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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 271 265
Rank change year-on-year -77 -6 +25
Contract jobs citing Selenium 317 267 283
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 0.96% 0.88%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.93% 6.29% 6.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 198 198
10th Percentile £306 £268 £334
25th Percentile £358 £332 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £494 £539 £602
90th Percentile £575 £638 £651
UK median daily rate £425 £428 £478
% change year-on-year -0.70% -10.37% +0.53%
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 5,349 4,243 4,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.49% 15.18% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,392 2,939 2,709
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £405 £420
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 £695 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 98 163
10th Percentile £22.68 £34.43 £42.90
25th Percentile £51.19 £50.00 £55.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.12 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £75.75 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% -

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 7 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

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 7 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 -56 145 £459 +1.78% 112
North of England -63 62 £402 +2.75% 39
Midlands -22 61 £433 +39.52% 26
West Midlands -1 59 £436 -24.13% 21
North West -40 25 £402 +18.24% 12
South East -71 24 £275 -34.52% 39
North East -26 20 £450 -2.70% 16
Yorkshire -38 20 £400 -5.88% 11
South West -36 14 £425 -24.24% 12
East of England -22 8 £415 +107.32% 10
East Midlands -41 2 £375 +38.89% 5
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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 32 (10.09%) Confluence
2 8 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.89%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.58%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.95%) Apache
5 3 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.63%) CMS
6 2 (0.63%) SAS
7 1 (0.32%) Appian
7 1 (0.32%) Camunda
7 1 (0.32%) nginx
7 1 (0.32%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (3.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.95%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.32%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 122 (38.49%) Azure
2 106 (33.44%) AWS
3 78 (24.61%) Azure DevOps
3 78 (24.61%) GitHub
4 44 (13.88%) GitHub Actions
5 20 (6.31%) GCP
6 19 (5.99%) Serverless
7 17 (5.36%) GitHub Copilot
8 15 (4.73%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (4.10%) Azure Functions
9 13 (4.10%) Power Automate
10 12 (3.79%) OpenShift
11 11 (3.47%) BrowserStack
12 10 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (2.21%) Power Platform
13 7 (2.21%) SaaS
14 5 (1.58%) Amazon S3
15 4 (1.26%) Amazon EKS
15 4 (1.26%) Amazon SQS
15 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.89%) HTTP
2 5 (1.58%) 4G
2 5 (1.58%) 5G
2 5 (1.58%) DNS
2 5 (1.58%) SSH
2 5 (1.58%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.32%) Internet
3 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.20%) MongoDB
2 25 (7.89%) Relational Database
3 17 (5.36%) SQL Server
4 14 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.47%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (2.52%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (2.21%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (1.58%) Big Data
9 5 (1.58%) Hazelcast
9 5 (1.58%) Metadata
9 5 (1.58%) MySQL
9 5 (1.58%) Redis
10 4 (1.26%) Spark SQL
11 3 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.95%) HBase
11 3 (0.95%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.95%) Power BI
12 2 (0.63%) InterSystems Cache
12 2 (0.63%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 129 (40.69%) Cucumber
2 110 (34.70%) Git
3 96 (30.28%) Jenkins
4 79 (24.92%) GitLab
5 73 (23.03%) JUnit
6 70 (22.08%) Postman
7 69 (21.77%) Cypress.io
7 69 (21.77%) JIRA
8 59 (18.61%) REST Assured
9 48 (15.14%) WebDriver
10 46 (14.51%) Gatling
11 33 (10.41%) JMeter
12 30 (9.46%) TestNG
13 24 (7.57%) SonarQube
14 17 (5.36%) Appium
15 16 (5.05%) Zephyr
16 15 (4.73%) SoapUI
17 14 (4.42%) HP UFT
18 12 (3.79%) Maven
18 12 (3.79%) TestRail
General
1 117 (36.91%) Social Skills
2 62 (19.56%) Finance
3 60 (18.93%) Public Sector
4 49 (15.46%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (14.83%) Banking
6 11 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.52%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.89%) Military
9 4 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.95%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.95%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.63%) Back Office
11 2 (0.63%) Legal
11 2 (0.63%) Police
11 2 (0.63%) Retail
12 1 (0.32%) Automotive
12 1 (0.32%) Games
12 1 (0.32%) Local Government
12 1 (0.32%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 65 (20.50%) Test Engineer
2 46 (14.51%) Senior
3 43 (13.56%) Lead
4 41 (12.93%) Tester
5 37 (11.67%) QA Engineer
5 37 (11.67%) Test Automation Engineer
6 33 (10.41%) Analyst
7 30 (9.46%) Test Analyst
8 28 (8.83%) Automation Engineer
8 28 (8.83%) Quality Engineer
9 22 (6.94%) Test Leader
10 19 (5.99%) Automation Tester
11 18 (5.68%) Developer
12 17 (5.36%) QA Automation Engineer
13 16 (5.05%) Test Manager
14 11 (3.47%) QA Tester
15 10 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
15 10 (3.15%) Senior Test Engineer
16 9 (2.84%) Lead Test Engineer
16 9 (2.84%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (42.90%) Playwright
2 51 (16.09%) Kafka
3 46 (14.51%) REST
4 42 (13.25%) Spring
5 39 (12.30%) Gherkin
6 27 (8.52%) WireMock
7 22 (6.94%) HTML
7 22 (6.94%) JSON
8 21 (6.62%) Spring Boot
8 21 (6.62%) Terraform
9 20 (6.31%) RESTful
10 19 (5.99%) .NET
11 18 (5.68%) React
12 16 (5.05%) Node.js
12 16 (5.05%) pytest
12 16 (5.05%) XML
13 14 (4.42%) RabbitMQ
14 11 (3.47%) SOAP
15 10 (3.15%) CSS
16 9 (2.84%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.26%) Product Ownership
2 18 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.10%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.15%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.15%) Virtual Team
5 9 (2.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 7 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.58%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.58%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.95%) Clustering
9 3 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (0.95%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.95%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.94%) Linux
2 9 (2.84%) Unix
3 6 (1.89%) Windows
4 4 (1.26%) Android
4 4 (1.26%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (88.01%) Test Automation
2 228 (71.92%) CI/CD
3 202 (63.72%) Agile
4 125 (39.43%) DevOps
5 110 (34.70%) Software Testing
5 110 (34.70%) Test Strategy
6 100 (31.55%) API Testing
7 99 (31.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 95 (29.97%) BDD
9 81 (25.55%) Microservices
10 77 (24.29%) Scrum
10 77 (24.29%) SDLC
11 76 (23.97%) Performance Testing
12 75 (23.66%) End-to-End Testing
13 73 (23.03%) Problem-Solving
14 72 (22.71%) Stakeholder Management
15 70 (22.08%) Validation
16 61 (19.24%) Manual Testing
17 60 (18.93%) Test Scripting
18 59 (18.61%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 158 (49.84%) Java
2 100 (31.55%) Python
3 93 (29.34%) SQL
4 73 (23.03%) JavaScript
5 37 (11.67%) C#
6 26 (8.20%) TypeScript
7 15 (4.73%) Bash
8 6 (1.89%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.58%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.58%) Ruby
10 4 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.95%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.95%) Scala
12 2 (0.63%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.63%) PROC SQL
12 2 (0.63%) R
12 2 (0.63%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.32%) COBOL
13 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 133 (41.96%) Security Cleared
2 101 (31.86%) SC Cleared
3 33 (10.41%) ISTQB
4 30 (9.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (8.83%) DV Cleared
6 18 (5.68%) Degree
7 12 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 8 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.89%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.89%) ISEB
10 2 (0.63%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (53.00%) QA
2 80 (25.24%) Accessibility
3 43 (13.56%) WCAG
4 12 (3.79%) ISO 20022
5 11 (3.47%) GDPR
6 8 (2.52%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.95%) NIST
7 3 (0.95%) SEPA
7 3 (0.95%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.32%) GRC
8 1 (0.32%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.32%) PMO
System Software
1 105 (33.12%) Docker
2 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 83 (26.18%) Kubernetes
2 23 (7.26%) Grafana
3 21 (6.62%) Prometheus
4 12 (3.79%) Ansible
5 6 (1.89%) HP ALM
6 5 (1.58%) Check_MK
6 5 (1.58%) Podman
7 3 (0.95%) Argo
7 3 (0.95%) Istio
7 3 (0.95%) Kibana
8 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 33 (10.41%) Oracle
3 13 (4.10%) Salesforce
3 13 (4.10%) Splunk
4 10 (3.15%) HP
4 10 (3.15%) IBM
5 5 (1.58%) SAP
6 4 (1.26%) Databricks
6 4 (1.26%) Talend
6 4 (1.26%) UiPath
6 4 (1.26%) VMware
7 3 (0.95%) Dynatrace
7 3 (0.95%) Google
7 3 (0.95%) Guidewire
7 3 (0.95%) Perfecto Mobile
8 2 (0.63%) Adobe
8 2 (0.63%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.63%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.63%) Qualtrics
9 1 (0.32%) Pega