Jest Contract Job Trends in Wales

Jest
UK > Wales

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 37 44
Rank change year-on-year -16 +7 +9
Contract jobs citing Jest 2 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.31% 1.06% 0.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.08% 5.26% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £408 £509 £403
25th Percentile £411 £509 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £520 £419
Median % change year-on-year -19.47% +24.18% -1.47%
75th Percentile £423 £528 £431
90th Percentile £424 £529 £437
UK median daily rate £500 £455 £575
% change year-on-year +9.95% -20.91% +15.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 65 76 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 9.97% 20.11% 19.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 58 46
10th Percentile £325 £256 £204
25th Percentile £338 £339 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £454 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% -9.20% +12.68%
75th Percentile £638 £497 £550
90th Percentile £750 £640 £581
UK median daily rate £526 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.54% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £21.55 - £18.15
25th Percentile £21.63 - £20.12
Median hourly rate £22.50 - £20.24
75th Percentile £23.88 - £23.80
90th Percentile £24.25 - £25.60
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +20.37% -13.60% +4.17%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Jest job vacancy trend in Wales

Jest
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Jest.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Jest

Jest
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Jest within the Wales region over the 6 months to 6 October 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
West Wales - 2 £419 - 1
Jest
UK

Jest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Next.js
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Wallet
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Integration
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Product Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) SFIA
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) OneLogin
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle