TestCafe Contract Job Trends

Developer Express TestCafe
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring TestCafe skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
3 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 676 - 541
Rank change year-on-year - - +101
Contract jobs citing TestCafe 3 0 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% - 0.024%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.049% - 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £322 - £505
25th Percentile £330 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £351 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile £363 - £538
90th Percentile £366 - £545
UK excluding London median daily rate £367 - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 6,159 4,940 5,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.49% 15.20% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,974 3,328 3,251
10th Percentile £356 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £599 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 115 179
10th Percentile £35.00 £28.65 £27.60
25th Percentile £53.00 £50.00 £51.13
Median hourly rate £67.24 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.70 £71.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

TestCafe
Job Vacancy Trend

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

TestCafe job vacancy trend in the UK

TestCafe
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

TestCafe
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 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
England - 3 £351 - 2
London - 2 £335 - 1
Work from Home - 1 £367 - 1
East of England - 1 £367 - 1
UK excluding London - 1 £367 - 1

TestCafe
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) BlazeMeter
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) INAP
1 2 (66.67%) RTP
1 2 (66.67%) tcpdump
1 2 (66.67%) VoIP
1 2 (66.67%) Wireshark
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Intelligent Network
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) JMeter
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Locust
2 2 (66.67%) Robot Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (33.33%) Gatling
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (33.33%) Newman
3 1 (33.33%) Postman
3 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
3 1 (33.33%) Selenium
3 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
3 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Banking Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Payments Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) VoIP Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) VoIP Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Taurus
2 1 (33.33%) LDAP
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Media Streaming
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (33.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) CentOS
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Defect Management
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) QA Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) System Testing
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) ISO 20022
2 1 (33.33%) SEPA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Dialogic
1 2 (66.67%) Metaswitch