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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 267 268
Rank change year-on-year -86 +1 +21
Contract jobs citing Selenium 314 265 283
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 0.95% 0.88%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.92% 6.30% 6.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 197 198
10th Percentile £306 £268 £334
25th Percentile £358 £332 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £494 £538 £602
90th Percentile £578 £638 £651
UK median daily rate £425 £427 £478
% change year-on-year -0.47% -10.58% +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
10th Percentile - £48.13 -
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -28.00%
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -28.00%

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 5,305 4,206 4,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.45% 15.15% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,358 2,915 2,710
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £635
90th Percentile £700 £694 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 98 164
10th Percentile £22.68 £34.43 £39.03
25th Percentile £51.21 £50.00 £54.68
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.12 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £75.75 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% -

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in England over the 6 months to 6 October 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

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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 6 October 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 -72 142 £459 +1.78% 104
North of England -66 62 £402 +2.75% 37
Midlands -17 61 £433 +40.65% 21
West Midlands +2 59 £436 -13.18% 17
North West -47 25 £402 +18.24% 11
South East -63 24 £275 -34.52% 36
North East -24 20 £450 -2.70% 16
Yorkshire -40 20 £400 -5.88% 10
South West -29 14 £425 -24.24% 12
East of England -23 8 £415 +107.32% 8
East Midlands -32 2 £375 +38.89% 4
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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 32 (10.19%) Confluence
2 8 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.91%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.59%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.96%) Apache
5 3 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.64%) CMS
6 2 (0.64%) SAS
7 1 (0.32%) Appian
7 1 (0.32%) Camunda
7 1 (0.32%) nginx
7 1 (0.32%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (3.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.96%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 121 (38.54%) Azure
2 106 (33.76%) AWS
3 78 (24.84%) GitHub
4 77 (24.52%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (14.01%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (6.37%) GCP
7 19 (6.05%) Serverless
8 17 (5.41%) GitHub Copilot
9 14 (4.46%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (4.14%) Azure Functions
10 13 (4.14%) Power Automate
11 12 (3.82%) OpenShift
12 11 (3.50%) BrowserStack
13 10 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (2.23%) Power Platform
15 6 (1.91%) SaaS
16 5 (1.59%) Amazon S3
17 4 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
17 4 (1.27%) Amazon EventBridge
17 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.91%) HTTP
2 5 (1.59%) 4G
2 5 (1.59%) 5G
2 5 (1.59%) DNS
2 5 (1.59%) SSH
2 5 (1.59%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.32%) Internet
3 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.28%) MongoDB
2 25 (7.96%) Relational Database
3 17 (5.41%) SQL Server
4 14 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.50%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (2.55%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (2.23%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (1.59%) Big Data
9 5 (1.59%) Hazelcast
9 5 (1.59%) Metadata
9 5 (1.59%) MySQL
9 5 (1.59%) Redis
10 4 (1.27%) Spark SQL
11 3 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.96%) HBase
11 3 (0.96%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.96%) Power BI
12 2 (0.64%) InterSystems Cache
12 2 (0.64%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 128 (40.76%) Cucumber
2 109 (34.71%) Git
3 95 (30.25%) Jenkins
4 79 (25.16%) GitLab
5 72 (22.93%) JUnit
6 69 (21.97%) JIRA
7 68 (21.66%) Postman
8 67 (21.34%) Cypress.io
9 59 (18.79%) REST Assured
10 48 (15.29%) WebDriver
11 46 (14.65%) Gatling
12 33 (10.51%) JMeter
13 29 (9.24%) TestNG
14 24 (7.64%) SonarQube
15 17 (5.41%) Appium
16 16 (5.10%) Zephyr
17 15 (4.78%) SoapUI
18 14 (4.46%) HP UFT
19 12 (3.82%) Maven
19 12 (3.82%) TestRail
General
1 115 (36.62%) Social Skills
2 61 (19.43%) Finance
3 58 (18.47%) Public Sector
4 49 (15.61%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (14.97%) Banking
6 11 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.55%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.91%) Military
9 4 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.96%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.96%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.64%) Back Office
11 2 (0.64%) Legal
11 2 (0.64%) Police
11 2 (0.64%) Retail
12 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.32%) Legal Technology
12 1 (0.32%) Marketing
12 1 (0.32%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (20.70%) Test Engineer
2 46 (14.65%) Senior
3 42 (13.38%) Lead
4 41 (13.06%) Tester
5 37 (11.78%) Test Automation Engineer
6 34 (10.83%) QA Engineer
7 33 (10.51%) Analyst
8 30 (9.55%) Test Analyst
9 28 (8.92%) Quality Engineer
10 26 (8.28%) Automation Engineer
11 22 (7.01%) Test Leader
12 19 (6.05%) Automation Tester
13 18 (5.73%) Developer
14 16 (5.10%) Test Manager
15 15 (4.78%) QA Automation Engineer
16 11 (3.50%) QA Tester
17 10 (3.18%) DevOps Engineer
17 10 (3.18%) Senior Test Engineer
18 9 (2.87%) Lead Test Engineer
18 9 (2.87%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (42.68%) Playwright
2 51 (16.24%) Kafka
3 45 (14.33%) REST
4 42 (13.38%) Spring
5 39 (12.42%) Gherkin
6 27 (8.60%) WireMock
7 22 (7.01%) HTML
7 22 (7.01%) JSON
8 21 (6.69%) Spring Boot
8 21 (6.69%) Terraform
9 20 (6.37%) RESTful
10 19 (6.05%) .NET
11 18 (5.73%) React
12 16 (5.10%) Node.js
12 16 (5.10%) pytest
12 16 (5.10%) XML
13 14 (4.46%) RabbitMQ
14 11 (3.50%) SOAP
15 10 (3.18%) CSS
16 9 (2.87%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.32%) Product Ownership
2 18 (5.73%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.14%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.18%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.18%) Virtual Team
5 9 (2.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 7 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.91%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.59%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.59%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.96%) Clustering
10 3 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (0.96%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.96%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.64%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.01%) Linux
2 9 (2.87%) Unix
3 6 (1.91%) Windows
4 4 (1.27%) Android
4 4 (1.27%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (87.90%) Test Automation
2 226 (71.97%) CI/CD
3 199 (63.38%) Agile
4 123 (39.17%) DevOps
5 109 (34.71%) Software Testing
6 108 (34.39%) Test Strategy
7 98 (31.21%) API Testing
8 97 (30.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 93 (29.62%) BDD
10 81 (25.80%) Microservices
11 76 (24.20%) Scrum
12 75 (23.89%) SDLC
13 74 (23.57%) End-to-End Testing
13 74 (23.57%) Performance Testing
14 72 (22.93%) Problem-Solving
15 69 (21.97%) Stakeholder Management
15 69 (21.97%) Validation
16 61 (19.43%) Manual Testing
17 58 (18.47%) Test Scripting
18 57 (18.15%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 157 (50.00%) Java
2 98 (31.21%) Python
3 93 (29.62%) SQL
4 72 (22.93%) JavaScript
5 35 (11.15%) C#
6 25 (7.96%) TypeScript
7 15 (4.78%) Bash
8 6 (1.91%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.59%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.59%) Ruby
10 4 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.96%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.96%) Scala
12 2 (0.64%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.64%) PROC SQL
12 2 (0.64%) R
12 2 (0.64%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.32%) Korn
13 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 132 (42.04%) Security Cleared
2 100 (31.85%) SC Cleared
3 31 (9.87%) ISTQB
4 30 (9.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (8.92%) DV Cleared
6 17 (5.41%) Degree
7 12 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (2.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 6 (1.91%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.91%) ISEB
11 2 (0.64%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.64%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (52.55%) QA
2 79 (25.16%) Accessibility
3 43 (13.69%) WCAG
4 12 (3.82%) ISO 20022
5 11 (3.50%) GDPR
6 8 (2.55%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.96%) NIST
7 3 (0.96%) SEPA
7 3 (0.96%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.32%) GRC
8 1 (0.32%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.32%) PMO
System Software
1 104 (33.12%) Docker
2 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 82 (26.11%) Kubernetes
2 23 (7.32%) Grafana
3 21 (6.69%) Prometheus
4 12 (3.82%) Ansible
5 6 (1.91%) HP ALM
6 5 (1.59%) Check_MK
6 5 (1.59%) Podman
7 3 (0.96%) Argo
7 3 (0.96%) Istio
7 3 (0.96%) Kibana
8 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 36 (11.46%) Microsoft
2 33 (10.51%) Oracle
3 13 (4.14%) Salesforce
3 13 (4.14%) Splunk
4 10 (3.18%) HP
4 10 (3.18%) IBM
5 5 (1.59%) SAP
6 4 (1.27%) Databricks
6 4 (1.27%) Talend
6 4 (1.27%) UiPath
6 4 (1.27%) VMware
7 3 (0.96%) Dynatrace
7 3 (0.96%) Google
7 3 (0.96%) Guidewire
7 3 (0.96%) Perfecto Mobile
8 2 (0.64%) Adobe
8 2 (0.64%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.64%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.64%) Qualtrics
9 1 (0.32%) Okta