Selenium Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Selenium
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Selenium skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 133 147
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 +32
Contract jobs citing Selenium 55 35 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.40% 0.86% 0.94%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.32% 6.62% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 27 38
10th Percentile £268 £319 £396
25th Percentile £313 £411 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £450 £515 £569
90th Percentile £530 £585 £625
England median daily rate £418 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -16.50% - -

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 751 529 562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.15% 12.99% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 570 364 395
10th Percentile £325 £363 £357
25th Percentile £381 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £478 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% -6.83% -0.49%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £619
90th Percentile £627 £638 £686
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 32
10th Percentile £47.20 £32.77 £40.23
25th Percentile £60.55 £37.55 -
Median hourly rate £70.08 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +51.75% - -34.03%
75th Percentile £75.63 £46.82 £62.43
90th Percentile £77.88 £51.00 £77.19
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Selenium.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Selenium

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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 8 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Selenium in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Selenium.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Selenium

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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 8 September 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
North West +9 26 £340 -26.49% 5
Yorkshire -13 24 £405 -18.18% 4
North East -5 5 £448 +5.29%
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 11 (20.00%) Confluence
2 4 (7.27%) CICS
3 2 (3.64%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.82%) CMS
4 1 (1.82%) EPiServer
4 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (21.82%) Azure
2 8 (14.55%) AWS
3 4 (7.27%) GitHub
3 4 (7.27%) Serverless
4 3 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.45%) BrowserStack
5 2 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.64%) GCP
5 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.64%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.82%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.82%) NuGet
6 1 (1.82%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.82%) PaaS
6 1 (1.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.91%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.27%) DB2
3 2 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.64%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.64%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.64%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.64%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.82%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.82%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (41.82%) Cucumber
2 22 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 18 (32.73%) JIRA
4 17 (30.91%) Maven
5 14 (25.45%) JUnit
6 13 (23.64%) Git
7 12 (21.82%) Postman
7 12 (21.82%) REST Assured
8 11 (20.00%) TestNG
9 10 (18.18%) GitLab
9 10 (18.18%) JMeter
10 9 (16.36%) Cypress.io
10 9 (16.36%) IntelliJ
11 6 (10.91%) Appium
11 6 (10.91%) HP UFT
12 5 (9.09%) Gradle
12 5 (9.09%) SonarQube
13 3 (5.45%) Bitbucket
13 3 (5.45%) Mockito
13 3 (5.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.73%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.09%) Finance
5 3 (5.45%) Banking
6 2 (3.64%) General Ledger
6 2 (3.64%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.82%) Aviation
7 1 (1.82%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.82%) Military
7 1 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (27.27%) Test Engineer
2 10 (18.18%) Tester
3 9 (16.36%) Automation Tester
4 6 (10.91%) Developer
4 6 (10.91%) QA Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) Senior
4 6 (10.91%) Test Automation Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Analyst
5 4 (7.27%) Java Developer
5 4 (7.27%) Test Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Automation Test Lead
6 3 (5.45%) Lead
6 3 (5.45%) QA Automation Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Test Leader
6 3 (5.45%) Test Manager
7 2 (3.64%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) QA Test Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Senior Test Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.82%) Playwright
2 8 (14.55%) Hibernate
2 8 (14.55%) REST
3 6 (10.91%) Spring Boot
4 5 (9.09%) HTML
4 5 (9.09%) JSON
4 5 (9.09%) Spring
5 4 (7.27%) CSS
5 4 (7.27%) J2EE
5 4 (7.27%) Kafka
5 4 (7.27%) Node.js
5 4 (7.27%) RESTful
5 4 (7.27%) Web Services
6 3 (5.45%) Jest
6 3 (5.45%) JPA
6 3 (5.45%) jQuery
6 3 (5.45%) pytest
6 3 (5.45%) React
6 3 (5.45%) Redux
7 2 (3.64%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.73%) Product Ownership
2 5 (9.09%) Mainframe
3 4 (7.27%) Mobile App
3 4 (7.27%) VSAM
4 2 (3.64%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.64%) EMC VMAX
4 2 (3.64%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.82%) FMCG
5 1 (1.82%) NHS
5 1 (1.82%) PDA
5 1 (1.82%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.64%) Unix
1 2 (3.64%) Windows
2 1 (1.82%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.82%) Linux
2 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (96.36%) Test Automation
2 29 (52.73%) CI/CD
3 24 (43.64%) Agile
4 21 (38.18%) DevOps
5 16 (29.09%) TDD
6 15 (27.27%) API Testing
7 14 (25.45%) BDD
8 13 (23.64%) Test Strategy
9 10 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (18.18%) Test Scripting
10 9 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (16.36%) Non-Functional Testing
10 9 (16.36%) Performance Testing
11 8 (14.55%) Microservices
11 8 (14.55%) Scrum
11 8 (14.55%) Software Testing
12 7 (12.73%) Code Quality
12 7 (12.73%) QA Automation
12 7 (12.73%) Test Planning
13 6 (10.91%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 38 (69.09%) Java
2 12 (21.82%) JavaScript
3 8 (14.55%) C#
4 6 (10.91%) Python
5 5 (9.09%) SQL
6 4 (7.27%) Bash
6 4 (7.27%) COBOL
6 4 (7.27%) JCL
7 3 (5.45%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.64%) REXX
8 2 (3.64%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.82%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (21.82%) Security Cleared
2 10 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.27%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.82%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.82%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (36.36%) QA
2 9 (16.36%) Accessibility
3 7 (12.73%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (10.91%) Progress Chef
2 5 (9.09%) Puppet
3 4 (7.27%) Terraform
4 3 (5.45%) Ansible
5 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.64%) vRealize
6 1 (1.82%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 8 (14.55%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.91%) Oracle
3 3 (5.45%) Veracode
4 2 (3.64%) 3PAR
4 2 (3.64%) Ab Initio
4 2 (3.64%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.64%) Brocade
4 2 (3.64%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (3.64%) Cisco
4 2 (3.64%) EMC
4 2 (3.64%) HP
4 2 (3.64%) Informatica
4 2 (3.64%) Parasoft
4 2 (3.64%) VMware
5 1 (1.82%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.82%) Brio
5 1 (1.82%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.82%) Google
5 1 (1.82%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.82%) Optimizely