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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 315 343
Rank change year-on-year -71 +28 +7
Contract jobs citing Jest 43 56 42
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.22% 0.41% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.95% 1.57% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 34 36
10th Percentile £363 £382 £450
25th Percentile £450 £411 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £475 £615
Median % change year-on-year +17.89% -22.76% +11.82%
75th Percentile £625 £731 £950
90th Percentile £638 £759 £1,025
England median daily rate £495 £472 £575
% change year-on-year +4.87% -17.91% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £45.00 -
England median hourly rate - £45.00 -

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 4,508 3,571 4,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.66% 26.12% 27.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,991 2,502 3,248
10th Percentile £390 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 23 25
10th Percentile £23.98 £31.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £34.20 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% +20.00% -44.03%
75th Percentile £61.50 £60.75 £50.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.50 £71.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -10.00%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -9 9 £600 +9.09% 3
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 (2.33%) Camunda
1 1 (2.33%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 25 (58.14%) AWS
2 15 (34.88%) GitHub
3 14 (32.56%) Azure
4 9 (20.93%) Serverless
5 8 (18.60%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (18.60%) Amazon S3
6 7 (16.28%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (16.28%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (13.95%) Figma
8 5 (11.63%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (9.30%) Pulumi
10 3 (6.98%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (4.65%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (4.65%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
11 2 (4.65%) GCP
12 1 (2.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 1 (2.33%) Sentry
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.60%) DynamoDB
2 4 (9.30%) NoSQL
2 4 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.98%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.65%) Redis
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.33%) MySQL
5 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (58.14%) Cypress.io
2 16 (37.21%) Git
3 10 (23.26%) Storybook
4 8 (18.60%) webpack
5 5 (11.63%) Jenkins
6 4 (9.30%) GitLab
6 4 (9.30%) Mocha
6 4 (9.30%) Vite
7 2 (4.65%) Ant
7 2 (4.65%) CircleCI
7 2 (4.65%) Claude Code
8 1 (2.33%) ESLint
8 1 (2.33%) JIRA
8 1 (2.33%) JUnit
8 1 (2.33%) Maven
8 1 (2.33%) NUnit
8 1 (2.33%) rollup.js
8 1 (2.33%) Selenium
8 1 (2.33%) Serilog
8 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.93%) Finance
3 4 (9.30%) Banking
4 3 (6.98%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.65%) Advertising
5 2 (4.65%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (4.65%) Front Office
5 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.65%) Retail
5 2 (4.65%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Law
6 1 (2.33%) Marketing
6 1 (2.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 22 (51.16%) Developer
2 10 (23.26%) React Developer
3 9 (20.93%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (16.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 6 (13.95%) Lead
5 6 (13.95%) Senior
6 5 (11.63%) Architect
6 5 (11.63%) UI Architect
7 4 (9.30%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Node.js Developer
8 3 (6.98%) Senior Developer
8 3 (6.98%) Senior React Developer
8 3 (6.98%) Software Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Java Developer
9 2 (4.65%) JavaScript Developer
9 2 (4.65%) UI Developer
9 2 (4.65%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (79.07%) React
2 22 (51.16%) Node.js
3 20 (46.51%) CSS
3 20 (46.51%) REST
4 18 (41.86%) RESTful
5 17 (39.53%) HTML
5 17 (39.53%) Playwright
6 15 (34.88%) Redux
7 13 (30.23%) CSS3
7 13 (30.23%) GraphQL
7 13 (30.23%) HTML5
8 12 (27.91%) OAuth
8 12 (27.91%) OAuth2
9 10 (23.26%) Kafka
9 10 (23.26%) Next.js
10 6 (13.95%) AngularJS
10 6 (13.95%) Express.js
10 6 (13.95%) JWT
11 5 (11.63%) OpenID
11 5 (11.63%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.26%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.63%) Product Ownership
3 4 (9.30%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.65%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.33%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (76.74%) CI/CD
2 21 (48.84%) Test Automation
3 20 (46.51%) Microservices
4 19 (44.19%) Agile
5 18 (41.86%) DevOps
6 17 (39.53%) Full-Stack Development
7 16 (37.21%) Containerisation
8 14 (32.56%) User Experience
9 12 (27.91%) AI
10 11 (25.58%) Observability
11 10 (23.26%) Event-Driven
11 10 (23.26%) Mentoring
11 10 (23.26%) Performance Optimisation
12 9 (20.93%) API Integration
12 9 (20.93%) Responsive Web Design
12 9 (20.93%) Software Engineering
13 8 (18.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 8 (18.60%) Infrastructure as Code
14 7 (16.28%) Micro Frontends
14 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 37 (86.05%) TypeScript
2 26 (60.47%) JavaScript
3 7 (16.28%) Java
4 5 (11.63%) SQL
5 2 (4.65%) C#
5 2 (4.65%) Python
6 1 (2.33%) Bash
6 1 (2.33%) Bicep
6 1 (2.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.98%) Degree
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (27.91%) Accessibility
2 9 (20.93%) WCAG
3 5 (11.63%) QA
4 1 (2.33%) GDPR
4 1 (2.33%) GRC
4 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (46.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (23.26%) Kubernetes
2 7 (16.28%) Grafana
3 5 (11.63%) Prometheus
4 4 (9.30%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (6.98%) Terraform
6 1 (2.33%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 1 (2.33%) Braze
1 1 (2.33%) Google
1 1 (2.33%) Guidewire
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (2.33%) New Relic
1 1 (2.33%) Optimizely
1 1 (2.33%) TOWER Software