Selenium Contracts in Edinburgh

Selenium
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 59 60 63
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 +29
Contract jobs citing Selenium 8 12 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.28% 1.47% 3.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.27% 8.96% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 42
10th Percentile - - £350
25th Percentile - £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -21.05% +8.57%
75th Percentile £469 £519 £550
90th Percentile £510 £638 £623
Scotland median daily rate £375 £425 £475
% change year-on-year -11.76% -10.53% +7.04%

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 110 134 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 17.60% 16.44% 24.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 101 264
10th Percentile £344 £363 £403
25th Percentile £413 £415 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £483 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.68% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £523
90th Percentile £588 £634 £557
Scotland median daily rate £463 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £27.80 -
25th Percentile - £30.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £35.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -33.33% -1.87%
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £39.92 £40.94 £60.55
% change year-on-year -2.50% -32.39% +15.33%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Selenium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in Edinburgh

Selenium
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Selenium in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Selenium in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) IaaS
2 3 (37.50%) PaaS
2 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
2 3 (37.50%) PowerApps
2 3 (37.50%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Hive
1 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 4 (50.00%) Git
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
1 4 (50.00%) Postman
2 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
2 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) Subversion
2 3 (37.50%) TeamCity
2 3 (37.50%) WebDriver
3 2 (25.00%) JUnit
4 1 (12.50%) GitLab
4 1 (12.50%) MSTest
4 1 (12.50%) NUnit
4 1 (12.50%) Ranorex
4 1 (12.50%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Banking
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
3 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) QA Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Automation Tester
2 3 (37.50%) Tester
3 2 (25.00%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Security Tester
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Test Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) Playwright
3 1 (12.50%) JSON
3 1 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) SOAP
3 1 (12.50%) WebSockets
3 1 (12.50%) XML
3 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Client/Server
1 3 (37.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Kanban
3 4 (50.00%) Migration
3 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (37.50%) ATDD
4 3 (37.50%) BDD
4 3 (37.50%) Feature Driven Development
4 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) SOA
4 3 (37.50%) Software Delivery
4 3 (37.50%) TDD
4 3 (37.50%) Validation
4 3 (37.50%) V-Model
4 3 (37.50%) Waterfall
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (12.50%) ETRM
6 1 (12.50%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) C#
2 4 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (37.50%) C++
3 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
3 3 (37.50%) VBA
3 3 (37.50%) VBScript
4 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) ISEB
1 3 (37.50%) ISTQB
1 3 (37.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Informatica
2 1 (12.50%) StreamSets