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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 264 252 271
Rank change year-on-year -12 +19 -49
Contract jobs citing Selenium 127 117 137
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.89% 0.77% 0.72%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.58% 5.58% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 77 106
10th Percentile £340 £335 £346
25th Percentile £375 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% -10.53% -10.38%
75th Percentile £615 £550 £575
90th Percentile £728 £615 £619
England median daily rate £451 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.05% +5.56% -14.29%

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 2,278 2,097 2,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.98% 13.83% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,567 1,374 1,882
10th Percentile £350 £352 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £798
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 22
10th Percentile £38.80 £24.88 £25.80
25th Percentile £42.44 £32.19 £32.50
Median hourly rate £50.75 £52.50 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +2.44% -10.87%
75th Percentile £75.31 £77.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £110.00 £87.88 £73.74
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.84%

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

Selenium
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in London over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in London

Selenium
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

Selenium
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 15 December 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 -3 23 £600 +41.18%
East London +1 1 £540 +24.86% 4
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 19 (14.96%) Confluence
2 3 (2.36%) Appian
3 1 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.79%) CMS
3 1 (0.79%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.79%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 34 (26.77%) Azure
2 25 (19.69%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (17.32%) AWS
4 14 (11.02%) GitHub
5 10 (7.87%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (5.51%) GCP
7 6 (4.72%) Apigee
8 5 (3.94%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (3.94%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.94%) Serverless
8 5 (3.94%) Tricentis Tosca
9 4 (3.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (3.15%) SaaS
9 4 (3.15%) Slack
10 3 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.36%) BlazeMeter
10 3 (2.36%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.57%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (1.57%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.57%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.36%) HTTP
2 2 (1.57%) Internet
3 1 (0.79%) DSL
3 1 (0.79%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.51%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.94%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.36%) DB2
4 2 (1.57%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.57%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.57%) Power BI
4 2 (1.57%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.79%) Big Data
5 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 41 (32.28%) Cucumber
2 39 (30.71%) JIRA
3 33 (25.98%) Jenkins
4 31 (24.41%) Postman
5 22 (17.32%) Git
5 22 (17.32%) JMeter
6 20 (15.75%) Cypress.io
6 20 (15.75%) GitLab
7 19 (14.96%) JUnit
8 17 (13.39%) REST Assured
9 12 (9.45%) Bitbucket
10 9 (7.09%) SonarQube
10 9 (7.09%) WebDriver
10 9 (7.09%) Zephyr
11 7 (5.51%) SpecFlow
11 7 (5.51%) TestNG
11 7 (5.51%) TestRail
12 6 (4.72%) Gradle
12 6 (4.72%) Locust
12 6 (4.72%) Maven
General
1 38 (29.92%) Finance
2 30 (23.62%) Social Skills
3 24 (18.90%) Banking
4 14 (11.02%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.30%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.72%) Back Office
7 6 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.15%) Front Office
9 3 (2.36%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.57%) Marketing
10 2 (1.57%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.57%) Wholesale Banking
11 1 (0.79%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.79%) Police
11 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (32.28%) Tester
2 21 (16.54%) Automation Tester
3 16 (12.60%) Test Engineer
4 15 (11.81%) Senior
5 14 (11.02%) Developer
6 11 (8.66%) Test Automation Engineer
7 10 (7.87%) Analyst
8 9 (7.09%) Automation Engineer
9 8 (6.30%) QA Engineer
9 8 (6.30%) Test Analyst
10 6 (4.72%) Salesforce Developer
10 6 (4.72%) Senior Tester
11 5 (3.94%) Lead
11 5 (3.94%) QA Tester
11 5 (3.94%) Salesforce Tester
11 5 (3.94%) Senior Automation Tester
11 5 (3.94%) Test Leader
12 4 (3.15%) GCP Engineer
12 4 (3.15%) Java Developer
12 4 (3.15%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (23.62%) Playwright
2 17 (13.39%) REST
3 15 (11.81%) JSON
4 13 (10.24%) RESTful
5 12 (9.45%) XML
6 11 (8.66%) .NET
7 9 (7.09%) Gherkin
7 9 (7.09%) HTML
7 9 (7.09%) SOAP
7 9 (7.09%) Web Services
8 8 (6.30%) CSS
8 8 (6.30%) React
9 6 (4.72%) Lightning Web Components
10 5 (3.94%) Node.js
10 5 (3.94%) Spring Boot
11 4 (3.15%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (3.15%) pytest
11 4 (3.15%) Swagger
12 3 (2.36%) Jinja
12 3 (2.36%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.09%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.51%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.15%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.15%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.36%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.57%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.79%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.79%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.79%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.30%) Linux
2 6 (4.72%) Apple iOS
2 6 (4.72%) Unix
3 4 (3.15%) Android
4 2 (1.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (81.10%) Test Automation
2 73 (57.48%) CI/CD
3 66 (51.97%) Agile
4 52 (40.94%) DevOps
5 31 (24.41%) Test Strategy
6 28 (22.05%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (21.26%) Test Scripting
8 25 (19.69%) API Testing
8 25 (19.69%) Regression Testing
8 25 (19.69%) Software Testing
9 22 (17.32%) BDD
9 22 (17.32%) Performance Testing
9 22 (17.32%) Scrum
10 21 (16.54%) Validation
11 18 (14.17%) Microservices
12 16 (12.60%) Functional Testing
12 16 (12.60%) Integration Testing
13 15 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (11.81%) Non-Functional Testing
13 15 (11.81%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 57 (44.88%) Java
2 30 (23.62%) Python
3 29 (22.83%) SQL
4 26 (20.47%) C#
5 25 (19.69%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.72%) Apex Code
7 5 (3.94%) VB.NET
8 3 (2.36%) XPath
9 2 (1.57%) C
9 2 (1.57%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.57%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.57%) Ruby
9 2 (1.57%) Scala
9 2 (1.57%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.79%) Bash
10 1 (0.79%) C++
10 1 (0.79%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.79%) Rust
10 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (19.69%) Security Cleared
2 21 (16.54%) SC Cleared
3 20 (15.75%) ISTQB
4 11 (8.66%) Degree
5 10 (7.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 7 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.57%) MCP
8 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.79%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (32.28%) QA
2 11 (8.66%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.15%) WCAG
4 3 (2.36%) GDPR
5 2 (1.57%) SLA
6 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.79%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.79%) MiFID
6 1 (0.79%) NCSC
6 1 (0.79%) NIST
6 1 (0.79%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 24 (18.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (11.81%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.51%) Terraform
3 4 (3.15%) Argo
3 4 (3.15%) HP ALM
4 3 (2.36%) Ansible
5 1 (0.79%) Grafana
5 1 (0.79%) Kibana
5 1 (0.79%) logstash
5 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (11.02%) Salesforce
2 8 (6.30%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.30%) MuleSoft
3 6 (4.72%) Oracle
3 6 (4.72%) UiPath
4 5 (3.94%) Google
4 5 (3.94%) Splunk
5 4 (3.15%) HP
6 3 (2.36%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.36%) Cisco
6 3 (2.36%) Veracode
7 2 (1.57%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.57%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.57%) Siebel
7 2 (1.57%) Workday
8 1 (0.79%) Adobe
8 1 (0.79%) Apple
8 1 (0.79%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.79%) Micro Focus
8 1 (0.79%) SAP