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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 260 253
Rank change year-on-year -99 -7 -26
Contract jobs citing Selenium 257 239 344
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.97% 0.92%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.08% 6.87% 7.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 161 258
10th Percentile £313 £261 £350
25th Percentile £375 £330 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% -15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £525 £501 £600
90th Percentile £635 £588 £688
UK median daily rate £435 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +2.35% -15.00% -
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 5,064 3,479 4,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.82% 14.09% 11.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,294 2,359 2,971
10th Percentile £350 £336 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £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 £715 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 70 226
10th Percentile £31.87 £27.35 £32.36
25th Percentile £59.06 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £59.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.45% -8.46% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.30 £75.13
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +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 16 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 16 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 -75 108 £450 +5.88% 11
North of England -63 62 £450 +5.88% 8
Midlands -32 55 £425 +57.41% 9
West Midlands -12 53 £425 - 5
North West -33 30 £450 +32.35% 5
Yorkshire -63 21 £500 +5.26% 2
South East -78 19 £550 +9.89% 4
North East -20 16 £438 +13.64% 1
South West -21 11 £436 -27.29% 4
East of England -29 3 £300 -7.69% 5
East Midlands -44 2 £391 +44.91% 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 49 (19.07%) Confluence
2 7 (2.72%) 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%) Adobe Experience Manager
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 (2.33%) Shopify
2 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.78%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 96 (37.35%) Azure
2 85 (33.07%) AWS
3 61 (23.74%) GitHub
4 48 (18.68%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (14.79%) GCP
6 30 (11.67%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (4.67%) BrowserStack
8 10 (3.89%) OpenShift
9 7 (2.72%) Apigee
9 7 (2.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 5 (1.95%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 5 (1.95%) Serverless
11 4 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.56%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.56%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.17%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.17%) Sauce Labs
12 3 (1.17%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.39%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.34%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (7.00%) MongoDB
3 13 (5.06%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.50%) Big Data
5 8 (3.11%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.33%) 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 95 (36.96%) Jenkins
2 90 (35.02%) JIRA
3 88 (34.24%) Cucumber
4 76 (29.57%) Git
5 70 (27.24%) GitLab
6 59 (22.96%) JUnit
6 59 (22.96%) Postman
6 59 (22.96%) REST Assured
7 56 (21.79%) Cypress.io
7 56 (21.79%) WebDriver
8 48 (18.68%) JMeter
9 19 (7.39%) Gatling
10 16 (6.23%) TestNG
11 15 (5.84%) Serenity BDD
11 15 (5.84%) Zephyr
12 13 (5.06%) Appium
13 12 (4.67%) SpecFlow
14 11 (4.28%) NUnit
15 9 (3.50%) Robot Framework
15 9 (3.50%) TeamCity
General
1 75 (29.18%) Social Skills
2 50 (19.46%) Public Sector
3 44 (17.12%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (12.84%) Finance
5 23 (8.95%) Banking
6 10 (3.89%) Military
7 9 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.95%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
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 65 (25.29%) Test Engineer
2 47 (18.29%) Senior
3 44 (17.12%) Tester
4 43 (16.73%) QA Engineer
5 39 (15.18%) Lead
6 29 (11.28%) Test Automation Engineer
7 22 (8.56%) Automation Tester
8 19 (7.39%) Developer
9 18 (7.00%) Automation Engineer
10 17 (6.61%) Lead Test Engineer
10 17 (6.61%) QA Automation Engineer
11 16 (6.23%) Analyst
12 15 (5.84%) Test Analyst
12 15 (5.84%) Test Leader
13 12 (4.67%) Senior Test Engineer
14 11 (4.28%) Senior Tester
15 10 (3.89%) Automation Test Lead
15 10 (3.89%) Software Engineer
16 8 (3.11%) Quality Engineer
16 8 (3.11%) Senior Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (32.68%) Playwright
2 41 (15.95%) Spring
3 39 (15.18%) REST
4 30 (11.67%) Kafka
5 23 (8.95%) Gherkin
5 23 (8.95%) Spring Boot
5 23 (8.95%) WireMock
6 18 (7.00%) pytest
7 15 (5.84%) .NET
8 11 (4.28%) Spring Cloud
9 10 (3.89%) Lightning Web Components
10 8 (3.11%) Node.js
11 7 (2.72%) HTML
11 7 (2.72%) Pandas
11 7 (2.72%) RESTful
11 7 (2.72%) SOAP
12 6 (2.33%) React
13 5 (1.95%) Jest
13 5 (1.95%) SailPoint
13 5 (1.95%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.78%) Product Ownership
2 18 (7.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 18 (7.00%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.84%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.33%) Virtual Team
5 5 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (1.56%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.56%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.17%) Clustering
7 3 (1.17%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.17%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.17%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.78%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.78%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.95%) Windows
2 4 (1.56%) Android
2 4 (1.56%) Mac OS
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 (89.11%) Test Automation
2 163 (63.42%) CI/CD
3 122 (47.47%) Agile
4 90 (35.02%) DevOps
5 86 (33.46%) Test Strategy
6 71 (27.63%) BDD
7 68 (26.46%) API Testing
8 67 (26.07%) Microservices
9 62 (24.12%) End-to-End Testing
10 60 (23.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 55 (21.40%) Problem-Solving
12 52 (20.23%) Performance Testing
12 52 (20.23%) Validation
13 44 (17.12%) Software Testing
14 43 (16.73%) Integration Testing
14 43 (16.73%) Observability
15 42 (16.34%) Test Scripting
16 40 (15.56%) Regression Testing
17 38 (14.79%) TDD
18 36 (14.01%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 110 (42.80%) Java
2 57 (22.18%) Python
3 47 (18.29%) JavaScript
4 46 (17.90%) SQL
5 44 (17.12%) C#
6 14 (5.45%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.50%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.72%) Apex Code
9 6 (2.33%) Ruby
10 4 (1.56%) Bash
11 3 (1.17%) Go
11 3 (1.17%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.17%) Scala
12 2 (0.78%) PROC SQL
13 1 (0.39%) COBOL
13 1 (0.39%) Groovy
13 1 (0.39%) Swift
13 1 (0.39%) VB
13 1 (0.39%) VBA
13 1 (0.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 101 (39.30%) Security Cleared
2 82 (31.91%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.39%) ISTQB
4 15 (5.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (5.45%) Degree
6 9 (3.50%) 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 (44.75%) QA
2 39 (15.18%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.72%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.72%) 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/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.39%) GxP
6 1 (0.39%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 60 (23.35%) Docker
2 3 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (20.23%) Kubernetes
2 37 (14.40%) Grafana
3 35 (13.62%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.33%) HP ALM
4 6 (2.33%) Terraform
5 3 (1.17%) Istio
6 2 (0.78%) Kibana
6 2 (0.78%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.39%) Ansible
Vendors
1 21 (8.17%) Salesforce
2 18 (7.00%) Oracle
3 16 (6.23%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.67%) Splunk
5 7 (2.72%) MuleSoft
5 7 (2.72%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.33%) HP
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