Selenium Contracts

Selenium
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 260 212 224
Rank change year-on-year -48 +12 -16
Contract jobs citing Selenium 382 775 1,172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.88% 1.31% 1.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.38% 8.74% 7.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 610 889
10th Percentile £326 £370 £358
25th Percentile £400 £435 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £575 £624 £588
90th Percentile £671 £738 £658
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% +8.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 13
10th Percentile £42.08 £61.38 £45.25
25th Percentile £50.06 £70.31 £49.50
Median hourly rate £64.25 £75.00 £63.62
Median % change year-on-year -14.33% +17.90% +9.68%
75th Percentile £77.56 - £65.54
90th Percentile £85.03 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £75.00 £52.13
% change year-on-year -48.67% +43.88% -10.13%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,179 8,868 15,964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.93% 15.01% 17.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,484 6,238 11,275
10th Percentile £355 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £461 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 242 211
10th Percentile £33.60 £44.68 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.63 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £62.25
90th Percentile £80.70 £80.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +22.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Selenium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in the UK

Selenium
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Selenium in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Selenium in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Selenium over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Selenium in the UK

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Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 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 -42 318 £500 -4.76% 140
London 0 185 £498 -9.55% 50
UK excluding London -63 147 £463 -7.50% 97
Work from Home -7 140 £450 -10.00% 75
North of England -1 51 £425 -19.05% 24
South East -7 48 £588 +10.07% 29
Yorkshire +14 29 £425 -15.00% 13
North West +24 20 £475 -5.00% 10
Scotland -22 15 £425 -10.53% 8
South West +11 14 £525 - 8
Midlands +8 12 £400 +2.56% 15
West Midlands +8 9 £575 +15.00% 10
Wales +19 5 £363 -9.38% 3
East Midlands +8 3 £380 +23.58% 5
Northern Ireland +7 2 - -
North East -3 2 £380 -36.67% 1

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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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (3.93%) Confluence
2 9 (2.36%) CMS
3 6 (1.57%) nginx
4 5 (1.31%) Camunda
5 4 (1.05%) Apache
5 4 (1.05%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.79%) Drupal
6 3 (0.79%) IIS
6 3 (0.79%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.79%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.52%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.26%) Appian
8 1 (0.26%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.26%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 2 (0.52%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 7 (1.83%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (1.57%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.26%) Endur
4 1 (0.26%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 111 (29.06%) Azure
2 71 (18.59%) AWS
3 70 (18.32%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (7.07%) GitHub
5 17 (4.45%) Entra ID
6 13 (3.40%) Serverless
7 11 (2.88%) BrowserStack
8 10 (2.62%) Amazon SQS
8 10 (2.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 10 (2.62%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (2.36%) GCP
10 8 (2.09%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (2.09%) PaaS
11 7 (1.83%) SaaS
12 6 (1.57%) Sauce Labs
13 5 (1.31%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (1.05%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.83%) Kerberos
2 6 (1.57%) HTTP
3 5 (1.31%) SSL
4 3 (0.79%) DNS
5 1 (0.26%) Internet
5 1 (0.26%) MQTT
5 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.69%) SQL Server
2 18 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.09%) MongoDB
3 8 (2.09%) MySQL
4 7 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.57%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.57%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.05%) Oracle BI EE
7 4 (1.05%) Redis
8 3 (0.79%) Big Data
8 3 (0.79%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.79%) MariaDB
8 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.52%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.26%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 131 (34.29%) Cucumber
2 96 (25.13%) Jenkins
3 70 (18.32%) JIRA
4 68 (17.80%) Git
5 62 (16.23%) WebDriver
6 57 (14.92%) JMeter
6 57 (14.92%) REST Assured
7 55 (14.40%) Postman
8 51 (13.35%) SpecFlow
9 47 (12.30%) JUnit
10 44 (11.52%) Cypress.io
11 37 (9.69%) TestNG
12 36 (9.42%) SonarQube
13 32 (8.38%) Appium
14 31 (8.12%) GitLab
15 25 (6.54%) SoapUI
16 23 (6.02%) Visual Studio
17 19 (4.97%) Bitbucket
18 18 (4.71%) Maven
19 13 (3.40%) Robot Framework
General
1 103 (26.96%) Social Skills
2 54 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (12.04%) Finance
4 40 (10.47%) Banking
5 32 (8.38%) Public Sector
6 21 (5.50%) Law
7 13 (3.40%) Police
8 8 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.83%) Back Office
9 7 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.83%) Prime Brokerage
9 7 (1.83%) Retail
10 6 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.57%) Front Office
11 4 (1.05%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.52%) Automotive
12 2 (0.52%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.26%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 61 (15.97%) Tester
2 58 (15.18%) Developer
3 55 (14.40%) Senior
4 53 (13.87%) Test Engineer
5 49 (12.83%) Automation Tester
6 47 (12.30%) Analyst
7 41 (10.73%) Test Analyst
8 31 (8.12%) Test Automation Engineer
9 29 (7.59%) Java Engineer
9 29 (7.59%) Lead
10 23 (6.02%) Test Manager
11 21 (5.50%) Senior Analyst
11 21 (5.50%) Senior Test Analyst
12 19 (4.97%) Software Engineer
13 17 (4.45%) Automation Engineer
14 16 (4.19%) QA Engineer
15 15 (3.93%) Full Stack Developer
16 14 (3.66%) Java Developer
17 12 (3.14%) Senior Test Engineer
18 11 (2.88%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (17.28%) REST
2 57 (14.92%) .NET
3 29 (7.59%) .NET Framework
3 29 (7.59%) React
4 27 (7.07%) AngularJS
5 25 (6.54%) Java EE
6 22 (5.76%) Spring
7 21 (5.50%) Node.js
7 21 (5.50%) XML
8 20 (5.24%) Gherkin
8 20 (5.24%) Spring Boot
9 19 (4.97%) Playwright
10 17 (4.45%) SOAP
11 16 (4.19%) HTML
12 15 (3.93%) Web Services
13 14 (3.66%) ARM Templates
13 14 (3.66%) CSS
13 14 (3.66%) RESTful
14 12 (3.14%) .NET Core
14 12 (3.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.28%) Product Ownership
2 18 (4.71%) Mobile App
3 9 (2.36%) Equities
4 8 (2.09%) Client/Server
4 8 (2.09%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.57%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.05%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.05%) Private Cloud
8 3 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.52%) Derivative
9 2 (0.52%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.52%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.52%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.52%) PKI
10 1 (0.26%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.07%) Linux
2 18 (4.71%) Windows
3 12 (3.14%) Unix
4 10 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.09%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.83%) Android
7 4 (1.05%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (1.05%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.52%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.52%) VMS
9 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (71.99%) Test Automation
2 156 (40.84%) Agile
3 131 (34.29%) DevOps
4 119 (31.15%) CI/CD
5 80 (20.94%) BDD
6 73 (19.11%) Continuous Integration
7 70 (18.32%) Software Testing
8 62 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
9 61 (15.97%) Test Scripting
10 53 (13.87%) Scrum
10 53 (13.87%) Test Strategy
11 43 (11.26%) Software Engineering
12 39 (10.21%) TDD
13 38 (9.95%) Microservices
13 38 (9.95%) SDET
14 37 (9.69%) Performance Testing
15 34 (8.90%) Manual Testing
15 34 (8.90%) Test Management
16 32 (8.38%) SDLC
17 29 (7.59%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 194 (50.79%) Java
2 100 (26.18%) C#
3 63 (16.49%) Python
4 58 (15.18%) JavaScript
5 45 (11.78%) SQL
6 26 (6.81%) PowerShell
7 18 (4.71%) TypeScript
8 13 (3.40%) Kotlin
9 8 (2.09%) VBScript
10 7 (1.83%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.31%) Bash
11 5 (1.31%) Scala
12 4 (1.05%) Groovy
12 4 (1.05%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.79%) C++
13 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.52%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.52%) C
14 2 (0.52%) Ruby
14 2 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 106 (27.75%) Security Cleared
2 91 (23.82%) SC Cleared
3 19 (4.97%) ISTQB
4 15 (3.93%) Degree
5 11 (2.88%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.09%) ISEB
8 4 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.05%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.52%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (20.16%) QA
2 35 (9.16%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.88%) WCAG
4 3 (0.79%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.52%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.52%) HL7
System Software
1 52 (13.61%) Docker
2 21 (5.50%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.26%) iptables
Systems Management
1 52 (13.61%) Kubernetes
2 41 (10.73%) Ansible
3 37 (9.69%) Terraform
4 13 (3.40%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (3.14%) Podman
6 7 (1.83%) Grafana
6 7 (1.83%) HP ALM
7 5 (1.31%) Puppet
8 4 (1.05%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.79%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.79%) Netcool
9 3 (0.79%) Packer
10 2 (0.52%) Kibana
10 2 (0.52%) logstash
11 1 (0.26%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 36 (9.42%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.90%) Oracle
3 12 (3.14%) HP
4 10 (2.62%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.36%) IBM
6 8 (2.09%) Splunk
6 8 (2.09%) VMware
7 7 (1.83%) Okta
8 6 (1.57%) SAP
9 5 (1.31%) Perfecto Mobile
9 5 (1.31%) Wind River
10 4 (1.05%) Checkmarx
10 4 (1.05%) Google
10 4 (1.05%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.79%) Ab Initio
11 3 (0.79%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.79%) IBM Sterling
11 3 (0.79%) Micro Focus
11 3 (0.79%) Optimizely
11 3 (0.79%) Red Hat