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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 64 82
Rank change year-on-year -33 +18 -15
Contract jobs citing Selenium 17 14 8
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.89% 1.38% 0.65%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.33% 10.00% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 7
10th Percentile - £366 £390
25th Percentile £263 £378 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £458 £525
Median % change year-on-year -39.89% -12.86% -9.68%
75th Percentile £288 £547 £569
90th Percentile - £600 £588
South East median daily rate £275 £390 £585
% change year-on-year -29.49% -33.33% +16.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
South East median hourly rate - £50.00 -

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 150 140 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 7.89% 13.79% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 95 84
10th Percentile £320 £385 £356
25th Percentile £481 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year +7.40% -8.26% +0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £579 £588
90th Percentile £730 £613 £636
South East median daily rate £492 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +3.58% - -11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 16
10th Percentile £43.00 - £58.56
25th Percentile - - £68.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -28.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £95.00 £55.00 -
90th Percentile - £58.38 £71.88
South East median hourly rate £63.74 £55.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +15.88% -16.03% +10.08%

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
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 10 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
Farnborough 0 17 £275 -28.10% 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (82.35%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) GitHub
2 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (82.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (82.35%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) Cucumber
2 3 (17.65%) SpecFlow
3 2 (11.76%) JIRA
General
1 14 (82.35%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Test Automation Engineer
1 3 (17.65%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Playwright
1 3 (17.65%) SOAP
2 2 (11.76%) RESTful
2 2 (11.76%) Swagger
3 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Agile
1 17 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 16 (94.12%) Acceptance Criteria
2 16 (94.12%) CI/CD
3 15 (88.24%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (88.24%) Continuous Integration
3 15 (88.24%) Defect Management
3 15 (88.24%) Regression Testing
4 14 (82.35%) Coaching
4 14 (82.35%) Continuous Delivery
4 14 (82.35%) Data Protection
4 14 (82.35%) Data Validation
4 14 (82.35%) Manual Testing
4 14 (82.35%) Network Monitoring
4 14 (82.35%) Performance Testing
4 14 (82.35%) SDLC
4 14 (82.35%) Security Testing
4 14 (82.35%) Software Testing
4 14 (82.35%) Validation
4 14 (82.35%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Python
2 14 (82.35%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (82.35%) DV Cleared
1 14 (82.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Salesforce