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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 627 525 547
Rank change year-on-year -102 +22 +104
Contract jobs citing BrowserStack 29 19 27
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.055% 0.058% 0.068%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.16% 0.16% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 19 21
10th Percentile £300 £292 £300
25th Percentile £321 £300 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £332 £463
Median % change year-on-year +23.49% -28.22% +105.56%
75th Percentile £739 £439 £488
90th Percentile £775 £525 £500
UK excluding London median daily rate £591 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +31.39% -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 18,704 12,257 13,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.31% 37.35% 33.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,355 8,205 9,347
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £621 £616 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £496
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.14% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 623 314 288
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.11 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.31 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.38 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.68% +21.67% -35.71%
75th Percentile £69.88 £47.50 £50.48
90th Percentile £82.87 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.91 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +90.30% -10.14% -20.75%

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 30 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BrowserStack in the UK

BrowserStack
Top 10 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 30 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 -111 19 £394 +17.11% 3
London -66 12 £395 +22.48% 1
Work from Home -52 10 £359 +17.54% 2
UK excluding London -90 10 £591 +31.39% 2
North of England -66 7 £320 -3.61% 2
Yorkshire - 4 £441 -
Wales - 3 £750 -
Scotland -12 2 £750 +50.00%
North West -52 2 £300 -9.64% 2
North East - 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 (20.69%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) CMS
2 1 (3.45%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 15 (51.72%) Azure
2 12 (41.38%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (37.93%) GitHub
4 10 (34.48%) AWS
5 5 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (17.24%) SonarCloud
6 3 (10.34%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (6.90%) BlazeMeter
7 2 (6.90%) Sauce Labs
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.45%) TestFlight
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) Metadata
2 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (41.38%) Selenium
2 10 (34.48%) Appium
3 8 (27.59%) REST Assured
4 7 (24.14%) JIRA
4 7 (24.14%) Postman
5 6 (20.69%) GitLab
5 6 (20.69%) Jenkins
5 6 (20.69%) JMeter
6 5 (17.24%) Cucumber
6 5 (17.24%) Gatling
7 4 (13.79%) TestNG
8 3 (10.34%) JUnit
9 2 (6.90%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (6.90%) CircleCI
9 2 (6.90%) Cypress.io
9 2 (6.90%) Git
9 2 (6.90%) Newman
9 2 (6.90%) Pa11y
9 2 (6.90%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (6.90%) XCUITest
General
1 9 (31.03%) Public Sector
2 4 (13.79%) Finance
2 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Military
4 1 (3.45%) Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Senior
2 7 (24.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) Salesforce Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) Senior DevOps
2 7 (24.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Lead
4 5 (17.24%) Test Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Test Leader
6 3 (10.34%) QA Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Tester
7 2 (6.90%) Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (6.90%) Mobile Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) QA Automation Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) QA Tester
7 2 (6.90%) Quality Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Test Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (55.17%) Playwright
2 5 (17.24%) ADO
3 3 (10.34%) .NET
3 3 (10.34%) Gherkin
3 3 (10.34%) Kafka
3 3 (10.34%) RESTful
4 2 (6.90%) REST
4 2 (6.90%) Spring
4 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
4 2 (6.90%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (3.45%) OAuth
5 1 (3.45%) OAuth2
5 1 (3.45%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Mobile App
1 3 (10.34%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Android
1 4 (13.79%) Apple iOS
2 2 (6.90%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (86.21%) CI/CD
2 24 (82.76%) Test Automation
3 18 (62.07%) DevOps
4 13 (44.83%) Agile
4 13 (44.83%) Test Strategy
5 8 (27.59%) API Testing
5 8 (27.59%) BDD
5 8 (27.59%) Code Quality
5 8 (27.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (27.59%) Performance Testing
6 7 (24.14%) Deployment Automation
6 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (24.14%) Non-Functional Testing
7 6 (20.69%) Exploratory Testing
7 6 (20.69%) Functional Testing
8 5 (17.24%) AI
8 5 (17.24%) Cross-Browser Testing
8 5 (17.24%) Microservices
8 5 (17.24%) Scenario Testing
8 5 (17.24%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 9 (31.03%) Java
2 3 (10.34%) C#
2 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.90%) Ruby
3 2 (6.90%) Scala
4 1 (3.45%) Kotlin
4 1 (3.45%) Swift
4 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (58.62%) Security Cleared
2 14 (48.28%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (44.83%) QA
2 9 (31.03%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (31.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.90%) Grafana
2 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Salesforce
2 4 (13.79%) Splunk
3 3 (10.34%) Perfecto Mobile
4 1 (3.45%) Adobe
4 1 (3.45%) IBM
4 1 (3.45%) New Relic
4 1 (3.45%) Qualtrics