Jest
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 547 643 648
Rank change year-on-year +96 +5 -363
Permanent jobs citing Jest 140 258 367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.26% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.63% 1.23% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 117 173 224
10th Percentile £49,500 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £93,778 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £140,677 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +13.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,572 21,055 31,932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.61% 21.45% 30.36%
Number of salaries quoted 6,514 15,740 19,560
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,227
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Jest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Jest in the UK

Jest
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Jest in the UK

Jest
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Jest over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Jest in the UK

Jest
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Jest within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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
England +126 130 £67,500 - 162
UK excluding London +105 98 £67,500 +3.85% 59
Work from Home +164 71 £65,000 +8.33% 113
South East +88 42 £72,500 -14.71% 21
London +116 40 £67,500 -12.90% 120
Midlands +64 18 £60,000 -7.69% 5
South West +123 17 £85,253 +89.45% 7
North of England +57 14 £55,000 -4.35% 12
West Midlands +57 12 £60,000 -7.69% 4
North West +17 10 £55,000 -4.35% 9
Scotland +80 8 £85,253 -29.17% 12
East Midlands +60 6 £66,250 -8.62% 1
Yorkshire +64 2 - - 1
North East - 2 £55,750 - 2
East of England +57 1 £55,000 -

Jest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (5.00%) CMS
2 4 (2.86%) WordPress
3 3 (2.14%) Confluence
4 2 (1.43%) IIS
4 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.43%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.71%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Sketch
2 2 (1.43%) Adobe XD
2 2 (1.43%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 12 (8.57%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 44 (31.43%) Azure
2 30 (21.43%) AWS
3 22 (15.71%) npm
4 21 (15.00%) GCP
5 17 (12.14%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (10.00%) Serverless
7 13 (9.29%) GitHub
8 11 (7.86%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (6.43%) Figma
10 7 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (3.57%) Power Platform
11 5 (3.57%) SaaS
12 4 (2.86%) Adobe Analytics
12 4 (2.86%) Amazon S3
12 4 (2.86%) Google Analytics
13 3 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (2.14%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (2.14%) Firebase
13 3 (2.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.71%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.43%) NoSQL
2 12 (8.57%) MySQL
3 10 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 8 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (5.00%) Redis
6 5 (3.57%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.86%) Big Data
8 2 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.43%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.43%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.43%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.43%) Power BI
9 1 (0.71%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 84 (60.00%) Git
2 47 (33.57%) Cypress.io
3 42 (30.00%) webpack
4 27 (19.29%) Mocha
5 24 (17.14%) Selenium
6 19 (13.57%) Cucumber
7 15 (10.71%) Jasmine
8 14 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (9.29%) NUnit
10 12 (8.57%) SoapUI
11 10 (7.14%) JIRA
12 9 (6.43%) Babel
13 8 (5.71%) JUnit
14 7 (5.00%) rollup.js
15 6 (4.29%) Browser DevTools
15 6 (4.29%) Grunt
15 6 (4.29%) Vite
16 5 (3.57%) ESLint
16 5 (3.57%) JMeter
16 5 (3.57%) PHPUnit
General
1 37 (26.43%) Finance
2 34 (24.29%) Banking
3 24 (17.14%) Social Skills
4 18 (12.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (9.29%) Games
7 10 (7.14%) Investment Banking
8 6 (4.29%) Retail Banking
9 5 (3.57%) Law
10 4 (2.86%) Marketing
11 1 (0.71%) Electronics
11 1 (0.71%) Legal
11 1 (0.71%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 80 (57.14%) Developer
2 46 (32.86%) Senior
3 38 (27.14%) React Developer
4 31 (22.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 30 (21.43%) Lead
5 30 (21.43%) Senior Developer
6 24 (17.14%) Software Engineer
7 23 (16.43%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 13 (9.29%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 13 (9.29%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 12 (8.57%) C# Developer
10 11 (7.86%) Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (7.14%) Senior React Developer
12 9 (6.43%) Development Team Leader
12 9 (6.43%) Lead Developer
12 9 (6.43%) Senior Software Engineer
12 9 (6.43%) Software Development Team Leader
12 9 (6.43%) Software Team Leader
12 9 (6.43%) Team Leader
13 8 (5.71%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (85.71%) React
2 56 (40.00%) CSS
3 52 (37.14%) Node.js
4 48 (34.29%) HTML
5 41 (29.29%) RESTful
6 35 (25.00%) Redux
7 34 (24.29%) .NET
8 33 (23.57%) HTML5
9 30 (21.43%) CSS3
10 27 (19.29%) GraphQL
11 25 (17.86%) Next.js
12 24 (17.14%) AngularJS
13 23 (16.43%) Web Services
14 22 (15.71%) Enzyme
15 20 (14.29%) Vue
16 14 (10.00%) Spring Boot
17 13 (9.29%) Sass
18 12 (8.57%) REST
18 12 (8.57%) WebSockets
19 11 (7.86%) LESS
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.00%) Mobile App
2 13 (9.29%) Public Cloud
3 10 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (6.43%) Cloud Native
5 8 (5.71%) Distributed Applications
5 8 (5.71%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.57%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.14%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.43%) Cybercrime
8 2 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.43%) IoT
8 2 (1.43%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.43%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.71%) 3D Graphics
9 1 (0.71%) Derivative
9 1 (0.71%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (0.71%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.71%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.14%) Android
1 3 (2.14%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.43%) Windows
3 1 (0.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (64.29%) Agile
2 68 (48.57%) CI/CD
3 55 (39.29%) Front End Development
4 46 (32.86%) Software Engineering
5 45 (32.14%) DevOps
6 40 (28.57%) User Experience
7 37 (26.43%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (25.71%) Containerisation
8 36 (25.71%) Full-Stack Development
9 32 (22.86%) Unit Testing
10 27 (19.29%) Microservices
11 26 (18.57%) Test Automation
12 24 (17.14%) Design Patterns
13 23 (16.43%) Artificial Intelligence
13 23 (16.43%) Micro Frontends
14 22 (15.71%) Mentoring
14 22 (15.71%) Responsive Web Design
15 20 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
15 20 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
16 19 (13.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 104 (74.29%) JavaScript
2 80 (57.14%) TypeScript
3 41 (29.29%) C#
4 22 (15.71%) SQL
5 13 (9.29%) PHP
6 12 (8.57%) Java
6 12 (8.57%) Python
7 5 (3.57%) Go
8 4 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (21.43%) Degree
2 6 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.86%) ISTQB
4 3 (2.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (1.43%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.43%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.71%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.86%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.00%) QA
2 7 (5.00%) WCAG
3 3 (2.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 58 (41.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 43 (30.71%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.71%) Terraform
3 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.71%) Grafana
4 1 (0.71%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (8.57%) Oracle
2 8 (5.71%) Okta
3 6 (4.29%) Adobe
4 5 (3.57%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.86%) Google
5 4 (2.86%) Tealium
6 2 (1.43%) Apple
6 2 (1.43%) Databricks
6 2 (1.43%) Rollbar