Selenium Contracts in London

Selenium
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Selenium skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Selenium over the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 252 220 218
Rank change year-on-year -32 -2 +41
Contract jobs citing Selenium 113 189 304
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.85% 1.08% 1.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.50% 7.64% 7.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 148 246
10th Percentile £313 £355 £361
25th Percentile £366 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £489 £516
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -5.19% -6.27%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £650
90th Percentile £622 £650 £800
England median daily rate £421 £500 £516
% change year-on-year -15.80% -3.10% +3.20%

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 2,053 2,475 4,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.36% 14.11% 15.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,381 1,756 2,958
10th Percentile £350 £363 £406
25th Percentile £415 £450 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £669 £713
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 25 38
10th Percentile £25.52 £23.30 £43.18
25th Percentile £32.13 £25.99 £54.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £37.50 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -48.28% +62.92%
75th Percentile £59.69 £71.25 £81.88
90th Percentile £69.63 £71.63 £90.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +16.28%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Selenium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Selenium in London.

Daily rate trend for Selenium in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in London over the 6 months to 8 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Selenium in London.

Hourly rate trend for Selenium in London

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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 8 July 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
Central London -19 17 £425 -12.82% 10
West London - 7 £400 -
East London +6 1 £540 +22.73% 2
South London +1 1 £380 +7.04%
Selenium
England

Selenium
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 5 (4.42%) Confluence
2 3 (2.65%) JBoss
2 3 (2.65%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.77%) nginx
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.77%) NEC Housing
1 2 (1.77%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 28 (24.78%) AWS
2 27 (23.89%) Azure
3 20 (17.70%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (7.08%) GitHub
5 5 (4.42%) GCP
6 4 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (3.54%) Tricentis Tosca
7 3 (2.65%) SaaS
8 2 (1.77%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.77%) BrowserStack
8 2 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.77%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.77%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.88%) BlazeMeter
9 1 (0.88%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.88%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (0.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (0.88%) Sauce Labs
9 1 (0.88%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.65%) Internet
1 3 (2.65%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.31%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.54%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.65%) Neo4j
3 3 (2.65%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.77%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.77%) Delta Lake
4 2 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.77%) Power BI
5 1 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.88%) Big Data
5 1 (0.88%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.88%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.88%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.88%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (36.28%) Jenkins
2 31 (27.43%) JIRA
3 28 (24.78%) Postman
4 22 (19.47%) Cucumber
4 22 (19.47%) Git
4 22 (19.47%) JUnit
5 21 (18.58%) JMeter
6 14 (12.39%) REST Assured
7 13 (11.50%) Appium
7 13 (11.50%) GitLab
8 11 (9.73%) Cypress.io
8 11 (9.73%) SpecFlow
9 9 (7.96%) WebDriver
10 7 (6.19%) Gatling
10 7 (6.19%) TestNG
10 7 (6.19%) Zephyr
11 6 (5.31%) Bitbucket
11 6 (5.31%) SonarQube
12 5 (4.42%) Gradle
12 5 (4.42%) SoapUI
General
1 47 (41.59%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.70%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (15.93%) Finance
4 13 (11.50%) Banking
5 7 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.31%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.65%) Back Office
9 2 (1.77%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.77%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.77%) Wholesale Banking
10 1 (0.88%) Automotive
10 1 (0.88%) Front Office
10 1 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 32 (28.32%) Tester
2 30 (26.55%) Test Engineer
3 24 (21.24%) Automation Tester
4 14 (12.39%) Developer
5 13 (11.50%) Analyst
6 12 (10.62%) QA Engineer
6 12 (10.62%) Senior
7 11 (9.73%) Test Analyst
8 9 (7.96%) Lead
8 9 (7.96%) Test Automation Engineer
9 8 (7.08%) QA Tester
10 7 (6.19%) Python Engineer
10 7 (6.19%) Selenium Tester
10 7 (6.19%) Senior Test Engineer
11 6 (5.31%) Automation Test Analyst
11 6 (5.31%) Java Automation Tester
11 6 (5.31%) QA Automation Tester
11 6 (5.31%) Selenium Automation Tester
11 6 (5.31%) Software Developer
12 5 (4.42%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (18.58%) REST
2 18 (15.93%) Playwright
3 13 (11.50%) pytest
4 11 (9.73%) .NET
5 9 (7.96%) SOAP
6 8 (7.08%) RESTful
6 8 (7.08%) Web Services
7 6 (5.31%) Kafka
7 6 (5.31%) React
8 5 (4.42%) Gherkin
8 5 (4.42%) Spring Boot
9 4 (3.54%) HTML
9 4 (3.54%) Play Framework
9 4 (3.54%) Swagger
9 4 (3.54%) WireMock
10 3 (2.65%) CSS
10 3 (2.65%) JSP
10 3 (2.65%) LDAP
10 3 (2.65%) OpenAPI
10 3 (2.65%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.73%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.42%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.65%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.65%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.65%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.65%) Reinsurance
4 3 (2.65%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.77%) Housing Association
5 2 (1.77%) Mobile Banking
5 2 (1.77%) Online Banking
6 1 (0.88%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.88%) Life Science
6 1 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.88%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.88%) NHS
6 1 (0.88%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.62%) Windows
2 7 (6.19%) Android
3 6 (5.31%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.65%) Linux
4 3 (2.65%) Unix
4 3 (2.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (85.84%) Test Automation
2 57 (50.44%) CI/CD
3 54 (47.79%) Agile
4 34 (30.09%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (30.09%) Test Scripting
5 31 (27.43%) DevOps
6 29 (25.66%) Test Strategy
7 27 (23.89%) API Testing
7 27 (23.89%) Software Testing
8 26 (23.01%) Scrum
9 23 (20.35%) Manual Testing
10 22 (19.47%) Performance Testing
11 20 (17.70%) Regression Testing
12 18 (15.93%) BDD
13 15 (13.27%) Integration Testing
13 15 (13.27%) SDET
13 15 (13.27%) User Acceptance Testing
14 14 (12.39%) Computer Science
15 12 (10.62%) Security Testing
16 11 (9.73%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 58 (51.33%) Java
2 44 (38.94%) Python
3 24 (21.24%) C#
4 22 (19.47%) JavaScript
5 18 (15.93%) SQL
6 11 (9.73%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.31%) Ruby
8 4 (3.54%) C++
8 4 (3.54%) PHP
8 4 (3.54%) PL/SQL
8 4 (3.54%) Scala
9 3 (2.65%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.77%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.77%) RPG
10 2 (1.77%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.88%) Bash
Qualifications
1 28 (24.78%) Security Cleared
2 27 (23.89%) SC Cleared
3 18 (15.93%) ISTQB
4 14 (12.39%) Degree
5 12 (10.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (53.10%) QA
2 4 (3.54%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.77%) SLA
4 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.88%) GDPR
4 1 (0.88%) GxP
4 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.88%) NIST
4 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.88%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (5.31%) Docker
2 3 (2.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (4.42%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.65%) Terraform
3 2 (1.77%) Ansible
3 2 (1.77%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.88%) Argo
4 1 (0.88%) Grafana
4 1 (0.88%) Kibana
4 1 (0.88%) logstash
Vendors
1 10 (8.85%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.08%) UiPath
3 5 (4.42%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.54%) Bloomberg
4 4 (3.54%) Reuters
5 3 (2.65%) Duck Creek
5 3 (2.65%) Google
5 3 (2.65%) Guidewire
5 3 (2.65%) Informatica
5 3 (2.65%) Oracle
5 3 (2.65%) SAP
6 2 (1.77%) Databricks
6 2 (1.77%) HP
6 2 (1.77%) NEC
7 1 (0.88%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.88%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.88%) Okta
7 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.88%) Siebel
7 1 (0.88%) Splunk