Jest
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Jest skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Jest over the 6 months to 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 574 524 348
Rank change year-on-year -50 -176 +87
Permanent jobs citing Jest 167 682 1,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.55% 1.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.19% 1.70% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 120 317 587
10th Percentile £49,875 £47,000 £37,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £75,125
90th Percentile £112,500 £113,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £61,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +22.50% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Jest is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 14,018 40,128 49,552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.33% 32.38% 38.64%
Number of salaries quoted 10,969 24,275 32,022
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,258 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% +5.00%

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 4 December 2023.

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 4 December 2023. 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 -6 147 £75,000 - 76
UK excluding London +176 102 £70,000 +14.29% 44
Work from Home +52 76 £75,000 - 55
London -53 53 £85,000 +3.03% 36
South East +169 46 £80,000 - 13
North of England +148 33 £62,500 -3.85% 11
North West +107 27 £75,669 +14.65% 8
South West +69 9 £60,000 - 4
Scotland +39 7 £92,680 +58.43% 4
Midlands +109 5 £40,625 -37.50% 13
West Midlands +121 4 £60,000 -7.69% 13
North East +46 4 £57,500 -8.00%
Yorkshire +92 2 £62,500 -3.85% 3
Wales +15 2 £46,210 -26.06%
East Midlands - 1 £21,250 -

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 12 (7.19%) nginx
2 4 (2.40%) IIS
3 3 (1.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.80%) Confluence
3 3 (1.80%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.20%) CMS
5 1 (0.60%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 37 (22.16%) AWS
2 32 (19.16%) Azure
3 27 (16.17%) Serverless
4 25 (14.97%) GCP
5 18 (10.78%) npm
6 16 (9.58%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (8.38%) GitHub
8 9 (5.39%) Yarn
9 8 (4.79%) SaaS
10 6 (3.59%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (3.59%) Google Play
11 5 (2.99%) Algolia
11 5 (2.99%) BigCommerce
11 5 (2.99%) Bloomreach
11 5 (2.99%) Cloudinary
11 5 (2.99%) Commercetools
11 5 (2.99%) Contentful
12 4 (2.40%) Figma
13 3 (1.80%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.39%) AMQP
2 8 (4.79%) HTTP
3 5 (2.99%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (14.37%) NoSQL
2 19 (11.38%) MongoDB
3 10 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (4.19%) MySQL
5 6 (3.59%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.40%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.80%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.80%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.80%) SQLite
8 2 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.60%) Big Data
9 1 (0.60%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.60%) Mixpanel
9 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 94 (56.29%) Git
2 87 (52.10%) Cypress.io
3 52 (31.14%) Selenium
4 31 (18.56%) Mocha
5 26 (15.57%) Jasmine
6 20 (11.98%) Jenkins
7 18 (10.78%) Cucumber
8 17 (10.18%) SoapUI
9 16 (9.58%) Maven
10 14 (8.38%) JIRA
10 14 (8.38%) webpack
11 13 (7.78%) GitLab
12 11 (6.59%) Sonatype Nexus
13 9 (5.39%) Bitbucket
13 9 (5.39%) Storybook
14 7 (4.19%) Protractor
15 6 (3.59%) Karma Test Runner
16 5 (2.99%) JUnit
16 5 (2.99%) NUnit
17 4 (2.40%) TeamCity
General
1 30 (17.96%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.37%) Finance
3 21 (12.57%) Banking
4 17 (10.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (10.18%) Retail
5 5 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.99%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.40%) Tech for Good
7 3 (1.80%) Automotive
7 3 (1.80%) Games
7 3 (1.80%) Legal
7 3 (1.80%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.20%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Marketing
9 1 (0.60%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 95 (56.89%) Developer
2 63 (37.72%) Senior
3 42 (25.15%) Senior Developer
4 41 (24.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 26 (15.57%) Software Engineer
6 23 (13.77%) Full Stack Developer
7 17 (10.18%) Lead
7 17 (10.18%) React Developer
7 17 (10.18%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 13 (7.78%) Development Manager
8 13 (7.78%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 13 (7.78%) Software Development Manager
8 13 (7.78%) Software Manager
9 12 (7.19%) Senior Full Stack Developer
10 11 (6.59%) Angular Developer
11 10 (5.99%) JavaScript Developer
12 9 (5.39%) Senior JavaScript Developer
13 8 (4.79%) Java Developer
13 8 (4.79%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
14 7 (4.19%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (80.24%) React
2 85 (50.90%) CSS
3 84 (50.30%) HTML
4 76 (45.51%) Node.js
5 58 (34.73%) HTML5
6 53 (31.74%) CSS3
7 52 (31.14%) AngularJS
8 36 (21.56%) RESTful
9 27 (16.17%) .NET
10 26 (15.57%) Web Services
11 24 (14.37%) Express.js
11 24 (14.37%) GraphQL
12 23 (13.77%) Next.js
13 22 (13.17%) Sass
14 21 (12.57%) Spring Boot
15 20 (11.98%) Redux
15 20 (11.98%) REST
16 17 (10.18%) React Native
16 17 (10.18%) Vue
17 16 (9.58%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.38%) Product Ownership
2 14 (8.38%) Mobile App
3 10 (5.99%) Virtual Team
4 8 (4.79%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.99%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.99%) Distributed Applications
5 5 (2.99%) iPad
5 5 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.99%) Online Banking
6 4 (2.40%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.40%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.20%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.20%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.20%) Graphic Design
9 1 (0.60%) Animation
9 1 (0.60%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.60%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.19%) Android
2 4 (2.40%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.60%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.60%) Linux
3 1 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (76.65%) Agile
2 75 (44.91%) Software Engineering
3 47 (28.14%) Front End Development
4 43 (25.75%) CI/CD
5 42 (25.15%) Microservices
6 40 (23.95%) Full Stack Development
7 37 (22.16%) TDD
8 36 (21.56%) Propensity Modelling
9 34 (20.36%) Artificial Intelligence
10 30 (17.96%) Mentoring
11 29 (17.37%) Computer Science
11 29 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (17.37%) Test Automation
11 29 (17.37%) Unit Testing
12 27 (16.17%) DevOps
13 22 (13.17%) Scrum
14 20 (11.98%) End-to-End Testing
15 18 (10.78%) Micro Frontends
15 18 (10.78%) User Experience
16 16 (9.58%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 132 (79.04%) TypeScript
2 121 (72.46%) JavaScript
3 47 (28.14%) C#
4 33 (19.76%) Java
4 33 (19.76%) SQL
5 23 (13.77%) PHP
6 4 (2.40%) Kotlin
6 4 (2.40%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.80%) Python
7 3 (1.80%) Ruby
8 1 (0.60%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 44 (26.35%) Degree
2 7 (4.19%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.80%) OCP
4 3 (1.80%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.60%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.57%) WCAG
2 11 (6.59%) QA
3 8 (4.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 88 (52.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 80 (47.90%) Kubernetes
2 16 (9.58%) Terraform
3 4 (2.40%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.60%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (4.79%) Google
2 6 (3.59%) Adobe
2 6 (3.59%) Apple
3 5 (2.99%) Adyen
3 5 (2.99%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.40%) Rollbar
5 3 (1.80%) Splunk
6 1 (0.60%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.60%) New Relic