Selenium Contracts in England

Selenium
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Selenium skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Selenium over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 261 228 241
Rank change year-on-year -33 +13 -26
Contract jobs citing Selenium 324 552 844
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.89% 1.15% 1.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.62% 7.91% 6.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 427 635
10th Percentile £350 £363 £362
25th Percentile £413 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £575
90th Percentile £688 £793 £654
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 9
10th Percentile - £60.25 £44.50
25th Percentile £36.75 £70.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £38.50 £75.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.67% +50.00% -22.18%
75th Percentile £40.25 - £65.42
90th Percentile - - £66.08
UK median hourly rate £64.25 £75.00 £58.93
% change year-on-year -14.33% +27.26% -2.59%

All Development Application Skills
England

Selenium is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,250 6,978 12,762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.69% 14.54% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,902 4,959 9,057
10th Percentile £353 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 203 183
10th Percentile £32.10 £43.17 £38.28
25th Percentile £55.00 £52.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +21.78% +1.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.21
90th Percentile £78.53 £84.44 £76.93
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +12.36%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Selenium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in England

Selenium
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Selenium in England.

Daily rate trend for Selenium in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Selenium in England.

Hourly rate trend for Selenium in England

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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 21 May 2024. 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 -3 190 £500 -9.09% 40
South East +5 57 £600 +13.21% 40
North of England -1 46 £450 -14.29% 29
Yorkshire +10 25 £425 -15.00% 12
North West +24 19 £450 -12.20% 15
South West 0 13 £513 -2.38% 5
Midlands +2 9 £438 +15.13% 15
West Midlands +5 6 £675 +25.58% 12
East Midlands +8 3 £380 +16.92% 3
North East -6 2 £380 -36.67% 2
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UK

Selenium
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (4.32%) Confluence
2 9 (2.78%) CMS
3 5 (1.54%) Camunda
4 4 (1.23%) Apache
4 4 (1.23%) nginx
5 3 (0.93%) Drupal
5 3 (0.93%) IIS
5 3 (0.93%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.93%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.93%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.62%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.31%) Appian
7 1 (0.31%) EPiServer
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 7 (2.16%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (1.85%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.31%) Endur
4 1 (0.31%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 98 (30.25%) Azure
2 60 (18.52%) AWS
3 59 (18.21%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (7.41%) GitHub
5 20 (6.17%) Entra ID
6 15 (4.63%) Serverless
7 14 (4.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 14 (4.32%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (2.78%) BrowserStack
9 8 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (2.47%) Azure Functions
10 7 (2.16%) GCP
11 6 (1.85%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (1.85%) PaaS
11 6 (1.85%) Sauce Labs
12 5 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.23%) Azure App Service
13 4 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (1.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.16%) Kerberos
2 6 (1.85%) HTTP
3 5 (1.54%) SSL
4 3 (0.93%) DNS
5 1 (0.31%) Internet
5 1 (0.31%) MQTT
5 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.88%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (3.40%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.47%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.85%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.54%) MySQL
7 4 (1.23%) Redis
8 3 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.62%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.31%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.31%) Oracle BI EE
10 1 (0.31%) Power BI
10 1 (0.31%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 108 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 84 (25.93%) Jenkins
3 65 (20.06%) JIRA
4 58 (17.90%) Git
5 50 (15.43%) Postman
6 48 (14.81%) REST Assured
6 48 (14.81%) WebDriver
7 46 (14.20%) JMeter
8 43 (13.27%) SpecFlow
9 36 (11.11%) JUnit
10 35 (10.80%) SonarQube
11 33 (10.19%) Cypress.io
12 31 (9.57%) Appium
13 29 (8.95%) GitLab
14 25 (7.72%) TestNG
15 21 (6.48%) SoapUI
16 20 (6.17%) Visual Studio
17 15 (4.63%) Bitbucket
18 14 (4.32%) Maven
19 12 (3.70%) Robot Framework
General
1 97 (29.94%) Social Skills
2 54 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (13.27%) Banking
4 39 (12.04%) Finance
5 25 (7.72%) Public Sector
6 21 (6.48%) Law
7 13 (4.01%) Police
8 8 (2.47%) Back Office
8 8 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.16%) Prime Brokerage
10 6 (1.85%) Front Office
10 6 (1.85%) Retail
11 5 (1.54%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.62%) Automotive
14 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.31%) Local Government
14 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (18.52%) Developer
2 53 (16.36%) Senior
3 47 (14.51%) Analyst
4 41 (12.65%) Test Analyst
4 41 (12.65%) Test Engineer
4 41 (12.65%) Tester
5 29 (8.95%) Java Engineer
6 27 (8.33%) Automation Tester
7 22 (6.79%) Senior Analyst
7 22 (6.79%) Senior Test Analyst
8 21 (6.48%) Test Automation Engineer
9 20 (6.17%) Lead
10 19 (5.86%) Full Stack Developer
11 18 (5.56%) Test Manager
12 17 (5.25%) Software Engineer
13 16 (4.94%) QA Engineer
14 15 (4.63%) Automation Engineer
15 13 (4.01%) Java Developer
16 11 (3.40%) C# Developer
17 10 (3.09%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (18.21%) REST
2 47 (14.51%) .NET
3 31 (9.57%) React
4 28 (8.64%) .NET Framework
5 27 (8.33%) AngularJS
6 25 (7.72%) Java EE
7 21 (6.48%) Node.js
8 20 (6.17%) Gherkin
9 19 (5.86%) Spring
10 18 (5.56%) Spring Boot
10 18 (5.56%) XML
11 17 (5.25%) HTML
12 15 (4.63%) CSS
13 14 (4.32%) RESTful
14 13 (4.01%) ARM Templates
14 13 (4.01%) Kafka
14 13 (4.01%) Web Services
15 12 (3.70%) .NET Core
15 12 (3.70%) Playwright
15 12 (3.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.72%) Product Ownership
2 17 (5.25%) Mobile App
3 9 (2.78%) Equities
4 7 (2.16%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.85%) Client/Server
6 4 (1.23%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.23%) Private Cloud
7 3 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (0.93%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.62%) Derivative
8 2 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.62%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.62%) NHS
8 2 (0.62%) PKI
8 2 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.31%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.48%) Linux
2 18 (5.56%) Windows
3 13 (4.01%) Unix
4 10 (3.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.47%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.85%) Android
7 4 (1.23%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (1.23%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.23%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.62%) VMS
9 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (71.30%) Test Automation
2 148 (45.68%) Agile
3 123 (37.96%) DevOps
4 94 (29.01%) CI/CD
5 73 (22.53%) Continuous Integration
6 58 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (17.90%) Software Testing
7 55 (16.98%) Scrum
8 53 (16.36%) BDD
9 44 (13.58%) Test Strategy
10 43 (13.27%) Test Scripting
11 40 (12.35%) Software Engineering
12 36 (11.11%) TDD
13 35 (10.80%) Manual Testing
13 35 (10.80%) Microservices
14 34 (10.49%) SDLC
15 32 (9.88%) Performance Testing
16 30 (9.26%) SDET
16 30 (9.26%) Software Architecture
17 29 (8.95%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 183 (56.48%) Java
2 80 (24.69%) C#
3 60 (18.52%) Python
4 49 (15.12%) JavaScript
5 32 (9.88%) SQL
6 26 (8.02%) PowerShell
7 20 (6.17%) TypeScript
8 13 (4.01%) Kotlin
9 6 (1.85%) Bash
9 6 (1.85%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.85%) VBScript
10 5 (1.54%) Scala
11 4 (1.23%) Groovy
11 4 (1.23%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.23%) Swift
12 3 (0.93%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.62%) Ruby
14 1 (0.31%) C++
14 1 (0.31%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 89 (27.47%) Security Cleared
2 74 (22.84%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.01%) ISTQB
4 11 (3.40%) Degree
5 10 (3.09%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.93%) ISEB
8 2 (0.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.62%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (19.44%) QA
2 24 (7.41%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.09%) WCAG
4 3 (0.93%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.62%) HL7
System Software
1 46 (14.20%) Docker
2 25 (7.72%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.31%) iptables
Systems Management
1 47 (14.51%) Kubernetes
2 42 (12.96%) Ansible
3 33 (10.19%) Terraform
4 13 (4.01%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (3.70%) Podman
6 7 (2.16%) Grafana
7 5 (1.54%) Puppet
8 4 (1.23%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.93%) Kibana
9 3 (0.93%) Netcool
10 2 (0.62%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.62%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.62%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.62%) logstash
10 2 (0.62%) Packer
11 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 32 (9.88%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.79%) Oracle
3 8 (2.47%) HP
3 8 (2.47%) Splunk
3 8 (2.47%) VMware
4 7 (2.16%) IBM
4 7 (2.16%) Okta
5 6 (1.85%) Checkmarx
6 5 (1.54%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.54%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.23%) Perfecto Mobile
8 3 (0.93%) Ab Initio
8 3 (0.93%) AppDynamics
8 3 (0.93%) Micro Focus
8 3 (0.93%) Optimizely
9 2 (0.62%) Adobe
9 2 (0.62%) Brio
9 2 (0.62%) Google
9 2 (0.62%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.62%) SAP