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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 266 272
Rank change year-on-year -50 +6 -54
Contract jobs citing Selenium 284 221 314
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 0.91% 0.83%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.61% 6.75% 7.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 152 242
10th Percentile £350 £272 £358
25th Percentile £385 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £455
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -6.49% -15.24%
75th Percentile £538 £573 £573
90th Percentile £639 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +8.57% -2.78% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £90.00
% change year-on-year - - +26.32%

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 5,065 3,276 4,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.49% 13.50% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,411 2,185 2,926
10th Percentile £340 £340 £360
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £588 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 66 170
10th Percentile £39.37 £26.15 £37.50
25th Percentile £59.25 £52.26 £48.85
Median hourly rate £67.50 £63.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.72% +1.20% +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.00 £70.94
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.36 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in England over the 6 months to 26 March 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 26 March 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 -16 125 £463 +8.82% 28
Midlands -8 69 £475 +42.22% 10
West Midlands -5 66 £475 +11.76% 6
North of England -60 51 £463 +8.82% 17
Yorkshire -47 31 £500 +21.21% 6
South East -74 18 £575 -8.00% 18
North West -40 16 £463 +15.05% 10
South West -27 12 £488 -5.80% 4
North East -10 6 £350 -30.86% 1
East of England -27 5 £300 -42.86% 10
East Midlands -36 3 £368 +81.93% 4
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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 41 (14.44%) Confluence
2 22 (7.75%) SAS
3 5 (1.76%) Apache
4 4 (1.41%) JBoss
4 4 (1.41%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.70%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.35%) CMS
7 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.41%) Shopify
2 3 (1.06%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.70%) Maximo
4 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 99 (34.86%) Azure
2 85 (29.93%) AWS
3 53 (18.66%) Azure DevOps
4 52 (18.31%) GitHub
5 40 (14.08%) GCP
6 29 (10.21%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (9.15%) OpenShift
8 13 (4.58%) Apigee
9 9 (3.17%) BrowserStack
10 8 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (2.82%) SaaS
10 8 (2.82%) Serverless
11 7 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (2.46%) Tricentis Tosca
12 5 (1.76%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 4 (1.41%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (1.41%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.06%) HTTP
2 1 (0.35%) DSL
2 1 (0.35%) VoIP
2 1 (0.35%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.23%) MongoDB
3 11 (3.87%) Oracle Database
4 8 (2.82%) MySQL
5 7 (2.46%) Big Data
5 7 (2.46%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.46%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 7 (2.46%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.41%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.06%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 2 (0.70%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.70%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.35%) DB2
9 1 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.35%) Power BI
9 1 (0.35%) SAS EBI
9 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 110 (38.73%) Jenkins
2 102 (35.92%) Git
3 98 (34.51%) Cucumber
4 94 (33.10%) JIRA
5 83 (29.23%) GitLab
6 72 (25.35%) Postman
7 70 (24.65%) JUnit
8 58 (20.42%) REST Assured
9 54 (19.01%) Cypress.io
10 44 (15.49%) JMeter
11 40 (14.08%) WebDriver
12 21 (7.39%) TestRail
13 15 (5.28%) SpecFlow
14 14 (4.93%) Appium
15 13 (4.58%) Maven
15 13 (4.58%) Zephyr
16 11 (3.87%) Mockito
17 10 (3.52%) Gatling
17 10 (3.52%) Robot Framework
17 10 (3.52%) TestNG
General
1 95 (33.45%) Social Skills
2 45 (15.85%) Public Sector
3 39 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (13.73%) Finance
4 23 (8.10%) Banking
5 9 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.11%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.41%) Front Office
8 4 (1.41%) Military
9 3 (1.06%) Back Office
9 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.06%) Marketing
9 3 (1.06%) Retail
9 3 (1.06%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.70%) Police
11 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 62 (21.83%) Test Engineer
2 55 (19.37%) Lead
3 52 (18.31%) Senior
4 49 (17.25%) Tester
5 31 (10.92%) Automation Tester
5 31 (10.92%) QA Engineer
6 28 (9.86%) Test Automation Engineer
7 27 (9.51%) Developer
8 26 (9.15%) Test Leader
9 22 (7.75%) Test Specialist
10 19 (6.69%) Automation Test Lead
11 15 (5.28%) Lead Test Engineer
12 14 (4.93%) Senior Tester
13 13 (4.58%) Analyst
13 13 (4.58%) Automation Engineer
14 12 (4.23%) QA Automation Engineer
14 12 (4.23%) Senior Automation Tester
14 12 (4.23%) Senior Test Engineer
14 12 (4.23%) Test Analyst
14 12 (4.23%) Test Automation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (28.17%) Playwright
2 67 (23.59%) REST
3 43 (15.14%) Spring
4 31 (10.92%) Gherkin
4 31 (10.92%) pytest
5 28 (9.86%) .NET
6 22 (7.75%) JSON
7 21 (7.39%) Spring Boot
8 18 (6.34%) HTML
8 18 (6.34%) OpenID
8 18 (6.34%) WireMock
9 16 (5.63%) React
9 16 (5.63%) SailPoint
10 14 (4.93%) Lightning Web Components
10 14 (4.93%) XML
11 13 (4.58%) LDAP
11 13 (4.58%) RESTful
11 13 (4.58%) Web Services
12 12 (4.23%) SOAP
13 10 (3.52%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.99%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.23%) Distributed Architecture
2 12 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (2.46%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.76%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 5 (1.76%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.06%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (1.06%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.06%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.70%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.70%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.70%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.35%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.35%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.35%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.87%) Linux
2 9 (3.17%) Unix
3 7 (2.46%) Windows
4 4 (1.41%) Android
5 2 (0.70%) VMS
6 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (85.56%) Test Automation
2 175 (61.62%) CI/CD
3 150 (52.82%) Agile
4 109 (38.38%) DevOps
5 93 (32.75%) Test Strategy
6 77 (27.11%) Problem-Solving
7 74 (26.06%) API Testing
8 69 (24.30%) Test Scripting
9 62 (21.83%) BDD
10 60 (21.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 59 (20.77%) Validation
12 57 (20.07%) Regression Testing
13 55 (19.37%) Microservices
14 54 (19.01%) Scrum
15 50 (17.61%) Software Testing
16 43 (15.14%) Stakeholder Management
17 42 (14.79%) End-to-End Testing
18 40 (14.08%) Performance Testing
19 39 (13.73%) TDD
20 37 (13.03%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 123 (43.31%) Java
2 73 (25.70%) Python
3 58 (20.42%) C#
4 57 (20.07%) JavaScript
4 57 (20.07%) SQL
5 16 (5.63%) TypeScript
6 11 (3.87%) Apex Code
7 8 (2.82%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.11%) PHP
9 5 (1.76%) Bash
9 5 (1.76%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.76%) Scala
9 5 (1.76%) XPath
10 4 (1.41%) Ruby
11 3 (1.06%) Go
11 3 (1.06%) Groovy
11 3 (1.06%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.70%) C
12 2 (0.70%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 100 (35.21%) Security Cleared
2 84 (29.58%) SC Cleared
3 29 (10.21%) ISTQB
4 16 (5.63%) Degree
5 10 (3.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 9 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 3 (1.06%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.35%) CFA
11 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.35%) HP APS
11 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (37.68%) QA
2 22 (7.75%) Accessibility
3 12 (4.23%) WCAG
4 5 (1.76%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.41%) GDPR
5 4 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.06%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 3 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.06%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.35%) GxP
7 1 (0.35%) HL7
7 1 (0.35%) MiFID
7 1 (0.35%) NCSC
7 1 (0.35%) SLA
7 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 61 (21.48%) Docker
2 3 (1.06%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 3 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (21.83%) Kubernetes
2 33 (11.62%) Grafana
3 25 (8.80%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.82%) HP ALM
5 7 (2.46%) Kibana
5 7 (2.46%) Terraform
6 6 (2.11%) Puppet
7 4 (1.41%) Ansible
8 2 (0.70%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.70%) Podman
8 2 (0.70%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.70%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (7.04%) Salesforce
2 18 (6.34%) Oracle
3 17 (5.99%) ServiceNow
4 13 (4.58%) Microsoft
5 11 (3.87%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.82%) HP
6 8 (2.82%) Splunk
7 6 (2.11%) Google
8 4 (1.41%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.41%) Citrix
8 4 (1.41%) SAP
8 4 (1.41%) webMethods
8 4 (1.41%) Workday
9 3 (1.06%) Adobe
9 3 (1.06%) Micro Focus
9 3 (1.06%) UiPath
10 2 (0.70%) Avaloq
10 2 (0.70%) Foundry
10 2 (0.70%) IBM
10 2 (0.70%) OpenText