Jest Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Jest
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Jest skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Jest 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.29% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £500 £485 £463
% change year-on-year +3.04% +4.92% -15.91%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 43 34 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 12.68% 19.77% 14.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 24 14
10th Percentile £420 £393 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £545 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% +21.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £628 £510
90th Percentile £626 £664 £550
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £67.75 £47.31
% change year-on-year +3.32% +43.22% +5.12%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Jest job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Jest
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Jest.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Jest

Jest
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Jest within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Liverpool - 1 £450 - 1
Jest
North West

Jest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 1 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) React Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) ATDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft