Jest Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Jest
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Jest skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Jest 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.64% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.08% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £333 - -
25th Percentile £345 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £545 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 - £475
% change year-on-year - - -16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 240 40 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 30.57% 14.55% 26.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 30 80
10th Percentile £358 £455 £390
25th Percentile £425 £500 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £585 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +23.16% -13.64%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £588
90th Percentile £675 £678 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £14.35
25th Percentile - - £16.94
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £96.21 £22.50
% change year-on-year -41.27% +327.59% -67.86%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Jest job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Jest
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Jest

Jest
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jest in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Jest in South Yorkshire

Jest
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Sheffield - 5 £358 - 1
Jest
Yorkshire

Jest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 3 (60.00%) npm
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Babel
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
1 3 (60.00%) Postman
1 3 (60.00%) webpack
2 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) React Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Bootstrap
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
1 3 (60.00%) CSS3
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
1 3 (60.00%) HTML5
1 3 (60.00%) lodash
1 3 (60.00%) React
1 3 (60.00%) Redux
1 3 (60.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) DOM
2 2 (40.00%) Node.js
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (20.00%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
2 3 (60.00%) Sprint Planning
2 3 (60.00%) User Experience
2 3 (60.00%) Wireframes
3 2 (40.00%) Atomic Design
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) DOM Manipulation/Scripting
3 2 (40.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 2 (40.00%) Story Points
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
3 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (20.00%) API Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) AppDynamics