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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 264 305
Rank change year-on-year -17 +41 -73
Contract jobs citing Selenium 288 259 263
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.91% 0.91% 0.71%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.07% 6.83% 5.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 174 212
10th Percentile £313 £314 £360
25th Percentile £362 £390 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £469 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% +4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £562 £588 £538
90th Percentile £650 £650 £600
UK median daily rate £465 £450 £440
% change year-on-year +3.33% +2.27% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
75th Percentile £62.50 - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -

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 4,743 3,790 4,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.92% 13.29% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,287 2,378 3,196
10th Percentile £331 £334 £375
25th Percentile £409 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £644
90th Percentile £700 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.20% -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 73 198
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £43.59
25th Percentile £54.00 £54.63 £48.35
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.10 £75.20 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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

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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 27 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Selenium in England over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Selenium in England

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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 27 December 2025. 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 -6 125 £463 +8.94% 72
Midlands -2 56 £475 +17.28% 56
North of England -24 54 £374 -11.60% 86
West Midlands +2 45 £491 +15.53% 31
Yorkshire -24 31 £372 -11.43% 40
South East -48 25 £525 -16.00% 108
North West -14 17 £325 -13.33% 42
South West -8 12 £520 +9.47% 50
East Midlands -11 11 £360 -4.00% 22
North East -4 6 £460 -9.14% 4
East of England -18 6 - - 55
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 31 (10.76%) Confluence
2 17 (5.90%) SAS
3 8 (2.78%) Apache
3 8 (2.78%) JBoss
3 8 (2.78%) WebLogic
4 7 (2.43%) Appian
5 5 (1.74%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.69%) CMS
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.35%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.04%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Maximo
1 2 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 78 (27.08%) Azure
2 67 (23.26%) AWS
3 49 (17.01%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (10.42%) GitHub
5 23 (7.99%) GCP
6 22 (7.64%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (7.29%) OpenShift
8 12 (4.17%) Serverless
9 11 (3.82%) Tricentis Tosca
10 10 (3.47%) Apigee
11 9 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (2.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 8 (2.78%) SaaS
13 7 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (2.43%) Power Platform
14 6 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (2.08%) Azure AKS
15 5 (1.74%) Datadog
15 5 (1.74%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.39%) HTTP
2 2 (0.69%) Internet
3 1 (0.35%) DSL
3 1 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.86%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 8 (2.78%) Oracle Database
3 8 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.08%) MySQL
5 5 (1.74%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 3 (1.04%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.04%) DB2
6 3 (1.04%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.69%) Big Data
7 2 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.69%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.69%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 1 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.35%) Power BI
8 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 98 (34.03%) Cucumber
2 92 (31.94%) Jenkins
3 79 (27.43%) Git
4 76 (26.39%) JIRA
5 72 (25.00%) Postman
6 67 (23.26%) GitLab
7 64 (22.22%) JUnit
8 53 (18.40%) Cypress.io
8 53 (18.40%) REST Assured
9 34 (11.81%) JMeter
10 23 (7.99%) Bitbucket
10 23 (7.99%) SonarQube
11 22 (7.64%) Maven
12 21 (7.29%) WebDriver
13 19 (6.60%) TestRail
14 14 (4.86%) Zephyr
15 12 (4.17%) Gradle
15 12 (4.17%) TestNG
16 11 (3.82%) Mockito
17 10 (3.47%) Robot Framework
General
1 84 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 53 (18.40%) Finance
3 43 (14.93%) Public Sector
4 33 (11.46%) Banking
5 21 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.78%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.78%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.74%) Back Office
10 4 (1.39%) Retail
11 3 (1.04%) Automotive
11 3 (1.04%) Front Office
11 3 (1.04%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.69%) Marketing
12 2 (0.69%) Military
12 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.69%) Wholesale Banking
13 1 (0.35%) Billing
13 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 65 (22.57%) Tester
2 55 (19.10%) Test Engineer
3 43 (14.93%) Lead
4 41 (14.24%) Automation Tester
5 37 (12.85%) Senior
6 30 (10.42%) Developer
7 29 (10.07%) Test Automation Engineer
8 19 (6.60%) Analyst
9 18 (6.25%) QA Engineer
9 18 (6.25%) Test Leader
10 17 (5.90%) Test Specialist
11 16 (5.56%) Test Analyst
12 14 (4.86%) QA Leader
13 13 (4.51%) Java Developer
14 12 (4.17%) Automation Test Lead
15 10 (3.47%) Automation Engineer
15 10 (3.47%) Lead Test Engineer
15 10 (3.47%) Senior Tester
16 9 (3.13%) Java Engineer
16 9 (3.13%) Senior Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (25.35%) REST
2 60 (20.83%) Playwright
3 42 (14.58%) JSON
4 33 (11.46%) .NET
5 27 (9.38%) HTML
6 26 (9.03%) Spring
6 26 (9.03%) XML
7 24 (8.33%) Gherkin
7 24 (8.33%) RESTful
8 23 (7.99%) SOAP
9 22 (7.64%) pytest
10 21 (7.29%) React
11 19 (6.60%) Spring Boot
12 15 (5.21%) Hibernate
13 14 (4.86%) Node.js
13 14 (4.86%) OpenID
13 14 (4.86%) Web Services
14 11 (3.82%) CSS
14 11 (3.82%) SailPoint
15 9 (3.13%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (3.47%) Cloud Native
4 5 (1.74%) Private Cloud
5 4 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.39%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.04%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.04%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.04%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.69%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.69%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.35%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.35%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.35%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.35%) FMCG
8 1 (0.35%) iPhone
8 1 (0.35%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.21%) Linux
2 14 (4.86%) Unix
3 8 (2.78%) Windows
4 5 (1.74%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.04%) Android
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (80.90%) Test Automation
2 166 (57.64%) CI/CD
3 154 (53.47%) Agile
4 119 (41.32%) DevOps
5 83 (28.82%) Test Strategy
6 77 (26.74%) Test Scripting
7 70 (24.31%) Problem-Solving
8 68 (23.61%) Scrum
9 67 (23.26%) API Testing
10 62 (21.53%) Software Testing
11 54 (18.75%) Regression Testing
12 52 (18.06%) BDD
13 51 (17.71%) Continuous Improvement
14 47 (16.32%) Microservices
15 43 (14.93%) Performance Testing
16 40 (13.89%) Validation
17 39 (13.54%) Containerisation
18 38 (13.19%) Software Engineering
19 36 (12.50%) TDD
20 34 (11.81%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 127 (44.10%) Java
2 72 (25.00%) Python
3 62 (21.53%) SQL
4 55 (19.10%) JavaScript
5 45 (15.63%) C#
6 12 (4.17%) Scala
7 8 (2.78%) Apex Code
8 7 (2.43%) PHP
8 7 (2.43%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.74%) XPath
10 4 (1.39%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.39%) Ruby
10 4 (1.39%) VB.NET
11 3 (1.04%) Bash
11 3 (1.04%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.04%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.69%) C
12 2 (0.69%) Groovy
12 2 (0.69%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.35%) C++
Qualifications
1 77 (26.74%) Security Cleared
2 59 (20.49%) SC Cleared
3 29 (10.07%) ISTQB
4 18 (6.25%) Degree
5 12 (4.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 10 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.43%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.74%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 4 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.69%) MCP
11 1 (0.35%) HP APS
11 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (31.94%) QA
2 21 (7.29%) Accessibility
3 18 (6.25%) WCAG
4 4 (1.39%) GDPR
5 3 (1.04%) EU AI Act
5 3 (1.04%) NIST
5 3 (1.04%) SLA
6 2 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.69%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.35%) HL7
7 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.35%) MiFID
7 1 (0.35%) NCSC
7 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 66 (22.92%) Docker
2 3 (1.04%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 48 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.21%) Ansible
2 15 (5.21%) Terraform
3 14 (4.86%) Puppet
4 11 (3.82%) Grafana
5 6 (2.08%) Kibana
5 6 (2.08%) Progress Chef
6 5 (1.74%) Podman
6 5 (1.74%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.39%) HP ALM
8 3 (1.04%) Argo
9 2 (0.69%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.35%) logstash
10 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (8.33%) Oracle
2 17 (5.90%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.90%) Salesforce
3 10 (3.47%) MuleSoft
3 10 (3.47%) ServiceNow
3 10 (3.47%) Splunk
3 10 (3.47%) Veracode
4 8 (2.78%) webMethods
5 7 (2.43%) Cisco
6 6 (2.08%) UiPath
7 5 (1.74%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.74%) Google
8 4 (1.39%) HP
9 3 (1.04%) Adobe
9 3 (1.04%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.69%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.69%) IBM
10 2 (0.69%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.69%) Siebel
10 2 (0.69%) Workday