Jest Contracts in England

Jest
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Jest skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Jest over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 424 452 437
Rank change year-on-year +28 -15 +62
Contract jobs citing Jest 61 90 224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.24% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.12% 1.20% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 62 133
10th Percentile £372 £343 £415
25th Percentile £404 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -11.09% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £700
90th Percentile £750 £736 £738
UK median daily rate £450 £489 £540
% change year-on-year -7.98% -9.44% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £66.80
25th Percentile - £67.50 £69.13
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £73.50
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile - £72.50 £78.13
90th Percentile - - £80.60
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £70.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Jest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Jest in England

Jest
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Jest in England.

Daily rate trend for Jest in England

Jest
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jest in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Jest in England

Jest
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Jest in England.

Hourly rate trend for Jest in England

Jest
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Jest within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +18 38 £425 -14.79% 38
North of England +22 14 £480 +20.00% 10
North East +5 6 £480 +54.84% 1
North West +12 5 £485 +4.92% 8
Yorkshire - 4 £525 - 1
Midlands +20 3 £270 -40.00% 8
South West +41 2 £394 -27.80% 6
East Midlands +9 2 £269 -40.22% 2
West Midlands +13 1 £420 +5.00% 6
Jest
UK

Jest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (4.92%) Confluence
1 3 (4.92%) nginx
2 2 (3.28%) CMS
2 2 (3.28%) Headless CMS
2 2 (3.28%) WordPress
3 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.64%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 28 (45.90%) AWS
2 17 (27.87%) GitHub
3 11 (18.03%) Amazon SQS
3 11 (18.03%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (18.03%) Serverless
4 7 (11.48%) Amazon S3
5 5 (8.20%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (8.20%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (8.20%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (8.20%) Google Analytics
6 4 (6.56%) Azure
7 3 (4.92%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.28%) BigCommerce
8 2 (3.28%) SaaS
9 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.64%) Contentful
9 1 (1.64%) Contentstack
9 1 (1.64%) GCP
9 1 (1.64%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.75%) HTTP
2 1 (1.64%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.11%) DynamoDB
2 7 (11.48%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (6.56%) Redis
4 2 (3.28%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.64%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.64%) GIS
5 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (40.98%) Cypress.io
2 20 (32.79%) Git
3 9 (14.75%) Mocha
4 7 (11.48%) Bitbucket
5 6 (9.84%) Selenium
6 5 (8.20%) git-flow
6 5 (8.20%) JIRA
6 5 (8.20%) SonarQube
7 4 (6.56%) ESLint
7 4 (6.56%) Maven
8 3 (4.92%) Jasmine
8 3 (4.92%) Postman
8 3 (4.92%) REST Assured
8 3 (4.92%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (4.92%) webpack
9 2 (3.28%) GitLab
9 2 (3.28%) Grunt
9 2 (3.28%) Jenkins
9 2 (3.28%) NSubstitute
9 2 (3.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (21.31%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.03%) Public Sector
3 9 (14.75%) Finance
4 8 (13.11%) Banking
5 6 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (8.20%) Marketing
7 3 (4.92%) Telecoms
8 2 (3.28%) Electronics
8 2 (3.28%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.28%) Retail
9 1 (1.64%) Advertising
9 1 (1.64%) Automotive
9 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (67.21%) Developer
2 14 (22.95%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 11 (18.03%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (14.75%) Senior
5 8 (13.11%) Node.js Developer
5 8 (13.11%) React Developer
6 7 (11.48%) JavaScript Developer
6 7 (11.48%) Software Engineer
7 6 (9.84%) Java Developer
7 6 (9.84%) Lead
8 5 (8.20%) Senior Developer
8 5 (8.20%) Test Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 4 (6.56%) Java Engineer
10 3 (4.92%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 3 (4.92%) Lead Developer
10 3 (4.92%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (4.92%) Senior Java Engineer
10 3 (4.92%) Software Developer
10 3 (4.92%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (67.21%) Node.js
2 38 (62.30%) React
3 31 (50.82%) CSS
4 27 (44.26%) HTML
5 22 (36.07%) Sass
6 21 (34.43%) Redux
7 14 (22.95%) RESTful
8 12 (19.67%) GraphQL
8 12 (19.67%) REST
9 11 (18.03%) Express.js
9 11 (18.03%) WebSockets
10 10 (16.39%) HTML5
10 10 (16.39%) Next.js
11 8 (13.11%) AWS CDK
12 7 (11.48%) LESS
12 7 (11.48%) Playwright
13 6 (9.84%) JSON
13 6 (9.84%) Spring Boot
14 5 (8.20%) CSS3
14 5 (8.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.92%) Algorithms
1 3 (4.92%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (4.92%) Data Structures
1 3 (4.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 3 (4.92%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (4.92%) Mobile App
1 3 (4.92%) Product Ownership
1 3 (4.92%) Vector Graphics
2 2 (3.28%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (3.28%) Video\Live Streaming
2 2 (3.28%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.64%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.64%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (39.34%) CI/CD
2 23 (37.70%) Agile
3 21 (34.43%) Test Automation
4 19 (31.15%) Front End Development
4 19 (31.15%) Microservices
5 16 (26.23%) Full-Stack Development
6 14 (22.95%) TDD
6 14 (22.95%) User Experience
7 11 (18.03%) Mentoring
7 11 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (18.03%) Software Engineering
8 10 (16.39%) DevOps
9 7 (11.48%) Clean Code
9 7 (11.48%) Test Strategy
10 6 (9.84%) Analytics
10 6 (9.84%) Unit Testing
10 6 (9.84%) UX Design
11 5 (8.20%) BDD
11 5 (8.20%) Computer Science
11 5 (8.20%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 47 (77.05%) JavaScript
2 30 (49.18%) TypeScript
3 17 (27.87%) Java
4 10 (16.39%) SQL
5 7 (11.48%) Python
6 5 (8.20%) T-SQL
7 3 (4.92%) C#
7 3 (4.92%) PHP
8 2 (3.28%) Go
8 2 (3.28%) Rust
Qualifications
1 12 (19.67%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.11%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.20%) Degree
4 4 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.75%) WCAG
2 8 (13.11%) Accessibility
3 5 (8.20%) QA
4 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (16.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (13.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.92%) Terraform
3 1 (1.64%) Ansible
3 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.64%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 6 (9.84%) Adobe
1 6 (9.84%) Google
2 4 (6.56%) SAP
3 2 (3.28%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.28%) Sitecore
3 2 (3.28%) Veracode
4 1 (1.64%) Amplitude