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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 653 537 529
Rank change year-on-year -116 -8 +106
Contract jobs citing BrowserStack 26 20 39
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.047% 0.060% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.14% 0.16% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 19 27
10th Percentile £301 £306 £176
25th Percentile £331 £329 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £350 £350
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -17.65%
75th Percentile £549 £463 £476
90th Percentile £775 £525 £493
UK excluding London median daily rate £448 £413 £500
% change year-on-year +8.48% -17.50% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.50 - -
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
75th Percentile £24.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 - -

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 19,058 12,598 13,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.71% 38.04% 34.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,644 8,413 8,692
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £720 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 630 297 188
10th Percentile £15.49 £15.50 £16.21
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.30 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.57% -24.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.00 £64.73
90th Percentile £79.10 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.38 £19.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +59.87% -42.42% +45.05%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BrowserStack over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BrowserStack in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

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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 2 October 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 -116 18 £392 +12.00% 9
Work from Home -65 12 £400 +6.67% 6
UK excluding London -99 11 £448 +8.48% 4
London -83 10 £371 +6.00% 8
North of England -68 7 £360 +8.43% 1
Yorkshire - 5 £400 -
Wales -10 3 £750 +100.00%
Scotland -27 2 £750 +50.00% 2
North West -51 2 £300 -9.64% 1
South East - 1 £448 - 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 3 (11.54%) Confluence
2 2 (7.69%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (50.00%) Azure
2 11 (42.31%) GitHub
3 10 (38.46%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (26.92%) AWS
5 5 (19.23%) GitHub Copilot
6 4 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
7 3 (11.54%) SonarCloud
8 2 (7.69%) Azure API Management
8 2 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (7.69%) BlazeMeter
8 2 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (7.69%) GCP
8 2 (7.69%) Prefect
9 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
9 1 (3.85%) PaaS
9 1 (3.85%) Sauce Labs
9 1 (3.85%) TestFlight
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) Metadata
1 3 (11.54%) Power BI
2 2 (7.69%) ZAP BI
3 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (46.15%) Selenium
2 10 (38.46%) JIRA
3 7 (26.92%) Appium
3 7 (26.92%) Cucumber
3 7 (26.92%) JMeter
3 7 (26.92%) REST Assured
4 6 (23.08%) Postman
5 5 (19.23%) Gatling
6 4 (15.38%) GitLab
6 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
6 4 (15.38%) Newman
6 4 (15.38%) TestNG
7 2 (7.69%) Applitools
7 2 (7.69%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (7.69%) Cypress.io
7 2 (7.69%) Git
7 2 (7.69%) JUnit
7 2 (7.69%) Pa11y
8 1 (3.85%) Burp Suite
8 1 (3.85%) Charles Proxy
General
1 5 (19.23%) Finance
1 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
1 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Legal
3 2 (7.69%) Games
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Legal Technology
4 1 (3.85%) Marketing
4 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Senior
2 5 (19.23%) Automation Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Lead
2 5 (19.23%) Tester
3 4 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Salesforce Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (15.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Test Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) QA Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) QA Tester
5 2 (7.69%) Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Lead Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Mobile Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) QA Automation Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) QA Leader
6 1 (3.85%) QA Automation Tester
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (46.15%) Playwright
2 3 (11.54%) ADO
2 3 (11.54%) Gherkin
2 3 (11.54%) RESTful
3 2 (7.69%) Kafka
3 2 (7.69%) Node.js
3 2 (7.69%) pytest
3 2 (7.69%) REST
4 1 (3.85%) Express.js
4 1 (3.85%) Spring
4 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.85%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Terraform
4 1 (3.85%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Product Ownership
2 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.54%) Mobile App
3 2 (7.69%) AI Agents
3 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Android
1 5 (19.23%) Apple iOS
2 2 (7.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (88.46%) Test Automation
2 21 (80.77%) CI/CD
3 14 (53.85%) DevOps
4 12 (46.15%) Agile
5 10 (38.46%) Test Strategy
6 8 (30.77%) Performance Testing
7 7 (26.92%) AI
7 7 (26.92%) API Testing
7 7 (26.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (26.92%) End-to-End Testing
7 7 (26.92%) Security Testing
7 7 (26.92%) Validation
8 6 (23.08%) BDD
8 6 (23.08%) Code Quality
8 6 (23.08%) Manual Testing
8 6 (23.08%) OWASP
9 5 (19.23%) Non-Functional Testing
9 5 (19.23%) SDET
9 5 (19.23%) Software Testing
10 4 (15.38%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) Java
1 7 (26.92%) JavaScript
2 4 (15.38%) TypeScript
3 3 (11.54%) Python
3 3 (11.54%) Scala
4 2 (7.69%) C#
4 2 (7.69%) Ruby
4 2 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 12 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (57.69%) QA
2 11 (42.31%) Accessibility
3 3 (11.54%) Data Quality
4 2 (7.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Grafana
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Salesforce
1 4 (15.38%) Splunk
2 3 (11.54%) Perfecto Mobile
3 2 (7.69%) Adobe
3 2 (7.69%) Databricks
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) OutSystems
3 2 (7.69%) Qualtrics
4 1 (3.85%) IBM
4 1 (3.85%) New Relic