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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 268 264
Rank change year-on-year -86 -4 +31
Contract jobs citing Selenium 317 270 293
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 0.96% 0.90%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.95% 6.39% 6.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 199 209
10th Percentile £306 £268 £329
25th Percentile £358 £332 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £494 £539 £600
90th Percentile £589 £638 £651
UK median daily rate £425 £429 £478
% change year-on-year -0.93% -10.16% +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
10th Percentile - £48.13 -
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -28.00%
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -28.00%

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 5,326 4,227 4,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.44% 15.10% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,361 2,925 2,751
10th Percentile £353 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 96 164
10th Percentile £23.87 £38.13 £39.03
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.56 £54.68
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £76.25 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -65 142 £450 -0.11% 120
North of England -65 64 £402 +1.77% 41
Midlands -30 61 £433 +40.65% 26
West Midlands +7 59 £436 -13.18% 21
North West -49 26 £402 +18.24% 17
South East -71 26 £325 -27.78% 39
Yorkshire -37 21 £400 -5.88% 10
North East -29 20 £450 -2.70% 14
South West -29 14 £425 -24.24% 16
East of England -23 8 £415 +107.32% 14
East Midlands -38 2 £375 +38.89% 5
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 32 (10.09%) Confluence
2 8 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.89%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.58%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.95%) Apache
5 3 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.63%) CMS
6 2 (0.63%) SAS
7 1 (0.32%) Appian
7 1 (0.32%) Camunda
7 1 (0.32%) nginx
7 1 (0.32%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (3.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.95%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.63%) Shopify
4 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 122 (38.49%) Azure
2 108 (34.07%) AWS
3 78 (24.61%) Azure DevOps
3 78 (24.61%) GitHub
4 44 (13.88%) GitHub Actions
5 22 (6.94%) GCP
6 20 (6.31%) Serverless
7 17 (5.36%) GitHub Copilot
8 14 (4.42%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (4.10%) Azure Functions
9 13 (4.10%) Power Automate
10 12 (3.79%) OpenShift
11 11 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (3.47%) BrowserStack
12 7 (2.21%) Power Platform
13 6 (1.89%) Amazon S3
13 6 (1.89%) SaaS
14 4 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (1.26%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (1.26%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.89%) HTTP
2 5 (1.58%) 4G
2 5 (1.58%) 5G
2 5 (1.58%) DNS
2 5 (1.58%) SSH
2 5 (1.58%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.32%) Internet
3 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.20%) MongoDB
2 25 (7.89%) Relational Database
3 17 (5.36%) SQL Server
4 14 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.47%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (2.52%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (2.21%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (1.58%) Big Data
9 5 (1.58%) Hazelcast
9 5 (1.58%) Metadata
9 5 (1.58%) MySQL
9 5 (1.58%) Redis
10 4 (1.26%) Spark SQL
11 3 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.95%) HBase
11 3 (0.95%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.95%) Power BI
12 2 (0.63%) InterSystems Cache
12 2 (0.63%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 128 (40.38%) Cucumber
2 109 (34.38%) Git
3 96 (30.28%) Jenkins
4 81 (25.55%) GitLab
5 73 (23.03%) JUnit
6 71 (22.40%) JIRA
7 70 (22.08%) Cypress.io
7 70 (22.08%) Postman
8 61 (19.24%) REST Assured
9 48 (15.14%) WebDriver
10 46 (14.51%) Gatling
11 34 (10.73%) JMeter
12 30 (9.46%) TestNG
13 24 (7.57%) SonarQube
14 17 (5.36%) Appium
14 17 (5.36%) Zephyr
15 16 (5.05%) SoapUI
16 14 (4.42%) HP UFT
17 13 (4.10%) Maven
18 12 (3.79%) TestRail
General
1 114 (35.96%) Social Skills
2 62 (19.56%) Finance
3 56 (17.67%) Public Sector
4 50 (15.77%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (15.14%) Banking
6 11 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.52%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.89%) Military
9 4 (1.26%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.95%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.63%) Back Office
11 2 (0.63%) Front Office
11 2 (0.63%) Legal
11 2 (0.63%) Police
11 2 (0.63%) Retail
12 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.32%) Marketing
12 1 (0.32%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 66 (20.82%) Test Engineer
2 44 (13.88%) Senior
3 43 (13.56%) Lead
4 41 (12.93%) Tester
5 39 (12.30%) Test Automation Engineer
6 36 (11.36%) QA Engineer
7 33 (10.41%) Analyst
8 30 (9.46%) Test Analyst
9 28 (8.83%) Quality Engineer
10 27 (8.52%) Automation Engineer
11 23 (7.26%) Test Leader
12 19 (5.99%) Automation Tester
13 18 (5.68%) Developer
14 16 (5.05%) QA Automation Engineer
14 16 (5.05%) Test Manager
15 11 (3.47%) QA Tester
16 10 (3.15%) Lead Test Engineer
17 9 (2.84%) DevOps Engineer
17 9 (2.84%) Senior Analyst
17 9 (2.84%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (42.59%) Playwright
2 52 (16.40%) Kafka
3 47 (14.83%) REST
4 42 (13.25%) Spring
5 39 (12.30%) Gherkin
6 27 (8.52%) WireMock
7 22 (6.94%) HTML
7 22 (6.94%) JSON
8 21 (6.62%) Spring Boot
8 21 (6.62%) Terraform
9 20 (6.31%) .NET
10 19 (5.99%) React
10 19 (5.99%) RESTful
11 16 (5.05%) pytest
11 16 (5.05%) XML
12 15 (4.73%) Node.js
13 14 (4.42%) RabbitMQ
14 12 (3.79%) SOAP
15 10 (3.15%) CSS
16 9 (2.84%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.94%) Product Ownership
2 18 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.42%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.15%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 10 (3.15%) Virtual Team
5 7 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (1.58%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.58%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.95%) Clustering
9 3 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (0.95%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.95%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.63%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.62%) Linux
2 9 (2.84%) Unix
3 6 (1.89%) Windows
4 4 (1.26%) Android
4 4 (1.26%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (87.38%) Test Automation
2 226 (71.29%) CI/CD
3 197 (62.15%) Agile
4 125 (39.43%) DevOps
5 111 (35.02%) Test Strategy
6 108 (34.07%) Software Testing
7 98 (30.91%) API Testing
8 96 (30.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 94 (29.65%) BDD
10 80 (25.24%) Microservices
11 77 (24.29%) Scrum
12 76 (23.97%) Performance Testing
13 74 (23.34%) End-to-End Testing
13 74 (23.34%) SDLC
14 71 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
14 71 (22.40%) Validation
15 70 (22.08%) Stakeholder Management
16 59 (18.61%) Manual Testing
17 57 (17.98%) Integration Testing
17 57 (17.98%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 157 (49.53%) Java
2 100 (31.55%) Python
3 96 (30.28%) SQL
4 73 (23.03%) JavaScript
5 36 (11.36%) C#
6 25 (7.89%) TypeScript
7 15 (4.73%) Bash
8 6 (1.89%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.58%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.58%) Ruby
10 4 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.95%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.95%) Scala
12 2 (0.63%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.63%) PROC SQL
12 2 (0.63%) R
12 2 (0.63%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.32%) Korn
13 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 131 (41.32%) Security Cleared
2 99 (31.23%) SC Cleared
3 31 (9.78%) ISTQB
4 30 (9.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 27 (8.52%) DV Cleared
6 19 (5.99%) Degree
7 14 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (2.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 6 (1.89%) ISEB
11 5 (1.58%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.63%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (51.74%) QA
2 76 (23.97%) Accessibility
3 43 (13.56%) WCAG
4 13 (4.10%) ISO 20022
5 11 (3.47%) GDPR
6 8 (2.52%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.26%) Software Quality Assurance
8 3 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.95%) NIST
8 3 (0.95%) SEPA
9 1 (0.32%) GRC
9 1 (0.32%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.32%) PMO
System Software
1 103 (32.49%) Docker
2 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 81 (25.55%) Kubernetes
2 23 (7.26%) Grafana
3 21 (6.62%) Prometheus
4 12 (3.79%) Ansible
5 6 (1.89%) HP ALM
6 5 (1.58%) Check_MK
6 5 (1.58%) Podman
7 3 (0.95%) Argo
7 3 (0.95%) Istio
7 3 (0.95%) Kibana
8 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 36 (11.36%) Microsoft
2 33 (10.41%) Oracle
3 14 (4.42%) Salesforce
3 14 (4.42%) Splunk
4 10 (3.15%) HP
4 10 (3.15%) IBM
5 5 (1.58%) SAP
6 4 (1.26%) Databricks
6 4 (1.26%) Talend
6 4 (1.26%) UiPath
6 4 (1.26%) VMware
7 3 (0.95%) Dynatrace
7 3 (0.95%) Google
7 3 (0.95%) Guidewire
7 3 (0.95%) Perfecto Mobile
8 2 (0.63%) Adobe
8 2 (0.63%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.63%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.63%) Qualtrics
9 1 (0.32%) Okta