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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 272 283
Rank change year-on-year -21 +11 -50
Contract jobs citing Selenium 282 232 294
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 0.90% 0.78%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.90% 6.63% 6.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 148 239
10th Percentile £350 £311 £360
25th Percentile £375 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -15.09%
75th Percentile £560 £575 £538
90th Percentile £650 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £52.50 - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile £72.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +38.89% - -

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 4,778 3,497 4,371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.10% 13.49% 11.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,301 2,181 3,103
10th Percentile £340 £340 £363
25th Percentile £409 £413 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -5.14% -6.96%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 57 199
10th Percentile £39.00 £27.00 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.70 £49.24
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £75.89
90th Percentile £81.10 £76.75 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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

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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 11 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in England

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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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Selenium in England over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Selenium in England

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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 11 February 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 -12 121 £466 +9.53% 31
North of England -39 59 £456 +7.35% 12
Midlands -22 54 £480 +24.68% 3
West Midlands -18 48 £490 +20.99% 3
Yorkshire -43 34 £465 +9.47% 6
South East -63 22 £550 -12.00% 27
North West -26 17 £463 +23.33% 6
South West -23 13 £518 +5.08% 5
North East -7 10 £398 -21.48%
East of England -16 7 £300 -42.86% 6
East Midlands -19 6 £360 -4.00%
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 36 (12.77%) Confluence
2 18 (6.38%) SAS
3 9 (3.19%) Apache
4 8 (2.84%) JBoss
4 8 (2.84%) WebLogic
5 7 (2.48%) Appian
6 4 (1.42%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.35%) CMS
9 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.71%) Maximo
2 2 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 80 (28.37%) Azure
2 70 (24.82%) AWS
3 51 (18.09%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (12.06%) GitHub
5 24 (8.51%) GCP
6 23 (8.16%) OpenShift
7 18 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (4.61%) Tricentis Tosca
9 11 (3.90%) Apigee
10 10 (3.55%) Serverless
11 8 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (2.84%) BrowserStack
11 8 (2.84%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (2.84%) SaaS
12 7 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (2.13%) Power Platform
14 5 (1.77%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (1.77%) Azure AKS
14 5 (1.77%) Azure Service Bus
14 5 (1.77%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.42%) HTTP
2 1 (0.35%) DSL
2 1 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.38%) MongoDB
2 11 (3.90%) SQL Server
3 10 (3.55%) Oracle Database
4 8 (2.84%) MySQL
4 8 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (2.48%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.13%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 4 (1.42%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.06%) Big Data
8 3 (1.06%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.06%) DB2
9 2 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.71%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.71%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.35%) Power BI
10 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 105 (37.23%) Jenkins
2 100 (35.46%) Cucumber
3 85 (30.14%) Postman
4 84 (29.79%) Git
5 83 (29.43%) JIRA
6 77 (27.30%) GitLab
7 66 (23.40%) REST Assured
8 58 (20.57%) JUnit
9 56 (19.86%) Cypress.io
10 35 (12.41%) JMeter
11 27 (9.57%) WebDriver
12 20 (7.09%) TestRail
13 16 (5.67%) Bitbucket
13 16 (5.67%) SonarQube
14 15 (5.32%) Maven
15 12 (4.26%) Gatling
16 11 (3.90%) Mockito
16 11 (3.90%) Robot Framework
17 10 (3.55%) SpecFlow
17 10 (3.55%) Zephyr
General
1 84 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 51 (18.09%) Public Sector
3 44 (15.60%) Finance
4 30 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.87%) Banking
6 10 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.55%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (2.84%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.13%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.77%) Retail
10 4 (1.42%) Front Office
11 3 (1.06%) Automotive
11 3 (1.06%) Back Office
11 3 (1.06%) Military
11 3 (1.06%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.71%) Marketing
12 2 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.71%) Police
Job Titles
1 58 (20.57%) Test Engineer
2 56 (19.86%) Tester
3 47 (16.67%) Lead
4 41 (14.54%) Senior
5 35 (12.41%) Automation Tester
6 28 (9.93%) Developer
7 26 (9.22%) Test Automation Engineer
8 19 (6.74%) QA Engineer
8 19 (6.74%) Test Leader
9 18 (6.38%) Test Specialist
10 16 (5.67%) Analyst
11 15 (5.32%) Lead Test Engineer
11 15 (5.32%) Test Analyst
12 12 (4.26%) Automation Test Lead
12 12 (4.26%) QA Leader
13 10 (3.55%) Automation Engineer
13 10 (3.55%) Java Developer
13 10 (3.55%) Senior Tester
14 9 (3.19%) Java Engineer
14 9 (3.19%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (26.95%) REST
2 70 (24.82%) Playwright
3 39 (13.83%) JSON
4 32 (11.35%) .NET
5 30 (10.64%) Spring
6 27 (9.57%) pytest
7 26 (9.22%) Gherkin
7 26 (9.22%) HTML
8 25 (8.87%) XML
9 23 (8.16%) SOAP
9 23 (8.16%) Spring Boot
10 22 (7.80%) React
11 19 (6.74%) RESTful
12 18 (6.38%) OpenID
13 16 (5.67%) SailPoint
14 13 (4.61%) LDAP
14 13 (4.61%) Node.js
14 13 (4.61%) Web Services
15 11 (3.90%) Kafka
15 11 (3.90%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.96%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.61%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (2.84%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.13%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 6 (2.13%) Virtual Team
5 4 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.42%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.06%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.06%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.71%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.35%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.35%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.35%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.35%) FMCG
8 1 (0.35%) iPhone
8 1 (0.35%) Mobile Banking
8 1 (0.35%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.96%) Linux
2 12 (4.26%) Unix
3 8 (2.84%) Windows
4 4 (1.42%) Android
4 4 (1.42%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (81.21%) Test Automation
2 167 (59.22%) CI/CD
3 154 (54.61%) Agile
4 112 (39.72%) DevOps
5 79 (28.01%) API Testing
6 78 (27.66%) Test Strategy
7 77 (27.30%) Test Scripting
8 76 (26.95%) Problem-Solving
9 67 (23.76%) Scrum
10 61 (21.63%) Software Testing
11 56 (19.86%) BDD
12 53 (18.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 51 (18.09%) Microservices
14 48 (17.02%) Regression Testing
15 40 (14.18%) Performance Testing
15 40 (14.18%) Validation
16 39 (13.83%) Software Engineering
17 36 (12.77%) Defect Management
17 36 (12.77%) Sprint Planning
18 35 (12.41%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 132 (46.81%) Java
2 72 (25.53%) Python
3 66 (23.40%) JavaScript
4 60 (21.28%) SQL
5 51 (18.09%) C#
6 16 (5.67%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.55%) Scala
8 9 (3.19%) Apex Code
9 6 (2.13%) PHP
10 5 (1.77%) Bash
10 5 (1.77%) XPath
11 4 (1.42%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.06%) Go
12 3 (1.06%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.06%) Ruby
12 3 (1.06%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.71%) C
13 2 (0.71%) Groovy
13 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 91 (32.27%) Security Cleared
2 73 (25.89%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.93%) ISTQB
4 16 (5.67%) Degree
5 13 (4.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 10 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.13%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 5 (1.77%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.35%) CFA
10 1 (0.35%) HP APS
10 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (33.69%) QA
2 30 (10.64%) Accessibility
3 17 (6.03%) WCAG
4 5 (1.77%) GDPR
5 3 (1.06%) EU AI Act
5 3 (1.06%) NIST
5 3 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.71%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.71%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.35%) HL7
7 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.35%) MiFID
7 1 (0.35%) NCSC
7 1 (0.35%) SLA
7 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 63 (22.34%) Docker
2 3 (1.06%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (16.31%) Kubernetes
2 18 (6.38%) Grafana
3 12 (4.26%) Ansible
3 12 (4.26%) Puppet
4 10 (3.55%) Prometheus
4 10 (3.55%) Terraform
5 7 (2.48%) Kibana
6 6 (2.13%) HP ALM
7 4 (1.42%) Podman
7 4 (1.42%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.71%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.71%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (7.80%) Oracle
2 17 (6.03%) ServiceNow
3 16 (5.67%) Salesforce
4 13 (4.61%) Microsoft
5 11 (3.90%) MuleSoft
5 11 (3.90%) Splunk
6 8 (2.84%) Veracode
6 8 (2.84%) webMethods
7 7 (2.48%) Cisco
8 6 (2.13%) Atlassian
8 6 (2.13%) Google
8 6 (2.13%) HP
9 4 (1.42%) UiPath
9 4 (1.42%) Workday
10 3 (1.06%) Adobe
10 3 (1.06%) SAP
11 2 (0.71%) IBM
11 2 (0.71%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.71%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.35%) AppDynamics