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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 343 355
Rank change year-on-year +36 +12 -3
Contract jobs citing Jest 64 38 75
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.46% 0.24% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.75% 0.92% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 21 44
10th Percentile £367 £400 £383
25th Percentile £411 £600 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £551 £875 £575
90th Percentile £720 £1,050 £625
England median daily rate £450 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -21.74% +15.00% -16.67%
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
% change year-on-year - - +15.05%

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 3,667 4,116 5,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.36% 26.27% 25.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,501 2,691 3,988
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £706 £700
90th Percentile £788 £850 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 18 35
10th Percentile £31.61 £32.99 £33.20
25th Percentile £34.87 £38.31 £38.05
Median hourly rate £51.44 £47.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.87% -21.25% +2.13%
75th Percentile £61.88 £60.76 £72.83
90th Percentile £87.50 £73.70 £88.62
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -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 8 November 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 8 November 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 +8 6 £575 -20.69% 32
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 (3.13%) CMS
1 2 (3.13%) Magnolia
1 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
1 2 (3.13%) WordPress
2 1 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.56%) Confluence
2 1 (1.56%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 27 (42.19%) AWS
2 22 (34.38%) GitHub
3 14 (21.88%) AWS Lambda
3 14 (21.88%) GitHub Actions
3 14 (21.88%) Serverless
4 13 (20.31%) Amazon S3
5 9 (14.06%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (10.94%) Amazon Cognito
6 7 (10.94%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (9.38%) Amazon Kinesis
7 6 (9.38%) AWS Fargate
7 6 (9.38%) Azure
8 5 (7.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (6.25%) Datadog
9 4 (6.25%) Google Analytics
10 3 (4.69%) Figma
10 3 (4.69%) GCP
10 3 (4.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.25%) DNS
1 4 (6.25%) HTTP
2 3 (4.69%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (29.69%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (20.31%) NoSQL
3 11 (17.19%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (9.38%) DynamoDB
5 3 (4.69%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.13%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.56%) DB2
7 1 (1.56%) Hasura
7 1 (1.56%) MySQL
7 1 (1.56%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (42.19%) Cypress.io
1 27 (42.19%) Git
2 11 (17.19%) webpack
3 8 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 7 (10.94%) Cucumber
5 6 (9.38%) JUnit
5 6 (9.38%) Maven
6 5 (7.81%) Vite
7 4 (6.25%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (6.25%) GitLab
7 4 (6.25%) JIRA
8 3 (4.69%) ESLint
8 3 (4.69%) Lerna
8 3 (4.69%) rollup.js
8 3 (4.69%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (3.13%) Jasmine
9 2 (3.13%) Mocha
9 2 (3.13%) Storybook
10 1 (1.56%) Babel
10 1 (1.56%) fastlane
General
1 29 (45.31%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.44%) Finance
3 6 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.38%) Banking
4 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.25%) Marketing
6 1 (1.56%) Advertising
6 1 (1.56%) Aviation
6 1 (1.56%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.56%) Front Office
6 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.56%) Military
6 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (62.50%) Developer
2 14 (21.88%) React Developer
3 13 (20.31%) Full-Stack Developer
4 11 (17.19%) Senior
5 9 (14.06%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 9 (14.06%) Python Developer
6 8 (12.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 8 (12.50%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 8 (12.50%) Senior Developer
7 7 (10.94%) Lead
8 6 (9.38%) AWS Developer
9 5 (7.81%) Software Engineer
10 4 (6.25%) JavaScript Engineer
10 4 (6.25%) Web Engineer
11 3 (4.69%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 2 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
12 2 (3.13%) Development Engineer
12 2 (3.13%) Java Developer
12 2 (3.13%) Lead Developer
12 2 (3.13%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (79.69%) React
2 32 (50.00%) Node.js
3 30 (46.88%) CSS
4 24 (37.50%) RESTful
5 18 (28.13%) HTML
6 17 (26.56%) Redux
6 17 (26.56%) Sass
7 15 (23.44%) Next.js
8 13 (20.31%) HTML5
9 12 (18.75%) Enzyme
9 12 (18.75%) FastAPI
10 9 (14.06%) AngularJS
10 9 (14.06%) REST
11 8 (12.50%) CSS3
11 8 (12.50%) GraphQL
11 8 (12.50%) pytest
11 8 (12.50%) React Native
12 7 (10.94%) Playwright
12 7 (10.94%) Vue
13 6 (9.38%) MobX
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.38%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 4 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 4 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
2 4 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.25%) Marketing Technology
2 4 (6.25%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.56%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.56%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.25%) Android
1 4 (6.25%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (78.13%) CI/CD
2 45 (70.31%) Agile
3 24 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 22 (34.38%) Containerisation
5 21 (32.81%) DevOps
6 20 (31.25%) Front End Development
7 19 (29.69%) Full-Stack Development
8 18 (28.13%) Code Quality
8 18 (28.13%) Software Engineering
9 17 (26.56%) User Experience
10 14 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (20.31%) End-to-End Testing
11 13 (20.31%) Performance Optimisation
12 12 (18.75%) Clean Code
12 12 (18.75%) Microservices
12 12 (18.75%) TDD
13 10 (15.63%) API Development
13 10 (15.63%) Observability
13 10 (15.63%) Unit Testing
14 9 (14.06%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 55 (85.94%) TypeScript
2 36 (56.25%) JavaScript
3 18 (28.13%) Python
3 18 (28.13%) SQL
4 10 (15.63%) Java
5 7 (10.94%) JSX
6 4 (6.25%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.56%) C#
7 1 (1.56%) Elm
7 1 (1.56%) Go
7 1 (1.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 8 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.94%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.81%) Degree
4 4 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (32.81%) Accessibility
2 13 (20.31%) QA
3 12 (18.75%) WCAG
4 4 (6.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 23 (35.94%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.25%) Grafana
2 4 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (1.56%) Ansible
3 1 (1.56%) Istio
3 1 (1.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (12.50%) Google
2 6 (9.38%) CA Agile Central
3 5 (7.81%) ServiceNow
4 4 (6.25%) Amplitude
5 2 (3.13%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.56%) DevExpress
6 1 (1.56%) Splunk
6 1 (1.56%) Sybase
6 1 (1.56%) Telerik