BrowserStack Contract Job Trends

BrowserStack
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring BrowserStack skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 537 522 642
Rank change year-on-year -15 +120 +173
Contract jobs citing BrowserStack 20 39 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.10% 0.020%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.16% 0.30% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 27 9
10th Percentile £306 £176 £166
25th Percentile £329 £288 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £438 £200
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +118.75% -63.64%
75th Percentile £463 £482 £438
90th Percentile £525 £500 £448
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -17.50% +17.65% -10.53%

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 12,160 13,084 18,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.47% 34.30% 35.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,102 8,848 12,967
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 200 346
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.39 £15.21
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.22 £18.95
Median hourly rate £29.04 £30.73 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.52% -12.19% +62.79%
75th Percentile £52.42 £61.42 £66.75
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £78.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.27 £30.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -35.77% +11.11% +40.61%

BrowserStack
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing BrowserStack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for BrowserStack 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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 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 -2 16 £350 -20.00% 14
London +7 10 £350 +16.67% 3
UK excluding London +1 8 £413 -17.50% 13
Work from Home +18 5 £375 -14.29% 6
North West -11 3 £332 -33.60% 4
North of England -21 3 £332 -33.60% 5
East Midlands - 2 £450 -
Midlands - 2 £450 - 2
South West +27 1 £600 +20.00%
Scotland -5 1 £500 -
Wales - 1 £375 - 1

BrowserStack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 4 (20.00%) GitHub
3 4 (20.00%) Sauce Labs
4 3 (15.00%) AWS
5 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (10.00%) SaaS
6 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.00%) Firebase
6 1 (5.00%) GCP
6 1 (5.00%) Google Play
6 1 (5.00%) npm
6 1 (5.00%) Pulumi
6 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 11 (55.00%) Appium
1 11 (55.00%) Selenium
2 9 (45.00%) Postman
3 6 (30.00%) Cypress.io
4 5 (25.00%) GitLab
4 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 5 (25.00%) JIRA
4 5 (25.00%) JMeter
5 4 (20.00%) Cucumber
5 4 (20.00%) NUnit
6 3 (15.00%) WebDriver
7 2 (10.00%) Git
7 2 (10.00%) REST Assured
7 2 (10.00%) SoapUI
8 1 (5.00%) HP UFT
8 1 (5.00%) JUnit
8 1 (5.00%) SpecFlow
8 1 (5.00%) Storybook
8 1 (5.00%) Xcode
8 1 (5.00%) XCUITest
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Lead
2 6 (30.00%) Test Leader
3 5 (25.00%) Automation Test Lead
4 4 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Test Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Analyst
5 3 (15.00%) Test Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Mobile Tester
6 2 (10.00%) QA Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) QA Tester
6 2 (10.00%) Tester
7 1 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Test Lead
7 1 (5.00%) Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (5.00%) Mobile Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) QA Test Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Quality Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) Playwright
2 6 (30.00%) REST
3 4 (20.00%) JSON
4 2 (10.00%) Node.js
5 1 (5.00%) Flutter
5 1 (5.00%) Ionic Framework
5 1 (5.00%) Jest
5 1 (5.00%) Kafka
5 1 (5.00%) React Native
5 1 (5.00%) SOAP
5 1 (5.00%) Vitest
5 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (10.00%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Android
1 6 (30.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) CI/CD
1 18 (90.00%) Test Automation
2 13 (65.00%) DevOps
3 7 (35.00%) Agile
3 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (20.00%) API Testing
4 4 (20.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
4 4 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 4 (20.00%) Test Management
4 4 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 3 (15.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Security Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Test Scripting
5 3 (15.00%) Validation
6 2 (10.00%) Data Migration
6 2 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (10.00%) Data Validation
6 2 (10.00%) Migration
6 2 (10.00%) Scrum
6 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) Java
1 7 (35.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (25.00%) C#
3 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 4 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (50.00%) QA
2 5 (25.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Grafana
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.00%) Nintex
2 1 (5.00%) Apple
2 1 (5.00%) Google