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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 323 328
Rank change year-on-year -20 +5 +34
Contract jobs citing Jest 54 29 60
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.34% 0.22% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.33% 0.82% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 16 31
10th Percentile £302 £388 £375
25th Percentile £409 £403 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £503 £489
Median % change year-on-year -1.99% +2.76% -18.50%
75th Percentile £538 £675 £529
90th Percentile £635 £756 £650
England median daily rate £475 £503 £450
% change year-on-year -5.47% +11.67% -18.18%

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 4,064 3,555 4,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.59% 26.47% 24.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,750 2,378 3,379
10th Percentile £363 £382 £388
25th Percentile £425 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 21 35
10th Percentile £27.80 £35.00 £20.12
25th Percentile £35.06 £38.50 £29.12
Median hourly rate £50.50 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +23.53% -34.62%
75th Percentile £63.56 £65.00 £66.88
90th Percentile £92.50 £80.00 £74.46
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 February 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 February 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 -6 3 £575 +21.05% 4
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 (3.70%) CMS
1 2 (3.70%) Magnolia
1 2 (3.70%) SharePoint
1 2 (3.70%) WordPress
2 1 (1.85%) Apache
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.85%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) SAS
2 1 (1.85%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.04%) AWS
2 16 (29.63%) GitHub
3 12 (22.22%) Amazon S3
3 12 (22.22%) Serverless
4 11 (20.37%) Azure
4 11 (20.37%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (12.96%) Amazon Cognito
7 5 (9.26%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (9.26%) Pulumi
8 4 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (7.41%) SaaS
9 3 (5.56%) Datadog
9 3 (5.56%) Entra ID
9 3 (5.56%) Figma
10 2 (3.70%) GCP
11 1 (1.85%) Asana
11 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.85%) npm
11 1 (1.85%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.37%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (18.52%) NoSQL
3 7 (12.96%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (7.41%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.85%) Hasura
5 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.85%) Redis
5 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (37.04%) Cypress.io
2 19 (35.19%) Git
3 7 (12.96%) webpack
4 4 (7.41%) JIRA
4 4 (7.41%) Mocha
5 3 (5.56%) ESLint
5 3 (5.56%) GitLab
5 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.56%) Lerna
5 3 (5.56%) rollup.js
5 3 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (3.70%) Jasmine
6 2 (3.70%) Mockito
7 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.85%) JUnit
7 1 (1.85%) Moq
7 1 (1.85%) NUnit
7 1 (1.85%) Selenium
7 1 (1.85%) Storybook
7 1 (1.85%) Vite
General
1 24 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.81%) Finance
3 6 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.56%) Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Advertising
5 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 32 (59.26%) Developer
2 15 (27.78%) React Developer
3 10 (18.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 9 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (16.67%) Senior
5 7 (12.96%) Python Developer
6 6 (11.11%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 6 (11.11%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 6 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 6 (11.11%) Software Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) Lead
8 4 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) JavaScript Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) JavaScript Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 1 (1.85%) .NET Developer
10 1 (1.85%) Python Web Developer
10 1 (1.85%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (85.19%) React
2 31 (57.41%) Node.js
3 22 (40.74%) RESTful
4 21 (38.89%) CSS
5 19 (35.19%) Playwright
6 18 (33.33%) Next.js
7 13 (24.07%) Enzyme
7 13 (24.07%) REST
8 12 (22.22%) Redux
9 11 (20.37%) Sass
10 10 (18.52%) HTML
11 9 (16.67%) GraphQL
12 7 (12.96%) FastAPI
12 7 (12.96%) OAuth
12 7 (12.96%) OAuth2
13 6 (11.11%) OpenID
14 5 (9.26%) Express.js
14 5 (9.26%) HTML5
14 5 (9.26%) pytest
15 4 (7.41%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 9 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 7 (12.96%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (9.26%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (5.56%) Algorithms
4 3 (5.56%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.85%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.85%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (68.52%) Agile
2 36 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 22 (40.74%) Containerisation
4 21 (38.89%) Full-Stack Development
5 19 (35.19%) Test Automation
6 18 (33.33%) DevOps
7 17 (31.48%) Software Engineering
8 16 (29.63%) Front End Development
9 14 (25.93%) End-to-End Testing
9 14 (25.93%) TDD
10 11 (20.37%) Microservices
10 11 (20.37%) User Experience
11 10 (18.52%) Code Quality
11 10 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (18.52%) Mentoring
12 9 (16.67%) BDD
12 9 (16.67%) Observability
13 8 (14.81%) API Development
13 8 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
14 7 (12.96%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 50 (92.59%) TypeScript
2 28 (51.85%) JavaScript
3 17 (31.48%) SQL
4 8 (14.81%) Python
5 7 (12.96%) JSX
6 4 (7.41%) Java
7 2 (3.70%) C#
8 1 (1.85%) Bicep
8 1 (1.85%) Go
8 1 (1.85%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.37%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.70%) Degree
3 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (35.19%) Accessibility
2 12 (22.22%) WCAG
3 6 (11.11%) QA
4 1 (1.85%) GDPR
4 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (42.59%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (29.63%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.41%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (5.56%) Grafana
4 1 (1.85%) Istio
4 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.85%) DevExpress
2 1 (1.85%) Telerik