Selenium Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Selenium
South West > Bristol

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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 - 76
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Selenium 3 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.22% - 0.89%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.17% - 6.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £391
25th Percentile £428 - £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 - £481
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £443 - £509
90th Percentile - - £538
South West median daily rate £436 £600 £481
% change year-on-year -27.29% +24.68% -6.10%

All Development Application Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 138 68 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 10.25% 10.63% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 44 61
10th Percentile £390 £327 £413
25th Percentile £436 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £468 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.30% -15.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £590
90th Percentile £653 £646 £650
South West median daily rate £500 £563 £538
% change year-on-year -11.11% +4.65% +4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 3 58
10th Percentile £48.25 £68.25 -
25th Percentile - £73.13 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £82.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% +17.86% +13.82%
75th Percentile £68.00 £83.36 -
90th Percentile - £83.59 £77.50
South West median hourly rate £68.00 £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.33% +7.14% +13.82%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Selenium job vacancy trend in Bristol

Selenium
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Selenium.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Selenium

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Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Selenium.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Selenium

Selenium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) HP UFT
2 1 (33.33%) NUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Retail Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) GCP DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Flask
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Descriptive Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Due Diligence
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Review
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Istio
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Micro Focus