BrowserStack Contract Job Trends in the North West

BrowserStack
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring BrowserStack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 130 124
Rank change year-on-year -43 -6 -
Contract jobs citing BrowserStack 2 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.053% 0.14% 0.083%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.17% 0.43% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £332 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.64% -33.60% -
England median daily rate £394 £340 £438
% change year-on-year +15.74% -22.29% +127.27%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North West

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 in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,207 690 740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.75% 31.39% 30.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 783 515 497
10th Percentile £250 £313 £306
25th Percentile £400 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £538 £575
90th Percentile £692 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.84% -2.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 25 35
10th Percentile £18.45 £12.82 -
25th Percentile £25.38 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £45.50 £40.59 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +12.10% +152.74% -35.41%
75th Percentile £76.00 £67.25 £34.25
90th Percentile £90.00 £74.75 £70.80
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £24.59
% change year-on-year +34.98% +6.95% -23.87%

BrowserStack
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

BrowserStack job vacancy trend in the North West

BrowserStack
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing BrowserStack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing BrowserStack

BrowserStack
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BrowserStack within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
Manchester -41 1 - -
Merseyside - 1 £300 - 1
BrowserStack
England

BrowserStack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) TestFlight
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Appium
1 1 (50.00%) Gatling
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) Serenity BDD
1 1 (50.00%) XCUITest
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Biometrics
2 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Component Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Fintech
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Push Notifications
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk