Jest Contract Job Trends in West Wales

Jest
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West 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 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Jest 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Wales 2.67% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £408 - -
25th Percentile £411 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 - -
75th Percentile £423 - -
90th Percentile £424 - -
Wales median daily rate £419 £520 £419
% change year-on-year -19.47% +24.18% -1.47%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West 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 West Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 12 9 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Wales 16.00% 37.50% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 3
10th Percentile £375 - £440
25th Percentile £398 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £450 £488 £525
90th Percentile £536 £498 £540
Wales median daily rate £488 £454 £500
% change year-on-year +7.38% -9.20% +12.68%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

Jest job vacancy trend in West Wales

Jest
Daily Rate Trend in West Wales

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

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

Jest
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West 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
Swansea - 2 £419 - 1
Jest
Wales

Jest
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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