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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 45 60
Rank change year-on-year -13 +15 +10
Contract jobs citing Selenium 21 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.25% 0.76% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.94% 6.35% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 1
10th Percentile £355 - -
25th Percentile £409 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £483 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £428 - -
90th Percentile £483 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £425 £675
% change year-on-year - -37.04% -3.57%

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 124 63 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.26% 11.91% 6.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 44 40
10th Percentile £350 £425 £259
25th Percentile £425 £463 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £388
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +29.03% -29.55%
75th Percentile £542 £556 £475
90th Percentile £578 £671 £531
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -6.20% +11.11% -15.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £25.65 - £55.25
25th Percentile £35.98 - £55.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +68.49%
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £68.00 - £56.88
% change year-on-year - - +70.36%

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 15 (71.43%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) SAP ERP
1 1 (4.76%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 20 (95.24%) AWS
2 16 (76.19%) GitHub
3 15 (71.43%) Azure
4 14 (66.67%) GCP
5 11 (52.38%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.76%) BrowserStack
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.76%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (23.81%) MongoDB
3 3 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (80.95%) Jenkins
2 16 (76.19%) Cucumber
2 16 (76.19%) JIRA
3 15 (71.43%) JMeter
3 15 (71.43%) JUnit
4 14 (66.67%) Git
4 14 (66.67%) WebDriver
5 13 (61.90%) GitLab
6 6 (28.57%) REST Assured
6 6 (28.57%) Serenity BDD
7 3 (14.29%) Gatling
8 2 (9.52%) Postman
9 1 (4.76%) Artifactory
9 1 (4.76%) LoadRunner
9 1 (4.76%) TeamCity
9 1 (4.76%) TestNG
General
1 19 (90.48%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Tester
2 9 (42.86%) Automation Tester
3 8 (38.10%) Lead
4 7 (33.33%) Senior
4 7 (33.33%) Senior Automation Tester
4 7 (33.33%) Senior Tester
5 4 (19.05%) Lead Test Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) Test Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) Test Leader
6 3 (14.29%) Automation Test Lead
6 3 (14.29%) Systems Tester
7 1 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Integration Tester
7 1 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Principal Test Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) QA Automation Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) QA Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Integration Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (80.95%) Spring
2 14 (66.67%) WireMock
3 5 (23.81%) Kafka
3 5 (23.81%) Playwright
4 3 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 3 (14.29%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (4.76%) ADO
5 1 (4.76%) Gherkin
5 1 (4.76%) JDBC
5 1 (4.76%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 12 (57.14%) Distributed Architecture
2 10 (47.62%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (14.29%) Distributed Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (95.24%) CI/CD
1 20 (95.24%) Test Automation
1 20 (95.24%) Test Strategy
2 19 (90.48%) BDD
2 19 (90.48%) Microservices
3 18 (85.71%) End-to-End Testing
4 17 (80.95%) Continuous Improvement
4 17 (80.95%) Observability
5 16 (76.19%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 15 (71.43%) TDD
7 14 (66.67%) Validation
8 13 (61.90%) Load Testing
9 12 (57.14%) Agile
10 11 (52.38%) Performance Testing
11 10 (47.62%) Workshop Facilitation
12 8 (38.10%) Data Validation
12 8 (38.10%) Stress Testing
13 7 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 6 (28.57%) DevOps
14 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) Java
2 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (76.19%) Security Cleared
2 11 (52.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.52%) QA
System Software
1 19 (90.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (80.95%) Grafana
1 17 (80.95%) Prometheus
2 14 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Splunk
2 1 (4.76%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) SAP
2 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.76%) Workday