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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 273 253
Rank change year-on-year -93 -20 +23
Contract jobs citing Selenium 281 264 306
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.96% 0.92%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.40% 6.49% 7.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 186 230
10th Percentile £306 £265 £338
25th Percentile £358 £319 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £424 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% -15.30% -
75th Percentile £500 £522 £600
90th Percentile £606 £625 £675
UK median daily rate £425 £425 £484
% change year-on-year - -12.14% -3.25%
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% -42.41%
75th Percentile - - £45.69
90th Percentile - - £46.78
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -37.93%

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 5,207 4,070 4,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.40% 14.77% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,314 2,822 2,821
10th Percentile £357 £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 £625
90th Percentile £699 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 97 181
10th Percentile £36.25 £41.35 £33.07
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.06 £54.00
Median hourly rate £68.22 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.98 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +0.48%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -62 131 £450 - 42
North of England -71 57 £401 +3.15% 8
Midlands -27 56 £425 +57.41% 9
West Midlands -10 54 £425 - 9
North West -52 23 £402 +18.24% 3
North East -26 19 £450 - 2
Yorkshire -46 18 £375 -11.76% 3
South East -97 17 £435 -3.33% 13
South West -37 12 £438 -27.08% 11
East of England -18 9 £419 +109.65% 2
East Midlands -38 2 £375 +38.89%
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 40 (14.23%) Confluence
2 7 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.78%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.78%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.71%) Apache
4 2 (0.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.71%) SAS
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.36%) Appian
5 1 (0.36%) Camunda
5 1 (0.36%) CMS
5 1 (0.36%) nginx
5 1 (0.36%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.42%) Shopify
3 3 (1.07%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.07%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 117 (41.64%) Azure
2 90 (32.03%) AWS
3 76 (27.05%) Azure DevOps
4 73 (25.98%) GitHub
5 44 (15.66%) GitHub Actions
6 30 (10.68%) GCP
7 14 (4.98%) GitHub Copilot
7 14 (4.98%) Serverless
8 12 (4.27%) BrowserStack
9 10 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (3.56%) Power Automate
10 9 (3.20%) Azure Functions
11 8 (2.85%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (2.85%) OpenShift
12 6 (2.14%) SaaS
13 5 (1.78%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 4 (1.42%) Apigee
15 3 (1.07%) Amazon S3
15 3 (1.07%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.78%) HTTP
2 4 (1.42%) 4G
2 4 (1.42%) 5G
2 4 (1.42%) DNS
2 4 (1.42%) SSH
2 4 (1.42%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.36%) WebEx
3 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.47%) MongoDB
2 18 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (4.98%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.27%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.56%) NoSQL
6 8 (2.85%) Apache Cassandra
6 8 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (2.85%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (2.49%) Big Data
8 5 (1.78%) Hazelcast
9 4 (1.42%) Metadata
9 4 (1.42%) MySQL
9 4 (1.42%) Redis
10 3 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.07%) HBase
10 3 (1.07%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.07%) Power BI
10 3 (1.07%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.71%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.71%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 91 (32.38%) Cucumber
2 88 (31.32%) Jenkins
3 84 (29.89%) Git
3 84 (29.89%) JIRA
4 69 (24.56%) Cypress.io
4 69 (24.56%) GitLab
5 60 (21.35%) Postman
6 58 (20.64%) JUnit
7 57 (20.28%) WebDriver
8 54 (19.22%) REST Assured
9 40 (14.23%) JMeter
10 31 (11.03%) Gatling
11 23 (8.19%) TestNG
12 20 (7.12%) Appium
13 18 (6.41%) Zephyr
14 14 (4.98%) SonarQube
15 12 (4.27%) Maven
16 11 (3.91%) SpecFlow
17 10 (3.56%) HP UFT
17 10 (3.56%) NUnit
General
1 87 (30.96%) Social Skills
2 58 (20.64%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (18.51%) Finance
4 44 (15.66%) Public Sector
5 41 (14.59%) Banking
6 10 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.49%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.14%) Military
9 5 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.42%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.07%) Retail
12 2 (0.71%) Back Office
12 2 (0.71%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.71%) Legal
12 2 (0.71%) Marketing
12 2 (0.71%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.36%) Front Office
13 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 62 (22.06%) Test Engineer
2 53 (18.86%) Senior
3 39 (13.88%) Lead
3 39 (13.88%) QA Engineer
4 38 (13.52%) Tester
5 37 (13.17%) Test Automation Engineer
6 30 (10.68%) Analyst
7 27 (9.61%) Test Analyst
8 26 (9.25%) Automation Engineer
9 19 (6.76%) Quality Engineer
10 18 (6.41%) Developer
10 18 (6.41%) Test Leader
11 17 (6.05%) Automation Tester
11 17 (6.05%) QA Automation Engineer
12 14 (4.98%) Test Manager
13 11 (3.91%) Senior Test Engineer
14 10 (3.56%) Senior Tester
15 9 (3.20%) Lead Test Engineer
15 9 (3.20%) Senior QA Engineer
15 9 (3.20%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (40.93%) Playwright
2 47 (16.73%) REST
3 44 (15.66%) Kafka
4 33 (11.74%) Spring
5 31 (11.03%) Gherkin
6 24 (8.54%) WireMock
7 20 (7.12%) .NET
8 19 (6.76%) JSON
9 17 (6.05%) HTML
9 17 (6.05%) XML
10 15 (5.34%) pytest
10 15 (5.34%) Spring Boot
11 14 (4.98%) Node.js
11 14 (4.98%) Terraform
12 13 (4.63%) React
12 13 (4.63%) SOAP
13 11 (3.91%) RESTful
14 9 (3.20%) Pandas
14 9 (3.20%) RabbitMQ
14 9 (3.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.19%) Product Ownership
2 19 (6.76%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.34%) Cloud Native
4 12 (4.27%) Distributed Architecture
5 10 (3.56%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 8 (2.85%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.42%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.42%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.07%) Clustering
9 3 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.07%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.07%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.07%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.71%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.69%) Linux
2 9 (3.20%) Windows
3 8 (2.85%) Unix
4 5 (1.78%) Android
4 5 (1.78%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.42%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (87.19%) Test Automation
2 188 (66.90%) CI/CD
3 153 (54.45%) Agile
4 116 (41.28%) DevOps
5 100 (35.59%) Test Strategy
6 78 (27.76%) BDD
6 78 (27.76%) End-to-End Testing
7 76 (27.05%) API Testing
8 75 (26.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 68 (24.20%) Problem-Solving
9 68 (24.20%) Software Testing
10 63 (22.42%) Microservices
11 62 (22.06%) Validation
12 60 (21.35%) Performance Testing
13 58 (20.64%) Integration Testing
14 56 (19.93%) Scrum
15 53 (18.86%) Stakeholder Management
16 46 (16.37%) Regression Testing
16 46 (16.37%) TDD
17 45 (16.01%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 119 (42.35%) Java
2 79 (28.11%) Python
3 78 (27.76%) SQL
4 61 (21.71%) JavaScript
5 42 (14.95%) C#
6 20 (7.12%) TypeScript
7 14 (4.98%) Bash
8 11 (3.91%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.14%) Ruby
10 5 (1.78%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.07%) Scala
11 3 (1.07%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.71%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.71%) PROC SQL
12 2 (0.71%) R
12 2 (0.71%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.36%) Swift
13 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 108 (38.43%) Security Cleared
2 90 (32.03%) SC Cleared
3 33 (11.74%) ISTQB
4 21 (7.47%) Degree
5 18 (6.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.56%) DV Cleared
7 10 (3.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 8 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.78%) ISEB
10 2 (0.71%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.71%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.36%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (52.67%) QA
2 50 (17.79%) Accessibility
3 25 (8.90%) WCAG
4 11 (3.91%) ISO 20022
5 10 (3.56%) Data Quality
6 9 (3.20%) GDPR
7 4 (1.42%) Software Quality Assurance
8 3 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.36%) GRC
10 1 (0.36%) GxP
10 1 (0.36%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.36%) NIST
10 1 (0.36%) SEPA
System Software
1 78 (27.76%) Docker
2 3 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 57 (20.28%) Kubernetes
2 26 (9.25%) Grafana
2 26 (9.25%) Prometheus
3 8 (2.85%) HP ALM
4 7 (2.49%) Ansible
5 5 (1.78%) Check_MK
5 5 (1.78%) Podman
6 3 (1.07%) Istio
7 1 (0.36%) Argo
7 1 (0.36%) Kibana
7 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (13.17%) Microsoft
2 30 (10.68%) Oracle
3 21 (7.47%) Salesforce
4 10 (3.56%) Splunk
5 8 (2.85%) HP
5 8 (2.85%) IBM
6 4 (1.42%) Citrix
6 4 (1.42%) Micro Focus
6 4 (1.42%) MuleSoft
6 4 (1.42%) SAP
6 4 (1.42%) Talend
6 4 (1.42%) UiPath
6 4 (1.42%) VMware
7 3 (1.07%) Databricks
7 3 (1.07%) Guidewire
7 3 (1.07%) OpenText
7 3 (1.07%) Perfecto Mobile
8 2 (0.71%) Adobe
8 2 (0.71%) Google
8 2 (0.71%) Red Hat