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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 264 258
Rank change year-on-year -108 -6 +13
Contract jobs citing Selenium 272 262 307
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.95% 0.92%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.17% 6.48% 7.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 184 230
10th Percentile £306 £264 £338
25th Percentile £358 £318 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -15.00% -
75th Percentile £500 £520 £600
90th Percentile £600 £622 £675
UK median daily rate £425 £425 £480
% change year-on-year - -11.46% -4.00%
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 5,258 4,042 4,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.51% 14.67% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,345 2,800 2,830
10th Percentile £356 £325 £355
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £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 245 96 184
10th Percentile £36.25 £41.13 £31.78
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.05 £53.63
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 £88.00 £82.98 £73.93
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%

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 21 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 21 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 -68 130 £450 - 32
North of England -76 57 £402 +3.08% 9
Midlands -30 50 £425 +57.41% 9
West Midlands -9 48 £425 - 9
North West -44 23 £402 +19.64% 5
North East -20 19 £450 +16.88% 2
Yorkshire -52 18 £375 -21.05% 2
South East -92 16 £435 +3.57% 16
South West -41 12 £438 -27.08% 6
East of England -10 8 £422 +29.89% 5
East Midlands -41 2 £375 +38.89%
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 (14.71%) Confluence
2 7 (2.57%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.84%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.10%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.74%) Apache
5 2 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.74%) SAS
6 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.37%) Appian
6 1 (0.37%) Camunda
6 1 (0.37%) CMS
6 1 (0.37%) nginx
6 1 (0.37%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.47%) Shopify
3 3 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.10%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 117 (43.01%) Azure
2 84 (30.88%) AWS
3 75 (27.57%) Azure DevOps
4 68 (25.00%) GitHub
5 43 (15.81%) GitHub Actions
6 30 (11.03%) GCP
7 14 (5.15%) Serverless
8 12 (4.41%) BrowserStack
9 11 (4.04%) GitHub Copilot
10 10 (3.68%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (3.68%) Power Automate
11 9 (3.31%) Azure Functions
12 8 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (2.94%) OpenShift
13 6 (2.21%) SaaS
14 5 (1.84%) Power Platform
14 5 (1.84%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 4 (1.47%) Apigee
16 3 (1.10%) Amazon S3
16 3 (1.10%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.74%) 4G
1 2 (0.74%) 5G
1 2 (0.74%) DNS
1 2 (0.74%) HTTP
1 2 (0.74%) SSH
1 2 (0.74%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.37%) WebEx
2 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.62%) MongoDB
2 17 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.15%) SQL Server
4 11 (4.04%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.94%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (2.57%) Big Data
6 7 (2.57%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.84%) Hazelcast
8 4 (1.47%) Metadata
9 3 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.10%) HBase
9 3 (1.10%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.10%) Power BI
9 3 (1.10%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.74%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.74%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.74%) Redis
10 2 (0.74%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 86 (31.62%) Cucumber
1 86 (31.62%) Jenkins
2 84 (30.88%) JIRA
3 75 (27.57%) Git
4 68 (25.00%) Cypress.io
5 62 (22.79%) GitLab
6 60 (22.06%) Postman
7 56 (20.59%) WebDriver
8 54 (19.85%) REST Assured
9 50 (18.38%) JUnit
10 40 (14.71%) JMeter
11 26 (9.56%) Gatling
12 22 (8.09%) TestNG
13 20 (7.35%) Appium
14 18 (6.62%) Zephyr
15 11 (4.04%) Maven
15 11 (4.04%) SpecFlow
16 10 (3.68%) HP UFT
16 10 (3.68%) NUnit
17 9 (3.31%) TeamCity
General
1 80 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 58 (21.32%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (19.12%) Finance
4 42 (15.44%) Public Sector
5 40 (14.71%) Banking
6 10 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.21%) Military
8 5 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.84%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.47%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.74%) Back Office
11 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.74%) Legal
11 2 (0.74%) Marketing
11 2 (0.74%) Retail
11 2 (0.74%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.37%) Front Office
12 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 60 (22.06%) Test Engineer
2 53 (19.49%) Senior
3 41 (15.07%) Lead
4 40 (14.71%) Tester
5 38 (13.97%) QA Engineer
6 36 (13.24%) Test Automation Engineer
7 30 (11.03%) Analyst
8 27 (9.93%) Test Analyst
9 26 (9.56%) Automation Engineer
10 19 (6.99%) Automation Tester
10 19 (6.99%) Test Leader
11 17 (6.25%) QA Automation Engineer
12 15 (5.51%) Developer
13 14 (5.15%) Quality Engineer
13 14 (5.15%) Test Manager
14 11 (4.04%) Senior Test Engineer
14 11 (4.04%) Senior Tester
15 9 (3.31%) Senior Automation Tester
15 9 (3.31%) Senior QA Engineer
15 9 (3.31%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (38.97%) Playwright
2 44 (16.18%) REST
3 43 (15.81%) Kafka
4 27 (9.93%) Gherkin
4 27 (9.93%) Spring
5 21 (7.72%) .NET
6 19 (6.99%) JSON
6 19 (6.99%) WireMock
7 17 (6.25%) XML
8 14 (5.15%) HTML
8 14 (5.15%) Node.js
8 14 (5.15%) Spring Boot
8 14 (5.15%) Terraform
9 13 (4.78%) pytest
9 13 (4.78%) SOAP
10 12 (4.41%) React
11 11 (4.04%) RESTful
12 9 (3.31%) Web Services
13 8 (2.94%) Pandas
14 7 (2.57%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.46%) Product Ownership
2 19 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.15%) Cloud Native
4 12 (4.41%) Distributed Architecture
5 10 (3.68%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 8 (2.94%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.47%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.47%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.10%) Clustering
9 3 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.10%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.10%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.10%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.74%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.15%) Linux
2 9 (3.31%) Unix
2 9 (3.31%) Windows
3 5 (1.84%) Android
3 5 (1.84%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.47%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (87.13%) Test Automation
2 177 (65.07%) CI/CD
3 144 (52.94%) Agile
4 113 (41.54%) DevOps
5 95 (34.93%) Test Strategy
6 75 (27.57%) End-to-End Testing
7 74 (27.21%) API Testing
7 74 (27.21%) BDD
8 72 (26.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 68 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 62 (22.79%) Software Testing
11 58 (21.32%) Integration Testing
11 58 (21.32%) Performance Testing
12 57 (20.96%) Microservices
12 57 (20.96%) Validation
13 48 (17.65%) Scrum
14 47 (17.28%) Stakeholder Management
15 46 (16.91%) Regression Testing
16 43 (15.81%) SDET
16 43 (15.81%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 112 (41.18%) Java
2 78 (28.68%) Python
3 74 (27.21%) SQL
4 60 (22.06%) JavaScript
5 43 (15.81%) C#
6 19 (6.99%) TypeScript
7 12 (4.41%) Bash
8 11 (4.04%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.21%) Ruby
10 5 (1.84%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.10%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.10%) Scala
12 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.74%) PROC SQL
12 2 (0.74%) R
12 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.74%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.37%) VBA
13 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 106 (38.97%) Security Cleared
2 89 (32.72%) SC Cleared
3 33 (12.13%) ISTQB
4 20 (7.35%) Degree
5 14 (5.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 9 (3.31%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.84%) ISEB
11 2 (0.74%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.74%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 1 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (51.84%) QA
2 44 (16.18%) Accessibility
3 19 (6.99%) WCAG
4 11 (4.04%) ISO 20022
5 10 (3.68%) Data Quality
6 9 (3.31%) GDPR
7 4 (1.47%) Software Quality Assurance
8 3 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.37%) GRC
10 1 (0.37%) GxP
10 1 (0.37%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.37%) NIST
10 1 (0.37%) SEPA
System Software
1 72 (26.47%) Docker
2 3 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (19.49%) Kubernetes
2 23 (8.46%) Grafana
2 23 (8.46%) Prometheus
3 8 (2.94%) HP ALM
4 7 (2.57%) Ansible
5 5 (1.84%) Check_MK
5 5 (1.84%) Podman
6 3 (1.10%) Istio
7 1 (0.37%) Argo
7 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (13.97%) Microsoft
2 30 (11.03%) Oracle
3 21 (7.72%) Salesforce
4 10 (3.68%) Splunk
5 8 (2.94%) HP
5 8 (2.94%) IBM
6 4 (1.47%) Citrix
6 4 (1.47%) Micro Focus
6 4 (1.47%) MuleSoft
6 4 (1.47%) SAP
6 4 (1.47%) Talend
6 4 (1.47%) UiPath
6 4 (1.47%) VMware
7 3 (1.10%) Guidewire
7 3 (1.10%) OpenText
7 3 (1.10%) Perfecto Mobile
8 2 (0.74%) Adobe
8 2 (0.74%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.74%) Google
8 2 (0.74%) Red Hat