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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 26 25
Rank change year-on-year -18 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Selenium 15 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.85% 2.34% 1.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.27% 11.90% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 2
10th Percentile £346 £335 £322
25th Percentile £356 £356 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £380
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +18.42% -36.67%
75th Percentile £452 £538 £434
90th Percentile £454 £559 £459
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £438 £450 £380
% change year-on-year -2.78% +18.42% -36.67%

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 113 42 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 21.48% 19.63% 8.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 35 7
10th Percentile £346 £366 £379
25th Percentile £374 £420 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £533
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -10.80% -7.39%
75th Percentile £520 £573 £549
90th Percentile £566 £602 £600
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £465 £533
% change year-on-year -3.23% -12.68% -7.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 1 0
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £52.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £70.00 £52.00 -
% change year-on-year +34.62% - -

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 29 May 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 3 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Azure
3 4 (26.67%) GitHub
4 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) BrowserStack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (73.33%) Cucumber
2 10 (66.67%) REST Assured
3 9 (60.00%) Jenkins
4 6 (40.00%) GitLab
5 4 (26.67%) Serenity BDD
6 3 (20.00%) Git
6 3 (20.00%) JIRA
6 3 (20.00%) Postman
6 3 (20.00%) SoapUI
6 3 (20.00%) WebDriver
7 2 (13.33%) Gatling
8 1 (6.67%) JMeter
8 1 (6.67%) JUnit
General
1 6 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) QA Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Lead
3 4 (26.67%) Lead Test Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Senior
4 3 (20.00%) Senior QA Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Functional QA Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Principal Test Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) Playwright
2 4 (26.67%) Kafka
2 4 (26.67%) Spring Boot
3 3 (20.00%) HTML
3 3 (20.00%) SOAP
4 2 (13.33%) REST
4 2 (13.33%) Spring
4 2 (13.33%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (13.33%) WireMock
5 1 (6.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) CI/CD
1 14 (93.33%) Test Automation
2 9 (60.00%) Microservices
3 8 (53.33%) BDD
3 8 (53.33%) DevOps
3 8 (53.33%) Non-Functional Testing
4 6 (40.00%) SDET
4 6 (40.00%) Test Strategy
5 5 (33.33%) Agile
5 5 (33.33%) Performance Testing
5 5 (33.33%) TDD
6 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (26.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 4 (26.67%) Functional Testing
7 3 (20.00%) API Testing
7 3 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
7 3 (20.00%) Integration Testing
7 3 (20.00%) Security Testing
7 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (20.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) Accessibility
2 5 (33.33%) QA
3 2 (13.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Grafana
1 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Splunk