Selenium Contract Job Trends in Central London

Selenium
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Selenium skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 104 127
Rank change year-on-year -8 +23 +37
Contract jobs citing Selenium 18 29 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.92% 1.26% 0.99%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.27% 9.39% 7.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 24 27
10th Percentile £375 £366 £413
25th Percentile £413 £419 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +3.97%
75th Percentile £615 £575 £669
90th Percentile - £664 £785
London median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -5.21%

All Development Application Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 287 309 445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 14.71% 13.40% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 206 303
10th Percentile £354 £400 £400
25th Percentile £416 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £595
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -5.04% -0.83%
75th Percentile £638 £684 £701
90th Percentile £700 £785 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
London median hourly rate £45.00 £46.25 £67.50
% change year-on-year -2.70% -31.48% +55.87%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Selenium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in Central London

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Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Selenium.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Selenium

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in Central London over the 6 months to 14 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in Central London

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Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Selenium.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Selenium

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the Central London region over the 6 months to 14 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -11 17 £525 +5.00% 6
Selenium
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
1 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (22.22%) GCP
1 4 (22.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 4 (22.22%) Slack
2 2 (11.11%) Tricentis Tosca
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.56%) WhatsApp
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) GitLab
1 5 (27.78%) JIRA
2 4 (22.22%) Gradle
2 4 (22.22%) Maven
2 4 (22.22%) SonarQube
3 3 (16.67%) Cypress.io
3 3 (16.67%) Postman
4 2 (11.11%) Cucumber
4 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 2 (11.11%) JMeter
4 2 (11.11%) REST Assured
4 2 (11.11%) TestNG
5 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
5 1 (5.56%) Git
5 1 (5.56%) JUnit
5 1 (5.56%) LoadRunner
5 1 (5.56%) SoapUI
5 1 (5.56%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.56%) Back Office
4 1 (5.56%) Front Office
4 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Test Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) GCP Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Tester
4 2 (11.11%) QA Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Automation Tester
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Principal Test Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) QA Tester
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Test Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Test Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Test Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) .NET
1 1 (5.56%) CSS
1 1 (5.56%) Gherkin
1 1 (5.56%) HTML
1 1 (5.56%) JSON
1 1 (5.56%) Playwright
1 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Cloud Native
2 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Test Automation
2 10 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 9 (50.00%) DevOps
4 8 (44.44%) Agile
5 7 (38.89%) Regression Testing
6 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (27.78%) Software Testing
8 4 (22.22%) Application Packaging
8 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
8 4 (22.22%) Defect Tracking
8 4 (22.22%) GitOps
8 4 (22.22%) Incident Management
8 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (22.22%) Migration
8 4 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (22.22%) Test Scripting
8 4 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
9 3 (16.67%) API Testing
9 3 (16.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Java
2 3 (16.67%) C#
2 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 3 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) GxP
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Argo
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 4 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Google
1 4 (22.22%) Salesforce
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.56%) UiPath