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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 646 547 544
Rank change year-on-year -99 -3 +90
Contract jobs citing BrowserStack 26 16 38
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.049% 0.049% 0.098%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.14% 0.13% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 16 28
10th Percentile £314 £311 £176
25th Percentile £350 £330 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £373 £419
Median % change year-on-year +20.13% -11.04% +117.53%
75th Percentile £775 £475 £479
90th Percentile - £563 £500
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +12.22% -10.00% +159.74%
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 18,719 12,123 13,111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.93% 37.27% 33.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,419 8,074 8,999
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 606 310 224
10th Percentile £15.41 £15.48 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.50 £57.63
90th Percentile £81.75 £71.27 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.50 £19.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +65.79% -21.42% -10.44%

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 2 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BrowserStack in the UK

BrowserStack
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 September 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 -108 17 £392 +12.00% 16
London -68 11 £394 +12.43% 9
UK excluding London -101 10 £505 +12.22% 13
Work from Home -55 9 £394 +7.07% 10
North of England -75 5 £310 -6.63% 1
Wales - 4 £750 - 2
Yorkshire - 3 £320 -
Scotland -21 2 £750 +50.00% 2
North West -50 2 £300 -9.64% 1
South East - 1 £448 - 7

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 4 (15.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (57.69%) Azure
2 12 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (38.46%) GitHub
4 8 (30.77%) AWS
5 5 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (19.23%) SonarCloud
6 3 (11.54%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (7.69%) BlazeMeter
7 2 (7.69%) Sauce Labs
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.85%) PaaS
8 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.85%) TestFlight
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) Metadata
2 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.85%) Power BI
2 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (50.00%) Selenium
2 8 (30.77%) Appium
3 7 (26.92%) JIRA
4 6 (23.08%) JMeter
4 6 (23.08%) REST Assured
5 5 (19.23%) Gatling
5 5 (19.23%) GitLab
5 5 (19.23%) Jenkins
5 5 (19.23%) Postman
6 4 (15.38%) Cucumber
6 4 (15.38%) TestNG
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%) Newman
7 2 (7.69%) Pa11y
7 2 (7.69%) XCUITest
8 1 (3.85%) Charles Proxy
8 1 (3.85%) Xcode
General
1 8 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 4 (15.38%) Finance
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Banking
3 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
3 1 (3.85%) Legal
3 1 (3.85%) Legal Technology
3 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Senior
2 7 (26.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Salesforce Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Senior DevOps
2 7 (26.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Automation Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Tester
4 4 (15.38%) Test Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Mobile Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) QA Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) QA Tester
6 2 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Lead
6 2 (7.69%) QA Automation Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Lead Software Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) QA Automation Tester
7 1 (3.85%) Senior QA Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (50.00%) Playwright
2 5 (19.23%) ADO
3 3 (11.54%) Gherkin
3 3 (11.54%) RESTful
4 2 (7.69%) Kafka
4 2 (7.69%) Node.js
4 2 (7.69%) REST
5 1 (3.85%) .NET
5 1 (3.85%) Express.js
5 1 (3.85%) OAuth
5 1 (3.85%) OAuth2
5 1 (3.85%) Spring
5 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.85%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (3.85%) Terraform
5 1 (3.85%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 3 (11.54%) Mobile App
3 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
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 24 (92.31%) Test Automation
2 23 (88.46%) CI/CD
3 16 (61.54%) DevOps
4 10 (38.46%) Agile
5 9 (34.62%) Code Quality
5 9 (34.62%) Test Strategy
6 8 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (26.92%) Deployment Automation
7 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (26.92%) Performance Testing
8 6 (23.08%) API Testing
9 5 (19.23%) AI
9 5 (19.23%) BDD
9 5 (19.23%) Cloud Security
9 5 (19.23%) Manual Testing
9 5 (19.23%) Scenario Testing
9 5 (19.23%) SDET
9 5 (19.23%) Security Testing
10 4 (15.38%) End-to-End Testing
10 4 (15.38%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) Java
2 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.69%) Ruby
3 2 (7.69%) Scala
3 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.85%) C#
4 1 (3.85%) Kotlin
4 1 (3.85%) Python
4 1 (3.85%) Swift
Qualifications
1 17 (65.38%) Security Cleared
2 15 (57.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (53.85%) QA
2 6 (23.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
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 7 (26.92%) Salesforce
2 4 (15.38%) Splunk
3 3 (11.54%) Perfecto Mobile
4 2 (7.69%) Adobe
4 2 (7.69%) Qualtrics
5 1 (3.85%) IBM
5 1 (3.85%) New Relic