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 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 312 329
Rank change year-on-year -69 +17 +46
Contract jobs citing Jest 38 39 59
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.22% 0.31% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.90% 1.18% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 28 39
10th Percentile £345 £380 £395
25th Percentile £402 £403 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.18% -15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £571 £563 £613
90th Percentile £638 £766 £950
England median daily rate £450 £463 £489
% change year-on-year -2.70% -5.42% -11.09%

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 4,205 3,303 4,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.91% 26.06% 25.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,838 2,323 3,351
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 £656 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £813
England median daily rate £525 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -1.59% -3.00% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 18 25
10th Percentile £23.00 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £36.06 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +42.51% -43.32%
75th Percentile £61.63 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.25 £68.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -18 4 £625 +47.06% 1
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 (2.63%) Apache
1 1 (2.63%) Camunda
1 1 (2.63%) SAS
1 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 18 (47.37%) AWS
2 11 (28.95%) GitHub
3 10 (26.32%) Serverless
4 9 (23.68%) Amazon S3
4 9 (23.68%) Azure
5 7 (18.42%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (13.16%) Pulumi
8 4 (10.53%) Amazon Cognito
9 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (7.89%) Entra ID
10 2 (5.26%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (5.26%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (5.26%) SaaS
11 1 (2.63%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (2.63%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (2.63%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (13.16%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (10.53%) DynamoDB
3 4 (10.53%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.63%) Redis
4 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (44.74%) Cypress.io
2 10 (26.32%) Git
3 5 (13.16%) Mocha
4 4 (10.53%) webpack
5 3 (7.89%) Jenkins
5 3 (7.89%) Mockito
6 2 (5.26%) CircleCI
6 2 (5.26%) Claude Code
6 2 (5.26%) GitLab
6 2 (5.26%) Jasmine
6 2 (5.26%) JUnit
6 2 (5.26%) Selenium
6 2 (5.26%) Vite
7 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.63%) Moq
7 1 (2.63%) NUnit
7 1 (2.63%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.63%) Serilog
7 1 (2.63%) Storybook
General
1 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Banking
2 4 (10.53%) Finance
3 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.26%) Advertising
4 2 (5.26%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Front Office
5 1 (2.63%) Law
5 1 (2.63%) Police
Job Titles
1 16 (42.11%) Developer
2 12 (31.58%) React Developer
3 6 (15.79%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 5 (13.16%) Lead
4 5 (13.16%) Senior
5 4 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Software Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (7.89%) JavaScript Developer
6 3 (7.89%) JavaScript Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Node.js Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Developer
8 1 (2.63%) .NET Developer
8 1 (2.63%) Automation Tester
8 1 (2.63%) Java Developer
8 1 (2.63%) Python Developer
8 1 (2.63%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (84.21%) React
2 21 (55.26%) Node.js
3 14 (36.84%) CSS
3 14 (36.84%) Playwright
3 14 (36.84%) RESTful
4 13 (34.21%) Redux
5 11 (28.95%) Next.js
6 9 (23.68%) REST
7 8 (21.05%) Enzyme
7 8 (21.05%) HTML
8 7 (18.42%) GraphQL
8 7 (18.42%) OAuth
8 7 (18.42%) OAuth2
9 6 (15.79%) OpenID
10 5 (13.16%) .NET
10 5 (13.16%) Express.js
10 5 (13.16%) Sass
11 4 (10.53%) CSS3
11 4 (10.53%) HTML5
11 4 (10.53%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.68%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.16%) Product Ownership
3 4 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (7.89%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (5.26%) Algorithms
5 2 (5.26%) Data Structures
5 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.63%) Fixed Income
6 1 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.63%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (57.89%) Agile
2 21 (55.26%) CI/CD
3 15 (39.47%) Full-Stack Development
4 14 (36.84%) Test Automation
5 13 (34.21%) Containerisation
6 12 (31.58%) DevOps
7 10 (26.32%) Microservices
7 10 (26.32%) Software Engineering
8 8 (21.05%) End-to-End Testing
8 8 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (21.05%) Mentoring
9 7 (18.42%) AI
9 7 (18.42%) User Experience
10 6 (15.79%) API Integration
10 6 (15.79%) Architectural Patterns
10 6 (15.79%) BDD
10 6 (15.79%) Responsive Web Design
10 6 (15.79%) TDD
11 5 (13.16%) Code Quality
11 5 (13.16%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 31 (81.58%) TypeScript
2 17 (44.74%) JavaScript
3 9 (23.68%) SQL
4 5 (13.16%) Java
5 3 (7.89%) JSX
6 2 (5.26%) C#
6 2 (5.26%) Python
7 1 (2.63%) Bicep
7 1 (2.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.42%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.89%) Degree
4 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (31.58%) Accessibility
2 8 (21.05%) WCAG
3 2 (5.26%) QA
4 1 (2.63%) GDPR
4 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (36.84%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.63%) Braze
2 1 (2.63%) DevExpress
2 1 (2.63%) New Relic
2 1 (2.63%) Optimizely
2 1 (2.63%) Telerik