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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 257 268
Rank change year-on-year -75 +11 -49
Contract jobs citing Selenium 272 244 314
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.99% 0.84%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.42% 7.26% 7.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 161 241
10th Percentile £313 £268 £350
25th Percentile £363 £358 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -13.27% -6.67%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £575
90th Percentile £638 £625 £688
UK median daily rate £436 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +2.65% -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 5,019 3,360 4,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.64% 13.67% 11.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,358 2,260 2,927
10th Percentile £338 £341 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.10% -3.18%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 61 171
10th Percentile £39.53 £27.50 £31.71
25th Percentile £60.00 £52.00 £51.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +6.25%
75th Percentile £75.88 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.75 £85.00
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 23 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 23 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 -28 129 £457 +7.59% 22
Midlands -27 53 £425 +30.37% 6
North of England -61 53 £438 -7.89% 13
West Midlands -18 50 £425 - 2
Yorkshire -49 32 £484 +1.89% 1
South East -77 21 £550 -12.00% 14
North West -39 15 £426 +5.97% 9
North East -15 8 £350 -30.86% 3
South West -35 8 £435 -9.38% 5
East of England -26 4 £300 -42.86% 9
East Midlands -41 3 £368 +36.62% 4
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 (16.91%) Confluence
2 7 (2.57%) Apache
3 6 (2.21%) SAS
4 4 (1.47%) JBoss
4 4 (1.47%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.74%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.74%) CMS
7 1 (0.37%) nginx
7 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.21%) Shopify
2 3 (1.10%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.74%) Maximo
4 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 101 (37.13%) Azure
2 87 (31.99%) AWS
3 51 (18.75%) GitHub
4 48 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (15.81%) GCP
6 28 (10.29%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (4.78%) Apigee
8 11 (4.04%) OpenShift
9 10 (3.68%) BrowserStack
10 8 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (2.94%) SaaS
10 8 (2.94%) Serverless
11 7 (2.57%) Tricentis Tosca
12 6 (2.21%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 5 (1.84%) Amazon S3
14 4 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (1.47%) Power Platform
14 4 (1.47%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.10%) HTTP
2 1 (0.37%) DSL
2 1 (0.37%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (4.04%) MongoDB
3 8 (2.94%) Big Data
3 8 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.94%) MySQL
4 7 (2.57%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.21%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (2.21%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.84%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.47%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.10%) Power BI
9 2 (0.74%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.74%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.74%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.37%) DB2
10 1 (0.37%) SAS EBI
10 1 (0.37%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 105 (38.60%) JIRA
2 96 (35.29%) Jenkins
3 92 (33.82%) Cucumber
4 87 (31.99%) Git
5 72 (26.47%) Postman
6 66 (24.26%) GitLab
7 55 (20.22%) JUnit
8 53 (19.49%) REST Assured
9 52 (19.12%) Cypress.io
10 45 (16.54%) JMeter
10 45 (16.54%) WebDriver
11 21 (7.72%) TestRail
12 20 (7.35%) Zephyr
13 17 (6.25%) SpecFlow
14 15 (5.51%) Appium
15 14 (5.15%) TestNG
16 13 (4.78%) NUnit
17 12 (4.41%) Gatling
18 11 (4.04%) Robot Framework
19 10 (3.68%) Maven
General
1 83 (30.51%) Social Skills
2 44 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (15.07%) Finance
3 41 (15.07%) Public Sector
4 24 (8.82%) Banking
5 8 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (2.21%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.84%) Military
8 4 (1.47%) Front Office
8 4 (1.47%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.10%) Marketing
9 3 (1.10%) Retail
10 2 (0.74%) Back Office
10 2 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.37%) Police
11 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (22.43%) Test Engineer
2 51 (18.75%) Lead
3 48 (17.65%) Tester
4 45 (16.54%) Senior
5 36 (13.24%) QA Engineer
6 32 (11.76%) Test Automation Engineer
7 28 (10.29%) Test Leader
8 27 (9.93%) Automation Tester
9 25 (9.19%) Developer
10 19 (6.99%) Automation Test Lead
11 18 (6.62%) Automation Engineer
12 17 (6.25%) QA Automation Engineer
13 15 (5.51%) Analyst
13 15 (5.51%) Lead Test Engineer
14 14 (5.15%) Test Analyst
15 11 (4.04%) Salesforce Developer
15 11 (4.04%) Senior Test Engineer
15 11 (4.04%) Senior Tester
16 9 (3.31%) Senior Automation Tester
17 8 (2.94%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (30.15%) Playwright
2 53 (19.49%) REST
3 39 (14.34%) Spring
4 29 (10.66%) Gherkin
5 26 (9.56%) .NET
6 18 (6.62%) pytest
6 18 (6.62%) Spring Boot
6 18 (6.62%) WireMock
7 16 (5.88%) HTML
7 16 (5.88%) SailPoint
8 15 (5.51%) JSON
8 15 (5.51%) OpenID
9 14 (5.15%) Lightning Web Components
10 13 (4.78%) LDAP
11 11 (4.04%) Kafka
11 11 (4.04%) React
11 11 (4.04%) RESTful
11 11 (4.04%) XML
12 10 (3.68%) SOAP
13 9 (3.31%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.99%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.78%) Distributed Architecture
3 12 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.04%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.84%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 5 (1.84%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.10%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.10%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.10%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.74%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.74%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.74%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.37%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.37%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.21%) Linux
1 6 (2.21%) Unix
1 6 (2.21%) Windows
2 4 (1.47%) Android
3 2 (0.74%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.74%) VMS
4 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (87.13%) Test Automation
2 160 (58.82%) CI/CD
3 131 (48.16%) Agile
4 90 (33.09%) DevOps
5 74 (27.21%) API Testing
6 73 (26.84%) Test Strategy
7 63 (23.16%) BDD
7 63 (23.16%) Problem-Solving
8 59 (21.69%) Test Scripting
9 55 (20.22%) Validation
10 51 (18.75%) End-to-End Testing
11 50 (18.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 49 (18.01%) Microservices
12 49 (18.01%) Regression Testing
13 43 (15.81%) Performance Testing
14 41 (15.07%) Scenario Testing
14 41 (15.07%) Scrum
14 41 (15.07%) Software Testing
15 37 (13.60%) Manual Testing
16 36 (13.24%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 124 (45.59%) Java
2 65 (23.90%) Python
3 63 (23.16%) SQL
4 57 (20.96%) C#
5 54 (19.85%) JavaScript
6 16 (5.88%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.04%) Apex Code
8 9 (3.31%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.21%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.21%) PHP
10 5 (1.84%) Bash
10 5 (1.84%) Ruby
10 5 (1.84%) Scala
10 5 (1.84%) XPath
11 3 (1.10%) Go
12 2 (0.74%) Groovy
12 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.37%) VB
13 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 89 (32.72%) Security Cleared
2 74 (27.21%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.93%) ISTQB
4 18 (6.62%) Degree
5 11 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 5 (1.84%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 3 (1.10%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.37%) CFA
11 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.37%) HP APS
11 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (40.07%) QA
2 22 (8.09%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.57%) WCAG
4 6 (2.21%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.47%) GDPR
6 3 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.10%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.37%) GxP
8 1 (0.37%) HL7
8 1 (0.37%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.37%) MiFID
8 1 (0.37%) NCSC
8 1 (0.37%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 48 (17.65%) Docker
2 3 (1.10%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 3 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 47 (17.28%) Kubernetes
2 29 (10.66%) Grafana
3 25 (9.19%) Prometheus
4 10 (3.68%) HP ALM
5 5 (1.84%) Puppet
5 5 (1.84%) Terraform
6 4 (1.47%) Kibana
7 2 (0.74%) Ansible
7 2 (0.74%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.74%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.37%) Podman
8 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (7.72%) Salesforce
2 19 (6.99%) Oracle
3 17 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 17 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 11 (4.04%) MuleSoft
5 10 (3.68%) HP
6 8 (2.94%) Splunk
7 6 (2.21%) Google
8 4 (1.47%) Citrix
8 4 (1.47%) Micro Focus
8 4 (1.47%) SAP
8 4 (1.47%) Talend
8 4 (1.47%) webMethods
8 4 (1.47%) Workday
9 3 (1.10%) Adobe
9 3 (1.10%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.10%) Databricks
9 3 (1.10%) OpenText
10 2 (0.74%) Avaloq
10 2 (0.74%) IBM