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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 267 262
Rank change year-on-year -89 -5 -25
Contract jobs citing Selenium 269 243 332
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.95% 0.89%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.17% 6.68% 7.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 161 249
10th Percentile £313 £256 £350
25th Percentile £363 £320 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.09% -15.00% -4.31%
75th Percentile £516 £501 £600
90th Percentile £630 £588 £688
UK median daily rate £425 £425 £500
% change year-on-year - -15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - £47.75 £37.33
25th Percentile - - £38.19
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £41.75
Median % change year-on-year - +19.76% -41.40%
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 5,206 3,640 4,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.88% 14.20% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,359 2,476 3,012
10th Percentile £350 £335 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £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 £688 £709 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 78 234
10th Percentile £28.97 £28.27 £33.02
25th Percentile £59.00 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% -3.85% +4.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -67 112 £450 +5.88% 25
North of England -61 68 £450 +5.88% 15
Midlands -33 57 £425 +57.41% 9
West Midlands -3 56 £425 - 6
North West -28 31 £426 +25.29% 8
Yorkshire -58 23 £500 +5.26% 2
North East -16 19 £438 +13.64% 5
South East -83 19 £500 -0.05% 12
South West -24 11 £436 -27.29% 7
East of England -21 3 £300 -7.69% 5
East Midlands -36 1 £415 +54.85% 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 50 (18.59%) Confluence
2 7 (2.60%) SAS
3 5 (1.86%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.12%) Apache
4 3 (1.12%) SharePoint
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%) 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 4 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.74%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 102 (37.92%) Azure
2 90 (33.46%) AWS
3 65 (24.16%) GitHub
4 51 (18.96%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (14.50%) GCP
6 34 (12.64%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (4.83%) BrowserStack
8 10 (3.72%) OpenShift
9 7 (2.60%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 6 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (2.23%) GitHub Copilot
10 6 (2.23%) Serverless
11 5 (1.86%) Apigee
11 5 (1.86%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 4 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.49%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.12%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (1.12%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.37%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.92%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (7.06%) MongoDB
3 14 (5.20%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.35%) Big Data
5 7 (2.60%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.23%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (2.23%) SQL Server
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%) MySQL
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
1 102 (37.92%) Jenkins
2 95 (35.32%) JIRA
3 92 (34.20%) Cucumber
4 77 (28.62%) Git
5 72 (26.77%) GitLab
6 67 (24.91%) REST Assured
7 63 (23.42%) Postman
8 62 (23.05%) Cypress.io
8 62 (23.05%) JUnit
9 59 (21.93%) WebDriver
10 49 (18.22%) JMeter
11 21 (7.81%) Gatling
12 19 (7.06%) TestNG
13 18 (6.69%) Zephyr
14 16 (5.95%) Appium
15 15 (5.58%) Serenity BDD
16 12 (4.46%) SpecFlow
17 11 (4.09%) NUnit
17 11 (4.09%) TeamCity
18 9 (3.35%) Bitbucket
General
1 80 (29.74%) Social Skills
2 51 (18.96%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (18.22%) Public Sector
4 38 (14.13%) Finance
5 26 (9.67%) Banking
6 9 (3.35%) Military
6 9 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.49%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.12%) Retail
10 2 (0.74%) Back Office
10 2 (0.74%) Front Office
10 2 (0.74%) Legal
10 2 (0.74%) Marketing
10 2 (0.74%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.37%) Law
11 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 66 (24.54%) Test Engineer
2 50 (18.59%) Senior
3 45 (16.73%) Tester
4 44 (16.36%) QA Engineer
5 40 (14.87%) Lead
6 30 (11.15%) Test Automation Engineer
7 23 (8.55%) Analyst
7 23 (8.55%) Automation Engineer
7 23 (8.55%) Automation Tester
8 21 (7.81%) Test Analyst
9 19 (7.06%) QA Automation Engineer
10 17 (6.32%) Test Leader
11 16 (5.95%) Developer
11 16 (5.95%) Lead Test Engineer
12 12 (4.46%) Senior Test Engineer
12 12 (4.46%) Senior Tester
13 10 (3.72%) Automation Test Lead
13 10 (3.72%) Software Engineer
14 9 (3.35%) Quality Engineer
14 9 (3.35%) Senior Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (34.94%) Playwright
2 42 (15.61%) REST
2 42 (15.61%) Spring
3 30 (11.15%) Kafka
4 24 (8.92%) Gherkin
4 24 (8.92%) WireMock
5 23 (8.55%) Spring Boot
6 19 (7.06%) pytest
7 15 (5.58%) .NET
8 11 (4.09%) Spring Cloud
9 9 (3.35%) Node.js
10 8 (2.97%) Lightning Web Components
11 7 (2.60%) HTML
11 7 (2.60%) JSON
11 7 (2.60%) Pandas
11 7 (2.60%) React
11 7 (2.60%) SOAP
12 6 (2.23%) RESTful
12 6 (2.23%) XML
13 5 (1.86%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.18%) Product Ownership
2 19 (7.06%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.69%) Distributed Architecture
4 16 (5.95%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.60%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.23%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 4 (1.49%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.12%) Clustering
9 3 (1.12%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.12%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.12%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.12%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.74%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.86%) Windows
2 4 (1.49%) Mac OS
2 4 (1.49%) Unix
3 3 (1.12%) Android
4 2 (0.74%) Linux
4 2 (0.74%) VMS
5 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (89.22%) Test Automation
2 175 (65.06%) CI/CD
3 131 (48.70%) Agile
4 100 (37.17%) DevOps
5 95 (35.32%) Test Strategy
6 76 (28.25%) BDD
7 75 (27.88%) API Testing
8 69 (25.65%) End-to-End Testing
9 68 (25.28%) Microservices
10 63 (23.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 60 (22.30%) Problem-Solving
12 55 (20.45%) Validation
13 54 (20.07%) Performance Testing
14 49 (18.22%) Integration Testing
15 46 (17.10%) Regression Testing
15 46 (17.10%) Software Testing
15 46 (17.10%) Test Scripting
16 43 (15.99%) Observability
17 41 (15.24%) Scrum
18 40 (14.87%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 112 (41.64%) Java
2 58 (21.56%) Python
3 50 (18.59%) SQL
4 49 (18.22%) JavaScript
5 44 (16.36%) C#
6 15 (5.58%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.72%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.23%) Apex Code
8 6 (2.23%) Ruby
9 5 (1.86%) Bash
10 3 (1.12%) Go
10 3 (1.12%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.12%) Scala
11 2 (0.74%) PROC SQL
12 1 (0.37%) COBOL
12 1 (0.37%) Groovy
12 1 (0.37%) Swift
12 1 (0.37%) VB
12 1 (0.37%) VB6
12 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 106 (39.41%) Security Cleared
2 88 (32.71%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.06%) ISTQB
4 15 (5.58%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (5.58%) Degree
5 9 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 5 (1.86%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.74%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (46.84%) QA
2 43 (15.99%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.35%) WCAG
4 7 (2.60%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.23%) GDPR
6 3 (1.12%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.12%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.37%) GxP
8 1 (0.37%) SEPA
System Software
1 64 (23.79%) Docker
2 3 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 57 (21.19%) Kubernetes
2 37 (13.75%) Grafana
3 35 (13.01%) Prometheus
4 7 (2.60%) HP ALM
5 6 (2.23%) Terraform
6 3 (1.12%) Istio
7 2 (0.74%) Kibana
7 2 (0.74%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.37%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (7.43%) Oracle
1 20 (7.43%) Salesforce
2 18 (6.69%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.46%) Splunk
4 7 (2.60%) HP
4 7 (2.60%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.86%) Google
5 5 (1.86%) MuleSoft
6 4 (1.49%) Citrix
6 4 (1.49%) Micro Focus
6 4 (1.49%) SAP
6 4 (1.49%) Talend
7 3 (1.12%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.12%) Databricks
7 3 (1.12%) OpenText
8 2 (0.74%) Foundry
8 2 (0.74%) IBM
8 2 (0.74%) PagerDuty
8 2 (0.74%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.74%) Workday