WebDriver Contracts in the UK excluding London

Selenium WebDriver
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for WebDriver skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WebDriver 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 369 417 467
Rank change year-on-year +48 +50 -79
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 19 36 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.093% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.85% 1.09% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 25 24
10th Percentile - £400 £409
25th Percentile £363 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year -18.42% -2.06% +16.87%
75th Percentile £423 £519 £575
90th Percentile £490 £608 £664
UK median daily rate £425 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -10.53% - +13.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 £77.00
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +36.28%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

WebDriver 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 2,226 3,292 4,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.87% 14.01% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,441 2,325 3,183
10th Percentile £350 £346 £363
25th Percentile £413 £419 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.81%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £676 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 173 114
10th Percentile £40.94 £46.26 £38.68
25th Percentile £55.75 £52.50 £44.77
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +20.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.51
90th Percentile £80.50 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%

WebDriver
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for WebDriver 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 WebDriver in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for WebDriver in the UK excluding London

WebDriver
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebDriver in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WebDriver 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 WebDriver in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for WebDriver 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 WebDriver within the UK excluding London region 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
Scotland +30 10 £375 -21.05% 3
North of England +22 7 £400 -20.00% 2
North West +20 4 £293 -42.22% 2
Yorkshire +23 3 £400 +60.00%
South East +19 2 - - 1
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UK

WebDriver
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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) Azure
1 9 (47.37%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (21.05%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) IaaS
3 2 (10.53%) PaaS
3 2 (10.53%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) SQL Server
2 5 (26.32%) MongoDB
3 3 (15.79%) MariaDB
3 3 (15.79%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (89.47%) Selenium
2 10 (52.63%) Cucumber
3 7 (36.84%) JIRA
4 6 (31.58%) Git
4 6 (31.58%) Jenkins
5 5 (26.32%) Gatling
5 5 (26.32%) JMeter
6 3 (15.79%) Cypress.io
7 2 (10.53%) Subversion
7 2 (10.53%) TeamCity
8 1 (5.26%) Android Studio
8 1 (5.26%) GitLab
8 1 (5.26%) Postman
8 1 (5.26%) REST Assured
8 1 (5.26%) SoapUI
8 1 (5.26%) SpecFlow
8 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
8 1 (5.26%) Xcode
General
1 5 (26.32%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
2 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Automation Tester
1 6 (31.58%) Senior
1 6 (31.58%) Test Engineer
1 6 (31.58%) Tester
2 4 (21.05%) Senior Test Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Test Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Developer in Test
4 2 (10.53%) Functional Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Functional Test Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Applications Tester
5 1 (5.26%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Manual Test Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) QA Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) Web Services
2 4 (21.05%) .NET
2 4 (21.05%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (21.05%) Kafka
3 3 (15.79%) Gherkin
3 3 (15.79%) RESTful
4 1 (5.26%) .NET Framework
4 1 (5.26%) HTML
4 1 (5.26%) JSON
4 1 (5.26%) Node.js
4 1 (5.26%) WebdriverIO
4 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Mobile App
2 2 (10.53%) Client/Server
2 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Mac OS X
1 4 (21.05%) Unix
2 3 (15.79%) Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) Test Automation
2 10 (52.63%) Agile
2 10 (52.63%) BDD
3 9 (47.37%) DevOps
4 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
5 6 (31.58%) Manual Testing
5 6 (31.58%) TDD
5 6 (31.58%) Test Strategy
6 5 (26.32%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (26.32%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (26.32%) Software Testing
6 5 (26.32%) Test Scripting
7 4 (21.05%) Cross-Browser Testing
8 3 (15.79%) SDET
8 3 (15.79%) Service Management
8 3 (15.79%) Waterfall
9 2 (10.53%) Kanban
9 2 (10.53%) Migration
9 2 (10.53%) Regression Testing
9 2 (10.53%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) C#
1 9 (47.37%) Java
2 7 (36.84%) SQL
3 6 (31.58%) JavaScript
3 6 (31.58%) Shell Script
4 4 (21.05%) Groovy
4 4 (21.05%) Scala
5 2 (10.53%) C++
5 2 (10.53%) VBA
5 2 (10.53%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) ISEB
2 2 (10.53%) ISTQB
2 2 (10.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (10.53%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Terraform
2 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) Wind River