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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 122 125
Rank change year-on-year +18 +3 +28
Contract jobs citing Selenium 36 10 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.45% 0.38% 0.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.71% 3.64% 7.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 10 23
10th Percentile £208 £348 £362
25th Percentile £250 £419 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 £675 £425
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +58.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £342 £739 £725
90th Percentile £446 £756 £738
England median daily rate £425 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -

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 336 275 337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.54% 10.39% 10.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 205 259
10th Percentile £270 £338 £300
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £455 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% -4.21% -4.04%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £550
90th Percentile £575 £675 £678
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 2
10th Percentile £21.86 £37.20 £32.20
25th Percentile £27.34 £55.63 £32.96
Median hourly rate £37.35 £56.25 £35.94
Median % change year-on-year -33.60% +56.50% -24.33%
75th Percentile £48.24 £58.75 £38.96
90th Percentile £54.25 £65.25 £39.73
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%

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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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +23 28 £269 -29.21% 11
West Midlands -5 8 £342 -49.33% 15
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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 9 (25.00%) Confluence
2 3 (8.33%) CICS
3 1 (2.78%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (5.56%) Azure
2 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (5.56%) BrowserStack
2 2 (5.56%) SaaS
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (2.78%) Azure AKS
3 1 (2.78%) Datadog
3 1 (2.78%) GCP
3 1 (2.78%) GitHub
3 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (2.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (2.78%) npm
3 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
3 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.78%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.33%) DB2
2 3 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database
3 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 23 (63.89%) Cucumber
2 18 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 10 (27.78%) JIRA
3 10 (27.78%) Maven
3 10 (27.78%) REST Assured
4 8 (22.22%) GitLab
5 7 (19.44%) Git
5 7 (19.44%) JUnit
5 7 (19.44%) Postman
6 6 (16.67%) JMeter
7 5 (13.89%) Bitbucket
7 5 (13.89%) IntelliJ
7 5 (13.89%) SonarQube
7 5 (13.89%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (11.11%) Mockito
9 3 (8.33%) Cypress.io
9 3 (8.33%) Eclipse
9 3 (8.33%) Gradle
9 3 (8.33%) SoapUI
9 3 (8.33%) TestNG
General
1 12 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 12 (33.33%) Banking
2 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Finance
4 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (41.67%) Tester
2 13 (36.11%) Automation Tester
3 6 (16.67%) Analyst
3 6 (16.67%) Test Analyst
4 5 (13.89%) Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Java Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Lead
6 3 (8.33%) Junior
6 3 (8.33%) Test Leader
7 2 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Automation Test Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Automation Test Lead
7 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Junior Automation Tester
7 2 (5.56%) Junior Tester
7 2 (5.56%) Test Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) DevOps Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
8 1 (2.78%) Junior Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (36.11%) HTML
1 13 (36.11%) jQuery
2 7 (19.44%) DOM
3 6 (16.67%) CSS
3 6 (16.67%) Hibernate
3 6 (16.67%) Node.js
3 6 (16.67%) REST
3 6 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 4 (11.11%) Jest
4 4 (11.11%) JPA
4 4 (11.11%) React
4 4 (11.11%) Redux
5 3 (8.33%) Playwright
5 3 (8.33%) Web Services
6 2 (5.56%) .NET
6 2 (5.56%) AngularJS
6 2 (5.56%) Bootstrap
6 2 (5.56%) J2EE
6 2 (5.56%) Kafka
6 2 (5.56%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Mainframe
2 3 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (8.33%) VSAM
3 2 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.78%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (97.22%) Test Automation
2 23 (63.89%) Agile
3 18 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 16 (44.44%) DevOps
5 12 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (30.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (30.56%) Test Strategy
7 10 (27.78%) API Testing
8 8 (22.22%) Test Scripting
9 6 (16.67%) Microservices
9 6 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
10 5 (13.89%) Non-Functional Testing
10 5 (13.89%) Scrum
10 5 (13.89%) TDD
11 4 (11.11%) Code Quality
11 4 (11.11%) Computer Science
11 4 (11.11%) Functional Testing
11 4 (11.11%) Software Testing
11 4 (11.11%) Validation
12 3 (8.33%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (72.22%) Java
2 9 (25.00%) SQL
3 7 (19.44%) JavaScript
4 4 (11.11%) Bash
4 4 (11.11%) Python
5 3 (8.33%) COBOL
5 3 (8.33%) JCL
6 2 (5.56%) C#
6 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.78%) Go
7 1 (2.78%) PHP
7 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) Degree
2 3 (8.33%) CEH
2 3 (8.33%) CISSP
2 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (8.33%) ISTQB
3 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (27.78%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.78%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.33%) Kibana
2 3 (8.33%) Progress Chef
2 3 (8.33%) Puppet
3 1 (2.78%) Ansible
3 1 (2.78%) Grafana
3 1 (2.78%) Podman
3 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Oracle
2 4 (11.11%) Veracode
3 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.56%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (5.56%) Nintex
5 1 (2.78%) Splunk