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

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 469 662 645
Rank change year-on-year +193 -17 -375
Permanent jobs citing Jest 249 260 286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.24% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.56% 1.17% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 108 175 199
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,000 £49,750
25th Percentile £55,938 £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 £140,677 £96,500 £101,500
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 9,720 22,143 26,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.35% 20.09% 29.10%
Number of salaries quoted 5,840 16,322 17,536
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,711
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,254 £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 14 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 14 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 +221 234 £65,000 -3.70% 126
UK excluding London +156 182 £65,000 - 58
Work from Home +232 163 £67,500 +12.50% 85
North of England +113 95 £55,000 -4.35% 13
North West +81 85 £55,000 -4.35% 8
London +145 64 £67,500 -15.63% 73
South East +70 30 £67,500 -20.59% 19
Midlands +82 28 £60,000 -7.69% 10
West Midlands +64 20 £60,000 -7.69% 7
South West +121 14 £104,013 +98.12% 7
Scotland +62 13 £85,253 +18.42% 6
East Midlands +57 8 £67,500 -6.90% 3
North East - 6 £50,000 - 2
Yorkshire +55 4 £77,500 +127.94% 3
East of England +38 4 £51,250 -6.82%

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 (4.02%) IIS
2 7 (2.81%) CMS
3 6 (2.41%) Confluence
4 4 (1.61%) WordPress
5 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.80%) 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 (4.82%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 135 (54.22%) Azure
2 129 (51.81%) AWS
3 24 (9.64%) npm
4 20 (8.03%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (7.23%) GCP
6 15 (6.02%) GitHub
7 12 (4.82%) Cloudflare
7 12 (4.82%) Serverless
8 11 (4.42%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (4.02%) Yarn
10 7 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.81%) SaaS
11 6 (2.41%) Figma
11 6 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (2.01%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.61%) Adobe Analytics
13 4 (1.61%) Google Analytics
14 3 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (1.20%) Firebase
14 3 (1.20%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.02%) HTTP
2 1 (0.40%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (44.98%) SQL Server
2 22 (8.84%) MySQL
3 11 (4.42%) NoSQL
4 10 (4.02%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.01%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.61%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.20%) Redis
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.80%) Big Data
9 2 (0.80%) Power BI
10 1 (0.40%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 104 (41.77%) Cucumber
1 104 (41.77%) JIRA
2 102 (40.96%) Sonatype Nexus
3 100 (40.16%) Selenium
4 93 (37.35%) Bitbucket
4 93 (37.35%) GitLab
5 92 (36.95%) SonarQube
6 91 (36.55%) Maven
7 80 (32.13%) Git
8 45 (18.07%) webpack
9 44 (17.67%) Cypress.io
10 24 (9.64%) Mocha
10 24 (9.64%) Vite
11 22 (8.84%) Jasmine
12 21 (8.43%) NUnit
13 10 (4.02%) TeamCity
14 9 (3.61%) JUnit
15 7 (2.81%) Babel
15 7 (2.81%) PHPUnit
15 7 (2.81%) rollup.js
General
1 155 (62.25%) Finance
2 135 (54.22%) Banking
3 133 (53.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 108 (43.37%) Investment Banking
5 90 (36.14%) Corporate Banking
5 90 (36.14%) Retail
6 38 (15.26%) Social Skills
7 25 (10.04%) Law
8 16 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
9 15 (6.02%) Marketing
10 12 (4.82%) Games
11 6 (2.41%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Automotive
12 1 (0.40%) Electronics
12 1 (0.40%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 143 (57.43%) Software Engineer
2 83 (33.33%) Developer
3 40 (16.06%) Senior
4 39 (15.66%) React Developer
5 32 (12.85%) Senior Developer
6 29 (11.65%) Lead
7 23 (9.24%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 22 (8.84%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 19 (7.63%) Full-Stack Developer
10 13 (5.22%) Senior React Developer
11 12 (4.82%) C# Developer
11 12 (4.82%) Lead Developer
12 11 (4.42%) .NET Developer
12 11 (4.42%) UI Engineer
13 10 (4.02%) Java Engineer
13 10 (4.02%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 10 (4.02%) Senior Software Engineer
14 9 (3.61%) Senior .NET Developer
15 8 (3.21%) Lead Software Engineer
15 8 (3.21%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (91.57%) React
2 172 (69.08%) CSS
3 161 (64.66%) HTML
4 135 (54.22%) RESTful
5 125 (50.20%) Redux
6 121 (48.59%) CSS3
6 121 (48.59%) HTML5
7 108 (43.37%) REST
8 106 (42.57%) Sass
9 105 (42.17%) Kafka
10 102 (40.96%) Spring Boot
11 98 (39.36%) Spring
12 91 (36.55%) JPA
13 48 (19.28%) Node.js
14 42 (16.87%) AngularJS
15 35 (14.06%) .NET
16 30 (12.05%) Vue
17 23 (9.24%) GraphQL
18 20 (8.03%) Web Services
19 19 (7.63%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 104 (41.77%) Product Ownership
2 90 (36.14%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (8.43%) Mobile App
4 14 (5.62%) Algorithms
5 10 (4.02%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (4.02%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (4.02%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.41%) Distributed Applications
7 5 (2.01%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.61%) Derivative
8 4 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.61%) Equities
8 4 (1.61%) Online Games
8 4 (1.61%) Wiki
9 2 (0.80%) 3D Graphics
9 2 (0.80%) Cybercrime
9 2 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.40%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.41%) Android
1 6 (2.41%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.80%) Linux
2 2 (0.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (75.50%) Agile
2 182 (73.09%) CI/CD
3 154 (61.85%) Software Engineering
4 139 (55.82%) Full-Stack Development
5 137 (55.02%) Front End Development
6 136 (54.62%) DevOps
7 131 (52.61%) User Experience
8 118 (47.39%) SDLC
8 118 (47.39%) Test Automation
9 117 (46.99%) Microservices
9 117 (46.99%) Responsive Web Design
10 115 (46.18%) Containerisation
11 111 (44.58%) Mentoring
12 103 (41.37%) Performance Optimisation
13 102 (40.96%) Migration
14 90 (36.14%) Strategic Thinking
15 49 (19.68%) Problem-Solving
16 31 (12.45%) Unit Testing
17 26 (10.44%) Design Patterns
18 25 (10.04%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 202 (81.12%) JavaScript
2 192 (77.11%) TypeScript
3 116 (46.59%) Java
4 112 (44.98%) SQL
5 35 (14.06%) C#
6 11 (4.42%) Python
7 9 (3.61%) PHP
8 3 (1.20%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.40%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.40%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.40%) Swift
Qualifications
1 21 (8.43%) Degree
2 9 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.20%) ISTQB
4 3 (1.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (0.80%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.80%) 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 (41.77%) QA
2 96 (38.55%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.20%) GDPR
4 2 (0.80%) WCAG
System Software
1 137 (55.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 118 (47.39%) Kubernetes
2 16 (6.43%) Terraform
3 2 (0.80%) Grafana
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.40%) Kibana
Vendors
1 90 (36.14%) Solace
2 16 (6.43%) Oracle
3 15 (6.02%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.02%) Rollbar
5 8 (3.21%) Okta
6 6 (2.41%) Adobe
7 5 (2.01%) Google
8 4 (1.61%) Tealium
9 2 (0.80%) Apple
10 1 (0.40%) Veracode