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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 258 263
Rank change year-on-year -61 +5 -44
Contract jobs citing Selenium 264 239 315
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.98% 0.85%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.25% 7.23% 7.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 159 243
10th Percentile £313 £267 £344
25th Percentile £362 £357 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £530 £529 £580
90th Percentile £636 £617 £688
UK median daily rate £425 £425 £475
% change year-on-year - -10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36.75
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year - +29.87% -48.67%
75th Percentile - - £40.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £64.25
% change year-on-year - -22.18% -14.33%

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 5,027 3,304 4,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.49% 13.59% 11.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,358 2,215 2,876
10th Percentile £340 £350 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% -2.73%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £692 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 61 175
10th Percentile £38.16 £27.50 £31.71
25th Percentile £60.00 £52.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.97%
75th Percentile £74.38 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.75 £84.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -47 129 £450 +5.88% 18
North of England -73 51 £438 -7.89% 11
Midlands -34 48 £425 +30.37% 7
West Midlands -22 44 £425 - 4
Yorkshire -60 30 £500 +5.26% 2
South East -82 22 £550 -12.00% 12
North West -34 16 £402 -8.32% 6
North East -12 7 £350 -30.86% 3
South West -34 7 £436 -9.11% 6
East Midlands -45 4 £373 +38.57% 3
East of England -37 3 £300 -42.86% 8
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 46 (17.42%) Confluence
2 5 (1.89%) SAS
3 4 (1.52%) Apache
4 3 (1.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.76%) CMS
6 1 (0.38%) JBoss
6 1 (0.38%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.38%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.38%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.27%) Shopify
2 3 (1.14%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.76%) Maximo
4 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 101 (38.26%) Azure
2 82 (31.06%) AWS
3 50 (18.94%) GitHub
4 48 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (16.67%) GCP
6 26 (9.85%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (4.55%) Apigee
8 11 (4.17%) OpenShift
9 10 (3.79%) BrowserStack
10 8 (3.03%) SaaS
11 7 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (2.65%) Serverless
12 6 (2.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 6 (2.27%) Tricentis Tosca
13 5 (1.89%) Amazon S3
14 4 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (1.52%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 3 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
15 3 (1.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 3 (1.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.76%) HTTP
2 1 (0.38%) DSL
2 1 (0.38%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (3.03%) Big Data
2 8 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (3.03%) MongoDB
2 8 (3.03%) MySQL
2 8 (3.03%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (2.27%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.89%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.52%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.14%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.14%) Power BI
7 2 (0.76%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.76%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.38%) DB2
8 1 (0.38%) SAS EBI
8 1 (0.38%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 101 (38.26%) JIRA
2 94 (35.61%) Jenkins
3 89 (33.71%) Cucumber
4 79 (29.92%) Git
5 71 (26.89%) Postman
6 63 (23.86%) GitLab
7 55 (20.83%) REST Assured
8 52 (19.70%) Cypress.io
9 50 (18.94%) JUnit
10 47 (17.80%) WebDriver
11 43 (16.29%) JMeter
12 18 (6.82%) TestRail
12 18 (6.82%) Zephyr
13 17 (6.44%) SpecFlow
14 15 (5.68%) Appium
14 15 (5.68%) TestNG
15 13 (4.92%) NUnit
16 11 (4.17%) Gatling
16 11 (4.17%) Robot Framework
17 9 (3.41%) SoapUI
General
1 75 (28.41%) Social Skills
2 44 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (15.53%) Finance
4 38 (14.39%) Public Sector
5 25 (9.47%) Banking
6 8 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.27%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.89%) Military
9 4 (1.52%) Front Office
9 4 (1.52%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.14%) Marketing
10 3 (1.14%) Retail
11 2 (0.76%) Back Office
11 2 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.38%) Law
12 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 61 (23.11%) Test Engineer
2 48 (18.18%) Lead
3 47 (17.80%) Tester
4 42 (15.91%) Senior
5 35 (13.26%) QA Engineer
6 34 (12.88%) Test Automation Engineer
7 26 (9.85%) Test Leader
8 25 (9.47%) Automation Tester
9 23 (8.71%) Developer
10 18 (6.82%) Automation Engineer
10 18 (6.82%) Automation Test Lead
11 16 (6.06%) Analyst
11 16 (6.06%) QA Automation Engineer
12 15 (5.68%) Test Analyst
13 14 (5.30%) Lead Test Engineer
14 10 (3.79%) Salesforce Developer
14 10 (3.79%) Senior Test Engineer
14 10 (3.79%) Senior Tester
15 8 (3.03%) Senior Automation Tester
15 8 (3.03%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (29.17%) Playwright
2 47 (17.80%) REST
3 34 (12.88%) Spring
4 27 (10.23%) Gherkin
5 26 (9.85%) .NET
6 18 (6.82%) WireMock
7 17 (6.44%) pytest
8 16 (6.06%) SailPoint
8 16 (6.06%) Spring Boot
9 13 (4.92%) Kafka
9 13 (4.92%) LDAP
9 13 (4.92%) Lightning Web Components
9 13 (4.92%) OpenID
10 11 (4.17%) HTML
10 11 (4.17%) RESTful
11 8 (3.03%) JSON
11 8 (3.03%) Node.js
11 8 (3.03%) React
11 8 (3.03%) SOAP
12 7 (2.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.82%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.92%) Distributed Architecture
3 12 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.17%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 5 (1.89%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.52%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.14%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.14%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.14%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.14%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.76%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.76%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.38%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.65%) Windows
2 6 (2.27%) Linux
3 4 (1.52%) Android
3 4 (1.52%) Unix
4 3 (1.14%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.76%) VMS
6 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (88.26%) Test Automation
2 153 (57.95%) CI/CD
3 121 (45.83%) Agile
4 85 (32.20%) DevOps
5 71 (26.89%) API Testing
6 70 (26.52%) Test Strategy
7 64 (24.24%) BDD
8 59 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
9 57 (21.59%) Test Scripting
10 56 (21.21%) Validation
11 50 (18.94%) End-to-End Testing
12 46 (17.42%) Regression Testing
13 43 (16.29%) Microservices
14 42 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
14 42 (15.91%) Performance Testing
15 39 (14.77%) Scenario Testing
15 39 (14.77%) Software Testing
16 37 (14.02%) Manual Testing
16 37 (14.02%) TDD
17 36 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 119 (45.08%) Java
2 62 (23.48%) Python
3 61 (23.11%) SQL
4 56 (21.21%) C#
5 52 (19.70%) JavaScript
6 16 (6.06%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.79%) Apex Code
8 9 (3.41%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.27%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.27%) PHP
10 5 (1.89%) Bash
10 5 (1.89%) Ruby
11 3 (1.14%) Go
11 3 (1.14%) Scala
11 3 (1.14%) XPath
12 2 (0.76%) Groovy
12 2 (0.76%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.38%) C++
13 1 (0.38%) COBOL
13 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 85 (32.20%) Security Cleared
2 70 (26.52%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.71%) ISTQB
4 17 (6.44%) Degree
5 10 (3.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.14%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.38%) CFA
9 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.38%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (41.29%) QA
2 22 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.27%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.52%) GDPR
4 4 (1.52%) WCAG
5 3 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.14%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (0.76%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.38%) GxP
7 1 (0.38%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.38%) MiFID
7 1 (0.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 44 (16.67%) Docker
2 3 (1.14%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 3 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (17.05%) Kubernetes
2 27 (10.23%) Grafana
3 25 (9.47%) Prometheus
4 9 (3.41%) HP ALM
5 5 (1.89%) Terraform
6 2 (0.76%) Ansible
6 2 (0.76%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.76%) Kibana
6 2 (0.76%) Puppet
6 2 (0.76%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.38%) Podman
7 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (7.95%) Salesforce
2 19 (7.20%) Oracle
3 17 (6.44%) ServiceNow
4 15 (5.68%) Microsoft
5 10 (3.79%) MuleSoft
6 9 (3.41%) HP
7 8 (3.03%) Splunk
8 6 (2.27%) Google
9 5 (1.89%) SAP
10 4 (1.52%) Citrix
10 4 (1.52%) Micro Focus
10 4 (1.52%) Talend
10 4 (1.52%) Workday
11 3 (1.14%) Adobe
11 3 (1.14%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.14%) Databricks
11 3 (1.14%) IBM
11 3 (1.14%) OpenText
12 2 (0.76%) Avaloq
12 2 (0.76%) Red Hat