Jest Job Trends in the North of England

Jest
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Jest skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 211 357
Rank change year-on-year -84 +146 +34
Permanent jobs citing Jest 36 92 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.18% 1.13% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.99% 5.79% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 11 14 30
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,475 £34,000
25th Percentile £58,500 £50,000 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% +3.48% -17.86%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,000 £69,000
England median annual salary £61,250 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.77% -3.70% -14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,807 1,589 3,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.07% 19.44% 18.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,504 834 2,990
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £34,356
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,250 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,225 £79,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Jest job vacancy trend in the North of England

Jest
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Jest.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Jest

Jest
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Jest in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Jest in the North of England

Jest
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Jest within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 June 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
Yorkshire -10 31 £76,250 -1.61% 2
North East -46 4 £59,000 +18.00% 1
North West -74 1 £50,000 -21.57% 3
Jest
England

Jest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 (8.33%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 33 (91.67%) AWS
2 32 (88.89%) AWS Lambda
2 32 (88.89%) Serverless
3 31 (86.11%) Amazon ECS
3 31 (86.11%) Amazon S3
4 30 (83.33%) Amazon ECR
4 30 (83.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 30 (83.33%) AWS Step Functions
5 29 (80.56%) Apigee
6 23 (63.89%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.78%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (2.78%) AWS KMS
7 1 (2.78%) Google Gemini
7 1 (2.78%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (83.33%) DynamoDB
2 2 (5.56%) MySQL
3 1 (2.78%) DocumentDB
3 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (86.11%) GitLab
2 30 (83.33%) Cypress.io
2 30 (83.33%) Jenkins
2 30 (83.33%) Maven
3 29 (80.56%) SonarQube
4 3 (8.33%) Cucumber
4 3 (8.33%) Selenium
5 1 (2.78%) Claude Code
5 1 (2.78%) Git
5 1 (2.78%) Jasmine
5 1 (2.78%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (2.78%) PHPUnit
5 1 (2.78%) YouTrack
General
1 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (2.78%) Finance
2 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 35 (97.22%) Developer
2 28 (77.78%) Java Developer
3 9 (25.00%) AWS Developer
3 9 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (19.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 7 (19.44%) Senior
4 7 (19.44%) Senior Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Angular Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Lead
6 2 (5.56%) React Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Lead Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Lead Java Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Node.js Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (88.89%) AngularJS
2 30 (83.33%) Spring Boot
3 29 (80.56%) Gherkin
4 7 (19.44%) React
5 5 (13.89%) Node.js
6 4 (11.11%) CSS
6 4 (11.11%) HTML
7 3 (8.33%) Drools
7 3 (8.33%) RESTful
7 3 (8.33%) Spring
7 3 (8.33%) XML
8 2 (5.56%) REST
9 1 (2.78%) Doctrine
9 1 (2.78%) Express.js
9 1 (2.78%) HTML5
9 1 (2.78%) Kafka
9 1 (2.78%) Kendo UI
9 1 (2.78%) MEAN Stack
9 1 (2.78%) Serverless Framework
9 1 (2.78%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 30 (83.33%) Agile
3 29 (80.56%) DevOps
4 24 (66.67%) SDLC
5 23 (63.89%) ITIL
5 23 (63.89%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 22 (61.11%) Secure Coding
7 16 (44.44%) Clean Code
8 13 (36.11%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (36.11%) Prototyping
9 6 (16.67%) Front End Development
10 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (11.11%) Software Delivery
12 3 (8.33%) Analytical Thinking
12 3 (8.33%) BDD
12 3 (8.33%) Coaching
12 3 (8.33%) Computer Science
12 3 (8.33%) Creative Problem-Solving
12 3 (8.33%) Mentoring
12 3 (8.33%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 32 (88.89%) TypeScript
2 30 (83.33%) Bash
2 30 (83.33%) Groovy
2 30 (83.33%) Java
3 8 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.33%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.78%) PHP
5 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (77.78%) AWS Certification
2 22 (61.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 22 (61.11%) ITIL Certification
3 8 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 5 (13.89%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 32 (88.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (80.56%) HP Fortify
2 4 (11.11%) Terraform
3 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (2.78%) Confluent
1 1 (2.78%) Dynatrace