Selenium Contracts in the North West

Selenium
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Selenium skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Selenium over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 130 143
Rank change year-on-year +12 +13 -33
Contract jobs citing Selenium 19 23 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.69% 0.72% 0.96%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.31% 5.46% 6.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 35
10th Percentile £365 £392 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £420
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +16.07% -6.67%
75th Percentile £519 £539 £500
90th Percentile £531 £625 £606
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +14.29%

All Development Application Skills
North West

Selenium is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 301 421 583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 10.89% 13.10% 14.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 325 457
10th Percentile £375 £325 £350
25th Percentile £430 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £594
90th Percentile £673 £654 £650
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 19
10th Percentile £40.52 £38.16 £37.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £42.81 £38.68
Median hourly rate £52.94 £49.88 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% +17.35% +25.00%
75th Percentile £74.63 £53.44 £49.09
90th Percentile £81.45 £56.38 £61.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.18 £50.50
% change year-on-year +6.25% +21.14% +6.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Selenium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Selenium in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Selenium in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Selenium in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Selenium in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the North West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Manchester +18 17 £500 - 7
Merseyside +18 1 - -
Cheshire 0 1 £293 -31.18% 2
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (10.53%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) GitHub
4 2 (10.53%) AWS
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Storage
4 2 (10.53%) BrowserStack
4 2 (10.53%) Sauce Labs
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.26%) Figma
5 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
5 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.26%) PowerApps
5 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
1 2 (10.53%) Redis
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Git
2 5 (26.32%) Cucumber
2 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
3 4 (21.05%) GitLab
3 4 (21.05%) JIRA
3 4 (21.05%) JMeter
3 4 (21.05%) SpecFlow
4 3 (15.79%) Postman
4 3 (15.79%) WebDriver
5 2 (10.53%) Appium
5 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket
5 2 (10.53%) Cypress.io
5 2 (10.53%) Gatling
5 2 (10.53%) SoapUI
6 1 (5.26%) Artifactory
6 1 (5.26%) Mercurial
6 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
6 1 (5.26%) TestCafe
General
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Test Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Tester
3 4 (21.05%) QA Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Senior
4 3 (15.79%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Automation Tester
4 3 (15.79%) QA Automation Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Test Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Test Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Lead
6 1 (5.26%) Lead Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Lead Tester
6 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Tester
6 1 (5.26%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) pytest
2 2 (10.53%) .NET
2 2 (10.53%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (10.53%) Gherkin
2 2 (10.53%) Kafka
2 2 (10.53%) Playwright
2 2 (10.53%) SOAP
2 2 (10.53%) Web Services
2 2 (10.53%) WebdriverIO
2 2 (10.53%) YAML
3 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.26%) Node.js
3 1 (5.26%) REST
3 1 (5.26%) RESTful
3 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Alpine Linux
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
1 2 (10.53%) Mac OS X
1 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (10.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Test Automation
2 9 (47.37%) Agile
3 8 (42.11%) BDD
4 6 (31.58%) DevOps
5 5 (26.32%) Manual Testing
6 4 (21.05%) API Testing
7 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
7 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (15.79%) Open Source
7 3 (15.79%) TDD
8 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2 (10.53%) Conversational AI
8 2 (10.53%) Conversational UI
8 2 (10.53%) Cross-Browser Testing
8 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (10.53%) QA Automation
8 2 (10.53%) Resource Management
8 2 (10.53%) Test Management
8 2 (10.53%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Java
2 6 (31.58%) C#
3 5 (26.32%) Python
4 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.53%) Groovy
5 2 (10.53%) Scala
5 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
5 2 (10.53%) SQL
6 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
1 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) QA
2 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Grafana
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
1 2 (10.53%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Perfecto Mobile
2 1 (5.26%) HP
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle