WebDriver Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Selenium WebDriver
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring WebDriver skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing WebDriver 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.47% 0.70% -
As % of the Development Applications category 3.23% 5.26% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £488 -
UK median daily rate £425 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -15.79%

All Development Application Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 31 19 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 14.55% 13.29% 5.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 7
10th Percentile £370 £244 £608
25th Percentile - £313 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £325 £625
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -48.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile £488 £437 £638
90th Percentile £600 £565 £641
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £57.86 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £63.75
% change year-on-year +4.00% -1.96% +3.66%

WebDriver
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

WebDriver job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

WebDriver
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing WebDriver.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing WebDriver

WebDriver
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebDriver within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 25 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
County Antrim -3 1 - -
WebDriver
UK

WebDriver
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) WebdriverIO
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA