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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 478 594
Rank change year-on-year -99 +116 +141
Contract jobs citing BrowserStack 18 42 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.047% 0.13% 0.025%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.12% 0.36% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 25 10
10th Percentile £325 £176 £311
25th Percentile £350 £338 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £341 £375
Median % change year-on-year +17.30% -9.07% -21.05%
75th Percentile £419 £400 £488
90th Percentile £444 £515 £496
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £500 £325
% change year-on-year -25.00% +53.85% -19.75%

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 14,682 11,631 14,864
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.98% 36.98% 33.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,107 7,731 10,660
10th Percentile £306 £313 £285
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
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 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 169 313
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.35 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.54
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +18.46% -3.27%
75th Percentile £58.75 £43.75 £51.58
90th Percentile £79.88 £69.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +30.00% +19.05% +5.79%

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 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BrowserStack in the UK

BrowserStack
Top 11 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 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
England -94 10 £400 +17.47% 10
Work from Home -19 9 £375 +9.97% 6
London -49 7 £400 +17.65% 4
UK excluding London -58 5 £375 -25.00% 10
North of England -59 3 £620 +24.00% 3
Yorkshire -53 2 £620 +24.00%
North West - 2 - - 3
Wales - 2 £375 -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
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 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) GitHub
2 6 (33.33%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) Azure
3 5 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (22.22%) BlazeMeter
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.56%) npm
6 1 (5.56%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) MongoDB
1 4 (22.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (72.22%) Selenium
2 12 (66.67%) GitLab
3 10 (55.56%) Postman
4 8 (44.44%) Cucumber
5 7 (38.89%) Jenkins
6 6 (33.33%) Git
6 6 (33.33%) JMeter
6 6 (33.33%) REST Assured
7 5 (27.78%) Gatling
8 4 (22.22%) Appium
8 4 (22.22%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (22.22%) Newman
8 4 (22.22%) Pa11y
8 4 (22.22%) Serenity BDD
8 4 (22.22%) WebDriver
9 3 (16.67%) JIRA
10 2 (11.11%) Bitbucket
10 2 (11.11%) Cypress.io
10 2 (11.11%) NUnit
10 2 (11.11%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.56%) Military
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Lead
2 6 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Lead Test Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Test Leader
5 1 (5.56%) Agile Test Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Test Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Mobile Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Mobile Tester
5 1 (5.56%) QA Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) QA Tester
5 1 (5.56%) Quality Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Salesforce Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Test Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (55.56%) Playwright
2 5 (27.78%) REST
3 4 (22.22%) Gherkin
3 4 (22.22%) Kafka
3 4 (22.22%) RESTful
3 4 (22.22%) Spring
3 4 (22.22%) Spring Boot
3 4 (22.22%) Spring Cloud
4 3 (16.67%) Node.js
5 2 (11.11%) Vitest
6 1 (5.56%) JSON
6 1 (5.56%) SOAP
6 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Android
1 4 (22.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 17 (94.44%) CI/CD
3 11 (61.11%) Agile
3 11 (61.11%) BDD
3 11 (61.11%) Performance Testing
4 10 (55.56%) DevOps
5 7 (38.89%) Test Strategy
6 6 (33.33%) Cross-Browser Testing
6 6 (33.33%) Functional Testing
7 5 (27.78%) API Testing
8 4 (22.22%) Build Automation
8 4 (22.22%) Component Testing
8 4 (22.22%) Microservices
8 4 (22.22%) Non-Functional Testing
8 4 (22.22%) Observability
8 4 (22.22%) OWASP
8 4 (22.22%) SDLC
8 4 (22.22%) Security Testing
9 3 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
9 3 (16.67%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (33.33%) Java
3 4 (22.22%) Ruby
3 4 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 3 (16.67%) C#
5 2 (11.11%) SQL
6 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 8 (44.44%) QA
3 1 (5.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Grafana
1 4 (22.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Splunk
2 2 (11.11%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft