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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 267 263
Rank change year-on-year -91 -4 -27
Contract jobs citing Selenium 273 247 336
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.95% 0.90%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.25% 6.67% 7.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 166 254
10th Percentile £312 £257 £350
25th Percentile £363 £318 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £421 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -15.80% -4.31%
75th Percentile £514 £500 £595
90th Percentile £630 £578 £684
UK median daily rate £430 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +1.18% -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% -37.93%

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 5,196 3,703 4,553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.83% 14.19% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,349 2,528 3,056
10th Percentile £350 £332 £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 £638
90th Percentile £688 £706 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 79 231
10th Percentile £27.64 £28.32 £33.00
25th Percentile £59.00 £50.00 £51.88
Median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% -3.85% +4.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £59.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.24% -8.46% +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 3 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 3 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 -65 114 £450 +5.88% 23
North of England -59 68 £450 +5.88% 14
Midlands -36 57 £425 +57.41% 8
West Midlands -13 56 £425 - 4
North West -32 31 £426 +25.29% 8
Yorkshire -60 23 £500 +5.26% 2
South East -78 21 £500 +11.11% 15
North East -21 19 £438 +13.64% 4
South West -20 11 £436 -27.29% 8
East of England -22 3 £300 -7.69% 3
East Midlands -38 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 (19.41%) Confluence
2 7 (2.56%) SAS
3 5 (1.83%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.10%) Apache
4 3 (1.10%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.37%) Appian
6 1 (0.37%) Camunda
6 1 (0.37%) CMS
6 1 (0.37%) nginx
6 1 (0.37%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.20%) Shopify
2 4 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.10%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.73%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 102 (37.36%) Azure
2 90 (32.97%) AWS
3 70 (25.64%) GitHub
4 51 (18.68%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (14.29%) GCP
6 38 (13.92%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (5.13%) BrowserStack
8 10 (3.66%) OpenShift
9 7 (2.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 6 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (2.20%) GitHub Copilot
10 6 (2.20%) Serverless
11 5 (1.83%) Apigee
11 5 (1.83%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.83%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 4 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.47%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.10%) Amazon S3
13 3 (1.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.10%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.37%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (6.96%) MongoDB
3 14 (5.13%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.30%) Big Data
5 7 (2.56%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.20%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (2.20%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.10%) HBase
7 3 (1.10%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.10%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 2 (0.73%) Base SAS
8 2 (0.73%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.73%) MySQL
8 2 (0.73%) Power BI
8 2 (0.73%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 1 (0.37%) Db2
9 1 (0.37%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 102 (37.36%) Jenkins
2 98 (35.90%) JIRA
3 97 (35.53%) Cucumber
4 78 (28.57%) Git
5 73 (26.74%) GitLab
6 67 (24.54%) REST Assured
7 64 (23.44%) Postman
8 62 (22.71%) JUnit
9 61 (22.34%) Cypress.io
10 59 (21.61%) WebDriver
11 50 (18.32%) JMeter
12 21 (7.69%) Gatling
13 19 (6.96%) TestNG
14 18 (6.59%) Zephyr
15 16 (5.86%) Appium
15 16 (5.86%) SpecFlow
16 15 (5.49%) Serenity BDD
17 11 (4.03%) NUnit
17 11 (4.03%) TeamCity
18 9 (3.30%) Bitbucket
General
1 79 (28.94%) Social Skills
2 50 (18.32%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (17.58%) Public Sector
4 42 (15.38%) Finance
5 26 (9.52%) Banking
6 9 (3.30%) Military
6 9 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.47%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.10%) Retail
10 2 (0.73%) Back Office
10 2 (0.73%) Front Office
10 2 (0.73%) Legal
10 2 (0.73%) Marketing
10 2 (0.73%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.37%) Automotive
11 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 71 (26.01%) Test Engineer
2 50 (18.32%) Senior
3 45 (16.48%) Tester
4 43 (15.75%) QA Engineer
5 40 (14.65%) Lead
6 35 (12.82%) Test Automation Engineer
7 23 (8.42%) Analyst
7 23 (8.42%) Automation Engineer
7 23 (8.42%) Automation Tester
8 21 (7.69%) Test Analyst
9 19 (6.96%) QA Automation Engineer
10 17 (6.23%) Test Leader
11 16 (5.86%) Developer
11 16 (5.86%) Lead Test Engineer
12 12 (4.40%) Senior Test Engineer
12 12 (4.40%) Senior Tester
13 10 (3.66%) Automation Test Lead
13 10 (3.66%) Software Engineer
14 9 (3.30%) Quality Engineer
14 9 (3.30%) Senior Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (35.53%) Playwright
2 44 (16.12%) REST
3 42 (15.38%) Spring
4 30 (10.99%) Kafka
5 25 (9.16%) Gherkin
6 24 (8.79%) WireMock
7 23 (8.42%) Spring Boot
8 19 (6.96%) pytest
9 15 (5.49%) .NET
10 11 (4.03%) SOAP
10 11 (4.03%) Spring Cloud
11 10 (3.66%) RESTful
12 9 (3.30%) Node.js
13 8 (2.93%) Lightning Web Components
14 7 (2.56%) HTML
14 7 (2.56%) JSON
14 7 (2.56%) Pandas
14 7 (2.56%) React
15 6 (2.20%) XML
16 5 (1.83%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.42%) Product Ownership
2 19 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.59%) Distributed Architecture
4 16 (5.86%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.56%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.20%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.47%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.10%) Clustering
9 3 (1.10%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.10%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.10%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.10%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.73%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.83%) Windows
2 4 (1.47%) Mac OS
2 4 (1.47%) Unix
3 3 (1.10%) Android
4 2 (0.73%) Linux
4 2 (0.73%) VMS
5 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (89.38%) Test Automation
2 179 (65.57%) CI/CD
3 135 (49.45%) Agile
4 100 (36.63%) DevOps
5 94 (34.43%) Test Strategy
6 81 (29.67%) BDD
7 77 (28.21%) API Testing
8 72 (26.37%) End-to-End Testing
9 68 (24.91%) Microservices
10 65 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 60 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
12 56 (20.51%) Validation
13 55 (20.15%) Performance Testing
14 50 (18.32%) Integration Testing
15 48 (17.58%) Regression Testing
16 47 (17.22%) Software Testing
16 47 (17.22%) Test Scripting
17 43 (15.75%) Observability
17 43 (15.75%) TDD
18 41 (15.02%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 112 (41.03%) Java
2 62 (22.71%) Python
3 50 (18.32%) JavaScript
3 50 (18.32%) SQL
4 47 (17.22%) C#
5 15 (5.49%) TypeScript
6 10 (3.66%) PowerShell
7 7 (2.56%) Ruby
8 6 (2.20%) Apex Code
9 5 (1.83%) Bash
10 3 (1.10%) Go
10 3 (1.10%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.10%) Scala
11 2 (0.73%) PROC SQL
12 1 (0.37%) Groovy
12 1 (0.37%) Swift
12 1 (0.37%) VB
12 1 (0.37%) VB6
12 1 (0.37%) VBA
12 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 105 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 87 (31.87%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.96%) ISTQB
4 15 (5.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (5.13%) Degree
6 8 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 5 (1.83%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.73%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (46.89%) QA
2 43 (15.75%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.30%) WCAG
4 8 (2.93%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.20%) GDPR
6 4 (1.47%) Software Quality Assurance
7 3 (1.10%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.37%) GxP
9 1 (0.37%) SEPA
System Software
1 64 (23.44%) Docker
2 3 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 57 (20.88%) Kubernetes
2 37 (13.55%) Grafana
3 35 (12.82%) Prometheus
4 7 (2.56%) HP ALM
5 6 (2.20%) Terraform
6 3 (1.10%) Istio
7 2 (0.73%) Kibana
7 2 (0.73%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.37%) Ansible
Vendors
1 24 (8.79%) Salesforce
2 20 (7.33%) Oracle
3 18 (6.59%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.40%) Splunk
5 7 (2.56%) HP
5 7 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.83%) Google
6 5 (1.83%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.47%) Citrix
7 4 (1.47%) Micro Focus
7 4 (1.47%) SAP
7 4 (1.47%) Talend
8 3 (1.10%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.10%) Databricks
8 3 (1.10%) OpenText
9 2 (0.73%) Foundry
9 2 (0.73%) IBM
9 2 (0.73%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.73%) Perfecto Mobile
9 2 (0.73%) Red Hat