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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 264 288
Rank change year-on-year -40 +24 -57
Contract jobs citing Selenium 279 241 295
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.85% 0.91% 0.79%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.88% 6.76% 6.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 153 236
10th Percentile £350 £302 £359
25th Percentile £377 £380 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -15.09%
75th Percentile £566 £575 £566
90th Percentile £650 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £52.50 - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile £72.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +38.89% - -

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 4,742 3,566 4,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.46% 13.48% 11.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,291 2,207 3,124
10th Percentile £343 £338 £375
25th Percentile £411 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 64 203
10th Percentile £39.53 £45.35 £45.18
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.68 £50.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +1.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £81.65 £75.95 £89.75
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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in England over the 6 months to 28 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in England

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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 28 January 2026.

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 28 January 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 -10 122 £475 +15.15% 27
North of England -39 55 £450 +5.88% 27
Midlands -12 53 £477 +23.77% 17
West Midlands -7 45 £492 +21.48% 7
Yorkshire -37 32 £419 -1.47% 13
South East -50 21 £550 -12.00% 49
North West -27 15 £475 +26.67% 11
South West -22 13 £518 +5.08% 16
North East -10 8 £398 -21.48% 3
East Midlands -24 8 £360 -4.00% 10
East of England -9 5 - - 20
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 (11.11%) Confluence
2 17 (6.09%) SAS
3 8 (2.87%) Apache
3 8 (2.87%) JBoss
3 8 (2.87%) WebLogic
4 7 (2.51%) Appian
5 5 (1.79%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.36%) CMS
7 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.72%) Maximo
2 2 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 81 (29.03%) Azure
2 71 (25.45%) AWS
3 49 (17.56%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (11.83%) GitHub
5 26 (9.32%) GCP
6 21 (7.53%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (7.53%) OpenShift
7 13 (4.66%) Tricentis Tosca
8 11 (3.94%) Apigee
9 10 (3.58%) Serverless
10 8 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (2.87%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (2.87%) SaaS
11 7 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.15%) Azure AKS
12 6 (2.15%) BrowserStack
12 6 (2.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (2.15%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.79%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.43%) HTTP
2 1 (0.36%) DSL
2 1 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.73%) MongoDB
2 10 (3.58%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.87%) MySQL
3 8 (2.87%) Oracle Database
4 6 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.79%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.79%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 4 (1.43%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.08%) Big Data
7 3 (1.08%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.72%) DB2
8 2 (0.72%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.72%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.36%) Power BI
9 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 97 (34.77%) Jenkins
2 95 (34.05%) Cucumber
3 82 (29.39%) Git
4 80 (28.67%) Postman
5 76 (27.24%) JIRA
6 75 (26.88%) GitLab
7 61 (21.86%) REST Assured
8 59 (21.15%) JUnit
9 55 (19.71%) Cypress.io
10 34 (12.19%) JMeter
11 27 (9.68%) WebDriver
12 19 (6.81%) TestRail
13 18 (6.45%) Bitbucket
13 18 (6.45%) SonarQube
14 17 (6.09%) Maven
15 11 (3.94%) Gatling
15 11 (3.94%) Mockito
15 11 (3.94%) Robot Framework
16 10 (3.58%) Zephyr
17 9 (3.23%) Gradle
General
1 85 (30.47%) Social Skills
2 48 (17.20%) Finance
3 47 (16.85%) Public Sector
4 28 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (9.32%) Banking
6 10 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.87%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.15%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.79%) Retail
11 4 (1.43%) Front Office
12 3 (1.08%) Automotive
12 3 (1.08%) Back Office
12 3 (1.08%) Military
12 3 (1.08%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.72%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.72%) Marketing
13 2 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 59 (21.15%) Tester
2 56 (20.07%) Test Engineer
3 45 (16.13%) Lead
4 42 (15.05%) Senior
5 35 (12.54%) Automation Tester
6 28 (10.04%) Developer
7 27 (9.68%) Test Automation Engineer
8 19 (6.81%) QA Engineer
8 19 (6.81%) Test Leader
9 17 (6.09%) Test Specialist
10 13 (4.66%) Analyst
10 13 (4.66%) Lead Test Engineer
11 12 (4.30%) Automation Test Lead
11 12 (4.30%) QA Leader
11 12 (4.30%) Test Analyst
12 10 (3.58%) Senior Tester
13 9 (3.23%) Java Developer
13 9 (3.23%) Java Engineer
13 9 (3.23%) QA Automation Engineer
13 9 (3.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (27.24%) REST
2 66 (23.66%) Playwright
3 40 (14.34%) JSON
4 31 (11.11%) .NET
5 28 (10.04%) Spring
6 25 (8.96%) HTML
6 25 (8.96%) XML
7 23 (8.24%) SOAP
8 22 (7.89%) Gherkin
8 22 (7.89%) pytest
8 22 (7.89%) Spring Boot
9 21 (7.53%) React
10 19 (6.81%) RESTful
11 17 (6.09%) OpenID
12 15 (5.38%) SailPoint
13 13 (4.66%) Web Services
14 12 (4.30%) LDAP
14 12 (4.30%) Node.js
15 11 (3.94%) Lightning Web Components
16 9 (3.23%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.38%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.66%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (3.58%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.51%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.15%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.79%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.08%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.08%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.72%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.36%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.36%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.36%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.36%) FMCG
10 1 (0.36%) iPhone
10 1 (0.36%) NHS
10 1 (0.36%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.38%) Linux
2 12 (4.30%) Unix
3 8 (2.87%) Windows
4 5 (1.79%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.08%) Android
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (81.72%) Test Automation
2 166 (59.50%) CI/CD
3 148 (53.05%) Agile
4 109 (39.07%) DevOps
5 78 (27.96%) Test Strategy
6 77 (27.60%) Test Scripting
7 75 (26.88%) API Testing
8 72 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
9 67 (24.01%) Scrum
10 61 (21.86%) Software Testing
11 53 (19.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 51 (18.28%) BDD
12 51 (18.28%) Regression Testing
13 48 (17.20%) Microservices
14 42 (15.05%) Performance Testing
15 38 (13.62%) Software Engineering
16 36 (12.90%) Validation
17 35 (12.54%) Containerisation
18 34 (12.19%) Integration Testing
18 34 (12.19%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 125 (44.80%) Java
2 69 (24.73%) Python
3 61 (21.86%) JavaScript
4 55 (19.71%) SQL
5 49 (17.56%) C#
6 15 (5.38%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.58%) Scala
8 9 (3.23%) Apex Code
9 6 (2.15%) PHP
10 5 (1.79%) Bash
10 5 (1.79%) XPath
11 4 (1.43%) Go
11 4 (1.43%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.08%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.08%) Ruby
12 3 (1.08%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.72%) C
13 2 (0.72%) Groovy
13 2 (0.72%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 87 (31.18%) Security Cleared
2 69 (24.73%) SC Cleared
3 28 (10.04%) ISTQB
4 16 (5.73%) Degree
5 12 (4.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 10 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.15%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.15%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (0.72%) MCP
9 1 (0.36%) CFA
9 1 (0.36%) HP APS
9 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (31.90%) QA
2 25 (8.96%) Accessibility
3 17 (6.09%) WCAG
4 5 (1.79%) GDPR
5 3 (1.08%) EU AI Act
5 3 (1.08%) NIST
5 3 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.72%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.72%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.36%) HL7
7 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.36%) MiFID
7 1 (0.36%) NCSC
7 1 (0.36%) SLA
7 1 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 63 (22.58%) Docker
2 3 (1.08%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (16.49%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.38%) Grafana
3 13 (4.66%) Ansible
3 13 (4.66%) Puppet
4 12 (4.30%) Terraform
5 9 (3.23%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.79%) HP ALM
6 5 (1.79%) Kibana
6 5 (1.79%) Podman
6 5 (1.79%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.72%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.36%) Argo
8 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (7.89%) Oracle
2 18 (6.45%) Salesforce
3 15 (5.38%) Microsoft
4 14 (5.02%) ServiceNow
5 12 (4.30%) Splunk
6 11 (3.94%) MuleSoft
7 8 (2.87%) Veracode
7 8 (2.87%) webMethods
8 7 (2.51%) Cisco
9 5 (1.79%) Google
9 5 (1.79%) HP
10 4 (1.43%) UiPath
10 4 (1.43%) Workday
11 3 (1.08%) Adobe
11 3 (1.08%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.08%) SAP
12 2 (0.72%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.72%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.72%) IBM
12 2 (0.72%) Red Hat