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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 260 278
Rank change year-on-year -48 +18 -57
Contract jobs citing Selenium 289 236 297
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.82% 0.92% 0.80%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.85% 6.85% 6.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 153 241
10th Percentile £350 £310 £360
25th Percentile £383 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -15.09%
75th Percentile £552 £556 £550
90th Percentile £650 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +8.57% -2.78% -15.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 4,942 3,444 4,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.97% 13.37% 11.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,387 2,192 3,054
10th Percentile £340 £331 £363
25th Percentile £409 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £535
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -5.61% -6.96%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 58 199
10th Percentile £30.11 £39.75 £39.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.87 £48.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £80.00 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +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

Selenium
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in England over the 6 months to 26 February 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 February 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 +4 123 £456 +7.29% 15
Midlands -7 68 £477 +34.23% 7
West Midlands -6 62 £481 +30.00% 5
North of England -49 56 £472 +10.94% 9
Yorkshire -52 33 £475 +11.76% 6
South East -63 17 £550 -12.00% 12
North West -30 16 £463 +23.33% 3
South West -27 13 £518 +5.08% 3
North East -8 9 £350 -30.86%
East of England -15 7 £300 -42.86% 8
East Midlands -27 6 £360 +10.43% 2
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 36 (12.46%) Confluence
2 22 (7.61%) SAS
3 9 (3.11%) Apache
4 8 (2.77%) JBoss
4 8 (2.77%) WebLogic
5 5 (1.73%) Appian
6 4 (1.38%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.35%) CMS
9 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
9 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 3 (1.04%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.69%) Maximo
2 2 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.69%) Shopify
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 88 (30.45%) Azure
2 81 (28.03%) AWS
3 52 (17.99%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (15.57%) GitHub
5 30 (10.38%) GCP
6 27 (9.34%) OpenShift
7 25 (8.65%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (4.15%) Tricentis Tosca
9 11 (3.81%) Apigee
10 10 (3.46%) Serverless
11 9 (3.11%) BrowserStack
12 8 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (2.77%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (2.77%) SaaS
13 7 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
15 5 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (1.73%) Azure AKS
15 5 (1.73%) Power Platform
16 4 (1.38%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.38%) HTTP
2 1 (0.35%) DSL
2 1 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 16 (5.54%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (3.81%) Oracle Database
4 8 (2.77%) MySQL
4 8 (2.77%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.42%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 7 (2.42%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.38%) Big Data
6 4 (1.38%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.04%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 2 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.69%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.35%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.35%) DB2
9 1 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.35%) Power BI
9 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.35%) SAS EBI
9 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 108 (37.37%) Jenkins
2 102 (35.29%) Cucumber
3 99 (34.26%) Git
4 86 (29.76%) Postman
5 84 (29.07%) GitLab
6 82 (28.37%) JIRA
7 70 (24.22%) JUnit
8 64 (22.15%) REST Assured
9 60 (20.76%) Cypress.io
10 41 (14.19%) JMeter
11 33 (11.42%) WebDriver
12 19 (6.57%) TestRail
13 15 (5.19%) SonarQube
14 14 (4.84%) Maven
15 13 (4.50%) Gatling
15 13 (4.50%) SpecFlow
16 11 (3.81%) Mockito
17 10 (3.46%) Bitbucket
17 10 (3.46%) Robot Framework
17 10 (3.46%) Serenity BDD
General
1 92 (31.83%) Social Skills
2 47 (16.26%) Public Sector
3 37 (12.80%) Finance
4 30 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.27%) Banking
6 10 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.46%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.08%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.73%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.38%) Front Office
9 4 (1.38%) Military
10 3 (1.04%) Back Office
10 3 (1.04%) Retail
11 2 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.69%) Marketing
11 2 (0.69%) Police
11 2 (0.69%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (20.42%) Test Engineer
2 56 (19.38%) Lead
3 55 (19.03%) Tester
4 44 (15.22%) Senior
5 35 (12.11%) Automation Tester
6 27 (9.34%) Developer
7 26 (9.00%) Test Automation Engineer
8 24 (8.30%) Test Leader
9 22 (7.61%) Test Specialist
10 21 (7.27%) QA Engineer
11 17 (5.88%) Automation Test Lead
11 17 (5.88%) Lead Test Engineer
12 13 (4.50%) Analyst
12 13 (4.50%) QA Leader
13 12 (4.15%) Senior Tester
13 12 (4.15%) Test Analyst
13 12 (4.15%) Test Automation Specialist
14 10 (3.46%) Java Engineer
14 10 (3.46%) Senior Automation Tester
15 9 (3.11%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (26.99%) Playwright
2 73 (25.26%) REST
3 42 (14.53%) Spring
4 36 (12.46%) JSON
5 32 (11.07%) pytest
6 30 (10.38%) .NET
7 27 (9.34%) Gherkin
8 24 (8.30%) HTML
8 24 (8.30%) Spring Boot
8 24 (8.30%) XML
9 20 (6.92%) React
10 18 (6.23%) OpenID
11 17 (5.88%) SOAP
12 16 (5.54%) SailPoint
12 16 (5.54%) WireMock
13 14 (4.84%) RESTful
14 13 (4.50%) LDAP
14 13 (4.50%) Web Services
15 12 (4.15%) Lightning Web Components
16 11 (3.81%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.84%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (2.77%) Cloud Native
3 8 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.08%) Distributed Architecture
4 6 (2.08%) Virtual Team
5 5 (1.73%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.73%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (1.38%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.04%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.69%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.69%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.69%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.35%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.35%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.35%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.35%) iPhone
9 1 (0.35%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.84%) Linux
2 13 (4.50%) Unix
3 4 (1.38%) Android
4 3 (1.04%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.04%) Windows
5 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (82.01%) Test Automation
2 183 (63.32%) CI/CD
3 152 (52.60%) Agile
4 119 (41.18%) DevOps
5 94 (32.53%) Test Strategy
6 80 (27.68%) API Testing
7 76 (26.30%) Test Scripting
8 75 (25.95%) Problem-Solving
9 64 (22.15%) BDD
9 64 (22.15%) Scrum
10 61 (21.11%) Microservices
11 58 (20.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 58 (20.07%) Software Testing
12 51 (17.65%) Validation
13 50 (17.30%) Regression Testing
14 40 (13.84%) Containerisation
14 40 (13.84%) TDD
15 37 (12.80%) Performance Testing
15 37 (12.80%) Stakeholder Management
16 36 (12.46%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 132 (45.67%) Java
2 71 (24.57%) Python
3 64 (22.15%) JavaScript
4 56 (19.38%) SQL
5 50 (17.30%) C#
6 16 (5.54%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.11%) Apex Code
7 9 (3.11%) Scala
8 6 (2.08%) PHP
9 5 (1.73%) Bash
9 5 (1.73%) XPath
10 4 (1.38%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.38%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.04%) Go
11 3 (1.04%) Groovy
11 3 (1.04%) Ruby
11 3 (1.04%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.69%) C
12 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 100 (34.60%) Security Cleared
2 82 (28.37%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.00%) ISTQB
4 13 (4.50%) Degree
5 12 (4.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 8 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.73%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.73%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.35%) CFA
8 1 (0.35%) HP APS
8 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (34.26%) QA
2 29 (10.03%) Accessibility
3 18 (6.23%) WCAG
4 6 (2.08%) GDPR
5 4 (1.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.04%) EU AI Act
6 3 (1.04%) NIST
7 2 (0.69%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.69%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.35%) HL7
8 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.35%) MiFID
8 1 (0.35%) NCSC
8 1 (0.35%) SLA
8 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 71 (24.57%) Docker
2 3 (1.04%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 60 (20.76%) Kubernetes
2 27 (9.34%) Grafana
3 19 (6.57%) Prometheus
4 12 (4.15%) Puppet
5 10 (3.46%) Ansible
5 10 (3.46%) Terraform
6 7 (2.42%) Kibana
7 6 (2.08%) HP ALM
8 4 (1.38%) Podman
8 4 (1.38%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.69%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.69%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (6.57%) Oracle
2 17 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 16 (5.54%) Salesforce
4 12 (4.15%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.15%) Splunk
5 9 (3.11%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.77%) webMethods
7 6 (2.08%) HP
7 6 (2.08%) Veracode
8 5 (1.73%) Cisco
8 5 (1.73%) Google
9 4 (1.38%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.38%) Workday
10 3 (1.04%) Adobe
10 3 (1.04%) SAP
10 3 (1.04%) UiPath
11 2 (0.69%) Avaloq
11 2 (0.69%) IBM
11 2 (0.69%) PagerDuty
12 1 (0.35%) AppDynamics