Selenium Tester Contracts

Selenium Tester
UK

The median Selenium Tester daily rate in the UK is £451 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 677 828
Rank change year-on-year +94 +151 -150
Contract jobs requiring a Selenium Tester 2 16 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.028% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.029% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 17
10th Percentile £251 £269 £346
25th Percentile £326 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £463 £438
Median % change year-on-year -2.43% +5.71% +2.94%
75th Percentile £576 £497 £500
90th Percentile £650 £518 £527
UK excluding London median daily rate £203 £425 £363
% change year-on-year -52.35% +17.24% -39.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,719 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,839 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,655 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

Selenium Tester
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Selenium Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Selenium Tester in the UK

Selenium Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Selenium Tester.

Daily rate trend for Selenium Tester in the UK

Selenium Tester
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium Tester over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium Tester in the UK

Selenium Tester
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium Tester within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +88 1 £203 -56.22% 2
UK excluding London +65 1 £203 -52.35%
Midlands +33 1 £203 -
West Midlands +25 1 £203 -

Selenium Tester Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Selenium Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Selenium Tester in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) CircleCI
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) SQL

Selenium Tester Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) CircleCI
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared