Jest Job Trends in the Midlands

Jest
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands 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 203 278 228
Rank change year-on-year +75 -50 +97
Permanent jobs citing Jest 20 9 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.36% 0.090% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.90% 0.61% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 6
10th Percentile £40,750 £48,500 £27,188
25th Percentile £41,875 £55,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,000 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +48.57% -32.69%
75th Percentile £55,313 £70,625 £63,750
90th Percentile £60,375 £76,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £71,991 £75,669
% change year-on-year -9.71% -4.86% +4.37%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 689 1,483 1,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.32% 14.79% 19.35%
Number of salaries quoted 479 866 930
10th Percentile £36,650 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,149 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,250 £75,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Jest in the Midlands

Jest
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Jest.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Jest

Jest
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Jest in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Jest in the Midlands

Jest
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Jest within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +66 14 £45,000 -30.77% 3
East Midlands +20 6 £62,500 -1.96%
Jest
England

Jest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 17 (85.00%) AWS
1 17 (85.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) GitHub
2 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (80.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (80.00%) Bitbucket
1 16 (80.00%) Cucumber
1 16 (80.00%) GitLab
1 16 (80.00%) JIRA
1 16 (80.00%) Maven
1 16 (80.00%) Selenium
1 16 (80.00%) SonarQube
1 16 (80.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (10.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) Postman
3 1 (5.00%) JUnit
3 1 (5.00%) Mockito
General
1 16 (80.00%) Banking
1 16 (80.00%) Corporate Banking
1 16 (80.00%) Finance
1 16 (80.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 16 (80.00%) Investment Banking
1 16 (80.00%) Retail
2 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (80.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (5.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (100.00%) React
2 18 (90.00%) CSS
3 17 (85.00%) HTML
3 17 (85.00%) JPA
3 17 (85.00%) Redux
3 17 (85.00%) REST
3 17 (85.00%) RESTful
3 17 (85.00%) Spring
3 17 (85.00%) Spring Boot
4 16 (80.00%) CSS3
4 16 (80.00%) HTML5
4 16 (80.00%) Kafka
4 16 (80.00%) Sass
5 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
5 1 (5.00%) Hibernate
5 1 (5.00%) J2EE
5 1 (5.00%) Node.js
5 1 (5.00%) SOAP
5 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (80.00%) Enterprise Software
1 16 (80.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) Agile
2 18 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 18 (90.00%) Front End Development
2 18 (90.00%) Test Automation
3 17 (85.00%) Containerisation
3 17 (85.00%) DevOps
3 17 (85.00%) Microservices
4 16 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 16 (80.00%) Mentoring
4 16 (80.00%) Migration
4 16 (80.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 16 (80.00%) Responsive Web Design
4 16 (80.00%) SDLC
4 16 (80.00%) Software Engineering
4 16 (80.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 16 (80.00%) User Experience
5 2 (10.00%) API Testing
6 1 (5.00%) API Development
6 1 (5.00%) Code Quality
6 1 (5.00%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 19 (95.00%) TypeScript
3 17 (85.00%) Java
4 16 (80.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (90.00%) QA
2 17 (85.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (90.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (85.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (80.00%) Solace