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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 539 556
Rank change year-on-year -76 +17 +117
Contract jobs citing BrowserStack 34 17 30
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.065% 0.052% 0.070%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.18% 0.14% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 17 24
10th Percentile £304 £297 £300
25th Percentile £325 £300 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £340 £450
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% -24.44% +100.00%
75th Percentile £666 £475 £488
90th Percentile £775 £550 £500
UK excluding London median daily rate £620 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +37.78% -10.00% +25.00%

All Cloud Computing 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 18,579 12,154 14,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.31% 37.45% 33.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,330 8,142 9,946
10th Percentile £328 £313 £308
25th Percentile £416 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £615 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £730 £742
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 615 310 353
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.24 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +23.32% -36.29%
75th Percentile £69.88 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £83.55 £67.05 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +98.73% -10.14% -21.50%

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 15 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BrowserStack in the UK

BrowserStack
Top 12 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 15 July 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 -105 22 £395 +14.49% 5
Work from Home -57 13 £325 +6.56% 5
London -58 13 £395 +17.91% 3
UK excluding London -102 12 £620 +37.78% 4
North of England -67 9 £563 +69.43% 1
Yorkshire - 6 £563 -
North West -44 3 - - 1
Wales - 3 £750 -
Scotland -8 2 £750 +50.00%
North East - 2 - -
Midlands -56 1 - -
West Midlands - 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 6 (17.65%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) CMS
2 1 (2.94%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 14 (41.18%) AWS
1 14 (41.18%) Azure
1 14 (41.18%) GitHub
2 11 (32.35%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (14.71%) SonarCloud
4 4 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (8.82%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (5.88%) BlazeMeter
6 2 (5.88%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) MongoDB
1 6 (17.65%) Relational Database
2 5 (14.71%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 16 (47.06%) Selenium
2 12 (35.29%) REST Assured
3 10 (29.41%) GitLab
3 10 (29.41%) Jenkins
4 9 (26.47%) Appium
4 9 (26.47%) Gatling
5 7 (20.59%) JIRA
6 6 (17.65%) JMeter
6 6 (17.65%) Postman
6 6 (17.65%) Serenity BDD
7 5 (14.71%) Cucumber
8 4 (11.76%) TestNG
9 3 (8.82%) JUnit
10 2 (5.88%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (5.88%) CircleCI
10 2 (5.88%) Cypress.io
10 2 (5.88%) Git
10 2 (5.88%) Newman
10 2 (5.88%) Pa11y
11 1 (2.94%) XCUITest
General
1 9 (26.47%) Public Sector
2 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Finance
4 3 (8.82%) Military
5 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Lead
2 10 (29.41%) Senior
3 9 (26.47%) Test Engineer
4 7 (20.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (20.59%) Salesforce Engineer
4 7 (20.59%) Senior DevOps
4 7 (20.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 6 (17.65%) Test Leader
6 5 (14.71%) Lead Test Engineer
7 4 (11.76%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (8.82%) Analyst
8 3 (8.82%) Tester
9 2 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 2 (5.88%) Azure Test Lead
9 2 (5.88%) Lead DevOps
9 2 (5.88%) QA Engineer
9 2 (5.88%) QA Tester
9 2 (5.88%) Quality Engineer
9 2 (5.88%) Senior Test Engineer
9 2 (5.88%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (61.76%) Playwright
2 7 (20.59%) Kafka
3 6 (17.65%) Spring
3 6 (17.65%) Spring Boot
3 6 (17.65%) Spring Cloud
4 5 (14.71%) ADO
5 3 (8.82%) .NET
5 3 (8.82%) Gherkin
5 3 (8.82%) RESTful
5 3 (8.82%) Vitest
6 2 (5.88%) REST
7 1 (2.94%) OAuth
7 1 (2.94%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Mobile App
1 3 (8.82%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Android
1 3 (8.82%) Apple iOS
2 2 (5.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (88.24%) CI/CD
1 30 (88.24%) Test Automation
2 21 (61.76%) DevOps
3 19 (55.88%) Test Strategy
4 15 (44.12%) Agile
5 14 (41.18%) Performance Testing
6 12 (35.29%) BDD
7 9 (26.47%) Functional Testing
7 9 (26.47%) Microservices
8 8 (23.53%) API Testing
8 8 (23.53%) Code Quality
8 8 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (23.53%) Exploratory Testing
8 8 (23.53%) Non-Functional Testing
9 7 (20.59%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (17.65%) Build Automation
10 6 (17.65%) Component Testing
10 6 (17.65%) End-to-End Testing
10 6 (17.65%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 13 (38.24%) Java
2 3 (8.82%) C#
2 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.88%) Ruby
3 2 (5.88%) Scala
4 1 (2.94%) Kotlin
4 1 (2.94%) Swift
4 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 16 (47.06%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (44.12%) Accessibility
2 12 (35.29%) QA
3 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (38.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (17.65%) Grafana
1 6 (17.65%) Kubernetes
1 6 (17.65%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) Salesforce
2 8 (23.53%) Splunk
3 3 (8.82%) Perfecto Mobile
4 1 (2.94%) Adobe
4 1 (2.94%) IBM
4 1 (2.94%) New Relic
4 1 (2.94%) Qualtrics