Karma Test Runner Contract Job Trends

Karma Test Runner (formerly Testacular)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Karma Test Runner skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 596 541 591
Rank change year-on-year -55 +50 +98
Contract jobs citing Karma Test Runner 4 7 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.010% 0.023% 0.005%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.069% 0.17% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile - £358 -
25th Percentile - £444 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £495 £450
Median % change year-on-year -27.68% +10.00% -7.22%
75th Percentile £482 £579 -
90th Percentile £556 £727 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £358 £495 -
% change year-on-year -27.68% - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,769 4,157 5,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.89% 13.57% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,940 2,681 3,705
10th Percentile £344 £330 £363
25th Percentile £405 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -0.94% -4.10% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 64 218
10th Percentile £34.05 £26.10 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.44 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £73.75
90th Percentile £83.40 £79.54 £84.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

Karma Test Runner
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Karma Test Runner job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Karma Test Runner
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Karma Test Runner over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Karma Test Runner in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Karma Test Runner
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 February 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
UK excluding London -78 3 £358 -27.68%
England -84 2 £596 +20.30%
Scotland - 2 £358 -
London -45 1 - -
North of England -65 1 £596 +20.30%
Yorkshire - 1 £596 -

Karma Test Runner
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Serverless
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Jasmine
2 3 (75.00%) NUnit
3 1 (25.00%) Bundler
3 1 (25.00%) ESLint
3 1 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) MSTest
3 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
3 1 (25.00%) webpack
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (50.00%) C# Developer
3 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 1 (25.00%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (25.00%) Lead
4 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
4 1 (25.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (75.00%) Jest
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) Entity Framework
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) LINQ
2 2 (50.00%) NgRx
3 1 (25.00%) Bootstrap
3 1 (25.00%) CSS3
3 1 (25.00%) DOM
3 1 (25.00%) Handlebars
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) Mustache
3 1 (25.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Kanban
2 2 (50.00%) Micro Frontends
2 2 (50.00%) MVC
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) SOLID
2 2 (50.00%) User Experience
2 2 (50.00%) Wealth Management
3 1 (25.00%) OOP
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) SEO
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle