Selenium Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Selenium
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Selenium skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 - 92
Rank change year-on-year - - -15
Contract jobs citing Selenium 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.25% - 0.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.78% - 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £290 - £414
25th Percentile £337 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.23%
75th Percentile £476 - £575
90th Percentile £535 - £587
South East median daily rate £550 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +8.49%

All Development Application Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 144 96 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 8.98% 13.39% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 60 85
10th Percentile £314 £348 £383
25th Percentile £411 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £603 £575 £603
90th Percentile £738 £650 £674
South East median daily rate £495 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -1.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 17
10th Percentile £40.00 £51.93 £53.50
25th Percentile £41.22 £59.50 £59.00
Median hourly rate £48.11 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.02% - +2.17%
75th Percentile £54.40 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £70.00 £76.00
South East median hourly rate £83.00 £60.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +37.19% -2.42% +10.25%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Selenium relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Selenium job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Selenium
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Selenium.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Selenium

Selenium
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in Hampshire over the 6 months to 1 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in Hampshire

Selenium
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Selenium.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Selenium

Selenium
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 1 April 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
Southampton - 1 £435 - 1
Farnborough - 1 £272 -
Selenium
South East

Selenium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JUnit
2 2 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (25.00%) Gatling
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) Gradle
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) NUnit
3 1 (25.00%) Postman
3 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
3 1 (25.00%) TestNG
3 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) QA Leader
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) Flask
2 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (25.00%) JPA
2 1 (25.00%) pytest
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Spring MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Testing
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) ATDD
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) SDET
3 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) SysML
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle