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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 271 290
Rank change year-on-year -10 +19 -52
Contract jobs citing Selenium 284 258 291
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.93% 0.85% 0.75%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.13% 6.42% 5.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 170 231
10th Percentile £304 £313 £363
25th Percentile £355 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £473 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.82% +5.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £540
90th Percentile £650 £651 £620
UK median daily rate £450 £456 £445
% change year-on-year -1.37% +2.50% -13.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £47.75 - -
25th Percentile - £42.50 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -35.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £47.50 -
90th Percentile £65.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +11.11% -35.71% +16.67%

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 4,632 4,016 4,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.10% 13.23% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,242 2,500 3,463
10th Percentile £325 £348 £375
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £645
90th Percentile £700 £730 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £540
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.63% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 108 213
10th Percentile £39.00 £44.85 £45.88
25th Percentile £54.88 £53.31 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.20 £75.00 £89.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%

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 2 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Selenium in England over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 2 December 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 +15 125 £451 +6.00% 17
Midlands +9 56 £450 +5.88% 7
North of England -34 47 £350 -17.65% 14
West Midlands -2 44 £490 -15.70% 5
South East -27 28 £420 -28.21% 40
North West -10 22 £329 -12.40% 9
Yorkshire -32 19 £363 -14.20% 3
East Midlands -4 12 £326 -13.00% 1
South West -9 12 £520 +4.00% 3
East of England -7 7 - - 6
North East -7 6 £460 +8.24% 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 31 (10.92%) Confluence
2 17 (5.99%) SAS
3 8 (2.82%) Apache
3 8 (2.82%) JBoss
3 8 (2.82%) WebLogic
4 7 (2.46%) Appian
5 4 (1.41%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.70%) CICS
6 2 (0.70%) CMS
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.35%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.06%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Maximo
2 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 72 (25.35%) Azure
2 57 (20.07%) AWS
3 51 (17.96%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (9.86%) GitHub
5 20 (7.04%) OpenShift
6 19 (6.69%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (5.28%) GCP
8 13 (4.58%) Serverless
9 10 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (3.52%) Tricentis Tosca
10 8 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (2.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 7 (2.46%) Power Platform
12 6 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (1.76%) Apigee
13 5 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.76%) Azure AKS
13 5 (1.76%) BrowserStack
14 4 (1.41%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (1.41%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.41%) HTTP
2 2 (0.70%) Internet
3 1 (0.35%) DSL
3 1 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.58%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.23%) MongoDB
3 9 (3.17%) Oracle Database
3 9 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.76%) DB2
4 5 (1.76%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 4 (1.41%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.06%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.70%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.70%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 1 (0.35%) Big Data
8 1 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.35%) Power BI
8 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 93 (32.75%) Cucumber
2 80 (28.17%) Jenkins
3 78 (27.46%) Git
4 74 (26.06%) JIRA
5 65 (22.89%) JUnit
6 63 (22.18%) Postman
7 61 (21.48%) GitLab
8 49 (17.25%) Cypress.io
9 42 (14.79%) REST Assured
10 35 (12.32%) JMeter
11 28 (9.86%) Bitbucket
12 27 (9.51%) SonarQube
13 25 (8.80%) Maven
14 21 (7.39%) WebDriver
15 15 (5.28%) Mockito
15 15 (5.28%) Zephyr
16 13 (4.58%) TestRail
17 12 (4.23%) TestNG
18 11 (3.87%) Eclipse
18 11 (3.87%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 84 (29.58%) Social Skills
2 53 (18.66%) Finance
3 34 (11.97%) Public Sector
4 33 (11.62%) Banking
5 25 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (3.17%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.82%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.11%) Back Office
10 4 (1.41%) Front Office
10 4 (1.41%) Retail
11 3 (1.06%) Automotive
12 2 (0.70%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.70%) Marketing
12 2 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.70%) Wholesale Banking
13 1 (0.35%) Billing
13 1 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (23.94%) Tester
2 52 (18.31%) Test Engineer
3 45 (15.85%) Automation Tester
4 37 (13.03%) Senior
5 36 (12.68%) Lead
6 30 (10.56%) Developer
7 25 (8.80%) Test Automation Engineer
8 21 (7.39%) Analyst
9 18 (6.34%) Test Analyst
10 17 (5.99%) Java Developer
10 17 (5.99%) Test Specialist
11 15 (5.28%) QA Engineer
11 15 (5.28%) Test Leader
12 14 (4.93%) QA Leader
13 11 (3.87%) Automation Engineer
14 10 (3.52%) Automation Test Lead
14 10 (3.52%) Senior Tester
15 9 (3.17%) QA Tester
15 9 (3.17%) Selenium Tester
15 9 (3.17%) Senior Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (24.30%) REST
2 59 (20.77%) Playwright
3 44 (15.49%) JSON
4 31 (10.92%) HTML
5 27 (9.51%) .NET
6 26 (9.15%) React
7 25 (8.80%) SOAP
7 25 (8.80%) XML
8 24 (8.45%) Spring
9 22 (7.75%) Gherkin
9 22 (7.75%) RESTful
10 21 (7.39%) pytest
10 21 (7.39%) Spring Boot
11 19 (6.69%) Hibernate
12 18 (6.34%) Node.js
13 17 (5.99%) Web Services
14 15 (5.28%) CSS
15 13 (4.58%) JPA
16 9 (3.17%) Swagger
17 8 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.04%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (3.87%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.17%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.41%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.41%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.41%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.06%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.06%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.70%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.70%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.70%) VSAM
8 1 (0.35%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.35%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.35%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.93%) Unix
2 11 (3.87%) Linux
3 7 (2.46%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.11%) Windows
5 4 (1.41%) Android
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (81.34%) Test Automation
2 164 (57.75%) CI/CD
3 154 (54.23%) Agile
4 121 (42.61%) DevOps
5 85 (29.93%) Test Strategy
6 78 (27.46%) Test Scripting
7 72 (25.35%) Problem-Solving
8 68 (23.94%) Scrum
9 67 (23.59%) Software Testing
10 55 (19.37%) API Testing
10 55 (19.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 51 (17.96%) Microservices
11 51 (17.96%) Regression Testing
12 45 (15.85%) BDD
12 45 (15.85%) Performance Testing
13 40 (14.08%) Validation
14 37 (13.03%) Containerisation
15 36 (12.68%) Software Engineering
16 35 (12.32%) Integration Testing
17 34 (11.97%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 123 (43.31%) Java
2 64 (22.54%) Python
3 57 (20.07%) SQL
4 52 (18.31%) JavaScript
5 49 (17.25%) C#
6 12 (4.23%) Scala
7 7 (2.46%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.11%) VB.NET
9 4 (1.41%) XPath
10 3 (1.06%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.06%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.06%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.06%) Ruby
11 2 (0.70%) Bash
11 2 (0.70%) COBOL
11 2 (0.70%) Groovy
11 2 (0.70%) JCL
11 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.35%) C
12 1 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 71 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 56 (19.72%) SC Cleared
3 31 (10.92%) ISTQB
4 18 (6.34%) Degree
5 12 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 6 (2.11%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (0.70%) MCP
9 1 (0.35%) HP APS
9 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (31.34%) QA
2 21 (7.39%) Accessibility
3 17 (5.99%) WCAG
4 3 (1.06%) EU AI Act
4 3 (1.06%) GDPR
4 3 (1.06%) NIST
4 3 (1.06%) SLA
5 2 (0.70%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.35%) HL7
6 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.35%) MiFID
6 1 (0.35%) NCSC
6 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 64 (22.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 44 (15.49%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.93%) Ansible
3 13 (4.58%) Puppet
3 13 (4.58%) Terraform
4 10 (3.52%) Grafana
5 6 (2.11%) HP ALM
5 6 (2.11%) Kibana
6 5 (1.76%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.41%) Argo
7 4 (1.41%) Podman
7 4 (1.41%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.70%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.35%) logstash
9 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (7.39%) Oracle
2 20 (7.04%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.93%) Veracode
4 12 (4.23%) Salesforce
5 11 (3.87%) UiPath
6 9 (3.17%) Splunk
7 8 (2.82%) webMethods
8 7 (2.46%) Cisco
8 7 (2.46%) Google
9 6 (2.11%) HP
10 5 (1.76%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.76%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.06%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.70%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.70%) IBM
12 2 (0.70%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.70%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.70%) Siebel
13 1 (0.35%) Apple
13 1 (0.35%) Mercator