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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 360 445
Rank change year-on-year +16 +85 +86
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 10 40 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.078% 0.23% 0.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.50% 1.66% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 30 32
10th Percentile £400 £325 £413
25th Percentile £409 £366 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £443 £470
Median % change year-on-year +2.32% -5.85% -1.05%
75th Percentile £500 £475 £588
90th Percentile £507 £559 -
England median daily rate £450 £443 £470
% change year-on-year +1.69% -5.85% -1.05%

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 1,987 2,416 3,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.41% 13.83% 15.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,339 1,722 2,905
10th Percentile £350 £363 £406
25th Percentile £425 £450 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £670 £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 8 26 36
10th Percentile £24.49 £23.63 £51.38
25th Percentile £33.70 £27.30 £54.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £43.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% -42.67% +68.54%
75th Percentile £52.50 £70.19 £82.50
90th Percentile £73.88 £71.56 £90.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.84% +18.10%

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
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 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 -4 1 £425 -6.08% 2
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%) Azure
1 5 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
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 5 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (40.00%) JUnit
4 3 (30.00%) Git
4 3 (30.00%) JIRA
4 3 (30.00%) TestNG
4 3 (30.00%) TestRail
4 3 (30.00%) Zephyr
5 2 (20.00%) Appium
5 2 (20.00%) NUnit
5 2 (20.00%) SpecFlow
6 1 (10.00%) JMeter
6 1 (10.00%) Postman
6 1 (10.00%) REST Assured
6 1 (10.00%) ScalaTest
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (30.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Automation Tester
1 4 (40.00%) Selenium Automation Tester
1 4 (40.00%) Selenium Tester
1 4 (40.00%) Tester
2 3 (30.00%) QA Automation Tester
2 3 (30.00%) QA Tester
3 2 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Automation Specialist
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Mobile Specialist
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Developer in Test
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) REST
1 4 (40.00%) Web Services
2 3 (30.00%) SOAP
3 2 (20.00%) CSS
3 2 (20.00%) HTML
4 1 (10.00%) Gherkin
4 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (10.00%) jQuery
4 1 (10.00%) JSON
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 3 (30.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Android
1 2 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) Test Scripting
3 5 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) API Integration
4 3 (30.00%) BDD
4 3 (30.00%) Manual Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Model Validation
4 3 (30.00%) Test Management
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (20.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Data Management
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Product Requirements
5 2 (20.00%) Scrum
5 2 (20.00%) Security Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
6 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
6 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (50.00%) Java
3 4 (40.00%) Python
4 3 (30.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (20.00%) C#
6 1 (10.00%) Bash
6 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) QA
2 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Duck Creek
1 3 (30.00%) Guidewire
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft