BrowserStack Contracts

BrowserStack
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring BrowserStack skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BrowserStack over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 525 636 799
Rank change year-on-year +111 +163 -71
Contract jobs citing BrowserStack 41 10 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.020% 0.063%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.31% 0.056% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 9 40
10th Percentile £176 £166 £393
25th Percentile £300 £189 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £200 £550
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -63.64% +23.60%
75th Percentile £476 £438 £575
90th Percentile £500 £448 £591
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% +6.74%

All Cloud Skills
UK

BrowserStack falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,139 17,826 32,736
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.22% 35.75% 38.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,835 12,824 23,639
10th Percentile £313 £313 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -2.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 337 343
10th Percentile £15.60 £14.97 £13.43
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +62.79% -
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.00 £44.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.07 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.44 £26.00 £19.61
% change year-on-year +17.07% +32.62% +0.54%

BrowserStack
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for BrowserStack in the UK

BrowserStack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for BrowserStack in the UK

BrowserStack
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BrowserStack over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BrowserStack in the UK

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Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BrowserStack within the UK over the 6 months to 20 September 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 +102 37 £394 +100.64% 9
London +86 24 £340 +76.62% 4
Work from Home +100 16 £419 +117.53% 4
UK excluding London +54 10 £500 +17.65% 5
North of England - 8 £500 - 3
North East - 5 - - 3
North West - 2 £500 -
Scotland +34 1 - -
South West - 1 £500 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £500 -

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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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (31.71%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (31.71%) AWS
2 12 (29.27%) Azure
3 10 (24.39%) BlazeMeter
3 10 (24.39%) Firebase
4 8 (19.51%) GitHub
4 8 (19.51%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 5 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (12.20%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (12.20%) Figma
5 5 (12.20%) Sauce Labs
5 5 (12.20%) Serverless
6 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.88%) Datadog
6 2 (4.88%) GCP
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.44%) dbt
7 1 (2.44%) npm
7 1 (2.44%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) HTTP
1 1 (2.44%) HTTPS
1 1 (2.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) MongoDB
1 5 (12.20%) MySQL
1 5 (12.20%) NoSQL
1 5 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.44%) Data Mining
2 1 (2.44%) DB2
2 1 (2.44%) MS Access
2 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (41.46%) Appium
1 17 (41.46%) JIRA
2 16 (39.02%) Cypress.io
3 15 (36.59%) Jenkins
4 13 (31.71%) GitLab
5 12 (29.27%) Postman
6 11 (26.83%) Cucumber
7 10 (24.39%) Selenium
8 9 (21.95%) JMeter
9 8 (19.51%) Git
10 4 (9.76%) Bitbucket
11 3 (7.32%) Gatling
11 3 (7.32%) SoapUI
12 2 (4.88%) REST Assured
12 2 (4.88%) SonarQube
13 1 (2.44%) Fiddler
13 1 (2.44%) JUnit
13 1 (2.44%) Maven
13 1 (2.44%) Robot Framework
13 1 (2.44%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (46.34%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (12.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (9.76%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.44%) Banking
5 1 (2.44%) Military
5 1 (2.44%) Publishing
5 1 (2.44%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (26.83%) Tester
2 10 (24.39%) QA Engineer
3 7 (17.07%) QA Tester
4 6 (14.63%) Test Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Automation Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Developer
5 5 (12.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Software Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) QA Automation Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Analyst
7 3 (7.32%) Automation Tester
7 3 (7.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (7.32%) Junior
7 3 (7.32%) Mobile Tester
7 3 (7.32%) QA Analyst
7 3 (7.32%) QA Test Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Senior
7 3 (7.32%) Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (31.71%) React
1 13 (31.71%) WebdriverIO
2 8 (19.51%) Middleware
3 6 (14.63%) CSS
3 6 (14.63%) HTML
3 6 (14.63%) RESTful
4 5 (12.20%) Next.js
5 4 (9.76%) Playwright
6 3 (7.32%) AWS CDK
6 3 (7.32%) pytest
7 2 (4.88%) Node.js
7 2 (4.88%) Web Services
8 1 (2.44%) .NET
8 1 (2.44%) REST
8 1 (2.44%) SOAP
8 1 (2.44%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Mobile App
2 4 (9.76%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (7.32%) Animation
4 1 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.44%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.32%) Unix
2 1 (2.44%) AIX
2 1 (2.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (78.05%) Agile
2 28 (68.29%) Test Automation
3 17 (41.46%) CI/CD
4 13 (31.71%) Software Engineering
4 13 (31.71%) Test Management
5 11 (26.83%) Non-Functional Testing
6 10 (24.39%) API Testing
6 10 (24.39%) BDD
6 10 (24.39%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (24.39%) Cross-Browser Testing
6 10 (24.39%) DevOps
6 10 (24.39%) Performance Testing
6 10 (24.39%) Scrum
7 9 (21.95%) Defect Tracking
7 9 (21.95%) QA Automation
8 8 (19.51%) Test Planning
8 8 (19.51%) Validation
9 7 (17.07%) Software Testing
9 7 (17.07%) Test Scripting
10 6 (14.63%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (65.85%) JavaScript
2 13 (31.71%) TypeScript
3 10 (24.39%) Java
4 8 (19.51%) SQL
5 6 (14.63%) Python
6 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (2.44%) ISTQB
1 1 (2.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (68.29%) QA
2 16 (39.02%) Accessibility
3 8 (19.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (12.20%) Grafana
2 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.20%) Perfecto Mobile
3 2 (4.88%) Dynatrace
3 2 (4.88%) Google
3 2 (4.88%) Oracle
4 1 (2.44%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.44%) Mercator
4 1 (2.44%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.44%) SAP
4 1 (2.44%) Splunk