Jest Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Jest
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Jest skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 106 102
Rank change year-on-year +17 -4 +27
Contract jobs citing Jest 3 2 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.26% 0.12% 0.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.14% 0.62% 5.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 13
10th Percentile £483 £419 £603
25th Percentile £494 £420 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £444 £688
Median % change year-on-year +18.31% -35.45% +103.70%
75th Percentile £538 £470 £750
90th Percentile - £473 -
South East median daily rate £525 £438 £685
% change year-on-year +20.00% -36.13% +68.62%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Berkshire

Jest falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 264 323 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 22.80% 19.25% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 217 158
10th Percentile £325 £370 £311
25th Percentile £409 £450 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £638 £663 £702
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - £50.87 £28.16
25th Percentile - - £45.13
Median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £55.31
Median % change year-on-year -47.55% +11.37% -19.40%
75th Percentile - - £61.84
90th Percentile - £64.25 £72.25
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £59.30
% change year-on-year -18.83% +3.89% -5.38%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Jest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Jest in Berkshire

Jest
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Jest.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Jest

Jest
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Jest within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 22 September 2025. 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
Reading - 3 £525 - 4
Jest
South East

Jest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Datadog
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Mocha
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 2 (66.67%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) React
1 2 (66.67%) Sass
2 1 (33.33%) Fastify
2 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
2 1 (33.33%) OpenID
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) Swagger
2 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Application Security
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Asynchronous Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Non-Blocking Code
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Virgin Media
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk