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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 262 257
Rank change year-on-year +23 -5 +141
Permanent jobs citing Jest 34 19 34
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.32% 0.21% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.10% 1.21% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 19 13 10
10th Percentile £46,500 - £45,956
25th Percentile £53,750 £48,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +2.04% -5.77%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £70,938
90th Percentile £81,250 £72,250 £75,755
England median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% -12.50%

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 1,097 1,566 2,064
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.18% 17.22% 24.26%
Number of salaries quoted 900 929 1,684
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -3.70%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 - 20 £77,500 - 13
North West +13 9 £60,000 -4.00% 13
North East +12 5 £59,000 - 7
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 1 (2.94%) CMS
1 1 (2.94%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Adobe XD
1 2 (5.88%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 23 (67.65%) AWS
2 20 (58.82%) Amazon ECR
2 20 (58.82%) Amazon ECS
2 20 (58.82%) Amazon S3
2 20 (58.82%) Apigee
2 20 (58.82%) AWS Lambda
2 20 (58.82%) AWS Step Functions
2 20 (58.82%) Serverless
3 19 (55.88%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (20.59%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (11.76%) GitHub
6 3 (8.82%) SaaS
7 2 (5.88%) Azure
7 2 (5.88%) Figma
7 2 (5.88%) GCP
7 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.94%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (58.82%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (79.41%) Cypress.io
2 24 (70.59%) Jenkins
3 20 (58.82%) GitLab
3 20 (58.82%) Maven
3 20 (58.82%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.94%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.94%) Protractor
4 1 (2.94%) Selenium
General
1 4 (11.76%) Finance
2 2 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (2.94%) Automotive
3 1 (2.94%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (61.76%) Developer
2 13 (38.24%) Lead
3 11 (32.35%) Java Developer
4 8 (23.53%) Senior
5 7 (20.59%) Senior Developer
6 6 (17.65%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 6 (17.65%) Technical Leader
7 5 (14.71%) AWS Developer
7 5 (14.71%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 4 (11.76%) Software Engineer
9 3 (8.82%) Lead Developer
10 2 (5.88%) Lead Java Developer
10 2 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
11 1 (2.94%) Full-Stack Developer
11 1 (2.94%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
11 1 (2.94%) JavaScript Developer
11 1 (2.94%) Lead Software Engineer
11 1 (2.94%) Senior Software Engineer
11 1 (2.94%) Technical Developer
11 1 (2.94%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (64.71%) AngularJS
2 21 (61.76%) Spring Boot
3 20 (58.82%) Gherkin
4 11 (32.35%) React
5 10 (29.41%) Spring
6 9 (26.47%) CSS
7 7 (20.59%) HTML
8 5 (14.71%) RESTful
9 3 (8.82%) Next.js
9 3 (8.82%) Node.js
9 3 (8.82%) Redux
10 2 (5.88%) CSS3
10 2 (5.88%) Framer.js
10 2 (5.88%) HTML5
10 2 (5.88%) Playwright
10 2 (5.88%) React Native
11 1 (2.94%) GraphQL
11 1 (2.94%) Svelte
11 1 (2.94%) Tailwind CSS
11 1 (2.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Cloud Native
1 4 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.82%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (8.82%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.88%) Animation
3 2 (5.88%) Online Banking
4 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Android
1 2 (5.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (70.59%) CI/CD
2 23 (67.65%) Agile
3 20 (58.82%) DevOps
4 11 (32.35%) Secure Coding
5 9 (26.47%) Full-Stack Development
6 8 (23.53%) Front End Development
6 8 (23.53%) Scrum
6 8 (23.53%) SDLC
7 7 (20.59%) Clean Code
7 7 (20.59%) ITIL
7 7 (20.59%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (17.65%) Prototyping
8 6 (17.65%) Software Engineering
9 5 (14.71%) Code Quality
9 5 (14.71%) Software Delivery
10 4 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (11.76%) Microservices
11 3 (8.82%) TDD
12 2 (5.88%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 29 (85.29%) TypeScript
2 22 (64.71%) Java
3 19 (55.88%) Bash
3 19 (55.88%) Groovy
4 9 (26.47%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (35.29%) AWS Certification
2 7 (20.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 7 (20.59%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (14.71%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 24 (70.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (58.82%) HP Fortify
2 2 (5.88%) Grafana
2 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (5.88%) Google