Selenium Contracts in Birmingham

Selenium
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Selenium skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Selenium over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 64 69
Rank change year-on-year +18 +5 +24
Contract jobs citing Selenium 4 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.77% 0.39% 0.66%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.16% 5.26% 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile - £229 £386
25th Percentile - £270 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £339 £425
Median % change year-on-year +42.58% -20.29% -19.81%
75th Percentile - £407 £475
90th Percentile - £448 £543
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £575 £425
% change year-on-year -26.09% +35.29% +4.94%

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 49 57 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.39% 7.37% 9.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 45 68
10th Percentile £425 £259 £371
25th Percentile £463 £260 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -27.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £648 £475 £700
90th Percentile £689 £525 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £450 £538
% change year-on-year +11.11% -16.36% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £55.00 £31.69
Median hourly rate - £55.63 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year - +66.62% -
75th Percentile - £56.25 £35.08
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £57.50 £56.25 £33.39
% change year-on-year +2.22% +68.49% -14.40%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Selenium in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Selenium in Birmingham

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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 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JMeter
2 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Postman
2 2 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 2 (50.00%) TestNG
2 2 (50.00%) Travis CI
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) QA Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) QA Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) QA Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (50.00%) Compatibility Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) User Stories
2 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CEH
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kibana
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes