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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 269 263
Rank change year-on-year -98 -6 -5
Contract jobs citing Selenium 275 264 300
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.96% 0.90%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.12% 6.60% 7.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 185 230
10th Percentile £306 £259 £349
25th Percentile £355 £313 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -15.00% -
75th Percentile £500 £520 £597
90th Percentile £620 £615 £675
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% -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 5,372 4,000 4,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.74% 14.49% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,415 2,766 2,827
10th Percentile £353 £320 £351
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £631
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 96 199
10th Percentile £35.00 £41.13 £32.74
25th Percentile £57.25 £51.05 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.38 £73.80
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - +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 8 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 8 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 -73 117 £430 -4.44% 32
Midlands -23 63 £425 +57.41% 14
West Midlands +3 62 £425 +17.24% 10
North of England -74 59 £402 +0.06% 8
North West -43 25 £402 +21.08% 4
North East -27 19 £450 +16.88% 2
Yorkshire -49 18 £401 -15.53% 2
South East -85 17 £435 -3.33% 11
South West -38 11 £444 -26.04% 5
East of England -12 8 £422 +29.89% 2
East Midlands -38 1 £415 +53.70% 4
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 45 (16.36%) Confluence
2 6 (2.18%) SAS
3 5 (1.82%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.09%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.09%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.73%) Apache
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 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.18%) Shopify
3 3 (1.09%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 111 (40.36%) Azure
2 87 (31.64%) AWS
3 76 (27.64%) GitHub
4 63 (22.91%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (17.82%) GitHub Actions
6 37 (13.45%) GCP
7 12 (4.36%) GitHub Copilot
8 11 (4.00%) Serverless
9 10 (3.64%) BrowserStack
9 10 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (3.64%) Power Automate
10 8 (2.91%) OpenShift
11 7 (2.55%) Azure Functions
11 7 (2.55%) SaaS
12 5 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 4 (1.45%) Apigee
13 4 (1.45%) Power Platform
14 3 (1.09%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 3 (1.09%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.73%) 4G
1 2 (0.73%) 5G
1 2 (0.73%) DNS
1 2 (0.73%) HTTP
1 2 (0.73%) SSH
1 2 (0.73%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.36%) WebEx
2 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.45%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (6.91%) MongoDB
3 11 (4.00%) Relational Database
3 11 (4.00%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.91%) Apache Cassandra
4 8 (2.91%) Big Data
5 6 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.18%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.18%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (1.82%) Hazelcast
7 3 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.09%) HBase
7 3 (1.09%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 2 (0.73%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.73%) InterSystems Cache
8 2 (0.73%) MySQL
8 2 (0.73%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.73%) Power BI
8 2 (0.73%) Redis
8 2 (0.73%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 95 (34.55%) Cucumber
2 91 (33.09%) Jenkins
3 87 (31.64%) JIRA
4 83 (30.18%) Git
5 68 (24.73%) Cypress.io
6 67 (24.36%) GitLab
7 64 (23.27%) JUnit
8 61 (22.18%) WebDriver
9 56 (20.36%) Postman
10 53 (19.27%) REST Assured
11 43 (15.64%) JMeter
12 26 (9.45%) Gatling
13 21 (7.64%) TestNG
14 20 (7.27%) Appium
15 18 (6.55%) Zephyr
16 13 (4.73%) SpecFlow
17 11 (4.00%) NUnit
18 10 (3.64%) Maven
18 10 (3.64%) Serenity BDD
19 9 (3.27%) TeamCity
General
1 85 (30.91%) Social Skills
2 55 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (15.27%) Public Sector
4 41 (14.91%) Finance
5 30 (10.91%) Banking
6 10 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (2.55%) Military
8 5 (1.82%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.45%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.73%) Back Office
11 2 (0.73%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.73%) Legal
11 2 (0.73%) Marketing
11 2 (0.73%) Retail
11 2 (0.73%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.36%) Front Office
12 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 62 (22.55%) Test Engineer
2 50 (18.18%) Senior
3 45 (16.36%) Lead
4 40 (14.55%) QA Engineer
4 40 (14.55%) Tester
5 33 (12.00%) Test Automation Engineer
6 27 (9.82%) Analyst
7 25 (9.09%) Test Analyst
8 24 (8.73%) Automation Engineer
9 22 (8.00%) Automation Tester
9 22 (8.00%) Test Leader
10 17 (6.18%) QA Automation Engineer
11 15 (5.45%) Developer
12 13 (4.73%) Quality Engineer
13 12 (4.36%) Automation Test Lead
14 11 (4.00%) Lead Test Engineer
14 11 (4.00%) Senior Test Engineer
14 11 (4.00%) Senior Tester
14 11 (4.00%) Test Manager
15 9 (3.27%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (38.55%) Playwright
2 42 (15.27%) REST
3 38 (13.82%) Spring
4 37 (13.45%) Kafka
5 29 (10.55%) Gherkin
5 29 (10.55%) WireMock
6 18 (6.55%) pytest
7 16 (5.82%) .NET
7 16 (5.82%) JSON
8 15 (5.45%) Spring Boot
9 14 (5.09%) Node.js
10 13 (4.73%) XML
11 11 (4.00%) SOAP
12 10 (3.64%) RESTful
13 9 (3.27%) HTML
13 9 (3.27%) React
14 8 (2.91%) Pandas
15 7 (2.55%) RabbitMQ
15 7 (2.55%) Spring Cloud
16 6 (2.18%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (7.27%) Product Ownership
3 18 (6.55%) Distributed Architecture
4 13 (4.73%) Cloud Native
5 10 (3.64%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.55%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.09%) Clustering
9 3 (1.09%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.09%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.09%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.09%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.09%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.73%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.00%) Linux
2 5 (1.82%) Windows
3 4 (1.45%) Mac OS
3 4 (1.45%) Unix
4 3 (1.09%) Android
4 3 (1.09%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.73%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (88.00%) Test Automation
2 186 (67.64%) CI/CD
3 140 (50.91%) Agile
4 107 (38.91%) DevOps
5 102 (37.09%) Test Strategy
6 83 (30.18%) BDD
7 76 (27.64%) End-to-End Testing
8 73 (26.55%) API Testing
9 71 (25.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 67 (24.36%) Microservices
10 67 (24.36%) Problem-Solving
11 62 (22.55%) Validation
12 58 (21.09%) Integration Testing
13 53 (19.27%) Software Testing
14 52 (18.91%) Performance Testing
15 51 (18.55%) Scrum
16 50 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
17 48 (17.45%) TDD
18 44 (16.00%) Regression Testing
19 42 (15.27%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 106 (38.55%) Java
2 75 (27.27%) Python
3 59 (21.45%) JavaScript
4 58 (21.09%) SQL
5 45 (16.36%) C#
6 17 (6.18%) TypeScript
7 12 (4.36%) Bash
8 11 (4.00%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.18%) Ruby
10 5 (1.82%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.09%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.09%) Scala
12 2 (0.73%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.73%) PROC SQL
12 2 (0.73%) R
12 2 (0.73%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.36%) COBOL
13 1 (0.36%) Groovy
13 1 (0.36%) VBA
13 1 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 105 (38.18%) Security Cleared
2 88 (32.00%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.45%) ISTQB
4 17 (6.18%) Degree
5 14 (5.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 6 (2.18%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.73%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.36%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (49.45%) QA
2 46 (16.73%) Accessibility
3 21 (7.64%) WCAG
4 10 (3.64%) GDPR
5 8 (2.91%) Data Quality
6 7 (2.55%) ISO 20022
7 4 (1.45%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.36%) GxP
9 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.36%) SEPA
System Software
1 75 (27.27%) 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 62 (22.55%) Kubernetes
2 32 (11.64%) Grafana
2 32 (11.64%) Prometheus
3 10 (3.64%) Terraform
4 8 (2.91%) HP ALM
5 5 (1.82%) Check_MK
5 5 (1.82%) Podman
6 3 (1.09%) Ansible
6 3 (1.09%) Istio
7 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (10.91%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.73%) Oracle
3 22 (8.00%) Salesforce
4 10 (3.64%) Splunk
5 8 (2.91%) HP
6 5 (1.82%) IBM
7 4 (1.45%) Citrix
7 4 (1.45%) Micro Focus
7 4 (1.45%) MuleSoft
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 (0.73%) Databricks
9 2 (0.73%) Foundry
9 2 (0.73%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.73%) SAP
9 2 (0.73%) UiPath