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

	6 months to 21 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	669	538	519
Rank change year-on-year	-131	-19	+107
Contract jobs citing BrowserStack	24	19	36
As % of all contract jobs in the UK	0.044%	0.057%	0.097%
As % of the Cloud Services category	0.13%	0.15%	0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted	20	17	23
10^th Percentile	£300	£302	£176
25^th Percentile	£324	£325	£248
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£400	£350	£350
Median % change year-on-year	+14.29%	-	-17.65%
75^th Percentile	£465	£450	£473
90^th Percentile	£552	£550	£498
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£500
% change year-on-year	+6.67%	-25.00%	+17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£21.50	-	-
Median hourly rate	£23.00	-	-
75^th Percentile	£24.50	-	-
90^th 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.

	6 months to 21 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	19,197	12,839	12,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	34.82%	38.37%	34.81%
Number of daily rates quoted	12,782	8,576	8,517
10^th Percentile	£325	£307	£313
25^th Percentile	£425	£408	£420
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£500	£525
Median % change year-on-year	+5.00%	-4.76%	-
75^th Percentile	£625	£613	£638
90^th Percentile	£716	£713	£738
UK excluding London median daily rate	£500	£475	£500
% change year-on-year	+5.26%	-5.00%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	650	297	175
10^th Percentile	£15.50	£15.24	£17.44
25^th Percentile	£17.98	£18.87	£23.80
Median hourly rate	£32.50	£25.15	£35.00
Median % change year-on-year	+29.22%	-28.14%	+9.38%
75^th Percentile	£67.65	£43.75	£64.73
90^th Percentile	£78.75	£67.00	£70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£30.00	£20.00	£33.93
% change year-on-year	+50.00%	-41.06%	+50.80%

BrowserStack Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BrowserStack relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

BrowserStack Daily Rate Trend

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 21 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BrowserStack in the UK

BrowserStack Hourly Rate Trend

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

BrowserStack Top 9 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 21 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	-127	20	£400	+15.94%	9
Work from Home	-54	14	£400	+11.89%	9
UK excluding London	-103	11	£400	+6.67%	7
London	-96	10	£371	+6.00%	4
North of England	-63	9	£400	+20.48%	4
Yorkshire	-	6	£473	-	3
North West	-46	3	£350	+5.42%	1
Wales	-11	1	-	-	2
South East	-	1	£448	-

BrowserStack Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 21 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing BrowserStack also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for BrowserStack.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Test Automation	87.5%	21
2	CI/CD	75.0%	18
3	Agile	58.3%	14
3	QA	58.3%	14
5	Accessibility	50.0%	12
5	GitHub	50.0%	12
5	Selenium	50.0%	12
8	DevOps	45.8%	11
8	JIRA	45.8%	11
8	Test Strategy	45.8%	11
11	Azure	41.7%	10
11	Security Cleared	41.7%	10
13	Performance Testing	37.5%	9
13	Playwright	37.5%	9
13	SC Cleared	37.5%	9
16	AI	33.3%	8
16	API Testing	33.3%	8
16	Appium	33.3%	8
16	Cucumber	33.3%	8
16	End-to-End Testing	33.3%	8
16	JavaScript	33.3%	8
16	JMeter	33.3%	8
16	REST Assured	33.3%	8
16	Security Testing	33.3%	8
16	Validation	33.3%	8
26	AWS	29.2%	7
26	Azure DevOps	29.2%	7
26	BDD	29.2%	7
26	Docker	29.2%	7
26	Java	29.2%	7

BrowserStack Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	GitHub	50.0%	12
2	Azure	41.7%	10
3	AWS	29.2%	7
3	Azure DevOps	29.2%	7
5	GitHub Copilot	25.0%	6
6	GitHub Actions	16.7%	4
6	Power Platform	16.7%	4
8	Azure API Management	12.5%	3
8	Dynamics 365	12.5%	3
8	GCP	12.5%	3
8	Prefect	12.5%	3
12	Azure Monitor	8.3%	2
12	BlazeMeter	8.3%	2
14	Amazon CloudWatch	4.2%	1
14	Amazon S3	4.2%	1
14	PaaS	4.2%	1
14	Sauce Labs	4.2%	1
14	TestFlight	4.2%	1