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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 249 258
Rank change year-on-year -98 +9 -23
Contract jobs citing Selenium 269 245 332
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 1.02% 0.90%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.34% 7.27% 7.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 166 255
10th Percentile £313 £265 £350
25th Percentile £372 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £600
90th Percentile £638 £618 £688
UK median daily rate £450 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36.75
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year - +29.87% -47.80%
75th Percentile - - £40.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £64.25
% change year-on-year - -22.18% -14.33%

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 5,038 3,368 4,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.05% 14.08% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,304 2,287 2,925
10th Percentile £349 £350 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £638
90th Percentile £684 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 61 203
10th Percentile £36.13 £27.50 £31.71
25th Percentile £55.31 £48.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £77.90
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.40% -9.42% +5.69%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -64 117 £461 +8.35% 14
North of England -62 70 £450 +0.67% 8
Midlands -35 49 £425 +57.41% 13
West Midlands -22 45 £425 - 10
Yorkshire -54 33 £500 +5.26% 3
North West -26 27 £463 +15.05% 5
South East -73 19 £550 -12.00% 7
North East -18 15 £438 -2.78%
South West -24 11 £436 -27.29% 5
East Midlands -41 4 £373 +39.09% 3
East of England -29 3 £300 -38.46% 3
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 48 (17.84%) Confluence
2 5 (1.86%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.86%) SAS
3 3 (1.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.12%) Apache
4 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.37%) Appian
5 1 (0.37%) Camunda
5 1 (0.37%) CMS
5 1 (0.37%) nginx
5 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.37%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.23%) Shopify
2 2 (0.74%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 98 (36.43%) Azure
2 93 (34.57%) AWS
3 58 (21.56%) GitHub
4 44 (16.36%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (16.36%) GCP
5 27 (10.04%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (4.46%) BrowserStack
7 11 (4.09%) OpenShift
8 10 (3.72%) Apigee
9 8 (2.97%) SaaS
10 6 (2.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 6 (2.23%) Tricentis Tosca
11 5 (1.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 4 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (1.49%) Serverless
13 3 (1.12%) Amazon S3
13 3 (1.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.12%) Sauce Labs
13 3 (1.12%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.37%) DSL
1 1 (0.37%) HTTP
1 1 (0.37%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (6.69%) MongoDB
3 13 (4.83%) Relational Database
4 10 (3.72%) Big Data
5 8 (2.97%) MySQL
5 8 (2.97%) NoSQL
5 8 (2.97%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.23%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.12%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.12%) HBase
8 3 (1.12%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.12%) Power BI
9 2 (0.74%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 1 (0.37%) DB2
10 1 (0.37%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.37%) SAS EBI
10 1 (0.37%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 104 (38.66%) Jenkins
2 97 (36.06%) JIRA
3 92 (34.20%) Cucumber
4 76 (28.25%) Git
5 72 (26.77%) GitLab
6 67 (24.91%) Postman
6 67 (24.91%) REST Assured
7 55 (20.45%) Cypress.io
8 54 (20.07%) JUnit
9 48 (17.84%) WebDriver
10 44 (16.36%) JMeter
11 19 (7.06%) Gatling
12 17 (6.32%) Zephyr
13 16 (5.95%) TestRail
14 15 (5.58%) Appium
14 15 (5.58%) Serenity BDD
14 15 (5.58%) TestNG
15 14 (5.20%) SpecFlow
16 11 (4.09%) NUnit
16 11 (4.09%) Robot Framework
General
1 74 (27.51%) Social Skills
2 50 (18.59%) Public Sector
3 42 (15.61%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (14.13%) Finance
5 26 (9.67%) Banking
6 9 (3.35%) Military
7 8 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.86%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.49%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.12%) Retail
11 2 (0.74%) Front Office
11 2 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.74%) Legal
11 2 (0.74%) Marketing
12 1 (0.37%) Back Office
12 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.37%) Police
12 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (26.39%) Test Engineer
2 48 (17.84%) Lead
3 45 (16.73%) Senior
4 44 (16.36%) Tester
5 39 (14.50%) QA Engineer
6 36 (13.38%) Test Automation Engineer
7 24 (8.92%) Automation Tester
8 21 (7.81%) Developer
8 21 (7.81%) Lead Test Engineer
8 21 (7.81%) Test Leader
9 16 (5.95%) Automation Test Lead
10 15 (5.58%) Automation Engineer
11 14 (5.20%) Analyst
11 14 (5.20%) QA Automation Engineer
12 13 (4.83%) Test Analyst
13 12 (4.46%) Senior Test Engineer
14 10 (3.72%) Salesforce Developer
14 10 (3.72%) Software Engineer
15 9 (3.35%) Senior Tester
16 8 (2.97%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (32.71%) Playwright
2 48 (17.84%) REST
3 40 (14.87%) Spring
4 29 (10.78%) Kafka
5 25 (9.29%) Spring Boot
6 21 (7.81%) .NET
6 21 (7.81%) Gherkin
7 19 (7.06%) pytest
7 19 (7.06%) WireMock
8 15 (5.58%) SailPoint
9 13 (4.83%) Lightning Web Components
10 12 (4.46%) LDAP
10 12 (4.46%) OpenID
11 11 (4.09%) Spring Cloud
12 9 (3.35%) RESTful
13 8 (2.97%) HTML
14 7 (2.60%) Node.js
14 7 (2.60%) Pandas
14 7 (2.60%) SOAP
15 6 (2.23%) React
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.06%) Product Ownership
2 16 (5.95%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.58%) Cloud Native
3 15 (5.58%) Distributed Architecture
4 5 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (1.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 5 (1.86%) Virtual Team
5 4 (1.49%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.12%) Clustering
6 3 (1.12%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.12%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.12%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.12%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.74%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.74%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.37%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.60%) Windows
2 6 (2.23%) Linux
3 4 (1.49%) Android
3 4 (1.49%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.12%) Unix
5 2 (0.74%) VMS
6 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (90.33%) Test Automation
2 170 (63.20%) CI/CD
3 123 (45.72%) Agile
4 93 (34.57%) DevOps
5 87 (32.34%) Test Strategy
6 76 (28.25%) API Testing
7 72 (26.77%) BDD
8 61 (22.68%) Microservices
9 58 (21.56%) End-to-End Testing
10 57 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
11 55 (20.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 53 (19.70%) Performance Testing
13 50 (18.59%) Validation
14 48 (17.84%) Test Scripting
15 43 (15.99%) Regression Testing
15 43 (15.99%) TDD
16 42 (15.61%) Scenario Testing
17 40 (14.87%) Integration Testing
17 40 (14.87%) Observability
18 38 (14.13%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 127 (47.21%) Java
2 65 (24.16%) Python
3 56 (20.82%) SQL
4 52 (19.33%) JavaScript
5 46 (17.10%) C#
6 14 (5.20%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.72%) Apex Code
8 9 (3.35%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.23%) PHP
9 6 (2.23%) Ruby
10 5 (1.86%) Bash
10 5 (1.86%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.12%) Go
11 3 (1.12%) Scala
12 2 (0.74%) XPath
13 1 (0.37%) C++
13 1 (0.37%) COBOL
13 1 (0.37%) Groovy
13 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.37%) VB6
Qualifications
1 98 (36.43%) Security Cleared
2 78 (29.00%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.06%) ISTQB
4 15 (5.58%) Degree
5 14 (5.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.23%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.37%) CFA
10 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (42.75%) QA
2 36 (13.38%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.60%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.86%) WCAG
5 4 (1.49%) GDPR
6 3 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.12%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.37%) GxP
8 1 (0.37%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.37%) MiFID
System Software
1 58 (21.56%) Docker
2 3 (1.12%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 3 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (19.33%) Kubernetes
2 35 (13.01%) Grafana
3 33 (12.27%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.97%) Terraform
5 6 (2.23%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.74%) Ansible
6 2 (0.74%) Istio
6 2 (0.74%) Kibana
6 2 (0.74%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.37%) Podman
7 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (8.18%) Salesforce
2 21 (7.81%) Oracle
3 16 (5.95%) ServiceNow
4 14 (5.20%) Splunk
5 13 (4.83%) Microsoft
6 10 (3.72%) MuleSoft
7 6 (2.23%) HP
8 5 (1.86%) Google
8 5 (1.86%) SAP
9 4 (1.49%) Citrix
9 4 (1.49%) Micro Focus
9 4 (1.49%) Talend
10 3 (1.12%) Adobe
10 3 (1.12%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.12%) Databricks
10 3 (1.12%) OpenText
10 3 (1.12%) Workday
11 2 (0.74%) Avaloq
11 2 (0.74%) IBM
11 2 (0.74%) Red Hat