WebDriver Contracts in the North of England

Selenium WebDriver
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for WebDriver skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WebDriver over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 208 235
Rank change year-on-year +28 +27 -63
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 7 8 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.15% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.38% 1.00% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 6
10th Percentile £319 £340 £356
25th Percentile £371 £403 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% +12.88%
75th Percentile £405 £519 £513
90th Percentile £413 £541 £517
England median daily rate £435 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -8.42% - +14.46%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

WebDriver is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 507 802 1,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 10.74% 13.83% 15.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 614 832
10th Percentile £374 £356 £360
25th Percentile £417 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £578 £625 £588
90th Percentile £646 £700 £650
England median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.05% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 21
10th Percentile £38.38 £37.80 £37.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £42.81 £38.25
Median hourly rate £53.09 £49.88 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% +17.35% +41.67%
75th Percentile £74.17 £56.00 £51.45
90th Percentile £80.82 £60.50 £60.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year +5.69% +22.14% +7.54%

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 3 May 2024.

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 3 May 2024. 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 4 £293 -42.22% 2
Yorkshire +23 3 £400 +60.00%
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Selenium
2 5 (71.43%) Cucumber
3 4 (57.14%) Gatling
3 4 (57.14%) Git
3 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
3 4 (57.14%) JIRA
3 4 (57.14%) JMeter
4 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
4 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Test Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Manual Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) ActiveMQ
1 4 (57.14%) Kafka
1 4 (57.14%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Mac OS X
1 4 (57.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
1 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Manual Testing
3 4 (57.14%) BDD
3 4 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (57.14%) Cross-Browser Testing
3 4 (57.14%) TDD
3 4 (57.14%) Test Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Coaching
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Groovy
1 4 (57.14%) Java
1 4 (57.14%) Scala
1 4 (57.14%) Shell Script
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Wind River