Jest: market
The Jest market currently has 1,772 open roles, 1,672 of them freshly observed. Median salary $5,875/mo. Observed candidate pool — 434.
⚠ salary known for 84 of 1772 jobs; remote share from 1485 with a stated format; 1672 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Demand and observed supply
| Open demand | 1,772 |
| Observed supply | 434 |
⚠ 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 $3,750 and $7,250. Sample: 84.
Demand geography
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| PL | 1,305 |
| US | 79 |
| IN | 43 |
| RU | 32 |
| DE | 29 |
| CA | 17 |
| GB | 13 |
| BR | 8 |
| AR | 8 |
| NL | 8 |
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
Roles that use it
| role | jobs |
|---|---|
| Fullstack | 244 |
| Frontend | 233 |
| Backend | 215 |
| DevOps | 119 |
| PM | 118 |
| QA | 117 |
| Data | 94 |
| Architect | 82 |
| Analyst | 67 |
| AI Engineer | 37 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Demand by grade
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 701 |
| middle | 419 |
| junior | 89 |
| lead | 28 |
| principal | 17 |
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers
Demand is spread across 570 employers. The largest accounts for 8.3%, the top ten for 35.0%; the remaining 65.0% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 8.3% |
| top-3 | 16.7% |
| top-10 | 35.0% |
| long tail | 65.0% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 51 sources; the largest accounts for 53.9% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Recent openings
- Senior Fullstack nodejs Engineer · PL
- Platform Engineer III · US · $16,042
- Senior Frontend Engineer · RO
- Senior Mobile Engineer · RO
- Senior Full Stack Developer (Java, React, typescript) | Gothenburg · SE
- Full Stack Developer RD-018 · CA · $5,389
- Full Stack Developer-RD-019 · CA · $5,389
- Software Developer · CA · $8,315
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 2026-10-20