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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 649 646 276
Rank change year-on-year -3 -370 +109
Permanent jobs citing Jest 255 344 2,379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.34% 1.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.21% 1.14% 3.64%
Number of salaries quoted 172 224 515
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,875 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £104,250 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +9.52%

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 21,036 30,236 65,356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.24% 30.13% 40.89%
Number of salaries quoted 15,734 18,665 30,089
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +6.30% +15.45%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Jest in the UK

Jest
Top 14 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 May 2024. 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
UK excluding London +89 206 £65,000 - 23
England -52 183 £66,250 -17.19% 50
Work from Home -3 64 £60,000 -20.00% 25
Scotland +9 63 £71,991 -4.01% 1
South East +31 61 £85,000 +9.68% 6
London -55 38 £80,000 -8.57% 28
North of England +59 37 £57,500 -17.86% 11
North West +24 27 £57,500 +15.00% 8
Midlands +12 26 £65,000 -7.14% 2
West Midlands +19 23 £65,000 - 1
Yorkshire +94 10 £34,000 -51.43% 3
South West -29 10 £48,750 -22.00% 2
East of England +1 9 £63,750 -1.92% 1
East Midlands -23 3 £72,500 +3.57% 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 8 (3.14%) Confluence
2 7 (2.75%) nginx
3 4 (1.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 118 (46.27%) AWS
2 33 (12.94%) Azure
3 22 (8.63%) GitHub
4 21 (8.24%) Serverless
5 20 (7.84%) GCP
6 14 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (5.10%) npm
8 12 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (4.71%) SaaS
9 8 (3.14%) Figma
10 7 (2.75%) Yarn
11 5 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (1.96%) Firebase
12 4 (1.57%) Amazon Cognito
12 4 (1.57%) Vercel
13 3 (1.18%) Amazon S3
14 2 (0.78%) Azure Functions
14 2 (0.78%) Azure Pipelines
14 2 (0.78%) Entra ID
14 2 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.53%) HTTP
2 7 (2.75%) AMQP
3 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.02%) NoSQL
2 9 (3.53%) MongoDB
2 9 (3.53%) Relational Database
3 8 (3.14%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.18%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.18%) MySQL
7 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.39%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 162 (63.53%) Cypress.io
2 118 (46.27%) Selenium
3 89 (34.90%) Git
4 77 (30.20%) Jasmine
5 63 (24.71%) Protractor
6 62 (24.31%) WebDriver
7 61 (23.92%) JUnit
8 60 (23.53%) Karma Test Runner
9 23 (9.02%) SoapUI
10 16 (6.27%) Bitbucket
11 15 (5.88%) JIRA
11 15 (5.88%) Mocha
12 14 (5.49%) webpack
13 13 (5.10%) Storybook
14 12 (4.71%) GitLab
14 12 (4.71%) Jenkins
15 8 (3.14%) ESLint
15 8 (3.14%) gulp
15 8 (3.14%) SonarQube
16 6 (2.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 76 (29.80%) Finance
2 70 (27.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 68 (26.67%) Banking
4 60 (23.53%) Investment Banking
4 60 (23.53%) Law
5 42 (16.47%) Social Skills
6 18 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.53%) Retail
8 7 (2.75%) Legal
9 5 (1.96%) Retail Finance
10 4 (1.57%) Games
10 4 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.18%) Automotive
12 2 (0.78%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.39%) Advertising
13 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Publishing
13 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 116 (45.49%) Developer
2 90 (35.29%) Software Engineer
3 64 (25.10%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 60 (23.53%) Java Engineer
4 60 (23.53%) Java Software Engineer
4 60 (23.53%) Senior
5 50 (19.61%) Senior Developer
6 48 (18.82%) Lead
7 27 (10.59%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 23 (9.02%) Full Stack Developer
8 23 (9.02%) React Developer
9 22 (8.63%) Lead Java Engineer
9 22 (8.63%) Lead Software Engineer
10 21 (8.24%) Development Team Leader
10 21 (8.24%) Software Development Team Leader
10 21 (8.24%) Software Team Leader
10 21 (8.24%) Team Leader
11 19 (7.45%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 10 (3.92%) Full Stack Engineer
13 8 (3.14%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (83.92%) React
2 145 (56.86%) CSS
3 131 (51.37%) HTML
4 127 (49.80%) Node.js
5 87 (34.12%) AngularJS
6 69 (27.06%) JSON
7 66 (25.88%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 65 (25.49%) jQuery
9 61 (23.92%) Spring
10 60 (23.53%) Hibernate
10 60 (23.53%) J2EE
10 60 (23.53%) JMS
11 44 (17.25%) HTML5
12 41 (16.08%) .NET
13 40 (15.69%) CSS3
14 36 (14.12%) Next.js
15 27 (10.59%) GraphQL
15 27 (10.59%) Redux
16 25 (9.80%) React Native
17 23 (9.02%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 62 (24.31%) Data Structures
2 23 (9.02%) Algorithms
3 20 (7.84%) Mobile App
4 19 (7.45%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (4.31%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.57%) Podcast
7 3 (1.18%) Derivative
7 3 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.18%) Mobile Banking
7 3 (1.18%) Online Banking
7 3 (1.18%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.78%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.78%) Graphic Design
9 1 (0.39%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.88%) Apple iOS
2 11 (4.31%) Android
3 2 (0.78%) Linux
3 2 (0.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (73.33%) Agile
2 135 (52.94%) Software Engineering
3 126 (49.41%) Artificial Intelligence
4 90 (35.29%) CI/CD
5 89 (34.90%) TDD
6 87 (34.12%) Front End Development
7 86 (33.73%) Machine Learning
8 75 (29.41%) Web Development
9 69 (27.06%) SDLC
10 63 (24.71%) BDD
11 60 (23.53%) Multithreading
11 60 (23.53%) Operational Stability
12 54 (21.18%) Propensity Modelling
13 50 (19.61%) Continuous Improvement
14 45 (17.65%) Computer Science
15 43 (16.86%) Community of Practice
16 40 (15.69%) Full Stack Development
17 39 (15.29%) DevOps
18 34 (13.33%) Microservices
19 33 (12.94%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 233 (91.37%) TypeScript
2 203 (79.61%) JavaScript
3 76 (29.80%) Java
4 61 (23.92%) C#
5 36 (14.12%) PHP
6 29 (11.37%) SQL
7 11 (4.31%) Kotlin
8 5 (1.96%) Python
9 4 (1.57%) Go
10 2 (0.78%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.39%) R
11 1 (0.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 65 (25.49%) Degree
2 3 (1.18%) DBS Check
3 2 (0.78%) DV Cleared
3 2 (0.78%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (14.12%) WCAG
2 19 (7.45%) QA
3 17 (6.67%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 83 (32.55%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 70 (27.45%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.84%) Terraform
3 7 (2.75%) Grafana
3 7 (2.75%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.18%) Consul
4 3 (1.18%) Packer
Vendors
1 8 (3.14%) Google
2 7 (2.75%) Atlassian
3 6 (2.35%) Adobe
4 4 (1.57%) Splunk
5 3 (1.18%) Microsoft
6 2 (0.78%) Autodesk
6 2 (0.78%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.39%) Apple
7 1 (0.39%) ESRI
7 1 (0.39%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.39%) Netlify
7 1 (0.39%) Spotify
7 1 (0.39%) Veracode