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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 261 263
Rank change year-on-year -102 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Selenium 276 267 302
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.96% 0.91%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.16% 6.64% 7.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 185 231
10th Percentile £306 £261 £340
25th Percentile £358 £316 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -15.00% -
75th Percentile £498 £520 £600
90th Percentile £625 £621 £675
UK median daily rate £425 £425 £498
% change year-on-year - -14.66% -0.40%
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 5,353 4,023 4,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.68% 14.53% 12.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,407 2,783 2,850
10th Percentile £354 £320 £353
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 £630
90th Percentile £689 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 94 191
10th Percentile £36.25 £40.68 £33.07
25th Percentile £57.75 £51.02 £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 £82.99 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £67.49 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.82% - +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 15 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 15 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 -65 122 £450 -0.11% 81
Midlands -20 61 £425 +57.41% 18
West Midlands +9 60 £425 - 15
North of England -63 58 £402 +3.08% 15
North West -51 23 £402 +21.08% 7
North East -27 19 £450 +16.88% 4
Yorkshire -52 19 £400 -15.79% 4
South East -95 17 £435 +3.57% 18
South West -44 11 £444 -26.04% 10
East of England -15 8 £422 +29.89% 4
East Midlands -42 1 £415 +54.28% 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 47 (17.03%) Confluence
2 6 (2.17%) SAS
2 6 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.81%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.09%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.72%) Apache
5 2 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.36%) Appian
6 1 (0.36%) Camunda
6 1 (0.36%) CMS
6 1 (0.36%) nginx
6 1 (0.36%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.81%) Shopify
3 3 (1.09%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 115 (41.67%) Azure
2 89 (32.25%) AWS
3 74 (26.81%) GitHub
4 64 (23.19%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (17.39%) GitHub Actions
6 38 (13.77%) GCP
7 12 (4.35%) Serverless
8 11 (3.99%) BrowserStack
8 11 (3.99%) GitHub Copilot
8 11 (3.99%) OpenShift
9 10 (3.62%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (3.62%) Power Automate
10 8 (2.90%) Azure Functions
11 7 (2.54%) SaaS
12 6 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 4 (1.45%) Apigee
14 4 (1.45%) Power Platform
15 3 (1.09%) Datadog
15 3 (1.09%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.72%) 4G
1 2 (0.72%) 5G
1 2 (0.72%) DNS
1 2 (0.72%) HTTP
1 2 (0.72%) SSH
1 2 (0.72%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.36%) WebEx
2 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.42%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (6.88%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 11 (3.99%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.90%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (2.90%) Big Data
6 6 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.17%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.17%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (1.81%) Hazelcast
8 3 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.09%) HBase
8 3 (1.09%) Metadata
8 3 (1.09%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 2 (0.72%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.72%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.72%) Power BI
9 2 (0.72%) Redis
9 2 (0.72%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.72%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 92 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 91 (32.97%) Jenkins
3 86 (31.16%) JIRA
4 83 (30.07%) Git
5 66 (23.91%) Cypress.io
5 66 (23.91%) GitLab
6 62 (22.46%) JUnit
7 61 (22.10%) WebDriver
8 59 (21.38%) Postman
9 52 (18.84%) REST Assured
10 44 (15.94%) JMeter
11 25 (9.06%) Gatling
12 21 (7.61%) TestNG
13 20 (7.25%) Appium
14 17 (6.16%) Zephyr
15 13 (4.71%) SpecFlow
16 11 (3.99%) NUnit
17 10 (3.62%) HP UFT
17 10 (3.62%) Maven
17 10 (3.62%) Serenity BDD
General
1 85 (30.80%) Social Skills
2 56 (20.29%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (16.30%) Finance
4 42 (15.22%) Public Sector
5 35 (12.68%) Banking
6 10 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (2.54%) Military
8 5 (1.81%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.45%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.72%) Back Office
11 2 (0.72%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.72%) Legal
11 2 (0.72%) Marketing
11 2 (0.72%) Retail
11 2 (0.72%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.36%) Front Office
12 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 60 (21.74%) Test Engineer
2 55 (19.93%) Senior
3 44 (15.94%) Lead
4 43 (15.58%) Tester
5 39 (14.13%) QA Engineer
6 35 (12.68%) Test Automation Engineer
7 27 (9.78%) Analyst
8 26 (9.42%) Automation Engineer
9 25 (9.06%) Test Analyst
10 24 (8.70%) Automation Tester
11 21 (7.61%) Test Leader
12 17 (6.16%) QA Automation Engineer
13 15 (5.43%) Developer
14 13 (4.71%) Senior Tester
15 12 (4.35%) Quality Engineer
15 12 (4.35%) Senior Test Engineer
15 12 (4.35%) Test Manager
16 11 (3.99%) Automation Test Lead
16 11 (3.99%) Senior Automation Tester
17 10 (3.62%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (37.68%) Playwright
2 41 (14.86%) Kafka
3 40 (14.49%) REST
4 36 (13.04%) Spring
5 28 (10.14%) WireMock
6 26 (9.42%) Gherkin
7 19 (6.88%) .NET
8 17 (6.16%) pytest
9 16 (5.80%) JSON
10 15 (5.43%) XML
11 14 (5.07%) Node.js
11 14 (5.07%) Spring Boot
12 13 (4.71%) SOAP
13 12 (4.35%) HTML
14 10 (3.62%) React
14 10 (3.62%) RESTful
15 8 (2.90%) Pandas
16 7 (2.54%) RabbitMQ
16 7 (2.54%) Spring Cloud
16 7 (2.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (7.25%) Product Ownership
3 18 (6.52%) Distributed Architecture
4 13 (4.71%) Cloud Native
5 10 (3.62%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.90%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 5 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.09%) Clustering
10 3 (1.09%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (1.09%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.09%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.09%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.09%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.09%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.71%) Linux
2 8 (2.90%) Unix
3 7 (2.54%) Windows
4 4 (1.45%) Android
4 4 (1.45%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.45%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (87.68%) Test Automation
2 185 (67.03%) CI/CD
3 143 (51.81%) Agile
4 108 (39.13%) DevOps
5 107 (38.77%) Test Strategy
6 84 (30.43%) BDD
7 78 (28.26%) End-to-End Testing
8 76 (27.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 74 (26.81%) API Testing
10 65 (23.55%) Problem-Solving
11 63 (22.83%) Microservices
11 63 (22.83%) Validation
12 57 (20.65%) Integration Testing
13 55 (19.93%) Software Testing
14 52 (18.84%) Performance Testing
15 50 (18.12%) Stakeholder Management
16 49 (17.75%) Scrum
17 48 (17.39%) TDD
18 45 (16.30%) Regression Testing
19 41 (14.86%) AI
Programming Languages
1 106 (38.41%) Java
2 76 (27.54%) Python
3 65 (23.55%) SQL
4 56 (20.29%) JavaScript
5 43 (15.58%) C#
6 18 (6.52%) TypeScript
7 12 (4.35%) Bash
8 11 (3.99%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.17%) Ruby
10 5 (1.81%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.09%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.09%) Scala
12 2 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.72%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.72%) PROC SQL
12 2 (0.72%) R
12 2 (0.72%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.72%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.36%) VBA
13 1 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 108 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 92 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 29 (10.51%) ISTQB
4 17 (6.16%) Degree
5 14 (5.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (3.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 8 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (2.54%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.09%) ISEB
11 2 (0.72%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (48.91%) QA
2 45 (16.30%) Accessibility
3 19 (6.88%) WCAG
4 10 (3.62%) GDPR
5 9 (3.26%) Data Quality
6 8 (2.90%) ISO 20022
7 4 (1.45%) Software Quality Assurance
8 3 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.36%) GxP
10 1 (0.36%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.36%) NIST
10 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.36%) SEPA
System Software
1 76 (27.54%) Docker
2 3 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (22.83%) Kubernetes
2 32 (11.59%) Grafana
2 32 (11.59%) Prometheus
3 12 (4.35%) Terraform
4 8 (2.90%) HP ALM
5 5 (1.81%) Ansible
5 5 (1.81%) Check_MK
5 5 (1.81%) Podman
6 3 (1.09%) Istio
7 1 (0.36%) Argo
7 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 35 (12.68%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.42%) Oracle
3 22 (7.97%) Salesforce
4 10 (3.62%) Splunk
5 8 (2.90%) HP
6 7 (2.54%) IBM
7 4 (1.45%) Citrix
7 4 (1.45%) Micro Focus
7 4 (1.45%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.45%) SAP
7 4 (1.45%) Talend
7 4 (1.45%) VMware
8 3 (1.09%) Avaloq
8 3 (1.09%) Guidewire
8 3 (1.09%) OpenText
8 3 (1.09%) Perfecto Mobile
9 2 (0.72%) Databricks
9 2 (0.72%) Google
9 2 (0.72%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.72%) UiPath