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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 314 343
Rank change year-on-year -89 +29 +10
Contract jobs citing Jest 45 50 42
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.22% 0.37% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.85% 1.27% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 29 30
10th Percentile £363 £400 £497
25th Percentile £444 £413 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £475 £615
Median % change year-on-year +17.89% -22.76% +23.00%
75th Percentile £599 £638 £988
90th Percentile £638 £755 £1,050
England median daily rate £485 £450 £595
% change year-on-year +7.78% -24.37% +19.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £45.00 -
England median hourly rate - £45.00 -

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 5,282 3,951 4,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.23% 29.56% 30.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,543 2,726 3,433
10th Percentile £400 £367 £385
25th Percentile £453 £431 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £700
90th Percentile £763 £811 £850
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.85% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 32 22
10th Percentile £26.43 £31.77 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.06 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +22.28% -32.27%
75th Percentile £63.00 £62.81 £59.51
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.00
England median hourly rate £67.24 £55.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +22.25% -12.60% +0.68%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -19 7 £572 -8.48% 7
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 (2.22%) Camunda
1 1 (2.22%) CMS
1 1 (2.22%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 23 (51.11%) AWS
2 21 (46.67%) Azure
3 18 (40.00%) GitHub
4 7 (15.56%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (15.56%) Figma
4 7 (15.56%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (13.33%) GitHub Copilot
5 6 (13.33%) Serverless
6 5 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 5 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (11.11%) GCP
7 4 (8.89%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (8.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (8.89%) npm
8 3 (6.67%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (4.44%) Yarn
10 1 (2.22%) OpenShift
10 1 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.78%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (15.56%) MongoDB
3 6 (13.33%) DynamoDB
4 5 (11.11%) MySQL
4 5 (11.11%) NoSQL
5 3 (6.67%) Redis
5 3 (6.67%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 25 (55.56%) Cypress.io
2 23 (51.11%) Git
3 12 (26.67%) Storybook
4 9 (20.00%) GitLab
5 8 (17.78%) Jenkins
6 6 (13.33%) Vite
6 6 (13.33%) webpack
7 5 (11.11%) Mocha
8 2 (4.44%) Ant
8 2 (4.44%) Bitbucket
8 2 (4.44%) JIRA
8 2 (4.44%) rollup.js
9 1 (2.22%) Claude Code
9 1 (2.22%) ESLint
9 1 (2.22%) Jasmine
9 1 (2.22%) JUnit
9 1 (2.22%) Maven
9 1 (2.22%) Mockito
9 1 (2.22%) Selenium
9 1 (2.22%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (35.56%) Finance
2 10 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 8 (17.78%) Banking
4 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.67%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.44%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (4.44%) Front Office
6 2 (4.44%) Local Government
6 2 (4.44%) Retail
6 2 (4.44%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.22%) Law
7 1 (2.22%) Marketing
7 1 (2.22%) Police
Job Titles
1 30 (66.67%) Developer
2 12 (26.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 9 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 9 (20.00%) React Developer
4 6 (13.33%) Architect
4 6 (13.33%) Senior
4 6 (13.33%) UI Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Senior React Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Lead
7 2 (4.44%) Python Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.44%) UI Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Web Engineer
8 1 (2.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (77.78%) React
2 26 (57.78%) CSS
3 23 (51.11%) HTML
3 23 (51.11%) REST
3 23 (51.11%) RESTful
4 19 (42.22%) HTML5
5 18 (40.00%) Node.js
6 17 (37.78%) CSS3
7 16 (35.56%) Redux
8 15 (33.33%) Kafka
9 13 (28.89%) Playwright
10 10 (22.22%) GraphQL
11 9 (20.00%) JWT
11 9 (20.00%) Next.js
11 9 (20.00%) OAuth
12 7 (15.56%) AngularJS
12 7 (15.56%) OAuth2
13 6 (13.33%) Terraform
14 5 (11.11%) Express.js
15 4 (8.89%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (24.44%) Cloud Native
2 8 (17.78%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.44%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (82.22%) CI/CD
2 24 (53.33%) DevOps
3 22 (48.89%) Agile
3 22 (48.89%) Test Automation
4 19 (42.22%) Microservices
5 18 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 15 (33.33%) User Experience
7 14 (31.11%) Event-Driven
8 13 (28.89%) Performance Optimisation
9 12 (26.67%) Containerisation
9 12 (26.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 11 (24.44%) AI
10 11 (24.44%) Observability
10 11 (24.44%) Scrum
11 10 (22.22%) API Integration
11 10 (22.22%) Front End Development
11 10 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (22.22%) Software Engineering
12 9 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
13 8 (17.78%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 38 (84.44%) TypeScript
2 34 (75.56%) JavaScript
3 8 (17.78%) SQL
4 6 (13.33%) Java
5 5 (11.11%) Python
6 1 (2.22%) Bash
6 1 (2.22%) Bicep
6 1 (2.22%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 12 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (22.22%) Accessibility
1 10 (22.22%) QA
2 8 (17.78%) WCAG
3 1 (2.22%) GRC
System Software
1 21 (46.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (28.89%) Kubernetes
2 8 (17.78%) Grafana
3 6 (13.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.22%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.22%) Braze
2 1 (2.22%) Google
2 1 (2.22%) Guidewire
2 1 (2.22%) New Relic
2 1 (2.22%) Optimizely
2 1 (2.22%) Splunk
2 1 (2.22%) TOWER Software