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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 256 255
Rank change year-on-year -91 -1 -21
Contract jobs citing Selenium 269 240 331
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.98% 0.88%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.37% 6.90% 7.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 162 252
10th Percentile £313 £261 £350
25th Percentile £375 £327 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £530 £501 £600
90th Percentile £638 £587 £688
UK median daily rate £442 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +3.97% -15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36.75
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year - +29.87% -45.96%
75th Percentile - - £40.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £64.25
% change year-on-year - -22.18% -11.38%

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 5,006 3,477 4,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.85% 14.21% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,265 2,359 2,979
10th Percentile £350 £333 £350
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £713 £733
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 68 216
10th Percentile £35.38 £27.06 £32.36
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -5.77% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.89 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.35% -10.19% +5.26%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -67 111 £456 +7.29% 7
North of England -59 72 £450 +5.88% 9
Midlands -40 53 £425 +57.41% 4
West Midlands -9 51 £425 - 2
Yorkshire -54 33 £500 +5.26% 3
North West -29 29 £450 +25.00% 6
South East -89 19 £550 +9.89% 5
North East -12 15 £438 +20.69%
South West -16 11 £436 -27.29% 2
East of England -23 3 £300 -7.69% 1
East Midlands -48 2 £391 +44.91% 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 49 (18.22%) Confluence
2 7 (2.60%) SAS
3 5 (1.86%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.12%) Apache
5 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.37%) Appian
6 1 (0.37%) Camunda
6 1 (0.37%) CMS
6 1 (0.37%) nginx
6 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
6 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%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 101 (37.55%) Azure
2 95 (35.32%) AWS
3 59 (21.93%) GitHub
4 46 (17.10%) GCP
5 44 (16.36%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (10.41%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (4.46%) BrowserStack
8 10 (3.72%) OpenShift
9 8 (2.97%) SaaS
10 7 (2.60%) Apigee
10 7 (2.60%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 5 (1.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 5 (1.86%) Tricentis Tosca
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
14 2 (0.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.37%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.92%) 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 6 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.23%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.12%) HBase
7 3 (1.12%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.12%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 2 (0.74%) Base SAS
8 2 (0.74%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.74%) Power BI
8 2 (0.74%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 1 (0.37%) Db2
9 1 (0.37%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 106 (39.41%) Jenkins
2 99 (36.80%) JIRA
3 96 (35.69%) Cucumber
4 75 (27.88%) GitLab
5 74 (27.51%) Git
6 70 (26.02%) REST Assured
7 66 (24.54%) Postman
8 60 (22.30%) JUnit
9 56 (20.82%) WebDriver
10 53 (19.70%) Cypress.io
11 48 (17.84%) JMeter
12 19 (7.06%) Gatling
13 16 (5.95%) Zephyr
14 15 (5.58%) Serenity BDD
14 15 (5.58%) TestNG
15 14 (5.20%) Appium
15 14 (5.20%) TestRail
16 12 (4.46%) SpecFlow
17 11 (4.09%) NUnit
18 10 (3.72%) Robot Framework
General
1 78 (29.00%) Social Skills
2 48 (17.84%) Public Sector
3 43 (15.99%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (13.38%) Finance
5 28 (10.41%) Banking
6 9 (3.35%) Military
6 9 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.86%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.49%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.12%) Retail
10 2 (0.74%) Back Office
10 2 (0.74%) Front Office
10 2 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.74%) Legal
10 2 (0.74%) Marketing
11 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Law
11 1 (0.37%) Police
11 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (26.39%) Test Engineer
2 47 (17.47%) Lead
3 46 (17.10%) Senior
4 45 (16.73%) QA Engineer
5 43 (15.99%) Tester
6 36 (13.38%) Test Automation Engineer
7 21 (7.81%) Automation Tester
7 21 (7.81%) Lead Test Engineer
8 20 (7.43%) Test Leader
9 19 (7.06%) Automation Engineer
9 19 (7.06%) Developer
10 18 (6.69%) QA Automation Engineer
11 15 (5.58%) Automation Test Lead
12 14 (5.20%) Analyst
13 13 (4.83%) Test Analyst
14 12 (4.46%) Senior Test Engineer
15 11 (4.09%) Senior Tester
16 10 (3.72%) Software Engineer
17 8 (2.97%) QA Tester
17 8 (2.97%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (31.97%) Playwright
2 46 (17.10%) REST
3 43 (15.99%) Spring
4 28 (10.41%) Kafka
5 25 (9.29%) Spring Boot
6 23 (8.55%) WireMock
7 21 (7.81%) .NET
7 21 (7.81%) Gherkin
8 19 (7.06%) pytest
9 15 (5.58%) SailPoint
10 12 (4.46%) LDAP
10 12 (4.46%) OpenID
11 11 (4.09%) Spring Cloud
12 10 (3.72%) Lightning Web Components
13 9 (3.35%) RESTful
14 8 (2.97%) HTML
15 7 (2.60%) Node.js
15 7 (2.60%) Pandas
15 7 (2.60%) SOAP
16 6 (2.23%) React
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.81%) Product Ownership
2 18 (6.69%) Distributed Architecture
3 17 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.58%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 5 (1.86%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.49%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.12%) Clustering
8 3 (1.12%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.12%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.12%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.74%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.74%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.60%) Windows
2 4 (1.49%) Android
2 4 (1.49%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.12%) Linux
3 3 (1.12%) Unix
4 2 (0.74%) VMS
5 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (88.85%) Test Automation
2 170 (63.20%) CI/CD
3 127 (47.21%) Agile
4 92 (34.20%) DevOps
5 89 (33.09%) Test Strategy
6 78 (29.00%) API Testing
7 74 (27.51%) BDD
8 65 (24.16%) Microservices
9 61 (22.68%) End-to-End Testing
10 58 (21.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 55 (20.45%) Performance Testing
11 55 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
12 53 (19.70%) Validation
13 50 (18.59%) Test Scripting
14 45 (16.73%) Software Testing
14 45 (16.73%) TDD
15 44 (16.36%) Regression Testing
16 42 (15.61%) Integration Testing
16 42 (15.61%) Observability
16 42 (15.61%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 124 (46.10%) Java
2 63 (23.42%) Python
3 57 (21.19%) SQL
4 52 (19.33%) JavaScript
5 44 (16.36%) C#
6 14 (5.20%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.35%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.60%) Apex Code
9 6 (2.23%) PHP
9 6 (2.23%) Ruby
10 5 (1.86%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.49%) Bash
12 3 (1.12%) Go
12 3 (1.12%) Scala
13 2 (0.74%) PROC SQL
14 1 (0.37%) Groovy
14 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.37%) Swift
14 1 (0.37%) VB6
14 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 101 (37.55%) Security Cleared
2 82 (30.48%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.69%) ISTQB
4 16 (5.95%) Degree
5 15 (5.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.86%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.74%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.37%) CFA
10 1 (0.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (45.72%) QA
2 36 (13.38%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.60%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.86%) WCAG
5 4 (1.49%) Software Quality Assurance
6 3 (1.12%) GDPR
6 3 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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
System Software
1 59 (21.93%) 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 53 (19.70%) Kubernetes
2 36 (13.38%) Grafana
3 34 (12.64%) Prometheus
4 7 (2.60%) Terraform
5 6 (2.23%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.74%) Istio
6 2 (0.74%) Kibana
6 2 (0.74%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.37%) Ansible
Vendors
1 21 (7.81%) Salesforce
2 20 (7.43%) Oracle
3 15 (5.58%) ServiceNow
4 12 (4.46%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.46%) Splunk
5 7 (2.60%) MuleSoft
6 6 (2.23%) HP
7 5 (1.86%) Google
8 4 (1.49%) Citrix
8 4 (1.49%) Micro Focus
8 4 (1.49%) SAP
8 4 (1.49%) Talend
9 3 (1.12%) Adobe
9 3 (1.12%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.12%) Databricks
9 3 (1.12%) OpenText
10 2 (0.74%) Avaloq
10 2 (0.74%) IBM
10 2 (0.74%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.74%) Workday