Jest Contracts in the South East

Jest
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 204 257
Rank change year-on-year +9 +53 -61
Contract jobs citing Jest 4 20 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.072% 0.34% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.54% 1.91% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 3
10th Percentile £331 £575 £360
25th Percentile £359 £650 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £700 £400
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +75.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £444 £750 £475
90th Percentile £478 £775 £520
England median daily rate £489 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -11.09% - +15.79%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East 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 738 1,047 1,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.30% 17.94% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 743 1,032
10th Percentile £313 £363 £353
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £600
90th Percentile £668 £725 £673
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 36 41
10th Percentile £35.00 £39.75 £21.00
25th Percentile £56.13 £54.38 £31.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +55.56% +4.05%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £76.25 £79.72 £67.80
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Jest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Jest in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Jest in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jest in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Jest in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Jest within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 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
Thames Valley -1 2 £413 -41.07% 4
Berkshire -9 2 £413 -41.07% 3
West Sussex - 2 £400 -
Jest
England

Jest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Figma
2 1 (25.00%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) rollup.js
3 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (25.00%) webpack
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
1 2 (50.00%) Full Stack Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) React Developer
2 1 (25.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) React
2 3 (75.00%) Redux
3 2 (50.00%) Spring
3 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (25.00%) CSS
4 1 (25.00%) Enzyme
4 1 (25.00%) Next.js
4 1 (25.00%) Node.js
4 1 (25.00%) Sass
4 1 (25.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) SEO
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
3 1 (25.00%) Application Security
3 1 (25.00%) Break/Fix
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Micro Frontends
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) Proactive Maintenance
3 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) SOLID
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe