WebDriver Contract Job Trends in England

Selenium WebDriver
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring WebDriver skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 489 502 558
Rank change year-on-year +13 +56 +96
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 25 26 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.091% 0.080% 0.082%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.61% 0.60% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 19 20
10th Percentile £353 £350 £361
25th Percentile £400 £388 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £440 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +3.53% -10.53%
75th Percentile £500 £484 £514
90th Percentile £516 £495 £588
UK median daily rate £425 £440 £425
% change year-on-year -3.41% +3.53% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £48.13 - £51.63
25th Percentile - - £52.19
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £53.75
75th Percentile - - £54.69
90th Percentile - - £54.88
UK median hourly rate £50.00 - £53.75
% change year-on-year - - -10.42%

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 4,092 4,344 5,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.86% 13.36% 13.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,830 2,791 3,972
10th Percentile £325 £353 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £603 £632 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 168 230
10th Percentile £44.30 £37.31 £46.15
25th Percentile £54.88 £54.27 £51.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £81.80 £73.83 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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

WebDriver
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing WebDriver.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing WebDriver

WebDriver
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebDriver in England over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WebDriver in England

WebDriver
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing WebDriver.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing WebDriver

WebDriver
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 16 September 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 +21 12 £413 -6.25% 4
South East +24 7 £201 -54.06% 3
North of England -13 2 £550 +40.58% 3
Midlands - 2 £425 -
North West -11 1 £550 +88.03% 3
Yorkshire -14 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -
South West - 1 £475 -
West Midlands - 1 £425 -
WebDriver
UK

WebDriver
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 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.00%) Confluence
1 1 (4.00%) nginx
1 1 (4.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) Azure
1 10 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (8.00%) BrowserStack
3 2 (8.00%) GitHub
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (4.00%) Big Data
2 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.00%) MariaDB
2 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Power BI
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (92.00%) Selenium
2 13 (52.00%) Cucumber
3 11 (44.00%) Git
3 11 (44.00%) JIRA
4 8 (32.00%) Jenkins
4 8 (32.00%) Postman
5 6 (24.00%) JUnit
6 5 (20.00%) Appium
6 5 (20.00%) NUnit
7 4 (16.00%) SpecFlow
8 3 (12.00%) TestNG
8 3 (12.00%) TestRail
8 3 (12.00%) Zephyr
9 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
9 1 (4.00%) JBehave
9 1 (4.00%) MSTest
9 1 (4.00%) RSpec
9 1 (4.00%) SoapUI
9 1 (4.00%) TeamCity
9 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.00%) Aviation
3 1 (4.00%) Games
3 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Test Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Software Test Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) QA Tester
3 5 (20.00%) Tester
4 3 (12.00%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Automation Tester
4 3 (12.00%) QA Automation Tester
4 3 (12.00%) Selenium Automation Tester
4 3 (12.00%) Selenium Tester
4 3 (12.00%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Automation Specialist
5 2 (8.00%) Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Lead
5 2 (8.00%) Mobile Specialist
5 2 (8.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Test Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (4.00%) QA Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (40.00%) REST
2 5 (20.00%) Web Services
3 4 (16.00%) JSON
3 4 (16.00%) SOAP
4 3 (12.00%) CSS
4 3 (12.00%) HTML
5 2 (8.00%) Hibernate
5 2 (8.00%) RESTful
5 2 (8.00%) Spring
5 2 (8.00%) XML
6 1 (4.00%) Chai
6 1 (4.00%) Gherkin
6 1 (4.00%) jQuery
6 1 (4.00%) JSP
6 1 (4.00%) Kafka
6 1 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (4.00%) React
6 1 (4.00%) Redux
6 1 (4.00%) Sass
6 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (16.00%) Mobile App
3 3 (12.00%) Algorithms
3 3 (12.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Android
1 4 (16.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (92.00%) Test Automation
2 17 (68.00%) Agile
3 12 (48.00%) DevOps
4 11 (44.00%) Test Scripting
5 9 (36.00%) CI/CD
5 9 (36.00%) Scrum
5 9 (36.00%) Software Testing
6 8 (32.00%) Manual Testing
7 7 (28.00%) BDD
7 7 (28.00%) Exploratory Testing
7 7 (28.00%) Sprint Planning
8 6 (24.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
9 5 (20.00%) Code Quality
9 5 (20.00%) SDLC
10 4 (16.00%) API Testing
10 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (16.00%) Test Strategy
11 3 (12.00%) API Integration
11 3 (12.00%) TDD
11 3 (12.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) Java
2 9 (36.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (28.00%) C#
4 5 (20.00%) Python
4 5 (20.00%) SQL
5 3 (12.00%) Scala
5 3 (12.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.00%) Bash
6 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) ISTQB
2 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.00%) DBS Check
4 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (52.00%) QA
2 4 (16.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Duck Creek
1 3 (12.00%) Guidewire
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (4.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.00%) Mercator
2 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle