Sauce Labs Contracts

Sauce Labs
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 508 576 706
Rank change year-on-year +68 +130 +109
Contract jobs citing Sauce Labs 12 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.014% 0.020%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% 0.043% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 12
10th Percentile £286 £482 £475
25th Percentile £304 - £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £500 £544
Median % change year-on-year -26.50% -8.05% -1.14%
75th Percentile £504 - £578
90th Percentile £606 £564 £599
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £531
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.88% +11.84%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

Sauce Labs
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Sauce Labs as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Sauce Labs in the UK

Sauce Labs
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sauce Labs.

Daily rate trend for Sauce Labs in the UK

Sauce Labs
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sauce Labs over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sauce Labs in the UK

Sauce Labs
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 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 +61 9 £460 -8.00% 4
London +43 8 £395 -27.36% 4
Work from Home +43 5 £305 -42.32% 2
UK excluding London +62 1 £525 +5.00% 1
East of England - 1 £525 -

Sauce Labs
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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) BrowserStack
2 6 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (25.00%) GitHub
4 2 (16.67%) Azure
4 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Firebase
Development Applications
1 9 (75.00%) Appium
1 9 (75.00%) Git
2 7 (58.33%) JUnit
3 6 (50.00%) TestNG
4 5 (41.67%) Postman
5 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
5 4 (33.33%) JIRA
6 3 (25.00%) Cypress.io
6 3 (25.00%) GitLab
6 3 (25.00%) REST Assured
7 2 (16.67%) Bitbucket
7 2 (16.67%) JMeter
7 2 (16.67%) Selenium
7 2 (16.67%) Xcode
7 2 (16.67%) XCUITest
8 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
8 1 (8.33%) HP UFT
8 1 (8.33%) Robot Framework
8 1 (8.33%) TestRail
General
1 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Banking
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) QA Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Python Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Android Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Automation Tester
3 3 (25.00%) Mobile Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) QA Automation Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Mobile Tester
4 1 (8.33%) QA Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) pytest
2 3 (25.00%) Playwright
3 1 (8.33%) Flutter
3 1 (8.33%) Kafka
3 1 (8.33%) REST
3 1 (8.33%) Web Services
3 1 (8.33%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Android
2 3 (25.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (8.33%) AIX
3 1 (8.33%) Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
1 11 (91.67%) Test Automation
2 8 (66.67%) Test Scripting
3 6 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 6 (50.00%) QA Automation
4 4 (33.33%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) API Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (25.00%) Regression Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Test Management
6 2 (16.67%) Code Quality
6 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 2 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (16.67%) DevOps
6 2 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Kanban
6 2 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
6 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) Swift
3 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 1 (8.33%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (83.33%) QA
2 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Perfecto Mobile