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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 265 218
Rank change year-on-year +7 -47 +19
Contract jobs citing Selenium 240 315 618
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.99% 0.85% 1.22%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.26% 7.39% 8.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 243 472
10th Percentile £267 £344 £363
25th Percentile £357 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £520 £585 £650
90th Percentile £617 £688 £800
UK median daily rate £425 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -10.53% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 9
10th Percentile - - £60.25
25th Percentile - £36.75 £70.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £38.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.87% -48.67% +43.88%
75th Percentile - £40.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £64.25 £75.00
% change year-on-year -22.18% -14.33% +17.90%

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 3,305 4,263 7,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.57% 11.46% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,218 2,908 5,318
10th Percentile £350 £355 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 182 222
10th Percentile £27.50 £31.84 £45.00
25th Percentile £52.00 £52.50 £52.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £82.35 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

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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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -36 104 £425 -13.04% 93
North of England +22 53 £475 +11.76% 41
South East +45 47 £625 +6.38% 38
Yorkshire +8 29 £475 +11.76% 13
Midlands +30 20 £326 -18.50% 19
North West +18 20 £447 -5.89% 23
East Midlands +19 12 £269 -29.21% 12
West Midlands +13 8 £425 -26.09% 7
South West +41 7 £425 -19.05% 25
North East +2 4 £506 +33.22% 6
East of England - 3 £525 - 26
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 21 (8.75%) Confluence
2 3 (1.25%) JBoss
2 3 (1.25%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.83%) Apache
3 2 (0.83%) Apache Solr
3 2 (0.83%) CICS
3 2 (0.83%) nginx
3 2 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.83%) WebLogic
3 2 (0.83%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.42%) Appian
4 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.83%) NEC Housing
1 2 (0.83%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 69 (28.75%) Azure
2 60 (25.00%) AWS
3 44 (18.33%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (5.83%) GitHub
5 12 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 9 (3.75%) Serverless
8 8 (3.33%) SaaS
9 6 (2.50%) Azure API Management
9 6 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.08%) Azure Functions
10 5 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (2.08%) BrowserStack
11 3 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.25%) GCP
11 3 (1.25%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.25%) Tricentis Tosca
12 2 (0.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.25%) SSH
2 2 (0.83%) SAN
3 1 (0.42%) Internet
3 1 (0.42%) Network Security
3 1 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (2.92%) NoSQL
2 7 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.92%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.67%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.67%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.25%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.83%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.83%) DB2
5 2 (0.83%) Delta Lake
5 2 (0.83%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.83%) InfluxDB
5 2 (0.83%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.83%) Power BI
6 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.42%) Big Data
6 1 (0.42%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 87 (36.25%) Jenkins
2 75 (31.25%) JIRA
3 63 (26.25%) Cucumber
3 63 (26.25%) Git
4 57 (23.75%) Postman
5 42 (17.50%) GitLab
6 40 (16.67%) REST Assured
7 38 (15.83%) JMeter
8 33 (13.75%) JUnit
9 27 (11.25%) Cypress.io
10 21 (8.75%) Maven
11 18 (7.50%) SonarQube
12 17 (7.08%) Appium
13 15 (6.25%) WebDriver
14 13 (5.42%) HP UFT
14 13 (5.42%) IntelliJ
14 13 (5.42%) SpecFlow
15 11 (4.58%) Gradle
15 11 (4.58%) SoapUI
16 8 (3.33%) LoadRunner
General
1 71 (29.58%) Social Skills
2 52 (21.67%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (12.50%) Finance
4 25 (10.42%) Public Sector
5 19 (7.92%) Banking
6 9 (3.75%) Manufacturing
6 9 (3.75%) Telecoms
7 8 (3.33%) Law
7 8 (3.33%) Marketing
8 7 (2.92%) Electronics
8 7 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.67%) Police
10 2 (0.83%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.83%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.83%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.83%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.83%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.42%) Billing
11 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 50 (20.83%) Test Engineer
2 47 (19.58%) Tester
3 38 (15.83%) Developer
4 25 (10.42%) Senior
5 24 (10.00%) Automation Tester
6 21 (8.75%) QA Engineer
7 20 (8.33%) Lead
8 18 (7.50%) Test Automation Engineer
9 16 (6.67%) Analyst
10 15 (6.25%) Senior Test Engineer
11 14 (5.83%) Test Analyst
12 13 (5.42%) Java Developer
12 13 (5.42%) Software Engineer
13 12 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
13 12 (5.00%) Python Engineer
14 11 (4.58%) Full-Stack Developer
14 11 (4.58%) Java Engineer
14 11 (4.58%) QA Tester
15 9 (3.75%) Java Software Engineer
15 9 (3.75%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (20.00%) REST
2 24 (10.00%) pytest
3 23 (9.58%) Playwright
4 19 (7.92%) React
5 17 (7.08%) HTML
6 16 (6.67%) .NET
7 13 (5.42%) CSS
7 13 (5.42%) Java EE
7 13 (5.42%) Web Services
8 12 (5.00%) AngularJS
8 12 (5.00%) Kafka
9 10 (4.17%) ARM Templates
9 10 (4.17%) Gherkin
9 10 (4.17%) Spring Boot
10 9 (3.75%) JSON
10 9 (3.75%) RESTful
11 8 (3.33%) Node.js
11 8 (3.33%) SOAP
12 7 (2.92%) jQuery
13 6 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.75%) Data Structures
3 7 (2.92%) Mainframe
3 7 (2.92%) Onboarding
3 7 (2.92%) Renewable Energy
4 6 (2.50%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.08%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.25%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.25%) NHS
7 3 (1.25%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.83%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (0.83%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.83%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (0.83%) Mobile Payment
8 2 (0.83%) Online Banking
8 2 (0.83%) Replication
8 2 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.83%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.17%) Windows
2 8 (3.33%) Linux
3 5 (2.08%) Android
4 4 (1.67%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.67%) Unix
4 4 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.42%) AIX
6 1 (0.42%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (86.25%) Test Automation
2 106 (44.17%) CI/CD
3 101 (42.08%) Agile
4 93 (38.75%) DevOps
5 59 (24.58%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (23.75%) API Testing
7 56 (23.33%) Test Strategy
8 54 (22.50%) Test Scripting
9 44 (18.33%) Manual Testing
10 40 (16.67%) Software Testing
11 36 (15.00%) Scrum
12 34 (14.17%) Performance Testing
13 30 (12.50%) BDD
13 30 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
14 27 (11.25%) Regression Testing
15 25 (10.42%) Integration Testing
16 23 (9.58%) SDET
17 22 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
17 22 (9.17%) Software Engineering
18 21 (8.75%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 121 (50.42%) Java
2 83 (34.58%) Python
3 42 (17.50%) JavaScript
4 30 (12.50%) SQL
5 28 (11.67%) C#
6 24 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 16 (6.67%) Bash
7 16 (6.67%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.50%) PHP
8 6 (2.50%) Ruby
9 5 (2.08%) Scala
10 4 (1.67%) C++
11 3 (1.25%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.25%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.83%) COBOL
12 2 (0.83%) Go
12 2 (0.83%) JCL
12 2 (0.83%) REXX
12 2 (0.83%) RPG
12 2 (0.83%) XPath
Qualifications
1 59 (24.58%) Security Cleared
2 57 (23.75%) SC Cleared
3 24 (10.00%) ISTQB
4 21 (8.75%) Degree
5 16 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.67%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.25%) CEH
7 3 (1.25%) CISSP
7 3 (1.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (41.67%) QA
2 10 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.83%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.42%) GDPR
4 1 (0.42%) GxP
4 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.42%) NIST
4 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (11.67%) Docker
2 9 (3.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (9.17%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.75%) Terraform
3 18 (7.50%) Ansible
4 10 (4.17%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (3.75%) Podman
5 9 (3.75%) Progress Chef
6 8 (3.33%) Puppet
7 5 (2.08%) Grafana
8 3 (1.25%) Kibana
9 2 (0.83%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.83%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.83%) vRealize
Vendors
1 15 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.58%) Oracle
3 10 (4.17%) SAP
4 5 (2.08%) Informatica
5 4 (1.67%) Bloomberg
5 4 (1.67%) CA Agile Central
5 4 (1.67%) HP
5 4 (1.67%) Reuters
5 4 (1.67%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.67%) Virgin Media
6 3 (1.25%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.25%) UiPath
7 2 (0.83%) 3PAR
7 2 (0.83%) Databricks
7 2 (0.83%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.83%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (0.83%) NEC
7 2 (0.83%) Nintex
7 2 (0.83%) Parasoft
7 2 (0.83%) Veracode