Cross-Browser Testing Contracts

Cross-Browser Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Cross-Browser Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cross-Browser Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 572 700
Rank change year-on-year +57 +128 +133
Contract jobs citing Cross-Browser Testing 5 10 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.023% 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.027% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 15
10th Percentile £280 £400 £279
25th Percentile - £414 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £471 £435
Median % change year-on-year -15.12% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £438 £488 £556
90th Percentile - £503 £590
UK excluding London median daily rate £313 £400 £411
% change year-on-year -21.88% -2.68% -14.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Cross-Browser Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cross-Browser Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cross-Browser Testing in the UK

Cross-Browser Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cross-Browser Testing.

Daily rate trend for Cross-Browser Testing in the UK

Cross-Browser Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cross-Browser Testing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cross-Browser Testing in the UK

Cross-Browser Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cross-Browser Testing.

Hourly rate trend for Cross-Browser Testing in the UK

Cross-Browser Testing
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +51 4 £400 -15.12% 10
London +38 3 £400 -14.44% 9
UK excluding London +60 2 £313 -21.88% 3
Work from Home +40 1 £425 -6.08% 10
North of England +16 1 £200 -50.00% 1
North West +16 1 £200 -
Scotland - 1 £425 -

Cross-Browser Testing
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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (20.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (20.00%) Figma
2 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
1 2 (40.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (20.00%) JMeter
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Back Office
2 1 (20.00%) Games
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) Bootstrap
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) CSS3
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) HTML5
2 1 (20.00%) Jest
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) Redux
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Sass
2 1 (20.00%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (20.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Adaptive Web Design
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
4 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (20.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) Test Management
4 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle