Jest Contracts in the UK excluding London

Jest
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 351 451
Rank change year-on-year -11 +100 -81
Contract jobs citing Jest 34 96 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.41% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.05% 2.23% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 62 45
10th Percentile £320 £413 £402
25th Percentile £394 £485 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +7.95%
75th Percentile £556 £631 £506
90th Percentile £597 £734 £556
UK median daily rate £489 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -11.09% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £65.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 £65.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London 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 3,239 4,303 6,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.81% 18.34% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,122 3,217 4,324
10th Percentile £324 £359 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £689 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 92 136
10th Percentile £21.63 £22.26 £20.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.95 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% +31.63% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £63.95
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.07 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Jest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Jest in the UK excluding London

Jest
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Jest in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Jest in the UK excluding London

Jest
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jest in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Jest in the UK excluding London

Jest
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Jest in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Jest in the UK excluding London

Jest
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
North of England -6 11 £400 -26.44% 9
North West +9 10 £463 -15.91% 6
Scotland +45 7 £585 +42.68% 1
South West +17 7 £545 -24.83% 6
Midlands +33 5 £450 -35.71% 4
South East +3 4 £400 -42.86% 4
East Midlands +20 3 £450 -35.71% 1
West Midlands +20 2 £400 -42.86% 3
North East - 1 £310 -
Jest
UK

Jest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (14.71%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 12 (35.29%) AWS
2 8 (23.53%) GitHub
3 7 (20.59%) Azure
4 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (11.76%) Serverless
5 3 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (8.82%) npm
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.94%) BrowserStack
6 1 (2.94%) Figma
6 1 (2.94%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (41.18%) Git
2 10 (29.41%) Jenkins
3 9 (26.47%) Cypress.io
4 5 (14.71%) IntelliJ
4 5 (14.71%) JIRA
4 5 (14.71%) Postman
5 4 (11.76%) Selenium
6 3 (8.82%) Mocha
6 3 (8.82%) webpack
7 2 (5.88%) GitLab
7 2 (5.88%) GoCD
8 1 (2.94%) Babel
8 1 (2.94%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.94%) ESLint
8 1 (2.94%) git-flow
8 1 (2.94%) JUnit
8 1 (2.94%) rollup.js
8 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.94%) Visual Studio
8 1 (2.94%) Vite
General
1 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Finance
3 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Banking
4 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.94%) Retail
4 1 (2.94%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (58.82%) Developer
2 5 (14.71%) Angular Developer
2 5 (14.71%) Full Stack Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Senior
3 4 (11.76%) Full Stack Developer
3 4 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) JavaScript Developer
4 3 (8.82%) React Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Web Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 2 (5.88%) Java Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Python Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) UI Developer
6 1 (2.94%) Automation Tester
6 1 (2.94%) Digital Developer
6 1 (2.94%) Lead Developer
6 1 (2.94%) QA Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.94%) Senior Full Stack Developer
6 1 (2.94%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (76.47%) React
2 19 (55.88%) Node.js
3 13 (38.24%) CSS
4 12 (35.29%) HTML
5 8 (23.53%) GraphQL
6 7 (20.59%) Redux
7 6 (17.65%) Playwright
8 5 (14.71%) AngularJS
8 5 (14.71%) REST
9 4 (11.76%) NgRx
9 4 (11.76%) RxJS
10 3 (8.82%) CSS3
10 3 (8.82%) HTML5
10 3 (8.82%) Next.js
10 3 (8.82%) Spring Boot
11 2 (5.88%) AWS CDK
11 2 (5.88%) React Native
11 2 (5.88%) Spring
12 1 (2.94%) AWS SAM
12 1 (2.94%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
1 1 (2.94%) Online Banking
1 1 (2.94%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) Agile
2 13 (38.24%) Full Stack Development
3 12 (35.29%) CI/CD
4 9 (26.47%) Unit Testing
5 8 (23.53%) Test Automation
6 7 (20.59%) Front End Development
7 5 (14.71%) Code Quality
7 5 (14.71%) Software Engineering
8 4 (11.76%) Community of Practice
8 4 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (11.76%) DevOps
9 3 (8.82%) BDD
9 3 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (8.82%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (8.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (8.82%) Integration Testing
9 3 (8.82%) SDLC
9 3 (8.82%) TDD
9 3 (8.82%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 16 (47.06%) JavaScript
3 8 (23.53%) Java
4 4 (11.76%) Kotlin
5 2 (5.88%) Python
6 1 (2.94%) C#
6 1 (2.94%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) QA
2 5 (14.71%) Accessibility
3 4 (11.76%) SLA
4 1 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 5 (14.71%) Kibana
3 3 (8.82%) Terraform
4 1 (2.94%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (2.94%) Adobe