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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 55 57
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 +10
Contract jobs citing Selenium 12 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.33% 0.35% 0.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.43% 2.67% 6.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 4
10th Percentile £394 - -
25th Percentile £422 - £719
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £738
Median % change year-on-year - - +81.54%
75th Percentile £428 - £756
90th Percentile £453 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £425 £738
% change year-on-year - -42.37% +15.69%

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 105 75 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.64% 13.02% 9.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 54 47
10th Percentile £360 £324 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £694
90th Percentile £610 £629 £764
West Midlands median daily rate £459 £500 £524
% change year-on-year -8.20% -4.58% -2.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile - - £55.25
25th Percentile £65.00 - £55.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £36.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -36.00% +68.49%
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £70.00 £46.25 £56.25
% change year-on-year +51.35% -17.78% +68.49%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Selenium relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Selenium job vacancy trend 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 & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (91.67%) GitHub
3 8 (66.67%) Azure
3 8 (66.67%) GCP
4 7 (58.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (33.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (91.67%) Jenkins
2 10 (83.33%) GitLab
3 8 (66.67%) Cucumber
3 8 (66.67%) Git
3 8 (66.67%) JIRA
3 8 (66.67%) JMeter
3 8 (66.67%) JUnit
3 8 (66.67%) WebDriver
4 4 (33.33%) REST Assured
4 4 (33.33%) Serenity BDD
5 2 (16.67%) Gatling
General
1 12 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Tester
2 5 (41.67%) Automation Tester
2 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Automation Tester
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Tester
3 4 (33.33%) Lead
4 3 (25.00%) Lead Test Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Test Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Automation Test Lead
5 1 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Principal Test Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) QA Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Systems Tester
5 1 (8.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) Spring
2 8 (66.67%) WireMock
3 4 (33.33%) Kafka
3 4 (33.33%) Playwright
4 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 2 (16.67%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Distributed Architecture
2 6 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 12 (100.00%) Microservices
1 12 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 11 (91.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (91.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 11 (91.67%) Test Automation
3 10 (83.33%) BDD
3 10 (83.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 10 (83.33%) Observability
4 8 (66.67%) TDD
4 8 (66.67%) Validation
5 7 (58.33%) Agile
5 7 (58.33%) Load Testing
5 7 (58.33%) Performance Testing
6 6 (50.00%) Data Validation
6 6 (50.00%) Stress Testing
6 6 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
7 5 (41.67%) SDET
7 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (33.33%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Grafana
1 10 (83.33%) Prometheus
2 8 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Splunk