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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 265 269
Rank change year-on-year -97 +4 -15
Contract jobs citing Selenium 273 262 301
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.95% 0.90%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.12% 6.55% 7.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 182 229
10th Percentile £306 £258 £340
25th Percentile £358 £313 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -15.00% -
75th Percentile £500 £520 £600
90th Percentile £601 £615 £675
UK median daily rate £425 £425 £490
% change year-on-year - -13.27% -2.00%
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% -42.41%
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 5,330 4,001 4,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.69% 14.45% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,401 2,773 2,835
10th Percentile £353 £319 £350
25th Percentile £413 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £599 £600 £631
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 94 198
10th Percentile £35.38 £40.68 £35.30
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.02 £52.88
Median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.99 £73.83
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - +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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -71 116 £430 -4.44% 89
Midlands -25 63 £425 +57.41% 19
West Midlands +9 62 £425 +17.24% 15
North of England -67 59 £402 +1.52% 21
North West -47 23 £402 +21.08% 10
Yorkshire -50 20 £400 -15.79% 4
North East -26 19 £450 +16.88% 7
South East -90 17 £435 -3.33% 16
South West -35 11 £444 -26.04% 12
East of England -14 8 £422 +29.89% 4
East Midlands -35 1 £415 +53.70% 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 46 (16.85%) Confluence
2 6 (2.20%) SAS
3 5 (1.83%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.47%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.10%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.73%) Apache
7 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.37%) Appian
7 1 (0.37%) Camunda
7 1 (0.37%) CMS
7 1 (0.37%) nginx
7 1 (0.37%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.83%) Shopify
3 3 (1.10%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 113 (41.39%) Azure
2 88 (32.23%) AWS
3 77 (28.21%) GitHub
4 63 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
5 50 (18.32%) GitHub Actions
6 37 (13.55%) GCP
7 12 (4.40%) GitHub Copilot
8 11 (4.03%) Serverless
9 10 (3.66%) BrowserStack
9 10 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (3.66%) Power Automate
10 9 (3.30%) OpenShift
11 7 (2.56%) Azure Functions
11 7 (2.56%) SaaS
12 5 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.83%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 4 (1.47%) Apigee
13 4 (1.47%) Power Platform
14 3 (1.10%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 3 (1.10%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.73%) 4G
1 2 (0.73%) 5G
1 2 (0.73%) DNS
1 2 (0.73%) HTTP
1 2 (0.73%) SSH
1 2 (0.73%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.37%) WebEx
2 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (6.96%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.40%) SQL Server
4 11 (4.03%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.93%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (2.93%) Big Data
6 6 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.20%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.20%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (1.83%) Hazelcast
8 3 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.10%) HBase
8 3 (1.10%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 2 (0.73%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.73%) InterSystems Cache
9 2 (0.73%) MySQL
9 2 (0.73%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.73%) Power BI
9 2 (0.73%) Redis
9 2 (0.73%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 95 (34.80%) Cucumber
2 92 (33.70%) Jenkins
3 87 (31.87%) JIRA
4 83 (30.40%) Git
5 67 (24.54%) GitLab
6 65 (23.81%) Cypress.io
7 64 (23.44%) JUnit
8 61 (22.34%) WebDriver
9 59 (21.61%) Postman
10 53 (19.41%) REST Assured
11 44 (16.12%) JMeter
12 26 (9.52%) Gatling
13 21 (7.69%) TestNG
14 20 (7.33%) Appium
15 18 (6.59%) Zephyr
16 13 (4.76%) SpecFlow
17 11 (4.03%) NUnit
18 10 (3.66%) Maven
18 10 (3.66%) Serenity BDD
19 9 (3.30%) TeamCity
General
1 86 (31.50%) Social Skills
2 56 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (15.38%) Finance
3 42 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 31 (11.36%) Banking
5 10 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (2.56%) Military
7 5 (1.83%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.47%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.73%) Back Office
10 2 (0.73%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.73%) Legal
10 2 (0.73%) Marketing
10 2 (0.73%) Retail
10 2 (0.73%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.37%) Front Office
11 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 62 (22.71%) Test Engineer
2 51 (18.68%) Senior
3 44 (16.12%) Lead
4 41 (15.02%) Tester
5 38 (13.92%) QA Engineer
6 35 (12.82%) Test Automation Engineer
7 27 (9.89%) Analyst
8 25 (9.16%) Automation Engineer
8 25 (9.16%) Test Analyst
9 22 (8.06%) Automation Tester
10 21 (7.69%) Test Leader
11 17 (6.23%) QA Automation Engineer
12 15 (5.49%) Developer
13 13 (4.76%) Quality Engineer
14 12 (4.40%) Senior Test Engineer
15 11 (4.03%) Automation Test Lead
15 11 (4.03%) Lead Test Engineer
15 11 (4.03%) Senior Tester
16 10 (3.66%) Test Manager
17 9 (3.30%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (37.36%) Playwright
2 41 (15.02%) REST
3 40 (14.65%) Kafka
4 38 (13.92%) Spring
5 29 (10.62%) WireMock
6 28 (10.26%) Gherkin
7 17 (6.23%) .NET
8 16 (5.86%) JSON
8 16 (5.86%) pytest
9 15 (5.49%) Spring Boot
10 14 (5.13%) Node.js
11 13 (4.76%) XML
12 11 (4.03%) SOAP
13 10 (3.66%) HTML
13 10 (3.66%) RESTful
14 9 (3.30%) React
15 8 (2.93%) Pandas
16 7 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
16 7 (2.56%) Spring Cloud
17 6 (2.20%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (7.33%) Product Ownership
3 18 (6.59%) Distributed Architecture
4 13 (4.76%) Cloud Native
5 10 (3.66%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.93%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 5 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.10%) Clustering
10 3 (1.10%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (1.10%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.10%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.10%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.10%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.73%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.03%) Linux
2 6 (2.20%) Windows
3 5 (1.83%) Unix
4 4 (1.47%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.10%) Android
5 3 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.73%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (87.55%) Test Automation
2 187 (68.50%) CI/CD
3 142 (52.01%) Agile
4 107 (39.19%) DevOps
5 104 (38.10%) Test Strategy
6 84 (30.77%) BDD
7 76 (27.84%) End-to-End Testing
8 73 (26.74%) API Testing
8 73 (26.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 66 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
10 65 (23.81%) Microservices
11 62 (22.71%) Validation
12 58 (21.25%) Integration Testing
13 54 (19.78%) Software Testing
14 52 (19.05%) Performance Testing
15 50 (18.32%) Scrum
15 50 (18.32%) Stakeholder Management
16 47 (17.22%) TDD
17 44 (16.12%) Regression Testing
18 42 (15.38%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 107 (39.19%) Java
2 76 (27.84%) Python
3 59 (21.61%) SQL
4 57 (20.88%) JavaScript
5 45 (16.48%) C#
6 17 (6.23%) TypeScript
7 12 (4.40%) Bash
8 11 (4.03%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.20%) Ruby
10 5 (1.83%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.10%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.10%) Scala
12 2 (0.73%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.73%) PROC SQL
12 2 (0.73%) R
12 2 (0.73%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.37%) COBOL
13 1 (0.37%) Groovy
13 1 (0.37%) VBA
13 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 107 (39.19%) Security Cleared
2 90 (32.97%) SC Cleared
3 28 (10.26%) ISTQB
4 17 (6.23%) Degree
5 15 (5.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 8 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.56%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.73%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.73%) ISEB
10 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (48.35%) QA
2 46 (16.85%) Accessibility
3 21 (7.69%) WCAG
4 10 (3.66%) GDPR
5 8 (2.93%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.93%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.47%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.37%) GxP
8 1 (0.37%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.37%) SEPA
System Software
1 77 (28.21%) Docker
2 3 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (23.44%) Kubernetes
2 32 (11.72%) Grafana
2 32 (11.72%) Prometheus
3 10 (3.66%) Terraform
4 8 (2.93%) HP ALM
5 5 (1.83%) Check_MK
5 5 (1.83%) Podman
6 3 (1.10%) Ansible
6 3 (1.10%) Istio
7 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 32 (11.72%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.79%) Oracle
3 22 (8.06%) Salesforce
4 10 (3.66%) Splunk
5 8 (2.93%) HP
6 7 (2.56%) IBM
7 4 (1.47%) Citrix
7 4 (1.47%) Micro Focus
7 4 (1.47%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.47%) Talend
7 4 (1.47%) VMware
8 3 (1.10%) Avaloq
8 3 (1.10%) Guidewire
8 3 (1.10%) OpenText
8 3 (1.10%) Perfecto Mobile
9 2 (0.73%) Databricks
9 2 (0.73%) Foundry
9 2 (0.73%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.73%) SAP
9 2 (0.73%) UiPath