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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 634 654
Rank change year-on-year +88 +20 -369
Permanent jobs citing Jest 138 255 355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.26% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.62% 1.21% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 115 170 221
10th Percentile £49,250 £47,375 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -8.33% +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 8,493 21,046 31,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.28% 21.40% 30.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6,474 15,738 19,371
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £50,509 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £79,900 £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 30 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 30 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 +133 128 £67,500 - 69
UK excluding London +102 95 £67,500 +3.85% 43
Work from Home +185 70 £65,000 +8.33% 60
London +104 41 £67,500 -12.90% 34
South East +91 40 £67,500 -20.59% 11
Midlands +53 18 £60,000 -7.69% 7
South West +120 16 £89,945 +99.88% 6
North of England +63 14 £55,000 -4.35% 9
West Midlands +40 12 £60,000 -7.69% 5
North West +18 10 £55,000 -4.35% 8
Scotland +74 8 £85,253 -11.36% 8
East Midlands +52 6 £66,250 -8.62% 2
Yorkshire +62 2 - - 1
North East - 2 £55,750 -
East of England +52 1 £55,000 - 1

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 (5.07%) CMS
2 4 (2.90%) WordPress
3 3 (2.17%) Confluence
4 2 (1.45%) IIS
4 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.45%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.72%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (2.17%) Sketch
2 2 (1.45%) Adobe XD
2 2 (1.45%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 12 (8.70%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 45 (32.61%) Azure
2 30 (21.74%) AWS
3 22 (15.94%) npm
4 21 (15.22%) GCP
5 18 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (10.14%) Serverless
7 13 (9.42%) GitHub
8 11 (7.97%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (7.25%) Figma
10 7 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (3.62%) Power Platform
11 5 (3.62%) SaaS
12 4 (2.90%) Adobe Analytics
12 4 (2.90%) Amazon S3
12 4 (2.90%) Google Analytics
13 3 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (2.17%) Cloudflare
13 3 (2.17%) Firebase
13 3 (2.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.80%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.87%) NoSQL
2 12 (8.70%) MySQL
3 10 (7.25%) SQL Server
4 8 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (5.07%) Redis
6 5 (3.62%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.90%) Big Data
8 2 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.45%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.45%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.45%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.45%) Power BI
9 1 (0.72%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 83 (60.14%) Git
2 45 (32.61%) Cypress.io
3 43 (31.16%) webpack
4 27 (19.57%) Mocha
5 22 (15.94%) Selenium
6 18 (13.04%) Cucumber
7 15 (10.87%) Jasmine
8 14 (10.14%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (9.42%) NUnit
10 11 (7.97%) SoapUI
11 10 (7.25%) JIRA
12 9 (6.52%) Babel
13 8 (5.80%) JUnit
13 8 (5.80%) rollup.js
14 6 (4.35%) Browser DevTools
14 6 (4.35%) Grunt
14 6 (4.35%) Vite
15 5 (3.62%) ESLint
15 5 (3.62%) JMeter
15 5 (3.62%) PHPUnit
General
1 37 (26.81%) Finance
2 34 (24.64%) Banking
3 23 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 18 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (9.42%) Games
7 10 (7.25%) Investment Banking
8 6 (4.35%) Retail Banking
9 5 (3.62%) Law
10 4 (2.90%) Marketing
11 1 (0.72%) Electronics
11 1 (0.72%) Legal
11 1 (0.72%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 80 (57.97%) Developer
2 44 (31.88%) Senior
3 39 (28.26%) React Developer
4 30 (21.74%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 29 (21.01%) Lead
5 29 (21.01%) Senior Developer
6 23 (16.67%) Software Engineer
7 22 (15.94%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 12 (8.70%) C# Developer
8 12 (8.70%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 12 (8.70%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 11 (7.97%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (7.25%) Senior React Developer
11 9 (6.52%) Lead Developer
12 8 (5.80%) Development Team Leader
12 8 (5.80%) Java Engineer
12 8 (5.80%) Senior C# Developer
12 8 (5.80%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (5.80%) Software Team Leader
12 8 (5.80%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (85.51%) React
2 55 (39.86%) CSS
3 53 (38.41%) Node.js
4 47 (34.06%) HTML
5 41 (29.71%) RESTful
6 36 (26.09%) Redux
7 32 (23.19%) .NET
8 31 (22.46%) HTML5
9 28 (20.29%) CSS3
10 27 (19.57%) GraphQL
11 25 (18.12%) Next.js
12 24 (17.39%) AngularJS
13 23 (16.67%) Enzyme
13 23 (16.67%) Web Services
14 20 (14.49%) Vue
15 14 (10.14%) Sass
15 14 (10.14%) Spring Boot
16 12 (8.70%) REST
16 12 (8.70%) WebSockets
17 11 (7.97%) LESS
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.14%) Mobile App
2 13 (9.42%) Public Cloud
3 10 (7.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (7.25%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (6.52%) Cloud Native
5 8 (5.80%) Distributed Applications
5 8 (5.80%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.62%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.45%) Cybercrime
8 2 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.45%) IoT
8 2 (1.45%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.45%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.72%) 3D Graphics
9 1 (0.72%) Derivative
9 1 (0.72%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (0.72%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.17%) Android
1 3 (2.17%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.45%) Windows
3 1 (0.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (63.77%) Agile
2 68 (49.28%) CI/CD
3 54 (39.13%) Front End Development
4 46 (33.33%) DevOps
5 44 (31.88%) Software Engineering
6 40 (28.99%) User Experience
7 37 (26.81%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (26.09%) Full-Stack Development
9 35 (25.36%) Containerisation
10 32 (23.19%) Unit Testing
11 27 (19.57%) Microservices
12 26 (18.84%) Test Automation
13 24 (17.39%) Design Patterns
13 24 (17.39%) Micro Frontends
14 22 (15.94%) Mentoring
14 22 (15.94%) Responsive Web Design
15 21 (15.22%) Artificial Intelligence
16 20 (14.49%) Continuous Integration
16 20 (14.49%) End-to-End Testing
17 18 (13.04%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 102 (73.91%) JavaScript
2 78 (56.52%) TypeScript
3 38 (27.54%) C#
4 21 (15.22%) SQL
5 12 (8.70%) Java
5 12 (8.70%) PHP
5 12 (8.70%) Python
6 5 (3.62%) Go
6 5 (3.62%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (20.29%) Degree
2 6 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.90%) ISTQB
4 3 (2.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (1.45%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.45%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.72%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.97%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.07%) QA
2 7 (5.07%) WCAG
3 3 (2.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 55 (39.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (29.71%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.80%) Terraform
3 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.72%) Grafana
4 1 (0.72%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (8.70%) Oracle
2 8 (5.80%) Okta
3 7 (5.07%) Adobe
4 6 (4.35%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.90%) Google
5 4 (2.90%) Tealium
6 2 (1.45%) Apple
6 2 (1.45%) Databricks
6 2 (1.45%) Rollbar