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 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 262 264
Rank change year-on-year -41 +2 -45
Contract jobs citing Selenium 303 236 311
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.82% 0.95% 0.82%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.03% 7.06% 7.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 160 241
10th Percentile £350 £308 £358
25th Percentile £387 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -15.89%
75th Percentile £545 £575 £550
90th Percentile £642 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +8.57% -2.78% -15.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £90.00
% change year-on-year - - +28.57%

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 5,029 3,342 4,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.67% 13.51% 11.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,394 2,202 2,971
10th Percentile £338 £337 £358
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% -4.38% -7.89%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £638
90th Percentile £689 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 62 183
10th Percentile £35.80 £26.06 £37.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.48 £48.39
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £77.13 £71.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.40% - +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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in England over the 6 months to 16 March 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 16 March 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 -21 127 £463 +8.82% 28
Midlands -5 75 £472 +38.01% 8
West Midlands -6 70 £475 +11.76% 4
North of England -48 56 £475 +14.87% 18
Yorkshire -49 33 £475 +15.15% 8
South East -76 18 £575 -8.00% 22
North West -39 17 £463 +19.05% 9
South West -25 15 £515 -0.48% 4
North East -7 8 £350 -30.86% 1
East of England -26 7 £300 -42.86% 7
East Midlands -31 5 £360 +36.36% 4
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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 44 (14.52%) Confluence
2 22 (7.26%) SAS
3 8 (2.64%) Apache
4 7 (2.31%) JBoss
4 7 (2.31%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.99%) Appian
5 3 (0.99%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.33%) CMS
6 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.99%) Shopify
1 3 (0.99%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.66%) Maximo
2 2 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 99 (32.67%) Azure
2 92 (30.36%) AWS
3 55 (18.15%) Azure DevOps
4 52 (17.16%) GitHub
5 37 (12.21%) GCP
6 29 (9.57%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (8.91%) OpenShift
8 13 (4.29%) Apigee
9 10 (3.30%) Tricentis Tosca
10 9 (2.97%) BrowserStack
11 8 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (2.64%) SaaS
11 8 (2.64%) Serverless
12 7 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (1.65%) Power Platform
14 4 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (1.32%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (1.32%) Azure AKS
14 4 (1.32%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.32%) HTTP
2 1 (0.33%) DSL
2 1 (0.33%) VoIP
2 1 (0.33%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.93%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (5.28%) MongoDB
3 11 (3.63%) Oracle Database
4 8 (2.64%) MySQL
4 8 (2.64%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.31%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 7 (2.31%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.32%) Big Data
6 4 (1.32%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.99%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 2 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.66%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.33%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.33%) DB2
9 1 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.33%) Power BI
9 1 (0.33%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.33%) SAS EBI
9 1 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 114 (37.62%) Jenkins
2 108 (35.64%) Cucumber
2 108 (35.64%) Git
3 94 (31.02%) JIRA
4 88 (29.04%) GitLab
5 86 (28.38%) Postman
6 77 (25.41%) JUnit
7 64 (21.12%) REST Assured
8 61 (20.13%) Cypress.io
9 48 (15.84%) JMeter
10 41 (13.53%) WebDriver
11 19 (6.27%) TestRail
12 15 (4.95%) SpecFlow
13 14 (4.62%) Maven
14 13 (4.29%) Appium
14 13 (4.29%) Gatling
15 12 (3.96%) SonarQube
16 11 (3.63%) Mockito
16 11 (3.63%) Serenity BDD
16 11 (3.63%) Zephyr
General
1 99 (32.67%) Social Skills
2 48 (15.84%) Public Sector
3 39 (12.87%) Finance
4 38 (12.54%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.59%) Banking
6 9 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (1.98%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.32%) Front Office
9 4 (1.32%) Military
9 4 (1.32%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.99%) Back Office
10 3 (0.99%) Retail
10 3 (0.99%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.66%) Police
12 1 (0.33%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Marketing
12 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (21.12%) Test Engineer
2 60 (19.80%) Lead
3 55 (18.15%) Senior
4 53 (17.49%) Tester
5 35 (11.55%) Automation Tester
6 30 (9.90%) QA Engineer
7 28 (9.24%) Developer
7 28 (9.24%) Test Automation Engineer
8 26 (8.58%) Test Leader
9 22 (7.26%) Test Specialist
10 19 (6.27%) Automation Test Lead
11 17 (5.61%) Lead Test Engineer
12 15 (4.95%) Senior Tester
13 13 (4.29%) Automation Engineer
13 13 (4.29%) QA Leader
13 13 (4.29%) Senior Automation Tester
14 12 (3.96%) Analyst
14 12 (3.96%) Test Automation Specialist
15 11 (3.63%) Senior Test Engineer
15 11 (3.63%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (26.40%) Playwright
2 73 (24.09%) REST
3 47 (15.51%) Spring
4 32 (10.56%) JSON
4 32 (10.56%) pytest
5 31 (10.23%) .NET
6 29 (9.57%) Gherkin
7 23 (7.59%) HTML
8 22 (7.26%) Spring Boot
9 21 (6.93%) XML
10 20 (6.60%) WireMock
11 19 (6.27%) React
12 18 (5.94%) OpenID
13 16 (5.28%) SailPoint
13 16 (5.28%) SOAP
14 15 (4.95%) Web Services
15 14 (4.62%) Lightning Web Components
15 14 (4.62%) RESTful
16 13 (4.29%) LDAP
17 11 (3.63%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.95%) Product Ownership
2 12 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (3.63%) Distributed Architecture
3 11 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (2.97%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.98%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.65%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (0.99%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (0.99%) Hedge funds
7 3 (0.99%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.99%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.66%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.66%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.66%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.62%) Linux
2 12 (3.96%) Unix
3 7 (2.31%) Windows
4 4 (1.32%) Android
5 2 (0.66%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (84.49%) Test Automation
2 192 (63.37%) CI/CD
3 161 (53.14%) Agile
4 119 (39.27%) DevOps
5 100 (33.00%) Test Strategy
6 83 (27.39%) API Testing
7 80 (26.40%) Problem-Solving
8 76 (25.08%) Test Scripting
9 70 (23.10%) BDD
10 66 (21.78%) Continuous Improvement
11 63 (20.79%) Microservices
11 63 (20.79%) Scrum
12 60 (19.80%) Software Testing
13 59 (19.47%) Validation
14 55 (18.15%) Regression Testing
15 46 (15.18%) TDD
16 43 (14.19%) Performance Testing
16 43 (14.19%) Stakeholder Management
17 39 (12.87%) Containerisation
17 39 (12.87%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 135 (44.55%) Java
2 74 (24.42%) Python
3 66 (21.78%) JavaScript
4 61 (20.13%) SQL
5 55 (18.15%) C#
6 16 (5.28%) TypeScript
7 11 (3.63%) Apex Code
8 9 (2.97%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.64%) Scala
10 6 (1.98%) PHP
11 5 (1.65%) Bash
11 5 (1.65%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.65%) XPath
12 4 (1.32%) Ruby
13 3 (0.99%) Go
13 3 (0.99%) Groovy
13 3 (0.99%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.66%) C
14 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 108 (35.64%) Security Cleared
2 90 (29.70%) SC Cleared
3 30 (9.90%) ISTQB
4 16 (5.28%) Degree
5 10 (3.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 9 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.65%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 4 (1.32%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.33%) CFA
11 1 (0.33%) HP APS
11 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (36.96%) QA
2 25 (8.25%) Accessibility
3 15 (4.95%) WCAG
4 4 (1.32%) GDPR
4 4 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.99%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.99%) EU AI Act
5 3 (0.99%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 3 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.99%) NIST
6 2 (0.66%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.33%) HL7
7 1 (0.33%) MiFID
7 1 (0.33%) NCSC
7 1 (0.33%) SLA
7 1 (0.33%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 73 (24.09%) Docker
2 3 (0.99%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 3 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 65 (21.45%) Kubernetes
2 33 (10.89%) Grafana
3 25 (8.25%) Prometheus
4 10 (3.30%) Puppet
5 8 (2.64%) Ansible
5 8 (2.64%) HP ALM
5 8 (2.64%) Terraform
6 7 (2.31%) Kibana
7 3 (0.99%) Podman
7 3 (0.99%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.66%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.66%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (6.93%) Oracle
2 17 (5.61%) ServiceNow
3 15 (4.95%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.95%) Salesforce
4 11 (3.63%) MuleSoft
4 11 (3.63%) Splunk
5 8 (2.64%) HP
6 7 (2.31%) webMethods
7 5 (1.65%) Google
8 4 (1.32%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.32%) Citrix
8 4 (1.32%) Micro Focus
8 4 (1.32%) SAP
8 4 (1.32%) Veracode
8 4 (1.32%) Workday
9 3 (0.99%) Adobe
9 3 (0.99%) Cisco
9 3 (0.99%) UiPath
10 2 (0.66%) IBM
10 2 (0.66%) Red Hat