Jest Jobs in the South East

Jest
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Jest skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Jest over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 334 366
Rank change year-on-year +77 +32 +45
Permanent jobs citing Jest 42 61 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.45% 0.36% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.17% 1.97% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 29 61 29
10th Percentile £53,500 - £39,083
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% +9.68% +47.62%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £95,000 - -
England median annual salary £67,500 £66,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year +1.89% -17.19% +14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,324 3,093 4,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 14.05% 18.45% 28.79%
Number of salaries quoted 892 2,462 2,777
10th Percentile £33,775 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,875 £92,500
England median annual salary £66,230 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.38% -11.11% +3.85%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Jest in the South East

Jest
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Jest in the South East.

Salary trend for Jest in the South East

Jest
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Jest in the South East over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Jest in the South East

Jest
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Jest within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
Thames Valley +31 24 £77,500 -8.82% 26
Berkshire +6 16 £90,000 +5.88% 10
Oxfordshire - 8 £65,000 - 13
Surrey - 6 £67,500 - 4
Kent - 5 £42,500 -
Middlesex - 4 - -
Hampshire +67 3 £57,500 +15.00% 2
Jest
England

Jest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (11.90%) IIS
2 3 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (28.57%) AWS
2 6 (14.29%) Azure
2 6 (14.29%) Cloudflare
3 5 (11.90%) Figma
4 4 (9.52%) SaaS
4 4 (9.52%) Serverless
5 3 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (7.14%) GitHub
6 2 (4.76%) Azure API Management
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.76%) Firebase
6 2 (4.76%) npm
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.38%) BrowserStack
7 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.38%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.19%) MySQL
2 10 (23.81%) NoSQL
3 6 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 5 (11.90%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (7.14%) Big Data
5 3 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (7.14%) Redis
6 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.38%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.38%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (2.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 36 (85.71%) Git
2 17 (40.48%) Cypress.io
3 14 (33.33%) Selenium
4 8 (19.05%) webpack
5 7 (16.67%) rollup.js
5 7 (16.67%) SoapUI
6 6 (14.29%) TeamCity
7 5 (11.90%) Jasmine
7 5 (11.90%) JIRA
7 5 (11.90%) Mocha
7 5 (11.90%) NUnit
7 5 (11.90%) Vite
8 3 (7.14%) Babel
8 3 (7.14%) PHPUnit
9 2 (4.76%) ESLint
9 2 (4.76%) GitLab
10 1 (2.38%) Burp Suite
10 1 (2.38%) Gatling
10 1 (2.38%) git-flow
10 1 (2.38%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 8 (19.05%) Finance
2 5 (11.90%) Games
3 4 (9.52%) Law
4 2 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (64.29%) Developer
2 24 (57.14%) Senior
3 19 (45.24%) Senior Developer
4 13 (30.95%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (16.67%) Development Team Leader
5 7 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 7 (16.67%) Lead
5 7 (16.67%) React Developer
5 7 (16.67%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 7 (16.67%) Software Development Team Leader
5 7 (16.67%) Software Team Leader
5 7 (16.67%) Team Leader
6 6 (14.29%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 5 (11.90%) C# Developer
7 5 (11.90%) Senior C# Developer
7 5 (11.90%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 5 (11.90%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (11.90%) Senior React Developer
8 4 (9.52%) UI Engineer
8 4 (9.52%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (92.86%) React
2 22 (52.38%) CSS
2 22 (52.38%) HTML
3 15 (35.71%) .NET
3 15 (35.71%) HTML5
4 13 (30.95%) CSS3
4 13 (30.95%) Node.js
5 12 (28.57%) Vue
6 10 (23.81%) RESTful
7 8 (19.05%) AngularJS
8 6 (14.29%) Next.js
9 5 (11.90%) ASP.NET
9 5 (11.90%) ASP.NET Core
9 5 (11.90%) Enzyme
9 5 (11.90%) REST
9 5 (11.90%) Svelte
10 4 (9.52%) Laravel
10 4 (9.52%) OpenAPI
10 4 (9.52%) Parceljs
10 4 (9.52%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) Algorithms
1 4 (9.52%) Mobile App
2 3 (7.14%) Distributed Architecture
2 3 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.76%) 3D Graphics
3 2 (4.76%) Cybercrime
4 1 (2.38%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Android
1 2 (4.76%) Apple iOS
1 2 (4.76%) Windows
2 1 (2.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (57.14%) Agile
2 19 (45.24%) Full-Stack Development
2 19 (45.24%) Software Engineering
3 18 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
4 17 (40.48%) Front End Development
5 13 (30.95%) CI/CD
6 12 (28.57%) Propensity Modelling
7 11 (26.19%) DevOps
7 11 (26.19%) Machine Learning
7 11 (26.19%) User Experience
8 9 (21.43%) Mobile First
9 8 (19.05%) Computer Science
10 7 (16.67%) Containerisation
10 7 (16.67%) UX Design
11 6 (14.29%) MVC
12 5 (11.90%) Generative AI
12 5 (11.90%) Issue Tracking
12 5 (11.90%) Open Source
13 4 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
13 4 (9.52%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 38 (90.48%) JavaScript
2 35 (83.33%) TypeScript
3 21 (50.00%) C#
4 12 (28.57%) SQL
5 9 (21.43%) PHP
6 6 (14.29%) Python
7 4 (9.52%) Go
8 2 (4.76%) Java
9 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (47.62%) Degree
2 3 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 5 (11.90%) WCAG
3 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 20 (47.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (47.62%) Kubernetes
2 6 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
1 5 (11.90%) Rollbar
2 2 (4.76%) Apple
3 1 (2.38%) Databricks