Selenium Contracts in the City of London

Selenium
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 101 78 142
Rank change year-on-year -23 +64 -13
Contract jobs citing Selenium 18 49 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.03% 2.23% 0.99%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.95% 17.95% 6.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 40 31
10th Percentile - £400 £413
25th Percentile £413 £445 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £438 £619 £763
90th Percentile - £688 £875
Central London median daily rate £425 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -15.00% -13.04% +9.52%

All Development Application Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 259 273 555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 14.75% 12.43% 15.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 185 360
10th Percentile £413 £406 £425
25th Percentile £449 £463 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £605
Median % change year-on-year - -9.05% +3.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £750
90th Percentile £725 £750 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.75 £39.06
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -11.82% -10.57%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £40.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -25.91% -10.57%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Selenium in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Selenium in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Selenium in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Selenium in the City of London

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Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London 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
London Bridge - 1 £425 -
Selenium
Central London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
1 1 (5.56%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (16.67%) GitHub
2 3 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (16.67%) Tricentis Tosca
3 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
4 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.56%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (5.56%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.56%) Delta Lake
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
1 1 (5.56%) SAP Data Services
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (61.11%) Postman
2 10 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 10 (55.56%) JIRA
3 9 (50.00%) REST Assured
4 7 (38.89%) Git
5 3 (16.67%) Cucumber
5 3 (16.67%) Cypress.io
5 3 (16.67%) JMeter
6 2 (11.11%) LoadRunner
6 2 (11.11%) WebDriver
7 1 (5.56%) Appium
7 1 (5.56%) Gatling
7 1 (5.56%) GitLab
7 1 (5.56%) Hamcrest
7 1 (5.56%) JUnit
7 1 (5.56%) PHPUnit
7 1 (5.56%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
7 1 (5.56%) SpecFlow
7 1 (5.56%) WebStorm
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Senior
2 7 (38.89%) Python Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Test Engineer
3 6 (33.33%) Senior Test Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) QA Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Developer in Test
5 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Automation Tester
6 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Lead
6 1 (5.56%) QA Leader
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior QA Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Test Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) pytest
1 8 (44.44%) REST
2 2 (11.11%) CSS
2 2 (11.11%) Gherkin
2 2 (11.11%) HTML
2 2 (11.11%) JSON
3 1 (5.56%) Jest
3 1 (5.56%) Pandas
3 1 (5.56%) Playwright
3 1 (5.56%) PySpark
3 1 (5.56%) Web Services
3 1 (5.56%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
1 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) Test Automation
2 13 (72.22%) CI/CD
3 12 (66.67%) Test Scripting
3 12 (66.67%) Test Strategy
4 11 (61.11%) API Testing
5 10 (55.56%) BDD
6 7 (38.89%) Open Source
7 5 (27.78%) Agile
7 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (22.22%) DevOps
9 3 (16.67%) Code Quality
9 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (16.67%) Performance Testing
9 3 (16.67%) Regression Testing
9 3 (16.67%) Scrum
9 3 (16.67%) Software Testing
9 3 (16.67%) Validation
10 2 (11.11%) Data Validation
10 2 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
10 2 (11.11%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
3 4 (22.22%) C#
4 3 (16.67%) Java
5 1 (5.56%) PHP
5 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (44.44%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) GxP
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Databricks
2 1 (5.56%) Informatica
2 1 (5.56%) SAP
2 1 (5.56%) Splunk