Jest Job Trends in the South West

Jest
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Jest skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 180 217
Rank change year-on-year +4 +37 +40
Permanent jobs citing Jest 5 11 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.099% 0.26% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.05% 1.37% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5 9 5
10th Percentile £55,250 - £35,000
25th Percentile £68,750 £63,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +50.00% -25.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £71,250 £52,000
90th Percentile £88,250 £106,914 £64,300
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
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 477 801 1,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.42% 19.27% 25.88%
Number of salaries quoted 359 459 1,001
10th Percentile £36,750 £42,500 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,177 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +3.86%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +0.39% -3.70%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Jest job vacancy trend in the South West

Jest
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Jest

Jest
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Jest in the South West over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Jest in the South West

Jest
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Jest within the South West region over the 6 months to 13 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
Gloucestershire +19 1 £82,500 - 2
Bristol -1 1 £80,000 +18.52% 4
Jest
England

Jest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon MSK
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (40.00%) Android Studio
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) Xcode
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Principal Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) React
2 4 (80.00%) Redux
3 3 (60.00%) RESTful
4 2 (40.00%) GraphQL
4 2 (40.00%) Kafka
4 2 (40.00%) MobX
4 2 (40.00%) React Native
4 2 (40.00%) REST
4 2 (40.00%) Spring
4 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (40.00%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) Coaching
3 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Kotlin
2 2 (40.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kibana