2 (2.56%) Firebase
10 2 (2.56%) npm
10 2 (2.56%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.85%) VoIP
2 2 (2.56%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (1.28%) HTTP
3 1 (1.28%) LAN
3 1 (1.28%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (47.44%) DynamoDB
2 6 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.41%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.41%) MySQL
4 3 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.85%) Spatial Data
4 3 (3.85%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.56%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.28%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.28%) Redis
6 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 49 (62.82%) Cypress.io
2 40 (51.28%) GitLab
3 37 (47.44%) Jenkins
3 37 (47.44%) SonarQube
4 36 (46.15%) Maven
5 15 (19.23%) Git
6 6 (7.69%) JIRA
7 4 (5.13%) Selenium
7 4 (5.13%) Vite
7 4 (5.13%) webpack
8 3 (3.85%) Bitbucket
8 3 (3.85%) Cucumber
8 3 (3.85%) Storybook
9 2 (2.56%) JUnit
9 2 (2.56%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (2.56%) Xcode
10 1 (1.28%) Claude Code
10 1 (1.28%) fastlane
10 1 (1.28%) Jasmine
10 1 (1.28%) PHPUnit
General
1 11 (14.10%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.54%) Finance
3 7 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.56%) Front Office
5 1 (1.28%) Games
5 1 (1.28%) iGaming
5 1 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.28%) Law
5 1 (1.28%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (88.46%) Developer
2 31 (39.74%) Java Developer
3 17 (21.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 16 (20.51%) Senior
5 15 (19.23%) Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (17.95%) Lead
6 14 (17.95%) Senior Developer
7 11 (14.10%) AWS Developer
8 8 (10.26%) Lead Developer
9 7 (8.97%) React Developer
10 6 (7.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 4 (5.13%) JavaScript Developer
11 4 (5.13%) Python Developer
11 4 (5.13%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 3 (3.85%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
12 3 (3.85%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 3 (3.85%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
12 3 (3.85%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 3 (3.85%) Senior Java Developer
12 3 (3.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (61.54%) AngularJS
2 37 (47.44%) Spring Boot
3 35 (44.87%) Gherkin
4 32 (41.03%) React
5 21 (26.92%) CSS
5 21 (26.92%) Node.js
6 18 (23.08%) HTML
7 14 (17.95%) RESTful
8 12 (15.38%) Vue
9 10 (12.82%) Redux
9 10 (12.82%) Sass
10 9 (11.54%) HTML5
11 8 (10.26%) CSS3
12 7 (8.97%) React Native
12 7 (8.97%) Spring
13 6 (7.69%) REST
13 6 (7.69%) Tailwind CSS
14 5 (6.41%) GraphQL
15 4 (5.13%) Apollo GraphQL
15 4 (5.13%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.97%) Mobile App
1 7 (8.97%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.41%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.41%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.56%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.28%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.85%) Debian
1 3 (3.85%) Linux
2 2 (2.56%) Android
2 2 (2.56%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 47 (60.26%) Agile
3 44 (56.41%) DevOps
4 29 (37.18%) SDLC
5 27 (34.62%) Secure Coding
6 25 (32.05%) Full-Stack Development
6 25 (32.05%) ITIL
6 25 (32.05%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 22 (28.21%) Clean Code
8 19 (24.36%) Front End Development
9 15 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (19.23%) Prototyping
10 11 (14.10%) Scrum
10 11 (14.10%) User Experience
10 11 (14.10%) Web Development
11 9 (11.54%) API Integration
11 9 (11.54%) Computer Science
12 8 (10.26%) Code Quality
12 8 (10.26%) Mentoring
13 7 (8.97%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 66 (84.62%) TypeScript
2 39 (50.00%) Java
3 38 (48.72%) Bash
4 36 (46.15%) Groovy
5 27 (34.62%) JavaScript
6 9 (11.54%) PHP
7 8 (10.26%) Python
8 6 (7.69%) C#
9 4 (5.13%) Kotlin
10 3 (3.85%) SQL
11 2 (2.56%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.28%) PL/SQL
12 1 (1.28%) Swift
12 1 (1.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (39.74%) AWS Certification
2 24 (30.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 24 (30.77%) ITIL Certification
3 11 (14.10%) SC Cleared
3 11 (14.10%) Security Cleared
4 6 (7.69%) AWS Certified Developer
4 6 (7.69%) Degree
5 3 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.28%) HNC
6 1 (1.28%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.82%) Accessibility
2 7 (8.97%) WCAG
3 4 (5.13%) QA
System Software
1 42 (53.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (44.87%) HP Fortify
2 4 (5.13%) Terraform
3 2 (2.56%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.28%) Grafana
4 1 (1.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (2.56%) Google
1 2 (2.56%) SendGrid
2 1 (1.28%) Adobe
2 1 (1.28%) OpenAI
2 1 (1.28%) Oracle