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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 263 272
Rank change year-on-year -47 +9 -50
Contract jobs citing Selenium 290 226 307
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 0.93% 0.82%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.74% 6.83% 7.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 150 233
10th Percentile £350 £268 £356
25th Percentile £389 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £425 £465
Median % change year-on-year +11.41% -8.60% -12.26%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £642 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £470 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +10.59% -5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £38.50
75th Percentile - - £40.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £64.25
% change year-on-year - - -11.38%

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 5,054 3,309 4,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.18% 13.65% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,392 2,203 2,915
10th Percentile £340 £340 £358
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £588 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 65 162
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.12 £33.38
25th Percentile £59.25 £51.25 £46.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.31 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.43 £88.13
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -38 126 £463 +8.82% 28
Midlands -11 69 £474 +41.77% 10
West Midlands -6 66 £475 +11.76% 6
North of England -63 52 £455 +7.06% 17
Yorkshire -55 32 £484 +13.88% 6
South East -73 21 £563 -10.00% 18
North West -48 16 £450 +15.83% 10
South West -28 13 £475 -8.21% 4
North East -11 6 £350 -30.86% 1
East of England -35 5 £300 -42.86% 10
East Midlands -33 3 £368 +81.93% 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 40 (13.79%) Confluence
2 22 (7.59%) SAS
3 5 (1.72%) Apache
4 4 (1.38%) JBoss
4 4 (1.38%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.69%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.34%) CMS
7 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.38%) Shopify
2 3 (1.03%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.69%) Maximo
4 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 107 (36.90%) Azure
2 90 (31.03%) AWS
3 56 (19.31%) Azure DevOps
4 53 (18.28%) GitHub
5 43 (14.83%) GCP
6 30 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (9.31%) OpenShift
8 13 (4.48%) Apigee
9 9 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (3.10%) BrowserStack
9 9 (3.10%) Serverless
10 8 (2.76%) SaaS
11 7 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (2.41%) Tricentis Tosca
12 5 (1.72%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 4 (1.38%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.38%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (1.38%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.03%) HTTP
2 1 (0.34%) DSL
2 1 (0.34%) VoIP
2 1 (0.34%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.14%) MongoDB
3 11 (3.79%) Oracle Database
4 8 (2.76%) MySQL
5 7 (2.41%) Big Data
5 7 (2.41%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.41%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 7 (2.41%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.38%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.03%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 2 (0.69%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.69%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.34%) DB2
9 1 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.34%) Power BI
9 1 (0.34%) SAS EBI
9 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 112 (38.62%) Jenkins
2 104 (35.86%) Git
3 97 (33.45%) Cucumber
4 95 (32.76%) JIRA
5 86 (29.66%) GitLab
6 75 (25.86%) Postman
7 71 (24.48%) JUnit
8 61 (21.03%) REST Assured
9 56 (19.31%) Cypress.io
10 46 (15.86%) JMeter
11 42 (14.48%) WebDriver
12 21 (7.24%) TestRail
13 16 (5.52%) SpecFlow
14 15 (5.17%) Appium
15 14 (4.83%) Maven
15 14 (4.83%) Zephyr
16 11 (3.79%) Mockito
16 11 (3.79%) NUnit
16 11 (3.79%) Robot Framework
16 11 (3.79%) TestNG
General
1 95 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 45 (15.52%) Public Sector
3 40 (13.79%) Finance
4 39 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.28%) Banking
6 9 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.07%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.72%) Front Office
9 5 (1.72%) Military
10 4 (1.38%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.03%) Marketing
11 3 (1.03%) Retail
12 2 (0.69%) Back Office
12 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.69%) Police
13 1 (0.34%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (22.07%) Test Engineer
2 55 (18.97%) Senior
3 54 (18.62%) Lead
4 49 (16.90%) Tester
5 31 (10.69%) Automation Tester
6 30 (10.34%) Test Automation Engineer
7 29 (10.00%) QA Engineer
8 27 (9.31%) Developer
9 26 (8.97%) Test Leader
10 22 (7.59%) Test Specialist
11 19 (6.55%) Automation Test Lead
12 15 (5.17%) Automation Engineer
12 15 (5.17%) Lead Test Engineer
13 14 (4.83%) Senior Tester
14 12 (4.14%) Analyst
14 12 (4.14%) QA Automation Engineer
14 12 (4.14%) Senior Automation Tester
14 12 (4.14%) Senior Test Engineer
14 12 (4.14%) Test Automation Specialist
15 11 (3.79%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (28.62%) Playwright
2 69 (23.79%) REST
3 43 (14.83%) Spring
4 34 (11.72%) pytest
5 31 (10.69%) Gherkin
6 29 (10.00%) .NET
7 21 (7.24%) Spring Boot
8 20 (6.90%) JSON
9 18 (6.21%) HTML
9 18 (6.21%) OpenID
9 18 (6.21%) WireMock
10 17 (5.86%) React
11 16 (5.52%) SailPoint
12 14 (4.83%) Lightning Web Components
13 13 (4.48%) LDAP
13 13 (4.48%) RESTful
13 13 (4.48%) Web Services
14 12 (4.14%) XML
15 11 (3.79%) Kafka
15 11 (3.79%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.21%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.14%) Distributed Architecture
2 12 (4.14%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.72%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 5 (1.72%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.03%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (1.03%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.03%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.03%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.69%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.69%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.69%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.34%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.34%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.10%) Linux
2 7 (2.41%) Unix
2 7 (2.41%) Windows
3 4 (1.38%) Android
4 2 (0.69%) VMS
5 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (86.55%) Test Automation
2 179 (61.72%) CI/CD
3 149 (51.38%) Agile
4 112 (38.62%) DevOps
5 94 (32.41%) Test Strategy
6 77 (26.55%) API Testing
7 75 (25.86%) Problem-Solving
8 69 (23.79%) Test Scripting
9 62 (21.38%) BDD
9 62 (21.38%) Validation
10 57 (19.66%) Continuous Improvement
11 56 (19.31%) Regression Testing
12 55 (18.97%) Microservices
13 53 (18.28%) Scrum
14 51 (17.59%) Software Testing
15 45 (15.52%) End-to-End Testing
15 45 (15.52%) Stakeholder Management
16 41 (14.14%) Performance Testing
17 37 (12.76%) Integration Testing
17 37 (12.76%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 125 (43.10%) Java
2 77 (26.55%) Python
3 59 (20.34%) C#
3 59 (20.34%) SQL
4 58 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 16 (5.52%) TypeScript
6 11 (3.79%) Apex Code
7 9 (3.10%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.07%) PHP
9 5 (1.72%) Bash
9 5 (1.72%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.72%) Scala
9 5 (1.72%) XPath
10 4 (1.38%) Ruby
11 3 (1.03%) Go
11 3 (1.03%) Groovy
12 2 (0.69%) C
12 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.69%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.34%) C++
Qualifications
1 103 (35.52%) Security Cleared
2 87 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 30 (10.34%) ISTQB
4 18 (6.21%) Degree
5 10 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 8 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.72%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 3 (1.03%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.34%) CFA
10 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.34%) HP APS
10 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (36.90%) QA
2 21 (7.24%) Accessibility
3 12 (4.14%) WCAG
4 6 (2.07%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.38%) GDPR
6 3 (1.03%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 3 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.03%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.34%) GxP
7 1 (0.34%) HL7
7 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.34%) MiFID
7 1 (0.34%) NCSC
7 1 (0.34%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 65 (22.41%) Docker
2 3 (1.03%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 3 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 66 (22.76%) Kubernetes
2 33 (11.38%) Grafana
3 25 (8.62%) Prometheus
4 10 (3.45%) HP ALM
5 8 (2.76%) Terraform
6 7 (2.41%) Kibana
7 6 (2.07%) Puppet
8 4 (1.38%) Ansible
9 2 (0.69%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.69%) Podman
9 2 (0.69%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.69%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (6.90%) Salesforce
2 19 (6.55%) Oracle
3 17 (5.86%) ServiceNow
4 14 (4.83%) Microsoft
5 11 (3.79%) MuleSoft
6 10 (3.45%) HP
7 9 (3.10%) Splunk
8 6 (2.07%) Google
9 4 (1.38%) Citrix
9 4 (1.38%) Micro Focus
9 4 (1.38%) SAP
9 4 (1.38%) webMethods
9 4 (1.38%) Workday
10 3 (1.03%) Adobe
10 3 (1.03%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.03%) OpenText
11 2 (0.69%) Avaloq
11 2 (0.69%) Databricks
11 2 (0.69%) IBM
11 2 (0.69%) UiPath