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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 254 267
Rank change year-on-year -87 +13 -44
Contract jobs citing Selenium 258 242 317
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.99% 0.86%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.16% 7.25% 7.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 160 246
10th Percentile £313 £267 £350
25th Percentile £362 £357 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.44% -15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £532 £520 £585
90th Percentile £632 £616 £688
UK median daily rate £435 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +2.35% -10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36.75
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year - +29.87% -48.67%
75th Percentile - - £40.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £64.25
% change year-on-year - -22.18% -14.33%

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 4,999 3,336 4,246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.30% 13.67% 11.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,323 2,232 2,905
10th Percentile £343 £343 £352
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £690 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 66 189
10th Percentile £36.95 £27.72 £32.74
25th Percentile £59.44 £50.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.97%
75th Percentile £74.69 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.36 £81.30
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -32 123 £453 +7.22% 17
North of England -60 52 £450 -5.26% 10
Midlands -43 47 £425 +30.37% 9
West Midlands -21 43 £425 - 6
Yorkshire -55 31 £500 +5.26% 3
South East -78 21 £550 -12.00% 10
North West -45 16 £450 -2.39% 5
North East -16 7 £350 -30.86% 2
South West -34 7 £436 +2.65% 6
East Midlands -37 4 £373 +38.57% 3
East of England -34 3 £300 -42.86% 8
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 47 (18.22%) Confluence
2 5 (1.94%) SAS
3 3 (1.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.16%) Apache
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.39%) CMS
5 1 (0.39%) nginx
5 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.39%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.33%) Shopify
2 2 (0.78%) Maximo
2 2 (0.78%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.39%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 98 (37.98%) Azure
2 79 (30.62%) AWS
3 49 (18.99%) GitHub
4 47 (18.22%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (16.28%) GCP
6 25 (9.69%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (4.65%) Apigee
8 11 (4.26%) BrowserStack
8 11 (4.26%) OpenShift
9 8 (3.10%) SaaS
10 6 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 6 (2.33%) Serverless
10 6 (2.33%) Tricentis Tosca
11 5 (1.94%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.94%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 4 (1.55%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (1.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.16%) Sauce Labs
13 3 (1.16%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.78%) HTTP
2 1 (0.39%) DSL
2 1 (0.39%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.75%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (3.10%) Big Data
2 8 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (3.10%) MySQL
2 8 (3.10%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.71%) MongoDB
4 6 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (1.94%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.94%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.16%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.16%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.16%) Power BI
7 2 (0.78%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.78%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.39%) DB2
8 1 (0.39%) SAS EBI
8 1 (0.39%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 100 (38.76%) JIRA
2 93 (36.05%) Jenkins
3 89 (34.50%) Cucumber
4 75 (29.07%) Git
5 69 (26.74%) Postman
6 64 (24.81%) GitLab
7 54 (20.93%) REST Assured
8 53 (20.54%) Cypress.io
9 50 (19.38%) JUnit
10 48 (18.60%) WebDriver
11 45 (17.44%) JMeter
12 18 (6.98%) Zephyr
13 17 (6.59%) TestRail
14 16 (6.20%) SpecFlow
14 16 (6.20%) TestNG
15 15 (5.81%) Appium
16 13 (5.04%) Gatling
17 12 (4.65%) NUnit
18 11 (4.26%) Robot Framework
19 9 (3.49%) SoapUI
General
1 72 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 43 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (15.50%) Public Sector
4 37 (14.34%) Finance
5 22 (8.53%) Banking
6 8 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.94%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.94%) Military
9 4 (1.55%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.16%) Marketing
11 2 (0.78%) Front Office
11 2 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.78%) Retail
12 1 (0.39%) Back Office
12 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Law
12 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.39%) Police
12 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (22.87%) Test Engineer
2 48 (18.60%) Tester
3 47 (18.22%) Lead
4 43 (16.67%) Senior
5 33 (12.79%) QA Engineer
5 33 (12.79%) Test Automation Engineer
6 25 (9.69%) Automation Tester
6 25 (9.69%) Test Leader
7 23 (8.91%) Developer
8 17 (6.59%) Automation Test Lead
9 16 (6.20%) Analyst
9 16 (6.20%) Automation Engineer
10 15 (5.81%) Test Analyst
11 14 (5.43%) Lead Test Engineer
11 14 (5.43%) QA Automation Engineer
12 11 (4.26%) Senior Test Engineer
13 10 (3.88%) Salesforce Developer
13 10 (3.88%) Senior Tester
14 8 (3.10%) Quality Engineer
14 8 (3.10%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (29.84%) Playwright
2 45 (17.44%) REST
3 32 (12.40%) Spring
4 26 (10.08%) Gherkin
5 24 (9.30%) .NET
6 18 (6.98%) WireMock
7 17 (6.59%) pytest
8 16 (6.20%) SailPoint
9 15 (5.81%) Spring Boot
10 13 (5.04%) Kafka
10 13 (5.04%) LDAP
10 13 (5.04%) Lightning Web Components
10 13 (5.04%) OpenID
11 10 (3.88%) HTML
11 10 (3.88%) RESTful
12 7 (2.71%) Jest
12 7 (2.71%) Node.js
12 7 (2.71%) Pandas
12 7 (2.71%) SOAP
12 7 (2.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.59%) Product Ownership
2 13 (5.04%) Distributed Architecture
3 11 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.88%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 5 (1.94%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.55%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.16%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.16%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.16%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.16%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.78%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.39%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.39%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.39%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.71%) Windows
2 6 (2.33%) Linux
3 4 (1.55%) Android
3 4 (1.55%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.16%) Unix
5 2 (0.78%) VMS
6 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (89.15%) Test Automation
2 151 (58.53%) CI/CD
3 117 (45.35%) Agile
4 82 (31.78%) DevOps
5 71 (27.52%) API Testing
6 69 (26.74%) Test Strategy
7 63 (24.42%) BDD
8 56 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
8 56 (21.71%) Test Scripting
9 53 (20.54%) Validation
10 49 (18.99%) End-to-End Testing
11 46 (17.83%) Regression Testing
12 44 (17.05%) Performance Testing
13 42 (16.28%) Microservices
14 40 (15.50%) Continuous Improvement
15 39 (15.12%) Software Testing
16 38 (14.73%) Scenario Testing
17 37 (14.34%) TDD
18 36 (13.95%) Manual Testing
19 35 (13.57%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 115 (44.57%) Java
2 60 (23.26%) Python
3 58 (22.48%) SQL
4 53 (20.54%) JavaScript
5 52 (20.16%) C#
6 16 (6.20%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.88%) Apex Code
8 9 (3.49%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.33%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.33%) PHP
10 5 (1.94%) Bash
10 5 (1.94%) Ruby
11 3 (1.16%) Go
11 3 (1.16%) Scala
11 3 (1.16%) XPath
12 2 (0.78%) Groovy
12 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.39%) C
13 1 (0.39%) C++
13 1 (0.39%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 85 (32.95%) Security Cleared
2 71 (27.52%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.14%) ISTQB
4 16 (6.20%) Degree
5 10 (3.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (1.55%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.16%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.39%) CFA
11 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.39%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (41.86%) QA
2 23 (8.91%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.33%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.55%) GDPR
5 3 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.16%) Software Quality Assurance
5 3 (1.16%) WCAG
6 2 (0.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.39%) GxP
7 1 (0.39%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.39%) MiFID
7 1 (0.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 43 (16.67%) Docker
2 3 (1.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 3 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (17.44%) Kubernetes
2 27 (10.47%) Grafana
3 25 (9.69%) Prometheus
4 8 (3.10%) HP ALM
5 5 (1.94%) Terraform
6 2 (0.78%) Ansible
6 2 (0.78%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.78%) Kibana
6 2 (0.78%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.39%) Podman
7 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.39%) Puppet
7 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (8.53%) Salesforce
2 18 (6.98%) Oracle
3 17 (6.59%) ServiceNow
4 15 (5.81%) Microsoft
5 10 (3.88%) MuleSoft
6 8 (3.10%) HP
6 8 (3.10%) Splunk
7 5 (1.94%) Google
7 5 (1.94%) SAP
8 4 (1.55%) Citrix
8 4 (1.55%) IBM
8 4 (1.55%) Micro Focus
8 4 (1.55%) Talend
9 3 (1.16%) Adobe
9 3 (1.16%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.16%) Databricks
9 3 (1.16%) OpenText
9 3 (1.16%) Workday
10 2 (0.78%) Foundry
10 2 (0.78%) PagerDuty