Jest Contracts in the South West

Jest
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 170 165
Rank change year-on-year +25 -5 -31
Contract jobs citing Jest 7 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.22% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.62% 0.72% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 6
10th Percentile £383 - £405
25th Percentile £463 £713 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £725 £465
Median % change year-on-year -24.83% +56.08% +5.57%
75th Percentile £600 £738 £566
90th Percentile £655 - £600
England median daily rate £489 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -11.09% - +15.79%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South 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 South 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 431 559 746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 13.52% 15.25% 20.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 442 521
10th Percentile £313 £388 £363
25th Percentile £396 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £663 £606 £575
90th Percentile £701 £700 £644
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.31% +0.09% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 18 33
10th Percentile £43.75 £49.25 £48.84
25th Percentile £44.06 £50.66 £49.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £57.50 £63.60
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -9.59% +27.20%
75th Percentile £74.44 £74.13 £75.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 -
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Jest in the South West

Jest
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Jest in the South West

Jest
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jest in the South West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Jest in the South West

Jest
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 25 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
Gloucestershire +11 4 £510 -29.66% 2
Devon 0 2 £600 - 1
Bristol - 1 £275 - 4
Jest
England

Jest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) npm
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Firebase
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Cypress.io
1 3 (42.86%) Selenium
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) webpack
3 1 (14.29%) Babel
3 1 (14.29%) ESLint
3 1 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) git-flow
3 1 (14.29%) Vite
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Web Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Full Stack Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Java Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Python Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Angular Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (14.29%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) React
2 5 (71.43%) Node.js
3 3 (42.86%) CSS
3 3 (42.86%) HTML
4 2 (28.57%) CSS3
4 2 (28.57%) HTML5
4 2 (28.57%) React Native
4 2 (28.57%) REST
5 1 (14.29%) Angular 2
5 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
5 1 (14.29%) Express.js
5 1 (14.29%) Material-UI
5 1 (14.29%) Parceljs
5 1 (14.29%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Full Stack Development
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Web Development
3 2 (28.57%) Backlog Management
3 2 (28.57%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (28.57%) BDD
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
3 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Loose Coupling
3 2 (28.57%) Runbook
3 2 (28.57%) SDLC
3 2 (28.57%) TDD
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Responsive Web Design
4 1 (14.29%) Storyboarding
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) TypeScript
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
3 3 (42.86%) Java
4 2 (28.57%) Kotlin
4 2 (28.57%) Python
5 1 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform