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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 262 280
Rank change year-on-year -14 +18 -38
Contract jobs citing Selenium 265 293 363
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.95% 0.89% 0.86%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.41% 6.65% 6.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 215 275
10th Percentile £268 £325 £355
25th Percentile £329 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £539 £600 £588
90th Percentile £638 £651 £670
UK median daily rate £427 £478 £475
% change year-on-year -10.58% +0.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 7
10th Percentile £48.13 £37.33 £51.25
25th Percentile - £38.19 £53.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £41.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% -40.36% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £45.69 £75.00
90th Percentile - £46.78 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +11.11% -35.71% +16.67%

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 4,133 4,406 5,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.86% 13.37% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,855 2,828 3,917
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £601 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 169 229
10th Percentile £44.30 £37.39 £46.18
25th Percentile £54.88 £54.36 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £73.80 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Selenium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Selenium 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025. 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 -31 118 £453 -4.74% 55
North of England -7 53 £375 -16.20% 26
Midlands +10 37 £313 -20.38% 13
South East +1 37 £420 -28.21% 50
North West +12 26 £336 -27.35% 14
East Midlands +17 25 £270 -28.00% 6
Yorkshire -15 22 £423 -15.50% 6
West Midlands -5 12 £430 -41.69% 7
South West +8 8 £561 +18.11% 4
North East -3 5 £448 +5.29% 6
East of England - 5 £200 - 8
Selenium
UK

Selenium
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 28 (10.57%) Confluence
2 5 (1.89%) CICS
3 4 (1.51%) Apache
3 4 (1.51%) Appian
3 4 (1.51%) JBoss
3 4 (1.51%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.13%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.75%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.38%) CMS
6 1 (0.38%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.13%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 74 (27.92%) Azure
2 58 (21.89%) AWS
3 37 (13.96%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (8.68%) GitHub
5 15 (5.66%) GCP
6 13 (4.91%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (3.40%) BrowserStack
7 9 (3.40%) Serverless
8 7 (2.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 7 (2.64%) SaaS
8 7 (2.64%) Tricentis Tosca
9 5 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.89%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.51%) OpenShift
10 4 (1.51%) Pulumi
10 4 (1.51%) Slack
11 3 (1.13%) BlazeMeter
11 3 (1.13%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.13%) Internet
1 3 (1.13%) SSH
2 1 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.79%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.02%) DB2
2 8 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (2.64%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.13%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.13%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.75%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.75%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.75%) Power BI
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.38%) Big Data
7 1 (0.38%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.38%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.38%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 97 (36.60%) Cucumber
2 86 (32.45%) Jenkins
2 86 (32.45%) JIRA
3 57 (21.51%) Postman
4 53 (20.00%) GitLab
5 51 (19.25%) JUnit
6 50 (18.87%) REST Assured
7 49 (18.49%) Git
8 43 (16.23%) Cypress.io
9 36 (13.58%) JMeter
10 34 (12.83%) SonarQube
11 31 (11.70%) Maven
12 24 (9.06%) Bitbucket
13 23 (8.68%) WebDriver
14 21 (7.92%) TestNG
15 16 (6.04%) Appium
16 15 (5.66%) Gradle
17 14 (5.28%) IntelliJ
18 13 (4.91%) HP UFT
19 11 (4.15%) Zephyr
General
1 82 (30.94%) Social Skills
2 48 (18.11%) Finance
3 46 (17.36%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (13.58%) Banking
5 19 (7.17%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.02%) Law
7 6 (2.26%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.51%) Automotive
9 4 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.51%) Police
9 4 (1.51%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.13%) Back Office
10 3 (1.13%) Billing
10 3 (1.13%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.13%) Retail
10 3 (1.13%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.75%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.75%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 79 (29.81%) Tester
2 57 (21.51%) Automation Tester
3 44 (16.60%) Test Engineer
4 28 (10.57%) Developer
5 26 (9.81%) Senior
6 23 (8.68%) Analyst
7 20 (7.55%) Lead
7 20 (7.55%) Test Analyst
8 18 (6.79%) QA Engineer
8 18 (6.79%) Test Automation Engineer
9 17 (6.42%) Java Developer
10 15 (5.66%) Software Engineer
11 13 (4.91%) Java Engineer
11 13 (4.91%) QA Tester
12 11 (4.15%) Test Leader
12 11 (4.15%) Test Manager
13 10 (3.77%) Selenium Tester
14 9 (3.40%) Automation Engineer
14 9 (3.40%) Java Software Engineer
14 9 (3.40%) Selenium Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (20.00%) REST
2 52 (19.62%) Playwright
3 27 (10.19%) HTML
4 25 (9.43%) JSON
5 22 (8.30%) .NET
6 20 (7.55%) SOAP
7 19 (7.17%) RESTful
8 17 (6.42%) Hibernate
8 17 (6.42%) React
9 15 (5.66%) CSS
10 14 (5.28%) Spring Boot
10 14 (5.28%) Web Services
10 14 (5.28%) XML
11 13 (4.91%) Java EE
11 13 (4.91%) Node.js
12 12 (4.53%) jQuery
13 10 (3.77%) Kafka
14 9 (3.40%) Gherkin
14 9 (3.40%) JPA
14 9 (3.40%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.17%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (3.02%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.02%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.26%) Mainframe
5 5 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.89%) VSAM
6 4 (1.51%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.51%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.13%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.13%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.13%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.75%) Mobile Payment
8 2 (0.75%) NHS
8 2 (0.75%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.15%) Windows
2 10 (3.77%) Unix
3 9 (3.40%) Apple iOS
4 8 (3.02%) Linux
5 7 (2.64%) Android
6 2 (0.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (89.43%) Test Automation
2 126 (47.55%) Agile
3 124 (46.79%) CI/CD
4 105 (39.62%) DevOps
5 65 (24.53%) Test Strategy
6 64 (24.15%) Software Testing
7 60 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
8 55 (20.75%) Test Scripting
9 50 (18.87%) API Testing
10 48 (18.11%) Scrum
11 42 (15.85%) BDD
12 39 (14.72%) TDD
13 38 (14.34%) Performance Testing
14 35 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
14 35 (13.21%) Software Engineering
15 32 (12.08%) Regression Testing
16 30 (11.32%) Microservices
17 29 (10.94%) Continuous Integration
18 28 (10.57%) Manual Testing
19 26 (9.81%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 138 (52.08%) Java
2 50 (18.87%) JavaScript
2 50 (18.87%) Python
3 43 (16.23%) C#
4 42 (15.85%) SQL
5 8 (3.02%) Scala
6 5 (1.89%) Bash
6 5 (1.89%) COBOL
6 5 (1.89%) JCL
6 5 (1.89%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.13%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.13%) Ruby
7 3 (1.13%) VB.NET
8 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.75%) REXX
9 1 (0.38%) Go
9 1 (0.38%) Groovy
9 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 65 (24.53%) Security Cleared
2 54 (20.38%) SC Cleared
3 27 (10.19%) ISTQB
4 14 (5.28%) Degree
5 10 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.51%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.75%) MCP
9 1 (0.38%) CEH
9 1 (0.38%) CISSP
9 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.38%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (32.83%) QA
2 22 (8.30%) Accessibility
3 13 (4.91%) WCAG
4 2 (0.75%) GDPR
4 2 (0.75%) SLA
5 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.38%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.38%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.38%) NIST
5 1 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 50 (18.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (11.70%) Kubernetes
2 22 (8.30%) Terraform
3 19 (7.17%) Ansible
4 12 (4.53%) Podman
5 10 (3.77%) Docker Swarm
6 9 (3.40%) Puppet
7 6 (2.26%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.89%) Grafana
9 4 (1.51%) Argo
9 4 (1.51%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.75%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.75%) Kibana
11 1 (0.38%) logstash
Vendors
1 21 (7.92%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.79%) Oracle
3 12 (4.53%) Veracode
4 11 (4.15%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.77%) UiPath
6 7 (2.64%) Google
6 7 (2.64%) Splunk
7 5 (1.89%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.51%) Bloomberg
8 4 (1.51%) Cisco
8 4 (1.51%) Informatica
8 4 (1.51%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.51%) Reuters
8 4 (1.51%) webMethods
9 3 (1.13%) Duck Creek
9 3 (1.13%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.13%) Guidewire
10 2 (0.75%) Databricks
10 2 (0.75%) Nintex
10 2 (0.75%) Parasoft