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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 53 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Selenium 18 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.83% 0.40% -
As % of the Development Applications category 10.71% 2.53% -
Number of daily rates quoted 18 1 0
10th Percentile £268 - -
25th Percentile £279 £284 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £293 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.68% - -
75th Percentile £417 £301 -
90th Percentile £464 - -
North West median daily rate £340 £425 £513
% change year-on-year -20.00% -17.07% +11.41%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 168 79 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 26.46% 15.64% 6.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 61 26
10th Percentile £311 £320 £453
25th Percentile £358 £379 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% -13.64% +29.41%
75th Percentile £488 £576 £584
90th Percentile £601 £700 £639
North West median daily rate £430 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -9.58% -9.52% -
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 £43.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year +73.40% -6.34% -38.43%

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

Selenium
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Selenium

Selenium
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in Cheshire over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in Cheshire

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DemandTrendContract 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 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 16 £333 -
Chester -5 1 £675 +130.77% 1
Macclesfield - 1 £325 -
Selenium
North West

Selenium
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 6 (33.33%) Confluence
2 4 (22.22%) CICS
3 2 (11.11%) WebSphere
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) AWS
1 2 (11.11%) BrowserStack
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
2 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
2 4 (22.22%) DB2
3 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (11.11%) Hadoop
3 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database
3 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (44.44%) Cucumber
3 7 (38.89%) Maven
4 6 (33.33%) JIRA
5 5 (27.78%) JUnit
6 4 (22.22%) IntelliJ
6 4 (22.22%) SonarQube
7 3 (16.67%) Bitbucket
7 3 (16.67%) Git
7 3 (16.67%) GitLab
7 3 (16.67%) Mockito
7 3 (16.67%) REST Assured
7 3 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (11.11%) Appium
8 2 (11.11%) CA Release Automation
8 2 (11.11%) Eclipse
8 2 (11.11%) Gradle
8 2 (11.11%) HP UFT
8 2 (11.11%) SOAtest
8 2 (11.11%) Subversion
General
1 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Finance
4 2 (11.11%) General Ledger
4 2 (11.11%) Retail Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Developer
1 4 (22.22%) Java Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Automation Tester
2 3 (16.67%) Tester
3 2 (11.11%) Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Automation Test Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Test Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Test Leader
4 1 (5.56%) Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Mainframe Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Mainframe Tester
4 1 (5.56%) Mobile Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) QA Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Test Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Hibernate
1 5 (27.78%) HTML
1 5 (27.78%) Spring Boot
2 4 (22.22%) CSS
2 4 (22.22%) J2EE
2 4 (22.22%) JSON
2 4 (22.22%) Node.js
2 4 (22.22%) Web Services
3 3 (16.67%) Jest
3 3 (16.67%) JPA
3 3 (16.67%) jQuery
3 3 (16.67%) React
3 3 (16.67%) Redux
3 3 (16.67%) REST
4 2 (11.11%) Kafka
4 2 (11.11%) Spring
4 2 (11.11%) Spring Integration
4 2 (11.11%) Spring MVC
4 2 (11.11%) XML
5 1 (5.56%) DOM
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Mainframe
2 4 (22.22%) VSAM
3 3 (16.67%) Mobile App
4 2 (11.11%) Data Structures
4 2 (11.11%) Mobile Payment
4 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
5 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Unix
2 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) Test Automation
2 11 (61.11%) CI/CD
3 10 (55.56%) Agile
4 6 (33.33%) DevOps
5 5 (27.78%) Scenario Testing
5 5 (27.78%) Test Strategy
6 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (22.22%) Microservices
6 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (22.22%) Scrum
6 4 (22.22%) TDD
7 3 (16.67%) API Testing
7 3 (16.67%) Code Quality
7 3 (16.67%) Test Scripting
8 2 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
8 2 (11.11%) API Development
8 2 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (11.11%) Impact Analysis
8 2 (11.11%) Performance Management
8 2 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 15 (83.33%) Java
2 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
2 5 (27.78%) SQL
3 4 (22.22%) COBOL
3 4 (22.22%) JCL
4 2 (11.11%) Python
4 2 (11.11%) REXX
5 1 (5.56%) Bash
5 1 (5.56%) C#
5 1 (5.56%) Ruby
5 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) ISTQB
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Progress Chef
2 2 (11.11%) Puppet
3 1 (5.56%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle
2 3 (16.67%) Veracode
3 2 (11.11%) Ab Initio
3 2 (11.11%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (11.11%) Informatica
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Parasoft
4 1 (5.56%) UiPath