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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 377 422
Rank change year-on-year +21 +45 +110
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 12 21 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.090% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.57% 0.89% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 15
10th Percentile £359 £363 £363
25th Percentile £400 £388 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £440 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +3.53% -19.05%
75th Percentile £496 £484 £500
90th Percentile £502 £492 £588
England median daily rate £425 £440 £425
% change year-on-year -3.41% +3.53% -10.53%

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 2,108 2,359 3,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.81% 14.71% 14.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,420 1,586 2,400
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £420 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £772 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 34
10th Percentile £37.00 £24.28 £32.38
25th Percentile £42.25 £25.99 £52.13
Median hourly rate £45.00 £46.25 £68.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -32.28% +54.84%
75th Percentile £67.50 £71.25 £79.38
90th Percentile £105.75 £71.44 £90.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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
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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +2 1 £425 +13.33% 1
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 (8.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (8.33%) nginx
1 1 (8.33%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
1 7 (58.33%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (16.67%) BrowserStack
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (8.33%) Big Data
1 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (8.33%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 11 (91.67%) Selenium
2 4 (33.33%) Appium
2 4 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (33.33%) JUnit
2 4 (33.33%) NUnit
3 3 (25.00%) Git
3 3 (25.00%) JIRA
3 3 (25.00%) TestNG
3 3 (25.00%) TestRail
3 3 (25.00%) Zephyr
4 2 (16.67%) SpecFlow
5 1 (8.33%) JMeter
5 1 (8.33%) Postman
5 1 (8.33%) ScalaTest
General
1 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) QA Tester
1 4 (33.33%) Tester
2 3 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 3 (25.00%) QA Automation Tester
2 3 (25.00%) Selenium Automation Tester
2 3 (25.00%) Selenium Tester
2 3 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Automation Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Mobile Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Developer in Test
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Mobile Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Mobile Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) REST
1 4 (33.33%) Web Services
2 3 (25.00%) SOAP
3 2 (16.67%) CSS
3 2 (16.67%) HTML
4 1 (8.33%) Gherkin
4 1 (8.33%) Hibernate
4 1 (8.33%) jQuery
4 1 (8.33%) JSON
4 1 (8.33%) JSP
4 1 (8.33%) React
4 1 (8.33%) Redux
4 1 (8.33%) Sass
4 1 (8.33%) Servlets
4 1 (8.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 3 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Android
1 4 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Test Automation
2 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 8 (66.67%) Test Scripting
3 7 (58.33%) Agile
3 7 (58.33%) DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) BDD
5 3 (25.00%) API Integration
5 3 (25.00%) Manual Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Model Validation
5 3 (25.00%) Test Management
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (16.67%) Cross-Browser Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Data Management
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Product Requirements
6 2 (16.67%) Scrum
6 2 (16.67%) Security Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
7 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
7 1 (8.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) JavaScript
2 5 (41.67%) C#
2 5 (41.67%) Java
3 4 (33.33%) Python
4 3 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (16.67%) SQL
6 1 (8.33%) Bash
6 1 (8.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (83.33%) QA
2 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Duck Creek
1 3 (25.00%) Guidewire
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft