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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 475 466 513
Rank change year-on-year -9 +47 -115
Contract jobs citing Jest 95 231 377
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.41% 0.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.06% 1.77% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 132 270
10th Percentile £346 £414 £410
25th Percentile £413 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £613 £700 £634
90th Percentile £950 £724 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £531 £475
% change year-on-year -15.29% +11.84% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £66.20 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £67.63 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £67.36
Median % change year-on-year - +3.92% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £76.13 -
90th Percentile - £79.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £67.36
% change year-on-year +6.87% -2.76% -

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 8,927 13,057 23,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.99% 23.09% 26.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,211 9,517 17,333
10th Percentile £344 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +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 - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 145 235
10th Percentile £21.25 £25.75 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.05 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.02 £75.00 £67.18
90th Percentile £74.45 £81.00 £76.86
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.97 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.21% +23.81% +16.67%

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 23 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 23 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 -32 85 £500 -9.09% 72
London +24 50 £588 -2.08% 45
Work from Home +66 44 £489 -14.21% 40
UK excluding London -5 32 £450 -15.29% 50
North of England -6 12 £400 -26.44% 14
North West +18 11 £400 -27.27% 8
South West +14 7 £545 -24.83% 2
South East -2 6 £419 -39.64% 29
Midlands +32 5 £450 -35.71% 3
East Midlands +12 3 £450 -35.71% 2
Scotland +44 2 - - 1
West Midlands +15 2 £400 -42.86% 1
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 5 (5.26%) CMS
2 4 (4.21%) Confluence
3 3 (3.16%) Headless CMS
4 2 (2.11%) Alfresco
4 2 (2.11%) nginx
5 1 (1.05%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.05%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 35 (36.84%) AWS
2 17 (17.89%) Azure
3 14 (14.74%) GitHub
3 14 (14.74%) Serverless
4 9 (9.47%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (7.37%) GCP
7 6 (6.32%) npm
8 5 (5.26%) Figma
9 4 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (3.16%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (3.16%) Amazon S3
10 3 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (3.16%) Yarn
11 2 (2.11%) Amplience
11 2 (2.11%) CloudFront
11 2 (2.11%) Firebase
11 2 (2.11%) SaaS
11 2 (2.11%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 2 (2.11%) Storyblok
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.21%) HTTP
2 2 (2.11%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.37%) DynamoDB
2 5 (5.26%) NoSQL
2 5 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.16%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (3.16%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.11%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.11%) RavenDB
5 1 (1.05%) MySQL
5 1 (1.05%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 35 (36.84%) Git
2 33 (34.74%) Cypress.io
3 11 (11.58%) git-flow
3 11 (11.58%) Jenkins
3 11 (11.58%) Selenium
4 8 (8.42%) webpack
5 6 (6.32%) JIRA
5 6 (6.32%) Mocha
5 6 (6.32%) Storybook
6 5 (5.26%) Cucumber
6 5 (5.26%) GitLab
7 4 (4.21%) SonarQube
7 4 (4.21%) Vite
8 3 (3.16%) Babel
8 3 (3.16%) ESLint
8 3 (3.16%) Jasmine
8 3 (3.16%) JUnit
8 3 (3.16%) rollup.js
8 3 (3.16%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (2.11%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (10.53%) Finance
2 9 (9.47%) Marketing
2 9 (9.47%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.42%) Advertising
4 5 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.21%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.16%) Banking
7 2 (2.11%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.11%) Retail
8 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Retail Finance
8 1 (1.05%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 49 (51.58%) Developer
2 30 (31.58%) Senior
3 18 (18.95%) JavaScript Engineer
4 14 (14.74%) Full Stack Developer
5 10 (10.53%) UI Engineer
6 9 (9.47%) Angular Developer
7 8 (8.42%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 6 (6.32%) React Developer
8 6 (6.32%) Software Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Full Stack Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.21%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 3 (3.16%) .NET Developer
11 3 (3.16%) Automation Tester
11 3 (3.16%) JavaScript Developer
11 3 (3.16%) QA Engineer
11 3 (3.16%) Senior Full Stack Developer
11 3 (3.16%) Tester
11 3 (3.16%) UI Developer
11 3 (3.16%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (60.00%) React
2 43 (45.26%) Node.js
3 39 (41.05%) CSS
4 31 (32.63%) Redux
5 25 (26.32%) HTML
6 16 (16.84%) AngularJS
6 16 (16.84%) REST
7 15 (15.79%) Tailwind CSS
8 14 (14.74%) Sass
9 13 (13.68%) Express.js
10 11 (11.58%) HTML5
10 11 (11.58%) Material-UI
10 11 (11.58%) React Native
11 10 (10.53%) LESS
11 10 (10.53%) Next.js
11 10 (10.53%) OpenFin
11 10 (10.53%) WebSockets
12 9 (9.47%) GraphQL
13 8 (8.42%) .NET
14 7 (7.37%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
1 10 (10.53%) Fixed Income
2 4 (4.21%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.16%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.16%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.11%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.11%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.05%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.05%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.05%) Solar Panel
5 1 (1.05%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.11%) Android
1 2 (2.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (35.79%) Agile
2 28 (29.47%) CI/CD
3 26 (27.37%) Full Stack Development
4 22 (23.16%) Software Engineering
4 22 (23.16%) Unit Testing
5 21 (22.11%) User Experience
6 20 (21.05%) Test Automation
7 18 (18.95%) Front End Development
8 15 (15.79%) SDLC
9 14 (14.74%) TDD
10 12 (12.63%) DevOps
11 11 (11.58%) Customer Experience
12 10 (10.53%) Clean Code
12 10 (10.53%) Electronic Trading
12 10 (10.53%) Kanban
12 10 (10.53%) Post-Production
12 10 (10.53%) Web Development
13 9 (9.47%) Pair Programming
13 9 (9.47%) Software Architecture
14 8 (8.42%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 63 (66.32%) TypeScript
2 50 (52.63%) JavaScript
3 31 (32.63%) Java
4 10 (10.53%) Kotlin
5 9 (9.47%) C#
6 6 (6.32%) Python
7 4 (4.21%) SQL
8 3 (3.16%) JSX
9 1 (1.05%) C++
9 1 (1.05%) PHP
9 1 (1.05%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (12.63%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.47%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.11%) Degree
3 2 (2.11%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.68%) QA
2 9 (9.47%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.26%) SLA
4 2 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.05%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (12.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (13.68%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.58%) Terraform
3 3 (3.16%) Grafana
4 2 (2.11%) Kibana
4 2 (2.11%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.05%) Bugsnag
Vendors
1 3 (3.16%) Google
1 3 (3.16%) Microsoft
1 3 (3.16%) Xamarin
2 1 (1.05%) Adobe
2 1 (1.05%) Dynatrace
2 1 (1.05%) SAP