Karma Test Runner Contract Job Trends in England

Karma Test Runner (formerly Testacular)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Karma Test Runner skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 636 508 505
Rank change year-on-year -128 -3 +90
Contract jobs citing Karma Test Runner 3 9 17
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.007% 0.033% 0.052%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.057% 0.22% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 8
10th Percentile - £298 £434
25th Percentile £523 £313 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £330 £475
Median % change year-on-year +62.12% -30.53% -28.71%
75th Percentile £548 £358 £496
90th Percentile - £409 £500
UK median daily rate £503 £330 £475
% change year-on-year +52.27% -30.53% -26.92%

All Development Application Skills
England

Karma Test Runner falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,225 4,074 4,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.36% 14.90% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,326 2,822 2,811
10th Percentile £356 £325 £356
25th Percentile £415 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £637
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 92 173
10th Percentile £37.25 £46.38 £36.35
25th Percentile £55.00 £54.94 £52.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £71.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £83.00 £71.80
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - +0.48%

Karma Test Runner
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Karma Test Runner relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Karma Test Runner job vacancy trend in England

Karma Test Runner
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Karma Test Runner.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Karma Test Runner

Karma Test Runner
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Karma Test Runner.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Karma Test Runner

Karma Test Runner
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Karma Test Runner within the England region over the 6 months to 8 September 2026. 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
London -76 3 £535 +65.89% 3
Karma Test Runner
UK

Karma Test Runner
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Functions
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Storage
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Jasmine
2 2 (66.67%) JUnit
3 1 (33.33%) MSTest
3 1 (33.33%) NUnit
3 1 (33.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Angular Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) CSS3
2 2 (66.67%) GraphQL
2 2 (66.67%) HTML5
2 2 (66.67%) NgRx
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) UX Design
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) OOP
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (66.67%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle