Jest Contracts with Work from Home Options

Jest
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 356 405
Rank change year-on-year +51 +49 -97
Contract jobs citing Jest 42 112 227
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.28% 0.45% 0.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.16% 1.77% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 69 149
10th Percentile £350 £413 £404
25th Percentile £416 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £570 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.21% +8.57% +10.53%
75th Percentile £699 £700 £600
90th Percentile £950 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £489 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -11.09% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £65.73 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £66.44 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.32% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 £68.94 -
90th Percentile - £69.58 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 3,628 6,337 13,079
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.03% 25.22% 29.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,546 4,711 9,657
10th Percentile £331 £395 £400
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +13.40%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £731
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 80 116
10th Percentile £24.68 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.60 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.65
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.65
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.93% +10.32%

Jest
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Jest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Jest trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Jest.

Jest daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Jest
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Jest over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Jest daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Jest
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Jest.

Jest hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Jest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (7.14%) CMS
2 2 (4.76%) Confluence
3 1 (2.38%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 20 (47.62%) AWS
2 9 (21.43%) Serverless
3 8 (19.05%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (19.05%) Azure
4 7 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 6 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (14.29%) CloudFront
6 4 (9.52%) GitHub
7 3 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (7.14%) Figma
7 3 (7.14%) GCP
7 3 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.76%) Amplience
8 2 (4.76%) npm
8 2 (4.76%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 2 (4.76%) Storyblok
9 1 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.38%) Datadog
9 1 (2.38%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.05%) DynamoDB
2 3 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.38%) MySQL
3 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (42.86%) Git
2 14 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 8 (19.05%) git-flow
4 6 (14.29%) Maven
4 6 (14.29%) Protractor
5 5 (11.90%) Storybook
5 5 (11.90%) webpack
6 3 (7.14%) rollup.js
6 3 (7.14%) Vite
7 2 (4.76%) Babel
7 2 (4.76%) JIRA
7 2 (4.76%) Mocha
8 1 (2.38%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.38%) ESLint
8 1 (2.38%) GitLab
8 1 (2.38%) GoCD
8 1 (2.38%) REST Assured
8 1 (2.38%) Selenium
8 1 (2.38%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (16.67%) Marketing
1 7 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Finance
3 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.38%) Banking
4 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (54.76%) Developer
2 15 (35.71%) Senior
3 8 (19.05%) JavaScript Engineer
3 8 (19.05%) UI Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Angular Developer
4 5 (11.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 4 (9.52%) Consultant
5 4 (9.52%) Senior Consultant
6 3 (7.14%) Automation Tester
6 3 (7.14%) AWS Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Full Stack Developer
6 3 (7.14%) React Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Tester
7 2 (4.76%) Backend Developer
7 2 (4.76%) E-Commerce Developer
7 2 (4.76%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) UI Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (61.90%) React
2 22 (52.38%) CSS
3 15 (35.71%) Node.js
4 14 (33.33%) Redux
5 12 (28.57%) Tailwind CSS
6 10 (23.81%) AngularJS
6 10 (23.81%) Sass
7 9 (21.43%) HTML
8 8 (19.05%) LESS
8 8 (19.05%) Material-UI
8 8 (19.05%) OpenFin
8 8 (19.05%) WebSockets
9 5 (11.90%) Next.js
10 3 (7.14%) NgRx
10 3 (7.14%) Nuxt
10 3 (7.14%) REST
10 3 (7.14%) RxJS
10 3 (7.14%) Vue
11 2 (4.76%) Express.js
11 2 (4.76%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.05%) Enterprise Software
1 8 (19.05%) Fixed Income
2 2 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.38%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Android
1 1 (2.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 13 (30.95%) Agile
2 13 (30.95%) User Experience
3 12 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 11 (26.19%) Front End Development
5 10 (23.81%) Unit Testing
6 9 (21.43%) Customer Experience
7 8 (19.05%) Electronic Trading
7 8 (19.05%) Post-Production
7 8 (19.05%) SDLC
8 7 (16.67%) Web Development
9 6 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
10 5 (11.90%) Test Automation
11 4 (9.52%) DevOps
11 4 (9.52%) E-Commerce
11 4 (9.52%) Fintech
12 3 (7.14%) Code Quality
12 3 (7.14%) Micro Frontends
12 3 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
12 3 (7.14%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (64.29%) TypeScript
2 16 (38.10%) JavaScript
3 15 (35.71%) Java
4 2 (4.76%) C#
4 2 (4.76%) SQL
5 1 (2.38%) JSX
5 1 (2.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) QA
2 3 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.76%) SLA
4 1 (2.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.38%) Bugsnag
2 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.38%) Adobe
2 1 (2.38%) Google
2 1 (2.38%) Xamarin