Selenium Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Selenium
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Selenium skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 64 72
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +24
Contract jobs citing Selenium 2 7 9
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.33% 1.05% 0.98%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.63% 6.73% 6.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 7
10th Percentile - - £378
25th Percentile - £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile - £438 £444
90th Percentile - £472 £450
Scotland median daily rate £523 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +30.63% -5.88% -8.11%

All Development Application Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 123 104 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 20.47% 15.66% 15.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 64 99
10th Percentile £354 £380 £386
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £458 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% -3.68% +3.83%
75th Percentile £525 £513 £538
90th Percentile £554 £538 £589
Scotland median daily rate £474 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.33% -10.00% +6.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £55.13 - £37.25
25th Percentile £57.19 - £40.63
Median hourly rate £63.75 - £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.52%
75th Percentile £69.69 - £55.63
90th Percentile £71.38 - £59.75
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 - £59.03
% change year-on-year - - +12.44%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Selenium relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Selenium job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Selenium
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Selenium

Selenium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (50.00%) QA Officer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA