BrowserStack Contract Job Trends

BrowserStack
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring BrowserStack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 524 636
Rank change year-on-year -18 +112 +153
Contract jobs citing BrowserStack 18 38 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.054% 0.10% 0.010%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.14% 0.29% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 25 5
10th Percentile £302 £176 £218
25th Percentile £325 £275 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year - -17.65% -10.53%
75th Percentile £450 £476 £438
90th Percentile £550 £495 £468
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -25.00% +17.65% -10.53%

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 12,729 13,025 17,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.40% 34.87% 35.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,496 8,599 12,292
10th Percentile £308 £313 £300
25th Percentile £408 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 180 331
10th Percentile £15.23 £16.30 £14.52
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.38 £17.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +8.36% +44.91%
75th Percentile £43.75 £66.69 £63.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £33.93 £22.51
% change year-on-year -41.06% +50.73% +14.82%

BrowserStack
Job Vacancy Trend

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

BrowserStack job vacancy trend in the UK

BrowserStack
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

BrowserStack
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BrowserStack over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BrowserStack in the UK

BrowserStack
Top 11 Contract Job 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 19 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 -8 14 £345 -1.43% 15
London +8 9 £350 +2.79% 8
UK excluding London -16 7 £375 -25.00% 13
Work from Home -1 4 £358 -4.67% 6
North of England -30 3 £332 -33.60% 6
North West - 3 £332 - 5
South West +9 1 £600 +20.00% 2
Scotland +5 1 £500 -
Wales - 1 £375 -
East Midlands - 1 £450 - 1
Midlands - 1 £450 - 1

BrowserStack
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 2 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (22.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (16.67%) AWS
4 3 (16.67%) GitHub
4 3 (16.67%) Sauce Labs
5 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.56%) Firebase
6 1 (5.56%) GCP
6 1 (5.56%) Google Play
6 1 (5.56%) npm
6 1 (5.56%) Pulumi
6 1 (5.56%) SaaS
6 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 10 (55.56%) Appium
2 9 (50.00%) Selenium
3 7 (38.89%) Postman
4 5 (27.78%) Cypress.io
4 5 (27.78%) GitLab
5 4 (22.22%) Cucumber
5 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
5 4 (22.22%) JIRA
5 4 (22.22%) JMeter
5 4 (22.22%) NUnit
6 3 (16.67%) WebDriver
7 2 (11.11%) Git
7 2 (11.11%) REST Assured
8 1 (5.56%) Android Studio
8 1 (5.56%) SoapUI
8 1 (5.56%) SpecFlow
8 1 (5.56%) Storybook
8 1 (5.56%) Xcode
8 1 (5.56%) XCUITest
8 1 (5.56%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
4 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.56%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Lead
2 5 (27.78%) Test Leader
3 4 (22.22%) Automation Test Lead
3 4 (22.22%) Test Automation Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Test Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Mobile Tester
4 2 (11.11%) QA Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) QA Tester
4 2 (11.11%) Test Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Tester
5 1 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Test Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Mobile Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) React Developer
5 1 (5.56%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) Playwright
1 6 (33.33%) REST
2 4 (22.22%) JSON
3 2 (11.11%) Node.js
4 1 (5.56%) Flutter
4 1 (5.56%) Ionic Framework
4 1 (5.56%) Jest
4 1 (5.56%) React Native
4 1 (5.56%) SOAP
4 1 (5.56%) Vitest
4 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 2 (11.11%) PDA
4 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Android
1 6 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) CI/CD
1 16 (88.89%) Test Automation
2 12 (66.67%) DevOps
3 6 (33.33%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (22.22%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 3 (16.67%) Integration Testing
5 3 (16.67%) Test Management
5 3 (16.67%) Test Scripting
5 3 (16.67%) Test Strategy
6 2 (11.11%) BDD
6 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.11%) Functional Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Logistics
6 2 (11.11%) Performance Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Scrum
6 2 (11.11%) Secure Coding
6 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (11.11%) User Experience
6 2 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) JavaScript
2 6 (33.33%) Java
3 5 (27.78%) C#
4 4 (22.22%) SQL
4 4 (22.22%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.56%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (44.44%) QA
2 5 (27.78%) Accessibility
3 4 (22.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Apple
2 1 (5.56%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Nintex