Jest Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Jest
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Jest skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 161 177
Rank change year-on-year -9 +16 +48
Contract jobs citing Jest 27 8 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.67% 0.19% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.08% 1.14% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 5 16
10th Percentile £320 £316 £411
25th Percentile £359 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £488
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -17.95% -8.02%
75th Percentile £495 £575 £500
90th Percentile £570 - £519
England median daily rate £450 £590 £500
% change year-on-year -23.73% +18.00% -16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 878 703 1,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 21.84% 16.96% 20.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 640 466 797
10th Percentile £337 £350 £366
25th Percentile £385 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.25% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £550 £594 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £556
% change year-on-year -6.82% -1.12% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 31
10th Percentile £27.60 £14.28 £45.88
25th Percentile £30.00 £28.88 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +51.58% - -34.03%
75th Percentile £88.75 £63.75 £48.09
90th Percentile £93.85 £73.60 £65.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.36 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.19% +5.59% -7.69%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Jest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Jest in the North of England

Jest
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Jest.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Jest

Jest
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jest in the North of England over the 6 months to 25 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Jest in the North of England

Jest
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Jest within the North of England region over the 6 months to 25 September 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
North West -2 13 £425 -10.53% 20
Yorkshire - 10 £400 - 14
North East -2 4 £540 +74.19% 2
Jest
England

Jest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (3.70%) CMS
2 1 (3.70%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) npm
2 6 (22.22%) AWS
3 5 (18.52%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (18.52%) GitHub
3 5 (18.52%) Serverless
4 4 (14.81%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.70%) Azure
7 1 (3.70%) Contentful
7 1 (3.70%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.70%) MySQL
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Redis
2 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (44.44%) Git
1 12 (44.44%) SonarQube
2 9 (33.33%) JIRA
3 8 (29.63%) Cypress.io
4 6 (22.22%) Grunt
4 6 (22.22%) gulp
5 5 (18.52%) GitLab
6 4 (14.81%) webpack
7 3 (11.11%) Babel
7 3 (11.11%) Bitbucket
7 3 (11.11%) Cucumber
7 3 (11.11%) Jenkins
7 3 (11.11%) JUnit
7 3 (11.11%) Maven
7 3 (11.11%) Mockito
7 3 (11.11%) Postman
7 3 (11.11%) Selenium
7 3 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (7.41%) Mocha
9 1 (3.70%) Jasmine
General
1 4 (14.81%) Banking
1 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (85.19%) Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Node.js Developer
2 5 (18.52%) UI Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Java Developer
3 4 (14.81%) JavaScript Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Senior
4 3 (11.11%) Angular Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Lead
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Software Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Backend Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (7.41%) Lead Developer
5 2 (7.41%) React Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior JavaScript Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Java Software Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (85.19%) Node.js
2 20 (74.07%) React
3 16 (59.26%) CSS
3 16 (59.26%) HTML
4 15 (55.56%) REST
5 13 (48.15%) Redux
6 11 (40.74%) HTML5
7 10 (37.04%) CSS3
8 8 (29.63%) Sass
9 7 (25.93%) Enzyme
9 7 (25.93%) Express.js
10 6 (22.22%) Ajax
10 6 (22.22%) GraphQL
10 6 (22.22%) JSON
10 6 (22.22%) LESS
10 6 (22.22%) Nightwatchjs
10 6 (22.22%) Spring Boot
11 4 (14.81%) Bootstrap
11 4 (14.81%) Next.js
12 3 (11.11%) lodash
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
2 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.70%) Educational Technology
3 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (59.26%) CI/CD
2 15 (55.56%) TDD
3 13 (48.15%) Agile
4 11 (40.74%) Test Automation
5 10 (37.04%) Front End Development
6 8 (29.63%) DevOps
6 8 (29.63%) Microservices
6 8 (29.63%) Unit Testing
7 7 (25.93%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (25.93%) Performance Optimisation
8 6 (22.22%) Code Quality
8 6 (22.22%) User Experience
9 5 (18.52%) API Integration
9 5 (18.52%) Containerisation
9 5 (18.52%) Migration
10 4 (14.81%) Clean Code
10 4 (14.81%) Sprint Planning
11 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (11.11%) The Twelve-Factor App
11 3 (11.11%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 22 (81.48%) JavaScript
2 7 (25.93%) Java
3 4 (14.81%) TypeScript
4 3 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (40.74%) Security Cleared
2 5 (18.52%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (37.04%) Accessibility
2 3 (11.11%) WCAG
3 2 (7.41%) QA
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.41%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Perforce
2 3 (11.11%) Veracode
3 1 (3.70%) AppDynamics
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft