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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 271 229
Rank change year-on-year +61 -42 +96
Permanent jobs citing Jest 20 4 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.36% 0.044% 0.057%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.99% 0.29% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £41,500 £43,500 -
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £20,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £21,250
Median % change year-on-year - +135.29% -67.31%
75th Percentile £58,125 £55,000 £21,875
90th Percentile £61,500 £56,500 -
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £75,669
% change year-on-year -10.34% -4.19% +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 669 1,375 1,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.08% 15.26% 19.24%
Number of salaries quoted 453 755 858
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £44,541
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £75,000 £80,000
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

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Jest relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Jest job vacancy trend 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 23 October 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 23 October 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 - 14 £47,500 - 4
East Midlands +10 6 £62,500 +25.00% 2
Jest
England

Jest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

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
3 1 (5.00%) Babel
3 1 (5.00%) JUnit
3 1 (5.00%) Mockito
3 1 (5.00%) Postman
3 1 (5.00%) Vite
3 1 (5.00%) webpack
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 3 (15.00%) Developer
3 2 (10.00%) React Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (100.00%) React
2 19 (95.00%) CSS
3 18 (90.00%) HTML
3 18 (90.00%) RESTful
4 17 (85.00%) CSS3
4 17 (85.00%) HTML5
4 17 (85.00%) JPA
4 17 (85.00%) Redux
4 17 (85.00%) REST
4 17 (85.00%) Spring
4 17 (85.00%) Spring Boot
5 16 (80.00%) Kafka
5 16 (80.00%) Sass
6 1 (5.00%) Hibernate
6 1 (5.00%) J2EE
6 1 (5.00%) Material-UI
6 1 (5.00%) Node.js
6 1 (5.00%) SOAP
6 1 (5.00%) Tailwind CSS
6 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 20 (100.00%) Agile
2 19 (95.00%) Front End Development
3 18 (90.00%) CI/CD
4 17 (85.00%) Containerisation
4 17 (85.00%) DevOps
4 17 (85.00%) Microservices
4 17 (85.00%) Test Automation
4 17 (85.00%) User Experience
5 16 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 16 (80.00%) Mentoring
5 16 (80.00%) Migration
5 16 (80.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 16 (80.00%) Responsive Web Design
5 16 (80.00%) SDLC
5 16 (80.00%) Software Engineering
5 16 (80.00%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (10.00%) Code Quality
6 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
7 1 (5.00%) Sprint Review
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%) Accessibility
2 17 (85.00%) QA
3 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (90.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (85.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (80.00%) Solace