Selenium Contracts in the UK excluding London

Selenium
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 242 191 183
Rank change year-on-year -51 -8 -6
Contract jobs citing Selenium 145 307 429
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.71% 1.31% 1.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.53% 9.26% 9.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 235 313
10th Percentile £353 £363 £353
25th Percentile £402 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +8.43%
75th Percentile £605 £588 £518
90th Percentile £688 £625 £600
UK median daily rate £499 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.00% +12.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 10
10th Percentile - £60.25 £44.75
25th Percentile £36.75 £70.00 £47.06
Median hourly rate £38.50 £75.00 £52.13
Median % change year-on-year -48.67% +43.88% -10.13%
75th Percentile £40.25 - £65.48
90th Percentile - - £65.81
UK median hourly rate £64.25 £75.00 £63.62
% change year-on-year -14.33% +17.90% +9.68%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,222 3,314 4,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.83% 14.10% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,430 2,344 3,209
10th Percentile £350 £350 £362
25th Percentile £413 £420 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.42%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 177 104
10th Percentile £40.94 £45.75 £37.55
25th Percentile £55.75 £52.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +12.33% +21.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £81.75 £78.00 £68.60
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +21.78% +12.22%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Selenium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Selenium in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Selenium in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Selenium in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Selenium in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South East -11 51 £613 +16.11% 29
North of England -1 48 £425 -19.05% 24
Yorkshire +17 26 £425 -15.00% 13
North West +22 20 £475 -5.00% 10
Scotland -19 15 £400 -15.79% 8
South West +9 14 £525 - 9
Midlands +8 11 £438 +9.38% 15
West Midlands +13 8 £675 +35.00% 10
Wales +22 4 £363 - 2
East Midlands +9 3 £380 +16.92% 5
Northern Ireland +7 2 - -
North East -4 2 £380 -36.67% 1
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UK

Selenium
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (3.45%) Confluence
2 3 (2.07%) CMS
2 3 (2.07%) Drupal
3 2 (1.38%) Apache
4 1 (0.69%) Appian
4 1 (0.69%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.69%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (0.69%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.69%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 60 (41.38%) Azure
2 36 (24.83%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (22.76%) AWS
4 7 (4.83%) GitHub
4 7 (4.83%) Serverless
5 6 (4.14%) GCP
6 5 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (3.45%) Azure Functions
6 5 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (3.45%) SaaS
7 4 (2.76%) PaaS
8 3 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.07%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.07%) Tricentis Tosca
9 2 (1.38%) Azure Storage
9 2 (1.38%) BrowserStack
9 2 (1.38%) IaaS
9 2 (1.38%) Sauce Labs
10 1 (0.69%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.45%) SSL
2 4 (2.76%) HTTP
3 3 (2.07%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.52%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.45%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.76%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.07%) Big Data
4 3 (2.07%) MariaDB
4 3 (2.07%) MySQL
5 2 (1.38%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.38%) Redis
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 54 (37.24%) Jenkins
2 51 (35.17%) Cucumber
3 34 (23.45%) JIRA
4 30 (20.69%) Git
5 29 (20.00%) REST Assured
6 25 (17.24%) SonarQube
7 24 (16.55%) JMeter
8 20 (13.79%) GitLab
9 17 (11.72%) WebDriver
10 15 (10.34%) Cypress.io
11 13 (8.97%) Postman
12 10 (6.90%) SpecFlow
13 8 (5.52%) JUnit
14 7 (4.83%) Appium
14 7 (4.83%) Bitbucket
14 7 (4.83%) Robot Framework
15 5 (3.45%) Gatling
15 5 (3.45%) Subversion
15 5 (3.45%) TestNG
15 5 (3.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (31.72%) Social Skills
2 44 (30.34%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (14.48%) Law
4 13 (8.97%) Police
5 6 (4.14%) Finance
5 6 (4.14%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.38%) Automotive
7 2 (1.38%) Banking
7 2 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.69%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (20.00%) Tester
2 27 (18.62%) Senior
3 26 (17.93%) Test Engineer
4 22 (15.17%) Automation Tester
4 22 (15.17%) Java Engineer
5 21 (14.48%) Analyst
6 17 (11.72%) Developer
7 16 (11.03%) Test Analyst
8 12 (8.28%) Test Automation Engineer
9 11 (7.59%) Senior Test Engineer
10 9 (6.21%) Lead
10 9 (6.21%) Software Engineer
11 7 (4.83%) Java Software Engineer
11 7 (4.83%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
11 7 (4.83%) Senior Java Engineer
12 6 (4.14%) Automation Engineer
12 6 (4.14%) Full Stack Developer
12 6 (4.14%) Java Developer
13 5 (3.45%) QA Engineer
13 5 (3.45%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (22.76%) REST
2 25 (17.24%) Java EE
3 13 (8.97%) ARM Templates
4 12 (8.28%) .NET
5 10 (6.90%) React
6 7 (4.83%) Gherkin
6 7 (4.83%) RESTful
7 6 (4.14%) Kafka
8 5 (3.45%) pytest
8 5 (3.45%) Web Services
9 4 (2.76%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (2.76%) AngularJS
9 4 (2.76%) HTML
9 4 (2.76%) Jest
9 4 (2.76%) Node.js
9 4 (2.76%) Playwright
9 4 (2.76%) SOAP
10 3 (2.07%) .NET Core
10 3 (2.07%) CSS
10 3 (2.07%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.52%) Client/Server
2 7 (4.83%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.45%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.07%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.07%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.38%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.38%) PKI
6 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.69%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.69%) NHS
6 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.03%) Linux
2 11 (7.59%) Windows
3 8 (5.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (5.52%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.76%) Mac OS X
4 4 (2.76%) Unix
5 2 (1.38%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (1.38%) VMS
6 1 (0.69%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (77.93%) Test Automation
2 70 (48.28%) DevOps
3 58 (40.00%) Agile
4 44 (30.34%) Continuous Integration
5 38 (26.21%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (21.38%) CI/CD
7 28 (19.31%) BDD
7 28 (19.31%) Technical Leadership
8 26 (17.93%) Test Scripting
9 25 (17.24%) Decision-Making
9 25 (17.24%) Software Architecture
9 25 (17.24%) Software Engineering
10 22 (15.17%) Software Testing
11 19 (13.10%) Manual Testing
12 18 (12.41%) Test Strategy
13 16 (11.03%) Infrastructure as Code
14 15 (10.34%) Configuration Management
14 15 (10.34%) Containerisation
15 13 (8.97%) TDD
16 12 (8.28%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 79 (54.48%) Java
2 28 (19.31%) Python
3 25 (17.24%) JavaScript
4 24 (16.55%) C#
5 17 (11.72%) SQL
6 11 (7.59%) PowerShell
7 8 (5.52%) VBScript
8 6 (4.14%) Shell Script
9 5 (3.45%) Scala
10 4 (2.76%) Groovy
10 4 (2.76%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.07%) Bash
12 2 (1.38%) C++
12 2 (1.38%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.38%) VBA
13 1 (0.69%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.69%) C
13 1 (0.69%) SOQL
13 1 (0.69%) VB
13 1 (0.69%) VB6
Qualifications
1 48 (33.10%) Security Cleared
2 38 (26.21%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.21%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.83%) ISTQB
5 5 (3.45%) Degree
6 4 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.07%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.38%) ISEB
8 2 (1.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (16.55%) QA
2 11 (7.59%) Accessibility
3 8 (5.52%) WCAG
4 2 (1.38%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.38%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (12.41%) Docker
2 7 (4.83%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (20.00%) Ansible
2 22 (15.17%) Kubernetes
2 22 (15.17%) Terraform
3 12 (8.28%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (8.28%) Podman
4 2 (1.38%) Grafana
4 2 (1.38%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.69%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.69%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (7.59%) Oracle
2 7 (4.83%) VMware
3 6 (4.14%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.07%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.38%) Google
6 2 (1.38%) Perfecto Mobile
6 2 (1.38%) SAP
7 1 (0.69%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.69%) Brio
7 1 (0.69%) HP
7 1 (0.69%) Infragistics
7 1 (0.69%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.69%) Splunk
7 1 (0.69%) Wind River