Selenium Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Selenium
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Selenium skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 58 63
Rank change year-on-year -11 +5 +30
Contract jobs citing Selenium 1 9 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.17% 1.26% 0.84%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.08% 12.33% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 6
10th Percentile - £328 £381
25th Percentile - £366 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £738 £406
Median % change year-on-year - +81.54% -51.82%
75th Percentile - £756 £434
90th Percentile - - £513
West Midlands median daily rate £430 £738 £575
% change year-on-year -41.69% +28.26% +43.75%

All Development Application Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 93 73 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.45% 10.18% 7.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 52 40
10th Percentile £335 £375 £318
25th Percentile £425 £425 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £545 £675 £556
90th Percentile £675 £762 £614
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -7.06% +2.48% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.55% - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £46.25 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year -19.57% - -

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in Birmingham

Selenium
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Selenium

Selenium
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) TestNG
1 1 (100.00%) Travis CI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes