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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 268 270
Rank change year-on-year -101 +2 -24
Contract jobs citing Selenium 271 254 325
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.93% 0.90%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.17% 6.58% 7.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 175 250
10th Percentile £306 £257 £355
25th Percentile £359 £313 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £420 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -16.00% -2.34%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £599
90th Percentile £630 £578 £675
UK median daily rate £425 £425 £500
% change year-on-year - -15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - £47.75 £37.33
25th Percentile - - £38.19
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £41.75
Median % change year-on-year - +19.76% -41.40%
75th Percentile - - £45.69
90th Percentile - - £46.78
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -36.84%

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 5,245 3,862 4,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.71% 14.20% 12.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,359 2,644 3,017
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £629
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 90 221
10th Percentile £28.08 £35.70 £31.71
25th Percentile £59.00 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.08 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.72% -2.31% +4.00%

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

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -86 114 £450 +5.88% 17
North of England -63 64 £450 +6.26% 10
Midlands -33 58 £425 +57.41% 5
West Midlands -10 57 £425 +10.82% 4
North West -39 31 £426 +25.29% 7
North East -21 19 £450 +16.88% 2
Yorkshire -52 19 £450 -11.76% 1
South East -82 19 £435 +7.41% 11
South West -36 11 £444 -26.04% 2
East of England -18 6 £410 +26.15% 3
East Midlands -39 1 £415 +54.85% 1
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 51 (18.82%) Confluence
2 7 (2.58%) SAS
3 5 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.48%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.11%) Apache
6 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.37%) Appian
7 1 (0.37%) Camunda
7 1 (0.37%) CMS
7 1 (0.37%) nginx
7 1 (0.37%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (2.21%) Shopify
2 3 (1.11%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 105 (38.75%) Azure
2 87 (32.10%) AWS
3 75 (27.68%) GitHub
4 60 (22.14%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (16.24%) GitHub Actions
6 36 (13.28%) GCP
7 15 (5.54%) BrowserStack
8 10 (3.69%) OpenShift
9 9 (3.32%) GitHub Copilot
10 8 (2.95%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (2.58%) Power Automate
11 7 (2.58%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 7 (2.58%) Serverless
12 5 (1.85%) Apigee
12 5 (1.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 4 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.48%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.48%) SaaS
14 3 (1.11%) Amazon S3
14 3 (1.11%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.37%) WebEx
1 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.86%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (7.38%) MongoDB
3 15 (5.54%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.32%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.95%) Big Data
6 6 (2.21%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.21%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.21%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.11%) Hazelcast
7 3 (1.11%) HBase
7 3 (1.11%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.11%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 2 (0.74%) Base SAS
8 2 (0.74%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.74%) InterSystems Cache
8 2 (0.74%) MySQL
8 2 (0.74%) Power BI
8 2 (0.74%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 97 (35.79%) Jenkins
2 92 (33.95%) JIRA
3 91 (33.58%) Cucumber
4 77 (28.41%) Git
5 69 (25.46%) GitLab
6 64 (23.62%) Cypress.io
6 64 (23.62%) REST Assured
7 61 (22.51%) JUnit
8 60 (22.14%) Postman
8 60 (22.14%) WebDriver
9 49 (18.08%) JMeter
10 24 (8.86%) Gatling
11 21 (7.75%) TestNG
12 20 (7.38%) Appium
13 18 (6.64%) Zephyr
14 15 (5.54%) Serenity BDD
15 14 (5.17%) SpecFlow
16 11 (4.06%) NUnit
16 11 (4.06%) TeamCity
17 9 (3.32%) Bitbucket
General
1 80 (29.52%) Social Skills
2 54 (19.93%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (16.24%) Public Sector
4 38 (14.02%) Finance
5 26 (9.59%) Banking
6 9 (3.32%) Military
6 9 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.48%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.11%) Retail
10 2 (0.74%) Back Office
10 2 (0.74%) Legal
10 2 (0.74%) Marketing
10 2 (0.74%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.37%) Legal Technology
11 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.37%) Police
11 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (24.72%) Test Engineer
2 48 (17.71%) Senior
3 43 (15.87%) Tester
4 42 (15.50%) Lead
4 42 (15.50%) QA Engineer
5 33 (12.18%) Test Automation Engineer
6 25 (9.23%) Analyst
7 24 (8.86%) Automation Tester
7 24 (8.86%) Test Analyst
8 23 (8.49%) Automation Engineer
9 17 (6.27%) QA Automation Engineer
9 17 (6.27%) Test Leader
10 15 (5.54%) Lead Test Engineer
11 14 (5.17%) Developer
12 12 (4.43%) Senior Test Engineer
13 11 (4.06%) Senior Tester
14 10 (3.69%) Automation Test Lead
15 9 (3.32%) Quality Engineer
15 9 (3.32%) Senior Automation Tester
15 9 (3.32%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (35.06%) Playwright
2 41 (15.13%) Spring
3 40 (14.76%) REST
4 33 (12.18%) Kafka
5 26 (9.59%) Gherkin
5 26 (9.59%) WireMock
6 22 (8.12%) Spring Boot
7 18 (6.64%) pytest
8 14 (5.17%) .NET
9 11 (4.06%) Spring Cloud
10 10 (3.69%) Node.js
10 10 (3.69%) RESTful
10 10 (3.69%) SOAP
11 9 (3.32%) JSON
12 8 (2.95%) Lightning Web Components
12 8 (2.95%) React
13 7 (2.58%) Pandas
13 7 (2.58%) XML
14 5 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (1.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.12%) Product Ownership
2 20 (7.38%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.64%) Distributed Architecture
4 14 (5.17%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.32%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.58%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.11%) Clustering
9 3 (1.11%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.11%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.11%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.11%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.11%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 3 (1.11%) Taxonomies
9 3 (1.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.85%) Android
1 5 (1.85%) Windows
2 4 (1.48%) Linux
2 4 (1.48%) Mac OS
2 4 (1.48%) Unix
3 3 (1.11%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (88.93%) Test Automation
2 183 (67.53%) CI/CD
3 139 (51.29%) Agile
4 109 (40.22%) DevOps
5 99 (36.53%) Test Strategy
6 82 (30.26%) BDD
7 74 (27.31%) API Testing
8 72 (26.57%) End-to-End Testing
9 71 (26.20%) Microservices
10 68 (25.09%) Problem-Solving
11 66 (24.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 55 (20.30%) Validation
13 54 (19.93%) Integration Testing
13 54 (19.93%) Performance Testing
14 47 (17.34%) Regression Testing
14 47 (17.34%) Software Testing
15 46 (16.97%) Test Scripting
16 44 (16.24%) TDD
17 43 (15.87%) Observability
17 43 (15.87%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 106 (39.11%) Java
2 64 (23.62%) Python
3 50 (18.45%) SQL
4 48 (17.71%) JavaScript
5 43 (15.87%) C#
6 15 (5.54%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.06%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.32%) Bash
9 6 (2.21%) Apex Code
9 6 (2.21%) Ruby
10 3 (1.11%) Go
10 3 (1.11%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.11%) Scala
11 2 (0.74%) PROC SQL
12 1 (0.37%) COBOL
12 1 (0.37%) Groovy
12 1 (0.37%) R
12 1 (0.37%) Swift
12 1 (0.37%) VB6
12 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 101 (37.27%) Security Cleared
2 84 (31.00%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.75%) ISTQB
4 15 (5.54%) Degree
5 14 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 5 (1.85%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.74%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.37%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (48.34%) QA
2 44 (16.24%) Accessibility
3 12 (4.43%) WCAG
4 7 (2.58%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.58%) GDPR
5 4 (1.48%) Software Quality Assurance
6 3 (1.11%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.37%) GxP
8 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.37%) SEPA
System Software
1 68 (25.09%) Docker
2 3 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (21.77%) Kubernetes
2 37 (13.65%) Grafana
3 35 (12.92%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.95%) HP ALM
5 6 (2.21%) Terraform
6 3 (1.11%) Check_MK
6 3 (1.11%) Istio
7 2 (0.74%) Kibana
7 2 (0.74%) Podman
7 2 (0.74%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.37%) Ansible
Vendors
1 24 (8.86%) Microsoft
1 24 (8.86%) Salesforce
2 20 (7.38%) Oracle
3 13 (4.80%) Splunk
4 8 (2.95%) HP
5 5 (1.85%) MuleSoft
6 4 (1.48%) Citrix
6 4 (1.48%) Micro Focus
6 4 (1.48%) Talend
7 3 (1.11%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.11%) Databricks
7 3 (1.11%) Google
7 3 (1.11%) Guidewire
7 3 (1.11%) OpenText
7 3 (1.11%) Perfecto Mobile
7 3 (1.11%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.74%) Foundry
8 2 (0.74%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.74%) UiPath
8 2 (0.74%) VMware