Selenium Contracts in the Thames Valley

Selenium
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 112 140
Rank change year-on-year +15 +28 -27
Contract jobs citing Selenium 40 32 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.49% 1.11% 0.65%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.27% 9.82% 6.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 28 19
10th Percentile £455 £363 £353
25th Percentile £525 £438 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £544 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.94% +14.47% +35.71%
75th Percentile £688 £596 £491
90th Percentile £703 £619 £545
South East median daily rate £588 £534 £480
% change year-on-year +10.07% +11.20% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.08
Median hourly rate - - £68.17
75th Percentile - - £68.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £38.50 £75.00 £57.75
% change year-on-year -48.67% +29.87% -0.43%

All Development Application Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 262 326 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.79% 11.27% 10.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 224 261
10th Percentile £324 £363 £333
25th Percentile £413 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £539 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +13.42% +11.76%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £575
90th Percentile £688 £719 £650
South East median daily rate £538 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -2.27% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 3
10th Percentile - £53.13 £55.35
25th Percentile £46.25 £55.94 £58.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.25 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% -6.49% +31.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.94 £67.25
90th Percentile - £68.38 £67.85
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £56.47 £55.00
% change year-on-year +10.68% +2.67% +14.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Selenium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Selenium in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Selenium in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Selenium in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Selenium in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 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
Berkshire +9 39 £625 +13.64% 8
Buckinghamshire +25 1 - - 3
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 23 (57.50%) Azure
2 14 (35.00%) AWS
3 8 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (5.00%) Azure Functions
4 2 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (5.00%) Serverless
5 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.50%) GCP
5 1 (2.50%) GitHub
5 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.50%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (67.50%) Jenkins
2 26 (65.00%) Cucumber
3 25 (62.50%) REST Assured
4 24 (60.00%) SonarQube
5 14 (35.00%) JIRA
6 13 (32.50%) GitLab
7 5 (12.50%) Git
7 5 (12.50%) SpecFlow
8 4 (10.00%) Postman
9 3 (7.50%) Robot Framework
10 2 (5.00%) Appium
10 2 (5.00%) Cypress.io
11 1 (2.50%) JMeter
11 1 (2.50%) JUnit
11 1 (2.50%) MSTest
11 1 (2.50%) TeamCity
11 1 (2.50%) TestNG
11 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
11 1 (2.50%) WebDriver
11 1 (2.50%) Xcode
General
1 30 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (65.00%) Social Skills
3 20 (50.00%) Law
4 13 (32.50%) Police
5 1 (2.50%) Finance
5 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (42.50%) Java Engineer
2 9 (22.50%) Senior
3 7 (17.50%) Developer
3 7 (17.50%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Software Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Java Developer
5 5 (12.50%) Senior Java Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Architect
6 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) Automation Tester
7 3 (7.50%) Java Technical Architect
7 3 (7.50%) Senior Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Technical Architect
7 3 (7.50%) Test Automation Manager
7 3 (7.50%) Test Manager
7 3 (7.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (65.00%) REST
2 25 (62.50%) Java EE
3 13 (32.50%) ARM Templates
4 2 (5.00%) .NET
4 2 (5.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (5.00%) JSON
4 2 (5.00%) React
4 2 (5.00%) XML
5 1 (2.50%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.50%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.50%) HTML
5 1 (2.50%) Playwright
5 1 (2.50%) RESTful
5 1 (2.50%) Spring
5 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.50%) Client/Server
2 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.50%) Low-Code
2 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Windows
2 3 (7.50%) Linux
2 3 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (7.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.50%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (95.00%) Test Automation
2 35 (87.50%) DevOps
3 28 (70.00%) Continuous Integration
4 26 (65.00%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (62.50%) Decision-Making
5 25 (62.50%) Software Architecture
5 25 (62.50%) Technical Leadership
6 23 (57.50%) Software Engineering
7 14 (35.00%) Configuration Management
7 14 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (32.50%) Containerisation
9 9 (22.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 5 (12.50%) Agile
10 5 (12.50%) CI/CD
11 3 (7.50%) Application Packaging
11 3 (7.50%) Application Virtualisation
11 3 (7.50%) Microservices
11 3 (7.50%) Release Management
11 3 (7.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 3 (7.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 30 (75.00%) Java
2 8 (20.00%) Python
3 5 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.50%) VBScript
5 2 (5.00%) Bash
5 2 (5.00%) C#
6 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.50%) Scala
6 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (72.50%) Security Cleared
2 26 (65.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 13 (32.50%) Docker
2 3 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (62.50%) Ansible
2 14 (35.00%) Terraform
3 12 (30.00%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 12 (30.00%) Podman
4 1 (2.50%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (7.50%) VMware
2 1 (2.50%) Google
2 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft