Selenium Contracts in England

Selenium
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Selenium skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Selenium over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 219 239
Rank change year-on-year -44 +20 -12
Contract jobs citing Selenium 315 617 861
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.85% 1.22% 1.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.48% 8.18% 6.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 472 659
10th Percentile £344 £363 £356
25th Percentile £413 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £580 £650 £575
90th Percentile £688 £800 £669
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 10
10th Percentile - £60.25 £44.75
25th Percentile £36.75 £70.00 £47.06
Median hourly rate £38.50 £75.00 £52.13
Median % change year-on-year -48.67% +43.88% -10.13%
75th Percentile £40.25 - £65.48
90th Percentile - - £65.81
UK median hourly rate £64.25 £75.00 £63.62
% change year-on-year -14.33% +17.90% +9.68%

All Development Application Skills
England

Selenium is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,209 7,543 12,764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 14.94% 17.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,876 5,319 9,056
10th Percentile £356 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.89%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £653
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 222 184
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.55
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.56 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.34 £50.35
Median % change year-on-year +5.97% +21.82% +6.07%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.18
90th Percentile £84.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year +1.63% +22.14% +11.27%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Selenium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in England

Selenium
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Selenium in England.

Daily rate trend for Selenium in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Selenium in England.

Hourly rate trend for Selenium in England

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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 28 April 2024. 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 -12 186 £480 -12.73% 47
North of England -1 50 £425 -20.19% 20
South East -8 48 £588 +10.07% 33
Yorkshire +16 29 £425 -15.00% 7
North West +18 19 £475 -5.00% 12
Midlands +3 12 £400 +5.26% 12
South West -1 11 £538 +2.38% 10
West Midlands +20 9 £575 +35.29% 5
East Midlands +6 3 £380 +35.71% 7
North East -1 2 £380 -36.67% 1
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UK

Selenium
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (4.44%) Confluence
2 9 (2.86%) CMS
3 6 (1.90%) nginx
4 4 (1.27%) Apache
4 4 (1.27%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.95%) Camunda
5 3 (0.95%) Drupal
5 3 (0.95%) IIS
5 3 (0.95%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.95%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.63%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.32%) Appian
7 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 7 (2.22%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (1.90%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.63%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.32%) Endur
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 88 (27.94%) Azure
2 60 (19.05%) AWS
3 59 (18.73%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (6.03%) GitHub
5 18 (5.71%) Entra ID
6 13 (4.13%) Serverless
7 10 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (2.86%) BrowserStack
9 8 (2.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (2.22%) PaaS
11 6 (1.90%) GCP
12 5 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.59%) Azure Storage
12 5 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.59%) SaaS
13 4 (1.27%) Azure App Service
13 4 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (1.27%) Azure Functions
13 4 (1.27%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.22%) Kerberos
2 6 (1.90%) HTTP
3 5 (1.59%) SSL
4 3 (0.95%) DNS
5 1 (0.32%) Internet
5 1 (0.32%) MQTT
5 1 (0.32%) SSH
5 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (9.84%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.54%) MongoDB
4 7 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.90%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.90%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.59%) MySQL
7 4 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.27%) Redis
8 3 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.63%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle BI EE
10 1 (0.32%) Power BI
10 1 (0.32%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 107 (33.97%) Cucumber
2 87 (27.62%) Jenkins
3 59 (18.73%) JIRA
4 58 (18.41%) Git
5 54 (17.14%) REST Assured
6 49 (15.56%) Postman
7 46 (14.60%) SpecFlow
8 45 (14.29%) WebDriver
9 41 (13.02%) JMeter
10 39 (12.38%) JUnit
11 34 (10.79%) SonarQube
12 30 (9.52%) TestNG
13 29 (9.21%) Cypress.io
14 28 (8.89%) Appium
15 27 (8.57%) GitLab
16 21 (6.67%) SoapUI
17 20 (6.35%) Visual Studio
18 18 (5.71%) Bitbucket
19 12 (3.81%) Maven
19 12 (3.81%) Robot Framework
General
1 90 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 49 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (13.02%) Finance
4 35 (11.11%) Banking
5 22 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 20 (6.35%) Law
7 13 (4.13%) Police
8 8 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.22%) Back Office
9 7 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.22%) Prime Brokerage
10 6 (1.90%) Retail
11 5 (1.59%) Front Office
12 3 (0.95%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.63%) Automotive
14 1 (0.32%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.32%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (16.83%) Developer
2 50 (15.87%) Senior
3 44 (13.97%) Test Engineer
4 43 (13.65%) Analyst
5 42 (13.33%) Tester
6 37 (11.75%) Test Analyst
7 30 (9.52%) Automation Tester
8 28 (8.89%) Java Engineer
9 22 (6.98%) Lead
9 22 (6.98%) Test Automation Engineer
10 19 (6.03%) Senior Analyst
10 19 (6.03%) Senior Test Analyst
10 19 (6.03%) Test Manager
11 16 (5.08%) Software Engineer
12 15 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
12 15 (4.76%) QA Engineer
13 13 (4.13%) Full Stack Developer
13 13 (4.13%) Java Developer
14 12 (3.81%) Senior Test Engineer
15 11 (3.49%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (18.73%) REST
2 51 (16.19%) .NET
3 29 (9.21%) .NET Framework
4 27 (8.57%) AngularJS
5 25 (7.94%) Java EE
5 25 (7.94%) React
6 18 (5.71%) Spring
6 18 (5.71%) XML
7 17 (5.40%) Gherkin
8 16 (5.08%) HTML
8 16 (5.08%) Node.js
9 15 (4.76%) Spring Boot
10 14 (4.44%) .NET Core
10 14 (4.44%) ARM Templates
10 14 (4.44%) CSS
11 13 (4.13%) Kafka
12 12 (3.81%) JSON
12 12 (3.81%) Web Services
13 11 (3.49%) Playwright
13 11 (3.49%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 14 (4.44%) Mobile App
3 9 (2.86%) Equities
4 7 (2.22%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.90%) Client/Server
6 4 (1.27%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.27%) Private Cloud
7 3 (0.95%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.63%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.63%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.63%) PKI
8 2 (0.63%) W3C
9 1 (0.32%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.98%) Linux
2 16 (5.08%) Windows
3 12 (3.81%) Unix
4 10 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.54%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.90%) Android
7 4 (1.27%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (1.27%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.63%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.63%) VMS
9 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (70.79%) Test Automation
2 135 (42.86%) Agile
3 115 (36.51%) DevOps
4 96 (30.48%) CI/CD
5 67 (21.27%) Continuous Integration
6 61 (19.37%) Software Testing
7 57 (18.10%) BDD
8 54 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
9 52 (16.51%) Scrum
10 47 (14.92%) Test Scripting
11 44 (13.97%) Test Strategy
12 39 (12.38%) Software Engineering
13 38 (12.06%) TDD
14 32 (10.16%) Microservices
14 32 (10.16%) SDET
15 30 (9.52%) Manual Testing
15 30 (9.52%) SDLC
16 29 (9.21%) Technical Leadership
17 28 (8.89%) Software Architecture
18 26 (8.25%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 174 (55.24%) Java
2 84 (26.67%) C#
3 54 (17.14%) Python
4 39 (12.38%) JavaScript
5 26 (8.25%) PowerShell
5 26 (8.25%) SQL
6 17 (5.40%) TypeScript
7 11 (3.49%) Kotlin
8 6 (1.90%) VBScript
9 5 (1.59%) Bash
9 5 (1.59%) Scala
9 5 (1.59%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.27%) Groovy
10 4 (1.27%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.63%) Ruby
11 2 (0.63%) Swift
12 1 (0.32%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.32%) C++
12 1 (0.32%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 89 (28.25%) Security Cleared
2 74 (23.49%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.08%) ISTQB
4 12 (3.81%) Degree
5 11 (3.49%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.27%) ISEB
8 2 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.63%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (20.00%) QA
2 28 (8.89%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.81%) WCAG
4 3 (0.95%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.63%) HL7
System Software
1 48 (15.24%) Docker
2 22 (6.98%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.32%) iptables
Systems Management
1 46 (14.60%) Kubernetes
2 40 (12.70%) Ansible
3 34 (10.79%) Terraform
4 13 (4.13%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (3.81%) Podman
6 7 (2.22%) Grafana
7 5 (1.59%) Puppet
8 4 (1.27%) HP ALM
8 4 (1.27%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.95%) Kibana
9 3 (0.95%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.95%) Netcool
9 3 (0.95%) Packer
10 2 (0.63%) logstash
11 1 (0.32%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 34 (10.79%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.67%) Oracle
3 9 (2.86%) HP
4 8 (2.54%) Splunk
4 8 (2.54%) VMware
5 7 (2.22%) Okta
6 6 (1.90%) IBM
6 6 (1.90%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.59%) Wind River
8 4 (1.27%) Optimizely
8 4 (1.27%) Perfecto Mobile
8 4 (1.27%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.95%) Ab Initio
9 3 (0.95%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.95%) Checkmarx
9 3 (0.95%) Micro Focus
9 3 (0.95%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.63%) Adobe
10 2 (0.63%) Google
10 2 (0.63%) SAP