WebDriver Contracts in the North of England

Selenium WebDriver
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring WebDriver skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WebDriver 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 163 178 208
Rank change year-on-year +15 +30 +17
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 3 7 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.091% 0.15% 0.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.60% 1.39% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 9
10th Percentile £296 £319 £370
25th Percentile £326 £371 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £400 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -21.95% +2.50%
75th Percentile £479 £405 £540
90th Percentile £537 £413 £551
England median daily rate £413 £436 £478
% change year-on-year -5.44% -8.64% +0.53%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

WebDriver 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%

WebDriver
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for WebDriver 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 WebDriver in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for WebDriver in the North of England

WebDriver
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WebDriver in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WebDriver in the North of England

WebDriver
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 WebDriver 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
North West +16 3 £380 +29.91% 1
WebDriver
England

WebDriver
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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Appium
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aviation
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior QA Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) Chai
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Testing
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
1 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft