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

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 526 611 629
Rank change year-on-year +85 +18 -320
Permanent jobs citing Jest 144 243 422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.26% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.62% 1.19% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 122 160 255
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £93,778 £92,500 £90,625
90th Percentile £102,097 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,250 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.62% - +14.04%

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 8,897 20,494 33,753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.60% 22.12% 30.52%
Number of salaries quoted 6,640 15,504 20,564
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £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 £86,250 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £105,000
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 2 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 2 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 +116 133 £67,500 -1.82% 153
UK excluding London +95 104 £71,250 +9.62% 52
Work from Home +170 71 £67,500 +8.00% 76
South East +83 43 £77,500 -8.82% 26
London +74 37 £67,500 -15.63% 114
South West +111 18 £85,253 +62.39% 7
North of England +77 16 £55,000 -4.35% 6
Midlands +55 16 £60,000 -7.69% 6
North West +30 12 £55,000 -4.35% 3
West Midlands +19 10 £60,000 -7.69% 4
Scotland +66 8 £85,253 -29.17% 3
East Midlands +55 6 £66,250 -8.62% 2
East of England +50 5 £72,500 - 3
Yorkshire +65 2 - -
North East - 2 £55,750 - 3

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 5 (3.47%) CMS
2 3 (2.08%) Confluence
2 3 (2.08%) WordPress
3 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.39%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (2.08%) Sketch
2 2 (1.39%) Adobe XD
2 2 (1.39%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 12 (8.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 43 (29.86%) Azure
2 28 (19.44%) AWS
3 23 (15.97%) npm
4 22 (15.28%) GCP
5 17 (11.81%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (9.03%) GitHub
6 13 (9.03%) Serverless
7 11 (7.64%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (6.25%) Figma
9 6 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.47%) Power Platform
10 5 (3.47%) SaaS
11 4 (2.78%) Adobe Analytics
11 4 (2.78%) Google Analytics
12 3 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (2.08%) Amazon S3
12 3 (2.08%) Firebase
12 3 (2.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.94%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 8 (5.56%) MySQL
2 8 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.86%) Redis
4 5 (3.47%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.78%) Big Data
6 2 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.39%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.39%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.39%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.39%) Power BI
7 1 (0.69%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 84 (58.33%) Git
2 57 (39.58%) Cypress.io
3 43 (29.86%) webpack
4 29 (20.14%) Selenium
5 27 (18.75%) Mocha
6 20 (13.89%) Cucumber
7 14 (9.72%) SoapUI
7 14 (9.72%) Sonatype Nexus
8 12 (8.33%) Jasmine
9 11 (7.64%) NUnit
10 9 (6.25%) Babel
10 9 (6.25%) JIRA
10 9 (6.25%) JUnit
11 7 (4.86%) rollup.js
11 7 (4.86%) Vite
12 6 (4.17%) Grunt
13 5 (3.47%) ESLint
13 5 (3.47%) Jenkins
13 5 (3.47%) JMeter
14 4 (2.78%) Postman
General
1 34 (23.61%) Finance
2 32 (22.22%) Banking
3 24 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 18 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (8.33%) Games
7 8 (5.56%) Investment Banking
7 8 (5.56%) Marketing
8 6 (4.17%) Retail Banking
9 5 (3.47%) Law
10 1 (0.69%) Advertising
10 1 (0.69%) Automotive
10 1 (0.69%) Electronics
10 1 (0.69%) Legal
10 1 (0.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 76 (52.78%) Developer
2 48 (33.33%) Senior
3 36 (25.00%) React Developer
4 33 (22.92%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 33 (22.92%) Lead
5 29 (20.14%) Senior Developer
6 26 (18.06%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 23 (15.97%) Software Engineer
8 15 (10.42%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 14 (9.72%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 11 (7.64%) Development Team Leader
10 11 (7.64%) Software Development Team Leader
10 11 (7.64%) Software Team Leader
10 11 (7.64%) Team Leader
11 10 (6.94%) C# Developer
11 10 (6.94%) Senior React Developer
12 9 (6.25%) Lead Developer
12 9 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
13 8 (5.56%) Java Engineer
13 8 (5.56%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (84.03%) React
2 54 (37.50%) CSS
2 54 (37.50%) Node.js
3 47 (32.64%) HTML
4 36 (25.00%) RESTful
5 35 (24.31%) .NET
5 35 (24.31%) Redux
6 32 (22.22%) HTML5
7 29 (20.14%) Next.js
8 28 (19.44%) CSS3
9 25 (17.36%) GraphQL
10 24 (16.67%) AngularJS
10 24 (16.67%) Web Services
11 22 (15.28%) Enzyme
12 18 (12.50%) Vue
13 14 (9.72%) Spring Boot
14 13 (9.03%) Sass
15 11 (7.64%) LESS
15 11 (7.64%) Playwright
16 10 (6.94%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.03%) Public Cloud
2 9 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.25%) Mobile App
3 8 (5.56%) Distributed Applications
3 8 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.47%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.39%) Cybercrime
5 2 (1.39%) IoT
5 2 (1.39%) Legacy Code
5 2 (1.39%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.69%) Derivative
6 1 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.69%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (0.69%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.69%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (0.69%) Online Games
6 1 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.08%) Android
1 3 (2.08%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (63.89%) Agile
2 69 (47.92%) CI/CD
3 58 (40.28%) Front End Development
4 49 (34.03%) Software Engineering
5 45 (31.25%) DevOps
6 37 (25.69%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (25.69%) User Experience
7 35 (24.31%) Containerisation
8 33 (22.92%) Full-Stack Development
9 30 (20.83%) Unit Testing
10 27 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
10 27 (18.75%) Microservices
10 27 (18.75%) Test Automation
11 25 (17.36%) Micro Frontends
12 24 (16.67%) Mentoring
13 23 (15.97%) End-to-End Testing
14 22 (15.28%) Design Patterns
15 20 (13.89%) Continuous Integration
15 20 (13.89%) Propensity Modelling
16 19 (13.19%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 107 (74.31%) JavaScript
2 87 (60.42%) TypeScript
3 43 (29.86%) C#
4 24 (16.67%) SQL
5 16 (11.11%) Python
6 13 (9.03%) Java
6 13 (9.03%) PHP
7 5 (3.47%) Go
8 4 (2.78%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.08%) Rust
Qualifications
1 36 (25.00%) Degree
2 5 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.78%) ISTQB
4 3 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (1.39%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.39%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 9 (6.25%) WCAG
3 8 (5.56%) QA
4 3 (2.08%) GDPR
4 3 (2.08%) WAI
System Software
1 59 (40.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 48 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.86%) Terraform
3 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.69%) Grafana
4 1 (0.69%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (8.33%) Oracle
2 8 (5.56%) Okta
3 6 (4.17%) Adobe
4 4 (2.78%) Google
4 4 (2.78%) Tealium
5 3 (2.08%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.39%) Apple
6 2 (1.39%) Databricks