Cross-Browser Testing Contracts

Cross-Browser Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Cross-Browser Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cross-Browser Testing over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 581 702 831
Rank change year-on-year +121 +129 -153
Contract jobs citing Cross-Browser Testing 10 16 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.027% 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.027% 0.030% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 18
10th Percentile £400 £279 £339
25th Percentile £414 £399 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £435 £508
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +26.88%
75th Percentile £488 £556 £609
90th Percentile £503 £590 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £411 £480
% change year-on-year -2.68% -14.38% +37.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Cross-Browser Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,262 53,150 80,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.86% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,013 36,862 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,756 1,916
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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

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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 8 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 4 May 2024. 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 +108 10 £471 -10.24% 3
UK excluding London +61 5 £400 -2.68% 3
North of England +28 4 £400 +100.00% 3
London +99 3 £468 -18.70%
Work from Home +126 2 £453 -3.21%
North West +19 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 £400 - 3
South West +22 1 £525 -

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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) BlazeMeter
1 4 (40.00%) BrowserStack
1 4 (40.00%) Firebase
1 4 (40.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Jenkins
1 9 (90.00%) JIRA
1 9 (90.00%) JMeter
2 6 (60.00%) Postman
3 5 (50.00%) Cypress.io
3 5 (50.00%) GitLab
3 5 (50.00%) Selenium
4 4 (40.00%) Appium
4 4 (40.00%) Cucumber
4 4 (40.00%) Gatling
4 4 (40.00%) Git
4 4 (40.00%) WebDriver
5 1 (10.00%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Test Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) QA Tester
3 3 (30.00%) Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) QA Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) QA Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Middleware
1 5 (50.00%) WebdriverIO
2 4 (40.00%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (40.00%) Kafka
2 4 (40.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Mac OS X
1 4 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
1 10 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 9 (90.00%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (50.00%) BDD
3 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 5 (50.00%) Performance Testing
3 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) TDD
3 5 (50.00%) Test Management
4 4 (40.00%) Defect Tracking
4 4 (40.00%) Manual Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Scrum
4 4 (40.00%) Test Planning
4 4 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 4 (40.00%) Validation
5 3 (30.00%) Analytics
5 3 (30.00%) Software Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Requirements Management
7 1 (10.00%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (40.00%) Groovy
2 4 (40.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) Scala
2 4 (40.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Google