Jest Contract Job Trends in Central London

Jest
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Jest skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 123 136
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 +53
Contract jobs citing Jest 4 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.20% 0.17% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.89% 0.69% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile £486 £455 £440
25th Percentile £503 £519 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +30.00% -3.38%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £538
90th Percentile - £795 £560
London median daily rate £475 £633 £498
% change year-on-year -24.90% +27.14% -17.08%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

Jest falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 449 580 626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.39% 24.80% 23.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 354 443
10th Percentile £361 £413 £407
25th Percentile £436 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
London median daily rate £525 £575 £590
% change year-on-year -8.70% -2.46% -1.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £44.38 £27.67 -
25th Percentile £47.19 £31.07 £46.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.61% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £59.69 £41.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.13 £41.45 -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -17.31%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Jest relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Jest job vacancy trend in Central London

Jest
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Jest.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Jest

Jest
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jest in Central London over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Jest in Central London

Jest
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Jest within the Central London region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -3 3 £625 -3.85% 3
City of Westminster - 1 £475 -
Jest
London

Jest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Datadog
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) npm
2 1 (25.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (50.00%) Storybook
3 1 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) gulp
3 1 (25.00%) Mocha
3 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (25.00%) webpack
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) HTML5
1 3 (75.00%) React
1 3 (75.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (50.00%) CSS3
2 2 (50.00%) Express.js
2 2 (50.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (25.00%) OAuth
3 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
3 1 (25.00%) OpenID
3 1 (25.00%) Playwright
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) Sass
3 1 (25.00%) SPFx
3 1 (25.00%) Swagger
3 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (50.00%) Fintech
3 2 (50.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (50.00%) User Experience
4 1 (25.00%) Application Security
4 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Asynchronous Programming
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
4 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Non-Blocking Code
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk