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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 493 555
Rank change year-on-year -100 +62 +122
Contract jobs citing BrowserStack 32 23 28
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.067% 0.079% 0.065%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.19% 0.21% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 20 24
10th Percentile £303 £299 £313
25th Percentile £325 £328 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £341 £438
Median % change year-on-year +19.13% -22.06% +6.71%
75th Percentile £739 £447 £488
90th Percentile £775 £504 £500
UK excluding London median daily rate £620 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +37.78% -5.26% +17.28%

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 16,950 10,887 13,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.63% 37.57% 32.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,444 7,495 9,847
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £602 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 511 245 346
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.86 £18.50 £16.02
Median hourly rate £37.58 £27.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +36.65% +28.69% -38.94%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £35.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.25 £64.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £21.39 £17.72
% change year-on-year +99.56% +20.71% -28.58%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -101 19 £400 +17.30% 8
Work from Home -33 12 £325 -4.20% 5
UK excluding London -95 12 £620 +37.78% 7
London -64 10 £398 +16.91%
North of England - 9 £563 - 6
Yorkshire - 6 £563 - 3
North West - 3 - - 2
Wales - 3 £750 -
Scotland +6 2 £750 +62.16%
North East - 2 - - 1
Midlands -60 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 (18.75%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) CMS
2 1 (3.13%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 13 (40.63%) GitHub
2 11 (34.38%) AWS
3 10 (31.25%) Azure
3 10 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (15.63%) SonarCloud
5 4 (12.50%) BlazeMeter
6 2 (6.25%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) MongoDB
1 6 (18.75%) Relational Database
2 5 (15.63%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 14 (43.75%) Selenium
2 12 (37.50%) GitLab
3 9 (28.13%) REST Assured
4 8 (25.00%) Gatling
4 8 (25.00%) JMeter
4 8 (25.00%) Postman
5 7 (21.88%) Cucumber
5 7 (21.88%) Jenkins
5 7 (21.88%) JIRA
6 6 (18.75%) Appium
6 6 (18.75%) Serenity BDD
7 4 (12.50%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (12.50%) Git
7 4 (12.50%) Newman
7 4 (12.50%) Pa11y
8 3 (9.38%) JUnit
9 2 (6.25%) CircleCI
9 2 (6.25%) Cypress.io
9 2 (6.25%) TestNG
10 1 (3.13%) XCUITest
General
1 11 (34.38%) Public Sector
2 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Military
4 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Finance
5 1 (3.13%) Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Lead
2 11 (34.38%) Test Engineer
3 10 (31.25%) Senior
4 7 (21.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (21.88%) Salesforce Engineer
4 7 (21.88%) Senior DevOps
4 7 (21.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 6 (18.75%) Test Leader
6 5 (15.63%) Lead Test Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Analyst
7 3 (9.38%) Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Azure Test Lead
8 2 (6.25%) Lead DevOps
8 2 (6.25%) QA Tester
8 2 (6.25%) Quality Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Senior Test Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Test Analyst
8 2 (6.25%) Tester
9 1 (3.13%) QA Engineer
9 1 (3.13%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (56.25%) Playwright
2 7 (21.88%) Kafka
3 6 (18.75%) Spring
3 6 (18.75%) Spring Boot
3 6 (18.75%) Spring Cloud
4 5 (15.63%) ADO
4 5 (15.63%) Gherkin
4 5 (15.63%) RESTful
5 3 (9.38%) .NET
5 3 (9.38%) REST
5 3 (9.38%) Vitest
6 1 (3.13%) OAuth
6 1 (3.13%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.38%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Android
1 3 (9.38%) Apple iOS
2 2 (6.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (87.50%) CI/CD
1 28 (87.50%) Test Automation
2 17 (53.13%) DevOps
3 16 (50.00%) Agile
3 16 (50.00%) Performance Testing
4 15 (46.88%) Test Strategy
5 14 (43.75%) BDD
6 10 (31.25%) API Testing
6 10 (31.25%) Functional Testing
7 9 (28.13%) Microservices
7 9 (28.13%) Non-Functional Testing
8 8 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (21.88%) Code Quality
9 7 (21.88%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (21.88%) Exploratory Testing
9 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (18.75%) Build Automation
10 6 (18.75%) Component Testing
10 6 (18.75%) Observability
10 6 (18.75%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) Java
2 5 (15.63%) JavaScript
3 4 (12.50%) Ruby
4 3 (9.38%) C#
5 2 (6.25%) Scala
6 1 (3.13%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.13%) Swift
6 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (37.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (53.13%) Accessibility
2 10 (31.25%) QA
System Software
1 9 (28.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Grafana
1 6 (18.75%) Prometheus
2 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) Salesforce
2 7 (21.88%) Splunk
3 1 (3.13%) IBM
3 1 (3.13%) New Relic