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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 556 545 629
Rank change year-on-year -11 +84 +123
Contract jobs citing Karma Test Runner 9 18 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.027% 0.048% 0.027%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.18% 0.36% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 13
10th Percentile £298 £388 £469
25th Percentile £313 £434 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £330 £483 £625
Median % change year-on-year -31.61% -22.80% +19.05%
75th Percentile £358 £498 £699
90th Percentile £409 £500 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £358 £475 £666
% change year-on-year -24.63% -28.71% +36.67%

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 5,128 5,013 6,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.41% 13.33% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,466 3,142 4,422
10th Percentile £330 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £645
90th Percentile £688 £722 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £513
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.61% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 165 244
10th Percentile £20.03 £28.09 £46.18
25th Percentile £45.38 £51.00 £51.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £69.38 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £75.50 £71.88 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Karma Test Runner over the 6 months to 16 October 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 16 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
England +12 9 £330 -31.61%
London +24 6 £323 -35.50%
UK excluding London -31 3 £358 -24.63%
Work from Home +18 2 £337 -10.27% 1
East Midlands - 2 £358 -
Midlands - 2 £358 -
North of England -26 1 £596 +21.53%
Yorkshire - 1 £596 -

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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:

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