TestCafe Contracts

Developer Express TestCafe
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for TestCafe skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited TestCafe over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 697 791
Rank change year-on-year +115 +94 -94
Contract jobs citing TestCafe 5 9 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.016% 0.045%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.097% 0.11% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 36
10th Percentile £295 - £463
25th Percentile £344 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -22.73% +29.41%
75th Percentile £481 £475 £575
90th Percentile £485 - £594
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.75 £52.00 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £54.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -
75th Percentile £61.25 £56.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £54.00 -
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

TestCafe is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,129 8,565 15,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.02% 14.86% 18.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,435 6,035 11,220
10th Percentile £354 £384 £400
25th Percentile £425 £461 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 236 216
10th Percentile £32.10 £44.62 £38.54
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.04 £82.50 £76.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +20.88%

TestCafe
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing TestCafe as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for TestCafe in the UK

TestCafe
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TestCafe.

Daily rate trend for TestCafe in the UK

TestCafe
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TestCafe over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TestCafe in the UK

TestCafe
Top 7 Contract 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 14 May 2024. 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 +110 5 £450 +5.88% 1
UK excluding London +61 4 £450 - 2
North of England +20 3 £463 +2.78%
North West - 3 £463 -
Work from Home +110 2 £450 +12.50% 1
London +84 1 - -
South East - 1 £275 - 1

TestCafe
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (20.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) SpeedCurve
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) GoCD
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) JMeter
2 1 (20.00%) Pa11y
2 1 (20.00%) Postman
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Tester
3 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) API Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (40.00%) Manual Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Active Listening
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) Groovy
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Kibana
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Atlassian