Jest Contracts in the UK excluding London

Jest
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 346 342
Rank change year-on-year +43 -4 +99
Contract jobs citing Jest 35 32 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.16% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.47% 0.98% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 24 62
10th Percentile £404 £316 £418
25th Percentile £425 £375 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £531
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -15.29% +11.84%
75th Percentile £538 £512 £638
90th Percentile - £593 £734
UK median daily rate £478 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -4.50% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £67.50 £65.25
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - +6.87% -2.76%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.92%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,384 3,270 4,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.59% 16.05% 18.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,656 2,154 3,108
10th Percentile £325 £324 £350
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £694 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 216 87
10th Percentile £33.54 £22.50 £22.20
25th Percentile £50.80 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.97 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.52% -26.21% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.25 £74.75
90th Percentile £81.05 £74.47 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +30.00%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Jest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Jest in the UK excluding London

Jest
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Jest in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Jest in the UK excluding London

Jest
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jest in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Jest in the UK excluding London

Jest
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Jest in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Jest in the UK excluding London

Jest
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Jest within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 May 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
North of England +14 13 £488 +21.94% 81
Scotland +12 13 £500 - 28
North West +4 5 £485 +21.31% 38
Yorkshire - 5 £525 - 32
Midlands +8 4 £270 -40.00% 68
North East +3 4 £480 +54.84% 11
Wales - 3 £413 - 11
West Midlands +12 2 £420 +5.00% 38
East Midlands +6 2 £269 -40.22% 26
South East +40 1 £415 -0.90% 129
South West +36 1 - - 54
Jest
UK

Jest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (8.57%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) CMS
2 1 (2.86%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 17 (48.57%) AWS
2 13 (37.14%) GitHub
3 12 (34.29%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (28.57%) Serverless
5 9 (25.71%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (20.00%) Amazon S3
6 7 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
7 6 (17.14%) Amazon Cognito
8 3 (8.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (8.57%) Azure
8 3 (8.57%) CloudFront
8 3 (8.57%) Firebase
9 2 (5.71%) AWS CodeBuild
9 2 (5.71%) GCP
9 2 (5.71%) npm
9 2 (5.71%) OpenShift
10 1 (2.86%) BrowserStack
10 1 (2.86%) Contentful
10 1 (2.86%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.86%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (11.43%) Relational Database
3 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.86%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (2.86%) GIS
Development Applications
1 12 (34.29%) Cypress.io
2 9 (25.71%) Storybook
3 4 (11.43%) Jenkins
3 4 (11.43%) JIRA
3 4 (11.43%) SonarQube
3 4 (11.43%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (8.57%) GitLab
4 3 (8.57%) Newman
5 2 (5.71%) Bitbucket
5 2 (5.71%) Cucumber
5 2 (5.71%) Git
5 2 (5.71%) Jasmine
5 2 (5.71%) JUnit
5 2 (5.71%) Maven
5 2 (5.71%) Mocha
5 2 (5.71%) Mockito
5 2 (5.71%) Selenium
5 2 (5.71%) webpack
6 1 (2.86%) Gradle
6 1 (2.86%) Xcode
General
1 8 (22.86%) Public Sector
1 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Banking
3 2 (5.71%) Finance
3 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (5.71%) Multimedia
4 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (71.43%) Developer
2 8 (22.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 7 (20.00%) React Developer
4 6 (17.14%) Software Engineer
5 5 (14.29%) Lead
5 5 (14.29%) Senior
6 4 (11.43%) Architect
6 4 (11.43%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (11.43%) Java Developer
6 4 (11.43%) Lead Developer
6 4 (11.43%) Software Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Lead Java Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) JavaScript Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Senior Developer
9 1 (2.86%) Java Software Engineer
9 1 (2.86%) SQL Developer
9 1 (2.86%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (62.86%) Node.js
2 21 (60.00%) CSS
2 21 (60.00%) React
3 12 (34.29%) HTML
4 9 (25.71%) Spring Boot
5 8 (22.86%) Sass
5 8 (22.86%) Tailwind CSS
6 7 (20.00%) RESTful
7 6 (17.14%) AWS CDK
7 6 (17.14%) GraphQL
8 5 (14.29%) Express.js
8 5 (14.29%) Redux
9 4 (11.43%) Nunjucks
9 4 (11.43%) REST
10 3 (8.57%) AVA JavaScript Test Runner
10 3 (8.57%) AWS Amplify
10 3 (8.57%) Playwright
10 3 (8.57%) Prisma
10 3 (8.57%) Puppeteer
10 3 (8.57%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.71%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Android
1 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) CI/CD
2 16 (45.71%) Full-Stack Development
3 15 (42.86%) TDD
4 13 (37.14%) User Experience
5 12 (34.29%) Agile
5 12 (34.29%) Microservices
6 11 (31.43%) DevOps
6 11 (31.43%) Test Automation
7 9 (25.71%) Front End Development
8 7 (20.00%) DevSecOps
9 6 (17.14%) Clean Code
9 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (17.14%) Responsive Web Design
9 6 (17.14%) Software Engineering
10 5 (14.29%) BDD
10 5 (14.29%) OWASP
10 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (14.29%) Secure Coding
10 5 (14.29%) The Twelve-Factor App
10 5 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 28 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 18 (51.43%) TypeScript
3 10 (28.57%) Java
4 2 (5.71%) SQL
5 1 (2.86%) JSX
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.00%) WCAG
2 6 (17.14%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 10 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Terraform
2 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (5.71%) Cisco
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
1 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
1 2 (5.71%) Veracode
2 1 (2.86%) Google
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle