WebDriver Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Selenium WebDriver
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 135 125 120
Rank change year-on-year -10 -5 +41
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 2 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.086% 0.054% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.76% 0.37% 1.08%
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% -
75th Percentile £600 £438 £434
90th Percentile £623 - £444
Central London median daily rate £550 £425 £408
% change year-on-year +29.41% +4.29% -9.44%

All Development Application Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 263 268 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.27% 14.54% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 176 189
10th Percentile £409 £345 £404
25th Percentile £463 £421 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -1.74%
75th Percentile £657 £644 £690
90th Percentile £738 £722 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 0
10th Percentile £18.17 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% - -
75th Percentile £20.25 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £37.20 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -74.00% +127.27% -

WebDriver
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

WebDriver job vacancy trend 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 WebDriver.

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for WebDriver in the City of London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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