Selenium Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Selenium
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Selenium skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 74 94
Rank change year-on-year -13 +20 +16
Contract jobs citing Selenium 7 7 9
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.59% 0.65% 0.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.78% 4.55% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 7
10th Percentile £346 £363 £402
25th Percentile £395 £413 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -0.55%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £500
90th Percentile £580 - £528
North West median daily rate £325 £375 £450
% change year-on-year -13.33% -16.67% +5.88%

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 185 154 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.72% 14.26% 13.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 108 163
10th Percentile £344 £322 £363
25th Percentile £400 £363 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% -12.20% -6.82%
75th Percentile £583 £543 £619
90th Percentile £638 £620 £681
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £515
% change year-on-year -5.56% -12.62% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 9
10th Percentile - - £51.25
25th Percentile £52.50 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £61.00 - £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +44.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £77.50
90th Percentile £73.00 - £79.50
North West median hourly rate £57.50 £47.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year +20.82% +3.05% +1.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Selenium relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Selenium job vacancy trend in Manchester

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Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Selenium.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Selenium

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in Manchester over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in Manchester

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Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Selenium.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Selenium

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Cypress.io
2 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Test Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Lead
3 2 (28.57%) Automation Test Lead
3 2 (28.57%) Lead Test Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Automation Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Power Apps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Principal Test Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Automation Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
4 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Playwright
2 2 (28.57%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (14.29%) NHS
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Coaching
3 2 (28.57%) Load Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
3 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) AI
4 1 (14.29%) BDD
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) CRM
4 1 (14.29%) Manual Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Brio
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Veracode
1 1 (14.29%) Virgin Media