Selenium Contracts in the Midlands

Selenium
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 91 121 131
Rank change year-on-year +30 +10 +11
Contract jobs citing Selenium 20 12 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.04% 0.44% 1.05%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.75% 4.65% 7.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 25
10th Percentile £200 £270 -
25th Percentile £250 £355 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £326 £400 £380
Median % change year-on-year -18.50% +5.26% -6.17%
75th Percentile £475 £688 £438
90th Percentile £481 - £553
England median daily rate £425 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Development Application Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 258 258 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.48% 9.36% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 187 361
10th Percentile £313 £260 £290
25th Percentile £410 £357 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -8.33% +1.05%
75th Percentile £537 £536 £550
90th Percentile £627 £560 £638
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 4
10th Percentile £22.01 £10.50 £33.21
25th Percentile £27.71 £43.88 £35.49
Median hourly rate £37.85 £56.25 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -32.71% +14.21% +26.28%
75th Percentile £48.61 £58.75 £62.19
90th Percentile £54.70 - £66.13
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Selenium in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Selenium in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
East Midlands +19 12 £269 -29.21% 12
West Midlands +13 8 £425 -26.09% 8
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 7 (35.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) BrowserStack
1 2 (10.00%) SaaS
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (55.00%) Cucumber
2 8 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (40.00%) JIRA
3 7 (35.00%) JMeter
4 5 (25.00%) GitLab
4 5 (25.00%) Postman
4 5 (25.00%) REST Assured
5 4 (20.00%) JUnit
5 4 (20.00%) Maven
6 3 (15.00%) Git
6 3 (15.00%) SoapUI
6 3 (15.00%) TestNG
6 3 (15.00%) Travis CI
7 2 (10.00%) Bitbucket
7 2 (10.00%) CA Release Automation
7 2 (10.00%) Cypress.io
7 2 (10.00%) Mockito
7 2 (10.00%) SonarQube
7 2 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (10.00%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Banking
4 3 (15.00%) Finance
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Analyst
1 4 (20.00%) Test Analyst
1 4 (20.00%) Tester
2 3 (15.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Lead
2 3 (15.00%) Test Leader
3 2 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Automation Test Lead
3 2 (10.00%) Junior
3 2 (10.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Junior Tester
4 1 (5.00%) QA Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) QA Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) QA Tester
4 1 (5.00%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) HTML
2 4 (20.00%) CSS
2 4 (20.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (20.00%) jQuery
2 4 (20.00%) Node.js
2 4 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (15.00%) .NET
3 3 (15.00%) Web Services
4 2 (10.00%) Ajax
4 2 (10.00%) Bootstrap
4 2 (10.00%) DOM
4 2 (10.00%) Gherkin
4 2 (10.00%) HTML5
4 2 (10.00%) J2EE
4 2 (10.00%) JPA
4 2 (10.00%) Kafka
4 2 (10.00%) REST
4 2 (10.00%) Spring
4 2 (10.00%) Spring Integration
4 2 (10.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) Test Automation
2 11 (55.00%) Agile
3 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (45.00%) DevOps
4 8 (40.00%) API Testing
5 6 (30.00%) Test Scripting
6 5 (25.00%) Functional Testing
6 5 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
6 5 (25.00%) Performance Testing
6 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (25.00%) Scrum
7 4 (20.00%) Microservices
8 3 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
8 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (15.00%) Data Ingestion
8 3 (15.00%) Regression Testing
8 3 (15.00%) SIEM
8 3 (15.00%) Sprint Planning
8 3 (15.00%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) Java
2 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.00%) Bash
3 3 (15.00%) C#
3 3 (15.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) SQL
4 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) ISTQB
2 3 (15.00%) CEH
2 3 (15.00%) CISSP
2 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (15.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (50.00%) QA
2 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Kibana
1 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
2 2 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (10.00%) Nintex
1 2 (10.00%) Veracode
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle