WebDriver Contracts in London

Selenium WebDriver
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring WebDriver skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WebDriver over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 353 429
Rank change year-on-year +10 +76 +84
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 10 38 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.080% 0.21% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.55% 1.63% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 28 48
10th Percentile £356 £325 £367
25th Percentile £380 £356 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £443 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% -6.84% -
75th Percentile £438 £461 £578
90th Percentile £480 £609 £592
England median daily rate £413 £436 £478
% change year-on-year -5.44% -8.64% +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
England median hourly rate £50.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

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 1,814 2,325 4,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.46% 13.04% 16.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,230 1,656 3,172
10th Percentile £350 £363 £413
25th Percentile £419 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £725
90th Percentile £800 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 24 39
10th Percentile £22.93 £22.90 £48.20
25th Percentile £26.04 £25.99 £56.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% -36.52% +29.21%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.31 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £71.25 £86.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

WebDriver
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for WebDriver in London

WebDriver
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for WebDriver in London

WebDriver
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebDriver in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WebDriver in London

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 1 May 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 2 £425 -17.48%
WebDriver
England

WebDriver
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 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (10.00%) nginx
1 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (10.00%) Big Data
1 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (10.00%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Selenium
2 8 (80.00%) Cucumber
3 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (40.00%) Postman
4 4 (40.00%) REST Assured
5 3 (30.00%) Git
5 3 (30.00%) JMeter
6 1 (10.00%) JIRA
6 1 (10.00%) JUnit
6 1 (10.00%) LoadRunner
6 1 (10.00%) ScalaTest
6 1 (10.00%) WebStorm
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Developer in Test
3 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Software Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Automation Tester
5 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Lead
5 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Selenium Automation Tester
5 1 (10.00%) Selenium Tester
5 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) CSS
1 4 (40.00%) HTML
1 4 (40.00%) REST
2 3 (30.00%) Gherkin
2 3 (30.00%) JSON
3 2 (20.00%) Web Services
4 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (10.00%) jQuery
4 1 (10.00%) JSP
4 1 (10.00%) React
4 1 (10.00%) Redux
4 1 (10.00%) Sass
4 1 (10.00%) Servlets
4 1 (10.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 5 (50.00%) SDET
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) BDD
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) API Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (30.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Test Scripting
5 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (20.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Scrum
5 2 (20.00%) TDD
6 1 (10.00%) OO
6 1 (10.00%) OOP
6 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (50.00%) Java
3 3 (30.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes