Jest Job Trends in the North West

Jest
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Jest skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 194 172
Rank change year-on-year +19 -22 +114
Permanent jobs citing Jest 9 15 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.14% 0.30% 0.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.70% 1.72% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 9 13 7
10th Percentile £42,500 - £45,075
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +6.87%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £78,774
90th Percentile £81,300 £72,250 £82,548
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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 528 871 1,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.39% 17.22% 24.93%
Number of salaries quoted 454 542 901
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,550 £36,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,283 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,250 £57,662
Median % change year-on-year +4.80% -0.71% +0.28%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Jest job vacancy trend in the North West

Jest
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Jest.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Jest

Jest
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Jest in the North West over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Jest in the North West

Jest
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Jest within the North West region over the 6 months to 11 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
Manchester +9 5 £50,000 -21.57% 7
Cheshire - 4 £72,000 - 1
Jest
England

Jest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (11.11%) CMS
1 1 (11.11%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Adobe XD
1 2 (22.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) GitHub
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) SaaS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) Figma
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (11.11%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Cypress.io
2 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (11.11%) Protractor
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Automotive
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Software Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Senior
4 2 (22.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 1 (11.11%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Lead
5 1 (11.11%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Shopify Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) React
2 5 (55.56%) CSS
3 3 (33.33%) HTML
3 3 (33.33%) Next.js
3 3 (33.33%) Redux
4 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
4 2 (22.22%) CSS3
4 2 (22.22%) Framer.js
4 2 (22.22%) HTML5
4 2 (22.22%) Node.js
4 2 (22.22%) Playwright
4 2 (22.22%) RESTful
5 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
5 1 (11.11%) React Native
5 1 (11.11%) Spring
5 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
5 1 (11.11%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Animation
1 2 (22.22%) Online Banking
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Android
1 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Front End Development
3 4 (44.44%) Scrum
4 3 (33.33%) TDD
5 2 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (22.22%) Clean Code
5 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 2 (22.22%) Domain-Driven Design
5 2 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Fintech
5 2 (22.22%) Product Thinking
5 2 (22.22%) Prototyping
5 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
5 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 2 (22.22%) User Experience
6 1 (11.11%) Digital Innovation
6 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) TypeScript
2 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 2 (22.22%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Grafana
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Google