Jest Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Jest
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Jest skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Jest 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 0.76% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.64% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £394 - -
25th Percentile £395 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 - -
75th Percentile £400 - -
90th Percentile £401 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £412 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -27.44%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 55 24 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 20.83% 15.19% 8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 23 12
10th Percentile £321 £318 £382
25th Percentile £369 £340 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £356 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% -20.89% +7.53%
75th Percentile £450 £389 £573
90th Percentile £504 £479 £700
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -0.67% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.82
Median hourly rate - - £22.28
75th Percentile - - £23.73
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £25.11 - £43.25
% change year-on-year - - +119.93%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Jest job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Jest
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Jest

Jest
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Jest within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 28 December 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
Northampton - 2 £398 - 2
Jest
East Midlands

Jest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Aerospike
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Backtesting
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Fraud Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks