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 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 662 640
Rank change year-on-year +177 -22 -368
Permanent jobs citing Jest 253 251 288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.23% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.59% 1.15% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 112 171 200
10th Percentile £47,750 £47,500 £53,375
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -10.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £138,484 £97,500 £101,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 9,757 21,837 27,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.32% 20.19% 29.03%
Number of salaries quoted 5,873 16,137 17,692
10th Percentile £37,733 £36,250 £40,371
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,253 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +230 238 £65,000 -3.70% 137
UK excluding London +161 187 £65,000 - 110
Work from Home +208 166 £67,500 +12.50% 100
North of England +120 95 £55,750 -3.04% 17
North West +62 85 £58,750 +2.17% 9
London +149 63 £67,500 -15.63% 54
South East +64 33 £67,500 -20.59% 44
Midlands +93 29 £60,000 -7.69% 9
West Midlands +66 20 £60,000 -7.69% 8
South West +118 15 £85,253 +62.39% 13
Scotland +51 13 £85,253 +18.42% 19
East Midlands +57 9 £63,750 -12.07% 1
North East - 6 £50,000 - 4
Yorkshire +48 4 £77,500 +127.94% 4
East of England +32 4 £51,250 -6.82% 7

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 10 (3.95%) IIS
2 7 (2.77%) CMS
3 5 (1.98%) Confluence
4 4 (1.58%) WordPress
5 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.40%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.40%) Moqups
1 1 (0.40%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (4.74%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 134 (52.96%) Azure
2 129 (50.99%) AWS
3 24 (9.49%) npm
4 20 (7.91%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (7.11%) GCP
6 15 (5.93%) GitHub
7 12 (4.74%) Cloudflare
7 12 (4.74%) Serverless
8 11 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (3.95%) Yarn
10 7 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.77%) SaaS
11 6 (2.37%) Figma
11 6 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.98%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.58%) Adobe Analytics
13 4 (1.58%) Google Analytics
14 3 (1.19%) Firebase
14 3 (1.19%) Power Automate
14 3 (1.19%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.95%) HTTP
2 1 (0.40%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (43.87%) SQL Server
2 23 (9.09%) MySQL
3 12 (4.74%) NoSQL
4 10 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.98%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.58%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.19%) Redis
9 2 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.79%) Big Data
9 2 (0.79%) Power BI
10 1 (0.40%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 105 (41.50%) Cucumber
2 104 (41.11%) JIRA
3 101 (39.92%) Selenium
3 101 (39.92%) Sonatype Nexus
4 92 (36.36%) Bitbucket
4 92 (36.36%) GitLab
5 91 (35.97%) SonarQube
6 90 (35.57%) Maven
7 84 (33.20%) Git
8 47 (18.58%) Cypress.io
8 47 (18.58%) webpack
9 25 (9.88%) Mocha
9 25 (9.88%) Vite
10 22 (8.70%) Jasmine
11 21 (8.30%) NUnit
12 10 (3.95%) TeamCity
13 8 (3.16%) Babel
13 8 (3.16%) JUnit
14 7 (2.77%) PHPUnit
14 7 (2.77%) rollup.js
General
1 155 (61.26%) Finance
2 135 (53.36%) Banking
3 133 (52.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 108 (42.69%) Investment Banking
5 90 (35.57%) Corporate Banking
5 90 (35.57%) Retail
6 40 (15.81%) Social Skills
7 26 (10.28%) Law
8 16 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
9 15 (5.93%) Marketing
10 13 (5.14%) Games
11 6 (2.37%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Automotive
12 1 (0.40%) Electronics
12 1 (0.40%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 144 (56.92%) Software Engineer
2 83 (32.81%) Developer
3 43 (17.00%) Senior
4 39 (15.42%) React Developer
5 33 (13.04%) Senior Developer
6 30 (11.86%) Lead
7 24 (9.49%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 24 (9.49%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 19 (7.51%) Full-Stack Developer
9 13 (5.14%) Senior React Developer
10 12 (4.74%) C# Developer
10 12 (4.74%) Lead Developer
10 12 (4.74%) UI Engineer
11 11 (4.35%) .NET Developer
11 11 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (3.95%) Java Engineer
12 10 (3.95%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (3.56%) Senior .NET Developer
14 8 (3.16%) Lead Software Engineer
14 8 (3.16%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (91.70%) React
2 174 (68.77%) CSS
3 163 (64.43%) HTML
4 136 (53.75%) RESTful
5 125 (49.41%) Redux
6 123 (48.62%) CSS3
6 123 (48.62%) HTML5
7 109 (43.08%) REST
8 106 (41.90%) Sass
9 105 (41.50%) Kafka
10 101 (39.92%) Spring Boot
11 98 (38.74%) Spring
12 90 (35.57%) JPA
13 48 (18.97%) Node.js
14 42 (16.60%) AngularJS
15 37 (14.62%) .NET
16 31 (12.25%) Vue
17 24 (9.49%) GraphQL
18 21 (8.30%) Web Services
19 20 (7.91%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 104 (41.11%) Product Ownership
2 90 (35.57%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (8.30%) Mobile App
4 15 (5.93%) Algorithms
5 10 (3.95%) Cloud Native
5 10 (3.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (3.95%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.37%) Distributed Applications
7 5 (1.98%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.58%) Derivative
8 4 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.58%) Equities
8 4 (1.58%) Online Games
8 4 (1.58%) Wiki
9 3 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.79%) 3D Graphics
10 2 (0.79%) Cybercrime
11 1 (0.40%) Fixed Income
11 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.37%) Android
1 6 (2.37%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.79%) Linux
2 2 (0.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (75.49%) Agile
2 182 (71.94%) CI/CD
3 157 (62.06%) Software Engineering
4 139 (54.94%) Front End Development
4 139 (54.94%) Full-Stack Development
5 136 (53.75%) DevOps
6 132 (52.17%) User Experience
7 118 (46.64%) Containerisation
7 118 (46.64%) SDLC
8 117 (46.25%) Responsive Web Design
8 117 (46.25%) Test Automation
9 116 (45.85%) Microservices
10 112 (44.27%) Mentoring
11 102 (40.32%) Migration
11 102 (40.32%) Performance Optimisation
12 90 (35.57%) Strategic Thinking
13 51 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (12.25%) Unit Testing
15 27 (10.67%) Design Patterns
16 25 (9.88%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 207 (81.82%) JavaScript
2 197 (77.87%) TypeScript
3 115 (45.45%) Java
4 112 (44.27%) SQL
5 38 (15.02%) C#
6 12 (4.74%) Python
7 10 (3.95%) PHP
8 3 (1.19%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.40%) Go
9 1 (0.40%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.40%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.40%) Swift
Qualifications
1 23 (9.09%) Degree
2 9 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.19%) ISTQB
4 3 (1.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (0.79%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.79%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.40%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (41.11%) QA
2 97 (38.34%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.19%) GDPR
3 3 (1.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 141 (55.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 122 (48.22%) Kubernetes
2 16 (6.32%) Terraform
3 2 (0.79%) Grafana
3 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.40%) Kibana
Vendors
1 90 (35.57%) Solace
2 16 (6.32%) Oracle
3 14 (5.53%) Microsoft
4 10 (3.95%) Rollbar
5 8 (3.16%) Okta
6 6 (2.37%) Adobe
7 5 (1.98%) Google
8 4 (1.58%) Tealium
9 2 (0.79%) Apple