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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 51 56
Rank change year-on-year -19 +5 +19
Contract jobs citing Selenium 5 14 11
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.64% 2.25% 1.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.63% 16.47% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 10
10th Percentile - £316 £369
25th Percentile - £353 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £385 £406
Median % change year-on-year +24.68% -5.23% +16.07%
75th Percentile - £438 £447
90th Percentile - £629 £465
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £385 £413
% change year-on-year +27.79% -6.67% -2.94%

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 108 85 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.76% 13.64% 7.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 56 42
10th Percentile £291 £369 £260
25th Percentile £463 £425 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +26.47% -15.84%
75th Percentile £549 £650 £521
90th Percentile £706 £734 £571
West Midlands median daily rate £503 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +0.60% - -7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £55.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £68.00 £57.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +18.26% - -

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 (20.00%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP ERP
1 1 (20.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (20.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) Postman
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Automation Test Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) QA Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Integration Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) ADO
1 1 (20.00%) Playwright
1 1 (20.00%) pytest
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Banking
3 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Test Assurance
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) SAP
1 1 (20.00%) Workday