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

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 497 483 524
Rank change year-on-year -14 +41 -128
Contract jobs citing Jest 103 238 365
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.40% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.16% 1.73% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 135 257
10th Percentile £348 £413 £412
25th Percentile £409 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.09% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £638
90th Percentile £749 £738 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £458
% change year-on-year -9.52% +14.75% +4.57%
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 8,883 13,734 24,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.58% 23.25% 27.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,169 10,016 17,623
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +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 238 152 239
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.18 £22.40
25th Percentile £40.08 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% +30.65% +10.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.61 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £63.25 £49.25
% change year-on-year -24.90% +28.43% +9.44%

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 5 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 5 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 -10 89 £489 -11.09% 60
London +47 57 £499 -19.23% 25
Work from Home +59 43 £489 -14.21% 30
UK excluding London -3 34 £475 -9.52% 35
North of England -3 11 £400 -26.44% 10
North West +21 10 £463 -15.91% 7
Scotland +45 7 £585 +42.68% 1
South West +26 7 £545 -24.83% 6
Midlands +27 5 £450 -35.71% 5
South East 0 4 £400 -42.86% 11
East Midlands +15 3 £450 -35.71% 3
West Midlands +21 2 £400 -42.86% 2
North East - 1 £310 -

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 (6.80%) Confluence
2 4 (3.88%) CMS
3 2 (1.94%) Alfresco
3 2 (1.94%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.97%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 40 (38.83%) AWS
2 21 (20.39%) Serverless
3 16 (15.53%) AWS Lambda
3 16 (15.53%) Azure
4 14 (13.59%) GitHub
5 9 (8.74%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (8.74%) Amazon S3
6 8 (7.77%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (7.77%) CloudFront
7 6 (5.83%) Figma
7 6 (5.83%) GCP
8 5 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (4.85%) npm
9 4 (3.88%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.94%) Amplience
10 2 (1.94%) Firebase
10 2 (1.94%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 2 (1.94%) Storyblok
10 2 (1.94%) Yarn
11 1 (0.97%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.88%) HTTP
2 2 (1.94%) 5G
3 1 (0.97%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.62%) DynamoDB
2 5 (4.85%) NoSQL
2 5 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.91%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (1.94%) RavenDB
4 2 (1.94%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.97%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.97%) MySQL
5 1 (0.97%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 39 (37.86%) Cypress.io
2 34 (33.01%) Git
3 14 (13.59%) Jenkins
4 11 (10.68%) JIRA
5 10 (9.71%) Selenium
6 8 (7.77%) git-flow
6 8 (7.77%) Maven
6 8 (7.77%) Protractor
6 8 (7.77%) webpack
7 7 (6.80%) Cucumber
8 6 (5.83%) Mocha
8 6 (5.83%) Storybook
9 5 (4.85%) IntelliJ
9 5 (4.85%) Postman
10 4 (3.88%) GitLab
10 4 (3.88%) SonarQube
10 4 (3.88%) Vite
11 3 (2.91%) Babel
11 3 (2.91%) Jasmine
11 3 (2.91%) rollup.js
General
1 17 (16.50%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.71%) Advertising
4 8 (7.77%) Finance
5 6 (5.83%) Marketing
5 6 (5.83%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.91%) Banking
7 2 (1.94%) Retail
8 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.97%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.97%) Retail Finance
8 1 (0.97%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 53 (51.46%) Developer
2 34 (33.01%) Senior
3 17 (16.50%) JavaScript Engineer
4 15 (14.56%) Full Stack Developer
5 10 (9.71%) Angular Developer
6 9 (8.74%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 9 (8.74%) React Developer
7 7 (6.80%) UI Engineer
8 6 (5.83%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.85%) Full Stack Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) QA Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) Consultant
10 4 (3.88%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 4 (3.88%) Java Developer
10 4 (3.88%) QA Test Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) Senior Consultant
10 4 (3.88%) Test Engineer
11 3 (2.91%) AWS Developer
11 3 (2.91%) Senior Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (56.31%) React
2 56 (54.37%) Node.js
3 41 (39.81%) CSS
4 31 (30.10%) Redux
5 28 (27.18%) HTML
6 20 (19.42%) AngularJS
7 16 (15.53%) REST
8 15 (14.56%) Express.js
9 14 (13.59%) GraphQL
10 13 (12.62%) Tailwind CSS
11 11 (10.68%) React Native
11 11 (10.68%) Sass
12 10 (9.71%) HTML5
13 9 (8.74%) Next.js
14 8 (7.77%) Material-UI
15 7 (6.80%) CSS3
15 7 (6.80%) Gherkin
15 7 (6.80%) LESS
15 7 (6.80%) OpenFin
15 7 (6.80%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.80%) Enterprise Software
1 7 (6.80%) Fixed Income
2 3 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (2.91%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.94%) Algorithms
3 2 (1.94%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.94%) Hedge funds
3 2 (1.94%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.97%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (0.97%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.97%) Online Banking
4 1 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.97%) Solar Panel
4 1 (0.97%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.94%) Android
1 2 (1.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (44.66%) Agile
2 37 (35.92%) CI/CD
3 26 (25.24%) Full Stack Development
3 26 (25.24%) Unit Testing
4 23 (22.33%) Test Automation
5 22 (21.36%) Front End Development
6 18 (17.48%) User Experience
7 16 (15.53%) Software Engineering
8 15 (14.56%) TDD
9 13 (12.62%) SDLC
10 12 (11.65%) Clean Code
10 12 (11.65%) Kanban
11 10 (9.71%) DevOps
11 10 (9.71%) Pair Programming
11 10 (9.71%) Software Architecture
11 10 (9.71%) Web Development
12 9 (8.74%) BDD
12 9 (8.74%) Code Quality
12 9 (8.74%) Event-Driven
13 8 (7.77%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 64 (62.14%) TypeScript
2 50 (48.54%) JavaScript
3 31 (30.10%) Java
4 9 (8.74%) Kotlin
5 8 (7.77%) C#
6 6 (5.83%) Python
7 3 (2.91%) JSX
7 3 (2.91%) SQL
8 1 (0.97%) C++
8 1 (0.97%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (11.65%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.71%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.97%) Degree
3 1 (0.97%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.56%) QA
2 9 (8.74%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.85%) SLA
4 1 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.97%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (13.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (10.68%) Kubernetes
1 11 (10.68%) Terraform
2 5 (4.85%) Kibana
3 2 (1.94%) Grafana
4 1 (0.97%) Bugsnag
4 1 (0.97%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (2.91%) Google
1 3 (2.91%) Microsoft
1 3 (2.91%) Xamarin
2 1 (0.97%) Adobe