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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 300 343
Rank change year-on-year -79 +43 +16
Contract jobs citing Jest 32 44 47
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.17% 0.36% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.76% 1.36% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 31 33
10th Percentile £382 £380 £416
25th Percentile £438 £402 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £450 £590
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% -23.73% -1.67%
75th Percentile £625 £574 £775
90th Percentile £638 £763 £1,000
England median daily rate £450 £480 £513
% change year-on-year -6.25% -6.34% -6.82%

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 4,237 3,237 4,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.05% 26.40% 26.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,820 2,263 3,392
10th Percentile £375 £385 £375
25th Percentile £445 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £723 £700
90th Percentile £775 £830 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 18 28
10th Percentile £24.30 £32.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £29.52 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £38.91 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -8.45% -36.57%
75th Percentile £64.50 £54.69 £63.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £74.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 1 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 1 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 -8 5 £625 +34.05% 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 (3.13%) Apache
1 1 (3.13%) Camunda
1 1 (3.13%) CMS
1 1 (3.13%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 13 (40.63%) AWS
2 7 (21.88%) Azure
3 6 (18.75%) Serverless
4 5 (15.63%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (15.63%) Amazon S3
4 5 (15.63%) GitHub
4 5 (15.63%) Pulumi
5 2 (6.25%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.13%) Contentful
6 1 (3.13%) Google Play
6 1 (3.13%) Sentry
6 1 (3.13%) Supabase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 3 (9.38%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.13%) Redis
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (43.75%) Cypress.io
2 8 (25.00%) Git
3 5 (15.63%) webpack
4 4 (12.50%) Mocha
4 4 (12.50%) Storybook
5 3 (9.38%) Mockito
6 2 (6.25%) Ant
6 2 (6.25%) CircleCI
6 2 (6.25%) Claude Code
6 2 (6.25%) GitLab
6 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
6 2 (6.25%) JUnit
6 2 (6.25%) Selenium
6 2 (6.25%) Vite
7 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
7 1 (3.13%) Jasmine
7 1 (3.13%) Moq
7 1 (3.13%) NUnit
7 1 (3.13%) REST Assured
7 1 (3.13%) Serilog
General
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Banking
3 3 (9.38%) Finance
4 2 (6.25%) Advertising
4 2 (6.25%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Front Office
5 1 (3.13%) Law
5 1 (3.13%) Police
5 1 (3.13%) Retail
5 1 (3.13%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (50.00%) Developer
2 12 (37.50%) React Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Lead
4 4 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 4 (12.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 4 (12.50%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Senior
5 3 (9.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) JavaScript Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Node.js Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior React Developer
6 2 (6.25%) UI Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Automation Tester
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Tester
7 1 (3.13%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (84.38%) React
2 16 (50.00%) Node.js
3 14 (43.75%) Redux
4 13 (40.63%) Playwright
5 12 (37.50%) Next.js
5 12 (37.50%) REST
6 10 (31.25%) CSS
7 9 (28.13%) HTML
8 8 (25.00%) GraphQL
9 7 (21.88%) OAuth
9 7 (21.88%) OAuth2
9 7 (21.88%) RESTful
10 6 (18.75%) CSS3
10 6 (18.75%) HTML5
10 6 (18.75%) OpenID
11 4 (12.50%) .NET
11 4 (12.50%) Express.js
11 4 (12.50%) Model Context Protocol
12 3 (9.38%) Material-UI
12 3 (9.38%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Cloud Native
2 5 (15.63%) Product Ownership
3 4 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (6.25%) Algorithms
4 2 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 2 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.13%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.13%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (53.13%) Agile
2 16 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 13 (40.63%) Full-Stack Development
4 11 (34.38%) Test Automation
5 10 (31.25%) Containerisation
5 10 (31.25%) DevOps
6 8 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 8 (25.00%) Microservices
7 7 (21.88%) AI
7 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (21.88%) Responsive Web Design
8 6 (18.75%) Code Quality
8 6 (18.75%) Observability
8 6 (18.75%) Software Engineering
8 6 (18.75%) User Experience
9 5 (15.63%) Architectural Patterns
9 5 (15.63%) Front End Development
10 4 (12.50%) Generative AI
10 4 (12.50%) LLM
10 4 (12.50%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 27 (84.38%) TypeScript
2 16 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (12.50%) Java
3 4 (12.50%) SQL
4 2 (6.25%) C#
4 2 (6.25%) Python
5 1 (3.13%) Bicep
5 1 (3.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (9.38%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (31.25%) Accessibility
2 8 (25.00%) WCAG
3 2 (6.25%) QA
4 1 (3.13%) GDPR
4 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (34.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 4 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (3.13%) Braze
1 1 (3.13%) Google
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
1 1 (3.13%) New Relic
1 1 (3.13%) Optimizely