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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 361 345
Rank change year-on-year -48 -16 +100
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 15 10 41
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.076% 0.074% 0.23%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.60% 0.48% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 31
10th Percentile £367 £400 £363
25th Percentile £426 £409 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £453 £445
Median % change year-on-year - +1.74% -5.32%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £478
90th Percentile £566 £507 £545
England median daily rate £425 £450 £448
% change year-on-year -5.56% +0.56% -5.79%

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 2,519 2,062 2,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.69% 15.25% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,645 1,392 1,761
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £430 £417 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £661
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 25
10th Percentile - £25.52 £23.30
25th Percentile £18.75 £32.13 £25.99
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +13.33% -48.28%
75th Percentile £72.88 £59.69 £71.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £69.63 £71.63
England median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.80% -3.85% +4.00%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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
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 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) GitHub
3 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
4 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (13.33%) PowerApps
6 1 (6.67%) AWS
6 1 (6.67%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (6.67%) BrowserStack
6 1 (6.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (100.00%) Selenium
2 7 (46.67%) Cucumber
2 7 (46.67%) Git
2 7 (46.67%) GitLab
2 7 (46.67%) Jenkins
2 7 (46.67%) REST Assured
3 6 (40.00%) Postman
4 4 (26.67%) Cypress.io
4 4 (26.67%) JMeter
4 4 (26.67%) JUnit
5 3 (20.00%) Maven
5 3 (20.00%) TestNG
6 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
6 2 (13.33%) Gradle
6 2 (13.33%) JIRA
7 1 (6.67%) Appium
7 1 (6.67%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (6.67%) Newman
7 1 (6.67%) Travis CI
7 1 (6.67%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Test Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) Tester
2 4 (26.67%) Automation Tester
2 4 (26.67%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) QA Automation Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) QA Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) QA Manager
3 2 (13.33%) QA Test Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Developer in Test
4 1 (6.67%) QA Test Manager
4 1 (6.67%) QA Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) Playwright
2 6 (40.00%) REST
3 3 (20.00%) Gherkin
4 2 (13.33%) GraphQL
5 1 (6.67%) RESTful
5 1 (6.67%) Spring
5 1 (6.67%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (20.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 12 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (60.00%) Agile
4 8 (53.33%) API Testing
4 8 (53.33%) DevOps
5 7 (46.67%) BDD
5 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (40.00%) Scrum
6 6 (40.00%) Software Testing
6 6 (40.00%) Test Scripting
7 5 (33.33%) QA Automation
8 4 (26.67%) End-to-End Testing
8 4 (26.67%) Microservices
8 4 (26.67%) Performance Testing
8 4 (26.67%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (26.67%) Sprint Planning
8 4 (26.67%) Test Strategy
9 3 (20.00%) Load Testing
9 3 (20.00%) Regression Testing
9 3 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Java
2 5 (33.33%) C#
2 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 5 (33.33%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 2 (13.33%) Ruby
4 1 (6.67%) Bash
4 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (66.67%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Grafana
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft