Jest Contracts in the North West

Jest
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 12 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 119 143
Rank change year-on-year -2 +24 +25
Contract jobs citing Jest 9 7 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.41% 0.29% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.96% 1.80% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 8
10th Percentile £268 £348 £412
25th Percentile £313 £381 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.88% -27.27% +12.82%
75th Percentile £488 £444 £593
90th Percentile £490 £523 £630
England median daily rate £464 £588 £533
% change year-on-year -20.98% +10.33% -10.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 460 389 594
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 20.81% 16.29% 19.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 273 464
10th Percentile £315 £350 £328
25th Percentile £371 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.80% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £537 £610 £619
90th Percentile £615 £825 £674
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 20
10th Percentile £27.60 £43.13 £37.79
25th Percentile £30.00 £46.18 £45.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.25 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% +45.63% -34.03%
75th Percentile - £72.03 £47.14
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.10 £65.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £56.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.08% -5.42% +1.45%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Jest in the North West

Jest
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Jest in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Jest in the North West

Jest
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jest in the North West over the 6 months to 12 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Jest in the North West

Jest
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 12 August 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
Cheshire -13 6 £365 +4.36% 8
Manchester 0 3 £475 +18.75% 6
Jest
England

Jest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) CMS
2 1 (11.11%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (33.33%) GitHub
1 3 (33.33%) npm
1 3 (33.33%) Serverless
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (11.11%) Contentful
3 1 (11.11%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) JIRA
1 6 (66.67%) SonarQube
2 4 (44.44%) Cypress.io
3 3 (33.33%) Bitbucket
3 3 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 3 (33.33%) Git
3 3 (33.33%) GitLab
3 3 (33.33%) Grunt
3 3 (33.33%) gulp
3 3 (33.33%) JUnit
3 3 (33.33%) Maven
3 3 (33.33%) Mockito
3 3 (33.33%) Selenium
3 3 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Java Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Senior
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Developer
4 2 (22.22%) JavaScript Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior JavaScript Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
4 2 (22.22%) UI Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Java Software Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) Node.js
1 9 (100.00%) React
2 7 (77.78%) CSS
2 7 (77.78%) HTML
2 7 (77.78%) Redux
3 6 (66.67%) REST
4 4 (44.44%) HTML5
5 3 (33.33%) Ajax
5 3 (33.33%) CSS3
5 3 (33.33%) Enzyme
5 3 (33.33%) Express.js
5 3 (33.33%) Hibernate
5 3 (33.33%) JPA
5 3 (33.33%) JSON
5 3 (33.33%) LESS
5 3 (33.33%) Next.js
5 3 (33.33%) Nightwatchjs
5 3 (33.33%) Sass
5 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
6 2 (22.22%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
3 5 (55.56%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) TDD
3 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
4 3 (33.33%) Front End Development
4 3 (33.33%) Microservices
4 3 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (33.33%) Unit Testing
5 2 (22.22%) API Integration
5 2 (22.22%) Clean Code
5 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (11.11%) Code Quality
6 1 (11.11%) Fintech
6 1 (11.11%) KYC
6 1 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (44.44%) Java
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Perforce
1 3 (33.33%) Veracode
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft