Jest Contracts in the North of England

Jest
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 173 172 216
Rank change year-on-year -1 +44 -44
Contract jobs citing Jest 12 46 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.26% 0.82% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.32% 4.23% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 34 25
10th Percentile £318 £413 £394
25th Percentile £344 £500 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £544 £475
Median % change year-on-year -26.44% +14.47% +5.56%
75th Percentile £513 £588 £510
90th Percentile £563 £681 £556
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 of 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 the North of 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 910 1,087 1,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.63% 19.40% 22.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 846 1,219
10th Percentile £363 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £438 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £560 £570
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.75% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 38
10th Percentile £14.56 £37.79 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £48.50 £31.50
Median hourly rate £46.18 £62.50 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.11% +10.62% +88.33%
75th Percentile £69.44 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.00 £78.55
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +8.70%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Jest in the North of England

Jest
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Jest in the North of England

Jest
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jest in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Jest in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +16 11 £400 -27.27% 8
North East - 1 £310 -
Jest
England

Jest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (8.33%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (8.33%) Azure
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) BrowserStack
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Git
2 4 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 3 (25.00%) Mocha
4 2 (16.67%) GitLab
4 2 (16.67%) GoCD
5 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
5 1 (8.33%) ESLint
5 1 (8.33%) JUnit
5 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
5 1 (8.33%) Selenium
5 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Retail
2 1 (8.33%) Retail Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Digital Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Full Stack Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Full Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
4 1 (8.33%) React Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (75.00%) React
2 7 (58.33%) Node.js
3 4 (33.33%) Redux
4 3 (25.00%) CSS
4 3 (25.00%) HTML
5 2 (16.67%) AWS CDK
5 2 (16.67%) REST
6 1 (8.33%) AWS SAM
6 1 (8.33%) Gherkin
6 1 (8.33%) JSON
6 1 (8.33%) Kafka
6 1 (8.33%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (8.33%) Next.js
6 1 (8.33%) React Native
6 1 (8.33%) RESTful
6 1 (8.33%) Serverless Framework
6 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Android
1 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
1 5 (41.67%) Full Stack Development
1 5 (41.67%) Software Engineering
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 3 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Product Backlog
3 3 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
4 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
4 2 (16.67%) Data Security
4 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 2 (16.67%) E-Commerce
4 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (16.67%) Micro Frontends
4 2 (16.67%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) TypeScript
2 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) QA
1 4 (33.33%) SLA
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform