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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 268 255
Rank change year-on-year -90 -13 +19
Contract jobs citing Selenium 283 264 305
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.95% 0.93%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.42% 6.43% 7.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 190 232
10th Percentile £306 £267 £338
25th Percentile £358 £321 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -15.00% -
75th Percentile £500 £520 £600
90th Percentile £625 £625 £675
UK median daily rate £425 £425 £484
% change year-on-year - -12.14% -3.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - £48.13 £37.33
25th Percentile - - £38.19
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £41.75
Median % change year-on-year - +19.76% -42.41%
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 5,225 4,103 4,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 14.79% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,326 2,843 2,827
10th Percentile £356 £325 £356
25th Percentile £414 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £630
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 96 174
10th Percentile £36.25 £42.38 £36.40
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.58 £54.09
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.90 £84.13 £71.76
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -59 136 £450 - 105
North of England -67 57 £401 +3.15% 20
Midlands -26 52 £425 +57.41% 18
West Midlands +5 50 £425 -15.00% 14
North West -61 23 £402 +18.24% 9
North East -23 19 £450 +0.56% 6
South East -90 19 £435 -3.33% 27
Yorkshire -50 18 £375 -11.76% 5
South West -33 11 £438 -27.08% 20
East of England -17 9 £419 +109.65% 5
East Midlands -36 2 £375 +38.89% 4
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 38 (13.43%) Confluence
2 7 (2.47%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.77%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.77%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.71%) Apache
4 2 (0.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.71%) SAS
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.35%) Appian
5 1 (0.35%) Camunda
5 1 (0.35%) CMS
5 1 (0.35%) nginx
5 1 (0.35%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (3.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.41%) Shopify
3 3 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 117 (41.34%) Azure
2 90 (31.80%) AWS
3 77 (27.21%) Azure DevOps
4 71 (25.09%) GitHub
5 42 (14.84%) GitHub Actions
6 29 (10.25%) GCP
7 15 (5.30%) Serverless
8 14 (4.95%) GitHub Copilot
9 12 (4.24%) BrowserStack
10 11 (3.89%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (3.53%) Azure Functions
11 10 (3.53%) Power Automate
12 9 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (3.18%) OpenShift
13 6 (2.12%) Power Platform
13 6 (2.12%) SaaS
14 5 (1.77%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 4 (1.41%) Apigee
15 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
16 3 (1.06%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.77%) HTTP
2 4 (1.41%) 4G
2 4 (1.41%) 5G
2 4 (1.41%) DNS
2 4 (1.41%) SSH
2 4 (1.41%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.35%) WebEx
3 1 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.42%) MongoDB
2 15 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (4.95%) Relational Database
3 14 (4.95%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.53%) NoSQL
5 8 (2.83%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.83%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (2.47%) Big Data
7 5 (1.77%) Hazelcast
7 5 (1.77%) Metadata
8 4 (1.41%) MySQL
8 4 (1.41%) Redis
8 4 (1.41%) Spark SQL
9 3 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.06%) HBase
9 3 (1.06%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.06%) Power BI
10 2 (0.71%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.71%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 89 (31.45%) Cucumber
2 88 (31.10%) Jenkins
3 87 (30.74%) Git
4 82 (28.98%) JIRA
5 70 (24.73%) Cypress.io
6 69 (24.38%) GitLab
7 62 (21.91%) Postman
8 55 (19.43%) JUnit
9 54 (19.08%) REST Assured
10 53 (18.73%) WebDriver
11 39 (13.78%) JMeter
12 32 (11.31%) Gatling
13 22 (7.77%) TestNG
14 19 (6.71%) Appium
15 18 (6.36%) Zephyr
16 15 (5.30%) SonarQube
17 12 (4.24%) Maven
18 11 (3.89%) TestRail
19 10 (3.53%) HP UFT
19 10 (3.53%) SoapUI
General
1 88 (31.10%) Social Skills
2 57 (20.14%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (18.73%) Finance
4 44 (15.55%) Public Sector
5 42 (14.84%) Banking
6 10 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.47%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.12%) Military
9 4 (1.41%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.06%) Retail
11 2 (0.71%) Back Office
11 2 (0.71%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.71%) Legal
11 2 (0.71%) Marketing
11 2 (0.71%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Front Office
12 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 62 (21.91%) Test Engineer
2 52 (18.37%) Senior
3 38 (13.43%) Lead
3 38 (13.43%) QA Engineer
3 38 (13.43%) Test Automation Engineer
4 37 (13.07%) Tester
5 31 (10.95%) Analyst
6 28 (9.89%) Test Analyst
7 27 (9.54%) Automation Engineer
8 19 (6.71%) Quality Engineer
9 18 (6.36%) Automation Tester
9 18 (6.36%) Developer
10 17 (6.01%) QA Automation Engineer
10 17 (6.01%) Test Leader
11 14 (4.95%) Test Manager
12 11 (3.89%) Senior Test Engineer
13 10 (3.53%) Senior Tester
14 9 (3.18%) Lead Test Engineer
14 9 (3.18%) Software Engineer
15 8 (2.83%) Senior Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (41.70%) Playwright
2 46 (16.25%) REST
3 44 (15.55%) Kafka
4 31 (10.95%) Gherkin
5 30 (10.60%) Spring
6 21 (7.42%) WireMock
7 19 (6.71%) .NET
7 19 (6.71%) JSON
8 18 (6.36%) pytest
9 17 (6.01%) HTML
9 17 (6.01%) Terraform
9 17 (6.01%) XML
10 15 (5.30%) Node.js
10 15 (5.30%) Spring Boot
11 14 (4.95%) React
12 13 (4.59%) SOAP
13 12 (4.24%) RESTful
14 9 (3.18%) Pandas
14 9 (3.18%) RabbitMQ
14 9 (3.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.13%) Product Ownership
2 18 (6.36%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.30%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.53%) Distributed Architecture
4 10 (3.53%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 8 (2.83%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.77%) Low-Code
6 5 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.41%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.06%) Clustering
8 3 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.06%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.06%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.71%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.71%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.65%) Linux
2 8 (2.83%) Unix
2 8 (2.83%) Windows
3 5 (1.77%) Android
3 5 (1.77%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.41%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (86.93%) Test Automation
2 188 (66.43%) CI/CD
3 155 (54.77%) Agile
4 118 (41.70%) DevOps
5 96 (33.92%) Test Strategy
6 79 (27.92%) API Testing
7 75 (26.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 75 (26.50%) End-to-End Testing
8 74 (26.15%) BDD
9 70 (24.73%) Software Testing
10 68 (24.03%) Problem-Solving
11 63 (22.26%) Performance Testing
12 61 (21.55%) Microservices
13 60 (21.20%) Validation
14 57 (20.14%) Integration Testing
15 55 (19.43%) Scrum
16 52 (18.37%) Stakeholder Management
17 48 (16.96%) Regression Testing
18 46 (16.25%) SDLC
18 46 (16.25%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 121 (42.76%) Java
2 84 (29.68%) Python
3 81 (28.62%) SQL
4 63 (22.26%) JavaScript
5 40 (14.13%) C#
6 20 (7.07%) TypeScript
7 14 (4.95%) Bash
8 10 (3.53%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.12%) Ruby
10 5 (1.77%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.06%) Scala
12 3 (1.06%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.71%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.71%) PROC SQL
13 2 (0.71%) R
13 2 (0.71%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.35%) Korn
14 1 (0.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 110 (38.87%) Security Cleared
2 90 (31.80%) SC Cleared
3 33 (11.66%) ISTQB
4 20 (7.07%) Degree
5 18 (6.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (4.59%) DV Cleared
7 12 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (3.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 7 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.77%) ISEB
11 2 (0.71%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.71%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (52.65%) QA
2 50 (17.67%) Accessibility
3 25 (8.83%) WCAG
4 12 (4.24%) Data Quality
5 11 (3.89%) ISO 20022
6 9 (3.18%) GDPR
7 4 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.41%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.71%) NIST
9 1 (0.35%) GRC
9 1 (0.35%) GxP
9 1 (0.35%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.35%) SEPA
System Software
1 80 (28.27%) Docker
2 2 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 58 (20.49%) Kubernetes
2 23 (8.13%) Grafana
2 23 (8.13%) Prometheus
3 9 (3.18%) Ansible
4 8 (2.83%) HP ALM
5 5 (1.77%) Check_MK
5 5 (1.77%) Podman
6 3 (1.06%) Istio
7 2 (0.71%) Argo
8 1 (0.35%) Kibana
8 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (13.07%) Microsoft
2 30 (10.60%) Oracle
3 21 (7.42%) Salesforce
4 10 (3.53%) Splunk
5 8 (2.83%) HP
5 8 (2.83%) IBM
6 4 (1.41%) Micro Focus
6 4 (1.41%) MuleSoft
6 4 (1.41%) SAP
6 4 (1.41%) Talend
6 4 (1.41%) UiPath
6 4 (1.41%) VMware
7 3 (1.06%) Citrix
7 3 (1.06%) Databricks
7 3 (1.06%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.06%) Google
7 3 (1.06%) Guidewire
7 3 (1.06%) OpenText
7 3 (1.06%) Perfecto Mobile
8 2 (0.71%) Red Hat