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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 481 628
Rank change year-on-year -76 +147 -29
Permanent jobs citing Jest 86 134 176
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.37% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.18% 1.68% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 49 114 153
10th Percentile £41,500 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -3.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,458 £92,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,292 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,750 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -3.57% -6.67%

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 7,258 7,982 16,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.48% 21.86% 21.21%
Number of salaries quoted 5,528 5,973 13,815
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,296 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.60%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £104,125 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.81% +10.33% -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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -23 48 £62,500 +13.64% 12
Yorkshire -21 40 £78,750 - 3
London -17 19 £80,000 +18.52% 12
South West -46 9 £40,000 -53.08% 8
South East -69 7 £65,000 -16.13% 5
North East -23 4 £59,000 +5.83% 3
North West -30 4 £52,500 -4.55% 6
West Midlands -18 1 - - 5
Midlands -44 1 - - 5
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 3 (3.49%) JBoss
2 2 (2.33%) nginx
3 1 (1.16%) CMS
3 1 (1.16%) Confluence
3 1 (1.16%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.16%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.33%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 48 (55.81%) AWS
2 43 (50.00%) Serverless
3 41 (47.67%) AWS Lambda
4 40 (46.51%) Amazon S3
5 39 (45.35%) Amazon ECR
5 39 (45.35%) Amazon ECS
5 39 (45.35%) Apigee
5 39 (45.35%) AWS Step Functions
6 38 (44.19%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (24.42%) Amazon SQS
8 10 (11.63%) GitHub
9 7 (8.14%) Azure
10 6 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (6.98%) Figma
11 5 (5.81%) npm
12 4 (4.65%) GCP
12 4 (4.65%) SaaS
13 3 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (3.49%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (3.49%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.33%) AMQP
2 1 (1.16%) Broadband
2 1 (1.16%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (45.35%) DynamoDB
2 4 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.49%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.49%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.33%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.16%) MySQL
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.16%) Redis
5 1 (1.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 61 (70.93%) Cypress.io
2 43 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 41 (47.67%) GitLab
4 40 (46.51%) SonarQube
5 39 (45.35%) Maven
6 19 (22.09%) Git
7 7 (8.14%) webpack
8 6 (6.98%) JIRA
9 5 (5.81%) Babel
9 5 (5.81%) Cucumber
9 5 (5.81%) Selenium
9 5 (5.81%) Visual Studio
9 5 (5.81%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (5.81%) Vite
10 4 (4.65%) rollup.js
11 3 (3.49%) Mocha
11 3 (3.49%) Storybook
12 2 (2.33%) Android Studio
12 2 (2.33%) Xcode
13 1 (1.16%) Protractor
General
1 11 (12.79%) Finance
2 5 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (5.81%) Retail
2 5 (5.81%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.33%) Games
3 2 (2.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.16%) Automotive
4 1 (1.16%) Front Office
4 1 (1.16%) iGaming
4 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.16%) Law
Job Titles
1 65 (75.58%) Developer
2 28 (32.56%) Java Developer
3 23 (26.74%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 16 (18.60%) Lead
4 16 (18.60%) Senior
5 13 (15.12%) Senior Developer
6 11 (12.79%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (11.63%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 9 (10.47%) AWS Developer
9 8 (9.30%) Software Engineer
10 7 (8.14%) Technical Leader
11 6 (6.98%) Lead Developer
11 6 (6.98%) React Developer
12 4 (4.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 4 (4.65%) JavaScript Developer
12 4 (4.65%) Python Developer
13 3 (3.49%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
13 3 (3.49%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 3 (3.49%) Principal Engineer
13 3 (3.49%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (56.98%) AngularJS
2 42 (48.84%) Spring Boot
3 39 (45.35%) Gherkin
4 34 (39.53%) CSS
5 33 (38.37%) React
6 27 (31.40%) HTML
7 24 (27.91%) Node.js
8 19 (22.09%) RESTful
9 15 (17.44%) Vue
10 13 (15.12%) Tailwind CSS
11 12 (13.95%) Spring
12 11 (12.79%) GraphQL
13 9 (10.47%) HTML5
14 8 (9.30%) CSS3
14 8 (9.30%) Redux
14 8 (9.30%) Sass
15 6 (6.98%) Vitest
16 5 (5.81%) Kafka
16 5 (5.81%) Nuxt
16 5 (5.81%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.28%) Product Ownership
2 8 (9.30%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.30%) Mobile App
3 7 (8.14%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.65%) Video\Live Streaming
5 3 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.33%) Animation
6 2 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.33%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.16%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (66.28%) Agile
2 54 (62.79%) CI/CD
3 49 (56.98%) DevOps
4 31 (36.05%) Full-Stack Development
4 31 (36.05%) SDLC
5 27 (31.40%) Secure Coding
6 25 (29.07%) Front End Development
7 22 (25.58%) ITIL
7 22 (25.58%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 20 (23.26%) Clean Code
9 17 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (18.60%) Prototyping
11 14 (16.28%) Responsive Web Design
11 14 (16.28%) Software Engineering
11 14 (16.28%) User Experience
12 12 (13.95%) API Integration
12 12 (13.95%) Microservices
13 11 (12.79%) Scrum
14 10 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (11.63%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 79 (91.86%) TypeScript
2 46 (53.49%) Java
3 38 (44.19%) Bash
3 38 (44.19%) Groovy
4 35 (40.70%) JavaScript
5 8 (9.30%) Python
6 6 (6.98%) PHP
7 5 (5.81%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.33%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.33%) Swift
9 1 (1.16%) C#
9 1 (1.16%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.16%) SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (36.05%) AWS Certification
2 22 (25.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 22 (25.58%) ITIL Certification
3 10 (11.63%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.63%) Security Cleared
4 9 (10.47%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (10.47%) Degree
5 5 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (16.28%) Accessibility
2 12 (13.95%) QA
3 5 (5.81%) GDPR
3 5 (5.81%) PERC
4 4 (4.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (51.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (45.35%) HP Fortify
2 4 (4.65%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.65%) Terraform
3 3 (3.49%) Kibana
4 1 (1.16%) Grafana
4 1 (1.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (2.33%) Google
1 2 (2.33%) SendGrid
2 1 (1.16%) Adobe
2 1 (1.16%) OpenAI
2 1 (1.16%) Oracle