Jest Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Jest
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 338 531
Rank change year-on-year -175 +193 +91
Permanent jobs citing Jest 60 186 207
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.092% 0.65% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.17% 3.75% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 23 80 131
10th Percentile £35,500 £48,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,875 £57,188 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £92,500
90th Percentile £81,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -18.52% - -10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,130 4,959 13,730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.84% 17.21% 19.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,028 3,502 10,301
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Jest relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Jest job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Jest
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Jest.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Jest

Jest
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Jest in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Jest in the UK excluding London

Jest
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Jest within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
North of England -92 44 £77,500 +30.25% 5
Yorkshire -12 41 £78,750 +1.61% 2
South West -54 8 £40,000 -57.73% 5
South East -54 7 £65,000 -3.70% 6
North East -44 3 £59,000 +5.83%
Wales - 1 £71,500 -
Jest
UK

Jest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (5.00%) Confluence
1 3 (5.00%) JBoss
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 46 (76.67%) AWS
2 40 (66.67%) Amazon ECR
2 40 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 40 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 40 (66.67%) Apigee
2 40 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 40 (66.67%) AWS Step Functions
2 40 (66.67%) Serverless
3 39 (65.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 22 (36.67%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (6.67%) GitHub
6 3 (5.00%) Figma
6 3 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (66.67%) DynamoDB
2 4 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.00%) Spatial Data
3 3 (5.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.67%) MySQL
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (70.00%) Cypress.io
2 41 (68.33%) GitLab
2 41 (68.33%) Jenkins
3 40 (66.67%) Maven
3 40 (66.67%) SonarQube
4 5 (8.33%) Git
4 5 (8.33%) Selenium
5 4 (6.67%) Cucumber
5 4 (6.67%) JIRA
6 3 (5.00%) Babel
6 3 (5.00%) rollup.js
7 2 (3.33%) Android Studio
7 2 (3.33%) Xcode
8 1 (1.67%) JUnit
8 1 (1.67%) PHPUnit
8 1 (1.67%) Storybook
General
1 4 (6.67%) Finance
1 4 (6.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (76.67%) Developer
2 29 (48.33%) Java Developer
3 17 (28.33%) Lead
4 11 (18.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (16.67%) AWS Developer
5 10 (16.67%) Senior
6 8 (13.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 8 (13.33%) Senior Developer
7 7 (11.67%) Technical Leader
8 6 (10.00%) Lead Developer
9 5 (8.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 4 (6.67%) JavaScript Developer
10 4 (6.67%) Python Developer
10 4 (6.67%) React Developer
11 3 (5.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
11 3 (5.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 3 (5.00%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (5.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 3 (5.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (5.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 40 (66.67%) Gherkin
1 40 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 16 (26.67%) React
3 15 (25.00%) Node.js
4 13 (21.67%) CSS
5 9 (15.00%) Spring
6 8 (13.33%) RESTful
7 7 (11.67%) HTML
8 6 (10.00%) Tailwind CSS
9 5 (8.33%) GraphQL
9 5 (8.33%) Sass
9 5 (8.33%) Vue
10 4 (6.67%) Next.js
11 3 (5.00%) .NET
11 3 (5.00%) ASP.NET
11 3 (5.00%) Drools
11 3 (5.00%) React Native
11 3 (5.00%) REST
11 3 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.33%) Mobile App
2 6 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.67%) Product Ownership
5 3 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (5.00%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 40 (66.67%) DevOps
3 39 (65.00%) Agile
4 27 (45.00%) Secure Coding
5 26 (43.33%) SDLC
6 23 (38.33%) ITIL
6 23 (38.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 21 (35.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 15 (25.00%) Clean Code
9 14 (23.33%) Prototyping
10 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (13.33%) Front End Development
11 8 (13.33%) Mentoring
12 7 (11.67%) Software Delivery
13 6 (10.00%) Web Development
14 5 (8.33%) Code Quality
14 5 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 5 (8.33%) CRM
14 5 (8.33%) Design Patterns
14 5 (8.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 55 (91.67%) TypeScript
2 41 (68.33%) Java
3 39 (65.00%) Bash
3 39 (65.00%) Groovy
4 18 (30.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (10.00%) PHP
6 5 (8.33%) Kotlin
6 5 (8.33%) Python
7 3 (5.00%) C#
8 2 (3.33%) Swift
9 1 (1.67%) Dart
9 1 (1.67%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (53.33%) AWS Certification
2 23 (38.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 23 (38.33%) ITIL Certification
3 9 (15.00%) AWS Certified Developer
4 7 (11.67%) SC Cleared
4 7 (11.67%) Security Cleared
5 3 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 41 (68.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (66.67%) HP Fortify
2 3 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (1.67%) Oracle