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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 253 262
Rank change year-on-year -84 +9 -44
Contract jobs citing Selenium 265 241 316
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.99% 0.85%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.27% 7.29% 7.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 160 244
10th Percentile £313 £267 £345
25th Percentile £362 £357 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% -15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £530 £520 £585
90th Percentile £635 £616 £688
UK median daily rate £435 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +2.35% -10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36.75
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year - +29.87% -48.67%
75th Percentile - - £40.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £64.25
% change year-on-year - -22.18% -14.33%

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 5,025 3,306 4,258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.46% 13.59% 11.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,349 2,218 2,905
10th Percentile £340 £350 £355
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% -2.73%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £694 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 60 180
10th Percentile £38.62 £27.35 £31.71
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.77 £52.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% -3.85% +5.97%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.90 £82.75
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 30 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 30 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 -25 129 £450 +5.88% 19
North of England -77 52 £425 -10.53% 8
Midlands -40 48 £425 +30.37% 6
West Midlands -23 44 £425 - 4
Yorkshire -56 31 £500 +5.26% 1
South East -76 21 £550 -12.00% 9
North West -41 16 £402 -10.07% 5
North East -14 7 £350 -30.86% 2
South West -32 7 £436 -3.06% 6
East Midlands -35 4 £373 +38.57% 2
East of England -39 3 £300 -42.86% 9
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 47 (17.74%) Confluence
2 5 (1.89%) SAS
3 4 (1.51%) Apache
4 3 (1.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.75%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.75%) CMS
6 1 (0.38%) JBoss
6 1 (0.38%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.38%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.38%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.26%) Shopify
2 3 (1.13%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.75%) Maximo
4 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 101 (38.11%) Azure
2 82 (30.94%) AWS
3 50 (18.87%) GitHub
4 49 (18.49%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (16.23%) GCP
6 26 (9.81%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (4.53%) Apigee
8 11 (4.15%) BrowserStack
8 11 (4.15%) OpenShift
9 8 (3.02%) SaaS
10 7 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.64%) Serverless
11 6 (2.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 6 (2.26%) Tricentis Tosca
12 5 (1.89%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.51%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (1.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 3 (1.13%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (1.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (1.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.75%) HTTP
2 1 (0.38%) DSL
2 1 (0.38%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (3.02%) Big Data
2 8 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (3.02%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.02%) MySQL
2 8 (3.02%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.26%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (1.89%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.89%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.51%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.13%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.13%) Power BI
7 2 (0.75%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.75%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.38%) DB2
8 1 (0.38%) SAS EBI
8 1 (0.38%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 102 (38.49%) JIRA
2 95 (35.85%) Jenkins
3 91 (34.34%) Cucumber
4 79 (29.81%) Git
5 71 (26.79%) Postman
6 64 (24.15%) GitLab
7 56 (21.13%) REST Assured
8 53 (20.00%) Cypress.io
9 51 (19.25%) JUnit
10 48 (18.11%) WebDriver
11 45 (16.98%) JMeter
12 18 (6.79%) TestRail
12 18 (6.79%) Zephyr
13 17 (6.42%) SpecFlow
13 17 (6.42%) TestNG
14 15 (5.66%) Appium
15 13 (4.91%) Gatling
15 13 (4.91%) NUnit
16 11 (4.15%) Robot Framework
17 9 (3.40%) SoapUI
General
1 75 (28.30%) Social Skills
2 44 (16.60%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (15.47%) Finance
4 39 (14.72%) Public Sector
5 25 (9.43%) Banking
6 8 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.26%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.89%) Military
9 4 (1.51%) Front Office
9 4 (1.51%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.13%) Marketing
10 3 (1.13%) Retail
11 2 (0.75%) Back Office
11 2 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.38%) Law
12 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 61 (23.02%) Test Engineer
2 48 (18.11%) Lead
2 48 (18.11%) Tester
3 42 (15.85%) Senior
4 35 (13.21%) QA Engineer
5 34 (12.83%) Test Automation Engineer
6 26 (9.81%) Test Leader
7 25 (9.43%) Automation Tester
8 23 (8.68%) Developer
9 18 (6.79%) Automation Engineer
9 18 (6.79%) Automation Test Lead
10 16 (6.04%) Analyst
10 16 (6.04%) QA Automation Engineer
11 15 (5.66%) Test Analyst
12 14 (5.28%) Lead Test Engineer
13 10 (3.77%) Salesforce Developer
13 10 (3.77%) Senior Test Engineer
13 10 (3.77%) Senior Tester
14 8 (3.02%) Senior Automation Tester
14 8 (3.02%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (29.06%) Playwright
2 48 (18.11%) REST
3 33 (12.45%) Spring
4 27 (10.19%) Gherkin
5 26 (9.81%) .NET
6 18 (6.79%) WireMock
7 17 (6.42%) pytest
8 16 (6.04%) SailPoint
9 15 (5.66%) Spring Boot
10 13 (4.91%) Kafka
10 13 (4.91%) LDAP
10 13 (4.91%) Lightning Web Components
10 13 (4.91%) OpenID
11 11 (4.15%) HTML
12 10 (3.77%) RESTful
13 8 (3.02%) JSON
13 8 (3.02%) Node.js
13 8 (3.02%) SOAP
14 7 (2.64%) React
14 7 (2.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.79%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.91%) Distributed Architecture
3 12 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.15%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 5 (1.89%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.51%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.13%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.13%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.13%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.13%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.75%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.75%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.38%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.64%) Windows
2 6 (2.26%) Linux
3 4 (1.51%) Android
3 4 (1.51%) Mac OS
3 4 (1.51%) Unix
4 2 (0.75%) VMS
5 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (88.68%) Test Automation
2 154 (58.11%) CI/CD
3 121 (45.66%) Agile
4 86 (32.45%) DevOps
5 72 (27.17%) API Testing
6 70 (26.42%) Test Strategy
7 64 (24.15%) BDD
8 59 (22.26%) Problem-Solving
9 57 (21.51%) Test Scripting
10 56 (21.13%) Validation
11 51 (19.25%) End-to-End Testing
12 47 (17.74%) Regression Testing
13 44 (16.60%) Microservices
13 44 (16.60%) Performance Testing
14 42 (15.85%) Continuous Improvement
15 40 (15.09%) Software Testing
16 39 (14.72%) Scenario Testing
17 37 (13.96%) Manual Testing
17 37 (13.96%) TDD
18 36 (13.58%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 119 (44.91%) Java
2 62 (23.40%) Python
3 60 (22.64%) SQL
4 56 (21.13%) C#
5 52 (19.62%) JavaScript
6 16 (6.04%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.77%) Apex Code
8 9 (3.40%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.26%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.26%) PHP
10 5 (1.89%) Bash
10 5 (1.89%) Ruby
11 4 (1.51%) Scala
12 3 (1.13%) Go
12 3 (1.13%) XPath
13 2 (0.75%) Groovy
13 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.38%) C++
14 1 (0.38%) COBOL
14 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 87 (32.83%) Security Cleared
2 72 (27.17%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.68%) ISTQB
4 17 (6.42%) Degree
5 10 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.51%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.13%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.38%) CFA
10 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.38%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (41.89%) QA
2 23 (8.68%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.26%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.51%) GDPR
4 4 (1.51%) WCAG
5 3 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.13%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (0.75%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.38%) GxP
7 1 (0.38%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.38%) MiFID
7 1 (0.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 44 (16.60%) Docker
2 3 (1.13%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 3 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (16.98%) Kubernetes
2 27 (10.19%) Grafana
3 25 (9.43%) Prometheus
4 9 (3.40%) HP ALM
5 5 (1.89%) Terraform
6 2 (0.75%) Ansible
6 2 (0.75%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.75%) Kibana
6 2 (0.75%) Puppet
6 2 (0.75%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.38%) Podman
7 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (7.92%) Salesforce
2 19 (7.17%) Oracle
3 17 (6.42%) ServiceNow
4 15 (5.66%) Microsoft
5 10 (3.77%) MuleSoft
6 9 (3.40%) HP
7 8 (3.02%) Splunk
8 6 (2.26%) Google
9 5 (1.89%) SAP
10 4 (1.51%) Citrix
10 4 (1.51%) IBM
10 4 (1.51%) Micro Focus
10 4 (1.51%) Talend
10 4 (1.51%) Workday
11 3 (1.13%) Adobe
11 3 (1.13%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.13%) Databricks
11 3 (1.13%) OpenText
12 2 (0.75%) Avaloq
12 2 (0.75%) Red Hat