WebDriver Contract Job Trends in London

Selenium WebDriver
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring WebDriver skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 342 371
Rank change year-on-year -37 +29 +74
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 16 11 28
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.10% 0.081% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.68% 0.58% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 24
10th Percentile £363 £356 £325
25th Percentile £386 £362 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £403 £431
Median % change year-on-year +5.59% -6.67% -13.75%
75th Percentile £526 £438 £485
90th Percentile £575 £456 £665
England median daily rate £425 £375 £406
% change year-on-year +13.33% -7.69% -18.75%

All Development Application Skills
London

WebDriver 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 2,352 1,902 2,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.02% 14.08% 12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,598 1,257 1,722
10th Percentile £355 £340 £375
25th Percentile £420 £413 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £530 £568
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -6.61% -5.42%
75th Percentile £637 £675 £675
90th Percentile £732 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £504 £535
% change year-on-year -0.70% -5.89% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 22
10th Percentile £18.75 £34.75 £25.80
25th Percentile £24.81 £45.63 £31.71
Median hourly rate £66.50 £67.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +58.82% -26.09%
75th Percentile £95.00 £83.13 £64.94
90th Percentile £102.50 £90.25 £73.49
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

WebDriver
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

WebDriver job vacancy trend in London

WebDriver
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing WebDriver

WebDriver
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebDriver in London over the 6 months to 21 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for WebDriver in London

WebDriver
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing WebDriver

WebDriver
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 WebDriver within the London region over the 6 months to 21 February 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 -7 2 £425 -
West London - 2 £375 -
South London - 1 - -
WebDriver
England

WebDriver
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 3 (18.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (6.25%) BrowserStack
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (93.75%) Selenium
2 8 (50.00%) Cucumber
3 6 (37.50%) Postman
4 5 (31.25%) Cypress.io
4 5 (31.25%) REST Assured
5 4 (25.00%) Git
6 3 (18.75%) GitLab
6 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
6 3 (18.75%) JMeter
7 2 (12.50%) Appium
7 2 (12.50%) JIRA
7 2 (12.50%) JUnit
8 1 (6.25%) CircleCI
8 1 (6.25%) NUnit
8 1 (6.25%) TestComplete
8 1 (6.25%) TestNG
General
1 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Tester
2 3 (18.75%) Automation Tester
3 2 (12.50%) QA Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) QA Manager
3 2 (12.50%) QA Tester
3 2 (12.50%) Test Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Developer in Test
4 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Mobile Tester
4 1 (6.25%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) QA Test Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (50.00%) Playwright
2 4 (25.00%) Gherkin
3 3 (18.75%) CSS
3 3 (18.75%) HTML
3 3 (18.75%) JSR 170
3 3 (18.75%) REST
4 2 (12.50%) GraphQL
4 2 (12.50%) JSON
4 2 (12.50%) RESTful
4 2 (12.50%) Web Services
5 1 (6.25%) Node.js
5 1 (6.25%) OpenAPI
5 1 (6.25%) React
5 1 (6.25%) Spring
5 1 (6.25%) Swagger
5 1 (6.25%) WebdriverIO
5 1 (6.25%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (18.75%) Virtual Team
3 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
4 1 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (6.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Android
1 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Test Automation
2 12 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (50.00%) Agile
3 8 (50.00%) API Testing
3 8 (50.00%) BDD
4 6 (37.50%) DevOps
4 6 (37.50%) Test Scripting
5 5 (31.25%) QA Automation
5 5 (31.25%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (31.25%) Scrum
5 5 (31.25%) Software Testing
6 4 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (25.00%) Microservices
6 4 (25.00%) Performance Testing
6 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (25.00%) TDD
7 3 (18.75%) End-to-End Testing
7 3 (18.75%) SDET
8 2 (12.50%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (37.50%) C#
2 6 (37.50%) Java
3 5 (31.25%) TypeScript
4 3 (18.75%) Python
5 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 1 (6.25%) Bash
6 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
6 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (75.00%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Grafana
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Adobe
2 1 (6.25%) AppDynamics
2 1 (6.25%) Micro Focus