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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 256 252
Rank change year-on-year -117 -4 +14
Contract jobs citing Selenium 268 264 306
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.96% 0.92%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.07% 6.52% 7.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 184 231
10th Percentile £306 £264 £338
25th Percentile £358 £318 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £424 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% -15.30% -
75th Percentile £500 £520 £600
90th Percentile £625 £615 £675
UK median daily rate £425 £425 £490
% change year-on-year - -13.27% -2.00%
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 5,284 4,051 4,292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.58% 14.68% 12.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,370 2,807 2,834
10th Percentile £356 £320 £356
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 £600 £631
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 96 183
10th Percentile £36.25 £41.13 £33.01
25th Percentile £58.25 £51.05 £54.18
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 £73.95
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 20 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 20 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 -62 129 £450 - 83
North of England -55 57 £402 +3.41% 23
Midlands -39 49 £425 +57.41% 18
West Midlands -12 48 £425 - 17
North West -37 23 £402 +21.08% 12
North East -22 19 £450 +16.88% 7
Yorkshire -51 18 £375 -21.05% 4
South East -85 15 £418 -0.60% 22
South West -32 11 £444 -26.04% 8
East of England -15 8 £422 +29.89% 6
East Midlands -43 1 £415 +53.70% 1
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 (14.93%) Confluence
2 7 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.12%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.75%) Apache
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.75%) 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 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.49%) Shopify
3 3 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.12%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 114 (42.54%) Azure
2 82 (30.60%) AWS
3 72 (26.87%) Azure DevOps
4 68 (25.37%) GitHub
5 44 (16.42%) GitHub Actions
6 30 (11.19%) GCP
7 13 (4.85%) Serverless
8 11 (4.10%) BrowserStack
8 11 (4.10%) GitHub Copilot
9 10 (3.73%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (3.73%) Power Automate
10 8 (2.99%) Azure Functions
11 7 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (2.61%) OpenShift
11 7 (2.61%) SaaS
12 5 (1.87%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 4 (1.49%) Apigee
13 4 (1.49%) Power Platform
14 3 (1.12%) Amazon S3
14 3 (1.12%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.75%) 4G
1 2 (0.75%) 5G
1 2 (0.75%) DNS
1 2 (0.75%) HTTP
1 2 (0.75%) SSH
1 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.37%) WebEx
2 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.72%) MongoDB
2 17 (6.34%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.22%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.73%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.99%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.99%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (2.61%) Big Data
7 6 (2.24%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.87%) Hazelcast
9 3 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.12%) HBase
9 3 (1.12%) Metadata
9 3 (1.12%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.75%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.75%) Power BI
10 2 (0.75%) Redis
10 2 (0.75%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 2 (0.75%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.75%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 85 (31.72%) Cucumber
2 83 (30.97%) Jenkins
3 81 (30.22%) JIRA
4 71 (26.49%) Git
5 69 (25.75%) Cypress.io
6 61 (22.76%) GitLab
7 60 (22.39%) Postman
8 55 (20.52%) WebDriver
9 54 (20.15%) REST Assured
10 50 (18.66%) JUnit
11 38 (14.18%) JMeter
12 26 (9.70%) Gatling
13 22 (8.21%) TestNG
14 20 (7.46%) Appium
15 17 (6.34%) Zephyr
16 12 (4.48%) SpecFlow
17 10 (3.73%) HP UFT
17 10 (3.73%) Maven
17 10 (3.73%) NUnit
18 9 (3.36%) TeamCity
General
1 77 (28.73%) Social Skills
2 57 (21.27%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (18.66%) Finance
4 42 (15.67%) Public Sector
5 38 (14.18%) Banking
6 10 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.24%) Military
8 5 (1.87%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.49%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.75%) Back Office
11 2 (0.75%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.75%) Legal
11 2 (0.75%) Marketing
11 2 (0.75%) Retail
11 2 (0.75%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.37%) Front Office
12 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 60 (22.39%) Test Engineer
2 53 (19.78%) Senior
3 41 (15.30%) Lead
4 39 (14.55%) Tester
5 37 (13.81%) QA Engineer
6 36 (13.43%) Test Automation Engineer
7 29 (10.82%) Analyst
8 27 (10.07%) Test Analyst
9 26 (9.70%) Automation Engineer
10 19 (7.09%) Automation Tester
10 19 (7.09%) Test Leader
11 17 (6.34%) QA Automation Engineer
12 15 (5.60%) Developer
13 14 (5.22%) Test Manager
14 13 (4.85%) Quality Engineer
15 11 (4.10%) Senior Test Engineer
15 11 (4.10%) Senior Tester
16 9 (3.36%) Senior Automation Tester
16 9 (3.36%) Senior QA Engineer
16 9 (3.36%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (39.55%) Playwright
2 43 (16.04%) REST
3 41 (15.30%) Kafka
4 27 (10.07%) Gherkin
5 26 (9.70%) Spring
6 21 (7.84%) .NET
7 19 (7.09%) WireMock
8 17 (6.34%) JSON
9 16 (5.97%) XML
10 14 (5.22%) Node.js
11 13 (4.85%) SOAP
11 13 (4.85%) Spring Boot
11 13 (4.85%) Terraform
12 12 (4.48%) HTML
12 12 (4.48%) pytest
13 10 (3.73%) React
13 10 (3.73%) RESTful
14 9 (3.36%) Web Services
15 8 (2.99%) Pandas
16 7 (2.61%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.84%) Product Ownership
2 19 (7.09%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.22%) Cloud Native
4 12 (4.48%) Distributed Architecture
5 10 (3.73%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.99%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 5 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.12%) Clustering
10 3 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.12%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.12%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.12%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.12%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.12%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.22%) Linux
2 9 (3.36%) Unix
2 9 (3.36%) Windows
3 4 (1.49%) Android
3 4 (1.49%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.49%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (87.31%) Test Automation
2 174 (64.93%) CI/CD
3 140 (52.24%) Agile
4 111 (41.42%) DevOps
5 96 (35.82%) Test Strategy
6 75 (27.99%) BDD
7 74 (27.61%) API Testing
7 74 (27.61%) End-to-End Testing
8 71 (26.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 66 (24.63%) Problem-Solving
10 62 (23.13%) Software Testing
11 56 (20.90%) Integration Testing
11 56 (20.90%) Microservices
11 56 (20.90%) Performance Testing
12 55 (20.52%) Validation
13 46 (17.16%) Scrum
13 46 (17.16%) Stakeholder Management
14 44 (16.42%) Regression Testing
15 43 (16.04%) Test Scripting
16 42 (15.67%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 108 (40.30%) Java
2 77 (28.73%) Python
3 70 (26.12%) SQL
4 56 (20.90%) JavaScript
5 45 (16.79%) C#
6 19 (7.09%) TypeScript
7 12 (4.48%) Bash
8 11 (4.10%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.24%) Ruby
10 5 (1.87%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.12%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.12%) Scala
12 2 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.75%) PROC SQL
12 2 (0.75%) R
12 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.75%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.37%) VBA
13 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 103 (38.43%) Security Cleared
2 87 (32.46%) SC Cleared
3 33 (12.31%) ISTQB
4 20 (7.46%) Degree
5 14 (5.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 9 (3.36%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.87%) ISEB
11 2 (0.75%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.75%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.75%) 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
1 140 (52.24%) QA
2 44 (16.42%) Accessibility
3 19 (7.09%) WCAG
4 10 (3.73%) ISO 20022
5 9 (3.36%) Data Quality
5 9 (3.36%) GDPR
6 4 (1.49%) Software Quality Assurance
7 3 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.75%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.37%) GxP
9 1 (0.37%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.37%) NIST
9 1 (0.37%) SEPA
System Software
1 70 (26.12%) Docker
2 3 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (19.78%) Kubernetes
2 23 (8.58%) Grafana
2 23 (8.58%) Prometheus
3 8 (2.99%) HP ALM
4 6 (2.24%) Ansible
5 5 (1.87%) Check_MK
5 5 (1.87%) Podman
6 3 (1.12%) Istio
7 1 (0.37%) Argo
7 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (13.81%) Microsoft
2 28 (10.45%) Oracle
3 22 (8.21%) Salesforce
4 10 (3.73%) Splunk
5 8 (2.99%) HP
6 7 (2.61%) IBM
7 4 (1.49%) Citrix
7 4 (1.49%) Micro Focus
7 4 (1.49%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.49%) SAP
7 4 (1.49%) Talend
7 4 (1.49%) UiPath
7 4 (1.49%) VMware
8 3 (1.12%) Guidewire
8 3 (1.12%) OpenText
8 3 (1.12%) Perfecto Mobile
9 2 (0.75%) Adobe
9 2 (0.75%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.75%) Google
9 2 (0.75%) Red Hat