Selenium Contracts in Cheshire

Selenium
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Selenium skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Selenium over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 57 57
Rank change year-on-year +7 0 -6
Contract jobs citing Selenium 8 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.78% 0.20% 1.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.09% 1.52% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 4
10th Percentile £255 - -
25th Percentile £304 £284 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £293 £425
Median % change year-on-year +30.26% -31.18% -15.00%
75th Percentile £447 £301 £456
90th Percentile £464 - £488
North West median daily rate £447 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.89% -5.00% +18.34%

All Development Application Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 88 66 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 19.60% 13.10% 19.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 53 87
10th Percentile £325 £311 £326
25th Percentile £358 £376 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.71% -1.10% +17.10%
75th Percentile £492 £583 £575
90th Percentile £582 £613 £627
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -10.00% -1.28% +1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.75 - -
Median hourly rate £83.50 - -
75th Percentile £85.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £75.00 £52.94 £49.88
% change year-on-year +41.67% +6.15% +17.35%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in Cheshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Selenium in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Selenium in Cheshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Knutsford - 8 £381 - 3
Selenium
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) CICS
1 2 (25.00%) Confluence
1 2 (25.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (25.00%) DB2
1 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (50.00%) JIRA
3 2 (25.00%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Gradle
3 2 (25.00%) HP UFT
3 2 (25.00%) IntelliJ
3 2 (25.00%) JUnit
3 2 (25.00%) Maven
3 2 (25.00%) NetBeans
3 2 (25.00%) SOAtest
3 2 (25.00%) Subversion
4 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
4 1 (12.50%) Git
4 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (62.50%) Banking
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (25.00%) General Ledger
3 2 (25.00%) Retail Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Test Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Mainframe Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) J2EE
1 4 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) jQuery
2 2 (25.00%) JSON
2 2 (25.00%) Kafka
2 2 (25.00%) Spring
2 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (25.00%) Spring Integration
2 2 (25.00%) Spring MVC
2 2 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (12.50%) Ajax
3 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (12.50%) Bootstrap
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) DOM
3 1 (12.50%) HTML5
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Mainframe
2 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (25.00%) Mobile Payment
2 2 (25.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Test Automation
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) API Development
4 2 (25.00%) API Testing
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
4 2 (25.00%) Defect Management
4 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 2 (25.00%) Test Planning
4 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) COBOL
2 2 (25.00%) JCL
2 2 (25.00%) REXX
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Ruby
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Progress Chef
2 2 (25.00%) HP ALM
2 2 (25.00%) Puppet
3 1 (12.50%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Ab Initio
1 2 (25.00%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (25.00%) HP
1 2 (25.00%) Informatica
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
1 2 (25.00%) Parasoft
1 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft