WebDriver Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Selenium WebDriver
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring WebDriver skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 13 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.40% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 10.66% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £350 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £488 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £425 -

All Development Application Skills
Birmingham

WebDriver 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 122 48 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.16% 9.18% 6.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 28 43
10th Percentile £347 £443 £259
25th Percentile £425 £463 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +25.00% -28.89%
75th Percentile £540 £648 £475
90th Percentile £575 £689 £525
West Midlands median daily rate £470 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -6.00% +11.11% -16.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £25.26 - £55.25
25th Percentile £25.65 - £55.63
Median hourly rate £26.61 - £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +68.49%
75th Percentile £50.95 - -
90th Percentile £65.38 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £65.75 £57.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year +14.35% +2.22% +68.49%

WebDriver
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WebDriver relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

WebDriver job vacancy trend in Birmingham

WebDriver
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing WebDriver.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing WebDriver

WebDriver
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 13 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
1 13 (100.00%) GCP
2 10 (76.92%) GitHub
2 10 (76.92%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 13 (100.00%) Git
1 13 (100.00%) JIRA
1 13 (100.00%) JMeter
1 13 (100.00%) JUnit
1 13 (100.00%) Selenium
2 10 (76.92%) Jenkins
3 7 (53.85%) GitLab
General
1 13 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Tester
2 8 (61.54%) Automation Tester
3 7 (53.85%) Senior
3 7 (53.85%) Senior Automation Tester
3 7 (53.85%) Senior Tester
4 3 (23.08%) Automation Test Lead
4 3 (23.08%) Lead
4 3 (23.08%) Systems Tester
4 3 (23.08%) Test Leader
5 1 (7.69%) Integration Tester
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Integration Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (100.00%) Spring
1 13 (100.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (76.92%) Distributed Architecture
1 10 (76.92%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (23.08%) Distributed Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) BDD
1 13 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 13 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 13 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 13 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 13 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 13 (100.00%) Microservices
1 13 (100.00%) Observability
1 13 (100.00%) TDD
1 13 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 13 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 13 (100.00%) Validation
2 10 (76.92%) Agile
2 10 (76.92%) Workshop Facilitation
3 7 (53.85%) Data Validation
3 7 (53.85%) Performance Testing
3 7 (53.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 7 (53.85%) Stress Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
4 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) SC Cleared
1 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Grafana
1 13 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 13 (100.00%) Prometheus