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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 128 138
Rank change year-on-year -25 +10 +18
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 1 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.037% 0.095% 0.071%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.24% 0.77% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £328 -
Median % change year-on-year +37.40% - -
England median daily rate £438 £380 £406
% change year-on-year +15.13% -6.46% -18.75%

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 424 259 375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.64% 12.35% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 161 290
10th Percentile £331 £316 £356
25th Percentile £360 £356 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £582
90th Percentile £613 £638 £650
England median daily rate £500 £510 £535
% change year-on-year -1.96% -4.67% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 6 21
10th Percentile £39.43 £46.59 £45.88
25th Percentile £45.46 £49.06 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £63.88 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +38.32% -7.41%
75th Percentile £70.00 £76.56 £72.50
90th Percentile £82.20 £82.50 £81.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

WebDriver
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

WebDriver job vacancy trend 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 12 February 2026. 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 -20 1 £450 +37.40%
WebDriver
England

WebDriver
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) TestComplete
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Allocation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python