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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 265 263
Rank change year-on-year -101 -2 -31
Contract jobs citing Selenium 277 255 341
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.95% 0.92%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.26% 6.66% 7.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 172 258
10th Percentile £311 £258 £350
25th Percentile £360 £316 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £424 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -15.30% -3.10%
75th Percentile £512 £500 £592
90th Percentile £630 £580 £675
UK median daily rate £425 £425 £500
% change year-on-year - -15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - £47.75 £37.33
25th Percentile - - £38.19
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £41.75
Median % change year-on-year - +19.76% -41.40%
75th Percentile - - £45.69
90th Percentile - - £46.78
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -36.84%

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 5,266 3,827 4,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.78% 14.18% 12.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,392 2,609 3,077
10th Percentile £350 £331 £350
25th Percentile £413 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £635
90th Percentile £688 £701 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 87 234
10th Percentile £29.42 £29.81 £33.02
25th Percentile £56.94 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.75 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £72.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.25 £74.83
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -71 116 £450 +5.88% 27
North of England -66 69 £450 +5.88% 17
Midlands -35 58 £425 +57.41% 10
West Midlands -15 57 £425 +10.82% 6
North West -32 31 £426 +25.29% 9
Yorkshire -58 23 £500 +5.26% 3
North East -15 20 £438 +13.64% 5
South East -74 20 £468 +3.89% 19
South West -27 12 £438 -27.08% 6
East of England -23 3 £300 -7.69% 6
East Midlands -37 1 £415 +54.85% 4
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 53 (19.13%) Confluence
2 7 (2.53%) SAS
3 5 (1.81%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.08%) Apache
4 3 (1.08%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.36%) Appian
6 1 (0.36%) Camunda
6 1 (0.36%) CMS
6 1 (0.36%) nginx
6 1 (0.36%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.17%) Shopify
2 5 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.08%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.72%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 104 (37.55%) Azure
2 92 (33.21%) AWS
3 70 (25.27%) GitHub
4 53 (19.13%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (14.08%) GCP
5 39 (14.08%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (5.05%) BrowserStack
7 10 (3.61%) OpenShift
8 7 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (2.53%) GitHub Copilot
8 7 (2.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 7 (2.53%) Serverless
9 6 (2.17%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.81%) Apigee
10 5 (1.81%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 4 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.44%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.08%) Azure Functions
12 3 (1.08%) Sauce Labs
12 3 (1.08%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.36%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.66%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (6.86%) MongoDB
3 14 (5.05%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.25%) Big Data
5 7 (2.53%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.53%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.17%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.08%) HBase
7 3 (1.08%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.08%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 2 (0.72%) Base SAS
8 2 (0.72%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.72%) MySQL
8 2 (0.72%) Power BI
8 2 (0.72%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 1 (0.36%) Db2
9 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 104 (37.55%) Jenkins
2 101 (36.46%) JIRA
3 98 (35.38%) Cucumber
4 79 (28.52%) Git
5 73 (26.35%) GitLab
6 70 (25.27%) REST Assured
7 65 (23.47%) Postman
8 63 (22.74%) Cypress.io
8 63 (22.74%) JUnit
9 61 (22.02%) WebDriver
10 50 (18.05%) JMeter
11 22 (7.94%) Gatling
12 21 (7.58%) TestNG
13 18 (6.50%) Appium
13 18 (6.50%) Zephyr
14 16 (5.78%) SpecFlow
15 15 (5.42%) Serenity BDD
16 11 (3.97%) NUnit
16 11 (3.97%) TeamCity
17 9 (3.25%) Bitbucket
General
1 83 (29.96%) Social Skills
2 53 (19.13%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (16.97%) Public Sector
4 44 (15.88%) Finance
5 27 (9.75%) Banking
6 9 (3.25%) Military
6 9 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.44%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.08%) Retail
11 2 (0.72%) Back Office
11 2 (0.72%) Front Office
11 2 (0.72%) Legal
11 2 (0.72%) Marketing
11 2 (0.72%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.36%) Automotive
12 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 71 (25.63%) Test Engineer
2 52 (18.77%) Senior
3 47 (16.97%) Tester
4 44 (15.88%) QA Engineer
5 41 (14.80%) Lead
6 34 (12.27%) Test Automation Engineer
7 25 (9.03%) Automation Engineer
8 24 (8.66%) Analyst
8 24 (8.66%) Automation Tester
9 22 (7.94%) Test Analyst
10 19 (6.86%) QA Automation Engineer
11 18 (6.50%) Test Leader
12 16 (5.78%) Lead Test Engineer
13 15 (5.42%) Developer
14 12 (4.33%) Senior Test Engineer
14 12 (4.33%) Senior Tester
15 10 (3.61%) Automation Test Lead
15 10 (3.61%) Software Engineer
16 9 (3.25%) Quality Engineer
16 9 (3.25%) Senior Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (36.10%) Playwright
2 45 (16.25%) REST
3 42 (15.16%) Spring
4 30 (10.83%) Kafka
5 25 (9.03%) Gherkin
5 25 (9.03%) WireMock
6 23 (8.30%) Spring Boot
7 19 (6.86%) pytest
8 14 (5.05%) .NET
9 12 (4.33%) SOAP
10 11 (3.97%) Spring Cloud
11 10 (3.61%) Node.js
11 10 (3.61%) RESTful
12 8 (2.89%) Lightning Web Components
13 7 (2.53%) HTML
13 7 (2.53%) JSON
13 7 (2.53%) Pandas
13 7 (2.53%) React
14 6 (2.17%) XML
15 5 (1.81%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.30%) Product Ownership
2 19 (6.86%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.50%) Distributed Architecture
4 16 (5.78%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.89%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.53%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.44%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.44%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.08%) Clustering
9 3 (1.08%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.08%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.08%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.72%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.81%) Windows
2 4 (1.44%) Mac OS
2 4 (1.44%) Unix
3 3 (1.08%) Android
4 2 (0.72%) Linux
4 2 (0.72%) VMS
5 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (89.53%) Test Automation
2 182 (65.70%) CI/CD
3 138 (49.82%) Agile
4 104 (37.55%) DevOps
5 97 (35.02%) Test Strategy
6 81 (29.24%) BDD
7 77 (27.80%) API Testing
8 73 (26.35%) End-to-End Testing
9 70 (25.27%) Microservices
10 66 (23.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 64 (23.10%) Problem-Solving
12 56 (20.22%) Validation
13 55 (19.86%) Performance Testing
14 50 (18.05%) Integration Testing
14 50 (18.05%) Software Testing
15 49 (17.69%) Regression Testing
16 48 (17.33%) Test Scripting
17 43 (15.52%) Observability
17 43 (15.52%) Scrum
17 43 (15.52%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 114 (41.16%) Java
2 66 (23.83%) Python
3 53 (19.13%) JavaScript
4 50 (18.05%) SQL
5 48 (17.33%) C#
6 17 (6.14%) TypeScript
7 11 (3.97%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.17%) Apex Code
8 6 (2.17%) Bash
8 6 (2.17%) Ruby
9 3 (1.08%) Go
9 3 (1.08%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.08%) Scala
10 2 (0.72%) PROC SQL
11 1 (0.36%) Groovy
11 1 (0.36%) Swift
11 1 (0.36%) VB
11 1 (0.36%) VB6
11 1 (0.36%) VBA
11 1 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 106 (38.27%) Security Cleared
2 88 (31.77%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.58%) ISTQB
4 16 (5.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (5.42%) Degree
6 9 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 5 (1.81%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.72%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (46.93%) QA
2 44 (15.88%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.61%) WCAG
4 8 (2.89%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.53%) GDPR
6 4 (1.44%) Software Quality Assurance
7 3 (1.08%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.36%) GxP
9 1 (0.36%) SEPA
System Software
1 65 (23.47%) Docker
2 3 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 58 (20.94%) Kubernetes
2 37 (13.36%) Grafana
3 35 (12.64%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.89%) HP ALM
5 6 (2.17%) Terraform
6 3 (1.08%) Istio
7 2 (0.72%) Kibana
7 2 (0.72%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.36%) Ansible
Vendors
1 24 (8.66%) Salesforce
2 20 (7.22%) Oracle
3 19 (6.86%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.33%) Splunk
5 8 (2.89%) HP
6 7 (2.53%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.81%) Google
7 5 (1.81%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.44%) Citrix
8 4 (1.44%) Micro Focus
8 4 (1.44%) SAP
8 4 (1.44%) Talend
9 3 (1.08%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.08%) Databricks
9 3 (1.08%) OpenText
9 3 (1.08%) Perfecto Mobile
10 2 (0.72%) Foundry
10 2 (0.72%) IBM
10 2 (0.72%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.72%) UiPath