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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 323 336
Rank change year-on-year -22 +13 +34
Contract jobs citing Jest 53 30 57
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.33% 0.23% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.29% 0.90% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 18 31
10th Percentile £297 £393 £375
25th Percentile £409 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £503 £489
Median % change year-on-year -6.47% +2.76% -18.50%
75th Percentile £536 £675 £529
90th Percentile £613 £754 £650
England median daily rate £450 £501 £450
% change year-on-year -10.22% +11.39% -18.18%

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 4,106 3,351 4,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.29% 25.94% 24.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,789 2,298 3,328
10th Percentile £363 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -5.27%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £545 £540
% change year-on-year -3.67% +0.93% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 29
10th Percentile £27.80 £34.30 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.06 £38.50 £26.88
Median hourly rate £46.50 £45.00 £42.19
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +6.66% -35.87%
75th Percentile £62.18 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £69.88 £80.10 £75.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 March 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 March 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 -15 3 £575 +21.05% 8
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 (3.77%) CMS
1 2 (3.77%) Magnolia
1 2 (3.77%) SharePoint
1 2 (3.77%) WordPress
2 1 (1.89%) Apache
2 1 (1.89%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.74%) AWS
2 17 (32.08%) GitHub
3 12 (22.64%) Azure
3 12 (22.64%) Serverless
4 11 (20.75%) Amazon S3
4 11 (20.75%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (15.09%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (13.21%) Amazon Cognito
7 5 (9.43%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (9.43%) Pulumi
8 4 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (7.55%) SaaS
9 3 (5.66%) Datadog
9 3 (5.66%) Entra ID
10 2 (3.77%) Figma
10 2 (3.77%) GCP
11 1 (1.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (1.89%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.87%) NoSQL
1 10 (18.87%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (13.21%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (7.55%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.89%) Redis
4 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (39.62%) Cypress.io
2 19 (35.85%) Git
3 7 (13.21%) webpack
4 4 (7.55%) Mocha
5 3 (5.66%) ESLint
5 3 (5.66%) GitLab
5 3 (5.66%) Jasmine
5 3 (5.66%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.66%) JIRA
5 3 (5.66%) Lerna
5 3 (5.66%) rollup.js
5 3 (5.66%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (3.77%) Mockito
7 1 (1.89%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.89%) JUnit
7 1 (1.89%) Moq
7 1 (1.89%) NUnit
7 1 (1.89%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.89%) Selenium
7 1 (1.89%) Storybook
General
1 24 (45.28%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.09%) Finance
3 6 (11.32%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.66%) Banking
5 1 (1.89%) Advertising
5 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.89%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (58.49%) Developer
2 15 (28.30%) React Developer
3 11 (20.75%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 9 (16.98%) Senior
5 8 (15.09%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (11.32%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 6 (11.32%) Python Developer
6 6 (11.32%) Senior Developer
6 6 (11.32%) Software Engineer
7 5 (9.43%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 4 (7.55%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (7.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (7.55%) JavaScript Engineer
8 4 (7.55%) Lead
8 4 (7.55%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) JavaScript Developer
9 3 (5.66%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 1 (1.89%) .NET Developer
10 1 (1.89%) Python Web Developer
10 1 (1.89%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (84.91%) React
2 30 (56.60%) Node.js
3 22 (41.51%) CSS
3 22 (41.51%) RESTful
4 19 (35.85%) Playwright
5 17 (32.08%) Next.js
6 14 (26.42%) REST
7 13 (24.53%) Enzyme
7 13 (24.53%) Redux
8 11 (20.75%) HTML
8 11 (20.75%) Sass
9 8 (15.09%) GraphQL
10 7 (13.21%) OAuth
10 7 (13.21%) OAuth2
11 6 (11.32%) FastAPI
11 6 (11.32%) HTML5
11 6 (11.32%) OpenID
12 5 (9.43%) CSS3
12 5 (9.43%) Express.js
13 4 (7.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.98%) Cloud Native
2 8 (15.09%) Product Ownership
3 6 (11.32%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (9.43%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (5.66%) Algorithms
5 3 (5.66%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (67.92%) Agile
1 36 (67.92%) CI/CD
2 21 (39.62%) Containerisation
2 21 (39.62%) Full-Stack Development
3 19 (35.85%) Test Automation
4 18 (33.96%) DevOps
5 17 (32.08%) Software Engineering
6 16 (30.19%) Front End Development
7 15 (28.30%) End-to-End Testing
8 13 (24.53%) TDD
9 11 (20.75%) Microservices
9 11 (20.75%) User Experience
10 10 (18.87%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (18.87%) Mentoring
11 9 (16.98%) BDD
11 9 (16.98%) Code Quality
12 8 (15.09%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (15.09%) Observability
13 7 (13.21%) Monorepo
13 7 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 49 (92.45%) TypeScript
2 27 (50.94%) JavaScript
3 16 (30.19%) SQL
4 7 (13.21%) JSX
5 6 (11.32%) Python
6 5 (9.43%) Java
7 2 (3.77%) C#
8 1 (1.89%) Bicep
8 1 (1.89%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (20.75%) Security Cleared
2 10 (18.87%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.77%) Degree
3 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (37.74%) Accessibility
2 13 (24.53%) WCAG
3 5 (9.43%) QA
4 1 (1.89%) GDPR
4 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (41.51%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (28.30%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.55%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (5.66%) Grafana
4 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (7.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.89%) DevExpress
2 1 (1.89%) Telerik