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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 315 356
Rank change year-on-year -78 +41 +7
Contract jobs citing Jest 42 54 47
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.21% 0.40% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.94% 1.52% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 31 38
10th Percentile £363 £380 £429
25th Percentile £441 £405 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £450 £615
Median % change year-on-year +24.44% -26.83% +11.82%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £950
90th Percentile £638 £763 £1,015
England median daily rate £463 £480 £548
% change year-on-year -3.65% -12.33% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £45.00 -
England median hourly rate - £45.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -35.71% -4.76%

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 4,490 3,547 4,702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.70% 26.06% 27.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,976 2,465 3,435
10th Percentile £389 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £430 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £719
90th Percentile £786 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 24 26
10th Percentile £24.63 £31.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.06 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £48.22 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +20.55% -40.74%
75th Percentile £70.69 £62.81 £58.76
90th Percentile £91.88 £81.88 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -7.46%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -5 9 £600 +14.29% 10
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 (2.38%) Camunda
1 1 (2.38%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 20 (47.62%) AWS
2 13 (30.95%) Azure
3 12 (28.57%) GitHub
4 8 (19.05%) Serverless
5 7 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (16.67%) Amazon S3
6 6 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (11.90%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (11.90%) Pulumi
8 4 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (9.52%) Figma
9 3 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (4.76%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (4.76%) Entra ID
10 2 (4.76%) GCP
11 1 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (2.38%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (2.38%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (2.38%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.29%) DynamoDB
2 3 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.76%) Redis
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (52.38%) Cypress.io
2 17 (40.48%) Git
3 8 (19.05%) Storybook
3 8 (19.05%) webpack
4 4 (9.52%) Mocha
4 4 (9.52%) Vite
5 3 (7.14%) Jenkins
6 2 (4.76%) Ant
6 2 (4.76%) CircleCI
6 2 (4.76%) Claude Code
6 2 (4.76%) GitLab
6 2 (4.76%) JUnit
6 2 (4.76%) Mockito
6 2 (4.76%) Selenium
7 1 (2.38%) ESLint
7 1 (2.38%) JIRA
7 1 (2.38%) NUnit
7 1 (2.38%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.38%) rollup.js
7 1 (2.38%) Serilog
General
1 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (9.52%) Banking
4 3 (7.14%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.76%) Advertising
5 2 (4.76%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (4.76%) Front Office
5 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.76%) Retail
5 2 (4.76%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Law
6 1 (2.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 23 (54.76%) Developer
2 13 (30.95%) React Developer
3 8 (19.05%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 8 (19.05%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (16.67%) Senior
5 6 (14.29%) Lead
6 4 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Architect
7 3 (7.14%) JavaScript Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Node.js Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Senior Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Senior React Developer
7 3 (7.14%) UI Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) UI Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Web Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) Development Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (80.95%) React
2 21 (50.00%) Node.js
3 19 (45.24%) CSS
3 19 (45.24%) REST
4 17 (40.48%) Playwright
5 16 (38.10%) HTML
6 15 (35.71%) Redux
6 15 (35.71%) RESTful
7 13 (30.95%) GraphQL
8 12 (28.57%) CSS3
8 12 (28.57%) HTML5
9 11 (26.19%) Next.js
10 10 (23.81%) OAuth
10 10 (23.81%) OAuth2
11 7 (16.67%) Kafka
12 5 (11.90%) AngularJS
12 5 (11.90%) Express.js
12 5 (11.90%) OpenID
12 5 (11.90%) Vue
13 4 (9.52%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 6 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 4 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.38%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 18 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 17 (40.48%) Agile
4 16 (38.10%) Microservices
5 15 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
6 14 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 14 (33.33%) DevOps
7 13 (30.95%) User Experience
8 11 (26.19%) AI
9 10 (23.81%) Mentoring
10 9 (21.43%) Performance Optimisation
10 9 (21.43%) Responsive Web Design
11 8 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (19.05%) Observability
12 7 (16.67%) API Integration
12 7 (16.67%) Code Quality
12 7 (16.67%) Event-Driven
12 7 (16.67%) Front End Development
12 7 (16.67%) Software Engineering
12 7 (16.67%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 34 (80.95%) TypeScript
2 25 (59.52%) JavaScript
3 7 (16.67%) Java
4 5 (11.90%) SQL
5 2 (4.76%) C#
5 2 (4.76%) Python
6 1 (2.38%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 8 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 6 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.14%) Degree
4 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (30.95%) Accessibility
2 9 (21.43%) WCAG
3 4 (9.52%) QA
4 1 (2.38%) GDPR
4 1 (2.38%) GRC
4 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.90%) Grafana
3 4 (9.52%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (7.14%) Prometheus
4 3 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (2.38%) Braze
1 1 (2.38%) Google
1 1 (2.38%) Guidewire
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft
1 1 (2.38%) New Relic
1 1 (2.38%) Optimizely
1 1 (2.38%) TOWER Software