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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 277 268
Rank change year-on-year -82 -9 +7
Contract jobs citing Selenium 290 252 290
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.91% 0.88%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.49% 6.08% 6.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 180 216
10th Percentile £310 £267 £339
25th Percentile £359 £318 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £418 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -16.50% -
75th Percentile £500 £520 £600
90th Percentile £600 £625 £673
UK median daily rate £425 £424 £496
% change year-on-year +0.35% -14.62% +4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - £48.13 £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 5,281 4,143 4,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 14.89% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,353 2,870 2,828
10th Percentile £358 £325 £355
25th Percentile £416 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £635
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 95 171
10th Percentile £36.25 £44.30 £36.25
25th Percentile £53.34 £54.88 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £82.98 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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

Selenium
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in England over the 6 months to 11 September 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

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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 11 September 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 -55 135 £450 +0.56% 51
North of England -67 56 £401 +5.18% 12
Midlands -27 51 £425 +54.55% 10
West Midlands -5 49 £425 -15.00% 6
South East -68 29 £363 -13.69% 16
North West -43 23 £402 +18.24% 7
North East -32 19 £450 +0.56% 2
Yorkshire -44 17 £350 -16.67% 3
South West -39 12 £438 -27.08% 10
East of England -28 8 £415 +107.32% 5
East Midlands -34 2 £375 +38.89% 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 34 (11.72%) Confluence
2 7 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.72%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.72%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.69%) Apache
5 2 (0.69%) SAS
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) Appian
6 1 (0.34%) Camunda
6 1 (0.34%) CMS
6 1 (0.34%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.03%) Shopify
3 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 109 (37.59%) Azure
2 98 (33.79%) AWS
3 72 (24.83%) Azure DevOps
4 67 (23.10%) GitHub
5 40 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (9.31%) GCP
7 15 (5.17%) Serverless
8 14 (4.83%) GitHub Copilot
9 12 (4.14%) BrowserStack
10 11 (3.79%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (3.45%) Azure Functions
11 10 (3.45%) Power Automate
12 9 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (2.76%) OpenShift
14 6 (2.07%) Power Platform
15 5 (1.72%) SaaS
15 5 (1.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Purview
17 3 (1.03%) Amazon EventBridge
17 3 (1.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.72%) HTTP
2 4 (1.38%) 4G
2 4 (1.38%) 5G
2 4 (1.38%) DNS
2 4 (1.38%) SSH
2 4 (1.38%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.62%) Relational Database
2 23 (7.93%) MongoDB
3 14 (4.83%) SQL Server
4 13 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (3.45%) NoSQL
6 8 (2.76%) Apache Cassandra
6 8 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (2.76%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (2.41%) Big Data
8 5 (1.72%) Hazelcast
8 5 (1.72%) Metadata
9 4 (1.38%) MySQL
9 4 (1.38%) Redis
9 4 (1.38%) Spark SQL
10 3 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.03%) HBase
10 3 (1.03%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.03%) Power BI
11 2 (0.69%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.69%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 98 (33.79%) Git
2 93 (32.07%) Cucumber
3 86 (29.66%) Jenkins
4 75 (25.86%) JIRA
5 69 (23.79%) GitLab
6 68 (23.45%) Cypress.io
7 62 (21.38%) Postman
8 57 (19.66%) JUnit
8 57 (19.66%) REST Assured
9 51 (17.59%) WebDriver
10 36 (12.41%) JMeter
11 34 (11.72%) Gatling
12 23 (7.93%) TestNG
13 18 (6.21%) Appium
14 17 (5.86%) Zephyr
15 15 (5.17%) SonarQube
16 13 (4.48%) Maven
17 10 (3.45%) HP UFT
17 10 (3.45%) Serenity BDD
17 10 (3.45%) SoapUI
General
1 99 (34.14%) Social Skills
2 53 (18.28%) Analytical Skills
2 53 (18.28%) Finance
3 44 (15.17%) Public Sector
4 42 (14.48%) Banking
5 10 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.41%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.07%) Military
8 4 (1.38%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.03%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.03%) Retail
10 2 (0.69%) Back Office
10 2 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.69%) Legal
10 2 (0.69%) Marketing
10 2 (0.69%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.34%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (20.69%) Test Engineer
2 48 (16.55%) Senior
3 37 (12.76%) Lead
4 36 (12.41%) QA Engineer
4 36 (12.41%) Test Automation Engineer
4 36 (12.41%) Tester
5 32 (11.03%) Analyst
6 29 (10.00%) Test Analyst
7 26 (8.97%) Automation Engineer
8 17 (5.86%) QA Automation Engineer
8 17 (5.86%) Quality Engineer
9 16 (5.52%) Automation Tester
9 16 (5.52%) Developer
9 16 (5.52%) Test Leader
10 15 (5.17%) Test Manager
11 10 (3.45%) Senior Test Engineer
12 9 (3.10%) Lead Test Engineer
12 9 (3.10%) Software Engineer
13 8 (2.76%) QA Tester
13 8 (2.76%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (40.69%) Playwright
2 45 (15.52%) REST
3 44 (15.17%) Kafka
4 31 (10.69%) Gherkin
4 31 (10.69%) Spring
5 22 (7.59%) .NET
6 21 (7.24%) JSON
7 20 (6.90%) WireMock
8 19 (6.55%) HTML
9 18 (6.21%) Spring Boot
10 17 (5.86%) pytest
10 17 (5.86%) React
10 17 (5.86%) Terraform
10 17 (5.86%) XML
11 15 (5.17%) Node.js
12 13 (4.48%) RESTful
12 13 (4.48%) SOAP
13 11 (3.79%) RabbitMQ
14 9 (3.10%) Pandas
14 9 (3.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.28%) Product Ownership
2 16 (5.52%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.17%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.10%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.10%) Virtual Team
5 8 (2.76%) Distributed Architecture
5 8 (2.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 5 (1.72%) Low-Code
6 5 (1.72%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.03%) Clustering
8 3 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.03%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.03%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.69%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.69%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.17%) Linux
2 8 (2.76%) Unix
3 5 (1.72%) Android
3 5 (1.72%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.72%) Windows
4 4 (1.38%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (86.90%) Test Automation
2 198 (68.28%) CI/CD
3 169 (58.28%) Agile
4 113 (38.97%) DevOps
5 96 (33.10%) Test Strategy
6 92 (31.72%) API Testing
7 87 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 82 (28.28%) Software Testing
9 75 (25.86%) BDD
9 75 (25.86%) End-to-End Testing
10 71 (24.48%) Performance Testing
11 69 (23.79%) Problem-Solving
12 67 (23.10%) Validation
13 63 (21.72%) Microservices
14 59 (20.34%) Integration Testing
14 59 (20.34%) Scrum
14 59 (20.34%) SDLC
15 58 (20.00%) Regression Testing
16 57 (19.66%) Stakeholder Management
17 50 (17.24%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 127 (43.79%) Java
2 92 (31.72%) Python
3 89 (30.69%) SQL
4 65 (22.41%) JavaScript
5 37 (12.76%) C#
6 23 (7.93%) TypeScript
7 14 (4.83%) Bash
8 6 (2.07%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.72%) Ruby
10 4 (1.38%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.03%) Scala
11 3 (1.03%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.69%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.69%) PROC SQL
12 2 (0.69%) R
12 2 (0.69%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.34%) Swift
13 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 120 (41.38%) Security Cleared
2 90 (31.03%) SC Cleared
3 34 (11.72%) ISTQB
4 25 (8.62%) DV Cleared
5 20 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (6.55%) Degree
7 12 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (3.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 7 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.72%) ISEB
11 2 (0.69%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.69%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.69%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (50.69%) QA
2 57 (19.66%) Accessibility
3 29 (10.00%) WCAG
4 11 (3.79%) Data Quality
4 11 (3.79%) ISO 20022
5 9 (3.10%) GDPR
6 4 (1.38%) Software Quality Assurance
7 3 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.69%) NIST
9 1 (0.34%) GRC
9 1 (0.34%) GxP
9 1 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.34%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.34%) PMO
9 1 (0.34%) SEPA
System Software
1 81 (27.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 61 (21.03%) Kubernetes
2 22 (7.59%) Grafana
3 20 (6.90%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.76%) Ansible
5 7 (2.41%) HP ALM
6 5 (1.72%) Check_MK
6 5 (1.72%) Podman
7 3 (1.03%) Istio
7 3 (1.03%) Kibana
8 2 (0.69%) Argo
9 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 36 (12.41%) Microsoft
2 32 (11.03%) Oracle
3 20 (6.90%) Salesforce
4 10 (3.45%) Splunk
5 8 (2.76%) IBM
6 7 (2.41%) HP
7 5 (1.72%) SAP
8 4 (1.38%) Micro Focus
8 4 (1.38%) Talend
8 4 (1.38%) UiPath
8 4 (1.38%) VMware
9 3 (1.03%) Databricks
9 3 (1.03%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.03%) Google
9 3 (1.03%) Guidewire
9 3 (1.03%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.03%) OpenText
9 3 (1.03%) Perfecto Mobile
10 2 (0.69%) Adobe
10 2 (0.69%) Avaloq