Selenium Contracts with Work from Home Options

Selenium
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 214 201 194
Rank change year-on-year -13 -7 -8
Contract jobs citing Selenium 136 307 634
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.90% 1.22% 1.43%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.57% 8.02% 7.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 220 480
10th Percentile £353 £375 £356
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +3.09% +12.53%
75th Percentile £538 £578 £588
90th Percentile £650 £651 £655
UK median daily rate £499 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.00% +12.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 10
10th Percentile - £61.38 £44.75
25th Percentile - £70.31 £47.19
Median hourly rate £90.00 £75.00 £65.52
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +14.47% +12.00%
75th Percentile - - £65.54
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,796 3,827 8,224
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.90% 15.23% 18.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,284 2,743 5,934
10th Percentile £360 £394 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.46% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £631
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 108 100
10th Percentile £26.24 £39.60 -
25th Percentile £46.75 £52.38 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £90.00 £70.32 £60.54
90th Percentile - £83.19 £67.05
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +21.78% +12.22%

Selenium
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Selenium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Selenium trend for jobs with a WFH option

Selenium
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Selenium.

Selenium daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Selenium
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Selenium over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Selenium daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Selenium
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Selenium.

Selenium hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Selenium
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (2.94%) nginx
2 3 (2.21%) WebLogic
2 3 (2.21%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.47%) Confluence
3 2 (1.47%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.47%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.74%) CMS
4 1 (0.74%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.74%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.74%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 44 (32.35%) Azure
2 41 (30.15%) AWS
3 24 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (6.62%) GitHub
5 8 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (5.15%) Serverless
7 6 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (4.41%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.94%) SaaS
8 4 (2.94%) Sauce Labs
9 3 (2.21%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.21%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (2.21%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.21%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (1.47%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.74%) MQTT
1 1 (0.74%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.56%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.15%) MySQL
3 6 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.94%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.94%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.94%) Oracle BI EE
4 4 (2.94%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.47%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.47%) MariaDB
6 2 (1.47%) Redis
7 1 (0.74%) Big Data
7 1 (0.74%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 44 (32.35%) Cucumber
2 33 (24.26%) Jenkins
3 29 (21.32%) JMeter
4 25 (18.38%) Postman
4 25 (18.38%) WebDriver
5 24 (17.65%) Git
5 24 (17.65%) JIRA
6 22 (16.18%) REST Assured
7 19 (13.97%) JUnit
8 18 (13.24%) TestNG
9 15 (11.03%) Cypress.io
9 15 (11.03%) GitLab
10 14 (10.29%) SpecFlow
11 13 (9.56%) SoapUI
12 11 (8.09%) Appium
12 11 (8.09%) SonarQube
13 10 (7.35%) Bitbucket
14 9 (6.62%) Visual Studio
15 8 (5.88%) Maven
16 5 (3.68%) HP UFT
General
1 33 (24.26%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (8.82%) Finance
3 12 (8.82%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.35%) Banking
5 8 (5.88%) Law
6 7 (5.15%) Police
7 6 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.94%) Retail
9 2 (1.47%) Back Office
9 2 (1.47%) Front Office
9 2 (1.47%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.74%) Aviation
10 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.74%) Local Government
10 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (20.59%) Test Engineer
2 25 (18.38%) Senior
2 25 (18.38%) Tester
3 23 (16.91%) Developer
4 19 (13.97%) Analyst
4 19 (13.97%) Automation Tester
4 19 (13.97%) Test Analyst
5 16 (11.76%) Test Automation Engineer
6 11 (8.09%) Java Engineer
6 11 (8.09%) Lead
7 9 (6.62%) Software Engineer
8 8 (5.88%) Java Developer
9 7 (5.15%) Automation Test Analyst
9 7 (5.15%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 7 (5.15%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (5.15%) Senior Java Engineer
9 7 (5.15%) Senior Test Analyst
9 7 (5.15%) Senior Test Engineer
9 7 (5.15%) Software Developer
10 6 (4.41%) Developer in Test
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.38%) REST
2 15 (11.03%) .NET
3 12 (8.82%) SOAP
4 11 (8.09%) Spring
4 11 (8.09%) Web Services
5 10 (7.35%) Gherkin
6 9 (6.62%) XML
7 8 (5.88%) .NET Framework
7 8 (5.88%) AngularJS
7 8 (5.88%) ARM Templates
7 8 (5.88%) Java EE
7 8 (5.88%) Playwright
8 7 (5.15%) RESTful
8 7 (5.15%) Spring Boot
9 5 (3.68%) Kafka
10 4 (2.94%) JAX-RS
10 4 (2.94%) Node.js
10 4 (2.94%) pytest
10 4 (2.94%) React
10 4 (2.94%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.68%) Mobile App
2 4 (2.94%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.47%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.47%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.74%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.74%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.74%) Contactless
5 1 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.74%) Derivative
5 1 (0.74%) EPoS
5 1 (0.74%) Equities
5 1 (0.74%) Fat Client
5 1 (0.74%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.74%) Machine to Machine
5 1 (0.74%) Replication
5 1 (0.74%) Thin Client
5 1 (0.74%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.41%) Linux
2 5 (3.68%) Windows
3 2 (1.47%) Alpine Linux
3 2 (1.47%) Android
3 2 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (79.41%) Test Automation
2 52 (38.24%) Agile
3 46 (33.82%) DevOps
4 45 (33.09%) CI/CD
5 32 (23.53%) Software Testing
5 32 (23.53%) Test Scripting
6 31 (22.79%) BDD
7 21 (15.44%) Continuous Integration
7 21 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (15.44%) Scrum
8 20 (14.71%) SDET
8 20 (14.71%) Test Strategy
9 17 (12.50%) Microservices
10 16 (11.76%) Test Management
11 15 (11.03%) Performance Testing
12 14 (10.29%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (10.29%) Software Engineering
13 12 (8.82%) API Testing
13 12 (8.82%) Scenario Testing
14 10 (7.35%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 72 (52.94%) Java
2 32 (23.53%) C#
3 24 (17.65%) SQL
4 23 (16.91%) Python
5 22 (16.18%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.15%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.94%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.21%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.47%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.47%) Bash
9 2 (1.47%) C
10 1 (0.74%) ABAP
10 1 (0.74%) Bicep
10 1 (0.74%) C++
10 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.74%) SOQL
10 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.74%) VBA
10 1 (0.74%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 48 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 41 (30.15%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.62%) ISTQB
4 5 (3.68%) Degree
5 4 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.94%) ISEB
6 2 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.47%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.97%) Accessibility
2 18 (13.24%) QA
3 7 (5.15%) WCAG
4 1 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (16.91%) Docker
2 7 (5.15%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.74%) iptables
Systems Management
1 21 (15.44%) Kubernetes
2 19 (13.97%) Terraform
3 11 (8.09%) Ansible
4 9 (6.62%) Docker Swarm
5 8 (5.88%) Podman
6 6 (4.41%) HP ALM
7 4 (2.94%) Grafana
8 2 (1.47%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.47%) Packer
8 2 (1.47%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.74%) Kibana
9 1 (0.74%) logstash
9 1 (0.74%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (11.03%) Oracle
2 12 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.15%) HP
3 7 (5.15%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.41%) IBM
5 4 (2.94%) SAP
6 3 (2.21%) Micro Focus
7 2 (1.47%) IBM Sterling
7 2 (1.47%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.47%) Perfecto Mobile
7 2 (1.47%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.47%) Splunk
8 1 (0.74%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.74%) Google
8 1 (0.74%) NEC
8 1 (0.74%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.74%) ServiceNow