Sauce Labs Contracts in the UK excluding London

Sauce Labs
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Sauce Labs skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sauce Labs over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 395 425
Rank change year-on-year +62 +30 +87
Contract jobs citing Sauce Labs 2 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.016% 0.010% 0.035%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.049% 0.038% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 8
10th Percentile £519 - £354
25th Percentile £528 - £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £603 - £545
90th Percentile £616 - £550
UK median daily rate £460 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -4.55%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

Sauce Labs 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 4,114 5,316 7,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.98% 25.80% 32.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,880 3,760 5,529
10th Percentile £250 £213 £250
25th Percentile £380 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 264 217
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.12 £16.54
Median hourly rate £19.62 £17.72 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year +10.72% -33.08% +34.93%
75th Percentile £34.38 £34.20 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.06 £67.85 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £21.37 £36.50
% change year-on-year +30.46% -41.45% +64.41%

Sauce Labs
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Sauce Labs in the UK excluding London

Sauce Labs
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sauce Labs in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Sauce Labs in the UK excluding London

Sauce Labs
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 Sauce Labs within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
South West - 1 £600 - 1
East of England - 1 £525 -
Sauce Labs
UK

Sauce Labs
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 (100.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Appium
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) AIX
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Compatibility Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Perfecto Mobile