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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 281 265
Rank change year-on-year -67 -16 +24
Contract jobs citing Selenium 325 259 286
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.92% 0.90%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.98% 6.05% 6.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 196 196
10th Percentile £306 £275 £331
25th Percentile £363 £342 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.58% -14.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £494 £550 £603
90th Percentile £575 £644 £651
UK median daily rate £430 £435 £489
% change year-on-year -1.15% -11.00% +8.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
10th Percentile - £48.13 -
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -18.18%

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 5,434 4,282 4,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.60% 15.22% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,446 2,979 2,695
10th Percentile £354 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 97 159
10th Percentile £22.68 £33.90 £41.51
25th Percentile £50.67 £50.00 £54.66
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.16 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.68 £76.00 £72.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% -

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -64 149 £475 +5.32% 94
Midlands -27 64 £438 +28.68% 23
North of England -65 64 £402 +3.74% 39
West Midlands 0 62 £440 -17.18% 21
North West -50 26 £402 +18.24% 12
South East -66 24 £275 -29.49% 40
Yorkshire -36 22 £400 +0.63% 12
North East -29 19 £450 -2.70% 15
South West -28 14 £425 -24.24% 8
East of England -26 8 £415 +107.32% 5
East Midlands -39 2 £375 +33.93% 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 31 (9.54%) Confluence
2 8 (2.46%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.85%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.54%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.62%) Apache
6 2 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.62%) SAS
7 1 (0.31%) Appian
7 1 (0.31%) Camunda
7 1 (0.31%) CMS
7 1 (0.31%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.92%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.31%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.31%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 127 (39.08%) Azure
2 110 (33.85%) AWS
3 84 (25.85%) GitHub
4 80 (24.62%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (13.85%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (7.08%) GCP
7 20 (6.15%) GitHub Copilot
8 19 (5.85%) Serverless
9 16 (4.92%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (4.00%) Azure Functions
10 13 (4.00%) Power Automate
11 12 (3.69%) OpenShift
12 11 (3.38%) BrowserStack
13 10 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (2.46%) SaaS
15 7 (2.15%) Power Platform
16 5 (1.54%) Amazon S3
17 4 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
17 4 (1.23%) Amazon EventBridge
17 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.85%) HTTP
2 5 (1.54%) 4G
2 5 (1.54%) 5G
2 5 (1.54%) DNS
2 5 (1.54%) SSH
2 5 (1.54%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.31%) Internet
3 1 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.92%) MongoDB
2 26 (8.00%) Relational Database
3 18 (5.54%) SQL Server
4 17 (5.23%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.38%) NoSQL
6 8 (2.46%) Apache Cassandra
6 8 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (1.85%) Redis
8 5 (1.54%) Big Data
8 5 (1.54%) Hazelcast
8 5 (1.54%) Metadata
8 5 (1.54%) MySQL
9 4 (1.23%) Spark SQL
10 3 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.92%) HBase
10 3 (0.92%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.92%) Power BI
11 2 (0.62%) InterSystems Cache
11 2 (0.62%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 133 (40.92%) Cucumber
2 116 (35.69%) Git
3 99 (30.46%) Jenkins
4 83 (25.54%) GitLab
5 78 (24.00%) JUnit
6 76 (23.38%) Cypress.io
7 73 (22.46%) Postman
8 68 (20.92%) JIRA
9 61 (18.77%) REST Assured
10 50 (15.38%) Gatling
11 47 (14.46%) WebDriver
12 33 (10.15%) JMeter
13 30 (9.23%) TestNG
14 27 (8.31%) SonarQube
15 17 (5.23%) Appium
16 15 (4.62%) SoapUI
16 15 (4.62%) Zephyr
17 14 (4.31%) HP UFT
18 13 (4.00%) Maven
19 12 (3.69%) TestRail
General
1 128 (39.38%) Social Skills
2 66 (20.31%) Finance
3 60 (18.46%) Public Sector
4 52 (16.00%) Banking
5 50 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.46%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.85%) Military
9 5 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.23%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.23%) Social Housing
11 3 (0.92%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.62%) Back Office
12 2 (0.62%) Legal
12 2 (0.62%) Local Government
12 2 (0.62%) Police
12 2 (0.62%) Retail
13 1 (0.31%) Marketing
13 1 (0.31%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 66 (20.31%) Test Engineer
2 46 (14.15%) Senior
3 45 (13.85%) Lead
4 40 (12.31%) Tester
5 38 (11.69%) Test Automation Engineer
6 37 (11.38%) QA Engineer
7 33 (10.15%) Quality Engineer
8 32 (9.85%) Analyst
9 30 (9.23%) Automation Engineer
10 29 (8.92%) Test Analyst
11 22 (6.77%) Test Leader
12 18 (5.54%) Automation Tester
12 18 (5.54%) Developer
12 18 (5.54%) QA Automation Engineer
13 16 (4.92%) Test Manager
14 11 (3.38%) QA Tester
15 10 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
15 10 (3.08%) QA Leader
15 10 (3.08%) Senior Test Engineer
16 9 (2.77%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (44.00%) Playwright
2 52 (16.00%) Kafka
3 50 (15.38%) REST
4 44 (13.54%) Spring
5 41 (12.62%) Gherkin
6 30 (9.23%) WireMock
7 25 (7.69%) JSON
8 24 (7.38%) React
9 23 (7.08%) RESTful
9 23 (7.08%) Terraform
10 22 (6.77%) HTML
10 22 (6.77%) Spring Boot
11 19 (5.85%) .NET
12 18 (5.54%) RabbitMQ
13 17 (5.23%) Node.js
14 16 (4.92%) pytest
14 16 (4.92%) XML
15 11 (3.38%) SOAP
16 10 (3.08%) CSS
17 9 (2.77%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 18 (5.54%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.08%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.08%) Virtual Team
5 9 (2.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 7 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.54%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.54%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.92%) AI Agents
9 3 (0.92%) Clustering
9 3 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.92%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (0.92%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.92%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.62%) Housing Association
10 2 (0.62%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.77%) Linux
2 9 (2.77%) Unix
3 6 (1.85%) Windows
4 4 (1.23%) Android
4 4 (1.23%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.23%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (88.92%) Test Automation
2 238 (73.23%) CI/CD
3 210 (64.62%) Agile
4 132 (40.62%) DevOps
5 117 (36.00%) Test Strategy
6 115 (35.38%) Software Testing
7 105 (32.31%) API Testing
7 105 (32.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 99 (30.46%) BDD
9 86 (26.46%) Microservices
10 81 (24.92%) Scrum
11 79 (24.31%) End-to-End Testing
11 79 (24.31%) SDLC
11 79 (24.31%) Stakeholder Management
12 77 (23.69%) Performance Testing
13 74 (22.77%) Problem-Solving
14 72 (22.15%) Validation
15 64 (19.69%) Manual Testing
16 62 (19.08%) Test Scripting
17 61 (18.77%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 162 (49.85%) Java
2 103 (31.69%) Python
3 94 (28.92%) SQL
4 78 (24.00%) JavaScript
5 38 (11.69%) C#
6 29 (8.92%) TypeScript
7 15 (4.62%) Bash
8 6 (1.85%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.54%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (1.23%) Ruby
11 3 (0.92%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.92%) Scala
12 2 (0.62%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.62%) PROC SQL
12 2 (0.62%) R
12 2 (0.62%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.31%) COBOL
13 1 (0.31%) Korn
13 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 131 (40.31%) Security Cleared
2 99 (30.46%) SC Cleared
3 36 (11.08%) ISTQB
4 30 (9.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (8.62%) DV Cleared
6 19 (5.85%) Degree
7 12 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 8 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.85%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.85%) ISEB
10 2 (0.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.62%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (53.23%) QA
2 83 (25.54%) Accessibility
3 47 (14.46%) WCAG
4 12 (3.69%) ISO 20022
5 11 (3.38%) GDPR
6 8 (2.46%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.92%) NIST
7 3 (0.92%) SEPA
7 3 (0.92%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.31%) GRC
8 1 (0.31%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.31%) PMO
System Software
1 110 (33.85%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 90 (27.69%) Kubernetes
2 23 (7.08%) Grafana
3 21 (6.46%) Prometheus
4 12 (3.69%) Ansible
5 6 (1.85%) HP ALM
6 5 (1.54%) Check_MK
6 5 (1.54%) Podman
7 3 (0.92%) Argo
7 3 (0.92%) Istio
7 3 (0.92%) Kibana
8 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.31%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (11.69%) Microsoft
2 36 (11.08%) Oracle
3 15 (4.62%) Salesforce
4 13 (4.00%) Splunk
5 10 (3.08%) HP
5 10 (3.08%) IBM
6 5 (1.54%) SAP
7 4 (1.23%) Databricks
7 4 (1.23%) UiPath
7 4 (1.23%) VMware
8 3 (0.92%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.92%) Google
8 3 (0.92%) Guidewire
8 3 (0.92%) Perfecto Mobile
8 3 (0.92%) Talend
9 2 (0.62%) Adobe
9 2 (0.62%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.62%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.62%) Qualtrics
10 1 (0.31%) Pega