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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 250 272
Rank change year-on-year -66 +22 -46
Contract jobs citing Selenium 274 240 308
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.98% 0.83%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.49% 7.19% 7.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 157 236
10th Percentile £314 £266 £350
25th Percentile £363 £358 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -9.95%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £575
90th Percentile £638 £630 £681
UK median daily rate £443 £425 £464
% change year-on-year +4.26% -8.36% -11.67%
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 4,992 3,337 4,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.62% 13.61% 11.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,339 2,244 2,884
10th Percentile £340 £340 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £531
Median % change year-on-year - -5.84% -3.45%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 62 168
10th Percentile £39.53 £27.54 £31.71
25th Percentile £60.00 £52.05 £50.44
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +6.25%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.19 £70.31
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.67 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -40 130 £456 +7.29% 28
Midlands -29 54 £425 +30.37% 6
North of England -60 52 £450 -5.26% 12
West Midlands -18 51 £425 - 3
Yorkshire -61 31 £500 +5.26% 1
South East -81 20 £550 -12.00% 17
North West -50 15 £426 +5.97% 9
South West -32 9 £436 -9.11% 4
North East -10 8 £350 -30.86% 2
East of England -31 4 £300 -42.86% 10
East Midlands -40 3 £368 +41.89% 3
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 (16.79%) Confluence
2 7 (2.55%) Apache
2 7 (2.55%) SAS
3 4 (1.46%) JBoss
3 4 (1.46%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.73%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.73%) CMS
6 1 (0.36%) nginx
6 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.19%) Shopify
2 3 (1.09%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.73%) Maximo
4 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 102 (37.23%) Azure
2 87 (31.75%) AWS
3 51 (18.61%) GitHub
4 49 (17.88%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (15.69%) GCP
6 29 (10.58%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (4.74%) Apigee
8 12 (4.38%) OpenShift
9 9 (3.28%) BrowserStack
10 8 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (2.92%) SaaS
10 8 (2.92%) Serverless
11 7 (2.55%) Tricentis Tosca
12 6 (2.19%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 5 (1.82%) Amazon S3
14 4 (1.46%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (1.46%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 3 (1.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.09%) HTTP
2 1 (0.36%) DSL
2 1 (0.36%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.66%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (4.01%) MongoDB
3 8 (2.92%) Big Data
3 8 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.92%) MySQL
4 7 (2.55%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.55%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.19%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (1.82%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.46%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.73%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.73%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.73%) Power BI
8 2 (0.73%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.36%) DB2
9 1 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.36%) SAS EBI
9 1 (0.36%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 104 (37.96%) JIRA
2 97 (35.40%) Jenkins
3 91 (33.21%) Cucumber
4 88 (32.12%) Git
5 76 (27.74%) Postman
6 68 (24.82%) GitLab
7 56 (20.44%) REST Assured
8 55 (20.07%) JUnit
9 52 (18.98%) Cypress.io
10 44 (16.06%) JMeter
10 44 (16.06%) WebDriver
11 21 (7.66%) TestRail
11 21 (7.66%) Zephyr
12 16 (5.84%) SpecFlow
13 15 (5.47%) Appium
14 13 (4.74%) TestNG
15 12 (4.38%) NUnit
16 11 (4.01%) Gatling
16 11 (4.01%) Robot Framework
17 10 (3.65%) Maven
General
1 85 (31.02%) Social Skills
2 44 (16.06%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (15.69%) Public Sector
4 40 (14.60%) Finance
5 23 (8.39%) Banking
6 9 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.19%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.82%) Military
10 4 (1.46%) Front Office
10 4 (1.46%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.09%) Marketing
11 3 (1.09%) Retail
12 2 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.73%) Police
13 1 (0.36%) Back Office
13 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (21.90%) Test Engineer
2 51 (18.61%) Lead
3 48 (17.52%) Tester
4 45 (16.42%) Senior
5 35 (12.77%) QA Engineer
6 30 (10.95%) Test Automation Engineer
7 29 (10.58%) Automation Tester
8 28 (10.22%) Test Leader
9 25 (9.12%) Developer
10 19 (6.93%) Automation Test Lead
11 18 (6.57%) Automation Engineer
12 17 (6.20%) Analyst
13 16 (5.84%) QA Automation Engineer
13 16 (5.84%) Test Analyst
14 15 (5.47%) Lead Test Engineer
15 11 (4.01%) Salesforce Developer
15 11 (4.01%) Senior Test Engineer
15 11 (4.01%) Senior Tester
16 9 (3.28%) Senior Automation Tester
17 8 (2.92%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (30.29%) Playwright
2 54 (19.71%) REST
3 39 (14.23%) Spring
4 29 (10.58%) Gherkin
5 28 (10.22%) .NET
6 19 (6.93%) pytest
7 18 (6.57%) Spring Boot
7 18 (6.57%) WireMock
8 17 (6.20%) HTML
9 16 (5.84%) SailPoint
10 15 (5.47%) JSON
10 15 (5.47%) OpenID
11 14 (5.11%) Lightning Web Components
12 13 (4.74%) LDAP
13 12 (4.38%) React
13 12 (4.38%) RESTful
14 11 (4.01%) Kafka
14 11 (4.01%) XML
15 10 (3.65%) SOAP
16 9 (3.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.57%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.74%) Distributed Architecture
3 12 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.01%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.82%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 5 (1.82%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.09%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.09%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.09%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.73%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.73%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.73%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.36%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.36%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.36%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.19%) Linux
1 6 (2.19%) Unix
1 6 (2.19%) Windows
2 4 (1.46%) Android
3 2 (0.73%) VMS
4 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (87.23%) Test Automation
2 163 (59.49%) CI/CD
3 134 (48.91%) Agile
4 92 (33.58%) DevOps
5 76 (27.74%) Test Strategy
6 73 (26.64%) API Testing
7 65 (23.72%) Problem-Solving
8 63 (22.99%) BDD
9 60 (21.90%) Test Scripting
10 55 (20.07%) Validation
11 52 (18.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 51 (18.61%) End-to-End Testing
13 50 (18.25%) Microservices
13 50 (18.25%) Regression Testing
14 43 (15.69%) Performance Testing
14 43 (15.69%) Scrum
15 42 (15.33%) Software Testing
16 39 (14.23%) Manual Testing
16 39 (14.23%) Scenario Testing
17 37 (13.50%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 123 (44.89%) Java
2 65 (23.72%) Python
3 62 (22.63%) SQL
4 58 (21.17%) C#
5 55 (20.07%) JavaScript
6 16 (5.84%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.01%) Apex Code
8 9 (3.28%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.19%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.19%) PHP
9 6 (2.19%) Ruby
10 5 (1.82%) Bash
10 5 (1.82%) Scala
10 5 (1.82%) XPath
11 3 (1.09%) Go
12 2 (0.73%) Groovy
12 2 (0.73%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.36%) VB
13 1 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 91 (33.21%) Security Cleared
2 76 (27.74%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.85%) ISTQB
4 17 (6.20%) Degree
5 10 (3.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 5 (1.82%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 3 (1.09%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.36%) CFA
10 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.36%) HP APS
10 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (39.78%) QA
2 22 (8.03%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.55%) WCAG
4 6 (2.19%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.46%) GDPR
5 4 (1.46%) Software Quality Assurance
6 3 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.36%) GxP
8 1 (0.36%) HL7
8 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.36%) MiFID
8 1 (0.36%) NCSC
8 1 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 50 (18.25%) Docker
2 3 (1.09%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 3 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 49 (17.88%) Kubernetes
2 30 (10.95%) Grafana
3 25 (9.12%) Prometheus
4 10 (3.65%) HP ALM
5 6 (2.19%) Terraform
6 5 (1.82%) Puppet
7 4 (1.46%) Kibana
8 2 (0.73%) Ansible
8 2 (0.73%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.73%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.36%) Podman
9 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (7.66%) Salesforce
2 18 (6.57%) Oracle
3 17 (6.20%) ServiceNow
4 16 (5.84%) Microsoft
5 11 (4.01%) MuleSoft
6 10 (3.65%) HP
7 8 (2.92%) Splunk
8 6 (2.19%) Google
9 4 (1.46%) Citrix
9 4 (1.46%) Micro Focus
9 4 (1.46%) SAP
9 4 (1.46%) Talend
9 4 (1.46%) webMethods
9 4 (1.46%) Workday
10 3 (1.09%) Adobe
10 3 (1.09%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.09%) Databricks
10 3 (1.09%) OpenText
11 2 (0.73%) Avaloq
11 2 (0.73%) IBM