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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 358 363
Rank change year-on-year -71 +5 +66
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 14 11 29
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.070% 0.082% 0.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.55% 0.52% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 22
10th Percentile £400 £392 £340
25th Percentile £423 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £425 £440
Median % change year-on-year +4.06% -3.41% -5.38%
75th Percentile £474 £500 £475
90th Percentile £488 £505 £494
England median daily rate £425 £438 £440
% change year-on-year -2.86% -0.57% -5.38%

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 2,533 2,107 2,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.63% 15.69% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,637 1,445 1,582
10th Percentile £375 £343 £363
25th Percentile £447 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 13 20
10th Percentile £18.75 £26.98 £22.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £36.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £49.00 £45.00 £35.29
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% +27.53% -49.59%
75th Percentile £73.56 £63.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.29 £84.50 £71.31
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -9 2 £550 +29.41% 2
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
1 8 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) GitHub
3 4 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 2 (14.29%) PowerApps
5 1 (7.14%) AWS
5 1 (7.14%) BlazeMeter
5 1 (7.14%) BrowserStack
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (100.00%) Selenium
2 9 (64.29%) Jenkins
3 7 (50.00%) Git
4 6 (42.86%) Cucumber
4 6 (42.86%) GitLab
4 6 (42.86%) REST Assured
5 5 (35.71%) JMeter
6 4 (28.57%) JUnit
6 4 (28.57%) Maven
6 4 (28.57%) TestNG
7 3 (21.43%) Gradle
7 3 (21.43%) Postman
8 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
8 2 (14.29%) JIRA
9 1 (7.14%) Appium
9 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
9 1 (7.14%) LoadRunner
9 1 (7.14%) Newman
9 1 (7.14%) TeamCity
9 1 (7.14%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (28.57%) Banking
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Test Automation Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) Test Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Automation Test Lead
2 3 (21.43%) Lead
2 3 (21.43%) Test Leader
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Developer in Test
3 2 (14.29%) QA Automation Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) QA Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) QA Test Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Development Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Development Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Test Development Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Test Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) REST
2 4 (28.57%) Gherkin
3 3 (21.43%) Kafka
3 3 (21.43%) XML
3 3 (21.43%) XSD
4 2 (14.29%) HTML
4 2 (14.29%) JSON
4 2 (14.29%) Playwright
5 1 (7.14%) CSS
5 1 (7.14%) RESTful
5 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Android
1 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 12 (85.71%) CI/CD
3 9 (64.29%) DevOps
4 6 (42.86%) Agile
4 6 (42.86%) API Testing
4 6 (42.86%) Performance Testing
5 5 (35.71%) BDD
5 5 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (35.71%) End-to-End Testing
5 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (35.71%) Software Testing
5 5 (35.71%) Test Strategy
5 5 (35.71%) Validation
6 4 (28.57%) Regression Testing
6 4 (28.57%) SDET
7 3 (21.43%) Exploratory Testing
7 3 (21.43%) Integration Testing
7 3 (21.43%) SDLC
7 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (21.43%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Java
2 8 (57.14%) Python
3 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
4 3 (21.43%) SQL
5 2 (14.29%) C#
5 2 (14.29%) Ruby
5 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) ISTQB
3 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (50.00%) QA
2 3 (21.43%) ISO 20022
3 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) IBM
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Guidewire