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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 52 66
Rank change year-on-year -15 +14 +19
Contract jobs citing Selenium 4 17 9
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.57% 2.36% 1.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.20% 20.99% 16.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 9
10th Percentile - £334 -
25th Percentile - £373 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £581 £413
Median % change year-on-year -17.42% +40.91% +17.86%
75th Percentile - £756 £450
90th Percentile - - £466
West Midlands median daily rate £491 £581 £450
% change year-on-year -15.53% +29.17% +5.88%

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 125 81 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.96% 11.27% 6.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 53 38
10th Percentile £306 £365 £306
25th Percentile £442 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +29.41% -15.00%
75th Percentile £539 £663 £521
90th Percentile £675 £756 £583
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £55.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £46.25 £70.00 £66.59
% change year-on-year -33.93% +5.12% -

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 1 (25.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Postman
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Test Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Integration Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Test and Integration Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) pytest
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) API Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft