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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 273 268 295
Rank change year-on-year -5 +27 -63
Contract jobs citing Selenium 291 271 309
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.98% 0.87% 0.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.36% 6.56% 6.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 183 243
10th Percentile £300 £350 £357
25th Percentile £351 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £552 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile £47.75 - £52.00
25th Percentile - £42.50 £53.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile - £47.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £65.00 - £67.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -8.33%

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 4,573 4,130 5,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.36% 13.26% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,194 2,597 3,617
10th Percentile £325 £350 £375
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 126 227
10th Percentile £39.00 £37.55 £45.88
25th Percentile £54.94 £51.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.50 £70.00 £77.02
90th Percentile £79.25 £74.72 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in England

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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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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Selenium in England over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 -4 118 £456 +1.22% 145
Midlands +10 57 £438 +2.94% 32
North of England -2 57 £350 -17.65% 61
West Midlands -7 40 £491 -15.53% 20
South East -30 27 £420 -29.11% 153
North West +2 24 £329 +2.50% 45
Yorkshire -25 24 £375 -11.76% 6
East Midlands +1 17 £280 -25.33% 6
South West -4 14 £537 +10.15% 22
North East -6 9 £448 +5.29% 11
East of England -3 8 £200 - 11
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 (9.97%) Confluence
2 17 (5.84%) SAS
3 8 (2.75%) Apache
3 8 (2.75%) JBoss
3 8 (2.75%) WebLogic
4 7 (2.41%) Appian
5 4 (1.37%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.69%) CICS
6 2 (0.69%) CMS
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.34%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.03%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.34%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 74 (25.43%) Azure
2 57 (19.59%) AWS
3 49 (16.84%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (8.59%) GitHub
5 21 (7.22%) OpenShift
6 18 (6.19%) GCP
7 16 (5.50%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (3.44%) Serverless
9 9 (3.09%) Tricentis Tosca
10 8 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (2.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 8 (2.75%) Power Platform
11 7 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.06%) BrowserStack
12 6 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (1.72%) Azure AKS
13 5 (1.72%) Pulumi
13 5 (1.72%) SaaS
14 4 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.69%) HTTP
1 2 (0.69%) Internet
2 1 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.34%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.47%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.12%) MongoDB
3 9 (3.09%) Oracle Database
3 9 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.72%) DB2
4 5 (1.72%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 4 (1.37%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.69%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.69%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 1 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.34%) Power BI
7 1 (0.34%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 100 (34.36%) Cucumber
2 86 (29.55%) Jenkins
3 79 (27.15%) Git
4 72 (24.74%) JIRA
4 72 (24.74%) JUnit
5 68 (23.37%) Postman
6 66 (22.68%) GitLab
7 54 (18.56%) Cypress.io
8 48 (16.49%) REST Assured
9 41 (14.09%) JMeter
10 28 (9.62%) Maven
11 27 (9.28%) Bitbucket
11 27 (9.28%) SonarQube
12 22 (7.56%) TestNG
13 20 (6.87%) WebDriver
14 15 (5.15%) Mockito
14 15 (5.15%) Zephyr
15 13 (4.47%) Appium
16 11 (3.78%) Sonatype Nexus
16 11 (3.78%) TestRail
General
1 87 (29.90%) Social Skills
2 50 (17.18%) Finance
3 37 (12.71%) Banking
4 35 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (12.03%) Public Sector
5 11 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (3.09%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.75%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.06%) Back Office
9 4 (1.37%) Front Office
9 4 (1.37%) Retail
10 3 (1.03%) Automotive
11 2 (0.69%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.69%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.69%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Marketing
12 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (25.43%) Tester
2 58 (19.93%) Test Engineer
3 54 (18.56%) Automation Tester
4 38 (13.06%) Senior
5 30 (10.31%) Lead
6 29 (9.97%) Developer
7 25 (8.59%) Test Automation Engineer
8 22 (7.56%) Analyst
9 19 (6.53%) Test Analyst
10 17 (5.84%) QA Engineer
10 17 (5.84%) Test Specialist
11 16 (5.50%) Java Developer
12 13 (4.47%) QA Leader
13 12 (4.12%) QA Tester
14 11 (3.78%) Selenium Tester
14 11 (3.78%) Test Leader
15 10 (3.44%) Automation Engineer
15 10 (3.44%) Selenium Automation Tester
15 10 (3.44%) Senior Automation Tester
15 10 (3.44%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (23.71%) REST
2 64 (21.99%) Playwright
3 41 (14.09%) JSON
4 33 (11.34%) HTML
5 26 (8.93%) .NET
5 26 (8.93%) React
5 26 (8.93%) SOAP
6 23 (7.90%) XML
7 22 (7.56%) RESTful
7 22 (7.56%) Spring
8 21 (7.22%) Gherkin
8 21 (7.22%) pytest
9 19 (6.53%) Hibernate
9 19 (6.53%) Spring Boot
10 18 (6.19%) Web Services
11 16 (5.50%) Node.js
12 14 (4.81%) CSS
13 13 (4.47%) JPA
14 9 (3.09%) Swagger
15 8 (2.75%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.87%) Product Ownership
2 14 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (3.78%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.09%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.37%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.37%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.03%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.03%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.03%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.03%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.69%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.69%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.69%) VSAM
8 1 (0.34%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.34%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.81%) Unix
2 10 (3.44%) Linux
3 8 (2.75%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.06%) Windows
5 5 (1.72%) Android
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (83.16%) Test Automation
2 171 (58.76%) CI/CD
3 159 (54.64%) Agile
4 118 (40.55%) DevOps
5 85 (29.21%) Test Strategy
6 76 (26.12%) Problem-Solving
7 75 (25.77%) Test Scripting
8 67 (23.02%) Scrum
9 65 (22.34%) Software Testing
10 59 (20.27%) API Testing
11 52 (17.87%) Continuous Improvement
11 52 (17.87%) Microservices
12 49 (16.84%) BDD
13 47 (16.15%) Regression Testing
14 45 (15.46%) Performance Testing
15 41 (14.09%) TDD
16 39 (13.40%) Containerisation
17 36 (12.37%) Software Engineering
18 33 (11.34%) Stakeholder Management
18 33 (11.34%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 130 (44.67%) Java
2 63 (21.65%) Python
3 56 (19.24%) JavaScript
4 50 (17.18%) SQL
5 46 (15.81%) C#
6 12 (4.12%) Scala
7 6 (2.06%) VB.NET
8 3 (1.03%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.03%) Ruby
8 3 (1.03%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.69%) Bash
9 2 (0.69%) COBOL
9 2 (0.69%) Groovy
9 2 (0.69%) JCL
9 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.69%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.69%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.69%) XPath
10 1 (0.34%) C
10 1 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 76 (26.12%) Security Cleared
2 63 (21.65%) SC Cleared
3 33 (11.34%) ISTQB
4 15 (5.15%) Degree
5 11 (3.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 10 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.06%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (0.69%) MCP
10 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (30.58%) QA
2 28 (9.62%) Accessibility
3 23 (7.90%) WCAG
4 3 (1.03%) EU AI Act
4 3 (1.03%) NIST
4 3 (1.03%) SLA
5 2 (0.69%) GDPR
5 2 (0.69%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.34%) HL7
6 1 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.34%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 68 (23.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (15.46%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.15%) Ansible
3 14 (4.81%) Terraform
4 13 (4.47%) Puppet
5 11 (3.78%) Grafana
6 6 (2.06%) Kibana
7 5 (1.72%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.72%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.37%) Argo
8 4 (1.37%) HP ALM
8 4 (1.37%) Podman
9 1 (0.34%) logstash
Vendors
1 21 (7.22%) Oracle
2 18 (6.19%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.81%) Veracode
4 12 (4.12%) Salesforce
5 11 (3.78%) UiPath
6 8 (2.75%) Google
6 8 (2.75%) Splunk
6 8 (2.75%) webMethods
7 7 (2.41%) Cisco
8 5 (1.72%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.72%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.37%) HP
10 3 (1.03%) Duck Creek
10 3 (1.03%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.03%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.69%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.69%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.69%) Siebel
12 1 (0.34%) Apple
12 1 (0.34%) Cerner