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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 317 333
Rank change year-on-year -55 +16 +33
Contract jobs citing Jest 33 39 58
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.19% 0.31% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.79% 1.19% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 28 39
10th Percentile £382 £380 £413
25th Percentile £429 £409 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £425 £532
Median % change year-on-year +15.59% -20.11% -13.85%
75th Percentile £594 £636 £613
90th Percentile £631 £766 £950
England median daily rate £450 £480 £489
% change year-on-year -6.25% -1.84% -12.68%

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 4,160 3,274 4,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.36% 26.03% 25.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,757 2,301 3,346
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £432 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 18 24
10th Percentile £23.33 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £35.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £48.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.37% +21.25% -40.52%
75th Percentile £64.44 £65.00 £63.13
90th Percentile £93.00 £76.25 £72.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -5 5 £625 +47.06%
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 1 (3.03%) Apache
1 1 (3.03%) Camunda
1 1 (3.03%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 13 (39.39%) AWS
2 8 (24.24%) Azure
3 6 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
3 6 (18.18%) GitHub
3 6 (18.18%) Serverless
4 5 (15.15%) Amazon S3
4 5 (15.15%) Pulumi
5 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.06%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.06%) Entra ID
6 2 (6.06%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.03%) Contentful
7 1 (3.03%) Sentry
7 1 (3.03%) Snowflake
7 1 (3.03%) Supabase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) DynamoDB
2 3 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.03%) Redis
4 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (42.42%) Cypress.io
2 7 (21.21%) Git
3 4 (12.12%) Mocha
3 4 (12.12%) webpack
4 3 (9.09%) Mockito
4 3 (9.09%) Storybook
5 2 (6.06%) CircleCI
5 2 (6.06%) Claude Code
5 2 (6.06%) GitLab
5 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
5 2 (6.06%) JUnit
5 2 (6.06%) Selenium
6 1 (3.03%) Ant
6 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.03%) Jasmine
6 1 (3.03%) Moq
6 1 (3.03%) NUnit
6 1 (3.03%) REST Assured
6 1 (3.03%) Serilog
6 1 (3.03%) Vite
General
1 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Banking
3 3 (9.09%) Finance
3 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.06%) Advertising
4 2 (6.06%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Front Office
5 1 (3.03%) Law
5 1 (3.03%) Police
5 1 (3.03%) Retail
5 1 (3.03%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (42.42%) Developer
2 12 (36.36%) React Developer
3 6 (18.18%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 5 (15.15%) Lead
4 5 (15.15%) Senior
5 4 (12.12%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Node.js Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Senior React Developer
8 1 (3.03%) Automation Tester
8 1 (3.03%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 1 (3.03%) Software Developer
8 1 (3.03%) Software Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Tester
8 1 (3.03%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (84.85%) React
2 17 (51.52%) Node.js
3 13 (39.39%) Playwright
3 13 (39.39%) Redux
4 12 (36.36%) Next.js
5 10 (30.30%) CSS
5 10 (30.30%) REST
6 9 (27.27%) HTML
7 8 (24.24%) GraphQL
7 8 (24.24%) RESTful
8 7 (21.21%) OAuth
8 7 (21.21%) OAuth2
9 6 (18.18%) OpenID
10 5 (15.15%) .NET
10 5 (15.15%) CSS3
10 5 (15.15%) Express.js
10 5 (15.15%) HTML5
11 4 (12.12%) Model Context Protocol
12 3 (9.09%) Material-UI
12 3 (9.09%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) Cloud Native
2 6 (18.18%) Product Ownership
3 4 (12.12%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (6.06%) Algorithms
4 2 (6.06%) Data Structures
4 2 (6.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.03%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.03%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) Agile
2 16 (48.48%) CI/CD
3 13 (39.39%) Full-Stack Development
4 12 (36.36%) Test Automation
5 11 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 11 (33.33%) DevOps
6 9 (27.27%) Microservices
7 7 (21.21%) AI
7 7 (21.21%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (21.21%) Mentoring
7 7 (21.21%) Software Engineering
7 7 (21.21%) User Experience
8 6 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
8 6 (18.18%) Code Quality
8 6 (18.18%) Observability
8 6 (18.18%) Responsive Web Design
9 5 (15.15%) TDD
9 5 (15.15%) UX Design
10 4 (12.12%) Data Modelling
10 4 (12.12%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (78.79%) TypeScript
2 15 (45.45%) JavaScript
3 4 (12.12%) Java
3 4 (12.12%) SQL
4 2 (6.06%) C#
4 2 (6.06%) Python
5 1 (3.03%) Bicep
5 1 (3.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
1 5 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (9.09%) Degree
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (36.36%) Accessibility
2 8 (24.24%) WCAG
3 3 (9.09%) QA
4 1 (3.03%) GDPR
4 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
1 4 (12.12%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (6.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.03%) Braze
2 1 (3.03%) New Relic
2 1 (3.03%) Optimizely