Jest Contracts with Work from Home Options

Jest
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 349 409
Rank change year-on-year +53 +60 -88
Contract jobs citing Jest 43 104 223
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.44% 0.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.16% 1.74% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 70 147
10th Percentile £350 £413 £404
25th Percentile £414 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £913 £700 £615
90th Percentile £1,000 £711 £695
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £65.73 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £66.44 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.32% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 £68.94 -
90th Percentile - £69.58 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £67.36
% change year-on-year - +3.92% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 3,693 5,980 13,113
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.17% 25.05% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,597 4,483 9,739
10th Percentile £345 £390 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £650
90th Percentile £800 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 79 110
10th Percentile £23.88 £25.10 £22.45
25th Percentile - £48.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £64.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.81% +21.90% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61.50 £73.75 £66.64
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.05 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £48.97 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -24.67% +23.81% +16.67%

Jest
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Jest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Jest trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Jest.

Jest daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Jest
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Jest over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Jest daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Jest
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Jest.

Jest hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Jest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (9.30%) CMS
2 3 (6.98%) Confluence
3 2 (4.65%) Headless CMS
4 1 (2.33%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (2.33%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 17 (39.53%) AWS
2 7 (16.28%) Azure
3 4 (9.30%) GitHub
3 4 (9.30%) Serverless
4 3 (6.98%) GCP
4 3 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.65%) Amplience
5 2 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.65%) Figma
5 2 (4.65%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 2 (4.65%) Storyblok
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (2.33%) npm
6 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.33%) Sentry
6 1 (2.33%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.65%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.33%) MySQL
3 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (51.16%) Git
2 11 (25.58%) git-flow
3 9 (20.93%) Cypress.io
4 5 (11.63%) Storybook
5 4 (9.30%) webpack
6 3 (6.98%) JIRA
6 3 (6.98%) Vite
7 2 (4.65%) Babel
7 2 (4.65%) GitLab
7 2 (4.65%) Mocha
7 2 (4.65%) rollup.js
8 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.33%) ESLint
8 1 (2.33%) GoCD
8 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
8 1 (2.33%) Lerna
8 1 (2.33%) REST Assured
8 1 (2.33%) Selenium
8 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (23.26%) Marketing
2 4 (9.30%) Finance
2 4 (9.30%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (55.81%) Developer
2 15 (34.88%) Senior
3 11 (25.58%) JavaScript Engineer
3 11 (25.58%) UI Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 4 (9.30%) Angular Developer
5 4 (9.30%) Full Stack Developer
5 4 (9.30%) React Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Automation Tester
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Tester
7 2 (4.65%) AWS Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Backend Developer
7 2 (4.65%) E-Commerce Developer
7 2 (4.65%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Web Developer
8 1 (2.33%) Digital Developer
8 1 (2.33%) Full Stack .NET Developer
8 1 (2.33%) Serverless Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (72.09%) React
2 25 (58.14%) CSS
3 16 (37.21%) Redux
4 15 (34.88%) Tailwind CSS
5 12 (27.91%) Sass
6 11 (25.58%) LESS
6 11 (25.58%) Material-UI
6 11 (25.58%) Node.js
6 11 (25.58%) OpenFin
6 11 (25.58%) WebSockets
7 10 (23.26%) HTML
8 5 (11.63%) AngularJS
8 5 (11.63%) Next.js
9 4 (9.30%) Nuxt
9 4 (9.30%) REST
10 3 (6.98%) HTML5
10 3 (6.98%) NgRx
10 3 (6.98%) RESTful
10 3 (6.98%) RxJS
10 3 (6.98%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.58%) Enterprise Software
1 11 (25.58%) Fixed Income
2 2 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.65%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Android
1 1 (2.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (39.53%) Software Engineering
2 15 (34.88%) User Experience
3 12 (27.91%) Customer Experience
4 11 (25.58%) Electronic Trading
4 11 (25.58%) Front End Development
4 11 (25.58%) Post-Production
4 11 (25.58%) SDLC
5 10 (23.26%) Unit Testing
6 9 (20.93%) Agile
7 8 (18.60%) CI/CD
7 8 (18.60%) Full Stack Development
8 7 (16.28%) Web Development
9 5 (11.63%) E-Commerce
9 5 (11.63%) Test Automation
10 4 (9.30%) Code Quality
10 4 (9.30%) DevOps
10 4 (9.30%) Fintech
10 4 (9.30%) Performance Optimisation
11 3 (6.98%) Platform Engineering
11 3 (6.98%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 32 (74.42%) TypeScript
2 21 (48.84%) JavaScript
3 14 (32.56%) Java
4 2 (4.65%) C#
4 2 (4.65%) SQL
5 1 (2.33%) JSX
5 1 (2.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.33%) Degree
3 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) QA
2 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.65%) SLA
3 1 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (11.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (18.60%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.65%) Terraform
3 1 (2.33%) Bugsnag
3 1 (2.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (2.33%) Google
2 1 (2.33%) SAP
2 1 (2.33%) Xamarin