Selenium Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Selenium
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Selenium skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Selenium 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 1.02% - 0.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.11% - 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £266 - -
25th Percentile £272 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 - £513
75th Percentile £297 - £519
90th Percentile £299 - -
North West median daily rate £340 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -32.00% - +8.40%

All Development Application Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 18 12 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 9.18% 5.08% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 17
10th Percentile £289 £316 £163
25th Percentile £300 £378 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £435 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.30% -13.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £484 £479 £525
90th Percentile £510 £537 £604
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £510
% change year-on-year -5.56% -11.76% -2.86%

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Selenium job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Selenium
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Selenium

Selenium
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 4 October 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
Liverpool - 2 £288 -
Selenium
North West

Selenium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) EPiServer
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Trello
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Appium
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) HP UFT
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Zephyr
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Software Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (50.00%) Optimizely
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle