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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 267 296
Rank change year-on-year -22 +29 -61
Contract jobs citing Selenium 276 240 267
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.87% 0.88% 0.74%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.92% 6.62% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 157 218
10th Percentile £315 £311 £358
25th Percentile £372 £388 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% +2.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile £567 £600 £538
90th Percentile £650 £650 £612
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £440
% change year-on-year +5.56% +2.27% -16.19%
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 4,664 3,627 4,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.78% 13.25% 11.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,231 2,268 3,052
10th Percentile £333 £334 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 65 192
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £44.73
25th Percentile £53.44 £54.00 £49.62
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.30 £75.85 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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

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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 8 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Selenium in England over the 6 months to 8 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 8 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 +1 120 £475 +11.76% 36
Midlands -1 54 £477 +23.77% 44
North of England -30 51 £375 -11.24% 63
West Midlands -10 44 £492 +21.48% 10
Yorkshire -29 30 £372 -11.43% 35
South East -52 23 £550 -12.00% 90
North West -19 15 £395 +5.33% 20
South West -12 12 £520 +9.47% 48
East Midlands -17 10 £360 -4.00% 33
North East -8 6 £460 -9.14% 8
East of England -16 6 - - 49
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 29 (10.51%) Confluence
2 17 (6.16%) SAS
3 8 (2.90%) Apache
3 8 (2.90%) JBoss
3 8 (2.90%) WebLogic
4 7 (2.54%) Appian
5 5 (1.81%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.72%) CMS
8 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.36%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.09%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Maximo
1 2 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.36%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 73 (26.45%) Azure
2 65 (23.55%) AWS
3 45 (16.30%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (10.87%) GitHub
5 22 (7.97%) GCP
6 21 (7.61%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (7.61%) OpenShift
7 11 (3.99%) Serverless
7 11 (3.99%) Tricentis Tosca
8 10 (3.62%) Apigee
9 9 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (2.90%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (2.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 8 (2.90%) SaaS
11 7 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (2.54%) Power Platform
12 6 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.17%) Azure AKS
12 6 (2.17%) BlazeMeter
13 5 (1.81%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.45%) HTTP
2 1 (0.36%) DSL
2 1 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.35%) MongoDB
2 11 (3.99%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.90%) Oracle Database
3 8 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.17%) MySQL
5 5 (1.81%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 3 (1.09%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.09%) DB2
6 3 (1.09%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.72%) Big Data
7 2 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.72%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.72%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 1 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.36%) Power BI
8 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 90 (32.61%) Cucumber
2 89 (32.25%) Jenkins
3 78 (28.26%) Git
4 70 (25.36%) JIRA
4 70 (25.36%) Postman
5 65 (23.55%) GitLab
6 61 (22.10%) JUnit
7 52 (18.84%) Cypress.io
7 52 (18.84%) REST Assured
8 32 (11.59%) JMeter
9 21 (7.61%) Bitbucket
9 21 (7.61%) WebDriver
10 20 (7.25%) SonarQube
11 19 (6.88%) Maven
11 19 (6.88%) TestRail
12 13 (4.71%) TestNG
13 12 (4.35%) Zephyr
14 11 (3.99%) Gradle
15 10 (3.62%) Gatling
15 10 (3.62%) Robot Framework
General
1 81 (29.35%) Social Skills
2 48 (17.39%) Finance
3 45 (16.30%) Public Sector
4 31 (11.23%) Banking
5 22 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (3.26%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.90%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.45%) Retail
10 3 (1.09%) Automotive
10 3 (1.09%) Back Office
10 3 (1.09%) Front Office
10 3 (1.09%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.72%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.72%) Marketing
11 2 (0.72%) Military
11 2 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (21.38%) Tester
2 54 (19.57%) Test Engineer
3 42 (15.22%) Lead
4 36 (13.04%) Automation Tester
5 35 (12.68%) Senior
6 29 (10.51%) Test Automation Engineer
7 28 (10.14%) Developer
8 19 (6.88%) QA Engineer
9 18 (6.52%) Analyst
9 18 (6.52%) Test Leader
10 17 (6.16%) Test Specialist
11 15 (5.43%) Test Analyst
12 14 (5.07%) QA Leader
13 12 (4.35%) Automation Test Lead
14 10 (3.62%) Java Developer
14 10 (3.62%) Lead Test Engineer
15 9 (3.26%) Java Engineer
15 9 (3.26%) Senior Tester
16 8 (2.90%) Salesforce Developer
16 8 (2.90%) Senior Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (25.36%) REST
2 58 (21.01%) Playwright
3 40 (14.49%) JSON
4 33 (11.96%) .NET
5 25 (9.06%) Spring
5 25 (9.06%) XML
6 23 (8.33%) Gherkin
6 23 (8.33%) HTML
7 22 (7.97%) pytest
7 22 (7.97%) RESTful
8 21 (7.61%) SOAP
9 19 (6.88%) React
10 16 (5.80%) Spring Boot
11 14 (5.07%) OpenID
11 14 (5.07%) Web Services
12 12 (4.35%) Hibernate
12 12 (4.35%) Node.js
13 11 (3.99%) SailPoint
14 9 (3.26%) LDAP
14 9 (3.26%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.07%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (3.62%) Cloud Native
4 5 (1.81%) Private Cloud
5 4 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.45%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.09%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.09%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.09%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.09%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.72%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.36%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.36%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.36%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.36%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.36%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.36%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.43%) Linux
2 12 (4.35%) Unix
3 8 (2.90%) Windows
4 5 (1.81%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.09%) Android
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (80.43%) Test Automation
2 160 (57.97%) CI/CD
3 143 (51.81%) Agile
4 110 (39.86%) DevOps
5 80 (28.99%) Test Strategy
6 78 (28.26%) Test Scripting
7 68 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
8 66 (23.91%) API Testing
9 64 (23.19%) Scrum
10 58 (21.01%) Software Testing
11 54 (19.57%) Regression Testing
12 52 (18.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 49 (17.75%) BDD
14 44 (15.94%) Microservices
15 40 (14.49%) Performance Testing
15 40 (14.49%) Validation
16 39 (14.13%) Containerisation
17 36 (13.04%) Software Engineering
18 34 (12.32%) Integration Testing
19 32 (11.59%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 119 (43.12%) Java
2 71 (25.72%) Python
3 56 (20.29%) SQL
4 53 (19.20%) JavaScript
5 46 (16.67%) C#
6 12 (4.35%) Scala
7 8 (2.90%) Apex Code
8 7 (2.54%) PHP
8 7 (2.54%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.81%) XPath
10 4 (1.45%) VB.NET
11 3 (1.09%) Bash
11 3 (1.09%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.09%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.09%) Ruby
12 2 (0.72%) C
12 2 (0.72%) Groovy
12 2 (0.72%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.72%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.36%) C++
Qualifications
1 78 (28.26%) Security Cleared
2 60 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 28 (10.14%) ISTQB
4 17 (6.16%) Degree
5 12 (4.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 11 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.54%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 4 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.72%) MCP
11 1 (0.36%) CFA
11 1 (0.36%) HP APS
11 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (32.97%) QA
2 22 (7.97%) Accessibility
3 18 (6.52%) WCAG
4 4 (1.45%) GDPR
5 3 (1.09%) EU AI Act
5 3 (1.09%) NIST
5 3 (1.09%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
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 65 (23.55%) Docker
2 3 (1.09%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 48 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.07%) Ansible
2 14 (5.07%) Terraform
3 13 (4.71%) Puppet
4 11 (3.99%) Grafana
5 5 (1.81%) Kibana
5 5 (1.81%) Podman
5 5 (1.81%) Progress Chef
5 5 (1.81%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.45%) HP ALM
7 3 (1.09%) Argo
8 2 (0.72%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (8.33%) Oracle
2 17 (6.16%) Salesforce
3 16 (5.80%) Microsoft
4 10 (3.62%) MuleSoft
4 10 (3.62%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.62%) Splunk
5 8 (2.90%) Veracode
5 8 (2.90%) webMethods
6 7 (2.54%) Cisco
7 5 (1.81%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.81%) Google
7 5 (1.81%) UiPath
8 4 (1.45%) HP
9 3 (1.09%) Adobe
10 2 (0.72%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.72%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.72%) IBM
10 2 (0.72%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.72%) Workday
11 1 (0.36%) Databricks