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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 452 442 513
Rank change year-on-year -10 +71 -143
Contract jobs citing Jest 89 223 301
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.45% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.19% 1.93% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 131 218
10th Percentile £343 £413 £406
25th Percentile £413 £480 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.09% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £638
90th Percentile £736 £738 £725
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 - £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 7,458 11,526 19,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.23% 23.07% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,308 8,536 14,406
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 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 137 210
10th Percentile £22.50 £28.30 £22.45
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +8.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £75.26
UK median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -27.94% +30.65% +10.56%

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 5 May 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 5 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
London +47 57 £499 -19.23% 24
North of England -3 11 £400 -26.44% 10
North West +21 10 £463 -15.91% 7
South West +26 7 £545 -24.83% 6
Midlands +27 5 £450 -35.71% 5
South East 0 4 £400 -42.86% 11
East Midlands +15 3 £450 -35.71% 2
West Midlands +21 2 £400 -42.86% 3
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 (2.25%) Alfresco
1 2 (2.25%) CMS
1 2 (2.25%) Confluence
1 2 (2.25%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.12%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 35 (39.33%) AWS
2 19 (21.35%) Serverless
3 14 (15.73%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (13.48%) GitHub
5 11 (12.36%) Azure
6 9 (10.11%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (10.11%) Amazon S3
7 8 (8.99%) CloudFront
8 6 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (6.74%) Figma
9 5 (5.62%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (5.62%) npm
10 3 (3.37%) GCP
11 2 (2.25%) Firebase
11 2 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.25%) Yarn
12 1 (1.12%) Amazon Cognito
12 1 (1.12%) Azure API Management
12 1 (1.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 1 (1.12%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.49%) HTTP
2 1 (1.12%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.48%) DynamoDB
2 5 (5.62%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.25%) RavenDB
5 1 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.12%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.12%) MySQL
5 1 (1.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (41.57%) Cypress.io
2 25 (28.09%) Git
3 10 (11.24%) Selenium
4 8 (8.99%) git-flow
4 8 (8.99%) Jenkins
4 8 (8.99%) Maven
4 8 (8.99%) Protractor
5 7 (7.87%) Cucumber
6 6 (6.74%) JIRA
6 6 (6.74%) Mocha
6 6 (6.74%) webpack
7 4 (4.49%) GitLab
7 4 (4.49%) SonarQube
8 3 (3.37%) Babel
8 3 (3.37%) Jasmine
8 3 (3.37%) JUnit
8 3 (3.37%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (2.25%) JMeter
9 2 (2.25%) NUnit
9 2 (2.25%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (13.48%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (11.24%) Advertising
4 7 (7.87%) Finance
5 6 (6.74%) Marketing
5 6 (6.74%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.37%) Banking
7 2 (2.25%) Retail
8 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.12%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Retail Finance
8 1 (1.12%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 44 (49.44%) Developer
2 29 (32.58%) Senior
3 17 (19.10%) JavaScript Engineer
4 14 (15.73%) Full Stack Developer
5 10 (11.24%) Angular Developer
6 7 (7.87%) UI Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 5 (5.62%) Full Stack Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) React Developer
8 5 (5.62%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.62%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Consultant
9 4 (4.49%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 4 (4.49%) Java Developer
9 4 (4.49%) QA Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) QA Test Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Senior Consultant
9 4 (4.49%) Test Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Automation Tester
10 3 (3.37%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (55.06%) Node.js
2 48 (53.93%) React
3 30 (33.71%) CSS
3 30 (33.71%) Redux
4 20 (22.47%) AngularJS
4 20 (22.47%) HTML
5 16 (17.98%) REST
6 13 (14.61%) Express.js
7 11 (12.36%) React Native
8 10 (11.24%) HTML5
8 10 (11.24%) Sass
8 10 (11.24%) Tailwind CSS
9 8 (8.99%) GraphQL
9 8 (8.99%) Material-UI
9 8 (8.99%) Next.js
10 7 (7.87%) CSS3
10 7 (7.87%) Gherkin
10 7 (7.87%) LESS
10 7 (7.87%) OpenFin
10 7 (7.87%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.87%) Enterprise Software
1 7 (7.87%) Fixed Income
2 3 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.25%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.25%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.12%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.12%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.12%) Online Banking
4 1 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.12%) Solar Panel
4 1 (1.12%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.25%) Android
1 2 (2.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (46.07%) Agile
2 33 (37.08%) CI/CD
3 25 (28.09%) Full Stack Development
4 23 (25.84%) Test Automation
5 17 (19.10%) User Experience
6 16 (17.98%) Unit Testing
7 15 (16.85%) Software Engineering
7 15 (16.85%) TDD
8 14 (15.73%) Front End Development
9 13 (14.61%) SDLC
10 12 (13.48%) Clean Code
10 12 (13.48%) Kanban
11 10 (11.24%) Pair Programming
11 10 (11.24%) Software Architecture
12 9 (10.11%) BDD
12 9 (10.11%) Event-Driven
13 8 (8.99%) Customer Experience
13 8 (8.99%) DevOps
13 8 (8.99%) Electronic Trading
13 8 (8.99%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 56 (62.92%) TypeScript
2 44 (49.44%) JavaScript
3 30 (33.71%) Java
4 9 (10.11%) Kotlin
5 7 (7.87%) C#
6 6 (6.74%) Python
7 3 (3.37%) JSX
8 2 (2.25%) SQL
9 1 (1.12%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (13.48%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.24%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.12%) Degree
3 1 (1.12%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.48%) QA
2 9 (10.11%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.62%) SLA
4 1 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (7.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (12.36%) Terraform
2 9 (10.11%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.25%) Grafana
4 1 (1.12%) Bugsnag
4 1 (1.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (3.37%) Xamarin
2 2 (2.25%) Google
3 1 (1.12%) Adobe
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft