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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 303 356
Rank change year-on-year -81 +53 +17
Contract jobs citing Jest 34 47 48
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.18% 0.38% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.78% 1.44% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 30 36
10th Percentile £363 £380 £419
25th Percentile £414 £405 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £622 £598 £950
90th Percentile £638 £764 £1,000
England median daily rate £450 £480 £531
% change year-on-year -6.25% -9.65% -3.41%

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 4,333 3,267 4,671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.92% 26.50% 26.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,874 2,290 3,447
10th Percentile £375 £380 £375
25th Percentile £446 £431 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 19 28
10th Percentile £23.65 £32.41 £16.25
25th Percentile £33.02 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.00 £44.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% +4.71% -36.57%
75th Percentile £68.38 £61.25 £61.70
90th Percentile £93.75 £87.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -15.38%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -15 7 £625 +34.05% 2
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 (2.94%) Camunda
1 1 (2.94%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 15 (44.12%) AWS
2 9 (26.47%) GitHub
3 7 (20.59%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (20.59%) Azure
3 7 (20.59%) Serverless
4 6 (17.65%) Amazon S3
4 6 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (14.71%) Pulumi
6 3 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.88%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.88%) Entra ID
7 2 (5.88%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (2.94%) CloudFront
8 1 (2.94%) Kong
8 1 (2.94%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) DynamoDB
2 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
2 3 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.88%) Redis
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (47.06%) Cypress.io
2 13 (38.24%) Git
3 7 (20.59%) webpack
4 4 (11.76%) Mocha
5 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
5 3 (8.82%) Storybook
5 3 (8.82%) Vite
6 2 (5.88%) Ant
6 2 (5.88%) CircleCI
6 2 (5.88%) Claude Code
6 2 (5.88%) GitLab
6 2 (5.88%) JUnit
6 2 (5.88%) Mockito
6 2 (5.88%) Selenium
7 1 (2.94%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.94%) Jasmine
7 1 (2.94%) JIRA
7 1 (2.94%) Moq
7 1 (2.94%) NUnit
7 1 (2.94%) Serilog
General
1 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.71%) Banking
3 3 (8.82%) Finance
3 3 (8.82%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.88%) Advertising
4 2 (5.88%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.88%) Retail
4 2 (5.88%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Front Office
5 1 (2.94%) Law
5 1 (2.94%) Police
Job Titles
1 18 (52.94%) Developer
2 13 (38.24%) React Developer
3 5 (14.71%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (14.71%) Lead
3 5 (14.71%) Senior
4 4 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 4 (11.76%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 3 (8.82%) JavaScript Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Node.js Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior React Developer
6 2 (5.88%) UI Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Web Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (82.35%) React
2 18 (52.94%) Node.js
3 15 (44.12%) REST
4 14 (41.18%) Redux
5 13 (38.24%) Playwright
6 11 (32.35%) CSS
6 11 (32.35%) Next.js
7 10 (29.41%) GraphQL
7 10 (29.41%) HTML
8 8 (23.53%) OAuth
8 8 (23.53%) OAuth2
8 8 (23.53%) RESTful
9 6 (17.65%) CSS3
9 6 (17.65%) HTML5
9 6 (17.65%) OpenID
10 5 (14.71%) Express.js
11 4 (11.76%) Kafka
11 4 (11.76%) Model Context Protocol
12 3 (8.82%) Enzyme
12 3 (8.82%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 5 (14.71%) Product Ownership
3 4 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (5.88%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.88%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.94%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.94%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (55.88%) CI/CD
2 17 (50.00%) Agile
3 11 (32.35%) Containerisation
3 11 (32.35%) Full-Stack Development
3 11 (32.35%) Microservices
3 11 (32.35%) Test Automation
4 9 (26.47%) DevOps
5 8 (23.53%) AI
5 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (23.53%) Mentoring
6 7 (20.59%) Observability
6 7 (20.59%) Software Engineering
7 6 (17.65%) Code Quality
7 6 (17.65%) Responsive Web Design
7 6 (17.65%) User Experience
8 5 (14.71%) Generative AI
8 5 (14.71%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (14.71%) TDD
9 4 (11.76%) Data Modelling
9 4 (11.76%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 28 (82.35%) TypeScript
2 18 (52.94%) JavaScript
3 5 (14.71%) Java
4 4 (11.76%) SQL
5 3 (8.82%) Python
6 2 (5.88%) C#
7 1 (2.94%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (35.29%) Accessibility
2 8 (23.53%) WCAG
3 2 (5.88%) QA
4 1 (2.94%) GDPR
4 1 (2.94%) GRC
4 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (35.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Kubernetes
1 4 (11.76%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (8.82%) Terraform
3 2 (5.88%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (2.94%) Braze
1 1 (2.94%) Google
1 1 (2.94%) New Relic
1 1 (2.94%) Optimizely
1 1 (2.94%) TOWER Software