WebDriver Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Selenium WebDriver
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring WebDriver skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 199 161 186
Rank change year-on-year -38 +25 +42
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 2 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.043% 0.083% 0.021%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.23% 0.57% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £323 -
25th Percentile - £338 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £372 £375 £413
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -9.09% -13.16%
75th Percentile - £388 £419
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £400 £425 £413
% change year-on-year -5.88% +3.03% -18.92%

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 887 527 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.15% 14.56% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 646 333 431
10th Percentile £325 £325 £356
25th Percentile £391 £394 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £540 £575 £596
90th Percentile £634 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 12 39
10th Percentile £39.00 - £45.88
25th Percentile £43.26 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% - +0.16%
75th Percentile £65.13 £52.06 £64.38
90th Percentile £72.98 £75.28 £78.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.77% -2.69% +5.69%

WebDriver
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WebDriver relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

WebDriver job vacancy trend in the North of England

WebDriver
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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 14 December 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 -44 2 £372 -0.80% 1
WebDriver
England

WebDriver
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) SoapUI
2 1 (50.00%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SailPoint
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Conflict Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow