Selenium Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Selenium
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Selenium skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 31 27
Rank change year-on-year -14 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing Selenium 6 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.39% 1.79% 0.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.59% 7.41% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile - £390 -
25th Percentile - £441 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £506 £450
Median % change year-on-year -30.86% +12.50% -23.40%
75th Percentile - £546 £475
90th Percentile - £562 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £350 £506 £450
% change year-on-year -30.86% +12.50% -23.40%

All Development Application Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 79 54 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 18.29% 24.22% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 45 5
10th Percentile £350 £318 £435
25th Percentile £400 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £454
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +1.32% -21.04%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £549
90th Percentile £572 £584 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £450 £454
% change year-on-year +5.56% -0.88% -21.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 0 0
10th Percentile £54.63 - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £68.75 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £68.75 - -

Selenium
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Selenium job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Selenium
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Selenium.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Selenium

Selenium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) BrowserStack
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) REST Assured
2 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
3 3 (50.00%) Git
3 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (50.00%) JIRA
4 2 (33.33%) Gatling
4 2 (33.33%) GitLab
4 2 (33.33%) JMeter
4 2 (33.33%) Postman
4 2 (33.33%) SoapUI
5 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
5 1 (16.67%) JUnit
5 1 (16.67%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (16.67%) TestRail
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Playwright
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (16.67%) Gherkin
3 1 (16.67%) Kafka
3 1 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) Spring
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) BDD
4 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
4 2 (33.33%) Functional Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (16.67%) Component Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Observability
5 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Security Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Test Management
5 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
5 1 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
3 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk