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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 671 821
Rank change year-on-year +115 +150 -119
Contract jobs citing Cross-Browser Testing 15 16 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.028% 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% 0.031% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 19
10th Percentile £404 £279 £347
25th Percentile £419 £399 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £435 £515
Median % change year-on-year +7.47% -15.53% +32.90%
75th Percentile £488 £556 £606
90th Percentile - £590 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £411 £485
% change year-on-year -2.68% -15.26% +21.25%

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 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

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

Cross-Browser Testing
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 18 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 +112 15 £468 -10.95%
London +101 7 £468 -18.70%
Work from Home +108 5 £463 -1.07%
UK excluding London +54 5 £400 -2.68%
North of England +35 4 £400 +100.00%
North West +21 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 £400 -
South West +6 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 10 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) BlazeMeter
1 8 (53.33%) BrowserStack
1 8 (53.33%) Firebase
1 8 (53.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (93.33%) Jenkins
1 14 (93.33%) JIRA
1 14 (93.33%) JMeter
2 11 (73.33%) Postman
3 10 (66.67%) Cypress.io
3 10 (66.67%) GitLab
4 8 (53.33%) Appium
5 5 (33.33%) Git
5 5 (33.33%) Selenium
6 4 (26.67%) Cucumber
6 4 (26.67%) Gatling
6 4 (26.67%) WebDriver
7 1 (6.67%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (6.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Test Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) QA Tester
2 6 (40.00%) Tester
3 4 (26.67%) Senior
3 4 (26.67%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) QA Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) QA Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) QA Test Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Automation Tester
5 1 (6.67%) JavaScript Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) QA Automation Tester
5 1 (6.67%) QA Test Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Test Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) Middleware
1 10 (66.67%) WebdriverIO
2 4 (26.67%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (26.67%) Kafka
2 4 (26.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Mac OS X
1 4 (26.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Agile
1 15 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 13 (86.67%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 10 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
3 10 (66.67%) Performance Testing
3 10 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 10 (66.67%) Test Management
4 8 (53.33%) Defect Tracking
4 8 (53.33%) Scrum
4 8 (53.33%) Test Planning
4 8 (53.33%) Validation
5 7 (46.67%) Manual Testing
6 6 (40.00%) Analytics
6 6 (40.00%) Software Testing
7 5 (33.33%) BDD
7 5 (33.33%) TDD
8 4 (26.67%) Requirements Management
8 4 (26.67%) Test Strategy
9 2 (13.33%) Agile Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) JavaScript
2 4 (26.67%) Groovy
2 4 (26.67%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) Scala
2 4 (26.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Google