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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 260 267
Rank change year-on-year -51 +7 -42
Contract jobs citing Selenium 292 234 311
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.79% 0.95% 0.82%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.80% 7.05% 7.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 157 241
10th Percentile £328 £305 £358
25th Percentile £378 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -16.08%
75th Percentile £538 £573 £550
90th Percentile £645 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +8.57% -2.78% -15.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £90.00
% change year-on-year - - +28.57%

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 5,031 3,320 4,258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.62% 13.55% 11.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,405 2,187 2,969
10th Percentile £337 £340 £358
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -4.29% -7.89%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £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 183 61 180
10th Percentile £35.80 £26.04 £37.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 £48.23
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £78.75 £71.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £83.13
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +6.40% +0.81% +0.81%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -14 125 £453 +6.59% 28
Midlands -10 70 £475 +42.22% 12
West Midlands -5 66 £475 +11.76% 8
North of England -51 56 £475 +14.87% 21
Yorkshire -51 33 £475 +15.15% 9
South East -76 18 £575 -8.00% 18
North West -35 17 £463 +19.05% 9
South West -26 11 £500 -3.38% 5
North East -7 8 £350 -30.86% 3
East of England -19 7 £300 -42.86% 9
East Midlands -40 4 £364 +80.07% 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 42 (14.38%) Confluence
2 22 (7.53%) SAS
3 5 (1.71%) Apache
4 4 (1.37%) JBoss
4 4 (1.37%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (1.03%) Appian
6 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.34%) CMS
7 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Shopify
2 3 (1.03%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.68%) Maximo
4 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 98 (33.56%) Azure
2 86 (29.45%) AWS
3 54 (18.49%) Azure DevOps
4 51 (17.47%) GitHub
5 36 (12.33%) GCP
6 28 (9.59%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (8.90%) OpenShift
8 13 (4.45%) Apigee
9 10 (3.42%) Tricentis Tosca
10 9 (3.08%) BrowserStack
11 8 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (2.74%) SaaS
11 8 (2.74%) Serverless
12 7 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (1.71%) Power Platform
14 4 (1.37%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (1.37%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
15 3 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
15 3 (1.03%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.37%) HTTP
2 1 (0.34%) DSL
2 1 (0.34%) VoIP
2 1 (0.34%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (4.45%) MongoDB
3 11 (3.77%) Oracle Database
4 8 (2.74%) MySQL
4 8 (2.74%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.40%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 7 (2.40%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.37%) Big Data
6 4 (1.37%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.03%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 2 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.68%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.34%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.34%) DB2
9 1 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.34%) Power BI
9 1 (0.34%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.34%) SAS EBI
9 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 110 (37.67%) Jenkins
2 106 (36.30%) Cucumber
3 102 (34.93%) Git
4 92 (31.51%) JIRA
5 85 (29.11%) GitLab
6 79 (27.05%) Postman
7 71 (24.32%) JUnit
8 60 (20.55%) REST Assured
9 56 (19.18%) Cypress.io
10 48 (16.44%) JMeter
11 41 (14.04%) WebDriver
12 19 (6.51%) TestRail
13 15 (5.14%) SpecFlow
14 13 (4.45%) Appium
14 13 (4.45%) Maven
15 11 (3.77%) Gatling
15 11 (3.77%) Mockito
15 11 (3.77%) Zephyr
16 10 (3.42%) TestNG
17 9 (3.08%) SonarQube
General
1 94 (32.19%) Social Skills
2 48 (16.44%) Public Sector
3 39 (13.36%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (13.36%) Finance
4 23 (7.88%) Banking
5 9 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.05%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.37%) Front Office
8 4 (1.37%) Military
8 4 (1.37%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.03%) Back Office
9 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.03%) Retail
9 3 (1.03%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.68%) Police
11 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.34%) Law
Job Titles
1 63 (21.58%) Test Engineer
2 56 (19.18%) Lead
3 51 (17.47%) Senior
3 51 (17.47%) Tester
4 33 (11.30%) Automation Tester
5 32 (10.96%) QA Engineer
6 27 (9.25%) Developer
6 27 (9.25%) Test Automation Engineer
7 26 (8.90%) Test Leader
8 22 (7.53%) Test Specialist
9 19 (6.51%) Automation Test Lead
10 17 (5.82%) Lead Test Engineer
11 14 (4.79%) Senior Tester
12 13 (4.45%) Automation Engineer
13 12 (4.11%) Analyst
13 12 (4.11%) QA Automation Engineer
13 12 (4.11%) Senior Automation Tester
13 12 (4.11%) Test Automation Specialist
14 11 (3.77%) Senior Test Engineer
14 11 (3.77%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (27.74%) Playwright
2 69 (23.63%) REST
3 44 (15.07%) Spring
4 32 (10.96%) pytest
5 31 (10.62%) .NET
6 29 (9.93%) Gherkin
7 28 (9.59%) JSON
8 22 (7.53%) Spring Boot
9 20 (6.85%) HTML
10 18 (6.16%) OpenID
10 18 (6.16%) React
10 18 (6.16%) WireMock
10 18 (6.16%) XML
11 16 (5.48%) SailPoint
12 15 (5.14%) Web Services
13 14 (4.79%) Lightning Web Components
13 14 (4.79%) RESTful
14 13 (4.45%) LDAP
14 13 (4.45%) SOAP
15 11 (3.77%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.14%) Product Ownership
2 11 (3.77%) Distributed Architecture
2 11 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.08%) Cloud Native
4 8 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.05%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.71%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (1.03%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.03%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.03%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.68%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.68%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.68%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.68%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.34%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.34%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.11%) Linux
2 9 (3.08%) Unix
3 7 (2.40%) Windows
4 4 (1.37%) Android
5 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (84.93%) Test Automation
2 184 (63.01%) CI/CD
3 155 (53.08%) Agile
4 112 (38.36%) DevOps
5 93 (31.85%) Test Strategy
6 81 (27.74%) API Testing
7 78 (26.71%) Problem-Solving
8 71 (24.32%) Test Scripting
9 69 (23.63%) BDD
10 62 (21.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 60 (20.55%) Microservices
12 59 (20.21%) Validation
13 58 (19.86%) Scrum
14 56 (19.18%) Regression Testing
15 54 (18.49%) Software Testing
16 44 (15.07%) TDD
17 43 (14.73%) Performance Testing
17 43 (14.73%) Stakeholder Management
18 39 (13.36%) End-to-End Testing
19 38 (13.01%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 130 (44.52%) Java
2 72 (24.66%) Python
3 65 (22.26%) JavaScript
4 58 (19.86%) SQL
5 55 (18.84%) C#
6 16 (5.48%) TypeScript
7 11 (3.77%) Apex Code
8 9 (3.08%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.05%) PHP
10 5 (1.71%) Bash
10 5 (1.71%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.71%) Scala
10 5 (1.71%) XPath
11 4 (1.37%) Ruby
12 3 (1.03%) Go
12 3 (1.03%) Groovy
12 3 (1.03%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.68%) C
13 2 (0.68%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 101 (34.59%) Security Cleared
2 84 (28.77%) SC Cleared
3 30 (10.27%) ISTQB
4 16 (5.48%) Degree
5 10 (3.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 9 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.71%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 3 (1.03%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.34%) CFA
11 1 (0.34%) HP APS
11 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (37.33%) QA
2 25 (8.56%) Accessibility
3 15 (5.14%) WCAG
4 4 (1.37%) GDPR
4 4 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.03%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.03%) EU AI Act
5 3 (1.03%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 3 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.03%) NIST
6 2 (0.68%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.34%) GxP
7 1 (0.34%) HL7
7 1 (0.34%) MiFID
7 1 (0.34%) NCSC
7 1 (0.34%) SLA
7 1 (0.34%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 67 (22.95%) Docker
2 3 (1.03%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 3 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 64 (21.92%) Kubernetes
2 32 (10.96%) Grafana
3 24 (8.22%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.74%) HP ALM
5 7 (2.40%) Ansible
5 7 (2.40%) Kibana
5 7 (2.40%) Terraform
6 6 (2.05%) Puppet
7 2 (0.68%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.68%) Podman
7 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.68%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (6.51%) Oracle
2 17 (5.82%) ServiceNow
3 15 (5.14%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.14%) Salesforce
4 11 (3.77%) MuleSoft
5 8 (2.74%) HP
5 8 (2.74%) Splunk
6 5 (1.71%) Google
7 4 (1.37%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.37%) Citrix
7 4 (1.37%) Micro Focus
7 4 (1.37%) SAP
7 4 (1.37%) Veracode
7 4 (1.37%) webMethods
7 4 (1.37%) Workday
8 3 (1.03%) Adobe
8 3 (1.03%) Cisco
8 3 (1.03%) UiPath
9 2 (0.68%) IBM
9 2 (0.68%) Red Hat