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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 443 429 481
Rank change year-on-year -14 +52 -100
Contract jobs citing Jest 88 218 311
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.45% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.17% 1.98% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 129 229
10th Percentile £343 £413 £404
25th Percentile £419 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.09% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £606 £700 £638
90th Percentile £915 £728 £745
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 7,516 11,029 18,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.63% 22.89% 26.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,339 8,195 14,181
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £570
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -1.75% +14.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £788 £768
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 127 212
10th Percentile £22.42 £25.75 £22.75
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.65 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £65.95 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £76.96
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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 18 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 18 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 +32 54 £575 -4.17% 33
North of England -1 12 £400 -26.44% 14
North West +16 11 £400 -27.27% 8
South West +8 7 £545 -24.83% 2
Midlands +21 5 £450 -35.71% 2
South East +14 5 £400 -42.86% 16
East Midlands +10 3 £450 -35.71% 1
West Midlands +21 2 £400 -42.86% 1
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 3 (3.41%) CMS
1 3 (3.41%) Confluence
1 3 (3.41%) Headless CMS
2 2 (2.27%) Alfresco
2 2 (2.27%) nginx
3 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 31 (35.23%) AWS
2 15 (17.05%) Serverless
3 12 (13.64%) Azure
3 12 (13.64%) GitHub
4 10 (11.36%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (6.82%) npm
6 5 (5.68%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (5.68%) Figma
7 4 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (4.55%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.55%) GCP
8 3 (3.41%) CloudFront
8 3 (3.41%) Yarn
9 2 (2.27%) Firebase
9 2 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.27%) SaaS
10 1 (1.14%) Azure API Management
10 1 (1.14%) Azure WebJobs
10 1 (1.14%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.68%) HTTP
2 2 (2.27%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.95%) DynamoDB
2 5 (5.68%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.27%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.27%) RavenDB
4 2 (2.27%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.14%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 32 (36.36%) Cypress.io
2 28 (31.82%) Git
3 11 (12.50%) Selenium
4 10 (11.36%) git-flow
5 8 (9.09%) Jenkins
6 7 (7.95%) Cucumber
6 7 (7.95%) JIRA
6 7 (7.95%) Mocha
7 6 (6.82%) webpack
8 4 (4.55%) GitLab
8 4 (4.55%) SonarQube
9 3 (3.41%) Babel
9 3 (3.41%) Jasmine
9 3 (3.41%) JUnit
9 3 (3.41%) Maven
9 3 (3.41%) Protractor
9 3 (3.41%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (2.27%) ESLint
10 2 (2.27%) GoCD
10 2 (2.27%) REST Assured
General
1 9 (10.23%) Advertising
1 9 (10.23%) Finance
2 8 (9.09%) Marketing
3 7 (7.95%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.68%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.41%) Banking
7 2 (2.27%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.27%) Retail
8 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Retail Finance
8 1 (1.14%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 42 (47.73%) Developer
2 29 (32.95%) Senior
3 18 (20.45%) JavaScript Engineer
4 13 (14.77%) Full Stack Developer
5 9 (10.23%) Angular Developer
5 9 (10.23%) UI Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 5 (5.68%) Full Stack Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) React Developer
6 5 (5.68%) Software Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 4 (4.55%) QA Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) QA Test Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Senior Developer
7 4 (4.55%) Test Engineer
8 3 (3.41%) Consultant
8 3 (3.41%) JavaScript Developer
8 3 (3.41%) Senior Consultant
8 3 (3.41%) Tester
8 3 (3.41%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (56.82%) React
2 43 (48.86%) Node.js
3 33 (37.50%) CSS
4 32 (36.36%) Redux
5 22 (25.00%) HTML
6 18 (20.45%) REST
7 17 (19.32%) AngularJS
8 13 (14.77%) Express.js
9 12 (13.64%) React Native
9 12 (13.64%) Sass
10 11 (12.50%) HTML5
10 11 (12.50%) Tailwind CSS
11 10 (11.36%) Material-UI
12 9 (10.23%) LESS
12 9 (10.23%) Next.js
12 9 (10.23%) OpenFin
12 9 (10.23%) WebSockets
13 8 (9.09%) GraphQL
14 7 (7.95%) CSS3
14 7 (7.95%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.23%) Enterprise Software
1 9 (10.23%) Fixed Income
2 4 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.41%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.41%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.14%) Online Banking
4 1 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.14%) Solar Panel
4 1 (1.14%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.41%) Android
1 3 (3.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (40.91%) Agile
2 26 (29.55%) CI/CD
3 24 (27.27%) Full Stack Development
4 23 (26.14%) Test Automation
5 19 (21.59%) Software Engineering
5 19 (21.59%) User Experience
6 17 (19.32%) Unit Testing
7 14 (15.91%) SDLC
7 14 (15.91%) TDD
8 13 (14.77%) Front End Development
9 11 (12.50%) Clean Code
9 11 (12.50%) Kanban
10 10 (11.36%) Customer Experience
10 10 (11.36%) Event-Driven
11 9 (10.23%) BDD
11 9 (10.23%) DevOps
11 9 (10.23%) Electronic Trading
11 9 (10.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 9 (10.23%) Post-Production
11 9 (10.23%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 57 (64.77%) TypeScript
2 49 (55.68%) JavaScript
3 28 (31.82%) Java
4 10 (11.36%) Kotlin
5 8 (9.09%) C#
6 6 (6.82%) Python
7 3 (3.41%) JSX
7 3 (3.41%) SQL
8 1 (1.14%) PHP
8 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.36%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.27%) Degree
4 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.64%) QA
2 9 (10.23%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.68%) SLA
4 2 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (12.50%) Terraform
2 10 (11.36%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.41%) Grafana
4 2 (2.27%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.14%) Bugsnag
Vendors
1 3 (3.41%) Xamarin
2 2 (2.27%) Google
3 1 (1.14%) Adobe
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft