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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 299 355
Rank change year-on-year -78 +56 +8
Contract jobs citing Jest 36 51 50
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.19% 0.40% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.82% 1.51% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 30 38
10th Percentile £363 £380 £429
25th Percentile £426 £411 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £608
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% -23.87% +11.47%
75th Percentile £625 £601 £931
90th Percentile £638 £764 £1,000
England median daily rate £450 £480 £548
% change year-on-year -6.25% -12.33% +1.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £45.00 -
England median hourly rate - £45.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -35.71% -4.76%

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 4,391 3,368 4,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.85% 26.29% 26.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,908 2,348 3,474
10th Percentile £381 £377 £375
25th Percentile £450 £429 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £713 £710
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 21 28
10th Percentile £24.30 - £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.00 £45.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.88% -36.80%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.50 £61.70
90th Percentile £92.50 £87.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.15
% change year-on-year +8.33% +3.18% -10.54%

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 29 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 29 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 -13 7 £625 +19.05% 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 (2.78%) Camunda
1 1 (2.78%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 15 (41.67%) AWS
2 9 (25.00%) GitHub
3 7 (19.44%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (19.44%) Azure
3 7 (19.44%) Serverless
4 6 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 6 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (13.89%) Pulumi
6 3 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.56%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
7 2 (5.56%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.78%) Figma
8 1 (2.78%) Kong
8 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) DynamoDB
2 3 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 3 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.56%) Redis
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (47.22%) Cypress.io
2 13 (36.11%) Git
3 7 (19.44%) webpack
4 4 (11.11%) Mocha
4 4 (11.11%) Storybook
4 4 (11.11%) Vite
5 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
6 2 (5.56%) Ant
6 2 (5.56%) CircleCI
6 2 (5.56%) Claude Code
6 2 (5.56%) GitLab
6 2 (5.56%) JUnit
6 2 (5.56%) Mockito
6 2 (5.56%) Selenium
7 1 (2.78%) ESLint
7 1 (2.78%) JIRA
7 1 (2.78%) Moq
7 1 (2.78%) NUnit
7 1 (2.78%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.78%) Serilog
General
1 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Banking
3 4 (11.11%) Finance
4 3 (8.33%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.56%) Advertising
5 2 (5.56%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (5.56%) Front Office
5 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.56%) Retail
5 2 (5.56%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Law
6 1 (2.78%) Police
Job Titles
1 20 (55.56%) Developer
2 14 (38.89%) React Developer
3 6 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (16.67%) Lead
3 6 (16.67%) Senior
4 5 (13.89%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 4 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 3 (8.33%) JavaScript Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Node.js Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Senior React Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) UI Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Web Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (83.33%) React
2 18 (50.00%) Node.js
3 16 (44.44%) Redux
4 15 (41.67%) REST
5 14 (38.89%) Playwright
6 12 (33.33%) CSS
6 12 (33.33%) Next.js
7 11 (30.56%) GraphQL
8 10 (27.78%) HTML
9 9 (25.00%) RESTful
10 8 (22.22%) OAuth
10 8 (22.22%) OAuth2
11 6 (16.67%) CSS3
11 6 (16.67%) HTML5
11 6 (16.67%) OpenID
12 5 (13.89%) Express.js
13 4 (11.11%) Kafka
13 4 (11.11%) Model Context Protocol
13 4 (11.11%) Tailwind CSS
14 3 (8.33%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.89%) Product Ownership
3 4 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (5.56%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.56%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.78%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 17 (47.22%) Agile
3 12 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 11 (30.56%) Containerisation
4 11 (30.56%) Microservices
4 11 (30.56%) Test Automation
5 10 (27.78%) Mentoring
6 9 (25.00%) DevOps
7 8 (22.22%) AI
7 8 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (19.44%) Observability
8 7 (19.44%) Responsive Web Design
8 7 (19.44%) Software Engineering
8 7 (19.44%) User Experience
9 6 (16.67%) Code Quality
9 6 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (13.89%) Front End Development
10 5 (13.89%) Generative AI
10 5 (13.89%) TDD
10 5 (13.89%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 29 (80.56%) TypeScript
2 18 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (16.67%) Java
4 4 (11.11%) SQL
5 3 (8.33%) Python
6 2 (5.56%) C#
7 1 (2.78%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.33%) Degree
4 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (36.11%) Accessibility
2 9 (25.00%) WCAG
3 4 (11.11%) QA
4 1 (2.78%) GDPR
4 1 (2.78%) GRC
4 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 4 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (8.33%) Terraform
3 2 (5.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (2.78%) Braze
1 1 (2.78%) Google
1 1 (2.78%) New Relic
1 1 (2.78%) Optimizely
1 1 (2.78%) TOWER Software