Jest Contracts

Jest
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 434 491 462
Rank change year-on-year +57 -29 +44
Contract jobs citing Jest 114 94 226
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.22% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.58% 1.01% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 69 129
10th Percentile £337 £349 £413
25th Percentile £410 £413 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £538 £530
Median % change year-on-year -11.16% +1.42% -5.36%
75th Percentile £538 £725 £699
90th Percentile £675 £1,000 £717
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £438 £530
% change year-on-year +9.71% -17.45% +11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £66.20
25th Percentile £42.50 £67.50 £67.63
Median hourly rate £45.00 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% - +3.92%
75th Percentile £47.50 £72.50 £76.13
90th Percentile - - £79.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year - +6.87% -2.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,230 9,297 12,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 21.47% 22.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,889 6,373 9,354
10th Percentile £350 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £653 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 283 161
10th Percentile £28.60 £22.55 £30.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.30 £74.35 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.20% -6.72% +13.64%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Jest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Jest in the UK

Jest
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Jest.

Daily rate trend for Jest in the UK

Jest
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jest over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Jest in the UK

Jest
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Jest.

Hourly rate trend for Jest in the UK

Jest
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 July 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
England +61 90 £480 -12.33% 152
Work from Home +44 57 £475 -22.76% 87
London +39 53 £450 -26.83% 73
UK excluding London +66 48 £480 +9.71% 89
North of England +10 19 £480 +20.00% 28
Scotland +18 13 £500 - 6
North West +7 10 £464 +16.06% 16
Midlands +17 7 £270 -40.00% 8
Yorkshire - 6 £525 - 6
South East +40 5 £525 +31.25% 25
East Midlands +3 4 £269 -41.84% 3
North East +2 4 £480 +54.84% 6
Wales +9 3 £413 -1.49% 3
West Midlands +9 3 £410 +2.50% 5
South West +35 1 - - 14

Jest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (7.89%) Confluence
2 3 (2.63%) CMS
2 3 (2.63%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.88%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 58 (50.88%) AWS
2 35 (30.70%) GitHub
3 28 (24.56%) Serverless
4 27 (23.68%) AWS Lambda
5 22 (19.30%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (14.04%) Amazon S3
7 15 (13.16%) Amazon SQS
8 13 (11.40%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (9.65%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (7.89%) Amazon Cognito
11 8 (7.02%) Azure
11 8 (7.02%) Google Analytics
12 7 (6.14%) AWS CodePipeline
12 7 (6.14%) npm
13 6 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
14 5 (4.39%) AWS CodeBuild
14 5 (4.39%) Firebase
14 5 (4.39%) Google Play
14 5 (4.39%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.40%) HTTP
2 4 (3.51%) DNS
3 3 (2.63%) Bluetooth
4 2 (1.75%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.91%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (13.16%) DynamoDB
3 10 (8.77%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (7.02%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (5.26%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.51%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.75%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.88%) DB2
8 1 (0.88%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 45 (39.47%) Cypress.io
2 34 (29.82%) Git
3 16 (14.04%) Maven
4 15 (13.16%) Cucumber
5 14 (12.28%) JUnit
6 13 (11.40%) Bitbucket
6 13 (11.40%) SonarQube
7 12 (10.53%) JIRA
8 11 (9.65%) Selenium
9 10 (8.77%) GitLab
9 10 (8.77%) Jenkins
9 10 (8.77%) Sonatype Nexus
9 10 (8.77%) webpack
10 9 (7.89%) Storybook
11 8 (7.02%) Mockito
12 5 (4.39%) git-flow
12 5 (4.39%) Grunt
13 4 (3.51%) Browser DevTools
13 4 (3.51%) Mocha
13 4 (3.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (27.19%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.91%) Finance
3 15 (13.16%) Banking
4 12 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.26%) Marketing
6 4 (3.51%) Retail
7 2 (1.75%) Advertising
7 2 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.75%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.88%) Automotive
8 1 (0.88%) Aviation
8 1 (0.88%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.88%) Front Office
8 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 76 (66.67%) Developer
2 23 (20.18%) Full-Stack Developer
2 23 (20.18%) React Developer
3 15 (13.16%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 15 (13.16%) Lead
3 15 (13.16%) Senior
4 13 (11.40%) Java Developer
5 12 (10.53%) Software Engineer
6 9 (7.89%) AWS Developer
6 9 (7.89%) Node.js Developer
6 9 (7.89%) Senior Developer
7 7 (6.14%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 6 (5.26%) UI Developer
9 5 (4.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 5 (4.39%) Java Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Lead Developer
9 5 (4.39%) Test Engineer
10 4 (3.51%) Architect
10 4 (3.51%) Backend Developer
10 4 (3.51%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (71.93%) React
2 67 (58.77%) CSS
3 66 (57.89%) Node.js
4 49 (42.98%) HTML
5 42 (36.84%) Redux
6 35 (30.70%) Sass
7 25 (21.93%) RESTful
8 23 (20.18%) HTML5
9 20 (17.54%) REST
10 19 (16.67%) GraphQL
10 19 (16.67%) Next.js
11 18 (15.79%) Spring Boot
12 14 (12.28%) AWS CDK
13 13 (11.40%) CSS3
13 13 (11.40%) React Native
13 13 (11.40%) WebSockets
14 12 (10.53%) Express.js
15 11 (9.65%) LESS
16 10 (8.77%) AngularJS
16 10 (8.77%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.89%) Mobile App
2 6 (5.26%) Algorithms
2 6 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.39%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (3.51%) Marketing Technology
4 4 (3.51%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.63%) Vector Graphics
6 2 (1.75%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.75%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.75%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.88%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.14%) Android
1 7 (6.14%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (57.89%) CI/CD
2 45 (39.47%) Agile
3 44 (38.60%) Test Automation
4 38 (33.33%) DevOps
4 38 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 33 (28.95%) Microservices
6 30 (26.32%) User Experience
7 28 (24.56%) Front End Development
8 26 (22.81%) Clean Code
9 25 (21.93%) TDD
10 22 (19.30%) Performance Optimisation
11 21 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (17.54%) Mentoring
13 19 (16.67%) Software Engineering
13 19 (16.67%) Unit Testing
14 16 (14.04%) Code Quality
15 13 (11.40%) Responsive Web Design
16 11 (9.65%) Analytics
17 9 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
17 9 (7.89%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 78 (68.42%) JavaScript
2 69 (60.53%) TypeScript
3 33 (28.95%) Java
4 15 (13.16%) SQL
5 13 (11.40%) Python
6 5 (4.39%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.51%) C#
7 4 (3.51%) JSX
7 4 (3.51%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.75%) Elm
8 2 (1.75%) Go
8 2 (1.75%) PHP
8 2 (1.75%) Rust
Qualifications
1 14 (12.28%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.89%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.02%) Degree
4 6 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (18.42%) Accessibility
2 11 (9.65%) QA
3 9 (7.89%) WCAG
4 4 (3.51%) Data Quality
System Software
1 24 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (8.77%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (11.40%) Google
2 8 (7.02%) Veracode
3 6 (5.26%) Adobe
3 6 (5.26%) CA Agile Central
4 5 (4.39%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.51%) Amplitude
5 4 (3.51%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.51%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.63%) Perforce
7 2 (1.75%) Cisco
7 2 (1.75%) SAP
7 2 (1.75%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.75%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.88%) Okta
8 1 (0.88%) Oracle
8 1 (0.88%) Sybase