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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 545 632
Rank change year-on-year -3 +87 +153
Contract jobs citing Karma Test Runner 9 16 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.042% 0.040%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.18% 0.32% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 17
10th Percentile £298 £388 £482
25th Percentile £313 £434 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £330 £475 £683
Median % change year-on-year -30.53% -30.40% +36.50%
75th Percentile £358 £496 £750
90th Percentile £409 £500 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £358 £475 £685
% change year-on-year -24.63% -30.66% +45.36%

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 4,949 5,068 6,786
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.25% 13.29% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,330 3,252 4,711
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 176 246
10th Percentile £30.75 £28.62 £45.88
25th Percentile £50.50 £51.19 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £77.38
90th Percentile £87.50 £72.81 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +6.56%

Karma Test Runner
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Karma Test Runner as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Karma Test Runner 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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Karma Test Runner over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

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

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Top 8 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 15 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
England +10 9 £330 -30.53% 2
London +21 6 £323 -35.50%
UK excluding London -6 3 £358 -24.63% 2
Work from Home +27 2 £337 -10.27% 2
East Midlands - 2 £358 -
Midlands - 2 £358 -
North of England -20 1 £596 +25.37% 2
Yorkshire - 1 £596 - 2

Karma Test Runner
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Jasmine
2 8 (88.89%) Git
2 8 (88.89%) Mocha
2 8 (88.89%) Protractor
3 1 (11.11%) Bundler
3 1 (11.11%) ESLint
3 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
3 1 (11.11%) webpack
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
2 8 (88.89%) Angular Developer
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Junior
3 1 (11.11%) Junior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
3 1 (11.11%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) CSS
1 9 (100.00%) CSS3
1 9 (100.00%) HTML
1 9 (100.00%) HTML5
2 8 (88.89%) AngularJS
2 8 (88.89%) REST
2 8 (88.89%) RESTful
3 1 (11.11%) Bootstrap
3 1 (11.11%) DOM
3 1 (11.11%) Enzyme
3 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
3 1 (11.11%) Handlebars
3 1 (11.11%) Jest
3 1 (11.11%) Mustache
3 1 (11.11%) NgRx
3 1 (11.11%) React
3 1 (11.11%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
1 8 (88.89%) Front End Development
1 8 (88.89%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (11.11%) API Integration
2 1 (11.11%) Backends for Frontends
2 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
2 1 (11.11%) Clean Code
2 1 (11.11%) Code Coverage
2 1 (11.11%) Code Quality
2 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
2 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
2 1 (11.11%) OO
2 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (11.11%) Progressive Web App
2 1 (11.11%) SEO
2 1 (11.11%) SOLID
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Debt
2 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (88.89%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility