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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 574 534 616
Rank change year-on-year -40 +82 +170
Contract jobs citing BrowserStack 17 38 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.047% 0.10% 0.009%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.12% 0.30% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 4
10th Percentile £298 £176 £323
25th Percentile £319 £234 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £340 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -15.00% -15.79%
75th Percentile £375 £388 £450
90th Percentile £430 £500 £473
UK excluding London median daily rate £358 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -28.50% +17.65% -0.29%

All Cloud 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 13,736 12,878 16,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.37% 35.46% 35.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,298 8,463 11,616
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £708 £738 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 189 300
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.88 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +14.35% +22.50%
75th Percentile £51.25 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -18.18% +25.00% +16.09%

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 25 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BrowserStack in the UK

BrowserStack
Top 8 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 25 November 2025. 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 -36 13 £336 -1.18% 7
London -9 9 £338 - 1
Work from Home -1 6 £375 +9.97% 3
UK excluding London -27 6 £358 -28.50% 7
North of England -44 3 £332 -33.60% 5
North West - 3 £332 - 5
Wales - 2 £375 -
South West -2 1 £600 +20.00%

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 (11.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) Azure
2 8 (47.06%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 4 (23.53%) GitHub
4 3 (17.65%) AWS
5 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (11.76%) Sauce Labs
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.88%) GCP
6 1 (5.88%) Google Play
6 1 (5.88%) npm
6 1 (5.88%) Pulumi
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) Selenium
2 8 (47.06%) Appium
3 7 (41.18%) Postman
4 6 (35.29%) GitLab
5 5 (29.41%) Cucumber
6 4 (23.53%) Cypress.io
6 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
6 4 (23.53%) JIRA
6 4 (23.53%) NUnit
6 4 (23.53%) WebDriver
7 3 (17.65%) JMeter
8 2 (11.76%) Android Studio
8 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
8 2 (11.76%) Git
8 2 (11.76%) REST Assured
8 2 (11.76%) Xcode
8 2 (11.76%) Zephyr
9 1 (5.88%) Charles Proxy
9 1 (5.88%) Gatling
9 1 (5.88%) XCUITest
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Finance
4 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.88%) Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Test Automation Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Test Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Lead
2 4 (23.53%) Test Leader
3 3 (17.65%) Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Automation Test Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Mobile Tester
4 2 (11.76%) QA Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) QA Tester
4 2 (11.76%) Test Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Tester
5 1 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Test Lead
5 1 (5.88%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Mobile Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Quality Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) Playwright
1 6 (35.29%) REST
2 4 (23.53%) JSON
3 3 (17.65%) Node.js
4 1 (5.88%) SOAP
4 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Mobile App
2 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
3 2 (11.76%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Android
1 7 (41.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Test Automation
2 14 (82.35%) CI/CD
3 11 (64.71%) DevOps
4 8 (47.06%) Agile
5 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (29.41%) Cross-Browser Testing
7 3 (17.65%) BDD
7 3 (17.65%) Functional Testing
7 3 (17.65%) Scrum
7 3 (17.65%) Test Management
7 3 (17.65%) Test Scripting
7 3 (17.65%) Test Strategy
8 2 (11.76%) Defect Management
8 2 (11.76%) Logistics
8 2 (11.76%) OO
8 2 (11.76%) OOP
8 2 (11.76%) Performance Testing
8 2 (11.76%) SDLC
8 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (11.76%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) JavaScript
2 5 (29.41%) C#
2 5 (29.41%) Java
2 5 (29.41%) TypeScript
3 4 (23.53%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.88%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (52.94%) QA
2 5 (29.41%) Accessibility
3 3 (17.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Apple
2 1 (5.88%) Google