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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 323 348
Rank change year-on-year -91 +25 +6
Contract jobs citing Jest 43 50 42
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.21% 0.37% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.81% 1.26% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 29 28
10th Percentile £363 £385 £478
25th Percentile £444 £413 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £475 £615
Median % change year-on-year +17.89% -22.76% +23.00%
75th Percentile £599 £638 £1,000
90th Percentile £638 £750 £1,050
England median daily rate £545 £444 £590
% change year-on-year +22.82% -24.79% +18.00%
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 5,298 3,980 4,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.29% 29.69% 30.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,575 2,719 3,319
10th Percentile £400 £364 £385
25th Percentile £455 £431 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £700
90th Percentile £763 £789 £850
England median daily rate £538 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -0.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 32 23
10th Percentile £28.00 £31.77 £23.88
25th Percentile £36.25 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.56% +22.28% -32.54%
75th Percentile £66.06 £61.56 £61.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.20
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -22 6 £572 -8.48% 9
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
1 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 22 (51.16%) AWS
2 21 (48.84%) Azure
3 17 (39.53%) GitHub
4 7 (16.28%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (16.28%) Figma
5 6 (13.95%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (13.95%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (11.63%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (11.63%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (11.63%) GCP
6 5 (11.63%) npm
6 5 (11.63%) Serverless
7 4 (9.30%) Amazon S3
8 3 (6.98%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (6.98%) Amazon EventBridge
8 3 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (4.65%) Yarn
10 1 (2.33%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (2.33%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (2.33%) Google Play
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.60%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (16.28%) MongoDB
3 6 (13.95%) DynamoDB
4 5 (11.63%) MySQL
4 5 (11.63%) NoSQL
5 3 (6.98%) Redis
5 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 24 (55.81%) Cypress.io
2 21 (48.84%) Git
3 12 (27.91%) Storybook
4 8 (18.60%) GitLab
5 7 (16.28%) Jenkins
5 7 (16.28%) webpack
6 5 (11.63%) Mocha
6 5 (11.63%) Vite
7 2 (4.65%) Ant
7 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
7 2 (4.65%) Jasmine
7 2 (4.65%) JIRA
7 2 (4.65%) rollup.js
8 1 (2.33%) Babel
8 1 (2.33%) Claude Code
8 1 (2.33%) ESLint
8 1 (2.33%) JUnit
8 1 (2.33%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (2.33%) Maven
8 1 (2.33%) Mockito
General
1 17 (39.53%) Finance
2 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
3 7 (16.28%) Banking
4 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.65%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (4.65%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.65%) Local Government
5 2 (4.65%) Retail
5 2 (4.65%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.33%) Front Office
6 1 (2.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (69.77%) Developer
2 12 (27.91%) Full-Stack Developer
3 10 (23.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 8 (18.60%) React Developer
5 6 (13.95%) Architect
5 6 (13.95%) Senior
5 6 (13.95%) UI Architect
6 4 (9.30%) Senior Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Senior React Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Java Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Python Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Software Developer
8 2 (4.65%) UI Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Web Engineer
9 1 (2.33%) Development Engineer
9 1 (2.33%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (76.74%) React
2 25 (58.14%) CSS
3 23 (53.49%) REST
4 22 (51.16%) HTML
4 22 (51.16%) RESTful
5 18 (41.86%) HTML5
6 17 (39.53%) Node.js
7 16 (37.21%) CSS3
7 16 (37.21%) Redux
8 15 (34.88%) Kafka
9 12 (27.91%) Playwright
10 9 (20.93%) GraphQL
10 9 (20.93%) JWT
10 9 (20.93%) OAuth
11 8 (18.60%) Next.js
12 7 (16.28%) AngularJS
12 7 (16.28%) OAuth2
13 5 (11.63%) Express.js
13 5 (11.63%) Terraform
13 5 (11.63%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.26%) Cloud Native
2 8 (18.60%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.65%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.33%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (83.72%) CI/CD
2 23 (53.49%) DevOps
3 20 (46.51%) Agile
3 20 (46.51%) Test Automation
4 18 (41.86%) Microservices
5 17 (39.53%) Full-Stack Development
6 14 (32.56%) Performance Optimisation
6 14 (32.56%) User Experience
7 13 (30.23%) Event-Driven
8 11 (25.58%) AI
8 11 (25.58%) Containerisation
8 11 (25.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 11 (25.58%) Front End Development
8 11 (25.58%) Observability
9 10 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (23.26%) Scrum
10 9 (20.93%) API Integration
10 9 (20.93%) Software Engineering
11 8 (18.60%) Responsive Web Design
11 8 (18.60%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 38 (88.37%) TypeScript
2 32 (74.42%) JavaScript
3 7 (16.28%) SQL
4 5 (11.63%) Java
5 4 (9.30%) Python
6 1 (2.33%) Bash
6 1 (2.33%) Bicep
6 1 (2.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 11 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (9.30%) 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 10 (23.26%) Accessibility
1 10 (23.26%) QA
2 7 (16.28%) WCAG
3 1 (2.33%) GRC
System Software
1 20 (46.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (30.23%) Kubernetes
2 8 (18.60%) Grafana
3 6 (13.95%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.33%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.33%) Braze
2 1 (2.33%) Google
2 1 (2.33%) Guidewire
2 1 (2.33%) New Relic
2 1 (2.33%) Optimizely
2 1 (2.33%) Splunk
2 1 (2.33%) TOWER Software