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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 29 20
Rank change year-on-year -22 -9 +4
Contract jobs citing Selenium 19 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 3.02% 1.47% 4.70%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.73% 6.52% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 7
10th Percentile £343 £346 £319
25th Percentile £365 £385 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -37.04%
75th Percentile £453 £488 £459
90th Percentile £463 £510 £540
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -37.04%

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 177 46 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 28.14% 22.55% 23.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 35 14
10th Percentile £315 £355 £348
25th Percentile £368 £444 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £448
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +11.73% -8.21%
75th Percentile £500 £566 £534
90th Percentile £550 £586 £609
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 £490 £470
% change year-on-year -13.27% +4.26% -3.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 2 0
10th Percentile £62.50 £37.60 -
25th Percentile £67.00 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £44.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +59.09% - -
75th Percentile - £48.00 -
90th Percentile - £50.40 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £70.00 £44.00 -
% change year-on-year +59.09% - -

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 28 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in Newcastle upon Tyne

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 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) Azure
3 3 (15.79%) GitHub
3 3 (15.79%) SaaS
4 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (73.68%) Cucumber
2 12 (63.16%) REST Assured
3 7 (36.84%) GitLab
4 6 (31.58%) Jenkins
5 4 (21.05%) JIRA
5 4 (21.05%) WebDriver
6 3 (15.79%) Bugzilla
6 3 (15.79%) Cypress.io
6 3 (15.79%) Serenity BDD
7 2 (10.53%) Postman
8 1 (5.26%) Gatling
8 1 (5.26%) Git
8 1 (5.26%) JMeter
8 1 (5.26%) Maven
8 1 (5.26%) SoapUI
General
1 6 (31.58%) Public Sector
2 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Test Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) QA Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Automation Tester
3 4 (21.05%) Senior
3 4 (21.05%) Tester
4 3 (15.79%) Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Lead
4 3 (15.79%) Lead Test Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Senior QA Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) QA Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) QA Test Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Test Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Functional QA Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Principal Test Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Automation Tester
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (47.37%) Playwright
2 6 (31.58%) Node.js
2 6 (31.58%) WireMock
3 5 (26.32%) REST
4 4 (21.05%) Kafka
5 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
6 2 (10.53%) HTML
6 2 (10.53%) Spring
7 1 (5.26%) CSS
7 1 (5.26%) Gherkin
7 1 (5.26%) SOAP
7 1 (5.26%) Spring Cloud
7 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) Test Automation
2 15 (78.95%) CI/CD
3 10 (52.63%) BDD
4 9 (47.37%) Non-Functional Testing
5 8 (42.11%) Agile
5 8 (42.11%) DevOps
6 7 (36.84%) API Testing
6 7 (36.84%) Microservices
6 7 (36.84%) Test Strategy
7 6 (31.58%) Functional Testing
7 6 (31.58%) Performance Testing
7 6 (31.58%) SDET
7 6 (31.58%) TDD
8 5 (26.32%) Manual Testing
8 5 (26.32%) Security Testing
9 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (21.05%) Defect Management
9 4 (21.05%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 4 (21.05%) End-to-End Testing
9 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) Java
2 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.79%) Bash
3 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
3 3 (15.79%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
3 5 (26.32%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (42.11%) Accessibility
1 8 (42.11%) QA
2 2 (10.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) HP ALM
2 1 (5.26%) Grafana
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) HP
2 1 (5.26%) Splunk