Jest Contracts in London

Jest
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Jest skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Jest over the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 348 367
Rank change year-on-year +45 +19 +12
Contract jobs citing Jest 45 46 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.37% 0.26% 0.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.39% 0.99% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 33 62
10th Percentile £380 £416 £413
25th Percentile £405 £500 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - +1.27%
75th Percentile £598 £950 £700
90th Percentile £764 £1,000 £724
England median daily rate £480 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -9.65% -3.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £80.75
Median hourly rate - - £81.50
75th Percentile - - £82.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £70.00 £73.50
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +9.12%

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 3,240 4,655 6,716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.50% 26.38% 26.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,265 3,447 5,052
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £438 £463 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £720 £700 £725
90th Percentile £833 £838 £813
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 29 40
10th Percentile £32.00 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £33.25 £23.80 £43.94
Median hourly rate £43.66 £42.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.72% -35.61% +43.48%
75th Percentile £64.38 £62.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.88 £75.00 £83.70
England median hourly rate £62.50 £48.43 £65.00
% change year-on-year +29.05% -25.49% +23.22%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Jest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Jest in London

Jest
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Jest in London.

Daily rate trend for Jest in London

Jest
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jest in London over the 6 months to 8 June 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 June 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 - 6 £466 - 2
Jest
England

Jest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.67%) nginx
2 2 (4.44%) CMS
2 2 (4.44%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Adobe XD
1 1 (2.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 27 (60.00%) AWS
2 15 (33.33%) GitHub
3 13 (28.89%) Amazon SQS
4 12 (26.67%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (26.67%) Serverless
5 9 (20.00%) Amazon S3
6 7 (15.56%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (11.11%) Google Analytics
9 4 (8.89%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (6.67%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (6.67%) Azure
11 2 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (4.44%) AWS CodeBuild
11 2 (4.44%) BigCommerce
11 2 (4.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.00%) HTTP
2 2 (4.44%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.22%) DynamoDB
2 8 (17.78%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (8.89%) Redis
5 3 (6.67%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.44%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 22 (48.89%) Cypress.io
2 15 (33.33%) Git
3 7 (15.56%) Mocha
4 6 (13.33%) Maven
5 5 (11.11%) Bitbucket
5 5 (11.11%) webpack
6 4 (8.89%) Cucumber
6 4 (8.89%) ESLint
6 4 (8.89%) Jenkins
6 4 (8.89%) JUnit
7 3 (6.67%) git-flow
7 3 (6.67%) Postman
7 3 (6.67%) REST Assured
7 3 (6.67%) SonarQube
7 3 (6.67%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (4.44%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (4.44%) Grunt
8 2 (4.44%) NSubstitute
8 2 (4.44%) Visual Studio Coded UI
8 2 (4.44%) Vite
General
1 12 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.00%) Finance
3 8 (17.78%) Banking
4 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.89%) Marketing
6 2 (4.44%) Advertising
6 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.44%) Retail
7 1 (2.22%) Automotive
7 1 (2.22%) Aviation
7 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.22%) Front Office
7 1 (2.22%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (64.44%) Developer
2 10 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
3 8 (17.78%) React Developer
3 8 (17.78%) Senior
4 6 (13.33%) AWS Developer
4 6 (13.33%) Node.js Developer
5 5 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 5 (11.11%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 5 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 5 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Test Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Backend Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Java Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) JavaScript Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Senior Java Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Senior Test Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) UI Developer
7 2 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior UI Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (64.44%) React
2 25 (55.56%) Node.js
3 23 (51.11%) CSS
4 18 (40.00%) HTML
5 15 (33.33%) Redux
5 15 (33.33%) Sass
6 11 (24.44%) GraphQL
6 11 (24.44%) REST
6 11 (24.44%) RESTful
7 10 (22.22%) HTML5
7 10 (22.22%) Next.js
7 10 (22.22%) WebSockets
8 7 (15.56%) Express.js
8 7 (15.56%) Vue
9 6 (13.33%) AngularJS
9 6 (13.33%) AWS CDK
10 5 (11.11%) GatsbyJS
10 5 (11.11%) LESS
11 4 (8.89%) Playwright
11 4 (8.89%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) Algorithms
1 5 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (6.67%) Mobile App
2 3 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.67%) Vector Graphics
3 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.44%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.44%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 19 (42.22%) Agile
3 16 (35.56%) Test Automation
4 14 (31.11%) Full-Stack Development
5 12 (26.67%) Front End Development
5 12 (26.67%) Software Engineering
6 11 (24.44%) Microservices
6 11 (24.44%) User Experience
7 10 (22.22%) Clean Code
7 10 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (20.00%) Code Quality
8 9 (20.00%) Mentoring
9 8 (17.78%) DevOps
10 7 (15.56%) Computer Science
10 7 (15.56%) Integration Testing
11 6 (13.33%) Analytics
11 6 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
11 6 (13.33%) SEO
11 6 (13.33%) UX Design
12 5 (11.11%) A/B Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 30 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 11 (24.44%) Java
2 11 (24.44%) Python
3 4 (8.89%) PowerShell
3 4 (8.89%) SQL
4 3 (6.67%) C#
4 3 (6.67%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.44%) Go
5 2 (4.44%) PHP
5 2 (4.44%) Rust
6 1 (2.22%) Elm
Qualifications
1 7 (15.56%) Degree
2 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 6 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 5 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) Accessibility
1 7 (15.56%) QA
2 2 (4.44%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (17.78%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) Adobe
2 5 (11.11%) Google
3 4 (8.89%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.44%) Amplitude
5 2 (4.44%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.44%) SAP
5 2 (4.44%) Sitecore
6 1 (2.22%) Microsoft