Selenium Contracts in Manchester

Selenium
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Selenium skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Selenium 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 67 79 102
Rank change year-on-year +12 +23 +6
Contract jobs citing Selenium 12 17 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.30% 1.12% 0.85%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.05% 8.37% 6.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 13
10th Percentile £423 £403 £371
25th Percentile £463 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +25.00%
75th Percentile - £525 £625
90th Percentile £530 £531 -
North West median daily rate £447 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.89% -5.00% +18.34%

All Development Application Skills
Manchester

Selenium 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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 149 203 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 16.09% 13.38% 12.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 159 177
10th Percentile £322 £375 £320
25th Percentile £400 £428 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £538 £581 £638
90th Percentile £635 £694 £688
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -10.00% -1.28% +1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £71.63 £61.38 £40.68
25th Percentile £72.19 £65.31 £42.30
Median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +66.67% -
75th Percentile £77.81 £81.38 -
90th Percentile £78.38 £82.05 -
North West median hourly rate £75.00 £52.94 £49.88
% change year-on-year +41.67% +6.15% +17.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Selenium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Selenium in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Selenium in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Selenium in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Selenium in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) GitLab
1 5 (41.67%) JMeter
2 4 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 4 (33.33%) LoadRunner
3 3 (25.00%) Maven
4 2 (16.67%) Cypress.io
4 2 (16.67%) Eclipse
4 2 (16.67%) Git
4 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 2 (16.67%) Postman
5 1 (8.33%) Appium
5 1 (8.33%) JIRA
5 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
5 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (8.33%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Investment Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Tester
2 4 (33.33%) Software Tester
3 3 (25.00%) Automation Tester
4 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 2 (16.67%) Test Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Apache POI
1 2 (16.67%) JDBC
1 2 (16.67%) Playwright
2 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (8.33%) Chai
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (8.33%) React
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
3 6 (50.00%) Manual Testing
4 5 (41.67%) DevOps
4 5 (41.67%) Performance Testing
5 4 (33.33%) Data Validation
5 4 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (33.33%) Integration Testing
5 4 (33.33%) Process Improvement
5 4 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 4 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
5 4 (33.33%) System Testing
5 4 (33.33%) Test Strategy
5 4 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (33.33%) Validation
6 3 (25.00%) Agile
7 2 (16.67%) API Testing
7 2 (16.67%) Test Scripting
8 1 (8.33%) SDLC
8 1 (8.33%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Virgin Media
2 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft