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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 575 491 586
Rank change year-on-year -84 +95 +158
Contract jobs citing BrowserStack 14 41 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.038% 0.13% 0.014%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.10% 0.35% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 25 6
10th Percentile £294 £176 £338
25th Percentile £344 £338 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £341 £425
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -19.76% -10.53%
75th Percentile £405 £400 £488
90th Percentile £419 £515 £519
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -25.00% +5.26% +15.85%

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 13,956 11,603 14,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.12% 36.37% 34.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,594 7,712 10,520
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.75% -1.30% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 169 254
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.35 £14.28
25th Percentile £18.78 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.36 £27.50 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% +18.46% +3.18%
75th Percentile £56.69 £43.75 £53.69
90th Percentile £79.63 £65.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.96 £24.18 £20.77
% change year-on-year +7.35% +16.42% +6.51%

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 10 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BrowserStack in the UK

BrowserStack
Top 5 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 10 January 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
London -35 8 £350 +2.94% 2
England -76 8 £350 +2.79% 9
Work from Home -17 6 £400 +17.30% 4
UK excluding London -57 2 £375 -25.00% 9
Wales - 2 £375 -

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 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) GitHub
2 6 (42.86%) Azure
3 5 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) BlazeMeter
5 2 (14.29%) AWS
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
6 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (7.14%) Google Play
6 1 (7.14%) npm
6 1 (7.14%) Sauce Labs
Development Applications
1 11 (78.57%) Postman
2 9 (64.29%) GitLab
2 9 (64.29%) Selenium
3 8 (57.14%) Cucumber
4 6 (42.86%) Git
4 6 (42.86%) JMeter
5 5 (35.71%) Appium
6 4 (28.57%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (28.57%) JIRA
6 4 (28.57%) Newman
6 4 (28.57%) Pa11y
6 4 (28.57%) WebDriver
7 3 (21.43%) Cypress.io
7 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
8 2 (14.29%) Android Studio
8 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
8 2 (14.29%) NUnit
8 2 (14.29%) REST Assured
8 2 (14.29%) Xcode
8 2 (14.29%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Test Engineer
2 7 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Mobile Tester
3 2 (14.29%) QA Tester
3 2 (14.29%) Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Mobile Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) REST
2 4 (28.57%) Gherkin
2 4 (28.57%) Playwright
2 4 (28.57%) RESTful
3 3 (21.43%) Node.js
4 1 (7.14%) JSON
4 1 (7.14%) SOAP
4 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Mobile App
2 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Android
1 5 (35.71%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) CI/CD
1 13 (92.86%) Test Automation
2 11 (78.57%) Agile
3 7 (50.00%) BDD
3 7 (50.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
3 7 (50.00%) DevOps
4 5 (35.71%) API Testing
4 5 (35.71%) Performance Testing
5 4 (28.57%) OWASP
5 4 (28.57%) Security Testing
6 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (21.43%) Functional Testing
6 3 (21.43%) Manual Testing
6 3 (21.43%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (21.43%) Scenario Testing
6 3 (21.43%) Scrum
6 3 (21.43%) Test Scripting
7 2 (14.29%) Integration Testing
7 2 (14.29%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) JavaScript
2 4 (28.57%) Ruby
2 4 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 3 (21.43%) C#
4 2 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (71.43%) QA
2 8 (57.14%) Accessibility
3 2 (14.29%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Apple
1 1 (7.14%) Google
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft