Selenium Contract Job Trends in London

Selenium
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Selenium skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 246 221
Rank change year-on-year -80 -25 +18
Contract jobs citing Selenium 118 120 171
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 0.89% 1.05%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.64% 5.72% 7.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 84 130
10th Percentile £313 £327 £338
25th Percentile £363 £384 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £451 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% -5.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £530 £576 £550
90th Percentile £638 £688 £650
England median daily rate £425 £425 £500
% change year-on-year - -15.00% -

All Development Application Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,544 2,098 2,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.64% 15.47% 14.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,634 1,433 1,599
10th Percentile £363 £338 £363
25th Percentile £440 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 13 22
10th Percentile - £26.98 £22.33
25th Percentile £18.75 £36.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -2.70% -33.93%
75th Percentile £72.75 £63.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.20 £84.50 £71.81
England median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.23% - -

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Selenium job vacancy trend in London

Selenium
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Selenium

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in London over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Selenium

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the London region over the 6 months to 13 August 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
Central London -29 13 £481 -15.57% 2
South London - 4 £390 -
West London -18 3 - -
Selenium
England

Selenium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 13 (11.02%) Confluence
2 2 (1.69%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.85%) Apache
3 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.85%) Appian
3 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (4.24%) Shopify
2 1 (0.85%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 52 (44.07%) Azure
2 35 (29.66%) GitHub
3 33 (27.97%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (25.42%) AWS
5 27 (22.88%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (9.32%) GCP
7 9 (7.63%) GitHub Copilot
8 7 (5.93%) BrowserStack
9 5 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.24%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 5 (4.24%) Serverless
10 4 (3.39%) Apigee
10 4 (3.39%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.54%) SaaS
11 3 (2.54%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 3 (2.54%) Tricentis Tosca
12 2 (1.69%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (1.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.85%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.24%) Big Data
2 3 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.54%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.69%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.69%) Metadata
3 2 (1.69%) Power BI
4 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.85%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 36 (30.51%) Cypress.io
2 35 (29.66%) Jenkins
3 32 (27.12%) JIRA
4 29 (24.58%) Git
5 22 (18.64%) Postman
5 22 (18.64%) REST Assured
6 17 (14.41%) Appium
6 17 (14.41%) GitLab
6 17 (14.41%) JMeter
7 16 (13.56%) Cucumber
8 12 (10.17%) WebDriver
9 11 (9.32%) TestNG
9 11 (9.32%) Zephyr
10 9 (7.63%) JUnit
11 6 (5.08%) Gatling
11 6 (5.08%) Maven
11 6 (5.08%) SpecFlow
11 6 (5.08%) TeamCity
12 5 (4.24%) Gradle
12 5 (4.24%) HP UFT
General
1 35 (29.66%) Social Skills
2 28 (23.73%) Finance
3 27 (22.88%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (16.95%) Banking
5 8 (6.78%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.54%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.69%) Back Office
7 2 (1.69%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.69%) Legal
7 2 (1.69%) Marketing
7 2 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Front Office
8 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.85%) Legal Technology
8 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.85%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (22.88%) Test Engineer
2 20 (16.95%) Senior
3 18 (15.25%) Tester
4 17 (14.41%) Lead
4 17 (14.41%) QA Engineer
4 17 (14.41%) Test Automation Engineer
5 15 (12.71%) Automation Engineer
6 9 (7.63%) Automation Tester
6 9 (7.63%) QA Automation Engineer
6 9 (7.63%) Test Manager
7 8 (6.78%) Developer
8 7 (5.93%) Analyst
9 6 (5.08%) QA Leader
9 6 (5.08%) QA Test Engineer
9 6 (5.08%) Test Analyst
10 5 (4.24%) Senior Automation Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) Senior Test Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) Test Leader
11 4 (3.39%) Citrix Engineer
11 4 (3.39%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (43.22%) Playwright
2 16 (13.56%) REST
3 11 (9.32%) Kafka
4 9 (7.63%) Gherkin
4 9 (7.63%) XML
5 6 (5.08%) .NET
5 6 (5.08%) Pandas
5 6 (5.08%) pytest
5 6 (5.08%) XSD
6 5 (4.24%) Lightning Web Components
7 4 (3.39%) HTML
7 4 (3.39%) JSON
7 4 (3.39%) Node.js
7 4 (3.39%) RESTful
7 4 (3.39%) SOAP
8 3 (2.54%) Web Services
9 2 (1.69%) ADO
9 2 (1.69%) CSS
9 2 (1.69%) Django
9 2 (1.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.63%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.78%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.24%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.39%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (2.54%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.69%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.69%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.85%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.85%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.08%) Windows
2 5 (4.24%) Unix
3 4 (3.39%) Android
3 4 (3.39%) Apple iOS
3 4 (3.39%) Linux
4 2 (1.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (88.98%) Test Automation
2 80 (67.80%) CI/CD
3 52 (44.07%) Agile
4 50 (42.37%) DevOps
5 44 (37.29%) Test Strategy
6 33 (27.97%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (27.12%) Regression Testing
8 30 (25.42%) AI
9 29 (24.58%) Software Testing
10 27 (22.88%) Integration Testing
11 26 (22.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (22.03%) End-to-End Testing
12 24 (20.34%) Scrum
13 22 (18.64%) BDD
14 21 (17.80%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (17.80%) Validation
15 20 (16.95%) Performance Testing
16 19 (16.10%) API Testing
17 18 (15.25%) Test Scripting
18 17 (14.41%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 50 (42.37%) Python
2 43 (36.44%) Java
3 29 (24.58%) SQL
4 26 (22.03%) JavaScript
5 21 (17.80%) C#
6 11 (9.32%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.24%) Apex Code
7 5 (4.24%) PowerShell
7 5 (4.24%) Ruby
8 3 (2.54%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.69%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.85%) Bash
10 1 (0.85%) COBOL
10 1 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.85%) Swift
10 1 (0.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (34.75%) Security Cleared
2 37 (31.36%) SC Cleared
3 13 (11.02%) ISTQB
4 12 (10.17%) Degree
5 8 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.24%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.69%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.69%) ISEB
7 2 (1.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (64.41%) QA
2 8 (6.78%) Data Quality
3 6 (5.08%) ISO 20022
4 5 (4.24%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.54%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (1.69%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.85%) GDPR
7 1 (0.85%) GxP
7 1 (0.85%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.85%) SEPA
7 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (16.10%) Docker
2 3 (2.54%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (13.56%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.24%) HP ALM
3 4 (3.39%) Terraform
4 2 (1.69%) Grafana
4 2 (1.69%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (16.10%) Salesforce
2 17 (14.41%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.63%) Oracle
4 5 (4.24%) HP
5 4 (3.39%) Citrix
5 4 (3.39%) IBM
5 4 (3.39%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.54%) Avaloq
6 3 (2.54%) Guidewire
6 3 (2.54%) Micro Focus
6 3 (2.54%) OpenText
6 3 (2.54%) Perfecto Mobile
7 2 (1.69%) Databricks
7 2 (1.69%) Foundry
7 2 (1.69%) SAP
7 2 (1.69%) UiPath
8 1 (0.85%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.85%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.85%) New Relic
8 1 (0.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud