Jest Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Jest
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Jest skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 86 87
Rank change year-on-year +29 +1 +34
Permanent jobs citing Jest 1 3 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.18% 0.28% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.39% 1.67% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £43,000
25th Percentile £76,250 £78,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +65.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £88,750 £86,250 £55,000
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £82,500 £42,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +94.12% -29.17% +4.80%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 72 180 212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 13.21% 16.53% 23.27%
Number of salaries quoted 52 102 116
10th Percentile £27,250 £40,125 £40,625
25th Percentile £39,063 £47,526 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £74,063 £71,250 £75,313
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £82,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Job postings citing Jest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Job vacancy trend for Jest in Gloucestershire

Jest
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Jest.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Jest

Jest
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Jest within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 16 September 2025. 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
Cheltenham +23 1 £82,500 - 1
Jest
South West

Jest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon MSK
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Redux
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana