Selenium Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Selenium
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 109 98 126
Rank change year-on-year -11 +28 +31
Contract jobs citing Selenium 17 28 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.96% 1.34% 1.07%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.37% 9.49% 7.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 23 27
10th Percentile £407 £365 £413
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +3.97%
75th Percentile £615 £576 £669
90th Percentile £616 £668 £785
Central London median daily rate £450 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +3.97%

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 267 295 418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 15.08% 14.15% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 194 284
10th Percentile £356 £402 £400
25th Percentile £425 £489 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.24%
75th Percentile £650 £705 £725
90th Percentile £714 £786 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £595
% change year-on-year -2.65% -5.04% -0.83%
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 - -
Central London median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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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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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Selenium.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Selenium

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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 14 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Selenium.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Selenium

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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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) GCP
1 4 (23.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 4 (23.53%) Slack
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) Tricentis Tosca
4 1 (5.88%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.88%) WhatsApp
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) JIRA
2 4 (23.53%) GitLab
2 4 (23.53%) Gradle
2 4 (23.53%) Maven
2 4 (23.53%) SonarQube
3 2 (11.76%) Cucumber
3 2 (11.76%) Cypress.io
3 2 (11.76%) JMeter
3 2 (11.76%) Postman
4 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.88%) Git
4 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.88%) LoadRunner
4 1 (5.88%) REST Assured
4 1 (5.88%) TestNG
4 1 (5.88%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Back Office
4 1 (5.88%) Front Office
4 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) GCP Engineer
1 4 (23.53%) Test Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Tester
3 2 (11.76%) QA Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Automation Tester
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Developer in Test
4 1 (5.88%) QA Tester
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Tester
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Test Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Test Automation Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Test Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Test Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
1 1 (5.88%) CSS
1 1 (5.88%) Gherkin
1 1 (5.88%) HTML
1 1 (5.88%) JSON
1 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Cloud Native
2 4 (23.53%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Test Automation
2 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
3 8 (47.06%) DevOps
4 7 (41.18%) Agile
5 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (35.29%) Regression Testing
6 5 (29.41%) Software Testing
7 4 (23.53%) Application Packaging
7 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
7 4 (23.53%) Defect Tracking
7 4 (23.53%) GitOps
7 4 (23.53%) Incident Management
7 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (23.53%) Migration
7 4 (23.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (23.53%) Workshop Facilitation
8 3 (17.65%) Case Management
8 3 (17.65%) Defect Management
8 3 (17.65%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Java
2 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.76%) C#
3 2 (11.76%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) GxP
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Argo
1 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
1 4 (23.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Google
1 4 (23.53%) Salesforce
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.88%) UiPath