Selenium Contracts in the North of England

Selenium
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Selenium skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Selenium over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 144 162
Rank change year-on-year +11 +18 -53
Contract jobs citing Selenium 51 75 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.08% 1.28% 1.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.54% 8.92% 7.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 55 59
10th Percentile £390 £393 £345
25th Percentile £406 £413 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +16.67% +2.27%
75th Percentile £500 £582 £500
90th Percentile £531 £615 £591
England median daily rate £475 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -10.38% +6.00% +14.29%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

Selenium is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 484 841 1,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 10.22% 14.33% 14.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 637 821
10th Percentile £368 £350 £362
25th Percentile £418 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £588
90th Percentile £643 £700 £650
England median daily rate £533 £555 £550
% change year-on-year -3.92% +0.91% +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 18 24
10th Percentile £44.09 £37.76 £37.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £40.40 £38.57
Median hourly rate £53.09 £49.44 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.39% +16.32% +41.67%
75th Percentile £70.31 £55.36 £47.90
90th Percentile £81.15 £59.47 £60.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +14.29% +15.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Selenium as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Selenium in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Selenium in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Selenium in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Selenium in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Selenium in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Selenium in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 April 2024. 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
Yorkshire +12 29 £425 -15.00% 9
North West +24 20 £450 +5.88% 12
North East +2 2 £380 -33.91%
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (11.76%) Azure
2 5 (9.80%) AWS
3 4 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (7.84%) GitHub
4 2 (3.92%) Azure Storage
4 2 (3.92%) BrowserStack
4 2 (3.92%) Sauce Labs
4 2 (3.92%) Tricentis Tosca
5 1 (1.96%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.96%) Figma
5 1 (1.96%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.96%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.84%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.92%) Redis
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (27.45%) JMeter
2 10 (19.61%) Cucumber
2 10 (19.61%) Git
3 8 (15.69%) Jenkins
3 8 (15.69%) JIRA
4 6 (11.76%) Postman
4 6 (11.76%) WebDriver
5 5 (9.80%) GitLab
6 4 (7.84%) Appium
6 4 (7.84%) Gatling
6 4 (7.84%) SpecFlow
7 3 (5.88%) Bitbucket
7 3 (5.88%) Cypress.io
8 2 (3.92%) JUnit
8 2 (3.92%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.96%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.96%) Mercurial
9 1 (1.96%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.96%) TestNG
9 1 (1.96%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.73%) Finance
3 2 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.96%) Health Technology
4 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (35.29%) Test Engineer
2 16 (31.37%) Tester
3 11 (21.57%) Automation Tester
3 11 (21.57%) Senior
4 9 (17.65%) Senior Test Engineer
5 8 (15.69%) Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Analyst
6 5 (9.80%) QA Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Test Analyst
7 4 (7.84%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) QA Automation Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Developer
8 2 (3.92%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Java Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Lead Tester
8 2 (3.92%) Senior Java Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Software Tester
8 2 (3.92%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.76%) .NET
2 5 (9.80%) pytest
3 4 (7.84%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (7.84%) Gherkin
3 4 (7.84%) Kafka
3 4 (7.84%) Web Services
4 2 (3.92%) Playwright
4 2 (3.92%) REST
4 2 (3.92%) RESTful
4 2 (3.92%) SOAP
4 2 (3.92%) WebdriverIO
4 2 (3.92%) YAML
5 1 (1.96%) ADO
5 1 (1.96%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.96%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.96%) Jest
5 1 (1.96%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (1.96%) Node.js
5 1 (1.96%) Visualforce
5 1 (1.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.92%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.96%) NHS
2 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.84%) Mac OS X
1 4 (7.84%) Unix
2 2 (3.92%) Alpine Linux
2 2 (3.92%) Linux
2 2 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (76.47%) Test Automation
2 27 (52.94%) Agile
3 14 (27.45%) BDD
4 12 (23.53%) Manual Testing
4 12 (23.53%) Test Scripting
5 9 (17.65%) DevOps
6 8 (15.69%) TDD
7 7 (13.73%) Acceptance Criteria
7 7 (13.73%) Software Testing
7 7 (13.73%) User Stories
8 6 (11.76%) API Testing
8 6 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (11.76%) Test Strategy
9 5 (9.80%) CI/CD
9 5 (9.80%) Open Source
9 5 (9.80%) SDET
10 4 (7.84%) Cross-Browser Testing
10 4 (7.84%) Fintech
11 3 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (5.88%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 27 (52.94%) Java
2 14 (27.45%) C#
3 9 (17.65%) JavaScript
4 7 (13.73%) Python
5 4 (7.84%) Groovy
5 4 (7.84%) Scala
5 4 (7.84%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.92%) SQL
7 1 (1.96%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.96%) SOQL
7 1 (1.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (9.80%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.84%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.96%) Degree
4 1 (1.96%) ISEB
4 1 (1.96%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.61%) QA
2 9 (17.65%) Accessibility
3 7 (13.73%) WCAG
4 1 (1.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (3.92%) Docker
1 2 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 3 (5.88%) Terraform
2 2 (3.92%) Grafana
2 2 (3.92%) HP ALM
2 2 (3.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (9.80%) Wind River
2 2 (3.92%) HP
2 2 (3.92%) Perfecto Mobile
3 1 (1.96%) Brio
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle
3 1 (1.96%) Salesforce