WebDriver Contract Job Trends in the North West

Selenium WebDriver
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring WebDriver skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 117 144
Rank change year-on-year -12 +27 +40
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 1 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.047% 0.042% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.27% 0.44% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £284 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £293 £513
Median % change year-on-year +88.03% -42.93% +36.67%
75th Percentile £575 £301 £519
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £425 £443 £425
% change year-on-year -3.95% +4.12% -10.53%

All Development Application Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 364 225 336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 16.99% 9.49% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 140 233
10th Percentile £313 £325 £337
25th Percentile £364 £375 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £470 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% -10.48% -
75th Percentile £537 £555 £619
90th Percentile £635 £614 £657
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 33
10th Percentile £66.70 - £45.88
25th Percentile £70.04 £37.55 -
Median hourly rate £72.58 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +57.17% - -36.30%
75th Percentile £76.88 £49.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £51.00 £77.90
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

WebDriver
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for WebDriver in the North West

WebDriver
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

WebDriver
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 15 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
Manchester - 1 £550 - 2
WebDriver
England

WebDriver
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Chai
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DBS Check
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) MuleSoft