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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 340 341
Rank change year-on-year +29 +1 +17
Contract jobs citing Jest 51 44 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.38% 0.27% 0.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.45% 0.97% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 32 50
10th Percentile £399 £472 £412
25th Percentile £413 £561 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £615 £513
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +20.00% -17.17%
75th Percentile £638 £963 £584
90th Percentile £753 £1,045 £625
England median daily rate £450 £588 £503
% change year-on-year -23.40% +16.92% -16.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 - £80.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £81.50
75th Percentile £47.50 - £82.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.00 - £79.50
% change year-on-year - - +18.02%

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 3,517 4,521 5,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.15% 27.75% 25.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,410 3,097 4,207
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £725 £713
90th Percentile £825 £850 £810
England median daily rate £512 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.91% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 22 41
10th Percentile £31.94 £23.84 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.48 £36.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £42.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -34.62% +12.07%
75th Percentile £62.50 £59.51 £75.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £74.00 £86.56
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year -12.00% +2.04% -3.16%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Jest 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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
Central London +7 6 £625 -21.88% 6
Jest
England

Jest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (3.92%) CMS
1 2 (3.92%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.96%) Confluence
2 1 (1.96%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.96%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 26 (50.98%) AWS
2 17 (33.33%) GitHub
3 11 (21.57%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (21.57%) Serverless
4 10 (19.61%) Amazon SQS
5 9 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (17.65%) Amazon S3
6 8 (15.69%) Google Analytics
7 7 (13.73%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (11.76%) Amazon Kinesis
8 6 (11.76%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (9.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (7.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (7.84%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (5.88%) Amazon Cognito
11 3 (5.88%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (5.88%) Google Play
12 2 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (3.92%) Figma
12 2 (3.92%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 9 (17.65%) HTTP
2 5 (9.80%) DNS
3 3 (5.88%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (21.57%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (17.65%) DynamoDB
3 6 (11.76%) NoSQL
4 5 (9.80%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (5.88%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.92%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.96%) DB2
7 1 (1.96%) Hasura
7 1 (1.96%) MySQL
7 1 (1.96%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (49.02%) Cypress.io
2 16 (31.37%) Git
3 8 (15.69%) Maven
4 7 (13.73%) Cucumber
4 7 (13.73%) webpack
5 6 (11.76%) Jenkins
5 6 (11.76%) JUnit
6 5 (9.80%) Browser DevTools
6 5 (9.80%) Vite
7 4 (7.84%) Mocha
8 3 (5.88%) Bitbucket
8 3 (5.88%) JIRA
8 3 (5.88%) Postman
8 3 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (3.92%) Storybook
10 1 (1.96%) Babel
10 1 (1.96%) fastlane
10 1 (1.96%) GitLab
10 1 (1.96%) REST Assured
General
1 16 (31.37%) Finance
2 15 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 8 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (13.73%) Banking
5 5 (9.80%) Marketing
6 2 (3.92%) Advertising
6 2 (3.92%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.96%) Automotive
7 1 (1.96%) Aviation
7 1 (1.96%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.96%) Front Office
7 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 27 (52.94%) Developer
2 9 (17.65%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 9 (17.65%) Full-Stack Developer
2 9 (17.65%) React Developer
2 9 (17.65%) Senior
3 8 (15.69%) Lead
4 7 (13.73%) AWS Developer
5 6 (11.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 5 (9.80%) Senior Developer
6 5 (9.80%) Web Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Python Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Software Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) UI Developer
8 3 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) AWS Software Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) Java Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) JavaScript Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) Node.js Developer
9 2 (3.92%) Senior UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (76.47%) React
2 24 (47.06%) CSS
3 23 (45.10%) Node.js
4 19 (37.25%) HTML
4 19 (37.25%) Redux
5 15 (29.41%) HTML5
6 14 (27.45%) Next.js
6 14 (27.45%) Sass
7 13 (25.49%) RESTful
8 11 (21.57%) GraphQL
9 10 (19.61%) AngularJS
9 10 (19.61%) Vue
10 9 (17.65%) React Native
10 9 (17.65%) REST
11 8 (15.69%) GatsbyJS
11 8 (15.69%) WebSockets
12 7 (13.73%) FastAPI
13 6 (11.76%) CSS3
13 6 (11.76%) Spring
14 5 (9.80%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Mobile App
2 6 (11.76%) Algorithms
2 6 (11.76%) Data Structures
3 5 (9.80%) Marketing Technology
4 3 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.88%) Vector Graphics
5 2 (3.92%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.96%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.96%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.96%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.84%) Android
1 4 (7.84%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (74.51%) CI/CD
2 28 (54.90%) Agile
3 19 (37.25%) Test Automation
4 18 (35.29%) DevOps
5 17 (33.33%) User Experience
6 15 (29.41%) Code Quality
6 15 (29.41%) Microservices
7 14 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (25.49%) Front End Development
8 13 (25.49%) Software Engineering
9 12 (23.53%) Performance Optimisation
10 11 (21.57%) Full-Stack Development
11 10 (19.61%) Clean Code
11 10 (19.61%) Containerisation
12 9 (17.65%) Analytics
13 8 (15.69%) A/B Testing
13 8 (15.69%) Observability
13 8 (15.69%) Unit Testing
14 7 (13.73%) Computer Science
14 7 (13.73%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 36 (70.59%) TypeScript
2 29 (56.86%) JavaScript
3 14 (27.45%) Python
4 8 (15.69%) Java
5 5 (9.80%) SQL
6 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.92%) Go
8 1 (1.96%) C#
8 1 (1.96%) Elm
8 1 (1.96%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (13.73%) Degree
2 5 (9.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.96%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (27.45%) Accessibility
2 11 (21.57%) QA
3 6 (11.76%) WCAG
4 5 (9.80%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (21.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.80%) Kubernetes
1 5 (9.80%) Terraform
2 1 (1.96%) Ansible
2 1 (1.96%) Grafana
2 1 (1.96%) Istio
2 1 (1.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (23.53%) Google
2 6 (11.76%) CA Agile Central
3 5 (9.80%) Amplitude
3 5 (9.80%) ServiceNow
4 4 (7.84%) Adobe
5 1 (1.96%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.96%) Splunk
5 1 (1.96%) Sybase