Mocha Contract Job Trends in London

Mocha
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Mocha skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 359 386
Rank change year-on-year -73 +27 +32
Contract jobs citing Mocha 11 10 6
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.055% 0.074% 0.037%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.43% 0.47% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 4
10th Percentile £356 £303 £591
25th Percentile £481 £315 £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £345 £600
Median % change year-on-year +52.17% -42.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £438 £616
90th Percentile £559 £441 £644
England median daily rate £523 £358 £545
% change year-on-year +45.95% -34.31% -0.91%

All Development Application Skills
London

Mocha falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,533 2,107 2,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.63% 15.69% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,637 1,445 1,582
10th Percentile £375 £343 £363
25th Percentile £447 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 13 20
10th Percentile £18.75 £26.98 £22.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £36.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £49.00 £45.00 £35.29
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% +27.53% -49.59%
75th Percentile £73.56 £63.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.29 £84.50 £71.31
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

Mocha
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Mocha relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Mocha job vacancy trend in London

Mocha
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Mocha.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Mocha

Mocha
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mocha in London over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Mocha in London

Mocha
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 Mocha within the London region over the 6 months to 20 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 -10 1 £625 +31.58%
East London - 1 £500 -
Mocha
England

Mocha
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (45.45%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (45.45%) GitHub
3 5 (45.45%) Serverless
4 4 (36.36%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (36.36%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (36.36%) npm
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (18.18%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (18.18%) Azure
5 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (18.18%) Yarn
6 1 (9.09%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (9.09%) Google Play
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (36.36%) NoSQL
2 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
3 2 (18.18%) DynamoDB
3 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
3 2 (18.18%) MySQL
3 2 (18.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Cucumber
1 4 (36.36%) GitLab
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
1 4 (36.36%) MSTest
1 4 (36.36%) tSQLt
2 3 (27.27%) Cypress.io
3 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
3 2 (18.18%) Git
4 1 (9.09%) CircleCI
4 1 (9.09%) Claude Code
4 1 (9.09%) webpack
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Local Government
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) Senior Software Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Software Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) .NET Software Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Angular Developer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Node.js Developer
4 1 (9.09%) React Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Developer
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) RESTful
2 6 (54.55%) Jest
2 6 (54.55%) Node.js
3 4 (36.36%) .NET
3 4 (36.36%) AngularJS
3 4 (36.36%) Chai
3 4 (36.36%) CSS
3 4 (36.36%) Express.js
3 4 (36.36%) HTML
4 2 (18.18%) JWT
4 2 (18.18%) Kafka
4 2 (18.18%) Nunjucks
4 2 (18.18%) OAuth
4 2 (18.18%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (18.18%) React
4 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
5 1 (9.09%) Apollo GraphQL
5 1 (9.09%) Enzyme
5 1 (9.09%) Next.js
5 1 (9.09%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (18.18%) Equities
1 2 (18.18%) Fixed Income
1 2 (18.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (9.09%) AI Agents
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
1 9 (81.82%) Software Engineering
2 8 (72.73%) Agile
3 7 (63.64%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (54.55%) Microservices
4 6 (54.55%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (45.45%) DevOps
5 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
6 4 (36.36%) BDD
6 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
6 4 (36.36%) Unit Testing
7 3 (27.27%) AI
7 3 (27.27%) API Design
7 3 (27.27%) Business Analysis
7 3 (27.27%) Clean Code
7 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (27.27%) Front End Development
7 3 (27.27%) TDD
8 2 (18.18%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) JavaScript
2 6 (54.55%) TypeScript
3 4 (36.36%) C#
3 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 4 (36.36%) T-SQL
4 3 (27.27%) Java
5 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) QA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Sybase
2 1 (9.09%) Google