Jest Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Jest
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Jest skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 - 62
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs citing Jest 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.45% - 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.37% - 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £396 - £335
25th Percentile £400 - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £412 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.44%
75th Percentile £446 - £450
90th Percentile £471 - £465
England median daily rate £450 £425 £489
% change year-on-year +5.88% -13.09% -18.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 169 89 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 19.07% 15.16% 14.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 71 84
10th Percentile £357 £322 £313
25th Percentile £391 £356 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% - -
75th Percentile £548 £536 £530
90th Percentile £638 £575 £650
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £25.05 - £22.90
25th Percentile £25.07 - £26.02
Median hourly rate £25.11 - £43.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +119.93%
75th Percentile £25.14 - £58.25
90th Percentile £25.15 - £62.30
England median hourly rate £60.50 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -3.20% +20.45% -20.17%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Jest job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Jest
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Jest.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Jest

Jest
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Jest within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
Northamptonshire - 2 £398 - 2
Nottinghamshire - 1 £421 - 1
Derbyshire - 1 £475 - 2
Jest
England

Jest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (25.00%) Google Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Aerospike
1 2 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Node.js
2 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 2 (50.00%) pytest
2 2 (50.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) Enzyme
3 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (25.00%) React Native
3 1 (25.00%) Redux
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (75.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Backtesting
3 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Fraud Detection
3 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Secure Coding
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (25.00%) A/B Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (25.00%) Monorepo
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe
2 1 (25.00%) Google