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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 332 324
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 +39
Contract jobs citing Jest 49 27 77
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.35% 0.19% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.31% 0.75% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 14 43
10th Percentile £308 £390 £375
25th Percentile £413 £401 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £464 £489
Median % change year-on-year +2.43% -5.16% -18.50%
75th Percentile £538 £662 £575
90th Percentile £675 £775 £588
England median daily rate £450 £425 £489
% change year-on-year +5.88% -13.09% -18.50%

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 3,745 3,613 4,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.39% 25.64% 25.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,529 2,363 3,449
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £593
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -2.95% -2.87%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £764 £825 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 19 31
10th Percentile £35.00 £34.65 £29.72
25th Percentile £42.19 £38.38 £35.94
Median hourly rate £54.50 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +5.00% -15.97%
75th Percentile £63.19 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.40 £72.80 £75.00
England median hourly rate £58.00 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -7.20% +20.45% -20.17%

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 10 January 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 10 January 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 -4 4 £575 +35.29% 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 (4.08%) CMS
1 2 (4.08%) Magnolia
1 2 (4.08%) SharePoint
1 2 (4.08%) WordPress
2 1 (2.04%) Apache
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.04%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) SAS
2 1 (2.04%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 18 (36.73%) AWS
1 18 (36.73%) GitHub
2 11 (22.45%) GitHub Actions
3 8 (16.33%) Amazon S3
3 8 (16.33%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (16.33%) Azure
3 8 (16.33%) Serverless
4 7 (14.29%) Amazon Cognito
5 4 (8.16%) Datadog
6 3 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.12%) Figma
6 3 (6.12%) GCP
6 3 (6.12%) SaaS
7 1 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.04%) Asana
7 1 (2.04%) Google Analytics
7 1 (2.04%) npm
7 1 (2.04%) Slack
7 1 (2.04%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) DNS
1 1 (2.04%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (22.45%) NoSQL
3 7 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.04%) Hasura
5 1 (2.04%) MySQL
5 1 (2.04%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (44.90%) Cypress.io
2 20 (40.82%) Git
3 7 (14.29%) webpack
4 4 (8.16%) GitLab
4 4 (8.16%) Jenkins
4 4 (8.16%) JIRA
5 3 (6.12%) ESLint
5 3 (6.12%) Lerna
5 3 (6.12%) Mocha
5 3 (6.12%) rollup.js
5 3 (6.12%) Storybook
5 3 (6.12%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (4.08%) Jasmine
6 2 (4.08%) Vite
7 1 (2.04%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (2.04%) fastlane
7 1 (2.04%) gulp
7 1 (2.04%) Mockito
General
1 23 (46.94%) Social Skills
2 12 (24.49%) Finance
3 7 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.12%) Banking
5 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Marketing
6 1 (2.04%) Military
6 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (57.14%) Developer
2 11 (22.45%) React Developer
3 9 (18.37%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 9 (18.37%) Senior
4 7 (14.29%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 7 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (14.29%) Python Developer
5 6 (12.24%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 6 (12.24%) Senior Developer
5 6 (12.24%) Software Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) JavaScript Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Lead
9 1 (2.04%) AWS Engineer
9 1 (2.04%) Backend Developer
9 1 (2.04%) Mid Level Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 1 (2.04%) Scala Engineer
9 1 (2.04%) Senior Backend Developer
9 1 (2.04%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (89.80%) React
2 27 (55.10%) Node.js
3 24 (48.98%) RESTful
4 23 (46.94%) CSS
5 15 (30.61%) Next.js
6 12 (24.49%) Enzyme
6 12 (24.49%) Sass
7 11 (22.45%) HTML
8 10 (20.41%) Playwright
8 10 (20.41%) Redux
9 9 (18.37%) FastAPI
10 8 (16.33%) REST
11 7 (14.29%) GraphQL
11 7 (14.29%) HTML5
11 7 (14.29%) pytest
12 5 (10.20%) AngularJS
12 5 (10.20%) CSS3
13 4 (8.16%) YAML
14 3 (6.12%) .NET
14 3 (6.12%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Product Ownership
2 5 (10.20%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.16%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (4.08%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.08%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.04%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.04%) Legacy Code
6 1 (2.04%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.04%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Android
1 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.04%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (75.51%) Agile
1 37 (75.51%) CI/CD
2 18 (36.73%) Software Engineering
3 17 (34.69%) Containerisation
3 17 (34.69%) DevOps
3 17 (34.69%) Front End Development
3 17 (34.69%) Full-Stack Development
4 16 (32.65%) Test Automation
5 13 (26.53%) End-to-End Testing
5 13 (26.53%) TDD
5 13 (26.53%) User Experience
6 9 (18.37%) Microservices
6 9 (18.37%) Observability
6 9 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (16.33%) API Development
7 8 (16.33%) Code Quality
7 8 (16.33%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (14.29%) BDD
8 7 (14.29%) Computer Science
8 7 (14.29%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 44 (89.80%) TypeScript
2 31 (63.27%) JavaScript
3 17 (34.69%) SQL
4 11 (22.45%) Python
5 7 (14.29%) JSX
6 3 (6.12%) Java
7 1 (2.04%) Go
7 1 (2.04%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.04%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (20.41%) Security Cleared
2 9 (18.37%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.16%) Degree
4 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (36.73%) Accessibility
2 11 (22.45%) WCAG
3 8 (16.33%) QA
4 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
System Software
1 18 (36.73%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (32.65%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.16%) Grafana
2 4 (8.16%) Terraform
3 1 (2.04%) Ansible
3 1 (2.04%) Istio
3 1 (2.04%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (8.16%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.08%) Google
3 1 (2.04%) Amplitude
3 1 (2.04%) DevExpress
3 1 (2.04%) Splunk
3 1 (2.04%) Telerik