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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 267 282
Rank change year-on-year -30 +15 -54
Contract jobs citing Selenium 292 232 298
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 0.91% 0.80%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.90% 6.78% 6.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 150 241
10th Percentile £350 £308 £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 £563 £550
90th Percentile £650 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -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 4,947 3,420 4,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.03% 13.37% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,391 2,177 3,067
10th Percentile £340 £331 £363
25th Percentile £408 £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 151 58 200
10th Percentile £26.30 £39.75 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.87 £47.96
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 £63.75
% change year-on-year +4.00% -1.96% +3.66%

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 25 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 25 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 -19 126 £450 +5.88% 20
Midlands -12 68 £477 +34.23% 12
West Midlands -9 62 £481 +30.00% 10
North of England -44 56 £472 +17.88% 15
Yorkshire -45 33 £475 +22.58% 8
South East -64 17 £550 -12.00% 18
North West -37 16 £463 +23.33% 6
South West -27 13 £518 +5.08% 7
North East -10 9 £350 -30.86% 1
East of England -18 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 (12.33%) Confluence
2 22 (7.53%) SAS
3 9 (3.08%) Apache
4 8 (2.74%) JBoss
4 8 (2.74%) WebLogic
5 5 (1.71%) Appian
6 4 (1.37%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.34%) CMS
9 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.68%) Maximo
2 2 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.68%) Shopify
3 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 88 (30.14%) Azure
2 81 (27.74%) AWS
3 52 (17.81%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (15.41%) GitHub
5 30 (10.27%) GCP
6 27 (9.25%) OpenShift
7 25 (8.56%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (4.11%) Tricentis Tosca
9 11 (3.77%) Apigee
10 10 (3.42%) Serverless
11 9 (3.08%) BrowserStack
11 9 (3.08%) SaaS
12 8 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (2.74%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (2.05%) Azure Service Bus
15 5 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (1.71%) Azure AKS
15 5 (1.71%) Power Platform
16 4 (1.37%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.37%) HTTP
2 1 (0.34%) DSL
2 1 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.34%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.16%) MongoDB
2 16 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (3.77%) Oracle Database
4 8 (2.74%) MySQL
4 8 (2.74%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.40%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 7 (2.40%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.37%) Big Data
6 4 (1.37%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.03%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 2 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.68%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.34%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.34%) DB2
9 1 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.34%) Power BI
9 1 (0.34%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.34%) SAS EBI
9 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 108 (36.99%) Jenkins
2 103 (35.27%) Cucumber
3 100 (34.25%) Git
4 87 (29.79%) Postman
5 85 (29.11%) GitLab
6 83 (28.42%) JIRA
7 71 (24.32%) JUnit
8 65 (22.26%) REST Assured
9 60 (20.55%) Cypress.io
10 42 (14.38%) JMeter
11 33 (11.30%) WebDriver
12 19 (6.51%) TestRail
13 15 (5.14%) Maven
13 15 (5.14%) SonarQube
14 13 (4.45%) Gatling
14 13 (4.45%) SpecFlow
15 11 (3.77%) Mockito
16 10 (3.42%) Bitbucket
16 10 (3.42%) Robot Framework
16 10 (3.42%) Serenity BDD
General
1 94 (32.19%) Social Skills
2 48 (16.44%) Public Sector
3 38 (13.01%) Finance
4 32 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.53%) Banking
6 10 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.05%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.05%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.37%) Front Office
8 4 (1.37%) Military
8 4 (1.37%) Retail
9 3 (1.03%) Back Office
9 3 (1.03%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.68%) Marketing
10 2 (0.68%) Police
11 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (20.55%) Test Engineer
2 56 (19.18%) Lead
2 56 (19.18%) Tester
3 44 (15.07%) Senior
4 35 (11.99%) Automation Tester
5 27 (9.25%) Developer
6 26 (8.90%) Test Automation Engineer
7 24 (8.22%) Test Leader
8 22 (7.53%) Test Specialist
9 21 (7.19%) QA Engineer
10 17 (5.82%) Automation Test Lead
10 17 (5.82%) Lead Test Engineer
11 14 (4.79%) Analyst
12 13 (4.45%) QA Leader
12 13 (4.45%) Test Analyst
13 12 (4.11%) Senior Tester
13 12 (4.11%) Test Automation Specialist
14 10 (3.42%) Java Engineer
14 10 (3.42%) Senior Automation Tester
15 9 (3.08%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (26.71%) Playwright
2 73 (25.00%) REST
3 42 (14.38%) Spring
4 37 (12.67%) JSON
5 32 (10.96%) pytest
6 30 (10.27%) .NET
7 27 (9.25%) Gherkin
8 24 (8.22%) HTML
8 24 (8.22%) Spring Boot
8 24 (8.22%) XML
9 20 (6.85%) React
10 18 (6.16%) OpenID
11 17 (5.82%) SOAP
12 16 (5.48%) SailPoint
12 16 (5.48%) WireMock
13 14 (4.79%) RESTful
14 13 (4.45%) LDAP
14 13 (4.45%) Web Services
15 12 (4.11%) Lightning Web Components
16 11 (3.77%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.79%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (2.74%) Cloud Native
3 8 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.05%) Distributed Architecture
4 6 (2.05%) Virtual Team
5 5 (1.71%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (1.37%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.03%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.68%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.68%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.68%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.34%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.34%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.34%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.34%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.34%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.79%) Linux
2 13 (4.45%) Unix
3 4 (1.37%) Android
4 3 (1.03%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.03%) Windows
5 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (82.19%) Test Automation
2 183 (62.67%) CI/CD
3 154 (52.74%) Agile
4 119 (40.75%) DevOps
5 94 (32.19%) Test Strategy
6 82 (28.08%) API Testing
7 78 (26.71%) Problem-Solving
8 77 (26.37%) Test Scripting
9 64 (21.92%) BDD
9 64 (21.92%) Scrum
10 61 (20.89%) Microservices
11 60 (20.55%) Software Testing
12 58 (19.86%) Continuous Improvement
13 52 (17.81%) Validation
14 50 (17.12%) Regression Testing
15 40 (13.70%) Containerisation
15 40 (13.70%) TDD
16 38 (13.01%) Performance Testing
17 37 (12.67%) Stakeholder Management
18 36 (12.33%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 133 (45.55%) Java
2 71 (24.32%) Python
3 64 (21.92%) JavaScript
4 56 (19.18%) SQL
5 50 (17.12%) C#
6 16 (5.48%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.08%) Apex Code
7 9 (3.08%) Scala
8 6 (2.05%) PHP
9 5 (1.71%) Bash
9 5 (1.71%) XPath
10 4 (1.37%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.37%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.03%) Go
11 3 (1.03%) Groovy
11 3 (1.03%) Ruby
11 3 (1.03%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.68%) C
12 2 (0.68%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 102 (34.93%) Security Cleared
2 84 (28.77%) SC Cleared
3 26 (8.90%) ISTQB
4 15 (5.14%) Degree
5 12 (4.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 10 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.71%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.71%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.34%) CFA
9 1 (0.34%) HP APS
9 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (33.90%) QA
2 29 (9.93%) Accessibility
3 18 (6.16%) WCAG
4 6 (2.05%) GDPR
5 4 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.03%) EU AI Act
6 3 (1.03%) NIST
7 2 (0.68%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.68%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.34%) HL7
8 1 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.34%) MiFID
8 1 (0.34%) NCSC
8 1 (0.34%) SLA
8 1 (0.34%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 71 (24.32%) Docker
2 3 (1.03%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 60 (20.55%) Kubernetes
2 27 (9.25%) Grafana
3 19 (6.51%) Prometheus
4 12 (4.11%) Puppet
5 10 (3.42%) Ansible
5 10 (3.42%) Terraform
6 7 (2.40%) Kibana
7 6 (2.05%) HP ALM
8 4 (1.37%) Podman
8 4 (1.37%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.68%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.68%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (6.51%) Oracle
2 18 (6.16%) Salesforce
3 17 (5.82%) ServiceNow
4 12 (4.11%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.11%) Splunk
5 11 (3.77%) MuleSoft
6 8 (2.74%) webMethods
7 6 (2.05%) HP
7 6 (2.05%) Veracode
8 5 (1.71%) Cisco
8 5 (1.71%) Google
9 4 (1.37%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.37%) Workday
10 3 (1.03%) Adobe
10 3 (1.03%) SAP
10 3 (1.03%) UiPath
11 2 (0.68%) Avaloq
11 2 (0.68%) IBM
11 2 (0.68%) PagerDuty
12 1 (0.34%) Tradeweb