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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 356 383
Rank change year-on-year -17 +27 +79
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 11 17 16
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.076% 0.11% 0.087%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.49% 0.82% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 13
10th Percentile £355 £356 £333
25th Percentile £370 £361 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +6.25% -20.40%
75th Percentile £438 £460 £488
90th Percentile £501 £485 £575
England median daily rate £386 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -9.18% +6.25% -20.40%

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 2,252 2,072 2,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.64% 13.81% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,538 1,359 1,771
10th Percentile £351 £349 £381
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £641 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 22
10th Percentile £37.65 £28.75 £25.80
25th Percentile £42.63 £41.88 £32.50
Median hourly rate £56.50 £67.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +50.00% -21.74%
75th Percentile £86.88 £83.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £110.00 £90.25 £73.74
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 24 December 2025.

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 24 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 2 £425 - 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 (27.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (18.18%) BrowserStack
4 1 (9.09%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 10 (90.91%) Selenium
2 5 (45.45%) Cucumber
3 3 (27.27%) Appium
3 3 (27.27%) NUnit
3 3 (27.27%) Postman
4 2 (18.18%) JMeter
4 2 (18.18%) REST Assured
5 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
5 1 (9.09%) Git
5 1 (9.09%) JIRA
5 1 (9.09%) JUnit
5 1 (9.09%) SpecFlow
5 1 (9.09%) TestNG
General
1 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (9.09%) Banking
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
1 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) QA Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Test Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Automation Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Developer in Test
3 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Mobile Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Mobile Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Mobile Tester
3 1 (9.09%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) QA Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Gherkin
2 3 (27.27%) CSS
2 3 (27.27%) HTML
2 3 (27.27%) JSR 170
3 2 (18.18%) JSON
3 2 (18.18%) Playwright
3 2 (18.18%) RESTful
3 2 (18.18%) Web Services
4 1 (9.09%) Node.js
4 1 (9.09%) OpenAPI
4 1 (9.09%) React
4 1 (9.09%) Swagger
4 1 (9.09%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Mobile App
2 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
3 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Android
1 3 (27.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Test Automation
2 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 6 (54.55%) BDD
4 5 (45.45%) API Testing
4 5 (45.45%) Test Scripting
5 4 (36.36%) Agile
5 4 (36.36%) DevOps
6 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (27.27%) Performance Testing
6 3 (27.27%) QA Automation
7 2 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
7 2 (18.18%) Exploratory Testing
7 2 (18.18%) SDET
7 2 (18.18%) TDD
7 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
8 1 (9.09%) B2B
8 1 (9.09%) Regression Testing
8 1 (9.09%) Scrum
8 1 (9.09%) Software Testing
8 1 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) C#
2 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (9.09%) ISTQB
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (72.73%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Adobe
2 1 (9.09%) AppDynamics
2 1 (9.09%) Micro Focus
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft