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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 623 532 557
Rank change year-on-year -91 +25 +110
Contract jobs citing BrowserStack 32 19 29
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.062% 0.060% 0.067%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.18% 0.16% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 17 23
10th Percentile £303 £297 £313
25th Percentile £325 £300 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £340 £463
Median % change year-on-year +26.84% -26.49% +85.00%
75th Percentile £739 £475 £488
90th Percentile £775 £550 £500
UK excluding London median daily rate £620 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +37.78% -10.00% +25.00%

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 18,281 12,009 14,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.29% 37.77% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,137 8,035 10,039
10th Percentile £331 £313 £300
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £622 £638
90th Percentile £713 £730 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 612 302 358
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.19 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.63 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.72% +25.59% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.92 £47.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £82.35 £70.88 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.88 £18.87 £20.99
% change year-on-year +100.72% -10.08% -22.28%

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 6 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BrowserStack in the UK

BrowserStack
Top 12 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 6 July 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 -116 20 £410 +18.84% 5
Work from Home -45 12 £325 +6.56% 4
UK excluding London -106 12 £620 +37.78% 3
London -71 11 £395 +17.91% 3
North of England -69 9 £563 +69.43% 1
Yorkshire - 6 £563 - 1
North West -43 3 - -
Wales - 3 £750 -
Scotland -13 2 £750 +50.00%
North East - 2 - -
Midlands -61 1 - -
West Midlands - 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 6 (18.75%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) CMS
2 1 (3.13%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 13 (40.63%) AWS
1 13 (40.63%) GitHub
2 12 (37.50%) Azure
3 10 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (15.63%) SonarCloud
5 3 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.25%) BlazeMeter
6 2 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (6.25%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) MongoDB
1 6 (18.75%) Relational Database
2 5 (15.63%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 14 (43.75%) Selenium
2 11 (34.38%) REST Assured
3 10 (31.25%) GitLab
4 9 (28.13%) Jenkins
5 8 (25.00%) Appium
5 8 (25.00%) Gatling
6 7 (21.88%) JIRA
7 6 (18.75%) JMeter
7 6 (18.75%) Postman
7 6 (18.75%) Serenity BDD
8 5 (15.63%) Cucumber
9 3 (9.38%) JUnit
9 3 (9.38%) TestNG
10 2 (6.25%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (6.25%) CircleCI
10 2 (6.25%) Cypress.io
10 2 (6.25%) Git
10 2 (6.25%) Newman
10 2 (6.25%) Pa11y
11 1 (3.13%) XCUITest
General
1 9 (28.13%) Public Sector
2 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Military
4 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Lead
2 10 (31.25%) Senior
3 9 (28.13%) Test Engineer
4 7 (21.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (21.88%) Salesforce Engineer
4 7 (21.88%) Senior DevOps
4 7 (21.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 6 (18.75%) Test Leader
6 5 (15.63%) Lead Test Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Analyst
7 3 (9.38%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Azure Test Lead
8 2 (6.25%) Lead DevOps
8 2 (6.25%) QA Automation Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) QA Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) QA Tester
8 2 (6.25%) Quality Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Senior Test Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Test Analyst
8 2 (6.25%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (62.50%) Playwright
2 7 (21.88%) Kafka
3 6 (18.75%) Spring
3 6 (18.75%) Spring Boot
3 6 (18.75%) Spring Cloud
4 5 (15.63%) ADO
5 3 (9.38%) .NET
5 3 (9.38%) Gherkin
5 3 (9.38%) RESTful
5 3 (9.38%) Vitest
6 2 (6.25%) REST
7 1 (3.13%) OAuth
7 1 (3.13%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Mobile App
1 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Android
1 3 (9.38%) Apple iOS
2 2 (6.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (87.50%) CI/CD
1 28 (87.50%) Test Automation
2 19 (59.38%) DevOps
3 17 (53.13%) Test Strategy
4 14 (43.75%) Agile
4 14 (43.75%) Performance Testing
5 12 (37.50%) BDD
6 9 (28.13%) Functional Testing
6 9 (28.13%) Microservices
7 8 (25.00%) API Testing
7 8 (25.00%) Code Quality
7 8 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
7 8 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
8 7 (21.88%) Deployment Automation
8 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (18.75%) Build Automation
9 6 (18.75%) Component Testing
9 6 (18.75%) Observability
10 5 (15.63%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) Java
2 3 (9.38%) C#
2 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.25%) Ruby
3 2 (6.25%) Scala
4 1 (3.13%) Kotlin
4 1 (3.13%) Swift
4 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 14 (43.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (46.88%) Accessibility
2 11 (34.38%) QA
3 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (34.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Grafana
1 6 (18.75%) Prometheus
2 5 (15.63%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) Salesforce
2 7 (21.88%) Splunk
3 2 (6.25%) Perfecto Mobile
4 1 (3.13%) IBM
4 1 (3.13%) New Relic