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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 266 276
Rank change year-on-year -39 +10 -60
Contract jobs citing Selenium 291 240 307
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.81% 0.95% 0.81%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.85% 7.06% 7.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 158 241
10th Percentile £350 £306 £360
25th Percentile £386 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -15.09%
75th Percentile £552 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +8.57% -2.78% -14.29%
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 4,978 3,399 4,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.77% 13.49% 11.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,387 2,187 3,015
10th Percentile £340 £333 £360
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £638
90th Percentile £695 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 64 192
10th Percentile £34.13 £26.10 £37.75
25th Percentile £52.81 £51.95 £49.62
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £73.44 £71.88 £73.92
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £88.13
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £63.75
% change year-on-year +4.00% -1.96% +3.66%

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 8 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

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 8 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 -22 122 £475 +11.76% 22
Midlands -21 71 £475 +36.30% 12
West Midlands -9 65 £478 +29.26% 10
North of England -47 55 £475 +11.76% 20
Yorkshire -50 33 £475 +11.76% 9
South East -72 18 £575 -8.00% 18
North West -33 16 £463 +23.33% 9
South West -16 14 £515 -0.48% 7
North East -5 8 £350 -30.86% 2
East of England -24 6 £300 -42.86% 11
East Midlands -30 6 £360 +36.36% 2
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 41 (14.09%) Confluence
2 22 (7.56%) SAS
3 9 (3.09%) Apache
4 8 (2.75%) JBoss
4 8 (2.75%) WebLogic
5 4 (1.37%) Appian
6 3 (1.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (1.03%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.34%) CMS
7 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.69%) Maximo
2 2 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.69%) Shopify
3 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 90 (30.93%) Azure
2 85 (29.21%) AWS
3 51 (17.53%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (15.46%) GitHub
5 32 (11.00%) GCP
6 27 (9.28%) OpenShift
7 25 (8.59%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (4.12%) Apigee
9 11 (3.78%) Tricentis Tosca
10 8 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (2.75%) BrowserStack
10 8 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (2.75%) Serverless
11 7 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (2.41%) SaaS
12 5 (1.72%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.37%) Azure AKS
13 4 (1.37%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (1.37%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.37%) HTTP
2 1 (0.34%) DSL
2 1 (0.34%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.53%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (5.84%) MongoDB
3 11 (3.78%) Oracle Database
4 8 (2.75%) MySQL
4 8 (2.75%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.41%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 7 (2.41%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.37%) Big Data
6 4 (1.37%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.03%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 2 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.69%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.34%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.34%) DB2
9 1 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.34%) Power BI
9 1 (0.34%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.34%) SAS EBI
9 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 111 (38.14%) Jenkins
2 105 (36.08%) Cucumber
2 105 (36.08%) Git
3 88 (30.24%) JIRA
4 85 (29.21%) GitLab
5 82 (28.18%) Postman
6 74 (25.43%) JUnit
7 61 (20.96%) REST Assured
8 57 (19.59%) Cypress.io
9 41 (14.09%) JMeter
10 36 (12.37%) WebDriver
11 17 (5.84%) TestRail
12 15 (5.15%) SpecFlow
13 14 (4.81%) Maven
14 13 (4.47%) Gatling
14 13 (4.47%) SonarQube
15 11 (3.78%) Mockito
16 10 (3.44%) Robot Framework
16 10 (3.44%) TestNG
16 10 (3.44%) Zephyr
General
1 94 (32.30%) Social Skills
2 47 (16.15%) Public Sector
3 38 (13.06%) Finance
4 33 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.56%) Banking
6 10 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.72%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.72%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.37%) Front Office
9 4 (1.37%) Military
10 3 (1.03%) Back Office
11 2 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.69%) Police
11 2 (0.69%) Retail
11 2 (0.69%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Marketing
12 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (20.96%) Test Engineer
2 58 (19.93%) Lead
3 52 (17.87%) Tester
4 47 (16.15%) Senior
5 32 (11.00%) Automation Tester
6 28 (9.62%) Developer
7 26 (8.93%) Test Automation Engineer
8 25 (8.59%) Test Leader
9 24 (8.25%) QA Engineer
10 22 (7.56%) Test Specialist
11 18 (6.19%) Automation Test Lead
12 17 (5.84%) Lead Test Engineer
13 13 (4.47%) QA Leader
14 12 (4.12%) Analyst
14 12 (4.12%) Senior Tester
14 12 (4.12%) Test Automation Specialist
15 11 (3.78%) Test Analyst
16 10 (3.44%) Java Engineer
16 10 (3.44%) Salesforce Developer
16 10 (3.44%) Senior Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (26.46%) Playwright
2 70 (24.05%) REST
3 45 (15.46%) Spring
4 34 (11.68%) JSON
5 33 (11.34%) pytest
6 30 (10.31%) .NET
7 28 (9.62%) Gherkin
8 24 (8.25%) HTML
9 23 (7.90%) XML
10 22 (7.56%) Spring Boot
11 20 (6.87%) React
12 18 (6.19%) OpenID
13 17 (5.84%) SOAP
13 17 (5.84%) WireMock
14 16 (5.50%) SailPoint
15 14 (4.81%) RESTful
16 13 (4.47%) LDAP
16 13 (4.47%) Lightning Web Components
16 13 (4.47%) Web Services
17 11 (3.78%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.47%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (2.75%) Distributed Architecture
3 8 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.41%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.06%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.37%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.03%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.03%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.69%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.69%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.69%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.69%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.34%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.34%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.81%) Linux
2 13 (4.47%) Unix
3 5 (1.72%) Windows
4 3 (1.03%) Android
5 2 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (82.82%) Test Automation
2 184 (63.23%) CI/CD
3 153 (52.58%) Agile
4 116 (39.86%) DevOps
5 98 (33.68%) Test Strategy
6 80 (27.49%) API Testing
7 78 (26.80%) Problem-Solving
8 76 (26.12%) Test Scripting
9 67 (23.02%) BDD
10 66 (22.68%) Scrum
11 62 (21.31%) Microservices
12 61 (20.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 59 (20.27%) Software Testing
14 54 (18.56%) Validation
15 52 (17.87%) Regression Testing
16 42 (14.43%) TDD
17 39 (13.40%) Containerisation
17 39 (13.40%) Stakeholder Management
18 37 (12.71%) Sprint Planning
19 36 (12.37%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 132 (45.36%) Java
2 73 (25.09%) Python
3 63 (21.65%) JavaScript
4 56 (19.24%) SQL
5 52 (17.87%) C#
6 16 (5.50%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.44%) Apex Code
8 9 (3.09%) Scala
9 7 (2.41%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.06%) PHP
11 5 (1.72%) Bash
11 5 (1.72%) XPath
12 4 (1.37%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.37%) Ruby
13 3 (1.03%) Go
13 3 (1.03%) Groovy
13 3 (1.03%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.69%) C
14 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 101 (34.71%) Security Cleared
2 83 (28.52%) SC Cleared
3 26 (8.93%) ISTQB
4 15 (5.15%) Degree
5 10 (3.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 9 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.72%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 4 (1.37%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.34%) CFA
10 1 (0.34%) HP APS
10 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (36.43%) QA
2 26 (8.93%) Accessibility
3 16 (5.50%) WCAG
4 4 (1.37%) GDPR
4 4 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.03%) EU AI Act
5 3 (1.03%) NIST
6 2 (0.69%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.69%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.34%) HL7
7 1 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.34%) MiFID
7 1 (0.34%) NCSC
7 1 (0.34%) SLA
7 1 (0.34%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 70 (24.05%) Docker
2 3 (1.03%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 2 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (21.31%) Kubernetes
2 30 (10.31%) Grafana
3 22 (7.56%) Prometheus
4 11 (3.78%) Puppet
5 9 (3.09%) Ansible
6 8 (2.75%) Terraform
7 7 (2.41%) HP ALM
7 7 (2.41%) Kibana
8 3 (1.03%) Podman
8 3 (1.03%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.69%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.69%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (6.87%) Oracle
2 17 (5.84%) ServiceNow
3 15 (5.15%) Salesforce
4 13 (4.47%) Microsoft
5 11 (3.78%) Splunk
6 10 (3.44%) MuleSoft
7 8 (2.75%) webMethods
8 7 (2.41%) HP
9 5 (1.72%) Google
9 5 (1.72%) Veracode
10 4 (1.37%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.37%) Cisco
10 4 (1.37%) Workday
11 3 (1.03%) Adobe
11 3 (1.03%) SAP
11 3 (1.03%) UiPath
12 2 (0.69%) Avaloq
12 2 (0.69%) Citrix
12 2 (0.69%) IBM
12 2 (0.69%) Red Hat