Hybrid/Remote BrowserStack Contract Job Trends

BrowserStack
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring BrowserStack skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 304 399
Rank change year-on-year -12 +95 +172
Contract jobs citing BrowserStack 6 19 3
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.060% 0.16% 0.016%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.14% 0.41% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 3
10th Percentile £322 £189 £190
25th Percentile £340 £242 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £350 £300
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -25.00%
75th Percentile - £466 £394
90th Percentile £420 £476 £450
UK median daily rate £350 £350 £363
% change year-on-year - -3.45% -23.68%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

BrowserStack falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,317 4,682 7,156
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 43.06% 38.64% 38.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,931 3,157 5,230
10th Percentile £325 £340 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £644
90th Percentile £740 £751 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 42 100
10th Percentile £17.95 £19.45 £15.72
25th Percentile £20.50 £26.25 £22.51
Median hourly rate £37.00 £36.85 £46.78
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% -21.23% +33.65%
75th Percentile £65.20 £62.03 £70.50
90th Percentile £78.50 £78.50 £88.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.15
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.86% +46.14%

BrowserStack
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BrowserStack and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

BrowserStack job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

BrowserStack
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing BrowserStack.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing BrowserStack

BrowserStack
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing BrowserStack over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

BrowserStack daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

BrowserStack
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) npm
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 3 (50.00%) Postman
2 3 (50.00%) Selenium
3 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
3 2 (33.33%) Git
3 2 (33.33%) GitLab
3 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (33.33%) JIRA
3 2 (33.33%) JMeter
3 2 (33.33%) WebDriver
3 2 (33.33%) Zephyr
4 1 (16.67%) Android Studio
4 1 (16.67%) Appium
4 1 (16.67%) Charles Proxy
4 1 (16.67%) REST Assured
4 1 (16.67%) Xcode
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Test Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Test Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Test Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Test Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Playwright
2 3 (50.00%) Node.js
2 3 (50.00%) REST
3 2 (33.33%) JSON
4 1 (16.67%) SOAP
4 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
1 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) BDD
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Cross-Browser Testing
4 2 (33.33%) OO
4 2 (33.33%) OOP
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) SDLC
5 1 (16.67%) Compatibility Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Exploratory Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
5 1 (16.67%) OWASP
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Security Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
2 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (16.67%) WCAG