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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 343 336
Rank change year-on-year +32 -7 +24
Contract jobs citing Jest 58 36 82
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.41% 0.23% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.57% 0.89% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 18 47
10th Percentile £324 £396 £370
25th Percentile £412 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £633 £498
Median % change year-on-year -22.53% +27.14% -20.40%
75th Percentile £544 £863 £575
90th Percentile £694 £1,050 £588
England median daily rate £450 £550 £499
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.28% -16.88%
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 3,701 4,030 5,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.17% 25.90% 26.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,508 2,639 3,848
10th Percentile £356 £377 £400
25th Percentile £424 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £653 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 20 32
10th Percentile £34.16 £36.13 £32.30
25th Percentile £43.44 £38.44 £36.69
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.76% -11.24%
75th Percentile £63.19 £63.13 £72.41
90th Percentile £77.03 £71.90 £85.65
England median hourly rate £59.75 £65.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -8.08% +22.64% -18.46%

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 2 December 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 2 December 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 +5 6 £575 -11.54% 6
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 (3.45%) CMS
1 2 (3.45%) Magnolia
1 2 (3.45%) SharePoint
1 2 (3.45%) WordPress
2 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.72%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 23 (39.66%) AWS
2 21 (36.21%) GitHub
3 13 (22.41%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (18.97%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (18.97%) Serverless
5 10 (17.24%) Amazon S3
6 7 (12.07%) Amazon Cognito
6 7 (12.07%) Azure
7 6 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (6.90%) Datadog
9 3 (5.17%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (5.17%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (5.17%) Figma
9 3 (5.17%) GCP
9 3 (5.17%) Google Analytics
9 3 (5.17%) Google Play
9 3 (5.17%) SaaS
10 2 (3.45%) AWS Fargate
10 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) Bluetooth
1 3 (5.17%) DNS
1 3 (5.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.86%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (18.97%) NoSQL
3 8 (13.79%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (5.17%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.45%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.72%) DB2
6 1 (1.72%) Hasura
6 1 (1.72%) MySQL
6 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (43.10%) Cypress.io
1 25 (43.10%) Git
2 10 (17.24%) webpack
3 6 (10.34%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.90%) GitLab
4 4 (6.90%) JIRA
4 4 (6.90%) Vite
5 3 (5.17%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (5.17%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.17%) ESLint
5 3 (5.17%) Lerna
5 3 (5.17%) Mocha
5 3 (5.17%) rollup.js
5 3 (5.17%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (3.45%) Jasmine
6 2 (3.45%) JUnit
6 2 (3.45%) Maven
6 2 (3.45%) Storybook
7 1 (1.72%) Babel
7 1 (1.72%) fastlane
General
1 28 (48.28%) Social Skills
2 14 (24.14%) Finance
3 6 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.90%) Banking
6 3 (5.17%) Marketing
7 1 (1.72%) Advertising
7 1 (1.72%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.72%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.72%) Military
7 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (56.90%) Developer
2 12 (20.69%) React Developer
3 11 (18.97%) Senior
4 9 (15.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 8 (13.79%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 7 (12.07%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (12.07%) Lead
6 7 (12.07%) Python Developer
6 7 (12.07%) Senior Developer
7 6 (10.34%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 6 (10.34%) Software Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) JavaScript Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 3 (5.17%) Web Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) AWS Developer
10 2 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Development Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Java Developer
10 2 (3.45%) Lead Developer
10 2 (3.45%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (86.21%) React
2 30 (51.72%) Node.js
3 29 (50.00%) CSS
4 24 (41.38%) RESTful
5 16 (27.59%) HTML
5 16 (27.59%) Sass
6 15 (25.86%) Next.js
7 14 (24.14%) Redux
8 12 (20.69%) Enzyme
8 12 (20.69%) HTML5
9 10 (17.24%) FastAPI
10 8 (13.79%) AngularJS
10 8 (13.79%) CSS3
10 8 (13.79%) Playwright
10 8 (13.79%) pytest
10 8 (13.79%) REST
11 7 (12.07%) GraphQL
11 7 (12.07%) React Native
12 6 (10.34%) Vue
13 4 (6.90%) Parceljs
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.62%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.90%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.90%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.17%) Marketing Technology
4 3 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.45%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.45%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.72%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.72%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) Android
1 4 (6.90%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (79.31%) CI/CD
2 39 (67.24%) Agile
3 22 (37.93%) Test Automation
4 21 (36.21%) DevOps
5 18 (31.03%) Containerisation
5 18 (31.03%) Software Engineering
6 16 (27.59%) Front End Development
6 16 (27.59%) User Experience
7 14 (24.14%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (22.41%) Code Quality
8 13 (22.41%) End-to-End Testing
8 13 (22.41%) TDD
9 12 (20.69%) Microservices
9 12 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (17.24%) Performance Optimisation
11 9 (15.52%) Mentoring
11 9 (15.52%) Observability
11 9 (15.52%) Unit Testing
12 8 (13.79%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (13.79%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 47 (81.03%) TypeScript
2 34 (58.62%) JavaScript
3 18 (31.03%) SQL
4 12 (20.69%) Python
5 7 (12.07%) JSX
6 6 (10.34%) Java
7 1 (1.72%) C#
7 1 (1.72%) Elm
7 1 (1.72%) Go
7 1 (1.72%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 9 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.90%) Degree
4 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (39.66%) Accessibility
2 12 (20.69%) WCAG
3 10 (17.24%) QA
4 3 (5.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 19 (32.76%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (25.86%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.62%) Terraform
3 4 (6.90%) Grafana
4 1 (1.72%) Ansible
4 1 (1.72%) Istio
4 1 (1.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (12.07%) Google
2 3 (5.17%) Amplitude
2 3 (5.17%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.45%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.72%) DevExpress
4 1 (1.72%) Splunk
4 1 (1.72%) Sybase
4 1 (1.72%) Telerik