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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 256 250
Rank change year-on-year -96 -6 -16
Contract jobs citing Selenium 256 239 345
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.96% 0.91%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.01% 6.77% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 160 259
10th Percentile £313 £257 £350
25th Percentile £375 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% -15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £523 £501 £600
90th Percentile £630 £588 £688
UK median daily rate £435 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +2.35% -15.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - £47.38 £37.33
25th Percentile - £49.06 £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% -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 5,106 3,531 4,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.85% 14.20% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,322 2,399 3,006
10th Percentile £349 £332 £350
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 71 228
10th Percentile £30.75 £27.50 £32.61
25th Percentile £59.00 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.35% -10.19% +4.84%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -69 105 £450 +5.88% 9
North of England -57 65 £450 +5.88% 10
Midlands -34 54 £425 +57.41% 5
West Midlands -14 53 £425 - 4
North West -26 31 £426 +25.29% 4
Yorkshire -67 22 £500 +5.26% 3
South East -84 19 £550 +9.89% 7
North East -21 17 £450 +16.88% 3
South West -17 11 £436 -27.29% 5
East of England -27 3 £300 -7.69%
East Midlands -40 1 £415 +54.28% 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 49 (19.14%) Confluence
2 7 (2.73%) SAS
3 5 (1.95%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.17%) Apache
5 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.39%) Appian
6 1 (0.39%) Camunda
6 1 (0.39%) CMS
6 1 (0.39%) nginx
6 1 (0.39%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.34%) Shopify
2 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.78%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 97 (37.89%) Azure
2 86 (33.59%) AWS
3 61 (23.83%) GitHub
4 48 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (15.23%) GCP
6 30 (11.72%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (4.69%) BrowserStack
8 10 (3.91%) OpenShift
9 7 (2.73%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 6 (2.34%) Apigee
11 5 (1.95%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 5 (1.95%) Serverless
12 4 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.56%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.56%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.17%) Power Automate
13 3 (1.17%) Sauce Labs
13 3 (1.17%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.39%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (7.03%) MongoDB
3 13 (5.08%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.52%) Big Data
5 8 (3.13%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.34%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (1.56%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.17%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.17%) HBase
8 3 (1.17%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.17%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 2 (0.78%) Base SAS
9 2 (0.78%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.78%) MySQL
9 2 (0.78%) Power BI
9 2 (0.78%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 1 (0.39%) Db2
10 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 96 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 90 (35.16%) Cucumber
2 90 (35.16%) JIRA
3 75 (29.30%) Git
4 72 (28.13%) GitLab
5 61 (23.83%) Postman
6 60 (23.44%) JUnit
6 60 (23.44%) REST Assured
7 56 (21.88%) Cypress.io
8 55 (21.48%) WebDriver
9 49 (19.14%) JMeter
10 19 (7.42%) Gatling
11 17 (6.64%) TestNG
12 16 (6.25%) Zephyr
13 15 (5.86%) Serenity BDD
14 13 (5.08%) Appium
15 12 (4.69%) SpecFlow
16 11 (4.30%) NUnit
17 9 (3.52%) Robot Framework
17 9 (3.52%) TeamCity
General
1 75 (29.30%) Social Skills
2 50 (19.53%) Public Sector
3 44 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (13.28%) Finance
5 23 (8.98%) Banking
6 10 (3.91%) Military
7 9 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.56%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.17%) Retail
11 2 (0.78%) Back Office
11 2 (0.78%) Front Office
11 2 (0.78%) Legal
11 2 (0.78%) Marketing
11 2 (0.78%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.39%) Law
12 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 66 (25.78%) Test Engineer
2 48 (18.75%) Senior
3 44 (17.19%) Tester
4 42 (16.41%) QA Engineer
5 39 (15.23%) Lead
6 29 (11.33%) Test Automation Engineer
7 23 (8.98%) Automation Tester
8 18 (7.03%) Automation Engineer
8 18 (7.03%) Developer
9 17 (6.64%) Lead Test Engineer
9 17 (6.64%) QA Automation Engineer
10 16 (6.25%) Analyst
11 15 (5.86%) Test Analyst
11 15 (5.86%) Test Leader
12 12 (4.69%) Senior Test Engineer
12 12 (4.69%) Senior Tester
13 10 (3.91%) Automation Test Lead
13 10 (3.91%) Software Engineer
14 9 (3.52%) Senior Automation Tester
15 8 (3.13%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (32.81%) Playwright
2 42 (16.41%) Spring
3 41 (16.02%) REST
4 30 (11.72%) Kafka
5 24 (9.38%) WireMock
6 23 (8.98%) Gherkin
6 23 (8.98%) Spring Boot
7 18 (7.03%) pytest
8 15 (5.86%) .NET
9 11 (4.30%) Spring Cloud
10 9 (3.52%) Lightning Web Components
11 8 (3.13%) Node.js
12 7 (2.73%) HTML
12 7 (2.73%) Pandas
12 7 (2.73%) RESTful
12 7 (2.73%) SOAP
13 6 (2.34%) React
14 5 (1.95%) Jest
14 5 (1.95%) SailPoint
14 5 (1.95%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.20%) Product Ownership
2 19 (7.42%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (7.03%) Distributed Architecture
4 15 (5.86%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.34%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 4 (1.56%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.56%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.17%) Clustering
8 3 (1.17%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.17%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.17%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.78%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.95%) Windows
2 4 (1.56%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.17%) Android
3 3 (1.17%) Unix
4 2 (0.78%) VMS
5 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (89.45%) Test Automation
2 164 (64.06%) CI/CD
3 123 (48.05%) Agile
4 90 (35.16%) DevOps
5 87 (33.98%) Test Strategy
6 71 (27.73%) BDD
7 69 (26.95%) API Testing
8 67 (26.17%) Microservices
9 63 (24.61%) End-to-End Testing
10 61 (23.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 54 (21.09%) Problem-Solving
12 53 (20.70%) Validation
13 52 (20.31%) Performance Testing
14 44 (17.19%) Integration Testing
14 44 (17.19%) Software Testing
15 43 (16.80%) Observability
15 43 (16.80%) Test Scripting
16 41 (16.02%) Regression Testing
17 37 (14.45%) TDD
18 36 (14.06%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 110 (42.97%) Java
2 57 (22.27%) Python
3 47 (18.36%) JavaScript
3 47 (18.36%) SQL
4 44 (17.19%) C#
5 14 (5.47%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.52%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.34%) Apex Code
7 6 (2.34%) Ruby
8 4 (1.56%) Bash
9 3 (1.17%) Go
9 3 (1.17%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.17%) Scala
10 2 (0.78%) PROC SQL
11 1 (0.39%) COBOL
11 1 (0.39%) Groovy
11 1 (0.39%) Swift
11 1 (0.39%) VB
11 1 (0.39%) VBA
11 1 (0.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 102 (39.84%) Security Cleared
2 83 (32.42%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.42%) ISTQB
4 15 (5.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (5.47%) Degree
6 9 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.95%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.78%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.39%) CFA
10 1 (0.39%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (44.92%) QA
2 39 (15.23%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.73%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.73%) WCAG
4 4 (1.56%) GDPR
4 4 (1.56%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (0.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (0.78%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.39%) GxP
System Software
1 60 (23.44%) Docker
2 3 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 53 (20.70%) Kubernetes
2 37 (14.45%) Grafana
3 35 (13.67%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.34%) HP ALM
4 6 (2.34%) Terraform
5 3 (1.17%) Istio
6 2 (0.78%) Kibana
6 2 (0.78%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.39%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (7.81%) Salesforce
2 18 (7.03%) Oracle
3 16 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.69%) Splunk
5 7 (2.73%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.34%) HP
6 6 (2.34%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.95%) Google
8 4 (1.56%) Citrix
8 4 (1.56%) Micro Focus
8 4 (1.56%) SAP
8 4 (1.56%) Talend
9 3 (1.17%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.17%) Databricks
9 3 (1.17%) OpenText
10 2 (0.78%) Foundry
10 2 (0.78%) IBM
10 2 (0.78%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.78%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.78%) Workday