Jest Contract Job Trends in the South East

Jest
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Jest skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 181 198
Rank change year-on-year +22 +17 +69
Contract jobs citing Jest 7 4 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.20% 0.088% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.15% 0.57% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 14
10th Percentile £407 £374 £600
25th Percentile £441 £391 £616
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £438 £685
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -36.13% +68.62%
75th Percentile £584 £466 £750
90th Percentile £630 £471 -
England median daily rate £450 £590 £500
% change year-on-year -23.73% +18.00% -16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 610 700 855
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.26% 15.49% 15.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 459 567
10th Percentile £288 £313 £317
25th Percentile £364 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £624 £625
90th Percentile £625 £667 £700
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 29 43
10th Percentile £24.69 £27.00 £50.00
25th Percentile - £56.65 £55.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% +2.67% -5.14%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £73.73
90th Percentile £58.75 £74.89 £76.53
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.36 £58.59
% change year-on-year -13.19% +8.13% -9.86%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Jest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Jest in the South East

Jest
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Jest.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Jest

Jest
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jest in the South East over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Jest in the South East

Jest
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Jest within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 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
Berkshire +15 3 £525 +18.31% 16
Thames Valley +13 3 £525 +18.31% 16
Kent - 2 £630 -
Surrey - 2 £413 - 6
Jest
England

Jest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) CloudFront
1 2 (28.57%) Google Play
2 1 (14.29%) Datadog
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
2 2 (28.57%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 1 (14.29%) Mocha
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) React Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) CSS
1 6 (85.71%) React
2 4 (57.14%) HTML
2 4 (57.14%) Sass
3 3 (42.86%) Node.js
4 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
4 2 (28.57%) CSS3
4 2 (28.57%) HTML5
4 2 (28.57%) React Native
4 2 (28.57%) Redux
5 1 (14.29%) Fastify
5 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
5 1 (14.29%) OAuth
5 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
5 1 (14.29%) OpenAPI
5 1 (14.29%) OpenID
5 1 (14.29%) REST
5 1 (14.29%) RESTful
5 1 (14.29%) Swagger
5 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Android
1 2 (28.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Front End Development
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Mobile Development
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (28.57%) Responsive Web Design
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
4 2 (28.57%) User Experience
4 2 (28.57%) Validation
4 2 (28.57%) Web Design
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) Asynchronous Programming
5 1 (14.29%) Functional Testing
5 1 (14.29%) High Availability
5 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) TypeScript
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) Puppet
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google
2 2 (28.57%) Virgin Media
3 1 (14.29%) Splunk