Jest
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 473 483 518
Rank change year-on-year +10 +35 -131
Contract jobs citing Jest 105 238 371
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.40% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.17% 1.73% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 135 261
10th Percentile £349 £413 £413
25th Percentile £413 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.09% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £625
90th Percentile £778 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £66.20 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £67.63 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 -
75th Percentile £72.50 £76.13 -
90th Percentile - £79.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 -
% change year-on-year +6.87% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,956 13,731 24,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.64% 23.25% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,224 10,014 17,633
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 153 241
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £40.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.44 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -25.78% +29.29% +10.00%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Jest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Jest in the UK

Jest
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Jest in the UK

Jest
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Jest in the UK

Jest
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Jest.

Hourly rate trend for Jest in the UK

Jest
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Jest within the UK 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
England -20 91 £489 -11.09% 58
London +48 59 £516 -16.44% 26
Work from Home +62 44 £489 -14.21% 32
UK excluding London -2 34 £475 -9.52% 31
North of England -8 11 £400 -26.44% 10
North West +20 10 £463 -15.91% 6
Scotland +43 7 £585 +42.68% 1
South West +26 7 £545 -24.83% 6
Midlands +29 5 £450 -35.71% 5
South East -1 4 £400 -42.86% 7
East Midlands +15 3 £450 -35.71% 3
West Midlands +18 2 £400 -42.86% 2
North East - 1 £310 - 1

Jest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (6.67%) Confluence
2 4 (3.81%) CMS
3 2 (1.90%) Alfresco
3 2 (1.90%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.90%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 41 (39.05%) AWS
2 22 (20.95%) Serverless
3 17 (16.19%) AWS Lambda
4 16 (15.24%) Azure
5 14 (13.33%) GitHub
6 9 (8.57%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (8.57%) Amazon S3
7 8 (7.62%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (7.62%) CloudFront
8 7 (6.67%) GCP
9 6 (5.71%) Figma
9 6 (5.71%) npm
10 5 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.86%) Yarn
13 2 (1.90%) Amplience
13 2 (1.90%) Firebase
13 2 (1.90%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 2 (1.90%) Storyblok
14 1 (0.95%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.81%) HTTP
2 2 (1.90%) 5G
2 2 (1.90%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.38%) DynamoDB
2 5 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 5 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (2.86%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.90%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.90%) RavenDB
5 1 (0.95%) MySQL
5 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 40 (38.10%) Cypress.io
2 35 (33.33%) Git
3 14 (13.33%) Jenkins
4 11 (10.48%) JIRA
5 10 (9.52%) Selenium
6 9 (8.57%) git-flow
7 8 (7.62%) Maven
7 8 (7.62%) Protractor
7 8 (7.62%) webpack
8 7 (6.67%) Cucumber
8 7 (6.67%) Mocha
9 6 (5.71%) Storybook
10 5 (4.76%) IntelliJ
10 5 (4.76%) Postman
11 4 (3.81%) GitLab
11 4 (3.81%) SonarQube
11 4 (3.81%) Vite
12 3 (2.86%) Jasmine
12 3 (2.86%) rollup.js
12 3 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 17 (16.19%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.52%) Advertising
4 9 (8.57%) Finance
5 7 (6.67%) Marketing
6 6 (5.71%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.81%) Banking
8 2 (1.90%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.90%) Retail
9 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Retail Finance
9 1 (0.95%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 53 (50.48%) Developer
2 36 (34.29%) Senior
3 18 (17.14%) JavaScript Engineer
4 15 (14.29%) Full Stack Developer
5 10 (9.52%) Angular Developer
6 9 (8.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 9 (8.57%) React Developer
7 8 (7.62%) UI Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.76%) Full Stack Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) QA Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Consultant
10 4 (3.81%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 4 (3.81%) Java Developer
10 4 (3.81%) QA Test Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Senior Consultant
10 4 (3.81%) Test Engineer
11 3 (2.86%) AWS Developer
11 3 (2.86%) Senior Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (57.14%) React
2 57 (54.29%) Node.js
3 42 (40.00%) CSS
4 32 (30.48%) Redux
5 28 (26.67%) HTML
6 21 (20.00%) AngularJS
7 16 (15.24%) Express.js
7 16 (15.24%) REST
8 15 (14.29%) GraphQL
9 14 (13.33%) Tailwind CSS
10 12 (11.43%) Sass
11 11 (10.48%) React Native
12 10 (9.52%) HTML5
13 9 (8.57%) Material-UI
13 9 (8.57%) Next.js
14 8 (7.62%) LESS
14 8 (7.62%) OpenFin
14 8 (7.62%) WebSockets
15 7 (6.67%) CSS3
15 7 (6.67%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.62%) Enterprise Software
1 8 (7.62%) Fixed Income
2 4 (3.81%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.86%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.90%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.90%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.90%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.95%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.95%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.95%) Online Banking
5 1 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.95%) Solar Panel
5 1 (0.95%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.90%) Android
1 2 (1.90%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (44.76%) Agile
2 37 (35.24%) CI/CD
3 26 (24.76%) Full Stack Development
3 26 (24.76%) Unit Testing
4 23 (21.90%) Test Automation
5 22 (20.95%) Front End Development
6 19 (18.10%) User Experience
7 18 (17.14%) Software Engineering
8 15 (14.29%) SDLC
8 15 (14.29%) TDD
9 12 (11.43%) Clean Code
9 12 (11.43%) Kanban
10 10 (9.52%) DevOps
10 10 (9.52%) Event-Driven
10 10 (9.52%) Pair Programming
10 10 (9.52%) Software Architecture
10 10 (9.52%) Web Development
11 9 (8.57%) BDD
11 9 (8.57%) Electronic Trading
11 9 (8.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 66 (62.86%) TypeScript
2 52 (49.52%) JavaScript
3 33 (31.43%) Java
4 10 (9.52%) Kotlin
5 8 (7.62%) C#
6 6 (5.71%) Python
7 3 (2.86%) JSX
7 3 (2.86%) SQL
8 1 (0.95%) C++
8 1 (0.95%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.95%) Degree
3 1 (0.95%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.29%) QA
2 9 (8.57%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.76%) SLA
4 2 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (11.43%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.48%) Terraform
3 5 (4.76%) Kibana
4 3 (2.86%) Grafana
5 2 (1.90%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.95%) Bugsnag
Vendors
1 3 (2.86%) Google
1 3 (2.86%) Microsoft
1 3 (2.86%) Xamarin
2 1 (0.95%) Adobe