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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 344 349
Rank change year-on-year +30 +5 +2
Contract jobs citing Jest 62 37 79
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.44% 0.23% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.66% 0.90% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 20 47
10th Percentile £359 £399 £370
25th Percentile £426 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £633 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.96% +26.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £558 £838 £575
90th Percentile £724 £1,050 £604
England median daily rate £469 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -14.73% +10.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £47.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.00 - £77.50

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 3,737 4,128 5,226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.40% 26.10% 26.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,539 2,714 3,937
10th Percentile £361 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £669 £710 £700
90th Percentile £788 £838 £800
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 20 37
10th Percentile £31.77 £34.04 £33.80
25th Percentile £42.50 £37.88 £36.84
Median hourly rate £55.00 £44.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -24.14% -6.83%
75th Percentile £63.19 £61.45 £72.00
90th Percentile £85.95 £71.90 £87.94
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -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 22 November 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 22 November 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 +3 6 £575 -11.54% 26
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 (3.23%) CMS
1 2 (3.23%) Magnolia
1 2 (3.23%) SharePoint
1 2 (3.23%) WordPress
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.61%) Confluence
2 1 (1.61%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 27 (43.55%) AWS
2 21 (33.87%) GitHub
3 15 (24.19%) AWS Lambda
3 15 (24.19%) Serverless
4 13 (20.97%) Amazon S3
4 13 (20.97%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (16.13%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (11.29%) Amazon Cognito
6 7 (11.29%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (9.68%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (9.68%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (9.68%) AWS Fargate
7 6 (9.68%) Azure
8 4 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (6.45%) Datadog
9 3 (4.84%) GCP
9 3 (4.84%) Google Analytics
9 3 (4.84%) Google Play
9 3 (4.84%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.84%) Bluetooth
1 3 (4.84%) DNS
1 3 (4.84%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (30.65%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (17.74%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (17.74%) NoSQL
3 6 (9.68%) DynamoDB
4 3 (4.84%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.61%) DB2
6 1 (1.61%) Hasura
6 1 (1.61%) MySQL
6 1 (1.61%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (40.32%) Cypress.io
1 25 (40.32%) Git
2 10 (16.13%) webpack
3 7 (11.29%) Cucumber
4 6 (9.68%) Jenkins
4 6 (9.68%) JUnit
4 6 (9.68%) Maven
5 4 (6.45%) GitLab
5 4 (6.45%) JIRA
5 4 (6.45%) Vite
6 3 (4.84%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (4.84%) ESLint
6 3 (4.84%) Lerna
6 3 (4.84%) Mocha
6 3 (4.84%) rollup.js
6 3 (4.84%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (3.23%) Jasmine
7 2 (3.23%) Storybook
8 1 (1.61%) fastlane
8 1 (1.61%) gulp
General
1 28 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.58%) Finance
3 6 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.06%) Banking
5 3 (4.84%) Marketing
6 1 (1.61%) Advertising
6 1 (1.61%) Aviation
6 1 (1.61%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.61%) Front Office
6 1 (1.61%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.61%) Military
6 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (61.29%) Developer
2 13 (20.97%) React Developer
3 12 (19.35%) Senior
4 11 (17.74%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (14.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 8 (12.90%) Senior Developer
7 7 (11.29%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 7 (11.29%) Lead
7 7 (11.29%) Python Developer
8 6 (9.68%) AWS Developer
8 6 (9.68%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 6 (9.68%) Software Engineer
9 4 (6.45%) JavaScript Engineer
10 3 (4.84%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 3 (4.84%) Web Engineer
11 2 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
11 2 (3.23%) Development Engineer
11 2 (3.23%) Java Developer
11 2 (3.23%) Lead Developer
11 2 (3.23%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (80.65%) React
2 31 (50.00%) Node.js
3 28 (45.16%) CSS
4 23 (37.10%) RESTful
5 16 (25.81%) HTML
5 16 (25.81%) Sass
6 15 (24.19%) Redux
7 14 (22.58%) Next.js
8 12 (19.35%) Enzyme
8 12 (19.35%) HTML5
9 10 (16.13%) FastAPI
10 9 (14.52%) REST
11 8 (12.90%) AngularJS
11 8 (12.90%) CSS3
11 8 (12.90%) GraphQL
11 8 (12.90%) Playwright
11 8 (12.90%) pytest
12 7 (11.29%) React Native
13 6 (9.68%) Spring
13 6 (9.68%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.68%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.06%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.45%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.45%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.84%) Marketing Technology
4 3 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.23%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.23%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.61%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.61%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.61%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.45%) Android
1 4 (6.45%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (75.81%) CI/CD
2 42 (67.74%) Agile
3 25 (40.32%) Test Automation
4 22 (35.48%) Containerisation
5 20 (32.26%) DevOps
6 19 (30.65%) Software Engineering
7 18 (29.03%) Front End Development
8 17 (27.42%) Code Quality
8 17 (27.42%) Full-Stack Development
9 16 (25.81%) User Experience
10 13 (20.97%) End-to-End Testing
10 13 (20.97%) TDD
11 12 (19.35%) Clean Code
11 12 (19.35%) Microservices
11 12 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (17.74%) Performance Optimisation
13 9 (14.52%) Mentoring
13 9 (14.52%) Observability
13 9 (14.52%) Unit Testing
14 8 (12.90%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 51 (82.26%) TypeScript
2 35 (56.45%) JavaScript
3 18 (29.03%) SQL
4 16 (25.81%) Python
5 10 (16.13%) Java
6 7 (11.29%) JSX
7 4 (6.45%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.61%) C#
8 1 (1.61%) Elm
8 1 (1.61%) Go
8 1 (1.61%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 9 (14.52%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.45%) Degree
4 3 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (35.48%) Accessibility
2 12 (19.35%) QA
3 11 (17.74%) WCAG
4 3 (4.84%) Data Quality
System Software
1 23 (37.10%) Docker
2 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (24.19%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.06%) Terraform
3 4 (6.45%) Grafana
4 1 (1.61%) Ansible
4 1 (1.61%) Istio
4 1 (1.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (11.29%) Google
2 6 (9.68%) CA Agile Central
3 5 (8.06%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.84%) Amplitude
5 2 (3.23%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.61%) DevExpress
6 1 (1.61%) Splunk
6 1 (1.61%) Sybase
6 1 (1.61%) Telerik