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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 275 264
Rank change year-on-year -90 -11 +13
Contract jobs citing Selenium 288 250 288
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.91% 0.88%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.46% 6.13% 6.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 180 212
10th Percentile £306 £267 £331
25th Percentile £356 £315 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £424 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% -15.30% -
75th Percentile £500 £528 £600
90th Percentile £600 £638 £670
UK median daily rate £425 £425 £484
% change year-on-year - -12.14% +1.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - £48.13 £37.33
25th Percentile - - £38.19
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £41.75
Median % change year-on-year - +19.76% -40.36%
75th Percentile - - £45.69
90th Percentile - - £46.78
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -35.71%

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 5,271 4,077 4,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.40% 14.90% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,341 2,819 2,812
10th Percentile £355 £325 £353
25th Percentile £415 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £632
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 95 169
10th Percentile £34.79 £44.30 £37.39
25th Percentile £52.29 £54.88 £54.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £81.80 £73.80
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -72 130 £450 - 132
North of England -66 56 £401 +6.93% 43
Midlands -23 51 £425 +51.79% 13
West Midlands -8 49 £425 -15.00% 11
South East -72 29 £363 -13.69% 26
North West -47 23 £402 +19.64% 26
North East -24 19 £450 +0.56% 7
Yorkshire -37 17 £350 -17.16% 10
South West -40 13 £435 -27.50% 18
East of England -25 8 £415 +107.32% 6
East Midlands -33 2 £375 +38.89% 2
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 33 (11.46%) Confluence
2 8 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.74%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.74%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.69%) Apache
5 2 (0.69%) SAS
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.35%) Appian
6 1 (0.35%) Camunda
6 1 (0.35%) CMS
6 1 (0.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (3.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.04%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.04%) Shopify
3 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 108 (37.50%) Azure
2 94 (32.64%) AWS
3 73 (25.35%) Azure DevOps
4 64 (22.22%) GitHub
5 38 (13.19%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (8.33%) GCP
7 17 (5.90%) Serverless
8 14 (4.86%) GitHub Copilot
9 13 (4.51%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (4.17%) Azure Functions
10 12 (4.17%) Power Automate
11 11 (3.82%) BrowserStack
12 9 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (2.78%) OpenShift
14 7 (2.43%) Power Platform
15 6 (2.08%) SaaS
16 5 (1.74%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
18 3 (1.04%) Amazon EventBridge
18 3 (1.04%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.74%) HTTP
2 4 (1.39%) 4G
2 4 (1.39%) 5G
2 4 (1.39%) DNS
2 4 (1.39%) SSH
2 4 (1.39%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.35%) Internet
3 1 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.68%) Relational Database
2 24 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 16 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (3.47%) NoSQL
6 8 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
6 8 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (2.43%) Big Data
8 5 (1.74%) Hazelcast
8 5 (1.74%) Metadata
9 4 (1.39%) MySQL
9 4 (1.39%) Redis
9 4 (1.39%) Spark SQL
10 3 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.04%) HBase
10 3 (1.04%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.04%) Power BI
11 2 (0.69%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.69%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 97 (33.68%) Cucumber
1 97 (33.68%) Git
2 85 (29.51%) Jenkins
3 73 (25.35%) JIRA
4 69 (23.96%) GitLab
5 68 (23.61%) Cypress.io
6 60 (20.83%) Postman
7 58 (20.14%) JUnit
8 55 (19.10%) REST Assured
9 49 (17.01%) WebDriver
10 35 (12.15%) Gatling
11 31 (10.76%) JMeter
12 23 (7.99%) TestNG
13 17 (5.90%) Zephyr
14 15 (5.21%) Appium
14 15 (5.21%) SonarQube
15 13 (4.51%) Maven
16 10 (3.47%) HP UFT
16 10 (3.47%) SoapUI
16 10 (3.47%) TestRail
General
1 99 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 53 (18.40%) Finance
3 52 (18.06%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (15.28%) Public Sector
5 42 (14.58%) Banking
6 11 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.43%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.08%) Military
9 3 (1.04%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.04%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.04%) Marketing
9 3 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.69%) Back Office
10 2 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.69%) Legal
10 2 (0.69%) Retail
11 1 (0.35%) Automotive
11 1 (0.35%) Front Office
11 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 60 (20.83%) Test Engineer
2 45 (15.63%) Senior
3 37 (12.85%) Lead
3 37 (12.85%) QA Engineer
4 36 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
5 35 (12.15%) Tester
6 33 (11.46%) Analyst
7 30 (10.42%) Test Analyst
8 25 (8.68%) Automation Engineer
9 18 (6.25%) Quality Engineer
10 17 (5.90%) QA Automation Engineer
10 17 (5.90%) Test Leader
11 15 (5.21%) Automation Tester
11 15 (5.21%) Developer
12 14 (4.86%) Test Manager
13 9 (3.13%) Lead Test Engineer
13 9 (3.13%) Software Engineer
14 8 (2.78%) QA Tester
14 8 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
14 8 (2.78%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (41.32%) Playwright
2 44 (15.28%) Kafka
2 44 (15.28%) REST
3 32 (11.11%) Gherkin
3 32 (11.11%) Spring
4 22 (7.64%) .NET
4 22 (7.64%) JSON
5 19 (6.60%) HTML
5 19 (6.60%) Spring Boot
5 19 (6.60%) WireMock
6 18 (6.25%) React
7 17 (5.90%) pytest
7 17 (5.90%) Terraform
7 17 (5.90%) XML
8 15 (5.21%) Node.js
9 13 (4.51%) RESTful
9 13 (4.51%) SOAP
10 12 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (3.13%) CSS
11 9 (3.13%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.99%) Product Ownership
2 15 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.51%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.47%) Management Information System
5 9 (3.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 9 (3.13%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.43%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (1.74%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.39%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.04%) Clustering
9 3 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.04%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.04%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.69%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.69%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.56%) Linux
2 8 (2.78%) Unix
3 6 (2.08%) Windows
4 4 (1.39%) Android
4 4 (1.39%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.39%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (86.81%) Test Automation
2 196 (68.06%) CI/CD
3 169 (58.68%) Agile
4 114 (39.58%) DevOps
5 98 (34.03%) Test Strategy
6 93 (32.29%) API Testing
7 88 (30.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 86 (29.86%) Software Testing
9 76 (26.39%) BDD
10 73 (25.35%) End-to-End Testing
11 69 (23.96%) Performance Testing
11 69 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
11 69 (23.96%) Validation
12 62 (21.53%) Microservices
12 62 (21.53%) SDLC
13 60 (20.83%) Scrum
14 58 (20.14%) Integration Testing
15 57 (19.79%) Regression Testing
15 57 (19.79%) Stakeholder Management
16 52 (18.06%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 127 (44.10%) Java
2 92 (31.94%) Python
3 88 (30.56%) SQL
4 65 (22.57%) JavaScript
5 37 (12.85%) C#
6 23 (7.99%) TypeScript
7 14 (4.86%) Bash
8 6 (2.08%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.74%) Ruby
10 4 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.04%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.04%) Scala
11 3 (1.04%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.69%) PROC SQL
12 2 (0.69%) R
12 2 (0.69%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.35%) COBOL
13 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 118 (40.97%) Security Cleared
2 87 (30.21%) SC Cleared
3 32 (11.11%) ISTQB
4 25 (8.68%) DV Cleared
5 20 (6.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (6.60%) Degree
7 13 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (3.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 7 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.74%) ISEB
11 2 (0.69%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.69%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.69%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (51.39%) QA
2 60 (20.83%) Accessibility
3 31 (10.76%) WCAG
4 12 (4.17%) ISO 20022
5 10 (3.47%) Data Quality
5 10 (3.47%) GDPR
6 5 (1.74%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.69%) NIST
7 2 (0.69%) SEPA
8 1 (0.35%) GRC
8 1 (0.35%) GxP
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.35%) PMO
System Software
1 81 (28.13%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 61 (21.18%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.29%) Grafana
3 19 (6.60%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.78%) Ansible
5 7 (2.43%) HP ALM
6 5 (1.74%) Check_MK
6 5 (1.74%) Podman
7 3 (1.04%) Istio
7 3 (1.04%) Kibana
8 2 (0.69%) Argo
9 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 36 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 33 (11.46%) Oracle
3 19 (6.60%) Salesforce
4 10 (3.47%) Splunk
5 8 (2.78%) IBM
6 7 (2.43%) HP
7 4 (1.39%) Databricks
7 4 (1.39%) SAP
7 4 (1.39%) Talend
7 4 (1.39%) UiPath
7 4 (1.39%) VMware
8 3 (1.04%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.04%) Google
8 3 (1.04%) Guidewire
8 3 (1.04%) Perfecto Mobile
9 2 (0.69%) Adobe
9 2 (0.69%) Avaloq
9 2 (0.69%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.69%) Qualtrics
10 1 (0.35%) Okta