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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 314 355
Rank change year-on-year -91 +41 -8
Contract jobs citing Jest 40 55 44
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.41% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.76% 1.40% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 35 35
10th Percentile £363 £385 £446
25th Percentile £450 £413 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £475 £615
Median % change year-on-year +17.89% -22.76% +20.00%
75th Percentile £595 £656 £950
90th Percentile £630 £750 £1,030
England median daily rate £485 £450 £581
% change year-on-year +7.78% -22.58% +10.71%
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 5,262 3,925 4,907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.23% 29.11% 30.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,521 2,733 3,492
10th Percentile £400 £368 £383
25th Percentile £455 £431 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £825 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 31 18
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.61 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £33.87 £24.48
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.44 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.44% +21.04% -36.80%
75th Percentile £61.50 £61.88 £50.56
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.00 £68.02
England median hourly rate £65.00 £54.94 £61.80
% change year-on-year +18.32% -11.10% -4.92%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -18 7 £600 -4.00%
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 (2.50%) Camunda
1 1 (2.50%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 22 (55.00%) AWS
2 17 (42.50%) GitHub
3 15 (37.50%) Azure
4 7 (17.50%) Figma
4 7 (17.50%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (17.50%) GitHub Copilot
5 6 (15.00%) Serverless
6 5 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 5 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (10.00%) npm
8 3 (7.50%) Amazon EventBridge
8 3 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (5.00%) GCP
9 2 (5.00%) Yarn
10 1 (2.50%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (2.50%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) DynamoDB
1 6 (15.00%) NoSQL
2 5 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 3 (7.50%) Redis
5 2 (5.00%) MySQL
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 26 (65.00%) Cypress.io
2 19 (47.50%) Git
3 11 (27.50%) Storybook
4 8 (20.00%) Jenkins
5 7 (17.50%) GitLab
6 6 (15.00%) Mocha
6 6 (15.00%) webpack
7 4 (10.00%) Vite
8 2 (5.00%) Ant
8 2 (5.00%) Bitbucket
8 2 (5.00%) Jasmine
9 1 (2.50%) Babel
9 1 (2.50%) CircleCI
9 1 (2.50%) ESLint
9 1 (2.50%) JIRA
9 1 (2.50%) JUnit
9 1 (2.50%) Maven
9 1 (2.50%) Mockito
9 1 (2.50%) Selenium
9 1 (2.50%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (27.50%) Finance
2 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.50%) Banking
4 3 (7.50%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (5.00%) Front Office
5 2 (5.00%) Local Government
5 2 (5.00%) Retail
5 2 (5.00%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Advertising
6 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.50%) Law
6 1 (2.50%) Marketing
6 1 (2.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 24 (60.00%) Developer
2 9 (22.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 8 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 8 (20.00%) React Developer
4 6 (15.00%) Architect
4 6 (15.00%) UI Architect
5 5 (12.50%) Senior
6 3 (7.50%) Lead
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior React Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Node.js Developer
7 2 (5.00%) UI Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Web Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (77.50%) React
2 21 (52.50%) CSS
3 20 (50.00%) REST
4 19 (47.50%) Node.js
4 19 (47.50%) RESTful
5 18 (45.00%) HTML
6 15 (37.50%) CSS3
6 15 (37.50%) HTML5
7 13 (32.50%) Playwright
7 13 (32.50%) Redux
8 12 (30.00%) Kafka
9 10 (25.00%) GraphQL
9 10 (25.00%) OAuth
10 9 (22.50%) JWT
11 8 (20.00%) Next.js
11 8 (20.00%) OAuth2
12 7 (17.50%) AngularJS
13 6 (15.00%) Express.js
14 5 (12.50%) Vue
15 4 (10.00%) Chai
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (77.50%) CI/CD
2 19 (47.50%) Test Automation
3 18 (45.00%) Agile
3 18 (45.00%) Microservices
4 17 (42.50%) DevOps
4 17 (42.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 15 (37.50%) User Experience
6 14 (35.00%) Containerisation
7 13 (32.50%) Performance Optimisation
8 11 (27.50%) AI
8 11 (27.50%) API Integration
8 11 (27.50%) Event-Driven
8 11 (27.50%) Observability
9 10 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
10 9 (22.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 8 (20.00%) Front End Development
11 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (20.00%) Software Engineering
11 8 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
12 7 (17.50%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 34 (85.00%) TypeScript
2 28 (70.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (17.50%) Java
4 5 (12.50%) SQL
5 2 (5.00%) Python
6 1 (2.50%) Bash
6 1 (2.50%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 11 (27.50%) Security Cleared
2 9 (22.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.50%) Degree
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (27.50%) Accessibility
2 9 (22.50%) WCAG
3 7 (17.50%) QA
4 1 (2.50%) GRC
System Software
1 19 (47.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (27.50%) Kubernetes
2 8 (20.00%) Grafana
3 6 (15.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.50%) HP Fortify
4 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (2.50%) Braze
1 1 (2.50%) Google
1 1 (2.50%) Guidewire
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (2.50%) New Relic
1 1 (2.50%) Optimizely
1 1 (2.50%) TOWER Software