BrowserStack Contracts

BrowserStack
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for BrowserStack skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BrowserStack over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 558 679 777
Rank change year-on-year +121 +98 -100
Contract jobs citing BrowserStack 28 19 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.033% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.20% 0.089% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 17 68
10th Percentile £313 - £425
25th Percentile £350 £189 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £410 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.71% -25.45% +29.41%
75th Percentile £488 £650 £575
90th Percentile £500 £850 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £405 £485
% change year-on-year +17.28% -16.49% +21.25%

All Cloud Skills
UK

BrowserStack is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,931 21,394 33,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.39% 36.78% 38.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,904 15,475 24,618
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 346 421
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.25 £15.37
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £64.45 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.81 £20.00
% change year-on-year -28.64% +24.05% -

BrowserStack
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for BrowserStack in the UK

BrowserStack
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for BrowserStack in the UK

BrowserStack
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BrowserStack over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BrowserStack in the UK

BrowserStack
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 BrowserStack within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +114 24 £438 +6.71% 7
London +93 12 £391 -7.94% 2
UK excluding London +68 9 £475 +17.28% 3
North of England +32 9 £475 +15.85%
Work from Home +109 8 £450 +100.00% 7
North West +27 6 £475 +15.85%
North East - 3 - -

BrowserStack
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 11 (39.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) Azure
1 8 (28.57%) BlazeMeter
1 8 (28.57%) Firebase
2 7 (25.00%) GitHub
3 6 (21.43%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 5 (17.86%) AWS
4 5 (17.86%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (17.86%) Serverless
5 4 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (14.29%) Sauce Labs
6 3 (10.71%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (7.14%) Datadog
8 1 (3.57%) Commercetools
8 1 (3.57%) GCP
8 1 (3.57%) SpeedCurve
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) MongoDB
1 3 (10.71%) MySQL
1 3 (10.71%) NoSQL
1 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (53.57%) JIRA
2 13 (46.43%) GitLab
2 13 (46.43%) Jenkins
3 12 (42.86%) Appium
3 12 (42.86%) Cypress.io
4 11 (39.29%) Selenium
5 8 (28.57%) Postman
6 7 (25.00%) JMeter
7 6 (21.43%) Cucumber
8 5 (17.86%) Bitbucket
8 5 (17.86%) Git
9 4 (14.29%) Gatling
10 2 (7.14%) Zephyr
11 1 (3.57%) Pa11y
11 1 (3.57%) SoapUI
11 1 (3.57%) TestCafe
General
1 16 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Retail
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Tester
2 6 (21.43%) QA Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) QA Tester
2 6 (21.43%) Test Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Full Stack Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Full Stack Software Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) QA Automation Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Test Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Automation Test Lead
5 2 (7.14%) Automation Tester
5 2 (7.14%) Java Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Lead
5 2 (7.14%) QA Test Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior
5 2 (7.14%) Test Leader
6 1 (3.57%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (39.29%) WebdriverIO
2 6 (21.43%) Middleware
3 5 (17.86%) React
4 4 (14.29%) Next.js
5 3 (10.71%) pytest
5 3 (10.71%) RESTful
6 2 (7.14%) AWS CDK
7 1 (3.57%) Jest
7 1 (3.57%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Android
1 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) Agile
2 18 (64.29%) Test Automation
3 12 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 11 (39.29%) Test Management
5 10 (35.71%) Software Engineering
6 8 (28.57%) BDD
6 8 (28.57%) Performance Testing
7 7 (25.00%) DevOps
7 7 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
7 7 (25.00%) Test Planning
7 7 (25.00%) Validation
8 6 (21.43%) API Testing
8 6 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (21.43%) Cross-Browser Testing
8 6 (21.43%) Defect Tracking
8 6 (21.43%) QA Automation
8 6 (21.43%) Scrum
9 5 (17.86%) Scenario Testing
9 5 (17.86%) SDLC
9 5 (17.86%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 9 (32.14%) Java
3 7 (25.00%) Python
4 5 (17.86%) TypeScript
5 3 (10.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) ISEB
1 1 (3.57%) ISTQB
1 1 (3.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (50.00%) QA
2 5 (17.86%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Grafana
2 1 (3.57%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (3.57%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 4 (14.29%) Perfecto Mobile
2 2 (7.14%) Adobe
2 2 (7.14%) Dynatrace
2 2 (7.14%) Qualtrics
2 2 (7.14%) Splunk
3 1 (3.57%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) HP
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle
3 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.57%) SAP