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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 685 437 562
Rank change year-on-year -248 +125 -12
Permanent jobs citing Jest 82 200 176
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.079% 0.47% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.76% 2.70% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 46 58 99
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,375 £49,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,870 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -10.34% -4.19%
75th Percentile £74,688 £82,500 £86,875
90th Percentile £120,000 £93,750 £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 10,781 7,414 14,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.41% 17.31% 21.60%
Number of salaries quoted 7,836 4,885 9,077
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £49,750
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 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £113,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.46% +5.38% -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 29 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 29 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 -86 30 £76,250 +12.96% 56
North of England -140 24 £67,500 +1.89% 18
South East -58 17 £55,000 -15.38% 9
Yorkshire -26 10 £72,500 -6.45% 2
North West -98 8 £70,000 +3.70% 15
North East -68 6 £67,500 +50.00% 1
West Midlands -56 3 £75,000 +66.67%
Midlands -70 3 £75,000 +57.89% 4
South West -82 2 - - 9
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 (6.10%) Confluence
2 3 (3.66%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.66%) Tomcat
2 3 (3.66%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.22%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 50 (60.98%) AWS
2 31 (37.80%) Serverless
3 28 (34.15%) Amazon ECS
3 28 (34.15%) GitHub
4 26 (31.71%) AWS Lambda
5 25 (30.49%) Azure
6 23 (28.05%) Amazon S3
7 18 (21.95%) Amazon ECR
7 18 (21.95%) Amazon SQS
8 16 (19.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (15.85%) AWS Step Functions
9 13 (15.85%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (14.63%) Apigee
11 8 (9.76%) GCP
11 8 (9.76%) Kong
12 7 (8.54%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (7.32%) AWS Fargate
13 6 (7.32%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.88%) VoIP
2 3 (3.66%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.44%) Asterisk PBX
3 2 (2.44%) DNS
3 2 (2.44%) HTTP
3 2 (2.44%) LAN
3 2 (2.44%) WAN
4 1 (1.22%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (26.83%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (25.61%) MongoDB
3 17 (20.73%) DynamoDB
4 9 (10.98%) MySQL
5 7 (8.54%) Relational Database
5 7 (8.54%) SQL Server
6 6 (7.32%) DocumentDB
7 5 (6.10%) Redis
8 3 (3.66%) NoSQL
8 3 (3.66%) Spatial Data
9 2 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 37 (45.12%) Cypress.io
2 30 (36.59%) Git
3 27 (32.93%) GitLab
4 17 (20.73%) Jenkins
5 13 (15.85%) Maven
5 13 (15.85%) SonarQube
6 12 (14.63%) Mocha
7 11 (13.41%) JIRA
8 10 (12.20%) Selenium
9 7 (8.54%) Jasmine
9 7 (8.54%) NUnit
10 5 (6.10%) Claude Code
10 5 (6.10%) Storybook
10 5 (6.10%) Vite
11 4 (4.88%) Bitbucket
11 4 (4.88%) JUnit
11 4 (4.88%) Mockito
11 4 (4.88%) webpack
12 2 (2.44%) Karma Test Runner
12 2 (2.44%) YouTrack
General
1 14 (17.07%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.76%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (7.32%) Finance
6 1 (1.22%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.22%) Banking
6 1 (1.22%) Front Office
6 1 (1.22%) Law
6 1 (1.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 59 (71.95%) Developer
2 27 (32.93%) Full-Stack Developer
3 22 (26.83%) Senior
4 14 (17.07%) Senior Developer
4 14 (17.07%) Software Engineer
5 12 (14.63%) Java Developer
6 11 (13.41%) Lead
7 10 (12.20%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 10 (12.20%) React Developer
8 8 (9.76%) Software Developer
9 7 (8.54%) Angular Developer
9 7 (8.54%) Lead Developer
9 7 (8.54%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (7.32%) Java Engineer
10 6 (7.32%) Node.js Developer
11 5 (6.10%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (4.88%) AWS Developer
12 4 (4.88%) Backend Developer
12 4 (4.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 3 (3.66%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (53.66%) React
2 41 (50.00%) Node.js
3 30 (36.59%) RESTful
4 29 (35.37%) AngularJS
5 25 (30.49%) REST
6 17 (20.73%) Next.js
7 16 (19.51%) CSS
7 16 (19.51%) HTML
8 15 (18.29%) Express.js
8 15 (18.29%) Terraform
9 14 (17.07%) Redux
9 14 (17.07%) Spring Boot
10 13 (15.85%) .NET
10 13 (15.85%) NestJS
10 13 (15.85%) Playwright
11 12 (14.63%) Gherkin
12 10 (12.20%) GraphQL
12 10 (12.20%) React Native
13 9 (10.98%) HTML5
14 8 (9.76%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.85%) Enterprise Software
2 12 (14.63%) Cloud Native
3 11 (13.41%) Product Ownership
4 7 (8.54%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.66%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.66%) Blog
5 3 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.22%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.32%) Linux
2 4 (4.88%) Debian
3 3 (3.66%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.44%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.22%) Android
5 1 (1.22%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.22%) OpenWrt
5 1 (1.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (79.27%) CI/CD
2 48 (58.54%) Agile
3 42 (51.22%) DevOps
4 40 (48.78%) Full-Stack Development
5 30 (36.59%) Test Automation
6 23 (28.05%) Software Engineering
7 20 (24.39%) Clean Code
7 20 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (21.95%) Mentoring
8 18 (21.95%) SDLC
9 15 (18.29%) AI
9 15 (18.29%) Code Quality
9 15 (18.29%) Microservices
10 14 (17.07%) Containerisation
11 13 (15.85%) Front End Development
11 13 (15.85%) Technical Leadership
11 13 (15.85%) Unit Testing
12 12 (14.63%) ITIL
12 12 (14.63%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 11 (13.41%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 56 (68.29%) TypeScript
2 37 (45.12%) JavaScript
3 22 (26.83%) Java
4 17 (20.73%) Python
5 16 (19.51%) Bash
6 13 (15.85%) Groovy
6 13 (15.85%) SQL
7 12 (14.63%) C#
8 4 (4.88%) PHP
9 1 (1.22%) C
9 1 (1.22%) Go
9 1 (1.22%) Ruby
9 1 (1.22%) Rust
9 1 (1.22%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (24.39%) Security Cleared
2 18 (21.95%) SC Cleared
3 11 (13.41%) AWS Certification
3 11 (13.41%) ITIL Certification
4 10 (12.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 6 (7.32%) Degree
6 2 (2.44%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.22%) HNC
7 1 (1.22%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (24.39%) Accessibility
2 14 (17.07%) WCAG
3 11 (13.41%) QA
System Software
1 38 (46.34%) Docker
2 1 (1.22%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 19 (23.17%) Kubernetes
2 12 (14.63%) HP Fortify
3 2 (2.44%) Ansible
3 2 (2.44%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (7.32%) Confluent
1 6 (7.32%) Dynatrace
2 5 (6.10%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.88%) Google
4 3 (3.66%) IBM
4 3 (3.66%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.44%) Pega