WebDriver Contract Job Trends in Central London

Selenium WebDriver
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring WebDriver skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 133 129
Rank change year-on-year -9 -4 +37
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 2 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.079% 0.049% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.71% 0.34% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £478 - £369
25th Percentile £500 £413 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £408
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% +4.29% -9.44%
75th Percentile £600 £438 £434
90th Percentile £623 - £444
London median daily rate £442 £425 £440
% change year-on-year +4.06% -3.41% -5.38%

All Development Application Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 280 291 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.05% 14.31% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 194 199
10th Percentile £412 £359 £400
25th Percentile £463 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.23%
75th Percentile £658 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £709 £775
London median daily rate £534 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.71% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 1
10th Percentile £18.56 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% +127.27% -
75th Percentile £52.88 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £77.95 £86.25 -
London median hourly rate £49.00 £45.00 £35.29
% change year-on-year +8.89% +27.53% -49.59%

WebDriver
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

WebDriver job vacancy trend in Central London

WebDriver
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

WebDriver
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebDriver in Central London over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for WebDriver in Central London

WebDriver
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 WebDriver within the Central London region over the 6 months to 20 August 2026. 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 -10 2 £550 +29.41% 1
WebDriver
London

WebDriver
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Appium
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer in Test
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Test Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Guidewire
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft