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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 326 329
Rank change year-on-year -14 +3 +28
Contract jobs citing Jest 51 27 62
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.33% 0.20% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.29% 0.76% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 13 32
10th Percentile £302 £400 £375
25th Percentile £409 £404 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £503 £489
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% +2.76% -18.50%
75th Percentile £528 £623 £543
90th Percentile £585 £745 £599
England median daily rate £450 £496 £450
% change year-on-year -9.18% +10.11% -21.05%

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 3,948 3,536 4,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.90% 26.25% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,668 2,340 3,435
10th Percentile £363 £380 £385
25th Percentile £425 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £524 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.73% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 20 30
10th Percentile £28.39 £36.58 £28.35
25th Percentile £35.06 £39.06 £35.79
Median hourly rate £46.50 £54.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +10.77% -25.00%
75th Percentile £62.18 £65.00 £66.94
90th Percentile £82.50 £81.38 £73.79
England median hourly rate £63.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +1.60% +13.64% -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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -12 1 £525 +10.53% 4
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 (3.92%) CMS
1 2 (3.92%) Magnolia
1 2 (3.92%) SharePoint
1 2 (3.92%) WordPress
2 1 (1.96%) Apache
2 1 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.96%) Confluence
2 1 (1.96%) SAS
2 1 (1.96%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 18 (35.29%) AWS
2 15 (29.41%) GitHub
3 11 (21.57%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (19.61%) Amazon S3
4 10 (19.61%) Azure
4 10 (19.61%) Serverless
5 8 (15.69%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (13.73%) Amazon Cognito
7 4 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (7.84%) SaaS
8 3 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (5.88%) Datadog
8 3 (5.88%) Figma
8 3 (5.88%) Pulumi
9 2 (3.92%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.92%) GCP
10 1 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.96%) Asana
10 1 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.96%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.96%) DNS
1 1 (1.96%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (21.57%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (19.61%) NoSQL
3 7 (13.73%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.92%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.96%) Hasura
5 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.96%) Redis
5 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (39.22%) Git
2 18 (35.29%) Cypress.io
3 7 (13.73%) webpack
4 4 (7.84%) Jenkins
4 4 (7.84%) JIRA
5 3 (5.88%) ESLint
5 3 (5.88%) GitLab
5 3 (5.88%) Lerna
5 3 (5.88%) Mocha
5 3 (5.88%) rollup.js
5 3 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (3.92%) Jasmine
6 2 (3.92%) Mockito
6 2 (3.92%) Vite
7 1 (1.96%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.96%) JUnit
7 1 (1.96%) Moq
7 1 (1.96%) NUnit
7 1 (1.96%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.96%) Selenium
General
1 24 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 10 (19.61%) Finance
3 6 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.92%) Banking
5 1 (1.96%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.96%) Marketing
5 1 (1.96%) Military
Job Titles
1 32 (62.75%) Developer
2 15 (29.41%) React Developer
3 10 (19.61%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 9 (17.65%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (15.69%) Senior
6 7 (13.73%) Python Developer
7 6 (11.76%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 6 (11.76%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 6 (11.76%) Senior Developer
7 6 (11.76%) Software Engineer
8 4 (7.84%) JavaScript Engineer
9 3 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (5.88%) Lead
9 3 (5.88%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 2 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (3.92%) JavaScript Developer
10 2 (3.92%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 1 (1.96%) Backend Developer
11 1 (1.96%) Scala Engineer
11 1 (1.96%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (86.27%) React
2 27 (52.94%) Node.js
3 22 (43.14%) CSS
3 22 (43.14%) RESTful
4 17 (33.33%) Next.js
5 15 (29.41%) Playwright
6 12 (23.53%) Enzyme
6 12 (23.53%) Redux
6 12 (23.53%) Sass
7 11 (21.57%) HTML
7 11 (21.57%) REST
8 7 (13.73%) FastAPI
8 7 (13.73%) GraphQL
9 6 (11.76%) HTML5
10 5 (9.80%) pytest
11 4 (7.84%) CSS3
11 4 (7.84%) OAuth
11 4 (7.84%) OAuth2
11 4 (7.84%) YAML
12 3 (5.88%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 7 (13.73%) Cloud Native
3 5 (9.80%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (7.84%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.92%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.92%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.96%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.96%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.96%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Android
1 1 (1.96%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (68.63%) Agile
1 35 (68.63%) CI/CD
2 19 (37.25%) Containerisation
2 19 (37.25%) Full-Stack Development
3 17 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 16 (31.37%) DevOps
4 16 (31.37%) Front End Development
5 15 (29.41%) Software Engineering
6 13 (25.49%) End-to-End Testing
6 13 (25.49%) TDD
7 12 (23.53%) User Experience
8 9 (17.65%) BDD
8 9 (17.65%) Code Quality
9 8 (15.69%) API Development
9 8 (15.69%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (15.69%) Microservices
9 8 (15.69%) Observability
9 8 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (13.73%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 47 (92.16%) TypeScript
2 29 (56.86%) JavaScript
3 17 (33.33%) SQL
4 8 (15.69%) Python
5 7 (13.73%) JSX
6 4 (7.84%) Java
7 1 (1.96%) Bicep
7 1 (1.96%) C#
7 1 (1.96%) Go
7 1 (1.96%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 11 (21.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.92%) Degree
3 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (37.25%) Accessibility
2 12 (23.53%) WCAG
3 6 (11.76%) QA
4 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (39.22%) Docker
2 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (31.37%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.88%) Grafana
3 2 (3.92%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.96%) Istio
4 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (7.84%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.96%) Amplitude
2 1 (1.96%) DevExpress
2 1 (1.96%) Google
2 1 (1.96%) Telerik