WebDriver Contracts in England

Selenium WebDriver
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring WebDriver skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WebDriver over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 494 568
Rank change year-on-year +27 +74 +82
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 18 48 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.074% 0.13% 0.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.54% 1.13% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 32 60
10th Percentile £356 £325 £363
25th Percentile £378 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £436 £478
Median % change year-on-year -5.44% -8.64% +0.53%
75th Percentile £466 £454 £553
90th Percentile £493 £572 £588
UK median daily rate £400 £419 £475
% change year-on-year -4.48% -11.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £70.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Development Application Skills
England

WebDriver 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 3,305 4,263 7,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.57% 11.46% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,218 2,908 5,318
10th Percentile £350 £355 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 182 222
10th Percentile £27.50 £31.84 £45.00
25th Percentile £52.00 £52.50 £52.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £82.35 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

WebDriver
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for WebDriver in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for WebDriver in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebDriver in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WebDriver in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for WebDriver 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 WebDriver within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +10 10 £400 -9.60% 4
North West +16 3 £380 +29.91% 1
North of England +15 3 £380 -5.00% 1
South East +45 2 - - 3
Midlands - 2 £425 -
East Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £425 -
East of England - 1 £450 -
WebDriver
UK

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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 2 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.56%) nginx
2 1 (5.56%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.56%) SaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Network Security
1 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (5.56%) Big Data
2 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.56%) MariaDB
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (83.33%) Selenium
2 12 (66.67%) Cucumber
3 7 (38.89%) Jenkins
4 6 (33.33%) Postman
5 5 (27.78%) Git
6 4 (22.22%) JIRA
6 4 (22.22%) REST Assured
7 3 (16.67%) JMeter
8 1 (5.56%) Appium
8 1 (5.56%) GitLab
8 1 (5.56%) JBehave
8 1 (5.56%) JUnit
8 1 (5.56%) LoadRunner
8 1 (5.56%) ScalaTest
8 1 (5.56%) SoapUI
8 1 (5.56%) SpecFlow
8 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
8 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (5.56%) WebStorm
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Aviation
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Test Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Developer in Test
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Test Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Tester
4 2 (11.11%) Automation Tester
4 2 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (11.11%) QA Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) QA Tester
5 1 (5.56%) Senior QA Tester
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Tester
5 1 (5.56%) Software Test Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) REST
2 4 (22.22%) CSS
2 4 (22.22%) HTML
2 4 (22.22%) JSON
3 3 (16.67%) Gherkin
3 3 (16.67%) Web Services
4 2 (11.11%) Node.js
5 1 (5.56%) .NET
5 1 (5.56%) Chai
5 1 (5.56%) Hibernate
5 1 (5.56%) jQuery
5 1 (5.56%) JSP
5 1 (5.56%) Kafka
5 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (5.56%) React
5 1 (5.56%) Redux
5 1 (5.56%) Sass
5 1 (5.56%) Servlets
5 1 (5.56%) SOAP
5 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) Test Automation
2 10 (55.56%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 6 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 6 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 5 (27.78%) API Testing
4 5 (27.78%) BDD
4 5 (27.78%) Scrum
4 5 (27.78%) SDET
4 5 (27.78%) Test Scripting
5 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (16.67%) DevOps
6 3 (16.67%) Exploratory Testing
7 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
7 2 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
7 2 (11.11%) Cross-Browser Testing
7 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 2 (11.11%) TDD
7 2 (11.11%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (44.44%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 2 (11.11%) C#
4 2 (11.11%) Scala
5 1 (5.56%) Bash
5 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.56%) Python
5 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (55.56%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Atlassian
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.56%) MuleSoft
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle