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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 268 269
Rank change year-on-year -87 +1 -24
Contract jobs citing Selenium 271 254 313
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.93% 0.88%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.17% 6.53% 7.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 175 239
10th Percentile £306 £257 £350
25th Percentile £356 £313 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -15.00% -0.20%
75th Percentile £500 £501 £600
90th Percentile £630 £585 £675
UK median daily rate £425 £425 £500
% change year-on-year - -15.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - £47.75 £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 5,245 3,891 4,438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.69% 14.19% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,355 2,664 2,962
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £631
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 90 218
10th Percentile £26.30 £35.70 £31.71
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £51.56
Median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.08 £73.83
UK median hourly rate £65.75 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.54% -2.31% +4.00%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -73 113 £450 +3.45% 16
North of England -65 64 £450 +6.26% 8
Midlands -19 59 £425 +57.41% 4
West Midlands -11 58 £425 +10.82% 3
North West -41 30 £402 +18.24% 5
North East -19 20 £450 +16.88% 2
Yorkshire -61 19 £450 -11.76% 1
South East -87 19 £435 +7.41% 10
South West -30 11 £444 -26.04% 2
East of England -12 6 £410 +26.15% 3
East Midlands -39 1 £415 +54.85% 1
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 51 (18.82%) Confluence
2 7 (2.58%) SAS
3 5 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.48%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.11%) Apache
6 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.37%) Appian
7 1 (0.37%) Camunda
7 1 (0.37%) CMS
7 1 (0.37%) nginx
7 1 (0.37%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.21%) Shopify
3 3 (1.11%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 105 (38.75%) Azure
2 87 (32.10%) AWS
3 75 (27.68%) GitHub
4 60 (22.14%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (16.24%) GitHub Actions
6 36 (13.28%) GCP
7 15 (5.54%) BrowserStack
8 10 (3.69%) OpenShift
9 9 (3.32%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (3.32%) GitHub Copilot
10 8 (2.95%) Power Automate
10 8 (2.95%) Serverless
11 6 (2.21%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 5 (1.85%) Apigee
12 5 (1.85%) SaaS
13 4 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.48%) Azure Functions
13 4 (1.48%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.48%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 3 (1.11%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.37%) WebEx
1 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.86%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (7.38%) MongoDB
3 15 (5.54%) Relational Database
4 10 (3.69%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.95%) Big Data
6 6 (2.21%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.21%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.21%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.11%) Hazelcast
7 3 (1.11%) HBase
7 3 (1.11%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.11%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 2 (0.74%) Base SAS
8 2 (0.74%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.74%) InterSystems Cache
8 2 (0.74%) MySQL
8 2 (0.74%) Power BI
8 2 (0.74%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 95 (35.06%) Jenkins
2 93 (34.32%) Cucumber
3 92 (33.95%) JIRA
4 76 (28.04%) Git
5 67 (24.72%) GitLab
6 65 (23.99%) Cypress.io
7 64 (23.62%) REST Assured
8 61 (22.51%) JUnit
9 60 (22.14%) Postman
9 60 (22.14%) WebDriver
10 49 (18.08%) JMeter
11 24 (8.86%) Gatling
12 21 (7.75%) TestNG
13 19 (7.01%) Appium
14 18 (6.64%) Zephyr
15 15 (5.54%) Serenity BDD
16 14 (5.17%) SpecFlow
17 11 (4.06%) NUnit
17 11 (4.06%) TeamCity
18 9 (3.32%) Bitbucket
General
1 80 (29.52%) Social Skills
2 54 (19.93%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (16.61%) Public Sector
4 38 (14.02%) Finance
5 26 (9.59%) Banking
6 9 (3.32%) Military
6 9 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.48%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.11%) Retail
10 2 (0.74%) Back Office
10 2 (0.74%) Legal
10 2 (0.74%) Marketing
10 2 (0.74%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.37%) Automotive
11 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.37%) Front Office
11 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 67 (24.72%) Test Engineer
2 49 (18.08%) Senior
3 43 (15.87%) Lead
3 43 (15.87%) Tester
4 42 (15.50%) QA Engineer
5 33 (12.18%) Test Automation Engineer
6 26 (9.59%) Analyst
7 25 (9.23%) Automation Tester
7 25 (9.23%) Test Analyst
8 23 (8.49%) Automation Engineer
9 18 (6.64%) Test Leader
10 17 (6.27%) QA Automation Engineer
11 15 (5.54%) Lead Test Engineer
12 14 (5.17%) Developer
13 12 (4.43%) Senior Test Engineer
14 11 (4.06%) Senior Tester
15 10 (3.69%) Automation Test Lead
16 9 (3.32%) Quality Engineer
16 9 (3.32%) Senior Automation Tester
16 9 (3.32%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (35.06%) Playwright
2 41 (15.13%) Spring
3 39 (14.39%) REST
4 33 (12.18%) Kafka
5 27 (9.96%) Gherkin
5 27 (9.96%) WireMock
6 22 (8.12%) Spring Boot
7 18 (6.64%) pytest
8 14 (5.17%) .NET
9 11 (4.06%) Node.js
9 11 (4.06%) Spring Cloud
10 10 (3.69%) RESTful
10 10 (3.69%) SOAP
11 9 (3.32%) JSON
12 8 (2.95%) React
13 7 (2.58%) Lightning Web Components
13 7 (2.58%) Pandas
13 7 (2.58%) XML
14 5 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (1.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.75%) Product Ownership
2 20 (7.38%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.64%) Distributed Architecture
4 14 (5.17%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.32%) Virtual Team
6 8 (2.95%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.11%) Clustering
9 3 (1.11%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.11%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.11%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.11%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.11%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 3 (1.11%) Taxonomies
9 3 (1.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.85%) Android
1 5 (1.85%) Windows
2 4 (1.48%) Linux
2 4 (1.48%) Mac OS
2 4 (1.48%) Unix
3 3 (1.11%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (88.93%) Test Automation
2 181 (66.79%) CI/CD
3 139 (51.29%) Agile
4 109 (40.22%) DevOps
5 100 (36.90%) Test Strategy
6 83 (30.63%) BDD
7 74 (27.31%) API Testing
8 71 (26.20%) Microservices
9 70 (25.83%) End-to-End Testing
10 68 (25.09%) Problem-Solving
11 66 (24.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 55 (20.30%) Validation
13 54 (19.93%) Performance Testing
14 53 (19.56%) Integration Testing
15 47 (17.34%) Regression Testing
15 47 (17.34%) Software Testing
16 45 (16.61%) Test Scripting
17 44 (16.24%) TDD
18 43 (15.87%) Observability
18 43 (15.87%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 105 (38.75%) Java
2 64 (23.62%) Python
3 50 (18.45%) SQL
4 48 (17.71%) JavaScript
5 43 (15.87%) C#
6 16 (5.90%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.06%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.32%) Bash
9 6 (2.21%) Apex Code
9 6 (2.21%) Ruby
10 3 (1.11%) Go
10 3 (1.11%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.11%) Scala
11 2 (0.74%) PROC SQL
12 1 (0.37%) COBOL
12 1 (0.37%) Groovy
12 1 (0.37%) R
12 1 (0.37%) Swift
12 1 (0.37%) VB6
12 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 100 (36.90%) Security Cleared
2 83 (30.63%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.12%) ISTQB
4 15 (5.54%) Degree
5 14 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.85%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.74%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.37%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (48.34%) QA
2 45 (16.61%) Accessibility
3 13 (4.80%) WCAG
4 8 (2.95%) GDPR
5 7 (2.58%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.48%) Software Quality Assurance
7 3 (1.11%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.37%) GxP
9 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.37%) SEPA
System Software
1 68 (25.09%) Docker
2 3 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (21.77%) Kubernetes
2 37 (13.65%) Grafana
3 35 (12.92%) Prometheus
4 9 (3.32%) HP ALM
5 6 (2.21%) Terraform
6 3 (1.11%) Check_MK
6 3 (1.11%) Istio
7 2 (0.74%) Kibana
7 2 (0.74%) Podman
7 2 (0.74%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.37%) Ansible
Vendors
1 25 (9.23%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.49%) Salesforce
3 20 (7.38%) Oracle
4 13 (4.80%) Splunk
5 9 (3.32%) HP
6 5 (1.85%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.48%) Citrix
7 4 (1.48%) Micro Focus
7 4 (1.48%) Talend
8 3 (1.11%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.11%) Databricks
8 3 (1.11%) Google
8 3 (1.11%) Guidewire
8 3 (1.11%) OpenText
8 3 (1.11%) Perfecto Mobile
8 3 (1.11%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.74%) Foundry
9 2 (0.74%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.74%) UiPath
9 2 (0.74%) VMware