Cross-Browser Testing Contract Job Trends

Cross-Browser Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs 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 604 524 595
Rank change year-on-year -80 +71 +137
Contract jobs citing Cross-Browser Testing 6 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.014% 0.011%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.015% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £340 £221 £240
25th Percentile £363 £253 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £313 £400
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% -21.88% -3.61%
75th Percentile £400 £378 -
90th Percentile - £414 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £313 £400
% change year-on-year +20.00% -21.88% -1.72%

All Process & 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 36,752 26,590 38,671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.07% 90.35% 86.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,283 16,983 25,150
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,192 900 2,342
10th Percentile £14.82 £15.49 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £29.61 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.79 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.34 £70.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £32.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year -14.97% +1.59% -10.00%

Cross-Browser Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Cross-Browser Testing job vacancy trend in the UK

Cross-Browser Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Cross-Browser Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Cross-Browser Testing
Top 8 Contract Job 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 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
Work from Home -21 5 £388 -8.82% 1
England -90 4 £400 +100.00% 2
UK excluding London -86 3 £375 +20.00% 2
London - 2 £400 -
North West -36 1 - -
North of England -63 1 - -
South East - 1 - -
Wales - 1 £375 -

Cross-Browser Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) CMS
1 1 (16.67%) Sitefinity
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) BrowserStack
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (33.33%) BlazeMeter
4 1 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) GitLab
1 4 (66.67%) Postman
1 4 (66.67%) Selenium
2 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (50.00%) Git
3 2 (33.33%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (33.33%) JIRA
3 2 (33.33%) JMeter
3 2 (33.33%) Newman
3 2 (33.33%) Pa11y
3 2 (33.33%) WebDriver
4 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
4 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
4 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (16.67%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Military
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 2 (33.33%) HTML
1 2 (33.33%) Playwright
1 2 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) HTML5
2 1 (16.67%) Next.js
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) Sass
2 1 (16.67%) SOAP
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (16.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 3 (50.00%) API Testing
3 3 (50.00%) BDD
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
4 2 (33.33%) OWASP
4 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Security Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Content Management
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (16.67%) OO
5 1 (16.67%) OOP
5 1 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Test Management
5 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
5 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Ruby
2 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes