Selenium Contracts in the North of England

Selenium
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Selenium skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Selenium over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 135 137
Rank change year-on-year +22 +2 +10
Contract jobs citing Selenium 53 50 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.61% 1.05% 1.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.64% 9.90% 10.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 40 62
10th Percentile £266 £386 £401
25th Percentile £357 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £533
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -20.19% +18.33%
75th Percentile £520 £500 £588
90th Percentile £575 £533 £625
England median daily rate £425 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 498 505 814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.11% 10.59% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 369 620
10th Percentile £335 £375 £350
25th Percentile £400 £419 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £582 £600
90th Percentile £625 £646 £700
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 17
10th Percentile £52.13 £44.09 £37.80
25th Percentile £54.48 £45.88 £42.81
Median hourly rate £73.75 £53.09 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year +38.92% +6.45% +17.35%
75th Percentile £77.81 £70.31 £56.00
90th Percentile £80.70 £81.15 £60.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

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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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +8 29 £475 +11.76% 13
North West +18 20 £447 -5.89% 23
North East +2 4 £506 +33.22% 6
Selenium
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 7 (13.21%) Confluence
2 2 (3.77%) Apache
2 2 (3.77%) CICS
2 2 (3.77%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (26.42%) Azure
2 11 (20.75%) AWS
2 11 (20.75%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (11.32%) GitHub
4 5 (9.43%) Serverless
5 2 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.77%) Azure Functions
5 2 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.77%) NuGet
5 2 (3.77%) PaaS
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.89%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (1.89%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.89%) GCP
6 1 (1.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.66%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.77%) DB2
3 2 (3.77%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.77%) InfluxDB
3 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.89%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (37.74%) JIRA
2 18 (33.96%) Git
3 16 (30.19%) Jenkins
4 15 (28.30%) Postman
5 14 (26.42%) Maven
6 11 (20.75%) Cucumber
6 11 (20.75%) IntelliJ
7 9 (16.98%) JMeter
8 8 (15.09%) GitLab
9 7 (13.21%) Cypress.io
9 7 (13.21%) JUnit
10 6 (11.32%) Gradle
10 6 (11.32%) HP UFT
11 4 (7.55%) LoadRunner
11 4 (7.55%) SoapUI
12 3 (5.66%) SonarQube
13 2 (3.77%) Artifactory
13 2 (3.77%) CA Release Automation
13 2 (3.77%) Eclipse
13 2 (3.77%) SOAtest
General
1 13 (24.53%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (16.98%) Finance
3 9 (16.98%) Public Sector
4 8 (15.09%) Banking
5 3 (5.66%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.77%) Electronics
6 2 (3.77%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.77%) General Ledger
6 2 (3.77%) Health Technology
6 2 (3.77%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.77%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.77%) Marketing
6 2 (3.77%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.89%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 21 (39.62%) Tester
2 7 (13.21%) Automation Tester
2 7 (13.21%) QA Tester
3 6 (11.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (11.32%) Test Engineer
4 5 (9.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 5 (9.43%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (9.43%) Software Tester
5 4 (7.55%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) QA Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Test Manager
6 3 (5.66%) Developer
6 3 (5.66%) Lead
6 3 (5.66%) Manual Tester
6 3 (5.66%) QA Manual Tester
6 3 (5.66%) Senior
6 3 (5.66%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) QA Automation Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (3.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.32%) pytest
2 4 (7.55%) J2EE
2 4 (7.55%) Playwright
2 4 (7.55%) Web Services
3 3 (5.66%) Kafka
3 3 (5.66%) REST
4 2 (3.77%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.77%) Apache POI
4 2 (3.77%) Hibernate
4 2 (3.77%) HTML
4 2 (3.77%) JDBC
4 2 (3.77%) jQuery
4 2 (3.77%) JSON
4 2 (3.77%) RESTful
4 2 (3.77%) Spring
4 2 (3.77%) Spring Boot
4 2 (3.77%) Spring Integration
4 2 (3.77%) Spring MVC
4 2 (3.77%) XML
5 1 (1.89%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.66%) Mainframe
1 3 (5.66%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.77%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.77%) EMC VMAX
2 2 (3.77%) Mobile Payment
2 2 (3.77%) NHS
2 2 (3.77%) Replication
2 2 (3.77%) VSAM
3 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (1.89%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.55%) Linux
2 2 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.77%) Unix
3 1 (1.89%) Alpine Linux
3 1 (1.89%) Windows
3 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (88.68%) Test Automation
2 25 (47.17%) DevOps
3 21 (39.62%) Agile
4 19 (35.85%) Test Strategy
5 18 (33.96%) CI/CD
6 17 (32.08%) API Testing
7 15 (28.30%) Manual Testing
8 11 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (20.75%) Test Scripting
9 10 (18.87%) Non-Functional Testing
10 9 (16.98%) Software Testing
11 8 (15.09%) BDD
11 8 (15.09%) End-to-End Testing
11 8 (15.09%) Performance Testing
11 8 (15.09%) Validation
12 7 (13.21%) Analytics
12 7 (13.21%) Integration Testing
12 7 (13.21%) Mentoring
12 7 (13.21%) TDD
13 6 (11.32%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 21 (39.62%) Java
2 9 (16.98%) Python
3 7 (13.21%) SQL
4 5 (9.43%) Bash
4 5 (9.43%) TypeScript
5 4 (7.55%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.66%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.77%) COBOL
7 2 (3.77%) Go
7 2 (3.77%) JCL
7 2 (3.77%) REXX
8 1 (1.89%) Bicep
8 1 (1.89%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (13.21%) ISTQB
1 7 (13.21%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.32%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.89%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (43.40%) QA
2 4 (7.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (11.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (16.98%) Terraform
2 7 (13.21%) Progress Chef
3 6 (11.32%) Puppet
4 4 (7.55%) Ansible
4 4 (7.55%) Grafana
4 4 (7.55%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.77%) HP ALM
5 2 (3.77%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.77%) vRealize
6 1 (1.89%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 7 (13.21%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.55%) HP
2 4 (7.55%) Oracle
3 3 (5.66%) Virgin Media
4 2 (3.77%) 3PAR
4 2 (3.77%) Ab Initio
4 2 (3.77%) Brio
4 2 (3.77%) Brocade
4 2 (3.77%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (3.77%) Cisco
4 2 (3.77%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.77%) EMC
4 2 (3.77%) Informatica
4 2 (3.77%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (3.77%) Parasoft
4 2 (3.77%) SAP
4 2 (3.77%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.77%) VMware
5 1 (1.89%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.89%) Salesforce