TestCafe Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Developer Express TestCafe
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring TestCafe skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 388 357 403
Rank change year-on-year -31 +46 +103
Contract jobs citing TestCafe 1 14 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.006% 0.082% 0.043%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.041% 0.66% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 6
10th Percentile - £297 £381
25th Percentile - £307 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £340 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -32.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile - £366 -
90th Percentile - £380 -
UK median daily rate - £355 £500
% change year-on-year - -29.00% -13.04%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

TestCafe 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,455 2,132 2,619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.13% 12.51% 12.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,668 1,245 1,788
10th Percentile £313 £338 £356
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -4.39% -2.38%
75th Percentile £550 £581 £600
90th Percentile £638 £651 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -1.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 144 198
10th Percentile £16.84 £43.10 £46.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £54.56 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £69.69 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.69%

TestCafe
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing TestCafe relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

TestCafe job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

TestCafe
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing TestCafe.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing TestCafe

TestCafe
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TestCafe within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 October 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
East of England - 1 - -
TestCafe
UK

TestCafe
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Locust
1 1 (100.00%) Newman
1 1 (100.00%) Robot Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Taurus
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform