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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 644 654 275
Rank change year-on-year +10 -379 +96
Permanent jobs citing Jest 252 336 2,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.34% 1.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.19% 1.12% 3.69%
Number of salaries quoted 170 219 526
10th Percentile £47,375 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,000 £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 21,101 29,987 65,773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.12% 30.24% 40.92%
Number of salaries quoted 15,749 18,481 29,851
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,588 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +15.91%
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 18 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 18 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 +70 204 £65,000 - 37
England -32 180 £65,000 -18.75% 60
Work from Home -4 64 £60,000 -20.00% 37
Scotland 0 63 £71,991 -4.01% 1
South East +24 58 £85,000 +9.68% 16
London -66 37 £80,000 -8.57% 33
North of England +76 36 £57,500 -17.86% 14
North West +24 26 £57,500 +15.00% 8
Midlands -1 26 £65,000 -7.14% 2
West Midlands +26 23 £65,000 - 1
East of England +3 11 £57,500 -11.54% 2
Yorkshire +89 10 £34,000 -51.43% 6
South West -32 10 £48,750 -18.75% 2
East Midlands -14 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 7 (2.78%) Confluence
1 7 (2.78%) nginx
2 3 (1.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Adobe XD
Cloud Services
1 120 (47.62%) AWS
2 34 (13.49%) Azure
3 21 (8.33%) GitHub
3 21 (8.33%) Serverless
4 20 (7.94%) GCP
5 14 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (5.16%) npm
6 13 (5.16%) SaaS
7 12 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (3.17%) Figma
9 7 (2.78%) Yarn
10 5 (1.98%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (1.98%) Firebase
11 4 (1.59%) Amazon Cognito
11 4 (1.59%) Vercel
12 3 (1.19%) Amazon S3
13 2 (0.79%) Azure Functions
13 2 (0.79%) Azure Pipelines
13 2 (0.79%) Entra ID
13 2 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.57%) HTTP
2 7 (2.78%) AMQP
3 2 (0.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.73%) NoSQL
2 9 (3.57%) MongoDB
2 9 (3.57%) Relational Database
3 8 (3.17%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.19%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.19%) MySQL
7 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.40%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 159 (63.10%) Cypress.io
2 115 (45.63%) Selenium
3 85 (33.73%) Git
4 76 (30.16%) Jasmine
5 63 (25.00%) Protractor
6 62 (24.60%) WebDriver
7 61 (24.21%) JUnit
8 60 (23.81%) Karma Test Runner
9 22 (8.73%) SoapUI
10 15 (5.95%) Mocha
11 14 (5.56%) Bitbucket
11 14 (5.56%) JIRA
11 14 (5.56%) webpack
12 13 (5.16%) Storybook
13 12 (4.76%) GitLab
13 12 (4.76%) Jenkins
14 8 (3.17%) ESLint
14 8 (3.17%) gulp
14 8 (3.17%) SonarQube
15 6 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 75 (29.76%) Finance
2 70 (27.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 68 (26.98%) Banking
4 60 (23.81%) Investment Banking
4 60 (23.81%) Law
5 40 (15.87%) Social Skills
6 17 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.57%) Retail
8 6 (2.38%) Legal
9 5 (1.98%) Retail Finance
10 4 (1.59%) Games
10 4 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.19%) Automotive
12 2 (0.79%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.40%) Advertising
13 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Publishing
13 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 113 (44.84%) Developer
2 90 (35.71%) Software Engineer
3 62 (24.60%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 60 (23.81%) Java Engineer
4 60 (23.81%) Java Software Engineer
5 59 (23.41%) Senior
6 49 (19.44%) Senior Developer
7 47 (18.65%) Lead
8 26 (10.32%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 23 (9.13%) Full Stack Developer
9 23 (9.13%) React Developer
10 22 (8.73%) Lead Java Engineer
10 22 (8.73%) Lead Software Engineer
11 20 (7.94%) Development Team Leader
11 20 (7.94%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 20 (7.94%) Software Development Team Leader
11 20 (7.94%) Software Team Leader
11 20 (7.94%) Team Leader
12 11 (4.37%) Full Stack Engineer
13 8 (3.17%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (84.52%) React
2 143 (56.75%) CSS
3 129 (51.19%) HTML
4 128 (50.79%) Node.js
5 86 (34.13%) AngularJS
6 69 (27.38%) JSON
7 66 (26.19%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 65 (25.79%) jQuery
9 62 (24.60%) Spring
10 60 (23.81%) Hibernate
10 60 (23.81%) J2EE
10 60 (23.81%) JMS
11 42 (16.67%) HTML5
12 40 (15.87%) .NET
13 38 (15.08%) CSS3
14 36 (14.29%) Next.js
15 27 (10.71%) Redux
16 26 (10.32%) GraphQL
17 24 (9.52%) React Native
18 23 (9.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 62 (24.60%) Data Structures
2 24 (9.52%) Algorithms
3 20 (7.94%) Mobile App
4 18 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (4.37%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.59%) Podcast
8 3 (1.19%) Derivative
8 3 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.19%) Mobile Banking
8 3 (1.19%) Online Banking
8 3 (1.19%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.79%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.79%) Graphic Design
10 1 (0.40%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.40%) IoT
10 1 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.95%) Apple iOS
2 11 (4.37%) Android
3 2 (0.79%) Linux
3 2 (0.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (73.02%) Agile
2 134 (53.17%) Software Engineering
3 123 (48.81%) Artificial Intelligence
4 91 (36.11%) CI/CD
5 90 (35.71%) TDD
6 86 (34.13%) Front End Development
7 85 (33.73%) Machine Learning
8 75 (29.76%) Web Development
9 69 (27.38%) SDLC
10 63 (25.00%) BDD
11 60 (23.81%) Multithreading
11 60 (23.81%) Operational Stability
12 51 (20.24%) Propensity Modelling
13 50 (19.84%) Continuous Improvement
14 43 (17.06%) Community of Practice
14 43 (17.06%) Computer Science
15 41 (16.27%) Full Stack Development
16 38 (15.08%) DevOps
17 33 (13.10%) Microservices
17 33 (13.10%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 231 (91.67%) TypeScript
2 201 (79.76%) JavaScript
3 77 (30.56%) Java
4 59 (23.41%) C#
5 34 (13.49%) PHP
6 28 (11.11%) SQL
7 11 (4.37%) Kotlin
8 5 (1.98%) Python
9 4 (1.59%) Go
10 2 (0.79%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.40%) R
11 1 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 62 (24.60%) Degree
2 3 (1.19%) DBS Check
3 2 (0.79%) DV Cleared
3 2 (0.79%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.40%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (13.49%) WCAG
2 19 (7.54%) QA
3 17 (6.75%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 81 (32.14%) Docker
2 2 (0.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 67 (26.59%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.94%) Terraform
3 7 (2.78%) Grafana
3 7 (2.78%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.19%) Consul
4 3 (1.19%) Packer
Vendors
1 7 (2.78%) Atlassian
1 7 (2.78%) Google
2 5 (1.98%) Adobe
3 3 (1.19%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.19%) Splunk
4 2 (0.79%) Autodesk
4 2 (0.79%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.40%) ESRI
5 1 (0.40%) Mapbox
5 1 (0.40%) Netlify
5 1 (0.40%) Spotify
5 1 (0.40%) Veracode