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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 257 273
Rank change year-on-year -40 +16 -42
Contract jobs citing Selenium 303 240 312
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 0.97% 0.82%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.08% 7.18% 7.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 162 242
10th Percentile £346 £309 £360
25th Percentile £386 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -15.89%
75th Percentile £548 £574 £550
90th Percentile £645 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +8.57% -2.78% -15.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £90.00
% change year-on-year - - +33.33%

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 4,982 3,342 4,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.68% 13.56% 11.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,369 2,184 2,997
10th Percentile £337 £334 £358
25th Percentile £409 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% -4.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 63 187
10th Percentile £37.00 £26.08 £39.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.72 £49.24
Median hourly rate £65.75 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £76.94 £71.25 £73.70
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -19 127 £463 +8.82% 21
Midlands -11 76 £472 +35.44% 12
West Midlands -10 71 £475 +28.38% 10
North of England -51 56 £475 +11.76% 18
Yorkshire -54 33 £475 +11.76% 8
South East -74 18 £575 -8.00% 19
North West -35 17 £463 +23.33% 8
South West -20 14 £515 -0.48% 5
North East -9 8 £350 -30.86% 2
East of England -22 7 £300 -42.86% 12
East Midlands -34 5 £360 +36.36% 2
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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 44 (14.52%) Confluence
2 22 (7.26%) SAS
3 9 (2.97%) Apache
4 8 (2.64%) JBoss
4 8 (2.64%) WebLogic
5 4 (1.32%) Appian
6 3 (0.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.99%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.33%) CMS
7 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.99%) Shopify
1 3 (0.99%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.66%) Maximo
2 2 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 97 (32.01%) Azure
2 90 (29.70%) AWS
3 55 (18.15%) Azure DevOps
4 52 (17.16%) GitHub
5 35 (11.55%) GCP
6 29 (9.57%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (8.91%) OpenShift
8 13 (4.29%) Apigee
9 11 (3.63%) Tricentis Tosca
10 9 (2.97%) BrowserStack
11 8 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (2.64%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (2.64%) SaaS
11 8 (2.64%) Serverless
12 7 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (1.65%) Power Platform
14 4 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (1.32%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (1.32%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.32%) HTTP
2 1 (0.33%) DSL
2 1 (0.33%) VoIP
2 1 (0.33%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.93%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (5.61%) MongoDB
3 11 (3.63%) Oracle Database
4 8 (2.64%) MySQL
4 8 (2.64%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.31%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 7 (2.31%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.32%) Big Data
6 4 (1.32%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.99%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 2 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.66%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.33%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.33%) DB2
9 1 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.33%) Power BI
9 1 (0.33%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.33%) SAS EBI
9 1 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 114 (37.62%) Jenkins
2 109 (35.97%) Cucumber
2 109 (35.97%) Git
3 94 (31.02%) JIRA
4 89 (29.37%) GitLab
5 84 (27.72%) Postman
6 78 (25.74%) JUnit
7 62 (20.46%) REST Assured
8 60 (19.80%) Cypress.io
9 46 (15.18%) JMeter
10 40 (13.20%) WebDriver
11 19 (6.27%) TestRail
12 15 (4.95%) SpecFlow
13 14 (4.62%) Maven
14 13 (4.29%) Gatling
14 13 (4.29%) SonarQube
15 11 (3.63%) Appium
15 11 (3.63%) Mockito
15 11 (3.63%) Serenity BDD
15 11 (3.63%) TestNG
General
1 99 (32.67%) Social Skills
2 48 (15.84%) Public Sector
3 38 (12.54%) Finance
4 36 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.26%) Banking
6 10 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (1.98%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.65%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.32%) Front Office
10 4 (1.32%) Military
11 3 (0.99%) Back Office
12 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.66%) Police
12 2 (0.66%) Retail
12 2 (0.66%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.33%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.33%) Marketing
13 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (21.12%) Test Engineer
2 59 (19.47%) Lead
3 55 (18.15%) Senior
3 55 (18.15%) Tester
4 35 (11.55%) Automation Tester
5 30 (9.90%) QA Engineer
6 29 (9.57%) Developer
7 28 (9.24%) Test Automation Engineer
8 26 (8.58%) Test Leader
9 22 (7.26%) Test Specialist
10 19 (6.27%) Automation Test Lead
11 17 (5.61%) Lead Test Engineer
12 15 (4.95%) Senior Tester
13 13 (4.29%) QA Leader
13 13 (4.29%) Senior Automation Tester
14 12 (3.96%) Analyst
14 12 (3.96%) Automation Engineer
14 12 (3.96%) Test Automation Specialist
15 11 (3.63%) Senior Test Engineer
15 11 (3.63%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (26.07%) Playwright
2 72 (23.76%) REST
3 48 (15.84%) Spring
4 34 (11.22%) JSON
5 32 (10.56%) pytest
6 31 (10.23%) .NET
7 29 (9.57%) Gherkin
8 24 (7.92%) HTML
9 23 (7.59%) XML
10 22 (7.26%) Spring Boot
11 20 (6.60%) WireMock
12 19 (6.27%) React
13 18 (5.94%) OpenID
14 17 (5.61%) SOAP
15 16 (5.28%) SailPoint
16 15 (4.95%) Web Services
17 14 (4.62%) Lightning Web Components
17 14 (4.62%) RESTful
18 13 (4.29%) LDAP
19 11 (3.63%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.62%) Product Ownership
2 12 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (3.63%) Distributed Architecture
3 11 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.31%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.98%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.65%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (0.99%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (0.99%) Hedge funds
7 3 (0.99%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.66%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.66%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.66%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.33%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.33%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.62%) Linux
2 13 (4.29%) Unix
3 7 (2.31%) Windows
4 4 (1.32%) Android
5 2 (0.66%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (83.50%) Test Automation
2 193 (63.70%) CI/CD
3 161 (53.14%) Agile
4 118 (38.94%) DevOps
5 99 (32.67%) Test Strategy
6 83 (27.39%) API Testing
7 79 (26.07%) Problem-Solving
8 75 (24.75%) Test Scripting
9 70 (23.10%) BDD
10 65 (21.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 65 (21.45%) Scrum
11 64 (21.12%) Microservices
12 59 (19.47%) Software Testing
12 59 (19.47%) Validation
13 54 (17.82%) Regression Testing
14 46 (15.18%) TDD
15 41 (13.53%) Performance Testing
16 39 (12.87%) Containerisation
16 39 (12.87%) Stakeholder Management
17 38 (12.54%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 134 (44.22%) Java
2 75 (24.75%) Python
3 66 (21.78%) JavaScript
4 62 (20.46%) SQL
5 55 (18.15%) C#
6 16 (5.28%) TypeScript
7 11 (3.63%) Apex Code
8 9 (2.97%) PowerShell
8 9 (2.97%) Scala
9 6 (1.98%) PHP
10 5 (1.65%) Bash
10 5 (1.65%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.65%) XPath
11 4 (1.32%) Ruby
12 3 (0.99%) Go
12 3 (0.99%) Groovy
12 3 (0.99%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.66%) C
13 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 108 (35.64%) Security Cleared
2 90 (29.70%) SC Cleared
3 29 (9.57%) ISTQB
4 15 (4.95%) Degree
5 10 (3.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 9 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.65%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 4 (1.32%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.33%) CFA
11 1 (0.33%) HP APS
11 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (36.96%) QA
2 26 (8.58%) Accessibility
3 16 (5.28%) WCAG
4 4 (1.32%) GDPR
4 4 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.99%) EU AI Act
5 3 (0.99%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 3 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.99%) NIST
6 2 (0.66%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.66%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.33%) HL7
7 1 (0.33%) MiFID
7 1 (0.33%) NCSC
7 1 (0.33%) SLA
7 1 (0.33%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 75 (24.75%) Docker
2 3 (0.99%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 3 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 65 (21.45%) Kubernetes
2 33 (10.89%) Grafana
3 25 (8.25%) Prometheus
4 11 (3.63%) Puppet
5 9 (2.97%) Ansible
6 8 (2.64%) Terraform
7 7 (2.31%) HP ALM
7 7 (2.31%) Kibana
8 3 (0.99%) Podman
8 3 (0.99%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.66%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.66%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (6.60%) Oracle
2 17 (5.61%) ServiceNow
3 16 (5.28%) Salesforce
4 15 (4.95%) Microsoft
5 11 (3.63%) MuleSoft
5 11 (3.63%) Splunk
6 8 (2.64%) webMethods
7 7 (2.31%) HP
8 5 (1.65%) Google
8 5 (1.65%) Veracode
9 4 (1.32%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.32%) Cisco
9 4 (1.32%) Citrix
9 4 (1.32%) SAP
9 4 (1.32%) Workday
10 3 (0.99%) Adobe
10 3 (0.99%) UiPath
11 2 (0.66%) Avaloq
11 2 (0.66%) IBM
11 2 (0.66%) PagerDuty