Jest: market
The Jest market currently has 1,803 open roles, 1,708 of them freshly observed. Median salary $5,750/mo. Observed candidate pool — 439.
⚠ salary known for 90 of 1803 jobs; remote share from 1519 with a stated format; 1708 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Demand and observed supply
| Open demand | 1,803 |
| Observed supply | 439 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution
One in ten earns under $2,364, one in ten over $15,416. Half the market falls between $3,937 and $7,250. Sample: 90.
Demand geography
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| PL | 1,276 |
| US | 87 |
| IN | 54 |
| RU | 38 |
| DE | 30 |
| CA | 23 |
| GB | 18 |
| BR | 9 |
| NL | 8 |
| AR | 8 |
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
Roles that use it
| role | jobs |
|---|---|
| Fullstack | 271 |
| Frontend | 263 |
| Backend | 210 |
| QA | 120 |
| PM | 119 |
| DevOps | 113 |
| Data | 91 |
| Architect | 80 |
| Analyst | 68 |
| AI Engineer | 38 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Demand by grade
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 736 |
| middle | 420 |
| junior | 89 |
| lead | 36 |
| principal | 21 |
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers
Demand is spread across 606 employers. The largest accounts for 8.1%, the top ten for 33.9%; the remaining 66.1% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 8.1% |
| top-3 | 15.9% |
| top-10 | 33.9% |
| long tail | 66.1% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 57 sources; the largest accounts for 52.2% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Recent openings
- Front-end Developer Junior · FR
- Junior Frontend Developer Vue · RU
- Senior Full Stack Engineer (UK) · GB
- Front-End Engineer
- Software Engineering Manager · CA
- Développeur.euse QA - Automatisation · CA
- Senior Frontend Engineer · US · $13,750
- QA Architect · CA · $12,083
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 7.
Data as of 2026-10-25