Jest Contracts in England

Jest
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Jest skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Jest over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 447 438 504
Rank change year-on-year -9 +66 -113
Contract jobs citing Jest 91 224 289
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.44% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.22% 1.92% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 133 209
10th Percentile £344 £415 £406
25th Percentile £406 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.09% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £594 £700 £638
90th Percentile £735 £738 £715
UK median daily rate £489 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -9.44% -1.82% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £66.80 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £69.13 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 £78.13 -
90th Percentile - £80.60 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Jest is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,453 11,673 19,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.16% 23.13% 27.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,303 8,631 14,413
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 138 213
10th Percentile £21.73 £28.73 £22.10
25th Percentile £41.28 £48.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.08 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Jest in England

Jest
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Jest in England

Jest
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jest in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Jest in England

Jest
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Jest in England

Jest
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Jest within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
London +38 58 £499 -17.56% 26
North of England -2 12 £400 -26.44% 11
North West +18 11 £400 -27.27% 10
South West +18 7 £545 -24.83% 8
Midlands +25 5 £450 -35.71% 3
South East +3 4 £400 -42.86% 6
East Midlands +15 3 £450 -35.71% 2
West Midlands +29 2 £400 -42.86% 1
North East - 1 £310 -
Jest
UK

Jest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (2.20%) Alfresco
1 2 (2.20%) CMS
1 2 (2.20%) Confluence
1 2 (2.20%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 34 (37.36%) AWS
2 18 (19.78%) Serverless
3 13 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (13.19%) Azure
4 12 (13.19%) GitHub
5 9 (9.89%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (9.89%) Amazon S3
6 8 (8.79%) CloudFront
7 7 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (6.59%) Figma
9 5 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (4.40%) npm
11 2 (2.20%) Firebase
11 2 (2.20%) GCP
11 2 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (1.10%) Amazon Cognito
12 1 (1.10%) Azure API Management
12 1 (1.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 1 (1.10%) Datadog
12 1 (1.10%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.40%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.19%) DynamoDB
2 5 (5.49%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.20%) RavenDB
5 1 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.10%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 37 (40.66%) Cypress.io
2 25 (27.47%) Git
3 10 (10.99%) Selenium
4 8 (8.79%) Cucumber
4 8 (8.79%) git-flow
4 8 (8.79%) Jenkins
4 8 (8.79%) Maven
4 8 (8.79%) Protractor
5 6 (6.59%) JIRA
5 6 (6.59%) Mocha
5 6 (6.59%) webpack
6 4 (4.40%) GitLab
6 4 (4.40%) SonarQube
7 3 (3.30%) Babel
7 3 (3.30%) Jasmine
7 3 (3.30%) JMeter
7 3 (3.30%) JUnit
7 3 (3.30%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (2.20%) NUnit
8 2 (2.20%) Xcode
General
1 12 (13.19%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.99%) Advertising
4 6 (6.59%) Finance
4 6 (6.59%) Marketing
4 6 (6.59%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.20%) Banking
5 2 (2.20%) Retail
6 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.10%) Retail Finance
6 1 (1.10%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 45 (49.45%) Developer
2 28 (30.77%) Senior
3 17 (18.68%) JavaScript Engineer
4 14 (15.38%) Full Stack Developer
5 10 (10.99%) Angular Developer
6 7 (7.69%) UI Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 6 (6.59%) React Developer
8 5 (5.49%) Full Stack Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) QA Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.49%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Automation Tester
9 4 (4.40%) Consultant
9 4 (4.40%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 4 (4.40%) Java Developer
9 4 (4.40%) QA Test Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Senior Consultant
9 4 (4.40%) Test Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (53.85%) React
2 48 (52.75%) Node.js
3 31 (34.07%) Redux
4 30 (32.97%) CSS
5 20 (21.98%) HTML
6 19 (20.88%) AngularJS
7 17 (18.68%) REST
8 13 (14.29%) React Native
9 12 (13.19%) Express.js
10 10 (10.99%) HTML5
10 10 (10.99%) Sass
10 10 (10.99%) Tailwind CSS
11 8 (8.79%) Material-UI
11 8 (8.79%) Next.js
12 7 (7.69%) CSS3
12 7 (7.69%) Gherkin
12 7 (7.69%) GraphQL
12 7 (7.69%) LESS
12 7 (7.69%) OpenFin
12 7 (7.69%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
1 7 (7.69%) Fixed Income
2 4 (4.40%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.20%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.10%) Online Banking
4 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.10%) Solar Panel
4 1 (1.10%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.30%) Android
1 3 (3.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (46.15%) Agile
2 34 (37.36%) CI/CD
3 26 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 25 (27.47%) Full Stack Development
5 17 (18.68%) Unit Testing
5 17 (18.68%) User Experience
6 15 (16.48%) TDD
7 14 (15.38%) Front End Development
7 14 (15.38%) Software Engineering
8 12 (13.19%) Clean Code
8 12 (13.19%) Kanban
8 12 (13.19%) SDLC
9 10 (10.99%) Pair Programming
9 10 (10.99%) Software Architecture
10 9 (9.89%) BDD
10 9 (9.89%) DevOps
11 8 (8.79%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (8.79%) Electronic Trading
11 8 (8.79%) Event-Driven
11 8 (8.79%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 56 (61.54%) TypeScript
2 46 (50.55%) JavaScript
3 29 (31.87%) Java
4 8 (8.79%) Kotlin
5 7 (7.69%) C#
6 6 (6.59%) Python
7 3 (3.30%) JSX
8 2 (2.20%) SQL
9 1 (1.10%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (13.19%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.99%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.10%) Degree
3 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.29%) QA
2 9 (9.89%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.49%) SLA
4 1 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (6.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (12.09%) Terraform
2 8 (8.79%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.10%) Bugsnag
3 1 (1.10%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (3.30%) Xamarin
2 2 (2.20%) Google
3 1 (1.10%) Adobe
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft