Selenium Contract Job Trends in England

Selenium
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Selenium skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 252 257
Rank change year-on-year -82 +5 -25
Contract jobs citing Selenium 269 252 320
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 1.04% 0.88%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.40% 7.56% 7.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 169 247
10th Percentile £313 £263 £350
25th Percentile £363 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £515 £598
90th Percentile £638 £592 £688
UK median daily rate £450 £425 £497
% change year-on-year +5.88% -14.44% -4.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36.75
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year - +29.87% -48.67%
75th Percentile - - £40.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £64.25
% change year-on-year - -22.18% -14.33%

All Development Application Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,980 3,335 4,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.08% 13.77% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,285 2,248 2,904
10th Percentile £346 £343 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £609 £638
90th Percentile £688 £728 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 62 194
10th Percentile £36.13 £27.54 £32.10
25th Percentile £57.94 £48.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £59.13 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.16% -9.04% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.06 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.88 £78.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +5.69%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Selenium job vacancy trend in England

Selenium
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Selenium

Selenium
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in England

Selenium
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Selenium.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Selenium

Selenium
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the England region over the 6 months to 21 May 2026. 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 -38 121 £459 +8.52% 20
North of England -66 65 £450 -2.39% 14
Midlands -34 50 £425 +57.41% 13
West Midlands -19 46 £425 - 10
Yorkshire -50 35 £500 +5.26% 4
North West -38 23 £463 +6.44% 7
South East -80 20 £550 -12.00% 11
North East -17 12 £375 -23.08% 3
South West -31 10 £436 -16.90% 4
East Midlands -42 4 £373 +39.09% 3
East of England -25 3 £300 -38.46% 3
Selenium
UK

Selenium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 47 (17.47%) Confluence
2 5 (1.86%) SAS
3 4 (1.49%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.12%) Apache
5 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.37%) CMS
6 1 (0.37%) nginx
6 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.37%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.23%) Shopify
2 2 (0.74%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 95 (35.32%) Azure
2 89 (33.09%) AWS
3 58 (21.56%) GitHub
4 44 (16.36%) GCP
5 43 (15.99%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (10.04%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (4.46%) Apigee
7 12 (4.46%) BrowserStack
8 11 (4.09%) OpenShift
9 8 (2.97%) SaaS
10 6 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 6 (2.23%) Serverless
10 6 (2.23%) Tricentis Tosca
11 5 (1.86%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 4 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (1.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.12%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.12%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.37%) DSL
1 1 (0.37%) HTTP
1 1 (0.37%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (5.95%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.46%) Relational Database
4 10 (3.72%) Big Data
5 8 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.97%) MySQL
5 8 (2.97%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.60%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.23%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.12%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.12%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.12%) Power BI
9 2 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.74%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.74%) HBase
9 2 (0.74%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.37%) DB2
10 1 (0.37%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 107 (39.78%) Jenkins
2 96 (35.69%) JIRA
3 89 (33.09%) Cucumber
4 76 (28.25%) Git
5 72 (26.77%) GitLab
6 68 (25.28%) Postman
7 67 (24.91%) REST Assured
8 56 (20.82%) Cypress.io
9 54 (20.07%) JUnit
10 46 (17.10%) WebDriver
11 44 (16.36%) JMeter
12 19 (7.06%) Gatling
13 16 (5.95%) TestNG
13 16 (5.95%) Zephyr
14 15 (5.58%) Appium
14 15 (5.58%) Serenity BDD
14 15 (5.58%) SpecFlow
14 15 (5.58%) TestRail
15 12 (4.46%) NUnit
16 11 (4.09%) Robot Framework
General
1 74 (27.51%) Social Skills
2 47 (17.47%) Public Sector
3 44 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (13.75%) Finance
5 25 (9.29%) Banking
6 8 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (2.60%) Military
8 5 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.86%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.49%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.12%) Retail
11 2 (0.74%) Front Office
11 2 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.74%) Marketing
12 1 (0.37%) Back Office
12 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Law
12 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.37%) Police
12 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (25.65%) Test Engineer
2 50 (18.59%) Lead
3 44 (16.36%) Tester
4 42 (15.61%) Senior
5 37 (13.75%) QA Engineer
6 36 (13.38%) Test Automation Engineer
7 23 (8.55%) Automation Tester
7 23 (8.55%) Developer
8 22 (8.18%) Test Leader
9 20 (7.43%) Lead Test Engineer
10 16 (5.95%) Analyst
10 16 (5.95%) Automation Engineer
10 16 (5.95%) Automation Test Lead
11 15 (5.58%) QA Automation Engineer
11 15 (5.58%) Test Analyst
12 11 (4.09%) Senior Test Engineer
13 10 (3.72%) Salesforce Developer
13 10 (3.72%) Senior Tester
14 9 (3.35%) Software Engineer
15 8 (2.97%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (31.97%) Playwright
2 47 (17.47%) REST
3 40 (14.87%) Spring
4 26 (9.67%) Kafka
5 25 (9.29%) Spring Boot
6 23 (8.55%) Gherkin
7 22 (8.18%) .NET
8 19 (7.06%) pytest
8 19 (7.06%) WireMock
9 16 (5.95%) SailPoint
10 13 (4.83%) LDAP
10 13 (4.83%) Lightning Web Components
10 13 (4.83%) OpenID
11 11 (4.09%) Spring Cloud
12 10 (3.72%) RESTful
13 9 (3.35%) HTML
14 8 (2.97%) SOAP
15 7 (2.60%) Jest
15 7 (2.60%) Node.js
15 7 (2.60%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.06%) Product Ownership
2 15 (5.58%) Distributed Architecture
3 14 (5.20%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.20%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (1.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 5 (1.86%) Virtual Team
5 4 (1.49%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.12%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.12%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.12%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.12%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.74%) Clustering
7 2 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.74%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.74%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.37%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.60%) Windows
2 6 (2.23%) Linux
3 4 (1.49%) Android
3 4 (1.49%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.12%) Unix
5 2 (0.74%) VMS
6 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (89.22%) Test Automation
2 168 (62.45%) CI/CD
3 121 (44.98%) Agile
4 92 (34.20%) DevOps
5 83 (30.86%) Test Strategy
6 76 (28.25%) API Testing
7 70 (26.02%) BDD
8 60 (22.30%) Problem-Solving
9 58 (21.56%) Microservices
10 57 (21.19%) End-to-End Testing
11 54 (20.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 52 (19.33%) Performance Testing
12 52 (19.33%) Test Scripting
13 51 (18.96%) Validation
14 45 (16.73%) Regression Testing
15 41 (15.24%) Integration Testing
15 41 (15.24%) Scenario Testing
16 40 (14.87%) Observability
16 40 (14.87%) TDD
17 39 (14.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 128 (47.58%) Java
2 65 (24.16%) Python
3 57 (21.19%) SQL
4 52 (19.33%) JavaScript
5 49 (18.22%) C#
6 15 (5.58%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.72%) Apex Code
8 9 (3.35%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.23%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.23%) PHP
9 6 (2.23%) Ruby
10 5 (1.86%) Bash
11 3 (1.12%) Go
11 3 (1.12%) Scala
12 2 (0.74%) Groovy
12 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.74%) XPath
13 1 (0.37%) C++
13 1 (0.37%) COBOL
13 1 (0.37%) VB6
Qualifications
1 97 (36.06%) Security Cleared
2 79 (29.37%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.06%) ISTQB
4 16 (5.95%) Degree
5 11 (4.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.23%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.74%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.37%) CFA
10 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.37%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (42.38%) QA
2 33 (12.27%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.23%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.86%) WCAG
5 4 (1.49%) GDPR
6 3 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.12%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.37%) GxP
8 1 (0.37%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.37%) MiFID
8 1 (0.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 59 (21.93%) Docker
2 3 (1.12%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 3 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 51 (18.96%) Kubernetes
2 35 (13.01%) Grafana
3 33 (12.27%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.97%) HP ALM
5 7 (2.60%) Terraform
6 2 (0.74%) Ansible
6 2 (0.74%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.74%) Istio
6 2 (0.74%) Kibana
6 2 (0.74%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.37%) Podman
7 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.37%) Puppet
7 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (8.18%) Salesforce
2 20 (7.43%) Oracle
3 17 (6.32%) ServiceNow
4 14 (5.20%) Splunk
5 13 (4.83%) Microsoft
6 10 (3.72%) MuleSoft
7 8 (2.97%) HP
8 5 (1.86%) Google
8 5 (1.86%) SAP
9 4 (1.49%) Citrix
9 4 (1.49%) Micro Focus
9 4 (1.49%) Talend
10 3 (1.12%) Adobe
10 3 (1.12%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.12%) Databricks
10 3 (1.12%) OpenText
10 3 (1.12%) Workday
11 2 (0.74%) Avaloq
11 2 (0.74%) IBM
11 2 (0.74%) Red Hat