Jest Contract Job Trends in London

Jest
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Jest skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 335 322
Rank change year-on-year +3 -13 +45
Contract jobs citing Jest 52 28 74
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.36% 0.20% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.36% 0.77% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 14 40
10th Percentile £318 £390 £374
25th Percentile £411 £401 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £464 £489
Median % change year-on-year +2.43% -5.16% -18.50%
75th Percentile £536 £662 £575
90th Percentile £660 £775 £589
England median daily rate £450 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +2.86% -7.89% -17.39%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,835 3,636 4,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.26% 26.01% 25.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,605 2,381 3,446
10th Percentile £363 £380 £398
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 20 30
10th Percentile £35.00 £34.83 £29.60
25th Percentile £41.88 £38.44 £35.79
Median hourly rate £55.00 £54.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +10.77% -25.00%
75th Percentile £66.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £81.38 £76.50
England median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £54.78
% change year-on-year -0.80% +14.09% -15.72%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Jest job vacancy trend in London

Jest
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Jest

Jest
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jest in London over the 6 months to 22 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Jest in London

Jest
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 22 January 2026. 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
Central London +2 4 £575 +35.29% 6
Jest
England

Jest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 2 (3.85%) CMS
1 2 (3.85%) Magnolia
1 2 (3.85%) SharePoint
1 2 (3.85%) WordPress
2 1 (1.92%) Apache
2 1 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.92%) Confluence
2 1 (1.92%) SAS
2 1 (1.92%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.69%) AWS
1 17 (32.69%) GitHub
2 11 (21.15%) GitHub Actions
3 9 (17.31%) Azure
4 8 (15.38%) Amazon S3
4 8 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (15.38%) Serverless
5 7 (13.46%) Amazon Cognito
6 4 (7.69%) Datadog
6 4 (7.69%) SaaS
7 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.77%) Figma
7 3 (5.77%) GCP
8 2 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.92%) Asana
9 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.92%) npm
9 1 (1.92%) Pulumi
9 1 (1.92%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) DNS
1 1 (1.92%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (21.15%) NoSQL
3 7 (13.46%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.85%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.92%) Hasura
5 1 (1.92%) MySQL
5 1 (1.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (42.31%) Cypress.io
2 20 (38.46%) Git
3 7 (13.46%) webpack
4 4 (7.69%) GitLab
4 4 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 4 (7.69%) JIRA
4 4 (7.69%) Mocha
5 3 (5.77%) ESLint
5 3 (5.77%) Lerna
5 3 (5.77%) rollup.js
5 3 (5.77%) Storybook
5 3 (5.77%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (3.85%) Jasmine
6 2 (3.85%) Mockito
6 2 (3.85%) Vite
7 1 (1.92%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (1.92%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.92%) JUnit
7 1 (1.92%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.92%) Selenium
General
1 24 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.08%) Finance
3 6 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.69%) Banking
5 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Marketing
6 1 (1.92%) Military
6 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (59.62%) Developer
2 14 (26.92%) React Developer
3 10 (19.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 9 (17.31%) Senior
5 8 (15.38%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 8 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (13.46%) Python Developer
7 6 (11.54%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 6 (11.54%) Senior Developer
7 6 (11.54%) Software Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) JavaScript Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 2 (3.85%) JavaScript Developer
11 1 (1.92%) Applications Developer
11 1 (1.92%) Lead Developer
11 1 (1.92%) Python Web Developer
11 1 (1.92%) SharePoint Developer
11 1 (1.92%) UI Developer
11 1 (1.92%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (88.46%) React
2 27 (51.92%) Node.js
3 24 (46.15%) CSS
3 24 (46.15%) RESTful
4 17 (32.69%) Next.js
5 13 (25.00%) HTML
5 13 (25.00%) Playwright
6 12 (23.08%) Enzyme
6 12 (23.08%) Sass
7 11 (21.15%) Redux
7 11 (21.15%) REST
8 8 (15.38%) FastAPI
8 8 (15.38%) GraphQL
8 8 (15.38%) HTML5
9 6 (11.54%) CSS3
9 6 (11.54%) pytest
10 5 (9.62%) AngularJS
11 4 (7.69%) YAML
12 3 (5.77%) Express.js
12 3 (5.77%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.31%) Product Ownership
2 6 (11.54%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.69%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.85%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.85%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.92%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.92%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.92%) Android
1 1 (1.92%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (71.15%) Agile
2 36 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 18 (34.62%) Front End Development
3 18 (34.62%) Full-Stack Development
4 17 (32.69%) Containerisation
4 17 (32.69%) DevOps
5 16 (30.77%) Software Engineering
5 16 (30.77%) Test Automation
6 14 (26.92%) User Experience
7 13 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
7 13 (25.00%) TDD
8 10 (19.23%) Observability
9 9 (17.31%) BDD
9 9 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (15.38%) API Development
10 8 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (15.38%) Microservices
11 7 (13.46%) API Integration
11 7 (13.46%) Performance Optimisation
11 7 (13.46%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 46 (88.46%) TypeScript
2 32 (61.54%) JavaScript
3 17 (32.69%) SQL
4 10 (19.23%) Python
5 7 (13.46%) JSX
6 4 (7.69%) Java
7 1 (1.92%) Go
7 1 (1.92%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 11 (21.15%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.77%) Degree
4 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (36.54%) Accessibility
2 12 (23.08%) WCAG
3 8 (15.38%) QA
4 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
System Software
1 18 (34.62%) Docker
2 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.69%) Grafana
3 3 (5.77%) Terraform
4 1 (1.92%) Ansible
4 1 (1.92%) Istio
4 1 (1.92%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.85%) Google
3 1 (1.92%) Amplitude
3 1 (1.92%) DevExpress
3 1 (1.92%) Splunk
3 1 (1.92%) Telerik