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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 266 292
Rank change year-on-year -31 +26 -65
Contract jobs citing Selenium 282 242 278
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.88% 0.90% 0.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.00% 6.74% 6.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 153 225
10th Percentile £344 £310 £358
25th Percentile £375 £385 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £566 £588 £538
90th Percentile £650 £644 £616
UK median daily rate £475 £425 £440
% change year-on-year +11.76% -3.41% -16.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £52.50 - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile £72.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +38.89% - -

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 4,697 3,592 4,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.70% 13.35% 11.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,262 2,235 3,095
10th Percentile £334 £340 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £639
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 67 203
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £45.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.63 £50.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.65 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in England over the 6 months to 17 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Selenium in England over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 17 January 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 +1 120 £475 +11.76% 25
Midlands -1 55 £477 +23.77% 25
North of England -42 54 £375 -11.76% 41
West Midlands -6 46 £492 +21.48% 7
Yorkshire -33 34 £375 -11.24% 18
South East -44 24 £550 -12.00% 65
South West -17 13 £518 +8.95% 29
North West -28 12 £399 +6.27% 17
East Midlands -20 9 £360 -4.00% 18
North East -6 8 £398 -21.48% 6
East of England -15 6 - - 37
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 31 (10.99%) Confluence
2 17 (6.03%) SAS
3 8 (2.84%) Apache
3 8 (2.84%) JBoss
3 8 (2.84%) WebLogic
4 7 (2.48%) Appian
5 5 (1.77%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.35%) CMS
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.06%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.71%) Maximo
2 2 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 80 (28.37%) Azure
2 70 (24.82%) AWS
3 47 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (10.28%) GitHub
5 24 (8.51%) GCP
6 21 (7.45%) OpenShift
7 20 (7.09%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (4.61%) Tricentis Tosca
9 11 (3.90%) Serverless
10 10 (3.55%) Apigee
11 9 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (2.84%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (2.84%) SaaS
13 7 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (2.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 7 (2.48%) Power Platform
14 6 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (2.13%) Azure AKS
15 5 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (1.77%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.42%) HTTP
2 1 (0.35%) DSL
2 1 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.26%) MongoDB
2 11 (3.90%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.84%) Oracle Database
3 8 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.13%) MySQL
5 5 (1.77%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 3 (1.06%) Big Data
6 3 (1.06%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.06%) DB2
6 3 (1.06%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.71%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.71%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.71%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 1 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.35%) Power BI
8 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 98 (34.75%) Cucumber
2 96 (34.04%) Jenkins
3 81 (28.72%) Git
4 77 (27.30%) JIRA
5 75 (26.60%) Postman
6 68 (24.11%) GitLab
7 63 (22.34%) JUnit
8 56 (19.86%) REST Assured
9 53 (18.79%) Cypress.io
10 32 (11.35%) JMeter
11 24 (8.51%) WebDriver
12 21 (7.45%) Bitbucket
13 19 (6.74%) SonarQube
13 19 (6.74%) TestRail
14 18 (6.38%) Maven
15 12 (4.26%) TestNG
16 11 (3.90%) Mockito
16 11 (3.90%) Robot Framework
16 11 (3.90%) Zephyr
17 10 (3.55%) Gatling
General
1 85 (30.14%) Social Skills
2 51 (18.09%) Finance
3 48 (17.02%) Public Sector
4 29 (10.28%) Banking
5 24 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.84%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.48%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.42%) Front Office
10 4 (1.42%) Retail
11 3 (1.06%) Automotive
11 3 (1.06%) Back Office
11 3 (1.06%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.71%) Marketing
12 2 (0.71%) Military
12 2 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (20.21%) Test Engineer
2 56 (19.86%) Tester
3 45 (15.96%) Lead
4 39 (13.83%) Senior
5 33 (11.70%) Automation Tester
6 30 (10.64%) Test Automation Engineer
7 29 (10.28%) Developer
8 21 (7.45%) QA Engineer
9 19 (6.74%) Test Leader
10 17 (6.03%) Test Specialist
11 16 (5.67%) Analyst
12 14 (4.96%) QA Leader
12 14 (4.96%) Test Analyst
13 12 (4.26%) Automation Test Lead
14 11 (3.90%) Lead Test Engineer
15 10 (3.55%) Automation Engineer
15 10 (3.55%) Java Developer
15 10 (3.55%) Java Engineer
15 10 (3.55%) Senior Tester
16 9 (3.19%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (25.53%) REST
2 63 (22.34%) Playwright
3 40 (14.18%) JSON
4 33 (11.70%) .NET
5 26 (9.22%) HTML
5 26 (9.22%) Spring
6 25 (8.87%) XML
7 23 (8.16%) Gherkin
7 23 (8.16%) SOAP
8 22 (7.80%) pytest
9 21 (7.45%) RESTful
10 19 (6.74%) React
11 17 (6.03%) OpenID
11 17 (6.03%) Spring Boot
12 15 (5.32%) SailPoint
13 14 (4.96%) Web Services
14 13 (4.61%) Node.js
15 12 (4.26%) Hibernate
15 12 (4.26%) LDAP
16 9 (3.19%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.32%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.61%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (3.90%) Cloud Native
4 5 (1.77%) Mobile App
4 5 (1.77%) Private Cloud
5 4 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.42%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.42%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.06%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (0.71%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.71%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.35%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.35%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.35%) FMCG
8 1 (0.35%) iPhone
8 1 (0.35%) NHS
8 1 (0.35%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.32%) Linux
2 12 (4.26%) Unix
3 8 (2.84%) Windows
4 5 (1.77%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.06%) Android
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (81.21%) Test Automation
2 165 (58.51%) CI/CD
3 148 (52.48%) Agile
4 112 (39.72%) DevOps
5 80 (28.37%) Test Strategy
6 77 (27.30%) Test Scripting
7 71 (25.18%) API Testing
8 68 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
9 65 (23.05%) Scrum
10 61 (21.63%) Software Testing
11 54 (19.15%) Regression Testing
12 52 (18.44%) Continuous Improvement
13 51 (18.09%) BDD
14 46 (16.31%) Microservices
15 40 (14.18%) Performance Testing
15 40 (14.18%) Validation
16 38 (13.48%) Containerisation
17 36 (12.77%) Software Engineering
18 34 (12.06%) Sprint Planning
19 33 (11.70%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 128 (45.39%) Java
2 70 (24.82%) Python
3 58 (20.57%) JavaScript
3 58 (20.57%) SQL
4 50 (17.73%) C#
5 10 (3.55%) Scala
5 10 (3.55%) TypeScript
6 8 (2.84%) Apex Code
7 7 (2.48%) PHP
8 5 (1.77%) XPath
9 4 (1.42%) Bash
9 4 (1.42%) VB.NET
10 3 (1.06%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.06%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.06%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.06%) Ruby
11 2 (0.71%) C
11 2 (0.71%) Groovy
11 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.35%) C++
Qualifications
1 84 (29.79%) Security Cleared
2 64 (22.70%) SC Cleared
3 29 (10.28%) ISTQB
4 17 (6.03%) Degree
5 12 (4.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 11 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.48%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.13%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (0.71%) MCP
10 1 (0.35%) CFA
10 1 (0.35%) HP APS
10 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (32.98%) QA
2 22 (7.80%) Accessibility
3 17 (6.03%) WCAG
4 5 (1.77%) GDPR
5 3 (1.06%) EU AI Act
5 3 (1.06%) NIST
5 3 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.06%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (0.71%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.35%) HL7
7 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.35%) MiFID
7 1 (0.35%) NCSC
7 1 (0.35%) SLA
7 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 65 (23.05%) Docker
2 3 (1.06%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 47 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.96%) Ansible
3 13 (4.61%) Puppet
3 13 (4.61%) Terraform
4 11 (3.90%) Grafana
5 5 (1.77%) HP ALM
5 5 (1.77%) Kibana
5 5 (1.77%) Podman
5 5 (1.77%) Progress Chef
5 5 (1.77%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.71%) Argo
6 2 (0.71%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (8.16%) Oracle
2 17 (6.03%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.32%) Salesforce
4 14 (4.96%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.55%) MuleSoft
5 10 (3.55%) Splunk
6 8 (2.84%) Veracode
6 8 (2.84%) webMethods
7 7 (2.48%) Cisco
8 6 (2.13%) Google
9 5 (1.77%) HP
9 5 (1.77%) UiPath
10 4 (1.42%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.42%) Workday
11 3 (1.06%) Adobe
11 3 (1.06%) SAP
12 2 (0.71%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.71%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.71%) IBM
12 2 (0.71%) Red Hat