BrowserStack Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

BrowserStack
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring BrowserStack skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 359 415
Rank change year-on-year -9 +56 +80
Contract jobs citing BrowserStack 8 10 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.052% 0.056% 0.005%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.16% 0.20% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 1
10th Percentile £326 - -
25th Percentile £338 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +17.65% -10.53%
75th Percentile £481 - £438
90th Percentile £538 - -
UK median daily rate £350 £438 £200
% change year-on-year -20.00% +118.75% -63.64%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,904 4,949 6,721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.70% 27.62% 31.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,294 3,261 4,869
10th Percentile £250 £243 £225
25th Percentile £380 £389 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £644 £664 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 139 236
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.16 £14.14
25th Percentile £16.30 £18.17 £16.45
Median hourly rate £18.94 £30.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -36.88% +14.29% +36.36%
75th Percentile £36.00 £66.74 £62.03
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.68% -11.43% +62.79%

BrowserStack
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing BrowserStack as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for BrowserStack in the UK excluding London

BrowserStack
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing BrowserStack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing BrowserStack

BrowserStack
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BrowserStack in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BrowserStack in the UK excluding London

BrowserStack
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
North West -14 3 £332 -33.60% 3
North of England -19 3 £332 -33.60% 4
East Midlands - 2 £450 -
Midlands - 2 £450 - 1
South West +26 1 £600 +20.00% 1
Scotland -1 1 £500 -
Wales - 1 £375 - 2
BrowserStack
UK

BrowserStack
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) GitHub
1 2 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (12.50%) Pulumi
2 1 (12.50%) Sauce Labs
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Selenium
2 3 (37.50%) Cypress.io
2 3 (37.50%) Postman
3 2 (25.00%) Appium
3 2 (25.00%) GitLab
3 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (25.00%) JMeter
3 2 (25.00%) SoapUI
4 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
4 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
4 1 (12.50%) Git
4 1 (12.50%) JIRA
4 1 (12.50%) Storybook
4 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
4 1 (12.50%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
3 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Automation Test Lead
1 5 (62.50%) Lead
1 5 (62.50%) Test Leader
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) React Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) JSON
1 3 (37.50%) Playwright
1 3 (37.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) Ionic Framework
2 1 (12.50%) Jest
2 1 (12.50%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) React Native
2 1 (12.50%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
3 2 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Test Strategy
5 2 (25.00%) Agile
5 2 (25.00%) API Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
5 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (25.00%) Data Validation
5 2 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Integration Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Migration
5 2 (25.00%) Robotic Process Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Validation
5 2 (25.00%) Web Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
6 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (12.50%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Nintex
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft