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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 321 335
Rank change year-on-year -32 +14 +40
Contract jobs citing Jest 50 32 58
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.30% 0.25% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.20% 0.97% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 22 32
10th Percentile £253 £380 £375
25th Percentile £409 £401 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £476 £489
Median % change year-on-year +7.09% -2.61% -18.50%
75th Percentile £538 £662 £588
90th Percentile £638 £750 £718
England median daily rate £450 £488 £472
% change year-on-year -7.74% +3.45% -14.27%

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 4,180 3,305 4,438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.80% 26.17% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,830 2,311 3,337
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £713 £699
90th Percentile £775 £834 £800
England median daily rate £525 £537 £544
% change year-on-year -2.23% -1.24% -5.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 26
10th Percentile £26.63 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.69 £25.88
Median hourly rate £44.75 £54.00 £44.85
Median % change year-on-year -17.13% +20.41% -31.01%
75th Percentile £59.04 £65.00 £65.69
90th Percentile £82.50 £76.25 £76.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -11 5 £600 +26.32% 8
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 (4.00%) CMS
1 2 (4.00%) Magnolia
1 2 (4.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (4.00%) WordPress
2 1 (2.00%) Apache
2 1 (2.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.00%) AWS
2 17 (34.00%) GitHub
3 12 (24.00%) Azure
4 11 (22.00%) Serverless
5 10 (20.00%) Amazon S3
5 10 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (14.00%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (12.00%) Amazon Cognito
8 5 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (10.00%) Pulumi
9 4 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (8.00%) SaaS
10 3 (6.00%) Entra ID
11 2 (4.00%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (4.00%) Figma
11 2 (4.00%) GitHub Copilot
12 1 (2.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 1 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
12 1 (2.00%) Supabase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.00%) NoSQL
1 9 (18.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (12.00%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (8.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.00%) Redis
4 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (42.00%) Cypress.io
2 18 (36.00%) Git
3 8 (16.00%) webpack
4 5 (10.00%) Mocha
5 3 (6.00%) ESLint
5 3 (6.00%) Jasmine
5 3 (6.00%) Jenkins
5 3 (6.00%) rollup.js
5 3 (6.00%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (4.00%) CircleCI
6 2 (4.00%) Claude Code
6 2 (4.00%) JIRA
6 2 (4.00%) Mockito
6 2 (4.00%) Vite
7 1 (2.00%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.00%) JUnit
7 1 (2.00%) Moq
7 1 (2.00%) NUnit
7 1 (2.00%) Selenium
7 1 (2.00%) Serilog
General
1 20 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.00%) Finance
3 6 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.00%) Banking
5 2 (4.00%) Advertising
6 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.00%) Law
6 1 (2.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 29 (58.00%) Developer
2 17 (34.00%) React Developer
3 8 (16.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 7 (14.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (14.00%) Senior
5 6 (12.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 5 (10.00%) Python Developer
6 5 (10.00%) Software Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 4 (8.00%) JavaScript Developer
7 4 (8.00%) JavaScript Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Lead
7 4 (8.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Node.js Developer
9 1 (2.00%) Applications Engineer
9 1 (2.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 1 (2.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (84.00%) React
2 28 (56.00%) Node.js
3 22 (44.00%) CSS
4 20 (40.00%) RESTful
5 17 (34.00%) Playwright
6 15 (30.00%) Next.js
7 14 (28.00%) Redux
8 13 (26.00%) Enzyme
9 12 (24.00%) HTML
9 12 (24.00%) REST
10 10 (20.00%) Sass
11 9 (18.00%) GraphQL
12 7 (14.00%) HTML5
12 7 (14.00%) OAuth
12 7 (14.00%) OAuth2
13 6 (12.00%) CSS3
13 6 (12.00%) OpenID
14 5 (10.00%) Express.js
14 5 (10.00%) FastAPI
15 4 (8.00%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.00%) Product Ownership
3 5 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (8.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (6.00%) Algorithms
5 3 (6.00%) Data Structures
6 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (2.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (68.00%) CI/CD
2 33 (66.00%) Agile
3 19 (38.00%) Containerisation
3 19 (38.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 18 (36.00%) Test Automation
5 15 (30.00%) DevOps
5 15 (30.00%) Software Engineering
6 14 (28.00%) Front End Development
7 12 (24.00%) End-to-End Testing
7 12 (24.00%) TDD
8 11 (22.00%) Mentoring
8 11 (22.00%) Microservices
9 10 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (18.00%) User Experience
11 8 (16.00%) BDD
11 8 (16.00%) Code Quality
11 8 (16.00%) Responsive Web Design
12 7 (14.00%) AI
12 7 (14.00%) API Integration
13 6 (12.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
Programming Languages
1 46 (92.00%) TypeScript
2 25 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 14 (28.00%) SQL
4 6 (12.00%) JSX
5 5 (10.00%) Java
5 5 (10.00%) Python
6 2 (4.00%) C#
7 1 (2.00%) Bicep
7 1 (2.00%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (22.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.00%) Degree
3 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (36.00%) Accessibility
2 13 (26.00%) WCAG
3 3 (6.00%) QA
4 1 (2.00%) GDPR
4 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.00%) Grafana
3 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.00%) DevExpress
2 1 (2.00%) Telerik