Selenium Contracts in England

Selenium
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 262 232
Rank change year-on-year -6 -30 +13
Contract jobs citing Selenium 248 339 526
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.93% 0.91% 1.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.59% 7.40% 7.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 256 399
10th Percentile £257 £350 £363
25th Percentile £315 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £500 £596 £644
90th Percentile £577 £681 £738
UK median daily rate £424 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -15.30% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 10
10th Percentile £47.75 £37.33 £51.25
25th Percentile - £38.19 £56.88
Median hourly rate £50.00 £41.75 £71.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% -41.40% +31.34%
75th Percentile - £45.69 £75.00
90th Percentile - £46.78 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £71.25
% change year-on-year +11.11% -36.84% +24.73%

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 3,766 4,584 6,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.18% 12.32% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,567 3,060 4,799
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £409 £425 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £637 £675
90th Percentile £707 £730 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 234 208
10th Percentile £28.41 £33.02 £46.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £52.50 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +16.82%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.83 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +15.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Selenium in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Selenium in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 6 July 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 -31 110 £425 -13.27% 271
North of England +10 55 £425 - 118
South East +14 39 £450 -23.24% 118
Midlands +37 33 £270 -60.00% 65
Yorkshire +10 31 £475 +8.57% 48
East Midlands +23 25 £268 -29.47% 32
North West +15 21 £340 -20.00% 65
West Midlands +9 8 £384 -43.19% 33
South West +26 5 £600 +24.68% 39
North East -6 3 £385 -9.41% 5
East of England - 3 £325 - 80
Selenium
UK

Selenium
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 26 (10.48%) Confluence
2 5 (2.02%) CICS
3 3 (1.21%) JBoss
3 3 (1.21%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.81%) nginx
4 2 (0.81%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.81%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.81%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 60 (24.19%) Azure
2 55 (22.18%) AWS
3 36 (14.52%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (6.45%) GitHub
5 8 (3.23%) BrowserStack
6 7 (2.82%) Serverless
7 6 (2.42%) GCP
7 6 (2.42%) SaaS
8 5 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.61%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.61%) Tricentis Tosca
10 3 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.81%) Azure Functions
11 2 (0.81%) NuGet
11 2 (0.81%) PaaS
11 2 (0.81%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.21%) SSH
2 2 (0.81%) Internet
2 2 (0.81%) SAN
3 1 (0.40%) Network Security
3 1 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.05%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.42%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.02%) DB2
5 4 (1.61%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.61%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.21%) Neo4j
6 3 (1.21%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.21%) Power BI
7 2 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.81%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.81%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.81%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.40%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 90 (36.29%) Jenkins
2 86 (34.68%) JIRA
3 80 (32.26%) Cucumber
4 59 (23.79%) Postman
5 56 (22.58%) Git
6 48 (19.35%) GitLab
7 42 (16.94%) REST Assured
8 41 (16.53%) JUnit
9 40 (16.13%) JMeter
10 31 (12.50%) Maven
11 27 (10.89%) SonarQube
12 26 (10.48%) Cypress.io
13 19 (7.66%) Appium
13 19 (7.66%) TestNG
13 19 (7.66%) WebDriver
14 16 (6.45%) IntelliJ
15 15 (6.05%) SpecFlow
16 14 (5.65%) Bitbucket
17 13 (5.24%) HP UFT
18 12 (4.84%) Gradle
General
1 83 (33.47%) Social Skills
2 57 (22.98%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (12.50%) Finance
4 28 (11.29%) Banking
5 17 (6.85%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.23%) Law
7 7 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.82%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.02%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.61%) Electronics
9 4 (1.61%) Marketing
9 4 (1.61%) Police
10 3 (1.21%) Billing
10 3 (1.21%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.81%) Back Office
11 2 (0.81%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.81%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (25.00%) Tester
2 52 (20.97%) Test Engineer
3 43 (17.34%) Automation Tester
4 33 (13.31%) Developer
5 22 (8.87%) QA Engineer
6 20 (8.06%) Analyst
7 19 (7.66%) Lead
8 18 (7.26%) Java Developer
8 18 (7.26%) Test Analyst
8 18 (7.26%) Test Automation Engineer
9 16 (6.45%) Senior
10 13 (5.24%) QA Tester
11 12 (4.84%) Automation Engineer
12 11 (4.44%) Java Engineer
13 10 (4.03%) Software Engineer
13 10 (4.03%) Test Leader
14 9 (3.63%) Java Software Engineer
14 9 (3.63%) Senior Test Engineer
14 9 (3.63%) Software Test Engineer
15 8 (3.23%) Automation Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (18.55%) REST
2 34 (13.71%) Playwright
3 23 (9.27%) HTML
4 17 (6.85%) .NET
5 16 (6.45%) pytest
5 16 (6.45%) React
5 16 (6.45%) Spring Boot
5 16 (6.45%) Web Services
6 15 (6.05%) jQuery
7 14 (5.65%) CSS
8 13 (5.24%) Java EE
9 12 (4.84%) Hibernate
9 12 (4.84%) Node.js
10 11 (4.44%) Jest
10 11 (4.44%) Kafka
11 10 (4.03%) Redux
11 10 (4.03%) RESTful
11 10 (4.03%) SOAP
12 9 (3.63%) DOM
12 9 (3.63%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.65%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.63%) Algorithms
2 9 (3.63%) Mainframe
3 8 (3.23%) Mobile App
4 7 (2.82%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.42%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.02%) VSAM
7 3 (1.21%) NHS
7 3 (1.21%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.21%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.21%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.81%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.81%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.81%) Housing Association
8 2 (0.81%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.66%) Windows
2 8 (3.23%) Android
3 7 (2.82%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.61%) Linux
4 4 (1.61%) Unix
4 4 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (90.32%) Test Automation
2 121 (48.79%) Agile
3 113 (45.56%) CI/CD
4 91 (36.69%) DevOps
5 69 (27.82%) Problem-Solving
6 59 (23.79%) Test Strategy
7 57 (22.98%) API Testing
8 51 (20.56%) Test Scripting
9 48 (19.35%) Software Testing
10 44 (17.74%) Scrum
11 38 (15.32%) Manual Testing
12 34 (13.71%) BDD
13 32 (12.90%) TDD
14 31 (12.50%) Performance Testing
15 27 (10.89%) Continuous Integration
16 25 (10.08%) Regression Testing
17 23 (9.27%) Code Quality
18 22 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
18 22 (8.87%) Non-Functional Testing
18 22 (8.87%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 148 (59.68%) Java
2 69 (27.82%) Python
3 45 (18.15%) JavaScript
4 36 (14.52%) C#
5 34 (13.71%) SQL
6 17 (6.85%) TypeScript
7 15 (6.05%) Bash
8 13 (5.24%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.82%) Ruby
10 5 (2.02%) COBOL
10 5 (2.02%) JCL
10 5 (2.02%) Scala
11 4 (1.61%) C++
11 4 (1.61%) PHP
12 3 (1.21%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.21%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.81%) Go
13 2 (0.81%) REXX
13 2 (0.81%) RPG
13 2 (0.81%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 57 (22.98%) Security Cleared
2 55 (22.18%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.48%) ISTQB
4 20 (8.06%) Degree
5 15 (6.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.61%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.21%) CEH
7 3 (1.21%) CISSP
8 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (41.53%) QA
2 15 (6.05%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.82%) WCAG
4 2 (0.81%) SLA
5 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.40%) GDPR
5 1 (0.40%) GxP
5 1 (0.40%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.40%) NIST
5 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 31 (12.50%) Docker
2 3 (1.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (8.47%) Kubernetes
1 21 (8.47%) Terraform
2 16 (6.45%) Ansible
3 10 (4.03%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (3.63%) Podman
4 9 (3.63%) Progress Chef
5 8 (3.23%) Puppet
6 4 (1.61%) Grafana
7 3 (1.21%) Kibana
8 2 (0.81%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.81%) vRealize
9 1 (0.40%) Argo
9 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (8.87%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.63%) Oracle
3 8 (3.23%) Veracode
4 7 (2.82%) SAP
4 7 (2.82%) UiPath
5 5 (2.02%) Informatica
5 5 (2.02%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.61%) Bloomberg
6 4 (1.61%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (1.61%) HP
6 4 (1.61%) Reuters
7 3 (1.21%) Duck Creek
7 3 (1.21%) Google
7 3 (1.21%) Guidewire
8 2 (0.81%) Ab Initio
8 2 (0.81%) Brio
8 2 (0.81%) Brocade
8 2 (0.81%) NEC
8 2 (0.81%) Parasoft
8 2 (0.81%) VMware