Jest Contracts in the UK excluding London

Jest
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 363 344 448
Rank change year-on-year -19 +104 -82
Contract jobs citing Jest 31 98 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.43% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.93% 2.35% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 66 51
10th Percentile £315 £413 £388
25th Percentile £375 £489 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £534 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.69% +12.37% +7.95%
75th Percentile £518 £638 £509
90th Percentile £595 £722 £538
UK median daily rate £500 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -8.26% -0.91% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £65.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £67.36
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% -2.76% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £65.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £67.36
% change year-on-year - +3.92% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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 3,331 4,162 6,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.05% 18.16% 19.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,177 3,104 4,392
10th Percentile £325 £350 £362
25th Percentile £406 £420 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £588
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 87 136
10th Percentile £22.63 £22.39 £19.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.49% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £66.69 £75.00 £67.52
90th Percentile £74.47 £79.19 £77.16
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Jest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Jest in the UK excluding London

Jest
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Jest in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Jest in the UK excluding London

Jest
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jest in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Jest in the UK excluding London

Jest
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Jest in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Jest in the UK excluding London

Jest
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 June 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 of England -9 12 £400 -26.44% 15
North West +4 11 £400 -28.89% 9
South West +10 7 £545 -24.83% 2
Midlands +22 5 £450 -35.71% 4
South East -6 5 £400 -42.34% 11
East Midlands +6 3 £450 -35.71% 2
Scotland +46 2 - - 1
West Midlands +14 2 £400 -42.86% 2
North East - 1 £310 - 1
Jest
UK

Jest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (3.23%) Alfresco
1 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (41.94%) AWS
2 8 (25.81%) GitHub
3 6 (19.35%) Azure
4 4 (12.90%) Serverless
5 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.45%) npm
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.23%) BrowserStack
7 1 (3.23%) Firebase
7 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (35.48%) Git
2 9 (29.03%) Cypress.io
3 6 (19.35%) Jenkins
4 4 (12.90%) Selenium
5 3 (9.68%) Mocha
6 2 (6.45%) ESLint
6 2 (6.45%) GitLab
6 2 (6.45%) GoCD
6 2 (6.45%) webpack
7 1 (3.23%) Babel
7 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
7 1 (3.23%) git-flow
7 1 (3.23%) IntelliJ
7 1 (3.23%) JIRA
7 1 (3.23%) JUnit
7 1 (3.23%) Postman
7 1 (3.23%) REST Assured
7 1 (3.23%) SonarQube
7 1 (3.23%) Vite
General
1 5 (16.13%) Finance
2 3 (9.68%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Banking
4 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Retail
4 1 (3.23%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (64.52%) Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Angular Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Full Stack Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Full Stack Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Software Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) JavaScript Developer
5 3 (9.68%) React Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Web Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 2 (6.45%) Java Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Python Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior
7 1 (3.23%) Automation Tester
7 1 (3.23%) Digital Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Lead Developer
7 1 (3.23%) QA Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Full Stack Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Tester
7 1 (3.23%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (67.74%) React
2 15 (48.39%) Node.js
3 8 (25.81%) CSS
3 8 (25.81%) HTML
4 7 (22.58%) Redux
5 6 (19.35%) REST
6 5 (16.13%) AngularJS
6 5 (16.13%) NgRx
6 5 (16.13%) RxJS
7 3 (9.68%) CSS3
7 3 (9.68%) GraphQL
7 3 (9.68%) HTML5
7 3 (9.68%) React Native
7 3 (9.68%) Spring Boot
8 2 (6.45%) Angular 2
8 2 (6.45%) AWS CDK
8 2 (6.45%) Next.js
8 2 (6.45%) Spring
9 1 (3.23%) AWS SAM
9 1 (3.23%) Parceljs
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.23%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Android
1 1 (3.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) Full Stack Development
2 12 (38.71%) Agile
2 12 (38.71%) CI/CD
3 8 (25.81%) Test Automation
4 6 (19.35%) Unit Testing
5 5 (16.13%) Software Engineering
6 4 (12.90%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (12.90%) Front End Development
7 3 (9.68%) BDD
7 3 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (9.68%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (9.68%) DevOps
7 3 (9.68%) Event-Driven
7 3 (9.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 3 (9.68%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (9.68%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (9.68%) Product Backlog
7 3 (9.68%) Runbook
7 3 (9.68%) SDLC
7 3 (9.68%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 17 (54.84%) TypeScript
2 13 (41.94%) JavaScript
3 9 (29.03%) Java
4 4 (12.90%) Kotlin
5 2 (6.45%) Python
6 1 (3.23%) C#
6 1 (3.23%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) QA
2 4 (12.90%) Accessibility
2 4 (12.90%) SLA
3 1 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (3.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.68%) Terraform
3 1 (3.23%) Grafana
3 1 (3.23%) Kibana