Jest Contracts in the North West

Jest
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 147 164
Rank change year-on-year +20 +17 -38
Contract jobs citing Jest 10 16 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.37% 0.50% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.00% 2.71% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 17
10th Percentile - £413 £397
25th Percentile £400 £463 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +15.79% +13.10%
75th Percentile £556 £594 £515
90th Percentile £568 £611 £560
England median daily rate £489 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -11.09% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 -
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 North West 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 501 591 981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 18.50% 18.64% 24.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 465 738
10th Percentile £350 £338 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +24.24%
75th Percentile £598 £575 £588
90th Percentile £750 £650 £650
England median daily rate £550 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -2.22% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 22
10th Percentile £37.63 £38.52 £14.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £39.60 £19.69
Median hourly rate £47.31 £42.80 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.54% +11.16% +13.24%
75th Percentile £71.87 £44.60 £58.13
90th Percentile £75.05 £44.84 £64.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +8.15%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Jest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Jest in the North West

Jest
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Jest in the North West

Jest
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jest in the North West over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Jest in the North West

Jest
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Jest within the North West region over the 6 months to 6 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
Manchester +14 10 £463 -13.95% 5
Jest
England

Jest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (10.00%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (10.00%) Azure
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) BrowserStack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Cypress.io
1 4 (40.00%) Git
2 3 (30.00%) Mocha
3 2 (20.00%) GoCD
4 1 (10.00%) GitLab
4 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
2 1 (10.00%) Retail Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Digital Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full Stack Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Full Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) React
2 7 (70.00%) Node.js
3 3 (30.00%) Redux
4 2 (20.00%) AWS CDK
4 2 (20.00%) CSS
4 2 (20.00%) HTML
5 1 (10.00%) AWS SAM
5 1 (10.00%) JSON
5 1 (10.00%) Kafka
5 1 (10.00%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (10.00%) Next.js
5 1 (10.00%) RESTful
5 1 (10.00%) Serverless Framework
5 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
1 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (30.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Product Backlog
2 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (20.00%) Data Security
3 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Micro Frontends
3 2 (20.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) SLA
2 3 (30.00%) QA
3 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform