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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 271 265
Rank change year-on-year -70 -6 +23
Contract jobs citing Selenium 321 267 287
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.95% 0.89%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.03% 6.24% 6.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 200 201
10th Percentile £306 £268 £325
25th Percentile £359 £332 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £494 £540 £603
90th Percentile £575 £639 £651
UK median daily rate £425 £428 £480
% change year-on-year -0.70% -10.83% +1.05%
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% -28.00%
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -28.00%

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 5,325 4,277 4,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.52% 15.22% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,374 2,969 2,740
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £635
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £523
% change year-on-year - -4.31% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 96 164
10th Percentile £22.68 £33.38 £39.03
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £54.68
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.80 £76.25 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.17% -1.15% -

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 9 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

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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 9 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 -66 148 £462 +2.38% 111
Midlands -18 63 £433 +38.40% 21
North of England -60 62 £402 +3.74% 41
West Midlands +4 61 £436 -13.18% 19
North West -51 25 £402 +18.24% 10
South East -64 24 £275 -29.49% 34
North East -27 20 £450 -2.70% 21
Yorkshire -39 20 £400 -5.33% 10
South West -24 14 £425 -24.24% 9
East of England -26 8 £415 +107.32% 5
East Midlands -42 2 £375 +38.89% 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 (9.66%) Confluence
2 8 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.87%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.56%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.93%) 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 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (4.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.31%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 124 (38.63%) Azure
2 109 (33.96%) AWS
3 81 (25.23%) GitHub
4 79 (24.61%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (14.02%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (6.54%) GCP
7 19 (5.92%) GitHub Copilot
7 19 (5.92%) Serverless
8 16 (4.98%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (4.05%) Azure Functions
9 13 (4.05%) Power Automate
10 12 (3.74%) OpenShift
11 11 (3.43%) BrowserStack
12 10 (3.12%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (2.49%) SaaS
14 7 (2.18%) Power Platform
15 5 (1.56%) Amazon S3
16 4 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
16 4 (1.25%) Amazon SQS
16 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.87%) HTTP
2 5 (1.56%) 4G
2 5 (1.56%) 5G
2 5 (1.56%) DNS
2 5 (1.56%) SSH
2 5 (1.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.31%) Internet
3 1 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (8.72%) MongoDB
2 26 (8.10%) Relational Database
3 18 (5.61%) SQL Server
4 15 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.43%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (2.49%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (2.18%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (1.87%) Redis
10 5 (1.56%) Big Data
10 5 (1.56%) Hazelcast
10 5 (1.56%) Metadata
10 5 (1.56%) MySQL
11 4 (1.25%) Spark SQL
12 3 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.93%) HBase
12 3 (0.93%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.93%) Power BI
13 2 (0.62%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.62%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 131 (40.81%) Cucumber
2 111 (34.58%) Git
3 97 (30.22%) Jenkins
4 81 (25.23%) GitLab
5 76 (23.68%) JUnit
6 73 (22.74%) Cypress.io
7 72 (22.43%) Postman
8 67 (20.87%) JIRA
9 59 (18.38%) REST Assured
10 48 (14.95%) Gatling
10 48 (14.95%) WebDriver
11 33 (10.28%) JMeter
12 30 (9.35%) TestNG
13 26 (8.10%) SonarQube
14 17 (5.30%) Appium
15 16 (4.98%) Zephyr
16 15 (4.67%) SoapUI
17 14 (4.36%) HP UFT
18 13 (4.05%) Maven
19 12 (3.74%) TestRail
General
1 123 (38.32%) Social Skills
2 63 (19.63%) Finance
3 60 (18.69%) Public Sector
4 50 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (14.95%) Banking
6 11 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.49%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.87%) Military
9 5 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.25%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.25%) Social Housing
11 3 (0.93%) 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%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.31%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 65 (20.25%) Test Engineer
2 46 (14.33%) Senior
3 45 (14.02%) Lead
4 41 (12.77%) Tester
5 39 (12.15%) QA Engineer
6 37 (11.53%) Test Automation Engineer
7 33 (10.28%) Analyst
8 31 (9.66%) Quality Engineer
9 30 (9.35%) Automation Engineer
9 30 (9.35%) Test Analyst
10 22 (6.85%) Test Leader
11 19 (5.92%) Automation Tester
11 19 (5.92%) QA Automation Engineer
12 18 (5.61%) Developer
13 16 (4.98%) Test Manager
14 11 (3.43%) QA Tester
15 10 (3.12%) DevOps Engineer
15 10 (3.12%) QA Leader
15 10 (3.12%) Senior Test Engineer
16 9 (2.80%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (43.30%) Playwright
2 52 (16.20%) Kafka
3 48 (14.95%) REST
4 43 (13.40%) Spring
5 41 (12.77%) Gherkin
6 29 (9.03%) WireMock
7 24 (7.48%) JSON
8 22 (6.85%) HTML
8 22 (6.85%) Spring Boot
9 21 (6.54%) React
9 21 (6.54%) RESTful
9 21 (6.54%) Terraform
10 18 (5.61%) .NET
11 17 (5.30%) RabbitMQ
12 16 (4.98%) Node.js
12 16 (4.98%) pytest
12 16 (4.98%) XML
13 11 (3.43%) SOAP
14 10 (3.12%) CSS
15 9 (2.80%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.48%) Product Ownership
2 18 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.05%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.12%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.12%) Virtual Team
5 9 (2.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 7 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.87%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.56%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.56%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.93%) Clustering
9 3 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.93%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (0.93%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.93%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.62%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.62%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.85%) Linux
2 9 (2.80%) Unix
3 6 (1.87%) Windows
4 4 (1.25%) Android
4 4 (1.25%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (88.47%) Test Automation
2 232 (72.27%) CI/CD
3 206 (64.17%) Agile
4 129 (40.19%) DevOps
5 113 (35.20%) Software Testing
6 112 (34.89%) Test Strategy
7 102 (31.78%) API Testing
7 102 (31.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 97 (30.22%) BDD
9 84 (26.17%) Microservices
10 79 (24.61%) Scrum
11 77 (23.99%) Performance Testing
11 77 (23.99%) SDLC
11 77 (23.99%) Stakeholder Management
12 75 (23.36%) End-to-End Testing
13 74 (23.05%) Problem-Solving
14 70 (21.81%) Validation
15 64 (19.94%) Manual Testing
16 60 (18.69%) Integration Testing
17 59 (18.38%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 161 (50.16%) Java
2 104 (32.40%) Python
3 93 (28.97%) SQL
4 75 (23.36%) JavaScript
5 38 (11.84%) C#
6 27 (8.41%) TypeScript
7 15 (4.67%) Bash
8 6 (1.87%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.56%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (1.25%) Ruby
11 3 (0.93%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.93%) 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
1 132 (41.12%) Security Cleared
2 100 (31.15%) SC Cleared
3 36 (11.21%) ISTQB
4 30 (9.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (8.72%) DV Cleared
6 19 (5.92%) Degree
7 12 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 8 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.87%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.87%) 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 (53.89%) QA
2 81 (25.23%) Accessibility
3 45 (14.02%) WCAG
4 12 (3.74%) ISO 20022
5 11 (3.43%) GDPR
6 8 (2.49%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.93%) NIST
7 3 (0.93%) SEPA
7 3 (0.93%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.31%) GRC
8 1 (0.31%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.31%) PMO
System Software
1 108 (33.64%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 86 (26.79%) Kubernetes
2 23 (7.17%) Grafana
3 21 (6.54%) Prometheus
4 12 (3.74%) Ansible
5 6 (1.87%) HP ALM
6 5 (1.56%) Check_MK
6 5 (1.56%) Podman
7 3 (0.93%) Argo
7 3 (0.93%) Istio
7 3 (0.93%) Kibana
8 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.31%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (11.84%) Microsoft
2 36 (11.21%) Oracle
3 13 (4.05%) Salesforce
3 13 (4.05%) Splunk
4 10 (3.12%) HP
4 10 (3.12%) IBM
5 5 (1.56%) SAP
6 4 (1.25%) Databricks
6 4 (1.25%) Talend
6 4 (1.25%) UiPath
6 4 (1.25%) VMware
7 3 (0.93%) Dynatrace
7 3 (0.93%) Google
7 3 (0.93%) Guidewire
7 3 (0.93%) Perfecto Mobile
8 2 (0.62%) Adobe
8 2 (0.62%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.62%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.62%) Qualtrics
9 1 (0.31%) Okta