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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 48 57
Rank change year-on-year -8 +9 +14
Contract jobs citing Selenium 20 8 9
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.31% 1.51% 1.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.75% 14.81% 14.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 8
10th Percentile £355 £427 £332
25th Percentile £419 £448 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £483 £438
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +10.40% +25.00%
75th Percentile £439 - £466
90th Percentile £487 - £471
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% +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 127 54 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 14.68% 10.21% 7.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 34 49
10th Percentile £350 £385 £259
25th Percentile £425 £451 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% +23.13% -28.89%
75th Percentile £539 £575 £450
90th Percentile £577 £677 £502
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £483 £450
% change year-on-year -1.66% +7.33% -16.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £25.13 - £55.25
25th Percentile £25.33 - £55.63
Median hourly rate £25.80 - £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +68.49%
75th Percentile £26.43 - -
90th Percentile £26.72 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.50 £57.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year +10.43% +2.22% +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 14 (70.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) SAS
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP ERP
1 1 (5.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) AWS
1 15 (75.00%) Azure
2 13 (65.00%) GCP
3 12 (60.00%) GitHub
4 11 (55.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) BrowserStack
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (65.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (80.00%) JIRA
2 15 (75.00%) Cucumber
2 15 (75.00%) Git
3 14 (70.00%) Jenkins
3 14 (70.00%) JMeter
3 14 (70.00%) JUnit
4 13 (65.00%) WebDriver
5 9 (45.00%) GitLab
6 3 (15.00%) Postman
7 2 (10.00%) REST Assured
7 2 (10.00%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
8 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
8 1 (5.00%) Gatling
8 1 (5.00%) LoadRunner
8 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
8 1 (5.00%) TestNG
General
1 17 (85.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Tester
2 9 (45.00%) Automation Tester
2 9 (45.00%) Senior
3 7 (35.00%) Lead
3 7 (35.00%) Senior Automation Tester
3 7 (35.00%) Senior Tester
4 5 (25.00%) Test Leader
5 4 (20.00%) Automation Test Lead
6 3 (15.00%) Systems Tester
6 3 (15.00%) Test Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Integration Tester
7 1 (5.00%) QA Leader
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Integration Tester
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Test Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Systems Integration Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Systems Test Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
7 1 (5.00%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (70.00%) Spring
2 13 (65.00%) WireMock
3 2 (10.00%) Playwright
4 1 (5.00%) .NET
4 1 (5.00%) ADO
4 1 (5.00%) Gherkin
4 1 (5.00%) JDBC
4 1 (5.00%) Kafka
4 1 (5.00%) ODBC
4 1 (5.00%) pytest
4 1 (5.00%) REST
4 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 10 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 10 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (15.00%) Distributed Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Test Automation
2 17 (85.00%) CI/CD
2 17 (85.00%) Test Strategy
3 16 (80.00%) BDD
4 15 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (70.00%) Agile
5 14 (70.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 14 (70.00%) Microservices
5 14 (70.00%) Observability
5 14 (70.00%) TDD
6 13 (65.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 13 (65.00%) Load Testing
6 13 (65.00%) Validation
7 10 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
8 9 (45.00%) Performance Testing
9 8 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (35.00%) Data Validation
10 7 (35.00%) Stress Testing
11 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (20.00%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Java
1 2 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) C#
2 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (65.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (55.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (70.00%) Grafana
1 14 (70.00%) Kubernetes
1 14 (70.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (5.00%) Google
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.00%) SAP
1 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (5.00%) Splunk
1 1 (5.00%) Workday