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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 81 68
Rank change year-on-year +16 -13 -29
Contract jobs citing Selenium 14 8 26
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.37% 0.67% 1.92%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.37% 5.84% 11.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 15
10th Percentile £366 £390 £375
25th Percentile £378 £429 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £547 £569 £621
90th Percentile £600 £588 £638
South East median daily rate £390 £585 £500
% change year-on-year -33.33% +17.00% -1.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £48.13 - £52.38
25th Percentile - - £54.06
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £71.25
90th Percentile - - £73.50
South East median hourly rate £50.00 - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +4.17%

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 135 137 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 13.24% 11.45% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 80 137
10th Percentile £375 £356 £409
25th Percentile £440 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +0.93% -1.82%
75th Percentile £572 £585 £600
90th Percentile £600 £626 £652
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £538
% change year-on-year - -11.63% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 18 22
10th Percentile - £60.14 £51.25
25th Percentile - £64.38 £55.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +14.29% -5.77%
75th Percentile £55.00 - £70.00
90th Percentile - £74.13 -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £65.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -16.03% +13.91% -11.54%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in Hampshire over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

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

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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 18 October 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
Portsmouth - 6 - - 1
Farnborough - 5 £383 -
Southampton - 1 - - 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 4 (28.57%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 10 (71.43%) Cucumber
1 10 (71.43%) JIRA
2 6 (42.86%) Git
2 6 (42.86%) Postman
2 6 (42.86%) WebDriver
3 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
4 4 (28.57%) Bitbucket
4 4 (28.57%) REST Assured
5 3 (21.43%) HP UFT
5 3 (21.43%) Katalon Studio
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Automotive
3 2 (14.29%) Aerospace
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Software Test Engineer
1 6 (42.86%) Test Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Automation Tester
2 4 (28.57%) Selenium Automation Tester
2 4 (28.57%) Selenium Tester
2 4 (28.57%) Tester
3 3 (21.43%) Test Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Test Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Test Automation Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (71.43%) REST
2 5 (35.71%) RESTful
3 4 (28.57%) .NET
3 4 (28.57%) SOAP
4 3 (21.43%) Playwright
5 2 (14.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.14%) Client/Server
2 1 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 12 (85.71%) Agile
3 6 (42.86%) Exploratory Testing
3 6 (42.86%) Manual Testing
3 6 (42.86%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 6 (42.86%) Scrum
3 6 (42.86%) Software Testing
3 6 (42.86%) Sprint Planning
4 5 (35.71%) Code Quality
4 5 (35.71%) Regression Testing
4 5 (35.71%) SDLC
4 5 (35.71%) TDD
5 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 4 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
6 3 (21.43%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
6 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
7 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Java
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 4 (28.57%) C#
4 3 (21.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
3 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle