Cross-Browser Testing Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cross-Browser Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Cross-Browser Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 337 405
Rank change year-on-year -86 +68 +58
Contract jobs citing Cross-Browser Testing 3 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.014% 0.016% 0.024%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% 0.017% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £221 £240
25th Percentile - £253 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £313 £400
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -21.88% -1.72%
75th Percentile - £378 -
90th Percentile - £414 -
UK median daily rate £388 £313 £400
% change year-on-year +24.00% -21.88% -3.61%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Cross-Browser Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,764 11,528 18,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.03% 90.47% 85.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,764 7,217 11,122
10th Percentile £263 £231 £240
25th Percentile £400 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,891 696 1,928
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.12 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.09 £15.37
Median hourly rate £27.21 £32.00 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.97% +1.59% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.24 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £29.61 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -8.89% - -7.14%

Cross-Browser Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cross-Browser Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Cross-Browser Testing job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Cross-Browser Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cross-Browser Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cross-Browser Testing

Cross-Browser Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cross-Browser Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cross-Browser Testing

Cross-Browser Testing
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 Cross-Browser Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 March 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
North West -36 1 - -
North of England -63 1 - -
South East - 1 - -
Wales - 1 £375 -
Cross-Browser Testing
UK

Cross-Browser Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) BrowserStack
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Postman
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
1 2 (66.67%) WebDriver
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
2 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (33.33%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Military
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) Playwright
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) Next.js
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) Sass
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) A/B Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) OOP
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) QA
1 1 (33.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes