Jest Contract Job Trends in Sussex

Jest
South East > Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sussex requiring Jest skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Jest 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sussex 4.76% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 50.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £410 - £413
% change year-on-year - - -41.07%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Sussex

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 Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sussex 9.52% 22.22% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £389 - -
25th Percentile £409 £675 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £700 £450
Median % change year-on-year -33.93% +55.56% -3.23%
75th Percentile £509 £725 £475
90th Percentile £526 - -
South East median daily rate £495 £525 £519
% change year-on-year -5.71% +1.20% -5.68%

Jest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sussex 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Redux
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring MVC
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL