Jest
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 493 489 526
Rank change year-on-year -4 +37 -120
Contract jobs citing Jest 105 237 352
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.40% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.18% 1.70% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 136 248
10th Percentile £349 £413 £412
25th Percentile £400 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £539 £548
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% -1.60% +15.26%
75th Percentile £590 £700 £638
90th Percentile £745 £726 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £458
% change year-on-year -9.52% +14.75% +7.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £66.20 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £67.63 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 -
75th Percentile £72.50 £76.13 -
90th Percentile - £79.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 -
% change year-on-year +6.87% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £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 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Jest in the UK

Jest
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Jest in the UK

Jest
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jest over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Jest in the UK

Jest
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Jest in the UK

Jest
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England +1 91 £489 -11.09% 56
London +31 58 £499 -16.88% 23
Work from Home +63 44 £489 -6.86% 27
UK excluding London +12 35 £475 -9.52% 32
North of England 0 12 £400 -27.27% 11
North West +12 11 £400 -28.89% 10
Scotland +37 7 £585 +42.68% 1
South West +25 7 £545 -24.83% 8
Midlands +21 5 £450 -35.71% 3
South East +10 4 £400 -42.86% 6
East Midlands +14 3 £450 -35.71% 2
West Midlands +28 2 £400 -42.86% 1
North East - 1 £310 -

Jest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (6.67%) Confluence
2 4 (3.81%) CMS
3 2 (1.90%) Alfresco
3 2 (1.90%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 39 (37.14%) AWS
2 20 (19.05%) Serverless
3 17 (16.19%) Azure
4 15 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (13.33%) GitHub
6 9 (8.57%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (8.57%) Amazon S3
6 9 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (7.62%) CloudFront
8 6 (5.71%) Figma
9 5 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (4.76%) GCP
10 4 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (3.81%) npm
11 2 (1.90%) Amplience
11 2 (1.90%) Firebase
11 2 (1.90%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 2 (1.90%) Storyblok
12 1 (0.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.95%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.81%) HTTP
2 2 (1.90%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.38%) DynamoDB
2 5 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 5 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (1.90%) RavenDB
5 1 (0.95%) MySQL
5 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (37.14%) Cypress.io
2 34 (32.38%) Git
3 14 (13.33%) Jenkins
4 11 (10.48%) JIRA
5 10 (9.52%) Selenium
6 8 (7.62%) Cucumber
6 8 (7.62%) git-flow
6 8 (7.62%) Maven
6 8 (7.62%) Protractor
6 8 (7.62%) webpack
7 6 (5.71%) Mocha
7 6 (5.71%) Postman
7 6 (5.71%) Storybook
8 5 (4.76%) IntelliJ
9 4 (3.81%) GitLab
9 4 (3.81%) SonarQube
9 4 (3.81%) Vite
10 3 (2.86%) Babel
10 3 (2.86%) Jasmine
10 3 (2.86%) rollup.js
General
1 17 (16.19%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.52%) Advertising
4 7 (6.67%) Finance
5 6 (5.71%) Marketing
5 6 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.90%) Banking
6 2 (1.90%) Retail
7 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.95%) Retail Finance
7 1 (0.95%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 54 (51.43%) Developer
2 33 (31.43%) Senior
3 17 (16.19%) JavaScript Engineer
4 15 (14.29%) Full Stack Developer
5 10 (9.52%) Angular Developer
5 10 (9.52%) React Developer
6 9 (8.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 7 (6.67%) UI Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) QA Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.76%) Full Stack Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Automation Tester
10 4 (3.81%) Consultant
10 4 (3.81%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 4 (3.81%) Java Developer
10 4 (3.81%) QA Test Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Senior Consultant
10 4 (3.81%) Test Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (56.19%) React
2 55 (52.38%) Node.js
3 41 (39.05%) CSS
4 32 (30.48%) Redux
5 28 (26.67%) HTML
6 19 (18.10%) AngularJS
7 17 (16.19%) REST
8 14 (13.33%) Express.js
9 13 (12.38%) GraphQL
9 13 (12.38%) React Native
9 13 (12.38%) Tailwind CSS
10 11 (10.48%) Sass
11 10 (9.52%) HTML5
12 9 (8.57%) Next.js
13 8 (7.62%) Material-UI
14 7 (6.67%) CSS3
14 7 (6.67%) Gherkin
14 7 (6.67%) LESS
14 7 (6.67%) Playwright
14 7 (6.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
1 7 (6.67%) Fixed Income
2 5 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.90%) Algorithms
3 2 (1.90%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.90%) Hedge funds
4 1 (0.95%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (0.95%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.95%) Online Banking
4 1 (0.95%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.95%) Solar Panel
4 1 (0.95%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.86%) Android
1 3 (2.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (44.76%) Agile
2 38 (36.19%) CI/CD
3 27 (25.71%) Unit Testing
4 26 (24.76%) Full Stack Development
4 26 (24.76%) Test Automation
5 22 (20.95%) Front End Development
6 18 (17.14%) User Experience
7 15 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 15 (14.29%) TDD
8 12 (11.43%) Clean Code
8 12 (11.43%) Kanban
8 12 (11.43%) SDLC
9 11 (10.48%) DevOps
10 10 (9.52%) Code Quality
10 10 (9.52%) Pair Programming
10 10 (9.52%) Software Architecture
10 10 (9.52%) Web Development
11 9 (8.57%) BDD
12 8 (7.62%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (7.62%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 64 (60.95%) TypeScript
2 52 (49.52%) JavaScript
3 30 (28.57%) Java
4 8 (7.62%) C#
4 8 (7.62%) Kotlin
5 6 (5.71%) Python
6 3 (2.86%) JSX
6 3 (2.86%) SQL
7 1 (0.95%) C++
7 1 (0.95%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.95%) Degree
3 1 (0.95%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.24%) QA
2 9 (8.57%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.76%) SLA
4 1 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (12.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (10.48%) Terraform
2 10 (9.52%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.76%) Kibana
4 1 (0.95%) Bugsnag
4 1 (0.95%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (2.86%) Google
1 3 (2.86%) Microsoft
1 3 (2.86%) Xamarin
2 1 (0.95%) Adobe