Jest Contract Job Trends in Reading

Jest
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading 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 59 - 82
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing Jest 3 0 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.53% - 1.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.17% - 8.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 13
10th Percentile £483 - £603
25th Percentile £494 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £688
Median % change year-on-year - - +103.70%
75th Percentile £538 - £750
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £444 £688
% change year-on-year +18.31% -35.45% +103.70%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 138 234 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 24.25% 21.43% 14.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 167 115
10th Percentile £350 £384 £350
25th Percentile £400 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £663
90th Percentile £650 £675 £706
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - - £23.08
25th Percentile - - £32.43
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £48.27
Median % change year-on-year - +27.63% -36.28%
75th Percentile - - £63.85
90th Percentile - £69.56 £73.06
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £55.31
% change year-on-year -47.55% +11.37% -19.40%

Jest
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Jest in Reading

Jest
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Jest

Jest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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
4 Jest jobs in Reading