Sauce Labs Contracts

Sauce Labs
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Sauce Labs skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Sauce Labs over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 593 707 807
Rank change year-on-year +114 +100 -130
Contract jobs citing Sauce Labs 5 12 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.020% 0.047%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.036% 0.054% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 39
10th Percentile £479 £475 £440
25th Percentile £493 £503 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% -1.14% +37.50%
75th Percentile - £578 £575
90th Percentile - £599 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £531 £438
% change year-on-year -5.88% +21.43% +9.38%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Sauce Labs is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,989 22,053 34,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.87% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,925 15,944 24,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 355 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

Sauce Labs
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Sauce Labs in the UK

Sauce Labs
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sauce Labs.

Daily rate trend for Sauce Labs in the UK

Sauce Labs
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sauce Labs within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +126 4 £500 -11.11% 4
Work from Home +126 2 £470 -10.48% 2
London +97 2 £500 -11.11% 4
UK excluding London +61 2 £500 -5.88%
North West - 2 £500 -
North of England - 2 £500 -

Sauce Labs
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 5 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) BrowserStack
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Appium
1 5 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
1 5 (100.00%) Selenium
2 4 (80.00%) Cucumber
2 4 (80.00%) Git
2 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (60.00%) GitLab
4 1 (20.00%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (80.00%) Presentation Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Automation Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) pytest
1 3 (60.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) BDD
2 4 (80.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) Conversational AI
2 4 (80.00%) Conversational UI
2 4 (80.00%) QA Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Time Management
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) API Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Perfecto Mobile
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (20.00%) SAP