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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 263 268
Rank change year-on-year -101 +5 +13
Contract jobs citing Selenium 292 259 289
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.93% 0.88%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.55% 6.27% 6.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 188 212
10th Percentile £306 £268 £331
25th Percentile £357 £320 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £500 £538 £600
90th Percentile £599 £629 £670
UK median daily rate £425 £425 £490
% change year-on-year - -13.27% +3.16%
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% -40.36%
75th Percentile - - £45.69
90th Percentile - - £46.78
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -35.71%

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 5,263 4,134 4,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.41% 14.89% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,335 2,857 2,803
10th Percentile £355 £325 £353
25th Percentile £415 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £634
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 239 96 168
10th Percentile £34.90 £44.63 £37.31
25th Percentile £52.29 £54.94 £54.27
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.15 £81.50 £73.83
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 16 September 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 September 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 -75 131 £450 -0.22% 128
North of England -72 56 £401 +6.93% 40
Midlands -24 53 £425 +41.67% 16
West Midlands -10 51 £435 +1.28% 12
South East -76 29 £363 -13.69% 26
North West -46 23 £402 +19.64% 22
North East -25 19 £450 +0.56% 8
Yorkshire -50 17 £350 -17.16% 10
South West -40 14 £430 -23.35% 19
East of England -18 8 £415 +107.32% 5
East Midlands -32 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 33 (11.30%) Confluence
2 8 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.05%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.71%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.68%) Apache
6 2 (0.68%) SAS
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.34%) Appian
7 1 (0.34%) Camunda
7 1 (0.34%) CMS
7 1 (0.34%) nginx
7 1 (0.34%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (3.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.68%) Shopify
4 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 108 (36.99%) Azure
2 96 (32.88%) AWS
3 73 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 66 (22.60%) GitHub
5 38 (13.01%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (8.22%) GCP
7 17 (5.82%) Serverless
8 14 (4.79%) GitHub Copilot
9 13 (4.45%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (4.11%) Azure Functions
10 12 (4.11%) Power Automate
11 11 (3.77%) BrowserStack
12 9 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (2.74%) OpenShift
14 7 (2.40%) Power Platform
15 6 (2.05%) SaaS
16 5 (1.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
18 3 (1.03%) Amazon EventBridge
18 3 (1.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.05%) HTTP
2 5 (1.71%) 4G
2 5 (1.71%) 5G
2 5 (1.71%) DNS
2 5 (1.71%) SSH
2 5 (1.71%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.34%) Internet
3 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.56%) MongoDB
1 25 (8.56%) Relational Database
2 16 (5.48%) SQL Server
3 14 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (3.77%) NoSQL
5 8 (2.74%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.74%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (2.40%) Big Data
7 5 (1.71%) Hazelcast
7 5 (1.71%) Metadata
7 5 (1.71%) MySQL
7 5 (1.71%) Redis
8 4 (1.37%) Spark SQL
9 3 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.03%) HBase
9 3 (1.03%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.03%) Power BI
10 2 (0.68%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.68%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 100 (34.25%) Cucumber
1 100 (34.25%) Git
2 87 (29.79%) Jenkins
3 73 (25.00%) JIRA
4 72 (24.66%) GitLab
5 67 (22.95%) Cypress.io
6 60 (20.55%) JUnit
6 60 (20.55%) Postman
7 55 (18.84%) REST Assured
8 49 (16.78%) WebDriver
9 37 (12.67%) Gatling
10 31 (10.62%) JMeter
11 23 (7.88%) TestNG
12 17 (5.82%) SonarQube
12 17 (5.82%) Zephyr
13 15 (5.14%) Appium
14 13 (4.45%) Maven
15 10 (3.42%) HP UFT
15 10 (3.42%) SoapUI
15 10 (3.42%) TestRail
General
1 101 (34.59%) Social Skills
2 54 (18.49%) Finance
3 52 (17.81%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (15.07%) Public Sector
5 43 (14.73%) Banking
6 11 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.74%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.05%) Military
9 3 (1.03%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.03%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.03%) Marketing
9 3 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.68%) Back Office
10 2 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.68%) Front Office
10 2 (0.68%) Legal
10 2 (0.68%) Retail
11 1 (0.34%) Automotive
11 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 61 (20.89%) Test Engineer
2 44 (15.07%) Senior
3 37 (12.67%) Lead
3 37 (12.67%) Test Automation Engineer
4 36 (12.33%) QA Engineer
5 35 (11.99%) Tester
6 33 (11.30%) Analyst
7 30 (10.27%) Test Analyst
8 24 (8.22%) Automation Engineer
9 20 (6.85%) Quality Engineer
10 17 (5.82%) Developer
10 17 (5.82%) Test Leader
11 16 (5.48%) QA Automation Engineer
12 15 (5.14%) Automation Tester
13 14 (4.79%) Test Manager
14 9 (3.08%) Lead Test Engineer
14 9 (3.08%) Software Engineer
15 8 (2.74%) QA Tester
15 8 (2.74%) Senior Analyst
15 8 (2.74%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (41.44%) Playwright
2 45 (15.41%) Kafka
2 45 (15.41%) REST
3 35 (11.99%) Spring
4 34 (11.64%) Gherkin
5 22 (7.53%) .NET
5 22 (7.53%) JSON
6 21 (7.19%) WireMock
7 20 (6.85%) HTML
7 20 (6.85%) Spring Boot
8 18 (6.16%) pytest
8 18 (6.16%) React
9 17 (5.82%) Terraform
9 17 (5.82%) XML
10 15 (5.14%) Node.js
11 14 (4.79%) RESTful
12 13 (4.45%) RabbitMQ
12 13 (4.45%) SOAP
13 11 (3.77%) Pandas
14 10 (3.42%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.88%) Product Ownership
2 15 (5.14%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.45%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.42%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 9 (3.08%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.40%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (1.71%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.71%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.03%) Clustering
9 3 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.03%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.03%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.68%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.68%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.82%) Linux
2 8 (2.74%) Unix
3 6 (2.05%) Windows
4 4 (1.37%) Android
4 4 (1.37%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.37%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (86.64%) Test Automation
2 200 (68.49%) CI/CD
3 173 (59.25%) Agile
4 116 (39.73%) DevOps
5 100 (34.25%) Test Strategy
6 93 (31.85%) API Testing
7 88 (30.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 88 (30.14%) Software Testing
8 79 (27.05%) BDD
9 73 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
10 71 (24.32%) Validation
11 70 (23.97%) Problem-Solving
12 69 (23.63%) Performance Testing
13 64 (21.92%) Microservices
14 63 (21.58%) Scrum
14 63 (21.58%) SDLC
15 59 (20.21%) Stakeholder Management
16 58 (19.86%) Integration Testing
17 57 (19.52%) Regression Testing
18 52 (17.81%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 129 (44.18%) Java
2 94 (32.19%) Python
3 90 (30.82%) SQL
4 66 (22.60%) JavaScript
5 37 (12.67%) C#
6 23 (7.88%) TypeScript
7 15 (5.14%) Bash
8 6 (2.05%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.71%) Ruby
10 4 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (1.37%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.03%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.03%) Scala
12 2 (0.68%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.68%) PROC SQL
12 2 (0.68%) R
12 2 (0.68%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.34%) COBOL
13 1 (0.34%) Korn
13 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 118 (40.41%) Security Cleared
2 87 (29.79%) SC Cleared
3 32 (10.96%) ISTQB
4 25 (8.56%) DV Cleared
5 22 (7.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 20 (6.85%) Degree
7 14 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (3.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 7 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.71%) ISEB
11 2 (0.68%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.68%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.68%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (51.71%) QA
2 62 (21.23%) Accessibility
3 33 (11.30%) WCAG
4 13 (4.45%) ISO 20022
5 10 (3.42%) Data Quality
5 10 (3.42%) GDPR
6 5 (1.71%) Software Quality Assurance
7 3 (1.03%) SEPA
8 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.68%) NIST
9 1 (0.34%) GRC
9 1 (0.34%) GxP
9 1 (0.34%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.34%) PMO
System Software
1 84 (28.77%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (21.58%) Kubernetes
2 22 (7.53%) Grafana
3 20 (6.85%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.74%) Ansible
5 7 (2.40%) HP ALM
6 5 (1.71%) Check_MK
6 5 (1.71%) Podman
7 3 (1.03%) Istio
7 3 (1.03%) Kibana
8 2 (0.68%) Argo
9 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 36 (12.33%) Microsoft
2 33 (11.30%) Oracle
3 19 (6.51%) Salesforce
4 10 (3.42%) Splunk
5 8 (2.74%) IBM
6 7 (2.40%) HP
7 4 (1.37%) Databricks
7 4 (1.37%) SAP
7 4 (1.37%) Talend
7 4 (1.37%) UiPath
7 4 (1.37%) VMware
8 3 (1.03%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.03%) Google
8 3 (1.03%) Guidewire
8 3 (1.03%) Perfecto Mobile
9 2 (0.68%) Adobe
9 2 (0.68%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.68%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.68%) Qualtrics
10 1 (0.34%) Okta