Jest Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Jest
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Jest skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 - 106
Rank change year-on-year - - +36
Contract jobs citing Jest 10 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.64% - 0.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.88% - 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 11
10th Percentile £343 - £413
25th Percentile £369 - £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.00%
75th Percentile £547 - -
90th Percentile £556 - -
England median daily rate £450 £590 £500
% change year-on-year -23.73% +18.00% -16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 347 296 430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 22.17% 19.81% 20.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 208 315
10th Percentile £358 £415 £396
25th Percentile £400 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% -3.18% +7.06%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Median hourly rate - £16.19 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year - -39.54% -36.12%
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.36 £58.59
% change year-on-year -13.19% +8.13% -9.86%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Jest in Yorkshire

Jest
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Jest

Jest
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jest in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Jest in Yorkshire

Jest
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Jest within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
South Yorkshire - 6 £442 - 1
West Yorkshire - 4 £400 - 12
Jest
England

Jest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) webpack
2 3 (30.00%) Babel
2 3 (30.00%) Git
2 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 3 (30.00%) Postman
2 3 (30.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (10.00%) Bundler
3 1 (10.00%) ESLint
3 1 (10.00%) Jasmine
3 1 (10.00%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 4 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Angular Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Node.js Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Lead Developer
3 2 (20.00%) React Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) React
2 6 (60.00%) Node.js
3 4 (40.00%) Bootstrap
3 4 (40.00%) CSS
3 4 (40.00%) CSS3
3 4 (40.00%) HTML
3 4 (40.00%) HTML5
4 3 (30.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (30.00%) DOM
4 3 (30.00%) Express.js
4 3 (30.00%) lodash
4 3 (30.00%) Redux
4 3 (30.00%) REST
4 3 (30.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (10.00%) Enzyme
5 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
5 1 (10.00%) Handlebars
5 1 (10.00%) Material-UI
5 1 (10.00%) Mustache
5 1 (10.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) TDD
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (30.00%) BDD
5 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (30.00%) Microservices
5 3 (30.00%) Migration
5 3 (30.00%) Sprint Planning
5 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (30.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
5 3 (30.00%) User Experience
5 3 (30.00%) Wireframes
6 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 2 (20.00%) DOM Manipulation/Scripting
6 2 (20.00%) Front End Development
6 2 (20.00%) Performance Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) Story Points
6 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) AppDynamics