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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 31 26
Rank change year-on-year -11 -5 +17
Contract jobs citing Selenium 8 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.03% 1.84% 0.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.76% 8.00% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 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% -21.74%
75th Percentile £500 £546 £475
90th Percentile £535 £562 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £398 £506 £450
% change year-on-year -21.48% +12.50% -21.74%

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 82 50 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 20.76% 23.04% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 35 7
10th Percentile £350 £308 £437
25th Percentile £406 £357 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -17.39%
75th Percentile £563 £573 £549
90th Percentile £583 £616 £549
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £41.95 - -
25th Percentile £49.56 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £60.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £55.00 - -

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 January 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 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) BrowserStack
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Cucumber
1 6 (75.00%) REST Assured
2 4 (50.00%) JIRA
3 3 (37.50%) Gatling
3 3 (37.50%) Git
3 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (37.50%) JMeter
3 3 (37.50%) Postman
4 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
4 2 (25.00%) GitLab
4 2 (25.00%) SoapUI
4 2 (25.00%) TestRail
5 1 (12.50%) Serenity BDD
General
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Test Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) QA Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) QA Test Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Automation Tester
3 1 (12.50%) QA Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Playwright
2 3 (37.50%) REST
3 2 (25.00%) Gherkin
3 2 (25.00%) HTML
3 2 (25.00%) SOAP
3 2 (25.00%) Spring
3 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (25.00%) WireMock
4 1 (12.50%) Kafka
4 1 (12.50%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) BDD
2 5 (62.50%) Performance Testing
3 4 (50.00%) API Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Microservices
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) QA Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Scrum
5 2 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
5 2 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Security Testing
5 2 (25.00%) TDD
5 2 (25.00%) Test Management
5 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
6 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) ISTQB
3 2 (25.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) Accessibility
2 4 (50.00%) QA
3 2 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
1 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Splunk