Selenium Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Selenium
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Selenium skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 75 98
Rank change year-on-year 0 +23 +15
Contract jobs citing Selenium 19 37 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.61% 2.17% 1.05%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.96% 15.95% 9.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 28 16
10th Percentile £357 £483 £482
25th Percentile £395 £566 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £625 £564
Median % change year-on-year -19.92% +10.86% +21.89%
75th Percentile £501 £651 £596
90th Percentile £636 £679 £619
South East median daily rate £420 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -28.21% +6.36% +12.24%

All Development Application Skills
Berkshire

Selenium falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 127 232 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 10.77% 13.62% 11.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 139 133
10th Percentile £355 £330 £350
25th Percentile £411 £400 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -7.08% +25.56%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £638
90th Percentile £613 £672 £700
South East median daily rate £478 £506 £538
% change year-on-year -5.68% -5.81% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 0
10th Percentile £54.08 £55.87 -
25th Percentile £58.69 £56.53 -
Median hourly rate £66.75 £62.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.24% - -
75th Percentile £73.63 £84.00 -
90th Percentile £77.45 £95.00 -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £58.25
% change year-on-year -15.38% +11.59% -9.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Selenium.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Selenium

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in Berkshire over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in Berkshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Selenium.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Selenium

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 20 September 2025. 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
Reading +7 15 £360 -43.42% 5
Wokingham - 1 - -
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (5.26%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 18 (94.74%) Azure
2 13 (68.42%) AWS
3 5 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 14 (73.68%) Cucumber
1 14 (73.68%) GitLab
1 14 (73.68%) JIRA
2 13 (68.42%) Jenkins
2 13 (68.42%) REST Assured
3 10 (52.63%) SonarQube
4 2 (10.53%) Cypress.io
4 2 (10.53%) NUnit
5 1 (5.26%) Robot Framework
General
1 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 9 (47.37%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (42.11%) Law
4 4 (21.05%) Police
5 3 (15.79%) Billing
6 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Java Engineer
1 9 (47.37%) Java Software Engineer
1 9 (47.37%) Software Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Java Developer
2 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Automation Tester
4 2 (10.53%) Test Leader
4 2 (10.53%) Tester
5 1 (5.26%) Head of Development
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (68.42%) Java EE
1 13 (68.42%) REST
2 9 (47.37%) ARM Templates
3 3 (15.79%) Playwright
4 2 (10.53%) .NET
5 1 (5.26%) Jinja
5 1 (5.26%) JSON
5 1 (5.26%) NETCONF
5 1 (5.26%) XML
5 1 (5.26%) YANG
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) DevOps
1 18 (94.74%) Test Automation
2 13 (68.42%) Configuration Management
2 13 (68.42%) Continuous Integration
2 13 (68.42%) Software Architecture
2 13 (68.42%) Software Engineering
2 13 (68.42%) Technical Leadership
3 10 (52.63%) Decision-Making
4 9 (47.37%) Containerisation
4 9 (47.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
6 3 (15.79%) CRM
6 3 (15.79%) Test Management
6 3 (15.79%) Test Strategy
7 2 (10.53%) End-to-End Testing
7 2 (10.53%) Project Delivery
7 2 (10.53%) Project Management
7 2 (10.53%) Software Testing
7 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) Java
2 2 (10.53%) C#
3 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (68.42%) SC Cleared
1 13 (68.42%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (52.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (52.63%) Ansible
2 9 (47.37%) Docker Swarm
2 9 (47.37%) Kubernetes
2 9 (47.37%) Podman
2 9 (47.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Cisco
1 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
1 1 (5.26%) Veracode